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    Best Budget Gaming Headset that supports 5.1 or 7.1

    I understand that this has been asked a million times, but I'm hoping the fact that the market seems to change and that different people have different needs might warrant this thread. Anyways, I've been trying to read up on budget gaming headsets, mostly to find that people seem to have an...
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    2400 Mhz Kit Unstable on GA-Z87N-WIFI

    Things I've tried: XMP Manually Entering Settings Raising DRAM voltage to 1.7, System Agent to +0.145, CPU I/O Analog to +0.145, CPU I/O Digital to +0.145 It seems that I can barely get it to be stable at 2200 Mhz, but I feel like there must be a way to get it to 2400 Mhz. Here is a list of...
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    Core speed occasionally dropping from 4.7 Ghz to 3.4 Ghz when running prime95

    This has always been an issue for me on this build. Whenever I run prime95 or some other cpu benchmarking tool, the core speed and vcore will drop every 10-15 seconds and stay like that for a good 2-3 seconds. So I'm basically watching it bounce around between the frequency it should be (4.7...
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    GPU Overclocking not changing benchmark results

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    GPU Overclocking not changing benchmark results

    For whatever reason, a lot of weird things happen if I don't restart Afterburner after applying new settings. I can blame that on the restarting computer issue. As far as the lack of a performance increase when the gpu core is overclocked by 75 Mhz, it might just be because that isn't enough to...
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    GPU Overclocking not changing benchmark results

    GPU-Z Testing while running Kombustor *Stock* -clock: 1149.7 Mhz *Power limit increased to 114%, core clock + 50 Mhz* -clock: 1175.8 Mhz *Power limit increased to 114%, core clock + 100 Mhz* -Failed *Power limit increased to 114%, core clock + 100 Mhz, core +50 mV* -clock: 1149.7 Mhz -clock...
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    GPU Overclocking not changing benchmark results

    I'm trying to overclock my MSI GTX 670 Power Edition with Afterburner but with little success. The main problems are: (1) Heaven Benchmark results remains the same no matter what I clock to. (2) What was stable at one point is no longer stable after I restart my computer Before restarting my...
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    Raid 1 SSD and TRIM