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I did use a lens blower to blow out as much dust as I could out of it, but I wonder if new thermal paste would help given that it crashes immediately if Nvidia's drivers are installed, instead of crashing during games or testing. :(

Hi everyone, yesterday while just doing some webrowsing, my PC froze. I forced restarted it and after the Windows 8 login page appears, the screen turned black and a while later, a blue screen appeared with the error video tdr failure (nvlddmkm.sys ). I can boot into safe mode without issue...

Haha, Having a big case is nice because it is easier to vacuum out dust every few months and things are nicely spread apart. I also have 3 hard drives in front that have plenty of space in between them. If I had to buy a new case I would probably get a mid sized tower though. :laugh:

Some Photos: Awesome that the heatsink can be reused. Totally overkill though. The board looks tiny!

Okay, I upgraded to i5 4670 and ASUS H87M-E. Did a lot of googling and it seems Lightroom doesn't benefit much from hyperthreading. I don't do video, so hyper threading is wasted on me. Figured the extra money saved from geting a K cpu and Z87 motherboard can be put into my next GFX sometime...

Thank you all for the suggestions! I will have quite some studying to do it seems :)

It is because of my experience with overclocking that I know raw increases in ghz does not really translate to equal performance increase unless it is for CPU intensive tasks that max out the cpu no matter what (like video rendering or converting video files!). Also, in order to overclock one...

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/108?vs=836 In the link above, the 6th results (Photoshop CS4) shows in improvement of about 38%. I would hope that Lightroom would have similar improvements. That extra time saved really adds up when you're editing thousands of images a year. In my own...

Thanks for the replies guys. It's awesome that I can use the Noctua again, great bang for buck :D

I will not be overclocking, so the stock cooler that comes with the cpu would sufficient!

Thankyou for taking the time to reply! Budget is flexible, but probably around the 100 to 250 USD range for the router. A friend recommended the Asus RT-AC68U router. It has 3 antennas and would definitely be able to cover the entire office space.

The network in my office is using a crappy free gateway, similar to those used for home. However, there are at least 10 employees in the office and all the desktops and laptops are using WIFI due to lack of Ethernet cabling. Each employee has a smartphone too, which doubles the device count...

Hello everyone, it's been some time since I've thought of upgrading my PC. It seems like CPU improvements has slowed down a little. I've been holding on my to i7 860 for almost 5 years now, and would like to switch to current gen CPU. My main purpose of this cpu upgrade is to improve...

Okay, I backed it up, and gave it a full format (unchecked "quick format"). Results:

Does the fact that the SSD is partitioned affect anything? Anyway, I left my laptop on for a whole day in bios settings. Does not seem to help. Just a while ago I plugged it into my desktop and ran the test again, slightly better but similar results. Probably because the OS is not running on...