What's your monitor resolution? FYI, Football Manager is the only one of those games that will make use of 4 cores + HT. Granted, it's a nice speed bump for that one game. 1920x1080 I primarily chose the Xeon for streaming purposes Edit: There's no major faults in the build? I'm most concerned abou...

Hello, I've picked a Xeon processor because I can get it cheap (compared to an i7) and could use HT while streaming games (compared to an i5). Not looking to overclock I picked a cheap motherboard. As for the PSU I recognized 500W would be enough. Not too sure if the be quiet! E9-500 is the best qui...

Hello, I'm in the works of a new build and I was looking into re-using my current case and, hopefully, the current PSU. What do you guys think? The current PSU is a 6 year old Corsair TX 650W. At the moment, these are the parts I'm looking to put together: CASE: Antec P182B MOBO: ASRock Z77 PRO3 ATX...

Thanks for your reply! Case: if the budget is tight, this is a big expense. Any reasons for the R4 in particular over something cheaper? PSU: The prices I have seen for the Fractal Design Tesla are quite high, again if the budget is tight, this is a big expense. Perhaps consider the Seasonic G450 in...

Hello guys, I have put together some components for a friend. He already has a HDD, monitor and a Windows copy. My friend is going to play LoL, SC2 and D3. In the future he wish to be able to play BF3 and newer games with the same computer. Here's my list: CASE: Fractal Design Define R4 PSU: Fractal...

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Hello guys, I'm building an office PC and so I am looking to get some advice on which direction to go in. - I will be using/doing: Accounting program, document handeling, much Excel usage, playing music, basic 2D work (Photoshop, Xara Extreme), eventually I will do some occasional video editing work...

loimlo wrote:Usually, ASUS Q-Fan sits under "Haredarw Monitor" submenu in bios. Enable and change it to "silent."

That's it! It's down to ~2150 RPM and it's a lot better now. Thank you very much

I feel confident that I placed the fan in the right header but I will re-check once I post this. EDIT: I'm sure it's placed right. It's a 4 pin and its connected to a 4 pin. It says CPU FAN next to it on the mb next as well. There's no other options. I'm totally useless inside BIOS, but I managed to...

I've downloaded Speedfan and found something weird. I don't know if it's something worry about but anyway; Speedfan detects some part that is 63°C. I can't find that in Everest :? I opened the case and can't find any part that hot... Could it be that Speedfan is wrong? Which one do I trust? http://...

Hello, I've bought a new computer and I installed it yesterday. It's running well so far but I'm very disappointed with the noise level! I've opened the case to locate the sound(s) and I found that the cpu fan is moving pretty fast, so I downloaded Everest and apparently the cpu fan is running at ~2...

thejamppa wrote: I am not really confident about PSU being only exhaust for such powerful components...

Ugh.. yeah. Should I seriously consider a new case or is it worth a shot? I have considered to buy a new case but was hoping the old would do

Hello! These are some newly purchased components I've got coming in; CPU: AMD Phenom 9950 2.6GHZ SKT AM2+ 4MB 125W PIB Black Edition MOBO: Asus M3A32-MVP DELUXE, A 790FX Socket AM2+, DDR2, ATX HDD: Western Digital Caviar GP 500GB SATA2, 16MB 7200RPM RAM: 2x Corsair TWIN2X 6400 DDR2, 4096MB CL5, Kit ...