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Hey, for the same price as the G.Skills you posted I can get these for about the same price and they have better timings (CL7). Well to make things more confusing for me, I did some more reading and now I'm thinking about going with an i7 950 instead. I'm thinking the i7 950 will be better for...

Yeah I am leaning more towards G.Skill as so many people say such good things about them. Was also looking into crucial but read a few bad things about them (read more good then bad though). Is 1600 really that much better? When you go with 1600 you don't get as good of timings, right? So which...

Well that's stupid.. If you check the link it actually says "Compatibility", making the less experienced PC builder think it will only work with i3/i5/i7. Why wouldn't they just say Optimized for. To be honest that actually makes me a little mad :mad:

i7 950 and ASUS P6X58D-E... Which RAM?? Hey guys, just a quick question. I built my current rig in my sig about 3 years ago now and when I was learning about all the hardware back then I don't ever recalling anything saying you had to use a specific ram depending on whether you had an Intel...

I've been screwed! Dam you 680i!! lol Currently trying to sell the CPU/Mobo/RAM in my signature to replace with an Asus CrossHair Formula IV, AMD Phenom II X6 1090T, and 2x2GB of DDR3. So far it seems kinda hard to sell a barbones kit locally.

Hey thanks! Yeah not too sure I feel safe using a program to do all that. I never did like using programs to do tweeks and felt it safer if I just did them manually. I'm really liking this guide: HERE. Its got good info and setup in a really easy to read format. I just went through the...

Hey thanks! I do use Perfect Disk and made sure to run that before doing anything else. I have definitely had bad performance in a game before and a simple defrag fixed it right up. I'm not sure if I will ever try RAID again since the cost of a decent RAID controller is quite expensive and I...

Since I have no idea what that is, is it safe to say that I don't F@H?? Could you provide a link about F@H? I tried google but got a lot of results about folding@home which seems to be something health related?? I got around to installing Windows7 on my spare 500GB seagate and so far it seems...

Hey thanks for the links! I will be sure to give them all a read. Give me something to do while I wait for my PCIe Sata card to come in. As I said before I have heard mixed opinions on the SSD Page File issue. All the stuff I have read saying not to have the page file on the SSD makes more...

I'm not too sure what that is but I assume it is something for Bad Company 2?? I am also having problems in Counter Strike Source.... Yeah CS:S, one of the easiest games to run. And it does the exact same 3-4 second freeze every now and then. I also had trouble with Star Craft 2 when ever it...

Hey thanks for the tip but I have already set BC2 to run in DX9. It was the first thing I tried and it did not help. After playing it on XP I went back to try it on W7 and it was horrible. It would sometimes just freeze for like 3-4 seconds.

Hey thanks for the tips. I only have 2GB now so I am worried about disabling the page file. I guess I could make a small 2-4GB partition on my 1TB caviar Black for the page file. That would be great if you could hook me up with that guide. I would also be interested in deleting the...

It was at the stock clock when I noticed the bad performance. I haven't played the game much so not sure when it started being weird but I do know Counter Strike started being weird as soon as I upgraded to Windows 7 and my RAID0 setup. So that's why I have been suspecting the RAID0 setup and...

Hey, I have AA at 1x, Vsync off, and Anisotropic Filter at 4x. I just tried overclocking my 5770 with MSI afterburner to see if that would help and it doesn't seem to make any difference. A little better FPS but it still has that choppy laggy feel to it. I set core clock from 850 to 960 and...

Hey guys I am experiencing a weird problem is some games. For example: On Battlefield Bad Company 2 the FPS shows an average of 40-50 on high but the gameplay feels so lagging and choppy. I turn the settings down to LOW and I get 60-70 FPS but it still feels laggy and even occasionally...

I know the RAID0 will be faster but just thinking since I have a SSD which will run the OS and maybe a few of my main games, is it worth keeping the RADI0 setup. I am using my EVGA 680i onboard sata controller for the raid and it adds like an extra 4 seconds to system boot because of the RAID...

Hey guys, I got a new OCZ Vertex 2 60GB SDD for my Windows 7 OS and am now wonder if I should keep my RAID0 setup. I have 2x1TB WD Caviar Black HDDs. One is Sata2 and the other is Sata3. I am getting a PCIe sata card that will give me two Sata3 ports. One of them will be used for my SSD and...

I am running two WD Caviar Blacks in RAID0. One is Sata2 and the other is Sata3. I didn't want to take the risk of any problems so I just used the jumper on the Sata3 drive to force it to run at Sata2 speeds. My mobo also doesn't supported Sata3 so that is the main reason why I put the jumper in...

I would imagine the PCIe sata card would have a bios of its own that you could enter and then set it as the boot drive... I'm really not sure but I have heard of people booting from sata ports on PCIe cards. What PCIe card do you have? I still haven't ordered mine yet. Still not sure on which...

Hey guys, just posting an update and looking for some possible advice on the few monitors I am trying to choice between. I have narrowed it down to either -Asus VE248H ($210 24") -Samsung XL2370 ($280 23") -Acer G245H ($220 24") I am leaning towards the Samsung as it has great reviews...