his public image is in the ditch and he is making jokes? Dude shut your self in your office for like a year, than peak out to see if you can come out and play.
my 570 is whisper quiet 90% of the time; the only sound i usually hear is my cooler master hyper 212 plus. The hottest it seems to get under load is 60-65c. They really have come along way with factory cooling. I am impressed. I say if the temps and noise are acceptable to you than keep it stock.
I was tempted, thinking it was time to decommission my old PCI Xtreme gamer Fatality PRO...
But after Looking @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Blaster_X-Fi
I realized the specs were just the same, the only true difference was the interface. PCI doesnt bother me..
same here in normal operations, however if you render/encode/batch/etc... YOU WILL Even MOre.. :)
I couldn't believe the performance improvement from 920 to 2600k, I was thinking to myself before I upgraded... how can it be faster?
Boy I was in for a surprise... Pleasant one...
true, if everything is fine or is fine as far as you can tell no need to update.
However, for me Ive been having issues with a sata controller (some times the bios sees the two of my (1 hard drive and 1 optical) devices sometimes it doesnt). The update did not fix the issue yet. I have yet to...
same boat you are in with my MSI,
I bought http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815201008&cm_re=pci_usb_header-_-15-201-008-_-Product and it worked perfectly.