Recent content by nothingspecial

Time for me to finally start a build log! Been meaning to for a while with the current rig (CM 690-II White, with essentially the same hardware that's going in the new build), but never got it to a point where it was what I wanted it to be. So I've given up and got an NZXT Switch 810! The 690-II...

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/24422/gigabyte_shows_off_new_boards_in_taipei_101_vip_media_suite/index.html In short, a new x79-UP5 board, which essentially seems to be a UD5 with upgraded heatsinks and a few other extras, and a 32 power phase z77 board. Oh, and you might want to have a scroll...

For anyone who hasn't heard of it - http://click.intel.com/tuningplan/ - For a small additional fee, Intel will send you a new CPU if you fry yours while overclocking it. For those who have, have you used it yet? Interested to hear stories. To be specific, has anyone used it to replace a 2011...

Got a G5 Mac Pro that is grinding along, and on observation it does have a PCI Express slot. Question is, will any old card work in there, or (as I assume) will it need Mac specific drivers? If so, does anyone know of a card/vendor that might have them? Very much uriniating in the wind with...

As the title. When does that change to the minimum amount of cores for -bigadv units happen? Or has it already? Seems those small base credit WUs have dried up. Getting 6900s with a 7164 point base credit (77k+ estimated ) but they takes too frikkin' long! Might turn off -bigadv after this...

Just thought it would be good to share a few things I've spotted on my travels around the interweb sales, and set up a thread for others to add to. Will keep adding to this as I find more. Gigabyte GA-X68-UD5-B3 - £129.99 @ Dabs

So, who's expecting Mr. Claus to deliver them some new kit for their folding rigs? Got a 3930k coming here, very much looking forward to that. Might keep an eye out for a second 560Ti in the sales too. Might even try and squeeze in some -bigadv units before the change. Anyone else? PS. Merry...

Got some Bitfenix alchemy cable extensions today. The PCIe ones fit fine, but the 24 pin one won't play ball. Just gets stuck half way down the connector. PSU is a 1200W CM Silent Pro Gold. Connector is 20+4. There shouldn't be any difference between 24 and 20+4 should there? (aside from the...

As the subtitle says, they're really a bit crap. Had two sets now (60cm low density), first set came DOA because the flexlight itself had snapped just after the solder point. Sent them back and got another set, had them for about a week, and the same has happened to this set as well. Anyone...

Getting units sticking at 100% over the last few days, and can't work out why, except I keep getting this in the log: I've definately not set a -oneunit flag, but it keeps creating them randomly. Any ideas? Edit: Restarting the rig seems to bump it into life

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As far as I can see, the only difference between ATX and EATX is about 50mm extra width (990FX-UD7 is 305x263, Z68-UD7 is 305x244, EATX spec is 305x330?) - or are the screw holes different? They don't look like they are, just seems to be extra PCB past where the screw holes are on the right hand...

Story goes like so: Got myself a Mushkin Chronos 120gb SSD, installed/set up etc., wasn't wholly impressed by the speed. Made sure BIOS was set to AHCI, no problems there. Tried going to RAID and back again to see if it kicked something in, but while doing so happened to Ctrl-F into the menu...

Would there be any unforseen consequences if Tom loaded up Shadow H2O with so much red dye that it was nearly black? Would it start to block things up? Like a really, really dark blood red, like this or deeper. Edit: Why did I put coolant in the title, not dye? Edit: As was all answered in...

http://disconaivete.com/post/6899643048 Is very nice all the way through, but the last 30 seconds or so will just blow you away!