Posts by charliew

Cant we please stop saying that SC2 can be played on a gameboy if it has an "INTEL INSIDE" stamp on it? The 2core performance on an I3 isnt a world apart from the I5s performance. Its about the same really, and I would recommend an...

The performance-gain per dollar is REALLY steep all the way up to 3570k really. Saving just a feeeeeew more dollards to get to that point is a great way to get performance, but after that it sort of dips off. As people have said SC2...

Corsair M60. Very light mouse, perfect surfacing as far as grip goes, claw-users will love it. On the fly sens-swapping is very handy if you learn to use it properly. The "AIM" button can be rebound to get extra mouse options (Since...

Basically, if youre using a GTX6XX card (exception might be GTX690), your cards pure processing power will require you to turn down the settings before you have your VRAM bottleneck you. Example: Game X 60% settings = 1500 VRAM 60...

Quote:Originally Posted by PatrickCrowely That's not bad, but not great either. What does your 3770 take to maintain 5GHz stable & temp? Thats the thing, there is this great thread about the "new" i5s and i7s were overclocking like...

I promised a friend he could buy my current i5 2500k when Haswell came out since Ive had it for a few years now and want to upgrade. Im not feeling good about this atm.

Quote:Originally Posted by Fulvin 5Ghz with 1.4V which is kind of meh. However, they got the FSB up to 188Mhz. 4.5Ghz with 1.13V was also extremely hot reaching up to 90c. Bad news for us mortals, but maybe better news for anyone...

Hi, Hope you have google translate. Some chinese site has gotten their hands on an 4770k engineering sample and its hotter than Ivy, game benchmark performance is about 0,5% - 1% better, price is up 10%. Its better at MKV encoding at...

Quote:Originally Posted by r0ach FULL TIME FRAME OF EVENTS BELOW: ... I would not use a $1000 Geforce Titan if you gave me the card for free. ... Well, Youre pretty much alone in that case. The fact of the matter is that there...

Quote:Originally Posted by Rmerwede  ..4GB is absolutely necessary for those who will use it. I run Skyrim @ 3gb VRAM usage, and my system would choke without it.. Well skyrim is the exception, seeing as you can mod it untill you...