Recent content by Tinkmaster Overspark

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    Advice on an unusual quadruple monitor setup

    okay so for productivity and multi tasking and such (to a ridiculous level, i am aware) i'm looking to get my setup from a single monitor to a quadruple monitor setup. i have a U3415W which i want to mount above the others and angled down towards me, and then a standard triple monitor setup on...
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    Will increasing Core voltage remove artifacting?

    Would you consider flickering smoke in fire mark and zero artifacting in unigine valley to be stable? As there's a point inbetween artifacting and no effects that causes smoke to flicker on fire mark but I see no problems elsewhere
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    Fire Strike 2013 flickering smoke

    Hi, dont know if this is the exact place to post this but this seems to be the closest. in Fire Strike 2013 i notice once i go past certain points in overclocking smoke begins to flicker, like its only being rendered by one of my cards in SLI. is this a SLI bug or is it a visual artifact caused...
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    Will increasing Core voltage remove artifacting?

    Hey there, currently i have a GTX 970 SLI setup (MSI Gaming for both models). They are running stable with no artifacting and not going above 80 degrees with the following settings: Core Voltage - +0 mV Power Limit - 110% Core Clock - +175MHz Memory Clock - +400MHz Fan Speed - Still set to...
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    GTX970 Oc-ed safe temperatures ?

    are low 80s okay? like 83-84 degrees, right now my overclocked setup hits 80 and i want to know if i can push it any further than that
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    2 tb seagate expansion drive appears to have died - file recovery question

    So my mass storage solution was pretty budget to say the least. It was a 2 TB seagate external hard drive that required a USB port (with the SHORTEST usb cable i have ever dealt with, extremely unpleasant) and its own power point needed. Its a few years old and its died, windows comes up with...
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    Overriding windows security to delete windows.old?

    So i did a bit of a silly thing and accidentally buggered my computer while it was updating. So i had to repair it by reinstalling windows, it works just fine, took me 20 minutes to get everything back the way i like it minus my games. However, i am plagued by a windows.old folder i can't...
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    Which headers for cooler installation

    Cooler - nepton 280l Motherboard - VII Hero There is one connector for both fans and one connector for the pump, which goes into CPU_OPT abd which goes into CPU_FAN?
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    Samsung 840 Evo performance from 7.3 to 6.1

    There is a performance patch exactly for this issue that people noticed. Samsung fixed it very quickly. Do a search for "performance patch 840 EVO". you download it with samsung's own software wizard thing
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    Water cooling CPU with a custom loop cost in Australia

    Hey everyone, I was wondering which parts you recommend for water cooling a CPU with a custom loop. At this point in time the cost of buying water blocks for both of my graphics cards is too much, and i'm a little bit intimidated by water cooling over what i know how to do so far. If i can...
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    GPU Thermal Paste doesn't stay even for a day

    clean it all off and use a very small amount, its better to have too little than too much. too much makes it insulate rather than conduct. Also you may have killed your part with ESD. that does not look like a static free workstation at all lol
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    is there a reason NOT to get this awesome monitor deal becaise it's PLS not IPS?

    PLS is IPS, just under a different name really. maybe if you were EXTREMELY picky you'd notice a difference
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    woo! i think i just got my first system put together - what now?

    awesome! i can get into the BIOS so its ready. i'm amazed i didn't mess up my first build i did myself haha
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    woo! i think i just got my first system put together - what now?

    hey everyone, i just put together my system, most of it at least (didn't plug in the SSD, its outside hte case to make sure it POSTs) i put it together on the motherboard box and the Q code 99 comes up on the VII hero which means "super IO initialisation" and then i plugged my keyboard in and...
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    possible to use a windows 8 ISO with a USB, and then put in a legit CD key?

    hey there, im going to be buying windows 8 soon to run on a samsung 840 EVO SSD (which will be the only drive in the computer at first) I want to put windows 8 on it but i dont want to buy a CD drive which is absolutely useless to me because i wont use it at all apart from the windows...