Recent content by Ranko Kohime

I have to echo the advice to avoid the 9590. The potential to burn out a less than sturdy motherboard is pretty high. Now if you still want to go with the 9590, that's your choice, but the 212 Evo is simply not an option for cooling it, period. My i7-4790k hits 140w of actual draw under load...

I'm contemplating a somewhat complicated display setup for my rig, and one of the points I'm contemplating is running a pair of 4k displays off of a "not-top-tier" graphics card, on the last physically x16 slot on my motherboard, which is only pinned for x2, at PCIe gen 2.0, and I believe also...

I ran a Prime95 Blend test, which stopped with a critical error almost immediately. (Something about expected less than 0.4 but got 0.5) It doesn't stop on this error, and can run for hours if either the original kit is in, or if either of the two other kits are run at the lower speeds I...

Last year, I built a new system with the following specs: AMD A8-6600K APU ASUS F2-A85M/CSM Motherboard G.Skill F3-14900CL9D-8GBXL RAM kit (2x4GB) Although the RAM, which was spec'd at 1866, came up at 1600 on the first boot, I had no issue setting it to 1866, and it has been rock solid since...

I'm among the group of people who's too poor to afford water cooling at the moment, but concerned enough about temperatures to keep GPUz running on my second monitor while I game. I have an R9-290, which as you've probably heard is designed with a target temperature of 95c. I have the Catalyst...

Neither of those cases has a handle(s), though.

Is anyone aware of any cases, similar in design to the above mentioned, that are small, have (usable, i.e., not fragile) handles, fit an m-atx board, and have room for 4+ 3.5" drives?

Although I have a stock cooler for the A8-6600K, I didn't use it, in favor of a Cooler Master 212 Evo. I did plug it in to check how loud it is, and in a closed case you wouldn't be able to tell it's there at idle. When forced to maximum speed it does make a noticeable wir. But that is open...

The only manufacturer I've heard of doing a graphics card in the optical bay is Lenovo, and that's new for this this year, and only on one model, (Y500) if my understanding is correct.

A few suggestions off the top of my head: 1. Hard drive. It would be a terrible coincidence, but it may be starting to go south. (I experience micro-stuttering when the HD is being accessed heavily by any game) 2. Power supply. It could be that the power supply isn't providing enough power...

Well, it's better than the analog TV that most people used for the PS3. (And yes, I knew people who did and still do use an analog TV for the PS3) That being said, it takes a keen eye to discern between 720p and 1080p on my 1080p monitor. On larger screens, it may be a bit more obvious. If...

What the CPU and GPU do are totally different, so that would not work anyway. The CPU might have 6 cores, but the typical GPU has hundreds. 1,024 for my HD 7850 (which is NOT bleeding-edge). A CPU core can do the same work of a GPU core* in the same period of time, (assuming equal clock...