Recent content by UltraVioletDream

Yeah, I've been streaming music for the last 6 hours and watching youtube videos just fine. Seems like upgrade time ^^

I think I was running it downclocked for the past year or so, just took it down to the lowest I could do with the catalyst tool and still froze after a minute or so of gaming. I guess it's time for a new GPU card :( could it be anything else? I'm just trying to gauge what I might need to replace.

I've tested it with Diablo 3 and Starcraft, same situation, the game loads fine and everything is smooth, but when I start playing (GPU under load) it will crash very quickly, I don't think it's the temp of the GPU core, I monitored with GPU-Z and ~5 seconds before a crash it was still reading...

I'm running a HD 6970 gaming at 1600p. I've had my computer for a couple of years and this hasn't happened before. A couple of days ago my computer started artifacting/freezing within minutes of starting TF2. I thought it might have been a heat issue so I pulled out the card and reapplied the...

it;s $227 for me right now on amazon

I would advise against this purchase, amazon reviews reveal a lot of bugs with this particular model.

I'm looking for an invite, PM me if you got one please!

Only costs $20 to find out :p

damn, that's a great deal for a beast of a cooler. I love mine after I hit it with some fine grit sandpaper.

I have another question, if I have a z68 motherboard that can take advantage of the sata3, should I go with the 120gb corsair force gt or still with intel 320 160gb at half the speed? Seems to be same price on Newegg.

whats the difference?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820233191 I think it's a pretty good deal for a drive that won't die within 6 months of usage. what do you guys think? Edit: after further digging into the reviews of all these sandforce drives, I have come to conclusion that the...

Thanks for the numerous opinions guys.

horrible drive, mine crapped out after 5 months. Read the reviews before buying.

what would a decent PSU be right now, I haven't been in the enthusiast game for a while, what brands and wattage could power a 2600k, 8 gigs of ram, and a 6970 2GB comfortably? no plans on upgrading in the near future.