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After having asked for build advice like the noob that I am, and the build advice saying, basicly, that I should upgrade my graphics card from a GTX 1060 to..... I settled on an MSI RTX 2070 Ventus. I didnt want to go nuts with cost because I knew the new line of GPU's would be out in a couple...

As the title suggests, I need help deciding which case to purchase for a new build. I know both rate quite highly and I need lots of slots for HDD. Other cases dont seem to have the hard drive or optical drive options I need. Yes, some of us still make DVD's. I'm old skool ;) The ASUS X570 ROG...

I had a 3570k and was given an i7-3820, and Asus Rampage IV, so I installed it about a year ago, keeping all my old hard drives, case, gpu, Corsair H100i, etc. It was a pretty good upgrade for me and saved me some money at the time. Today I got a warning from Microsoft saying they are ending...

Hello gang. I just did this build for a mate, who isnt a gamer, but I'm hoping to entice him away from the PS4 a bit. His Eco friendly build consists of: Intel 4160 1150 Haswell cpu Asus H97-Pro Gamer mobo Samsung 840 EVO, 120GB Patriot 2x4GB @1600Mhz Asus 740GT 2GB Windows 7 64bit He mostly...

As per the conversation in another thread, I was told to start a new thread. So, what do the fine members of OC3D consider to be the 'best' R9 290 and why? Personally, I have to include warrantee as part of the 'best' on a video card. I once had an XFX card which lasted all of two months past...

Greetings and salutations 0/ There are a lot of cards on the market these days which I dont know much about. I'm reading all the reviews I can get my hands on to find which cards will suit my needs without killing my wallet. I play Eve Online and often run 4 accounts on 4 monitors, all at...

Greetings. The NBN is currently being installed in my area and I cant wait until it's done so I can sign up. Being in Australia and having done the research into providers, I've decided iinet will be the way to go. They want to (lol) RENT us a Bob2 modem for an extra $25 per month, which is not...

It's that time of year for an upgrade. Well, as crappy as this GTX550Ti is, just about any excuse is good enough. It served well for about the first 9 months but has been showing signs of artifacting lately. So, time for an upgrade. To be honest I really dont know what is best, AMD or Nvidia...

Howdy folks, I finally got the H100i I had planned on when i did my build plan back in December, and pretty much as planned, I got it in Febuary, also as planned. So things going as planned all is good, except in one respect. I installed the H100i, redid all my cable management, also as...

A fitting name for a black and blue colour scheme, and it kicks alot more arse than my previous system. The first two shots are of the Thermaltake Dokker case and the 3 HDD which were installed with the old bits, which were a Gigabyte AMD board, Athlon X2 6000+ @3Ghz and a whopping 4 gigs of...

I have tried and tried everything I can think of but I cant get windows to find my video card. The only thing that works is the integrated stuff on the cpu. While its not bad its no GTX550Ti, nor a GTX260, neither of which can be found by windows. Any clues how to shut off onboard graphics in...

Regardless of whether you are using air or water cooling, what would be the max temps you would tolerate to avoid damage to the cpu? What temps cause you to hit the panic button and shut her down? As we all know IB is less heat tolerant than its older Sandy Bridge sibling. As our faithful...

Since I am planning a build in the very near future, I've settled on the i5 3570k and an Asrock motherboard. The mobo will likely be updated a few months down the road but right now I want to retire my current AMD system and get something with some speed, hence the 3570k. The one thing I am...

You can see by my sig that my unit is fairly old and It's getting to be time to upgrade. What used to be true is no longer true. The only thing Intel used to have over AMD was faster video encoding, which I dont do so I always stuck with AMD. AMD used to be the gamers chip, good performance and...

Howdy folks! Thanks to the killer clips on youtube from Tiny Tom Logan, I've decided to pay the site a visit and join the forums :) I used to really be up on computers but in the last few years I'm lagging. Too much work and not enough play. I hope top rectify that soon though. I'm hoping to...