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Old 05-12-2013, 09:34 PM   #2276
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Unless the rear of your tower has access to cooler air (for example, rear is facing a window) there's not much of a difference compared to having your intake at the front. It's best to have the rear and top as exhaust if you're using a larger air cooler as most HSF fans blow towards the rear.
If you have a video card (or two) heating up the inside of the case, and a pair of mechanical drives in front of the front intake, the CPU is being cooled by all that hot air. It's not ALWAYS the case, but sometimes it works better to reverse things. It's definitely worth trying both ways before settling down on something.
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Old 05-12-2013, 11:08 PM   #2277
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Which is my setup, reverse setup works best with a rad on the back
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Old 05-12-2013, 11:48 PM   #2278
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AMD's Answer to GeForce GTX 700 Series: Volcanic Islands | techPowerUp

New AMD 20nm leaked and is speculated to launch end of this year or early next year.

Looks like AMD might be able to one up Nvidia
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^ Interesting...

Btw, are any new generation AMD CPU's comming out soon that will out perform the current fx series
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Old 05-13-2013, 07:44 AM   #2280
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Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H Review: The Editor's Choice

An older board now, but still solid. If you like motherboards and want to know more about VRMs you'll want to read this
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Old 05-13-2013, 08:35 AM   #2281
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AMD's Answer to GeForce GTX 700 Series: Volcanic Islands | techPowerUp

New AMD 20nm leaked and is speculated to launch end of this year or early next year.

Looks like AMD might be able to one up Nvidia
shit.. soon there gona make pm or fm processors when they get those nm any smaller
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Old 05-15-2013, 07:33 AM   #2282
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thought this was the appropriate thread without starting a new one

I don't really know much about comps but I'm looking to to buy a laptop for school and gaming can you guys recommend one to buy for around $700 - 800
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Old 05-22-2013, 06:48 PM   #2283
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Old 05-23-2013, 10:41 AM   #2284
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GTX 780 is official

HARDOCP - GeForce GTX 780 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Video Card Review

that's a nice gain for a refresh but at the end of the day...it's still $650
I do have to say the real-world gains from the overclocking seems really great
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Old 05-28-2013, 02:17 AM   #2285
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Spotted in Akihabara, new Intel SSD models that haven't been announced yet:



Can't say anything about them, but the specs are there. These are enterprise drives, similar to the Intel DC-S3700.
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Old 05-28-2013, 02:21 PM   #2287
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I spilt literally half a cup of coffee onto my black widow last night.. I unplugged/turned it over and let it air-dry over night, and it works fine this morning. However, whenever I press my "b" key it types "bt" instead. Is there a way to fix this?
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Old 05-28-2013, 04:34 PM   #2288
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Disassemble the keyboard, use q-tip and rubbing alcohol to clean off the contacts where you can see coffee. Something is shorting out the contacts for those two keys.
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Thanks, I just let it air dry and it works again.

But quite a few of my keys are sticky, so I guess I still have to disassemble it (any tips?)..
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Old 05-28-2013, 06:28 PM   #2290
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https://www.youtube.com/results?sear...be.risob-7arKw

There's a bunch of youtube tutorials on cleaning/disassembling the blackwidow keyboard.

Not sure which one would apply to your exact situation. (I didn't bother watching the videos)
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Any recommendation on a mid-end gaming system with Haswell? like CPU + MB recommendation. Would prefer MATX or even ITX.

I'm Looking for something that can play FF14 ARR smoothly, so it will probably will be pared with a 780GTX.

What I have in mind so far for this setup
MATX or ITX case + 500-600w PSU
All in One water cooler setup to fit such setup
Z87 board?
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16GB ram 8GBx2 (please recommend brand and speed)
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250GB SSD

I think thats it for what I need, since I won't need a optical drive or additional storage as I have everything on NAS and cloud already.
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a $650 stripped down GTX Titan is not midrange
what resolution...you probably okay with a 660ti/7870 for FFXIV
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this worth it? Kingston HyperX 3K Series SATA III Solid State Drive, 120GB w/ 2.5" Adapter at Memory Express

looking to use it strictly for the OS
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IMO the HyperX 3K is one of the best SSDs out there. If it's on sale, even betters
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a $650 stripped down GTX Titan is not midrange
what resolution...you probably okay with a 660ti/7870 for FFXIV
I dunno... I thought anything not SLI is consider mid-range

I'm gonna run at 1080P at most. I thought the game is quite demanding, so getting the second best video card should be able to run it smoothly.
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Yup. I'd go for it if I didn't already have ssd in all 3 of my pcs.
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HyperX is better or Samsung 840 pro?
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Interested in HyperX as well
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is it possible to have 2 120gb SSD and hook it up so it becomes a 240gb C drive?
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Haswell is out yo

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