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    Walking around Cebit 2013...

    Not sure where to put this, I was on Cebit as usual and wanted to share some impressions of one of the oldest and still biggest IT exhibitions world-wide. Starting 05.03. and lasting until the 9th March, Cebit is still one of the biggest IT-shows you can attend. Pre-coverage wasn't that...
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    GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7 - I am officially impressed!

    Seriously don't even try to get into "tweaking"...if Aero is all you have, I will not try to explain why using XP (with LSC, maxmem for pi) is still a smart move in professional benchmarking. Go look here Gigabyte just claims another astonishing 3D Mark 2001 result - on XP... :toast...
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    GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7 - I am officially impressed!

    Yes XP is more efficient in SuperPi 32m - you can't compare Win 7 and WinXP times. Also SLI with 580s is faster on XP often. 3DM01 on Win 7 is PITA, CPU Score in 06 is mostly so much higher that the GPU advantage of Win 7 will not be enough to achieve the same score. It mostly is because of...
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    Winter is coming, time to overclock your computer.

    That picture is a bit older. Must be one of the first 2600K together with 480 GTX or something like that. What you see there is evap temp - directly from the copper that cools the CPU. Usually you have 20K higher temp on the CPU in idle - so something around -30°C idle and -25°C load. Here...
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    Smarter malware... Less technical coding

    Good article! These damn little suckers are really clever these days... Still I will never get over the point why people with such coding skills are not doing something good instead beeing a pest for everyone.
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    Winter is coming, time to overclock your computer.

    Sure winter is the best time of the year - I miss my balcony but still have a room I can freeze down to get the last out of the compressor or GPU :D
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    GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7 - I am officially impressed!

    I popped in some Geil Evo Corsair and G.Skill Trident sticks and started the 16 GB "challenge". I struggled to get DDR3-2500 booting and 32m will crash on initial loop. Up to ~1150 MHZ there are no issues. Past 1200 MHZ it gets hard to find stable settings... with 2x4 GB 1300+ is no problem ;)
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    AMD FX 8350 No Stock Issues

    Haha, I want one - good old times...first CPU I only want for blowing up under LN2 in absolute primary reason....5 gig air sounded really ok so far - please AMD stock it up and get the price down ;)
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    GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7 - I am officially impressed!

    UD7 bios for OC is "F3" - not on the website but inofficial you'll get it here and there. F5d is really fine for all day - not a major difference in allday use. honestly I would have to search for the little details I was told F3 has...not remarked any myself yet :p
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    GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7 - I am officially impressed!

    the old men I am - there is not that much of 4 GB sticks laying here...lots of old 2 GB PSC :o but I will try...cpu-wise I should have an ace in the sleve :laugh:
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    GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7 - I am officially impressed!

    After 2 weeks of intense testing I had to admit - this board is really a nice piece of hardware ;) Summary: The Z77X is a very good OC-motherboard with a load of features and all important tweaking options. The buttons on the board come in very handy in many situations. The equipment...
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    i5-3570k : not bad but a little disappointed...

    I was afraid of that also from the very beginning and it won't get better unless we see some serious decreases of voltage anytime soon. Regarding CPU steps ~10 years ago we should have 0.8V stock by now but due to the fact intel is introducing completely new stuph with IVY it might take...
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    Valve Recruiting Electronics Engineer for Developing Homegrown Hardware

    They don't need a "Steambox" they need something portable like a "Steambook"! I would be darn interested in such project but I have to hang around the internet instead :p Not sure if a "classical" console part would be "new" enough to gather enough attention... And the most advanced...
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    i5-3570k : not bad but a little disappointed...

    Finally some retail completely tested :toast: I think this is exactly what you can expect...now imagine the heat of additional HT...3770K won't do any better imo...(and YES I know ;) ) This is already Retail and this is what will be in the stores for the next 1-2 month at least. I...
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    AwardFabrik / Team LDK OC Session 2011 - 1500L LN2 - 3D Mark 2003 1x GPU WR and more

    AwardFabrik / Team LDK OC Session 2011 Last weekend finally was time to bench again with AF-team. Benching together in such a group can't be described, I let the pictures speak for themselves mostly ;) 20 Top-Bencher from AwardFabrik came to this event and had another epic 2-day session with...
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