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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835999010 As I understand it (have not actually tried it yet) cooler that works for 775 will work for an 1150 socket? If that is so, would this be any better? I ask only because I bought one a couple weeks ago before I decided to just...

^^^Yeah, thought I had my basses covered with new power supply etc. At any rate, I am sure the 6 year old MB and ddr2/ e8400 will hold back the GPU to some degree. PCI 1.0 and all that. I will say for the week or so I had the 7870 card in there, it played sky rim on high settings pretty nicely...

I just RMA'd a sapphire 7870 video card, it had a black screen problem. I then upgraded approximately one step t a EVGA gtx 760 card. I *thought* there was a standard that was adhered to in these things, but live and learn. The SATA ports on my old 755 benica (ASUS) motherboard are in the way...

What? I *really* strive for reliability, over performance if I have to. Would a 7900 series card cut it? I have not found the black screen issue on 7900 reviews, but there are seemingly a lot of short lived cards out there. How would a MSI Gaming N760 TF 2GD5/OC GeForce GTX 760 stack up against...

Wow, that could be it! Me thinks I shall be talking to newegg soon! Thanks!

So I took this computer: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01549568&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=101&contentType=SupportFAQ&prodSeriesId=3793920&prodTypeId=12454 And started upgrading it. I bought a new rosewill capstone 550 watt power supply, and took out the old...

Would an e8400 and a HD7870 be ok for skyrim?

The last time I played online dogfights it was in the mid - late 90's. In my brief search, it does not look like things have improved much. Are there any that are current? What are folks using for joysticks?

I have a samsung tablet with win 8, and it's ok for that. Touch screen. My daughters win 8 laptop without touch screen I HATE. I know there is win 8.1 around the corner, which will make it slightly more win 7ish, but I have a loathing for 8. I am building the I7 so that it will be "good" for a...

Found this, and yes it was: http://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/14/verify-that-trim-is-enabled-in-windows-7/

I guess I am frying a fish that is not even in the pan. The whole reason I got onto this was to make sure the trim command was working with the SSD. I found this tidbit: "While using something like Intel's previously mentioned Toolbox application to TRIM your drive is extremely useful, you need...

Will there be any issue re-activating win 7 OEM on the same board?

Uh oh. Just found this: " Start with AHCI, and stay with AHCI -- UNLESS you plan to use an Intel ICHxR Southbridge." From a post back a couple years. I have a ICH9R southbridge. More research needed.....

Just checked regedit, and the value for msahci is still 0, from the "fix" I suppose, but setting the bios to AHCI results in fail every time regardless.

Well, no dice. It just continually reboots. I switched it back to raid, and it works again. That was using the "fix" , same result as trying to do it manually. 2 questions then for me: 1) If I re-format the SSD, and do a clean install with AHCI selected, will it work then> I wonder since this...