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Oh absolutely. No doubt the higher percentage of alcohol the better it is for cleaning, I was saying that a high percentage spirit can be used as an alternative to 70% isopropyl alcohol if you don't have any handy :)

Honestly, the last time I cleaned my CPU and cooler I just use a bottle of 35% vodka and smells. No stains, no smells and cleaned very well.

I'm not sure I worded it correctly, sorry if that's the case. Basically, when I OC'd my old 4690k I had the ability to change the CPU ratio to say 4.5Ghz for example, there was no option to increase the maximum turbo to xGhz. With my i7, increasing the CPU ratio now specifys that the option is...

What is the difference between these two? Been tweaking my overclock in the BIOS and just realised my supposed overclock has only been increasing the maximum turbo, in this case to 4.5Ghz from 3.8Ghz. There doesn't seem to be an option to change the CPU ratio to get all 6 cores to run at a...

GTA 4 is notoriously horribly optimised for PC, it hasn't ever worked well and never will. There's not really much you can do if it's running badly.

@ MetalSparks Yeah, admittedly my (HDD'S mainly) are pretty awful haha, I cheaped out and pulled them out of my old system. The SSD seems fine though, we'll hopefully.

CPU temps are around 29c-32-c idle, underload in Firestrike in what not temps rarely go above 55c. CPU usage is stretched across the 6 cores and 2 threads so it varies alot, during the physics test in firestrike for example all 12 (logical cores) sit use around 50% each according to...

Okay, so recently I've been doing a lot of benchmarking and I've started to notice that compared to other people who have similar or hardware my scores are pretty low. - Firestrike (18000 average, not even extreme) - Valley (5000 average) Those are the two I use the most, but others are...

I thought SLI was supposed to be fixed by now? Basically, SLI doesn't work at all for me in FC4, not only does it not work, it's actually CRIPPLING my performance. With 1 GPU I can get a consistent 60+ FPS, with SLI enabled the FPS actually drops to around 45fps consistently, this is on...

Well it seems I just couldn't shake the upgrade bug today, so I've got with the 5930k and an x99 board. That should scratch my itch for the next few years, time to find somewhere to sell my Mobo, RAM & CPU!

Thanks Justin, very helpful and thought out answers you've out across there. I had a feeling I'd be gimped with Tri/Quad SLI with the i5/i7's. I wish I had just skipped Haswell all together and kept with a high end x79 or gone with a x99 chip. I feel letdown with Haswell by the lack of high-end...

Thanks for the answers guys, I figured the answer would probably be not worth it. I just wanted to make sure my system had absolutely zero bottlenecks in terms of performance, u wasn't too sure just how much CPU power SLI and TRI-SLI 980's uses. My original plan was to go for the 4930k but was...

First time poster here, just looking for a bit of upgrade advice, although I know this is an age old question. Currently have the 4670k, I'm running SLI 980's and I'm considering upgrading to the 4790k, but would it be a worthwhile upgrade? Are my 980's held back by the 4670k at all? I also...