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    PSU blew out

    your cpu and gpu ....both "end of life" http://ark.intel.com/fr/products/52269/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E3-1220-8M-Cache-3_10-GHz
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    About building my own PC

    you should buy an ups : a batterie that protect your psu and give power to it if you want a 860w psu , you need a 1500va ups or higher in case you will plug the modem-router and display...
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    Water cooled rig - Push and pull setup done temperatures not clear, any help?

    the water in the reservoir is at the temp of the water in the cpu so 50-60 *c that is not so good because the pump has this hot water... pump -reservoir -cpu -little radiator - future vga- big radiator -> pump or pump -reservoir -little radiator - cpu - big radiator -> pump it is better to...
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    What is holding my gaming performance back?

    have a look in the power option in control panel then click change plan settings at right of selected scheme : balanced then click change advanced plan settings..... and then look [where?] ...... my answer after a thank or more... ;'] ps : may be pci-express , link state....OFF
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    How do i make this computer faster?

    your trouble is the temperature , open the case and clean the dust , may be let it opened you should defrag your drives with http://www.auslogics.com/en/software/disk-defrag/ do one by one hd and set the virtual memory file on the other drive , that will need rebboots . of course before ...
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    PSU blew out

    i feel i ll hurt with my joke but what you say nearly sound to me like the first airplane drivers... the first of them was only wearing clothes making them look like a fowl , they tried to fly from the eiffel tower and all died ...nowadays some are flying with airbus 780 they do not die ;'] i...
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    Water cooled rig - Push and pull setup done temperatures not clear, any help?

    if read : http://ark.intel.com/fr/products/65719/Intel-Core-i7-3770-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz your cpu is only 77 w and radiators are 6 x 120 make the loop like i said and tell what are your temps .
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    Water cooled rig - Push and pull setup done temperatures not clear, any help?

    you did a big mistake..... the big radiator is not in the right position , the heat is at the top so waters that goes out of it , drains the heat [again] you should flip the big radiator upside-down here is the plan : with a box like that having two holes for tubes and one for letting in...
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    What is holding my gaming performance back?

    if mainboard reboots , with temp low , you should have a too low power psu . by the way overclocking is not great and use/waste a lot of watt you should go 16 Go of ram , plus a better psu , plus a better cpu , then a ssd ...
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    About building my own PC

    canada + mexico + usa is a free market like europe . some states in the usa are applying some taxes when you buy things , most of the time it s california . for amazon canada : www.amazon.ca for ebay canada : www.ebay.ca if you look at devises curency , canadian $ is at 1.5 euro ...
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    About building my own PC

    open a paypal account to pay bills and be secured . prices in euros [in france ] should be a lot lower in america . i also import from : http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php look at the clearance , they have some new psu with 50% rebate this shop also have everything you may need...
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    About building my own PC

    start to buy things but try to be wise , here are some good second-hand products but ebay has a lot of good things , refurbished or second-hands and paypal lets you have two weeks to be sure products work [ even if seller says product can not be returned ... some thiefs believe they can make...
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    What is holding my gaming performance back?

    parked or not , Bf4 is a blu-ray to install so , at least your pc will need as much Go of Ram as on the HD ...or you will have lags
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    About building my own PC

    where you were living in europe ? [france ?] beware that canada-usa are really more coldy than here. euro is 1.3 1.45 dollars , canadian dollar is nearly equal to the usa 's one today i was having 17*c ;'] this coming sunday should be cool too i should be happy but some trees are already...
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    What is holding my gaming performance back?

    you should update cpu to have More Mhz and goes up to 16 Go may be you could add a ssd where you will install games may be you can go back to your hd 6k and get a refund of 620 to buy the above ? hd5k or 6k or even r9 are all dx11 , the big difference is only the tesselation aka the number of...
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