By constant pulsating you mean flickering caused by insufficient refresh rate on a CRT display? Good CRTs allowed high refresh rates that practically eliminated flicker. However there were plenty of improperly configured ones around flickering like mad and thus unusable. I'm glad that is over with C...

Bah, no point to do a new build if the computer is otherwise doing what it needs to do. My computer is a bit over 2.5 years old now and it's FLYING.

Just replace the fans.

I would rather put that money towards a clamp meter. Can anyone figure out a valid use case besides reviews such that it makes sense to invest in this rather than just an AC power meter for the whole system?

edit: In my experience vsync can never completely eliminate tearing in 60hz LCD monitors, just minimise it. It also can reduce frame rate alot, sometimes halving it completely. Screen tearing is a visual artifact in video where information from two or more different frames is shown in a display dev...

I think there are many games where you could see more than 60fps, unless you only play crysis and the like. Now suppose your game can draw exactly 40fps. With a 60Hz monitor, two game frames would be shown per three monitor frames. So for example every other image twice and every other image once - ...

I would get the x460 out of those two choises. Do you actually think your system needs more power than 460 Watts???

The discuss this article link takes me back to the first page of the review.

CA_Steve wrote:This sorta assumes that Mike C and crew have access to an Android phone. What a PITA for small website developers (phones - not you ).

I dont know how it is in Canada, but apparently 44% of smartphones sold during Q3 in the US were android devices.

Amazon ads on the site, even though displaying correctly, have their clickable area extend right and down infinitely on android browser. This means that when I tap any link, often I hit the Amazon ad instead.

This is extremely annoying. I need it fixed. Can't use the site on my phone like this.

I'm simply going to say that I game and I want high fps in high resolution and high detail. But when I am not playing I really want complete silence! And when I am playing, while its true that the game audio drowns out some PC noise, still the quieter the PC is the lower I can keep the audio volume ...

Its funny - there is a post by an obvious spammer immediately followed by a post from MikeC.

EDIT: This is no longer the case as evident from below.

Tim: Maybe you should edit your first post to clarify there already that it was bogus. I was totally wtfed when I first opened this thread and Seasonic has a high reputation to me.

Also what previous poster said about Gigabyte.

El jefe: thermal pads are basically double sided foam tape with good thermal conductivity. They come with many CPU heatsinks. In mosfet cooling the adhesive property is necessary as there are no mounting holes or such to secure the heatsinks. Frankly I am somewhat surprised that you were not familia...

Twitch: There are no "Seagate Caviar Green" drives. Perhaps you meant "Western Digital Caviar Green" instead? Also what do you mean by a <50W quiet and efficient psu? If one with a maximum power capability that low: What do you actually gain by limiting the maximum power capability? It won't be any ...

The primary drive should be a ssd so if this is not completely irrelevant now it will be in two years or so.

I'm pretty happy with my evga now that a BIOS update slowed idle fan speed to 30% which is much much quieter than the previous speed of 40%.

Regular keyboards are a good breeding ground for germs. This is probably why in a hospital examination room you would see such special keyboards.

Any random error in those tests is a sign of unstable system. You should be able to run 24h+ without any errors and even then just lower your overclock by a notch to be certain that the system is stable. To make an analogy to high jumping, when you overclock, you are raising the bar. When it's low, ...

The strong design might mean that the keys require more force to press than normal, which is a sure way to RSI.

Conveniently? I think the point of emergency fan is to kick in automatically when overheating is imminent. Case fans don't do that conveniently.

Some of the numbers such as number of mobile phones is actually a contra-indication of development in that people who were already hard-wired to the telecom system and don't have the same need for a mobile phone. I've been trying to tell to my grandparents that there is no point in paying for the l...

OP: did you try with your current card? Those recommendations look like the game is really low on demands and you did not even mention what resolution and detail levels you want to run?

I can agree that 100% brightness is way too bright. In fact mine is set at minimum brightness.

And if anyone tries to suggest to set display brightness to max and then modify gpu brightness settings instead, that only makes the perceived contrast worse and is no solution at all...

Manu lcd displays make noise when their backlight is not at maximum brightness. It is caused by the backlight power circuit. However it's not loud and there are silent models too. I don't know if this applies to led-backlit lcds at all? It is certainly not limited to laptops! But as I said, it is no...

(0.24 (US$ / kWh)) * 15 (W * year) = 31.5 U.S. dollars a year for 15W extra. But I doubt you can actually save that 15W in your current system without investing much more money and so it won't pay off. One thing to try is to disconnect everything that is not essential to boot the system to find out ...

In other news, somebody else discovered that by putting certain magical stones on top of your amplifier also gives better sound. Also if you change your amp power cable to a more expensive one, massive gains are to be expected. You should also have speaker cables fatter than your wrists, anything el...

So how much for a GPU?

Maybe they are on vacation. There aren't exactly any service hours stated anywhere on the site. In any case your effort this far has probably far exceeded $ 20. I mean, it seems a bit overreacting to contact 3 different people just 2 days after your donation.

So you might step into the street and directly in front of a bicycle. The only sensible thing to do is only rely on your eyes and so never step into the street without looking!

I've heard that Lexus cars have very good noise insulation so that at least people inside should be happy.

Just unplug those leds. Power led - the system is powered on if it reacts to mouse or keyboard. Hdd activity led - if this really seems useful, one should buy more RAM. My monitor has an awesome power led - it is only turned on for a couple seconds when the input signal or the monitor itself is turn...