Recent content by Smiff429

Your original list looks good. Just make sure you pair the z170 motherboard with a 6th gen. processor or else you'll need to flash the bios with the latest firmware to get the 7th gen. to work with the z170 chipset

In all honesty, the brand doesn't matter too bad as long as you get a quality model within the brands. EVGA SC/FTW are solid cards with amazing software compared to others, Gigabyte G1 is solid, MSI is pretty dominate in their cards and quality, and last of all ASUS Strix. I have an ASUS 1060...

That So-dimm memory is usually for laptops, but your build isn't bad. I can tell you right now there's few air coolers that are better than that closed loop watercooler. I use a Cryorig H7 because the hyper Evo 212 is obnoxiously big and it cools all the same. Go with a higher end corsair or...

Playstation has dark grey 9mm X 9mm x1mm thermal pads and I was wondering what the differences are of these different color replacements pads. I've seen blue and grey, mostly. Does color not matter, or does color represent what type of material they are made with? Just wanted to match the...

Dust is to a minimal and the ventilation seems fair though. Is there anyway to test the PSU

My rig is a typical $1000 gaming desktop that was built about 6 months ago. It will randomly shut down around once each time I use it while doing anything from letting it sit, downloading something, playing a game, or watching Netflix. When it shuts down the LED power button remains off and I...

My specs are well above the recommended considering fallout is pretty outdated by now. I have a fx8350 processor with a Radeon r9 280. Dark souls 2 runs flawless along with skyrim on high setting. I don't understand how fallout new Vegas is using 100%

Fallout New Vegas is the only game on steam that gives me a warning that my CPU is at 100% usage. Is there a setting I have to tweak to avoid this from happening?? I need a fix because I want to keep playing.

I've also know people that push that temp to its limits all the time for years and they're just fine. Overall a nice heatsink, good mobo cooling for VRM/NB and SB, and good airflow in and out should be enough to keep everything under control.

Are you concerned about your socket temp or CPU core temps? Like I said, with my and setup my boards socket runs hotter than usual and I found that out the hard way. However, my cores are always within the normal ranges with my cooler master hyper 212 evo hear sink.

I was thinking windows 7 as well. I just wanted to know the differences but I feel more games are compatible at the moment with 7 but i'm also trying to consider what the next couple years will bring with these next gen games