Posts by funkmetal

I dont feel comfortable having him change a CPU and I would have to walk him through it over teamspeak. All in all how bad would the bottleneck be for the 560ti vs a 650ti (Non boost) with that CPU would you think? He gets about 50 FPS...

He will be playing at 1440x900 and he has 8 GB of ram (I am guessing 1333Mhz but cant be certain because Im doing the recommendations over teamspeak). Also, PS2 is a VERY demanding game, I get barely 40 FPS in intense fights on max at...

The main game he will be playing is Planetside 2 and he wants the PhysX

Is the GPU a good choice for this CPU? I dont want my friends computer to bottlenck because the card is too powerful

Can this actually work? I am helping a friend upgrade his Store Bought HP Desktop and the CPU he has is a A8-3820 APU 2.50 Ghz. Is it possible to do this? Or does the video card have to be AMD. All I think he would have to do is disable...

Nope, seems I just had to update the BIOS through @BIOS from Gigabytes site, thanks for the help anyway

All that happens when I enter the bios is that it shows the name of the BIOS and a Blue backdrop, everything works fine except for a occasional "Call to OS Function" which I have no clue what they mean, and a few blue screens (4.4GHz...

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Oh man, didnt realize that the Sniper 3 was $355 (Thats really expensive for it), I would go for the Sabertooth or the UD5 (Probably the Sabertooth)

You should look at the Gigabyte G1 Sniper 3 Z77, Great board filled with features but granted it is a E-ATX board