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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    Quote Originally Posted by Cortexian View Post
    Hey man, they look the same. Must be the same right?
    Fine with me.
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    There's one less DVI port on the 7950. I assume you'll be keeping it and make the same "mistake" the shipper made by thinking it was still the GTX570? You could get away with it. And triple slot? Jesus fuck.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Amit View Post
    There's one less DVI port on the 7950. I assume you'll be keeping it and make the same "mistake" the shipper made by thinking it was still the GTX570? You could get away with it. And triple slot? Jesus fuck.
    Yeah, I had to use the DVI to mini-DisplayPort adapter that came with it to hook up my second monitor. As for it being absolutely huge, well, I have no intentions of ever running two cards, and I have more than enough space for it, so it doesn't concern me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by king_nothing_ View Post
    As for it being absolutely huge, well, I have no intentions of ever running two cards, and I have more than enough space for it, so it doesn't concern me.
    Pretty much the same here. Wouldn't bother me too much other than the looming thought at the back of my mind that it might be so heavy as to snap the screws that hold it in place.
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    Screws would only snap if you're using shitty quality screws.
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    I suppose. Sometimes it makes me wonder, though, especially for the GPUs that have motherfucking retention brackets included with them lol.
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    Quote Originally Posted by =sw=warlord View Post
    Screws would only snap if you're using shitty quality screws.
    and even then, they'd only snap when you're tightening it from torque.

    Or your computer falling at terminal velocity.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    Soooo, I have a bit of a dilemma here and I need some help. I am in the process of purchasing my new gaming computer, but I have run into a problem when it comes to the CPU, I was intending on getting myself a regular i7-3770 Ivy Bridge CPU to go with my ASRock Z68 motherboard, but after doing some research I found conflicting information when It comes to compatibility between the two. I read a bunch of reviews on NewEgg and found that for a bunch of people the IB processors needed a Bios Update on the Z68 motherboards to be compatible, but the Processor actually has to post first before you can update said Bios, but the IB processors won't post in the first place without the update, a bit of a catch 22 it seems. My alternative is a 10 dollar cheaper i7-2600k. Im just curious if anyone else here has any knowledge on the subject and might could give me some advice on how to proceed at this point...
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    Check Asrocks site to see if the boards ship with the updated BIOS, those reviews might be old. Some said the same for my 990x board in regards to bulldozer, but that wasn't an issue with mine as it shipped with the latest BIOS.

    Ivy bridge itself is at most a 10% performance boost compared to its sandy counterparts, with its main appeal to gamers being PCI-E 3.0 support.... with ivy chipsets. You won't get this with a Z68 board, so unless you're anal about TDP and iGPU performance it shouldn't effect you that much.

    But then again why get a z68 at all? Get a 7x series board and you won't run into any of these problems anyway.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    Quote Originally Posted by JackalStomper View Post
    Check Asrocks site to see if the boards ship with the updated BIOS, those reviews might be old. Some said the same for my 990x board in regards to bulldozer, but that wasn't an issue with mine as it shipped with the latest BIOS.

    Ivy bridge itself is at most a 10% performance boost compared to its sandy counterparts, with its main appeal to gamers being PCI-E 3.0 support.... with ivy chipsets. You won't get this with a Z68 board, so unless you're anal about TDP and iGPU performance it shouldn't effect you that much.

    But then again why get a z68 at all? Get a 7x series board and you won't run into any of these problems anyway.
    Well, at this point the problem is that I already ordered the Board, based on the advice of a friend of mine. I only discovered this issue last night xP And I am trying to decide what is best at this point for me to do as far as a CPU is concerned.
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