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#1 m.oreilly

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Posted 30 January 2013 - 03:39 AM

ok, i know haswell is up sometimeQ2, followed by ib E...but...i'm tired of socket 2011 lol. thinking of getting an i7 3770k, putting it under water, using the asus maximus v gene, 2600+ ram, and...crossfire? for some reason, even though i'm oc'ed, those guys with z77 boards are getting taller storage bench numbers ( the ones that know what they are doing), and storage benching is my one true weakness arg...ivy now, or wait for haswell gen 1?

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Posted 05 February 2013 - 02:37 AM

meh, i'll wait for haswell ;)

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Posted 06 February 2013 - 04:44 AM

I need to build a new system also for my work, my 939 is old. hope some folks here will help me out. Right now all i hear is crickets

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Posted 06 February 2013 - 07:07 PM

lol.
intel or amd? i know strom is an amd fan, and has been keeping up with the latest from them, and we have a bunch of intel users 'on board' ;)

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Posted 07 February 2013 - 05:32 AM

leaning towards an intel maybe an i7. photoshop, corel heavy graphics stuf

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Posted 08 February 2013 - 03:59 AM

xeon E3-1230 V2 (ivy bridge). basically an HT 3770 for the price of a non HT 3750, for cpu.
asus maximus V gene. super 'little board that could' OC' monster, but used in a non OC setting. last forever.
32 gigs cas9/10 from your fave mem company.
amd/ati gpu like what strom has atm. perfect, no crippled compute cores
your ssd attached to the first sataIII intel port, installed raid mode, final rst driver 11.2 (trust me).
high capacity spinner on the second.

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Posted 08 February 2013 - 09:55 AM

Disagree with 32Gb RAM, utter waste of money, 16Gb is all you will ever need, even with heavy video/graphic use, save your cash :)
Nvidia all the way GPU wise, but I'd wait till new cards surface soon ;)
Agree with a nice fast SSD, although the 11.7 rst drivers are the bomb :D (I even have these hard modded in BIOS)
Windows 8, once you get it tweaked, its damn fast, ignoring all the useless **** :P

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Posted 09 February 2013 - 03:10 AM

the 11.17 rst are the most awful drivers evar invented!!! OMG!!! unless you are using win8...then you are locked into the 11.7...OMG!!!
ati/amd gpu FTW!!! ati doesn't gut the compute cores! new drivers are total awesome sauce!
32gigs of 1600 cas7? did someone say ginormous ram drive(s) for photochop? though 16 is a sweet spot, and easier on the pocketbook ;)
win8...yes, with the win7 explorer. for me, benching with win8 is like passing gas in a tiny elevator full of beautiful women...why?

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Posted 10 February 2013 - 06:24 AM

Not had an ounce of trouble with 11.7, fast, and great on Win8 ;)

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Posted 10 February 2013 - 07:33 AM

not really trouble, but the 4k writes go away real fast, so storage numbers go way down. it just seems that as we go forward, some things go backward. it will be a sad day indeed when all we have are ipads that we rent...

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Posted 10 February 2013 - 07:54 AM

Yes. That's why I bought one, cant stand renting :D

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Posted 17 February 2013 - 04:52 PM

while waiting for haswell, i decided to change my water cooling setup. i ordered one of those phoyba xtreme nova rads, some 180mm fans and the 4x180mm adapter plate. i'm going to shoehorn my present system into an matx lian li case, with the big rad attached on the non motherboard exterior panel, outside the box, taking up one entire side of the case...

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Posted 19 February 2013 - 04:23 AM

man, you guys in europe have it good! aquatuning are overnighting for $19 us from germany to my one horse 'burg...!!!

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Posted 19 February 2013 - 04:27 AM

since i'll be going at an easy pace on this (have to have the rad to do penetration placement, fittings, etc., which ordered from usa distributor will take twice as long to be delivered compared to aquatuning from germany!), i'll put up some pics

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Posted 19 February 2013 - 04:30 AM

4x silverstone ap-181 are inbound...180mm are the new 120mm... ;)




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