Recent content by sumdumgai

I haven't tried with a single card yet as I wouldn't want to have wasted the money. How much should I up the voltage?

Should also note that as SOON as I try running a benchmark the Nvidia drivers instantly fail, but the benchmark keeps going.

Hi guys, I read these forums a lot but never post as I usually find what I'm looking for. I seem to be stumped though. I have two reference 980s in SLI and I was attempting to overclock a bit. I can't seem to find a good point though. The GPUs are crashing no matter what. Using MSI Afterburner...

Sounds good, I'll look into aftermarket air

My MB came with only 3 chassis fan slots so the other 4 are ran straight to the PSU so sound won't really be an issue as it already sounds like an F18 during pre-flight checks

It's the paste that came pre-applied on intels heat sink. So it's about 4 days old

The reason I stuck with the stock cooler is because with a base clock of 4.0 and 4.4 turbo, I don't really ever see myself OC'ing. If a better cooler will prolong the life of my CPU though, I'm all for it. The OCZ SSD was one i took out of my old x58 before I scrapped it. Not really up to date...

This is my first PC build, the last one I had was an alienware x58 back when the 965 extreme was released. If I am missing anything please let me know, or what I could do better. The pc will be used for gaming 90% of the time. The other 10% will be spent removing bloatware that the wife installs...