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The ALC898 on my board is nicer than X-Fi Xtrememusic. I am shocked at how good motherboard sound is nowadays.

Asus Direct CuII is the quietest followed by the Gigabyte Windforce.

Given the prices. The Gigabyte board is best.

Yes the pc has been taken apart. Its hard to see inside the PSU but it looks ok to me funnily enough(using iphone torch :p). At first when i got the burning smell I assumed my house was on fire lol. Not turning the pc on for a while. Will have to buy a new PSU to keep me going. Its 5 years...

No signs of bugs. Filters on intake fans. Seems unlikely they could produce tgat much smell :p Will contact corsair.

Worth pointing outwrist the pc crashed when the smell became strong. And booted windows fine. I shutdown straight after just to be safe. Been off since.

Well had a good look inside. Motherboard seems clean. Do I unscrew it and check behind? Everything looks ok. Psu is black and it's hard to see inside. Smells are pretty much gone since I aired the room for the day. Just a faint smell inside case. When it happened it was a very very strong...

Last night my pc decided to burn something. Heard light cracking or clicking noises before the smell became prominent. The smell quickly overpowered the room and I panicked. I quickly ramped up the fans to full in asus ai fan utility in windows. Clocked down to stock from a 4.3 ghz overclock...

Use realtemp, Aidia 64 or CPUID hardware monitor.

I just upgraded to a 3770k from an overclocked Q6600 B3 at 3.3ghz. It has made a large difference. Depends on the game and what you do, but i never knew my 560ti was being capped. In games like WOW where you raid 25 man it can make a large difference where my fps would drop to less than 1 fps at...

Thanks guys. Was worried something was wrong! Might change my cooler if its not doing a great job. Looking at the Noctua NH D14 and the Corsair H series. The temperatures are a tad high for my standards. I would see big drops changing cooler?

Got a 3770k and at stock i am hitting temperatures higher than expected on a Thermal Right Ultra Extreme (TRUE) with two 1,900 rpm Akasa Vipers. My heatsink does not feel hot like it did with my previous CPU the Q6600(B3). Making me think the heastsink is not seated properly? Or does...

Might be the weather? I just got my 3770k and at stock i am hitting temperatures slightly lower than your overclocked ones on a Thermal Right Ultra (TRUE) with two 1,900 rpm Vipers. My heatsink does not feel hot like it did with the q6600. Making me think its not seated properly? Or does...

The Manchester thing was nonsense. It started off with blaming Resistance for rising gun crime in Manchester. But nice to see people spin into something it was not. Zack & Wiki was delayed to remove Allah Akbar and Paper Mario was also delayed to remove the term Spastic. Like LBP it makes...

LBP is not about being offensive in any way. The song was simply meant to be a theme for the african levels. Showing off material that was religious and dark was never their artistic intention. Not only that but the lyrics were not really appropriate for the theme of the game or the...

Pretty much. I learnt my noobish lesson here. I'll try the raid drivers thing later. I have got windows setup to install drivers via cd or usb but it doesnt see anything... even when i force install. Wierd. For now i am using my new 640gb WD. Seems to run better than the raid had to lower...

My burst speed is low for some reason. Rest of it is fine i guess. Wonder if there is way to increase the Burst Rate?

Get a big drive. Raid wont translate into much for dektop use. As for backup its up to you but make sure its reliable. You even have online backup nowadays.

was using Asus Blitz Formula. I will try the usb stick. Though i am scared. Thankfully i have already recovered the data through my old pc. My mum didnt delete my old stuff. All the essential new files were backed up already. Only stuff lost is just mobile phone pictures taken in the span...

The only way of updating the BIOS is via floppy as the windows way is not 64 bit compatible. Sadly no floppy drive. Might install one off my old pc perhaps. I am running afew other recovery programs right now. See if ca get anything and assess what i am losing or getting. My most critical...