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    dedicated physx card

    morning all. first of all, yes i know all about how a dedicated physx card is useless in most games, but the thing is i have an nvidia GT 9500 card just colecting dust, i know it's not much of a card, but will it to the job for a game like Batman - Arkham City. Also i OCd the card from stock 700...
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    Upgrading current rig

    Hey everyone, so i think it's time for me to upgrade my current rig. my specs are: Asus Maximus IV Extreme Intel i7 2600K Cooler master V8 corsair 2X4Gb XMS cas 7 1600Mhz WD green 1Tb sata 2 corsair 60Gb ssd sata 2 (can't remember exactly the model) seasonic 760x 760watts Asus GTX570 HAF X I...
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    GTX570 cooling

    Hey everyone. so I have an Asus gtx 570 with stock cooler, and I don't realty like it since it can get really loud when I'm gaming, and temps are around 56-60. I was thinking about getting some thermalight gpu and gpu ram cooling instead of the stock one, any opinions would be appreciated.
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    v8 fan problems

    Hey everyone, so I did some moding to my rig, and one of the things I did was remove the fan control from the v8 fan, after I removes it I noticed that the fan is always on the lowest speed, no matter what I did, and before that I could control it via Asus AI suite, so then I reconnected the fan...
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    GTX 570 bios update

    Hey everyone. I got an Asus GTX 570 card, and i noticed they released a bios update for that GPU that improves stability in DX11 games. Problem is that when i run the file it detects the GPU and displays this error "your graphics card of current system don't match this VBIOS" And i can't find...
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    Project E.POD

    Hey every one, decided to do some moding on my rig. here are some stuff i did: I got this LED strings from a car shop(of all places) and i noticed it fits between the plastic cover and the GPU fan, nothing is touching so the fans works exactly the same. also drilled some little hole for the...
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    Connecting multiple fans

    Hey everyone, i was wondering if it makes a difference if i connect more then one fan to a power source( 4 pin molex of PSU), or is it batter to connect each fan to the MB? I prefer to connect them all to the molex so i can hide all the cables, but if it effect speed i'll just connect them to...
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    Project E.POD

    hey everyone, got this rig a few months ago, still have a lot of room to upgrade, and gona do some sleeving soon. any way here it is.
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    just to show off

    just wanted to share what i manged to get out of my new rig http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1836569 temps are 78 on hottest core and 71 on lowest core. of course this is not a 24/7 overclock, for 24/7 i run in at 4.0, max i can get without raising the voltage.
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    prayer of the overclocker

    got board at work so came up with this ''prayer'' (inspired by eve online prayer) Our heatsinks, who art in sockets. Hollowed by the fans, Thy thermal paste. Our heat be dissipated. In stock, As in overclock. Give us thy performance, for boosted FPS. And forgive us our overvoltage, For...
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    WD green Advanced Format and WIN 7

    hey everyone, i noticed today that i can enable AF on my WD green drive, but i can't seem to find any good info on WDs site, maybe someone here can help me, will i get any improvmant with AF on win 7 64 bit? will it even work with win 7? and do i have to reformat the whole drive?
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    what PCI lane to put GPU in

    i was wandering if it makes a difference if the card is located in any other lane then the first one. i have a maxsimus iv extreme and in the manual it says batter to place it in the first one for batter performance, but i rather have it in the third one for batter air flow.
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    i7 2600K first overclock

    Hey everyone, just got my new rig few days ago, here's what i got out of it. http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1829531 temps in idle are 38-40 for both CPU and GPU where running aide64 i never get any higher then 57 on the cpu, but in prime when i run in place large FFT's it goes all...
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    sticker on CPU

    hey everyone, just got a new i7 2600k, and it has a sticker on the back of it (where the pins are), is it safe to remove it?
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    N14 thermal paste

    hey everyone i was wondering if it's worth it to remove the stock thermal paste on the N14 and put a new arctic silver 5. same about the chipset and GPU.
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