Recent content by protomog

Same one in OP post. I can't quite upgrade my CPU yet, so I'll still have to be running with the FX-6300. I'm looking at the GA-970A-UD3P since the 8+2 phase, features, and price seem right up my alley. EDIT: Yup, I think that's what I'll roll with. I'll mark your answer in which you answered...

Alright, there's been a change of plans due to certain issues IRL. The new CPU isn't on the horizon quite yet, but my current mobo is having issues and I should replace it. My current plan is to get a decent mobo and overclock my CPU up to something like 4.2-4.5 (I have a Hyper 212 EVO, which...

Alright, then, I'll look around at it. I know in the past ASRock wasn't always the best board, but it seems solid and it supports EFI. Any info on the EFI situation, or should my OSs boot fine without much extra tweaking?

Hello. I'm currently upgrading my PC to an i7 3770k for a variety of reasons. As a result of this, I'm also going to need a new motherboard. I just have a few questions regarding the change. 1) Any recommended boards? I was looking at the GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-UD3H just because I've had good...

So, mind you all this is my first build. I'm not too savvy yet, but I'm learning. Now, I have Mushkin Blackline 996995 RAM and a 970A-DS3. Now, my DS3, by default, does not detect the RAM correctly. Sets it to something like 11-11-11-28 @ 1600 MHz (RAM default is 9-9-9-24 @1600 MHz). Now, I set...

I think it's just a slightly botched install from when I tried installing Linux (which, for some reason, really hates the hardware in my new build. Beyond that, Windows 7 still boots fine. I'm going to try a long test with SeaGate SeaTools for DOS and see if anything comes up. Also, this...

Alright, so my MSE and MalwareBytes scans came up clean. PC Wizard Benches passes. Did a perfmon /report; everything came up alright. No critical issues in event viewer that could lead to a problem. Alright. Fine. So now I tried to run Windows Memory Diagnostic (IIRC, that's what it's called...

Okay, so, here's an even weirder thing. Everything has been working fine until these last few days (with Win7). I had a bluescreen (unfortunately, because I was stupid, I didn't save that dump) at the login screen and a crash right before the login screen that produced no error (computer just...

So, here's the thing, I built my computer back in January or so (I got some help from here, as well, thank you for that). When I first built my computer, everything seemed to be working fine. Here's where the weird thing starts off. I started getting blue screens. Every time, it was a random one...

I 'UNNO. I'm just going off of what Core Temp and HW Monitor are telling me. Apparently I hit 51C last night while Intel Burn Test ran. It completed successfully, but I'm not sure how I feel about the result. EDIT: Been running a Large-FFT test in Prime 95 and everything seems to be okay...

Hello, everyone, I just have a quick question in regards to my overclock. I have a FX-6300, a Gigabyte GA‑970A‑DS3, and a Hyper 212 Evo. Now then, due to the fact that my board isn't very good for OC'ing (it's not) and I don't have that large of a PSU (520W), I chose to just OC my 6300 at 4.0GHz...