Recent content by Versalius02

While it's good to see non-Asetek based AIOs providing competition with top tier performance, their 2 year warranty gives me pause. Sometimes the warranty length does not directly correlate to the company's confidence in their product, but since Arctic is, from what I gather, still quite new to...

I second this. Performance at varying prices (or price brackets) is a far better metric to judge advancement of the industry. The naming scheme adopted for each generation is only based on relative performance within that generation, so its relation to the same name of a different generation...

Small SSD for boot, RAID0 HDDs for games, and a large HDD for data sounds like a speedy setup, though I'm still wary about RAID0 even though I have NEVER had a Western Digital drive fail on me in the five years I've had them (I've got 4 external and 1 internal). It's just that I understand they...

Interesting. Seems the majority of people so far favor the large SSD option. Here's to hoping the prices drop quite a bit in the next couple months as I've seen quite a few SSDs on Newegg go on sale recently. If you mean RAID0 SSDs, then I'm still waiting for the tech to mature a bit more...

So, I'm planning on building my first gaming desktop in a couple months and I'm still up in the air about my storage setup. I'm looking to get a decent speed and reliability boost when compared with mechanical drives (I'm paranoid as hell when it comes to HD failure so RAID 0 is out of the...

Wow. Quite a difference in price compared to here in the US (on Newegg, they are the same regular price; the 930 is actually on sale right now for $5 less at $290). With those prices, I agree with Ion unless you don't plan on OCing and run proc-intensive tasks often. Off-topic: I loled...

Oh, I was under the assumption that you had seen some leaked info somewhere (as sometimes happens). As a sidenote, I've started looking at this for the monitor, attracted by the LED backlighting (and the high ratings). Anyone have any experience with the LED Samsung monitors? I saw one in...

Yeah, I really need a new system for this coming fall semester. If I could, I would definitely wait until the new Intel socket before comparing the performance of the new Intel and, presumably, new AMD procs to make a decision. Even still, I don't expect the performance difference between the...

Gold is barely better than silver? What blasphemy is this?!? ;) When trying to choose the PSU for my original build, I compared the Antec to the Corsair units and found that the usually small price difference was worth the generally higher rated Corsair units. Yes, the Antec units seem...

Yeah, according to the aforementioned link, the price drop is in August, perfect for my timeline. It's so nice when things just work out. :) About PSUs, what's the difference between the TX (cheapest), HX, and AX (Gold standard) Corsair PSUs besides the obvious efficiency (or is that it)...

Yeah, using one of the online calculators gave a rating of 605 W using the CF configuration (I'm still planning on going for a single 5870 at first), though the calculator didn't have any 1336 CPUs available so I went with a i7-860 (should be pretty close to the 950's TDP). I'll be ordering...

With quite a bit of room to grow (so to speak)? If I remember right, here's the estimated power requirements: 5870 CF = ~400 W (under load) i950 = 130 W SSD = negligible HD = something not so negligible I'd imagine due to 7200 rpm speed Sound card + MB + external (USB) equipment = ?

Again, my paranoia is getting the better of me. Once I get to know the community here a bit better, I'll definitely consider the sales here. Nice! :respect: You managed to include an SSD and 1 TB HD with my 1366 build. My only problems that I can see: - GPU: I'm not really comfortable...

How about this for a 1366 build, then (Thanks to mrsemi for the link)? Hopefully it works: 1366 Build Ok. With this, I've decided to go with the h50. Thanks! I pondered this for a bit, but decided that I'd like the experience and the "original owner" status this first time around...

Thanks for the replies! :) It seems the site comes alive in the morning (to me at least). Interesting. The link works for me without logging in (I made sure to make it public as well). Are you sure it doesn't work for you? What browser are you using? I've tried with IE8 and Chrome and...