Recent content by tongey54

Guru3D also say Maxwell only...

"this driver introduces multi-frame sampled anti-aliasing (MFAA), which can be enabled across GeForce GTX 600, GTX 700, and GTX 900 series graphics cards." This is not true, MFAA is only available on GTX 9xx series cards.

It's not always about games. Haswell spanks X58, simples :P

Good comparison overall but as a gamer, I would like to see a much larger list of games comparisons. However, glad you went for 1080p comparisons and not 1024x768 just because it was a CPU comparison.

What are the actual differences between this and the Essence One? I have the STX and always wanted the One but was put off by the price and apparently dodgy driver support. I would however jump at getting rid of the dirty molex connection to the STX, so this would be ideal.

Yeah, it's 6pin PCI-E though so not too bad.

Stress test it properly with IBT and Prime and see what your temps are then...

Might be because you have it in the wrong SATA model also. If your old install was done in IDE and the new board is set to AHCI...

Only the new AXxxxi series. But I totally agree. Best to have a test PSU, and memory and graphics card if possible. An old hard drive with a copy of Windows on doesn't hurt either.

Make sure you update the BIOS before swapping out the CPU.

Hi, I think your PSU is fine, is there any chance you can test the setup without the SSD RAID for a while to see if you can replicate the issue? One of them may have broken.

Have you tried Offset Voltage rather than manual voltage? You shouldn't have to have it an Auto.

Whether a Gigabyte or an Asus board, all unlocked Sandy and Ivy Bridge overclock through their turbo, no matter how you set it in the BIOS. Only difference is if you do it by per core you can select values (e.g. 45 for 1 core load, 42 for 4 core load etc). If your voltage isn't dropping down...

Yeah when the program stops responding its a sign of instability. Temps seem fine and I don't think lowering the fans would affect it all that much.

IBT and Prime stable? ;)