Recent content by BaconXBits

Brand quality seems to be a pretty divisive topic. Seems each company has their pros and cons. Do you guys suppose that whatever's revealed at Computex would be released soon thereafter? I can live with my 250 for a bit longer, but would prefer to upgrade sooner than later. Would it be...

Out of curiosity, any particular reason to go with Gigabyte over another brand?

Thanks for the tips, fellas! The 970's looking pretty tempting, especially with the 'free' game promotion they're doing. Was probably going to buy Arkham Knight eventually anyway. I'll probably say goodbye to my $350 tomorrow, so any last-minute input is welcome! Edit: Actually, I'm looking on...

Oh jeez, I forgot to update that part of my profile. Fixed that; you'll notice that my GPU is arguably the weakest link on my rig right now.

Hi all, My GTX 560 Ti of ~3 years kicked the bucket last week, and I'm currently left running on my old GTS 250. Since I'm now in the market for a new GPU and I'm not too caught up with tech happenings, so here I am on TPU. I'm looking to future-proof my rig for games and work (3D animation)...

Don't non-stock heatsinks usually have better surface area/heat dissipation? Figure I'd want to prolong my CPU's lifespan as much as possible. Idle temps are fine (low 30's), and it's pretty quiet. Haven't tried any games or CPU-intensive software yet. Pretty sure? I took out all of the...

Hey all, I recently picked up an Intel i7-4770 (socket 1150) with an ASUS Z87 Sabertooth mobo. My old heatsink does not fit the screw holes in my mobo (I tried all of the different base plates), despite the fact that socket 1155-compatible HSFs apparently fit in 1150 configurations. I'm...

Yep! Now I'm just contemplating whether or not I want to pick up a new CPU/mobo (and sell the old ones back to my friend) to fully utilize my RAM and SSD. Just got a paycheck, so I probably wouldn't be hurting too much by splurging. Leaning towards an i7-3770, but would the extra $40 for an...

I did, posted earlier: http://i.imgur.com/VTyrfFM.png

Looks like 3x8GB works fine. But this question still stands: Anybody have any insight?

Hm, well my single 8GB stick seems to be running just fine. I can plug in two more to see if it still works? Yes, and yes. But he was using 3x2GB sticks. I suppose I might want to look into getting a different mobo that supports SATA3 and 32+GB of DDR3, if I want to fully utilize my RAM and...

Uh...could you elaborate? I put the sticks in the white slot instead of the blue slot. :P

Installed chipset drivers, didn't fix it. Switched SATA cable and port, didn't fix it. That's what I thought, but the manual I found online said that I could just fully load the first two channels if I had four sticks. Windows also does say that there's 32GB installed. I tried putting one...

Hmm. Okay, looking up chipset drivers now. Gigabyte doesn't provide Win8 drivers, should I just assume that their Win7 ones will suffice?

Here we are: http://i.imgur.com/KYjkC7k.png Nothing looks out of the ordinary here?