wevsspot Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 Admiral - Welcome to OCC. We are glad to have you join. Enjoy your time with us Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted April 25, 2011 Posted April 25, 2011 With my Schools "dirty" electriticty, my laptop screen has a large white burn that moves, so my screen is burned. Also I always want to have a good customer service rather than price. If i had to chose between two identical cards one with a lifetime warrenty and one that is cheaper, with my luck, i will go with the warrenty always. So get a UPS, don't pay the wrong company Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral_Breaker Posted April 27, 2011 Posted April 27, 2011 Sounds like you will need a nice surge protector and a UPS with that electricity problem! Spend a little extra cash and protect your investment if the power situation is really that sketchy Well being a College student i really dont have the funds to by a UPS . But i do have a surge protector but still. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admiral_Breaker Posted April 27, 2011 Posted April 27, 2011 Hello! First off welcome to OCC! Nice choice with the AMD 6/4 core system. But getting a GTX560 will limit most desires for SLI down the road(Need to use a hacked BIO's and it apparently doesnt work that well). Are you planning on getting a motherboard with 2x pci-e x16 slots? or atleast x8 on both? If your planning on getting a board with only 1 pci-e slot then nevermind then. Getting an AMD HD6950 2GB would only cost alittle more money and is a better card, it also can be flashed with a BIO's from a 6970 and it essentially becomes a 6970 for the price of a 6950!! You could also look at a new sandybridge i5-2500k quad-core and a P67 Mobo. It would only cost alittle more overall than the AMD system and would be ALOT faster. If your not going to overclock then the i5-2400 would work as well. But id highly recommend getting the unlocked CPU even if you dont plan on overclocking now. Because a couple months from now you might want to! Going with the P67 intel platform also gives the option of SLI. Could save a few bucks by getting a regular version of the GTX560 and just overclock it yourself!! Its quite easy to do, the only reason you should pay for the factory overclocked card is for the non-reference cooling solution it has, and if i remember right, the CRysis edition of that card is a reference cooler with a cool picture on it... definitely not worth the Extra $10 it costs, unless you found it somewhere for the regular price that is! Well i dont really like ATI/AMD... (personal reasons) and the mobo's that i am looking at are the MSI 890FXA http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130274 and the GIGABYTE GA-890FXA http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128441 however the processor is a challenge i am stuck between getting a Phenom x4 970 or a phenom x6 1100T. I am also considering getting an Intel DIY kit from newegg with a sabertooth mobo with a i7 quad core processor. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
El_Capitan Posted April 27, 2011 Posted April 27, 2011 Welcom to OCC Admiral! I salute ye, as I am a mere Capitan. If you're looking at the MSI 890FXA, I've got the 890FXA-GD70 I could sell to you with a 1090T. There are issues with the 890FXA-GD70 with overclocking to 4.0GHz or higher, but PhenomMSRTweaker resolves any of those overclocking issues. 4.2GHz is solid as a rock, but I prefer 4.0GHz for 24/7 operation. I also tested using the SLI hack on it, and it works with two cards in SLI, though there are limitations (not as good of a Core Clock overclock, and memory overclocks are unstable) and some instability (random 0x00000000A BSOD's). Let me know if you'd be interested, I think I may want to go with a SB build for a secondary system. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanTheGamer11 Posted April 27, 2011 Posted April 27, 2011 (edited) if ya wanna sli and get amd i suggest waiting for the 900 series chipset and amd bulldozer! apparantly you can buy a $700 ready to run system with the top bulldozer processor when it is released! under 2 months till release if wondering... welcome btw! Edited April 27, 2011 by Dan The Gamer Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savan Posted April 29, 2011 Posted April 29, 2011 welcome to OCC. if you are going with the current gen of AMD, get a 1090T, instead of an 1100T. Its the same thing, but they increases the frequency by I think 100 or 200 mhz and charge more for it. you can easily do the same from the bios for free. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedway Posted April 29, 2011 Posted April 29, 2011 Welcome to OCC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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