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liquidmage, my i7-4770k tops out at around 76 C in Prime95 extreme heat test and idle temps are in the low 30s. I'm using the same cooler as you also, Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus. I'm also running running 16 GB G.Skill Ares 2133 MHz memory at 10-12-12-1T at 1.60 v. I do have 2 fans on Hyper 212 Plu...

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well, I'm using the free version of Bitdefender on my 2 Windows 10 PCs along with Malwarebytes. The free version of Bitdefender is pretty much invisible so you really cant tell if its really doing it job or not. Plus it doesn't use too many resources. I'm using the paid version of Bitdefender on my ...

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ive installed Windows 10 on 3 different machines now. Laptop upgrade went smoothly through windows update upgrading from windows 8.1. HTPC upgrade went fine upgrading with DVD .iso from Windows 7 Ultimate to 10 Pro. But my main desktop was a pain in the a$$. I tried all 3 methods and no matter which...

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I honestly could not say. I have used so many different brands. Crucial, Kingston, Corsair, Patriot, G.Skill, PNY, Mushkin. I have had to RMA Crucial Ballistix, Corsair Dominator, and Mushkin Blackline. I will not buy any memory that doesn't have a lifetime warranty. Right now im running G.Skill in ...

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I sure didn't realize you could run an Athlon 3500+ CPU on a socket AM2 motherboard. Last I checked, those were socket 939 CPUs. Why even bother with running a CPU that old on an AM2 board? No one really uses a single core CPU anymore. even routers now have dual-core cpus in them.

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I remember I had the 9800 that I flashed the bios to the 9800XT. had an aftermarket cooler for it too. it worked fine for the years I used it. the card did eventually go kaput though. even found an old 9700 Pro laying around in my old stuff last year. Stuck it in a computer for someone who was still...

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I had it show up on my main desktop and Yoga 2 Pro. Since both are Windows 8.1 (desktop is Pro), I will give it a shot. Havent turned my HTPC on yet so don't know if it showed up there yet but Im not sure if I want to mess with it since Im happy running Windows 7 Ultimate on there. I could care less...

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if you already have a PS4, there really is no reason to buy an Xbox One to play just 1 game. Can you really justify spending $325 on a console to play one $60 game? I bought the Titanfall bundle back in April when it was $450 with Kinect because I don't PC game anymore and I prefer the Xbox controll...

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Dieter, I don't know what you have been reading about the Netgear Nighthawk R7000, but I have not had any issues whatsoever with my unit. ive had mine for a full year now. I bought it a week after they first came out last year. It does not run hot at all and has a plethora of options which includes ...

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I hope so. Never been a big fan of OCZ as their reputation for failing drives has been pretty bad in the past. But it seems many have been pleased with the newer drives like the Vertex 460s which came out after Toshiba bought OCZ. So I took a gamble on one myself this week and bought a Vertex 460 24...

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ive had 2 different Samsung 830 drives. the first one I gave to my father in law to put in his older laptop. it had a pretty good number of writes to it considering I had that drive for over 2 years. the other one I still have is under 2 years old which im using as my current OS drive, Samsung Magic...

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I have tried classic shell, startisback, start8, and a couple of other pieces of software that added the start button back to the taskbar in windows 8. Of all of them, I liked Start8 the most so I decided to pay the $5 to Stardock for it. Im using Start8 now on 3 different machines and don't miss Wi...

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I bought a Yoga 2 Pro back in February when Best Buy had the 8 Gb i7 models for $1200. It comes with Windows 8 and a Toshiba mSata 256 GB SSD drive. I already had paid Stardock $5 for Start8 on my desktop so installed it on the Yoga 2 and haven't looked back. That machine is the fastest booting Wind...

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ive used both classic shell and stardock start8. They both work fine. I paid the $5 for start8 and am using it on 2 desktops and a touchscreen ultrabook. Without it, Windows 8 would drive me up the wall with that tile screen. And in honesty, I have yet to see the BSOD since ive been using Windows 8 ...

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Anovoca, I bought a Netgear Nighthawk R7000 about week after it came out back in last October. I have no regrets spending $200 on that router. Before that, I had been using a D-Link DGL-4500 for the past 6 years. I never upgraded because I didn't need new wireless functionality because I didn't have...

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I finally bought another laptop after 7 years and went with a Yoga 2 Pro. the I7 with 8 gb ram and 256 GB SSD. Im actually pretty happy with it. It literally boots up instantly even being completely shut off . The touchscreen works well, the resolution is amazing( though I downsized it to 1920x1080)...

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I bought a Sound Blaster Z a few months back when newegg had it on sale. the onboard sound on my motherboard is actually not bad at all, the latest realtek chipset, but I figured why not take a gamble on the SB Z. I can honestly say the SB Z has more uumph than the onboard and the sound doesn't go o...

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speaking of UPSs, I just had a Cyberpower one go kaput. The battery leaked battery acid from the negative terminal and guess what, somehow burned out a capacitor in the unit. That burnt smell Im all to familiar with all the PSU that have failed me over the years. To replace that UPS with a new ident...

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um, not that I know of. if you have bought the Windows 8 upgrade when Windows 8 first came out, you could have gotten it for $40 from Amazon like I did. Most online stores are selling the Windows 8 upgrade for around $80. This is the cheapest I have seen it online. [url]http://www.buycheapsoftware.c...

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thanks for all the responses guy. someone suggested I use it in my office pc but it seems pointless to me. literally all I do with that PC is turn it on, run peachtree, print some checks or reports, and turn it back off. my laptop, the battery wont even last 1 hour anymore and ever since I bought an...

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ok, don't answer my question. I read some of the other posts and the consensus seems to be there is no point to RAID SSDs. So now I guess I can just let it sit around as a spare or install it in my system and install games on it. too bad I don't play PC games any more.

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I ask this question because I have a spare Samsung 830 series 128 GB SSD just sitting around. My desktop already has one of those in it and my HTPC has a Corsair Force 3 90 GB in it. My laptop is 6 years old so not installing in that and my office PC is a Core 2 Duo which has a 150 GB WD Raptor. So ...

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I made the jump from Nehalem to Haswell. The way I look at it is I had a first generation i7-950. Then there was i7-8xx, Sandy Bridge, Sandy Bridge-E, and Ivy Bridge. I didn't feel any of those were really worth upgrading to. But with the new enhancements in the Z87 chipset and power efficiency of t...

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you could probably install one instance of your flight simulator on the SSD without it being an issue. if you do both, you are leaving yourself about 50 Gb tops if you don't have all kinds of other software installed. its really up to you. the only game I play on PC these days is Sim City and when I...

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there is no decent software Blu-ray player for the PC especially the free kind. ive tried so many different ones on my HTPC and found nothing worth paying for or really even using. Some of the cheaper or free software either lag on playback or cant bit-stream HD audio tracks to home theatre receiver...

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sschaem, I bought a i7-4770K a couple of weeks ago along with an AsRock Z87 board in a combo deal from newegg for $425. The processor was basically $250 and yes it was a K. honestly, I would have taken a non-K if it would have been $30 cheaper because I don't bother spending the time to overclock an...

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the only reason I went with 16Gb of ram is because I got some 8Gb of G.Skill DDR-1600 CL9 memory for $50 in some combo deal from newegg 2+ years ago. then they had the same memory on sale for $25 a few months ago so bought 8 more GB. So now I have 16 GB of ram which I paid $75 for. That same memory ...

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I finally got my i7-4770k upgrade installed with an ASRock Extreme6 board. I was able to use my Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus HSF (with push and pull fan setup) with the Haswell chip. I set up the computer to take advantage of all power saving methods it can via the UEFI so no manual overclocking at ...

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JAEngineer, thanks for the response. I still have the stock intel HSF(unused) for the i7-950 so I will use that and use the CM Hyper 212 Plus on the i7-4770k. Save myself $30+ for now plus I already had installed a 2nd fan on the CM heatsink long ago so it should suffice.

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wow, so many responses to my simple question. ok, now some answers to the questions I was asked. I don't particularly do anything special anymore on my PC. I don't really game at all on it anymore unless you count playing Sim City once in a blue moon. simple reason why I haven't upgraded from a Rade...

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