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Plus if there's a rad on the front and a rad on the top, we need somewhere clear to exhaust some of that warm air inside the case! So a 240/280mm rad on the top to start with to cool the CPU. Then when I add the new GPU, I can add a 200mm rad to the loop. Initially I was thinking I could...

I didn't think of putting a 200mm rad in the front - I guess that's doable if I mounted my SSDs in the 5 & 1/4" bays.

Looking around it seems I have the option of adding a 120.1 on the back of the case. Does anybody have any experience of running two rads... I guess it would influence my pump choice. I was thinking about a V8 kit to start me off, but is the pump going to work in this scenario?

I'm currently running a Thermalright TRUE with a couple of Noctua NF fans. I like a quite machine but I also want to get the most out of my system. The CPU (3930k) is running at around 4.2ghz with 1.2volts which gives me temps around the mid 60's centegrade but I know the CPU will do 4.6...

I couldn't live with myself if I left my PC sleeping all the time. As it is I turn everything off at the wall that isn't essential... although that doesn't include the server and router that's running a website that I can't be bothered to update :p To be honest I'm quite happy with the power...

I've been running Windows 8 for a while and was quite impressed with my 28 second cold boot time until I saw the 2/3 seconds that I should be seeing. A fiddle with the UEFI BIOS settings highlighted that its my graphics card that doesn't support UEFI GOP booting (or something similar to...

Yes the TRUE is a 120mm heatsink. Space around the heatsink isn't a problem because my board (p9x79 pro) has loads of space around the cpu socket. It's really a question of: 1 - if the fan holder clips would reach around the fan to hold it place 2 - just how loud is the fan at 2600rpm and what...

Has anybody tried this fan out on a tower cpu cooler yet? I'm interested in changing the Noctua fan on my Thermalright Ultra Extreme heat sink as I just don't think the max rpm is high enough to bring the temperatures back down when my overclocked CPU is at load. Cheers

I would like to see a follow on 7950 oc'd to the hilt vs 7970ghz test to put this test into perspective but at the end of the day, Mr 8 Pack is here to sell products - on this occasion he's been asked to promote the 7870XT... I think he's done a good job! :)

Hi As the subject title really! I am considering upgrading my Home Server to an AMD Bulldozer 6100 and 990FX board so I can have eight internal SATA drives and benefit from as many 6Gps drives as possible without additional RAID cards. I don't boot from a RAID array so that's not a...

Simply put, you won't get AHCI on that laptop... the chipset is too old. Just make sure you leave the machine idle every once in a while so there is enough time for the drive's garbage collection to run - (ensure your plugged in power plan doesn't put the laptop to sleep).

I believe that the drive will NOT do it's garbage collection if Windows power saving turns off the drive after a period of inactivity. Turning power saving off on SSDs is another of the recommendations on the OCZ site.

In fact the opposite... this is a very good reason to Raid two drives. You get the SATA 2 bandwidth on each drive! I am going to get an SSD for my SATA 2 system in the next month or two and have considered this as an option. If it wasn't for the lack of Trim, this would be an obvious way...

:eek: I just spotted this.. you are running 4gb sticks on your Striker II Extreme? I thought it only supported 2gb sticks! I would assume that if it does support the higher density, it is still limited to 8gb?

Jumping on the thread here with a similar question but, I am considering two 120-128 SDDs and running them in RAID-0 on my SATA 300 only motherboard rather than a single 240-256 drive. Apparently the Nforce controller on my board (see sig) would give me the full 300mb/s on each port. The thing...

I installed a 40GB Intel SSD in my Father in law's old 2gb DDR AMD system. It flies, but then he only browses the web and writes the odd letter. I think the main problem is that WinXP doesn't know about TRIM, so the drive will slow down after use (how long depends on how much you use it). At...

I am thinking of doing exactly the same thing - adding an SSD to my otherwise excellent, SATA 3Gbps PC. Yes, I could save £30 - 50 on a last generation SSD but then when I do upgrade my MB and CPU, it would be a wasted opportunity. My issue is that 240-256Gb drives just aren't getting cheap...

It is quite incredible but there must be hidden timings that the auto OC sets! I'm running linked and synced with an FSB of 1748mhz and memory speed of 874mhz. The memory is running at 8/8/7/18/28/2T (on cpu-z) with a voltage of 1.62 (pc-probe). The NB voltage is reading 1.33v (pc-probe)...

Well after a long weekend of tweaking and testing as well as over two years of ownership, I managed to get a whopping 3.5ghz using the Crazy Auto OC option and 1800 Auto memory options with an end result of FSB of 1750 with a 1:2 memory ratio! I never tried the auto settings in the past, but...

For ages, my Striker II quite happily ran my Q9450 at 3.2 linked and synced with a 1600FSB. Earlier in the year I replaced the original 4GB of 1.9v OCZ RAM with the max the board could take: 4 2gb sticks of Ripjaw PC3-12800-C9 memory. Unfortunately, this resulted in having to drop the...