Recent content by CDdude55

I never touch V-Sync unless tearing is very noticable ,i can deal with a low level of tearing but once i see entire frames being noticably tore then i can't live without it. But as stated, overall player skill is most important then how fast your monitor updates.

That board doesn't support 1600MHz memory natively, but it should boot up fine just at a lower frequency. So you'd have to manually change it in BIOS. And between those two kits i would probably just go with the Ares since it's $1 cheaper and has similar specs to the Ripjaws. Though they might...

I'd go with a single GTX 670 now and then grab another a little later.

Still buying it for PC (hopefully a day 1 release, but that's probably unlikely) even if the engine is simply ported over from the consoles with little optimization. GTA never fails to entertain me, which is more important for me then whether or not the textures are of high quality (i would like...

If you boot it off a flash drive if you have that.

As long as they get detected in Windows you should be able to RAID them fine in Disk Management.

I always usually just put a blob in the middle (sometimes a tad bigger then a pea) and let the heatsink spread it out.

Maybe with everything on low with a few effects turned on like AA(at a low sampling), motion blur etc. Those cards are just far to old to run the majority of today's games on decent settings. BF3 is a pretty big resource hog so i bet those cards will struggle with such low video memory and such...

Ya that's the cooler i'm talking about on the ASUS cards, i don't believe they will net you enough of a speed increase to have you gain much to any performance. Remember to check your temps. To check stability and temps run a game or GPU stress test(you can use MSI Afterburner to check...

I had an 8600 GTS years ago and unless you have an aftermarket cooler on it i wouldn't overclock it unless where talking only a few Mhz(without much to any of a voltage increase). The coolers were so small and shitty on those lines of cards. Even the fan on the Asus cards will not net you a...

As long as the GPU and OS support DX11 then it shouldn't matter what board you're using, it only says that it supports DX10 because that was the version of the API out at that time. (theonedub beat me to it)^ I loved my old EVGA 680i board had tons of features and looked sexy as well. I do...

This is true, i don't think it's as simple as saying to yourself "i want to play Diablo III and stop eating", but i think this is preventable if the person tackles the issue at hand. I don't know why he decided to sit there are play for 40 hours straight but i'm sure he understood why it's a...

Never had any sympathy for people who die because they figure using the bathroom and eating should take second priority to gaming.

Face the PSU fan downward towards the CPU if you already have a fan/s pulling in air. The key to air flow is simply making sure you are getting cool air in and moving the hot air out elsewhere, so if you have a fan or two at the front or sides then i'd use the PSU fan as an exhaust. Remember...

No ones (at least not me) is trying to troll you. That is my personal experience with Visiontek, i have not dealt with their customer support or RMA process but the product i had from them (an HD 4870) was solid till i gave it away. I also have no personal issues with you, maybe some...