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I like the idea of the 'quiet' route, especially for London where there are lots of smaller roads. I think the 'beautiful' route would be more useful in the countryside/long road trips though (mainly to help keep you off ugly highways.

Ok, I've gone for the Be Quiet Dark Power pro! What had initially been intended to be a partial upgrade of just my motherboard and cpu has quickly escalated into building a whole new system hehe...

Hmm I think you guys have convinced me... I'm really stretching my budget now hehe, at least a lot of the top PSUs seem to come with 7 year warranties now! Any opinion between these three? Corsair AX860i Be Quiet Dark Power Pro 10 (850w or 1000w, although the 1kw is gold not platinum) Antec...

Well I'd say for most of its life it has only had a single gpu, and the cpu was usually not overclocked. But it's usually on for between 5-15 hours for 4-5 days per week, quite a few hours of that spent gaming. I just cleaned a decent amount of dust clumped up inside it, that probably hasn't...

Hello, In the next few days I'm going to set up a new rig with a Maximus VII Ranger Z97 board and an i5 4670k... The rest of the rig will be the same as in my sig. Would you advise that I carry on using my current PSU, a Cooler Master Real Power M1000? (Here's the Cooler Master website...

Great, thanks for clearing that up!

Perhaps look at the new Z97 based boards? They've been getting good reviews. I just bought an Asus Maximus VII Ranger, but it's only available in Europe at the moment I think.

Hey all, my new Z97 motherboard arrived, the Asus Maximus VII Ranger. I'm planning on just using the onboard audio I think, but I have a question: I currently use K702 headphones with a custom built amp built by someone recommended through HardForum, I think it's a Pimeta 2. However, it...

Luckily the 4gb one isn't mine, I borrowed it from a friend to see the performance gains for myself. I might get a second one anyway though, since I want to get the most out of my 120hz monitor!

Oops... Unfortunately I need to retract my statement. SLi was enabled but I wasn't able to play any games and I'd get frequent error messages and crashes. I guess multi-gpu with different vram graphics cards isn't supported after all...

Well I gave the coolbits tweak a try it a try and SLi is now shown as being enabled in the nvidia control panel! Thanks PiERiT! Now I'm going to check whether it has translated into better game performance...

Will this definitely work without messing up my machine? I've been googling coolbits and it seems like it used to work but it's no longer possible to do it with newer nvidia drivers...

Not sure why it's showing as being plugged into the second card, it's plugged into the top one (first slot). When I plug the monitor into the other card I get my desktop background without any icons or taskbar (as if it thinks it's a second monitor). They are in the correct PCI-e slots and show...

The rig is the one in my sig. They are both GTX 670s but they aren't identical, one has 2gb of vram and the other has 4gb. However, I was under the impression this didn't matter. It everwhere seems to recognise that there are two graphics cards installed but for some reason the SLi options...

Will doing it that way cause any degradation of sound quality?

I have an amp with black and red RCA inputs at the back, and a PC with a SB Titanium Fatality sound card inside it. There is no RCA output from the soundcard, only analogue and SPDIF. What's the best way to connect the two without compromising on sound quality? Or am I better off getting a...

Have emailed MisterX and sounds like he's going to fix something up for me. Thanks a lot of the tip!

Thanks for the head-fi link spaceman. That's the forum (and others) that have convinced me that the k701s really need to be amped to sound good BoredSysAdm. The thing I'm worried about for all of those expensive amp recommendations on that thread is that they seem to be geared 90% towards music...

I'm thinking of getting the AKG K701 headphones because there seems to be a consensus online that they are very good for gaming. There also seems to be a consensus, however, that they are very hard to drive, and they are not worth it without an amp. I currently have only an XFi Titanium...

Well I don't know what I want that's the thing... I'm not very knowledgeable about amps or other equipment. I'm trying to find out how to improve my system. I've got the Quantum Wave sound card that was packaged with the motherboard in there at them moment. The Titanium Fatality on the shelf...

So you reckon I should get the Sonar Essence then, cukoodukoo? I'm pretty sure that has a built in amp if I remember correctly. Or I could keep my current older Titanium Fatality (not Titanium HD) and buy the Astro Mixamp, perhaps?

So you say I should buy a Titanium HD? Because I was under the impression that the older Fatality thing I have doesn't have a built in amp...

Right, basically I was hoping you guys could help sort me out... my audio situation is a bit of a mess I think. At the moment I use the 'Quantum Wave' riser sound card included with my Big Bang Xpower mobo (which uses a combination of Realtek software and this thing called THX TruStudio PC)...

lol two answers which directly contradict each other, neither explaining why :p I was curious about the same thing, I've got z-5500 and was wondering about plugging headphones into its headphone slot vs into the front panel of my tower vs directly into sound card.

I know the OP has already bought his stuff but thought i'd add that I have the Carcharias and was happy with them, although the mic suddenly stopped working so now I'm also looking into buying something new. Without meaning to hijack the thread though, would the A40 Mixamp be a good combo...

Hi everyone, I've been searching around for ages now for a solution to this problem. My headset (Razer Carcharias), has been working absolutely fine but suddenly started behaving very strangely. When I plug it in, windows seems to know the mic is plugged in and recognizes it. However, when I go...

I've been using this PC regularly for a while now (the SFF in my sig), but yesterday when I turned it on the screen resolution was down to the minimum and all the W7 eye candy was turned off, just as it is after uninstalling the drivers. I hadn't changed anything about the computer though. What...

I have very persistent overheating problems with my Rampage ii Gene, across two different cases (first HAF 922, now NZXT Vulcan)... Right now I have my window open (it's cooold outside) to keep it from crashing in games. So I have to choose between being warm or playing games. By the looks of it...

I use the X4 and like it a lot.

Don't have any experience with the H50 but I'm more than happy with my H70. The pump thing looks really nice too, flat to the mobo with the corsair logo on it. I get idle non OC temps of around 30-32, which I'm happy with considering how little time I've spent setting it up and the fact I...

I bought the H70 based on the [H] recommendation and I must say I'm very pleased. I immediately replaced the stock Corsair fans with Gentle Typhoon 1850rpms and although I still found it quite noisy I've gotten used to it now and don't notice the sound anymore. Still, I might get an NZXT LXE...

I have GT 1850 RPMs on my H70... I didn't try the Corsair fans so I can't compare, but even the GTs, when first hearing them sounded louder to me than any previous fan I've had on my system. Now I've gotten used to them though and they don't bother me at all. I'm still going to buy a fan...

Good seller, sent the steam unlock code very quickly. Many thanks!

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Appreciate your response although I read the release notes and meant more that I was looking forward to hearing how well the drivers live up to their promise.

Looking forward to hearing whether Starcraft 2 is fixed by these drivers. My brother has a nice system with an i7 920 and 4870x2 but SC2 has appalingly low fps for his system.

Alright you were correct, I swapped out the NZXT for the Noctua and it works :) Now to try to figure out a way of attaching a 120mm intake fan to the side door (there are only screw holes for a 200mm fan, but that wouldn't fit because of the NH-U12P heatsink being too tall)...

How annoying if that's the issue :s ... I'm guessing I can't RMA one fan. I'd have to RMA the whole case. And I spent at least an hour or two working on getting my cable management reasonably tidy in the Vulcan, so I don't want to remove it all on account of one stupid fan. But you say I should...

There are two fans installed in the Vulcan case, a 120mm top exhaust and a 120mm front intake. The front fan works fine, but for some reason the top fan won't spin. At first I had them plugged into the integrated fan controller of the case. It wasn't spinning up so I tried plugging it directly...

fyi, this is where I read it: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2010/07/21/crucial-realssd-c300-64gb-ssd-review/8 "To hit these speeds, you do have to get a fast SATA 6Gbps port, and we're extremely sceptical that on-board ports deliver this. The most reliable way to unlock the full...