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I was thinking of getting the best bang for buck PC like i5 2500k and OC it with a nice air cooler on the Asus P8P67 Pro, but I think this will last me much longer like my trusty Q6600 has so far for the last 2 years. I do alot of multi-tasking also I have 2 screens which this will be connected to. ...

If the rad doesn't fit at the bottom then ill try fit it at the top. The top can also supports 120 / 140 mm fan x 2.
I am also a bit concerned if the water cooling pipes on the H100 will reach the CPU.

Sorry the other option was the Corsair HX750W Eps12V with Modular Cable Management PSU. Its the same price as the Corsair AX750W 750W Dual Eps12V with Full Modular Cable Management PSU. I would like a modular PSU so which one of those 2 would be the better option? I have also decided on going with t...

Thanks for the help guys. Im gonna get two 560ti's in SLI. Which 560ti cards should I take? Asus ENGTX560 Ti DCII TOP/2DI/1GD5 1GB nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU (900Mhz core) or MSI N560GTX TI-Hawk 1GB nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU (950MHz core) or MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II/SOC 1GB nVidia GeForce...

Hello Everybody. I need a few opinions on what hardware to get next. My budget is 15K I want it to play Battefield 3 and Diablo 3 mainly. I want to the CPU at 4-5GHZ 24/7 so I need a good CPU cooler that can do the job nicely. Here is what I had planned. CPU Intel Core i7 2600k Processor - 3.40GHz, ...

As promised.

The full review
http://www.sa3doc.co.za/modules.php?nam ... le&sid=135

Sorry for taking so long

Well it’s possible to add a different make of card as along as the card itself is identical (the pcb). The only thing you going to need to do is flash the bios to the some bios as the other card.

Im not sure if this will work on the 7800GTX cards but it was possible with the 6800Ultras.

Futs wrote:you should get Solo or MrBean that would be entertainment

MrBean said he might pitch up. Just have to wait for confirmation. As well as Solo.

Guide has been Updated enjoy

http://sa3doc.co.za/article62

shlebib wrote: Maybe INTEL AND AMD MURGED

The day that happens pigs will fly .

On my old P4 I use to get.

Idle: 38
Load: 46

Using the stock cooler

Here are a few links to help you along with updating a mobo's bios. http://www.pcmech.com/show/bios/81/ http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/ami-bios-update.html http://www.overclockers.com/tips120/index04.asp Be very careful when doing this it could screw up your whole mobo if you do...

You should be able to get around 230Mhz using stock volts at CL 2.5-3-3-11 timings.

I’m not sure what chips they are but from what I’ve gathered up 230Mhz should be achievable with this ram.

R800 rand should be alright of a price for that card. You can buy a new one for about +-R1400 at retail stores. I may be wrong but isn’t it only the 6600GT that shipped with DDR3 RAM? Yea it is in most cases but since this is a DIAMOND EDITION card it comes with DDR3 ram unlike the standard DDR1 ram...

jPm wrote:Is this a bios update for the the processors or are they just for the NEW processors

Its just for these new processors coming out.

I must say that’s pretty amazing for a 512mb set of ram. I have a pair of G.skill ram and I must say it that they are one of the best sets of ram i ever had .

Hows DDR660 Sound

Heres a screenshot of SuperPI at 330MHz stable. http://benching.sa3doc.co.za/tccd/330mhz%20(Medium).JPG We bought the memory from the UK and it was brought back by one of our friend’s mother. The price was around R1500 for a 2x256mb kit. Naa we haven’t done a full review on it yet but that will come...

Yay we just got 330MHz on the G.skill ram. SuperPI 1mb stable.

DDR660

Yea temps where around 35 idel and 40 load. I must say that its not bad.

Thanks Guys. Yip it can go to DDR640 even DDR650 but not to stable yet, still need to play around with the timings. I’m getting just under 8000 for bandwidth in SIS Sandra. I didn’t really think much of CPU clocks but yea it’s pretty impressive with an stock cooler. It’s totally stable at that speed...

I forgot the exact price but it was around R2600 for the CPU and converter. We got it specialy from the U.K.

Yea we also testing out the Mushkin Redline series and some G.Skill LA ram too with the Dothan.

You should have competitions so people could win the stuff u got for free. That's not a joke btw! :D We didn’t get anything for free. We had to pay for it all by ourselves and we only get to test some stuff but then give it back to the person who let us test it in the first place. So no competition...

impressive... very impressive. those dothan's do seem to kick bottom then, dont they!? geez, you guys must be pleased... :D:D Yip they do kick bottom :P even FX57 bottom. They are very powerful CPU's in most applications but still seem to lack quite a bit as you can see with the bandwidth. Hopefull...

*BLATANT ADVERTISING REMOVED BY JEE* please read Cameron's comment in your other post* Hey Guys. Me and JasonHK recently got a couple of new toys to play with one of them was a Intel Pentium M (Dothan) 730 533FSB with an Asus CT-479 converter for our Asus P4C800 motherboard which will be the test b...

Heres a pic of the card


Asus, MSI also have Dual 6800GT cards on offer.

The new 77.13 drivers seem to give a nice little boost of about 100 points more in 03.