Posts by Cavey00

Quote:Originally Posted by sugiik USB mic maybe ? (dunno how it works) or external usb soundcard(with mic input) kind of around 20-50USD ++(maybe) ? like those ?...

Quote:Originally Posted by Avonosac  Except those daughter boards look like they would stop any large coolers from fitting, or H220s Not an issue for me, as long as my Raystorm waterblock will fit. Would have to upgrade cpu as well...

Yeesh. The perfect storm.

Quote:Originally Posted by HuwSharpe Would you believe a lightening strike just fried my motherboard, via the network port. My network switch was also taken out =( Anyone know if the as rock z87e is a good replacement? Not sure,...

I didn't see any fans in that case. As long as you aren't overclocking or putting a graphics card in you might be able to get away with that. I just fear that the processor fan will start spinning up if there isn't at least a little air...

Quote:Originally Posted by Cakewalk_S TMPIN3 temp for me on hwmonitor gives me what I believe to be the correct temp...I think I heard from others it is the vrm temp... Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2 Hmm. I don't know, that...

That APU looks fine, although to be honest I don't have anything running an APU but proc is much better than my Athlon dual core at 3.2 with the onboard chipset graphics (HD4250 I believe). Grab 4 gigs of cheap ram and a small hard drive...

Quote:Originally Posted by Death Jester What about your storage? Is 2tb overkill? We tend to only DVR things to skip commercials so things rarely sit on the drive. I was hoping to get by with limited storage space in the HTPC....

Quote:Originally Posted by Cakewalk_S This board is working pretty good! I was at 4.2GHz for awhile, now I'm upto 4.5GHz. Sofar so good. Stable according to 5 hours of prime95. 64C max temp. 1.288V on my 2500k. My MSI board took...

Quote:Originally Posted by Death Jester What does that do for speed if I don't have a gigabit network? I'm planning on running Cat6 and getting a gigabit router and switch, but I was going to do the HTPC before that.Sorry for the...