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13uk0 said:
Oh i meant to say i'm getting the Gtx 680 top and probably buy another one for SLI in the future. as for now my only concern is if it will fit properly in SLI if i bought another one and will be my corsair 650D will do just fine?

Thank you very much for all of your replies.. is my first time building a PC (Gaming)
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Yup, it will fit fine, but I'd still recommend the 4GB Gigabyte if you are spending £450 regardless. Plus if something goes wrong you'll deal with Gigabyte in the UK rather than Asus through the retailer which always takes an age.
 
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Speed said:
Yup, it will fit fine, but I'd still recommend the 4GB Gigabyte if you are spending £450 regardless. Plus if something goes wrong you'll deal with Gigabyte in the UK rather than Asus through the retailer which always takes an age.
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Will the 4gb be enough for intense gaming and overclocking? Will it performed better than asus? And would you mind providing me a link of the gigabyte 4gb i might be looking at different one.. Thanks a lot
 
13uk0 said:
Will the 4gb be enough for intense gaming and overclocking? Will it performed better than asus? And would you mind providing me a link of the gigabyte 4gb i might be looking at different one.. Thanks a lot
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Yes. 4GB is twice as much memory as the Asus card you mentioned. That really is the only difference vs the 2GB card. The performance between the 2GB and 4GB cards will be quite small in most titles if apparent at all. However in certain titles with high res textures you'll see a difference. More than anything it will be ready for next generation titles that will likely use more VRam due to the console specs and will hold its value / be more desirable if and when you come to upgrade than the 2GB cards.

The card I mentioned: http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4373#ov

Don't think OcUK stock it, so I can't link to another retailers page (which is against the rules) so see the above link. You should be able to find it for very similar money than the Asus 2GB or just a little more. It is like the Asus a three slot cooler and is just as good. Asus do have a 4GB one but it seems to fetch a small premium over the Gigabyte. The Asus is £483 and the Gigabyte £457.

Frankly if you already going to spend over £400 on a premium GTX680 you might as well get a 4GB version regardless of make.
 
Just wondering if anybody's seen a similar problem - my PC crashes/goes dead when it's left idle.
My build:
i7-3770k
Sabertooth Z77
Corsair Vengeance 8GB 1600MHZ 9-9-9-24
Crucial M4 128GB
OCZ ZS 600W
MSI 7950 TF3
Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus

When I leave it idle, and come back to it, there is no power to the USB ports, no video out, but the power LED is on (not flashing, just on) and fans running. When I press the power button, the system powers off instantly, and the fans stop spinning. Turning it back on, and everything's fine, although I get a "Windows encountered a problem that forced it to restart" message from Windows 8.

I've disabled sleep (set it to never) in power options. I do have Rapid Start enabled, but surely if the system's not going to be sleeping this wouldn't matter.
I've done a re-install and this still happens, as well as resetting the BIOS to default beforehand (no O/C).
Going to use USB BIOS Flashback to flash 1908 (which I'm already on), leave it at stock settings and re-install 8.

Is there any way I can get any info from the Windows 8 crash/dump thing?
Thanks.


Update: Going in to device manager and changing one of the "let the computer put this device to sleep" options on one of the USB ports fixed it.
 
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Crash-dump your Windows 8 and go back to Windows 7 hihihi... (jock)
Mine do the same few month a go, i have to send the bord to RMA to fix the probleme, it's the sleep mode do this in your board and i dont no why... Asus probleme in the BIOS, it's the only answer i can figure...

Good luck budy.
 
vonex said:
new bios out

SABERTOOTH Z77 BIOS 2003
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This bios sorted out my bsod's on windows 8 which I've been having recently - related to my overclocks. All I did was update the bios from 1908 and run the same clocks as before and Prime and Intel Burn Test passed no problem. Let's hope it stays that way. :)
 
Does anyone know if the latest BIOS update has fixed the lockups with GTX 600 series cards when PCIe is set to 'Auto' or 'Gen3'?
 
Me thinks it be a dust-trap.

I hate to the think how I would clean the CAPS under the cover after 1 year of use.
Looks : 10/10, but can anyone comment on ease of cleaning/dust collection on the Sabertooooooooth board?
 
dogbert said:
Me thinks it be a dust-trap.

I hate to the think how I would clean the CAPS under the cover after 1 year of use.
Looks : 10/10, but can anyone comment on ease of cleaning/dust collection on the Sabertooooooooth board?
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Out of sight out of mind.

Good point though.... maybe pulling dust was the primary reason for the chipset fans ;)
 
Having an issue with my MSI TF3 Radeon HD 7950 and, obviously, this motherboard. Basically, the graphics card is not detected but the iGPU (HDMI on the board) works.

I've done the Clear RTC Jumper thing and used the USB Bios Flashback to v.2003. But, the graphics card has no video out and is sometimes not detected.
Well, sometimes it does seem to be detected - using the iGPU and going in to one of the options on the BIOS where you can change all the "Gen1-Gen3" settings of all the PCI slots, sometimes slot 1 (where the card is plugged in) displays as "x0", and sometimes as "not present".

The card works in another PC, and this has happened before, and rebuilding the whole PC seemed to fix it, as well as messing around with the BIOS for ages. I think this is an issue either with the PCI slot, or the PSU, or a BIOS setting (something to do with UEFI or CSM support maybe?).

Thanks!
 
jc0 said:
Does anyone know if the latest BIOS update has fixed the lockups with GTX 600 series cards when PCIe is set to 'Auto' or 'Gen3'?
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Just after having posted my long query/help msg, I read this. If changing my PCIe slot 1 to Gen3 makes my graphics card work, you will be my saviour!
 
I just nearly filled my pants full off, you know what.

Been messing about with Hackintosh and how my PC does not boot properly into MAC OS X.

Read up and it points to some power saving thing in the BIOS and it would need modding.

So I decided to have a go.

Allready have the latest BIOS rom downloaded. Patched it per instructions but the mobo did not like it when I tried it through "EZ Flash" tool from within the BIOS tools, found during post.

So I thought I would download bupdater and try to save the loaded BIOS and patch that.

Well must have done summet wrong. I did not get as far as patching cause my machine decided not to post and the VGA red LED came on..

PANIC !!!!!!!!!

PANIC again !!!!!

PANIC one more time....

Luckily I have two PC's up and running so I downloaded from Asus a new BIOS rom, formatted a small USB drive and did a BIOS FLASHBACK..

HURRAHHHHHHHH !!!!!!

Notice hurahh is bigger than PANIC..;)

It booted up nicely.

Forget that patching lark...:eek:


phew...:cool:
 
Subliminal Aura said:
Just pick a board that is well supported(usually gigabyte) and has a list of kexts / well documented howto.

You know where to look - don't let me google it for you :p
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Cheers...

Yeassss I know where to look..

Maybe If \ when I upgrade to Haswell I will pick a Gigabyte board.

For now, messing with Hackintosh is on the back burner.
 
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