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It doesn't make sense, very strange fault indeed. Try playing around with your onboard graphics and see if it happens when using that. Have you ever overclocked your gpu?

I doubt its the gpu, because your monitor would most likely show a "no signal" message. I could be wrong but the first thing that comes to mind is a setting you're missing somewhere, either in the monitors settings, or in power saving settings in windows. If its a hardware fault it doesn't make sens...

Unfortunately 1400 doesn't get you much but as starboiund said a gtx460 will do nicely, it'll play most games with maxed out graphics but not all. And your cpu won't be bottlenecked by the new gpu:)

I've never played around with my audio like that so I'm afraid I won't be of much use, I could offer ideas... Depending on what software you're using, you can assign ports to any audio function so perhaps see if there's a default setting. Or go into the sound control and right click your speakers an...

The NZXT is an amazing case! Such good quality and it has great features:)

Gee my temps at 4.6 full loAd is Around 68. At 4.9 ghz full loAd its 86

I'm using A BB right now, its A 8520 curve that's doesn't pick up edge in Pinetown so I use GPRS. All images are downscaled and my phone has a 5MB download cap on it. I surf the web everyday and I seriously doubt I come close to 100MB. So the normal 3G users won't even know About the "cap" because I...

It must be an i5 750? 760? But that's not too important to us because at least we know that the cpu won't be bottlenecked... However we need to know how big the psu is. 500W? 600W? If it is too small then you won't be able to power your gpu. So if your psu is About 550W - 600W you will be safe regar...

I think what he means is the mobo was launched 4-5 years ago. But he only bought it recently...

Sorry about the capital A's Stuart:) my phones A button is broken. But I've found a way to use lowercase A's now.
For a casual gaming rig the 6770 is fine. If you want something a bit better consider the HD6850, it will run all of your games at max res

Welcome to the forums:)
As Ron sAid, it depends what the rest of your rig is like becAuse you could end up getting a greAt grAphics card but if the rest of the rig is too slow you will end up cAusing a bottleneck in your system.

Metro on full graphics will lag ur gpu, and The Witcher 2.

NvidiA doesn't scale too well with AMD, so I would suggest a 6850. Or A 5850 if you cAn find one for A decent price

I remember i still posted the topic when Gigabyte made this claim. I love all these "behind the scenes" stories

That looks good bro. But if you're planning to upgrade later then you might as well save a lil bit longer and buy the i5 now. Because An i3 isn't gonA sell for much

No dude your cpu is 100% percent. I wouldn't worry about it. Id trust the software over the bios. If my bios temps were right my cpu would probably be fried by now

Well I usae core temp. And I have a sidebar gadget to go with it. So my cpu usage and temps are displayed on my desktop. you can try another program to give you peace of mind but it should be the same. My bios tells me 51, where its actually 33. I've never taken note of my bios temps before:)

Nope that sounds about right bro

Well why don't you install windows and realtemp and see what you get? Windows will report proper temps.

I haven't heard of cpus getting too hot but I could be wrong. Google it and see if other guyas have had an overheating cpu.
Your method should work, when you took your cooler off was the paste spread evenly?
I apply TIM like I butter a slice of bread:)

You find 2x PCIE x16 on top of the range x58 mobos, like the ROG extreme boards. Sandybridge doesn't have enough PCI lanes to have 2x16 gpus running together...

That's about the right rpm. My cooler idles at 20% which is 1138rpm. Temps vary between 27 and 35. How much paste do you use? And how do you apply it?

The bios temps aren't 100% accurate but its not 40 degrees wrong either. I'm guessing your using the stock cooler? Take your cooler off and put it back onto the cpu. Making special care that its sitting flat and tight against the cpu. Check ther temps again. If you still have problems then buy yours...

Thats a pretty good deal Stig!! As everyone has already mentioned, do you plan to overclock? What GPU are you going to be running? Will you be going SLI or Xfire? The Asus P8P67 boards are awesome and look amazing, stick a 2500K inside and you got yourself a monster! Or go with H67 and use the cpu's...

O ok I see. Well the K version cpu wasn't really needed;) but at least you're still able to OC some time in the future