Recent content by uncfan_2563

Umm I'd say it's pretty quiet. I've never really had any problems with it being loud because my GPU does that for the whole system :/ but even if you do find the stock fan to be loud you can always swap it out with a new one.

Here's the cooler I've been using for a few years and it seems to be pretty common and should work for ya. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103065 That's the Cooler Master Hyper 212+. I understand there's a newer one called the Hyper 212 Evo but that's gonna run you...

Is it overclocked or are you interested in/know how to overclock it? Unless you're doing something highly threaded that would warrant more cores, I'd say there's really no point in upgrading to another AMD cpu at this point with their current lineup.

I mean, I don't think you'd really want to upgrade your graphic card honestly. At this point any meaningful upgrade of your video card would be bottlenecked by your CPU so maybe you want to start saving for a new system? Also if your 4gb of RAM is reading as 3.75gb that could be happening if...

In terms of narrowing it down, I can say that I have tried hooking in directly via a wired connection and not gotten much better results. Which would suggest it's the modem aspect of the system. However. Also puzzling is the fact that I get really subpar local FTP performance..

Hey guys, I'm having a problem that's just stumped me for the last two months. I'm usually pretty good at computer related stuff but I spend most of my time here in the cpu/gpu sections so I'm really in need of some help. To the problem.. I used to have a nice networking setup until my dad...

would it even be possible to "optimize" a game for a pc without completely bypassing Windows, which itself has to accommodate many different hardware configurations.

if you said it was the psu, why are framerates effecting the sound?

Yes potentially but while I am not one of those who believe Bulldozer will miraculously improve via software, I do think that AMD did establish a foundation for future CPU architectures and it was time to start fresh. How far can you go with an 8 year old architecture?

Nah the i7's are better in all aspects but probably the only worry would be a price increase. Plus, what are you doing buying a prebuilt pc :P

While a die shrink would have worked I guess had Bulldozer not been produced, it was. What would happen to all the Bulldozer chips manufactured? Also, die shrinks aren't so easy as producing the exact same chip just on smaller materials, I wish it was that straight forward

I don't mean to state the obvious if I misunderstood what you're saying so I apologize ahead of time. But from what I understood, by "phased out" it means to me that you're under the impression that the i7 is the sucessor of the i5. They're models of a different price range that are from the...