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[2gunsup]

was shadowplay running? I can't think how geforce experience would effect you otherwise

Especially with the SLI performance bug when shadowplay is enabled. Can drop performance over 20%.

@Ciggavelli

What fan is it that you have that can do 5000rpms?

 

[Liquid]

Please show me the specs on a low end gaming desktop

• NZXT Gamma Gaming Mid Tower Case
• AMD Athlon II X2 240 Dual-Core CPU
• 4GB (2GBx2) Corsair DDR2-800 RAM
• NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 (1GB) GPU
• Asus M3A78-CM motherboard
• 450W power supply
• 320GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
• 22x Dual-Layer DVD Writer
• 12-in-1 Multi-Format Card Reader
• Onboard Audio
• Onboard Ethernet
• No Operating System Pre-Loaded

Recommended Upgrades:

• AMD Athlon II X4 620 Quad-Core CPU: +$50
• ATI Radeon HD 5750 (1GB; DirectX 11 support): +$48
• 1TB 7200rpm Hard Drive: +$35
• Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit): +$104

Read more: http://hothardware.com/articles/Ban...HighEnd-Gaming-Desktops/#!79hdj#ixzz36T5jjmNl

fukk outta here. You're jealous i have better screenshots.

I'm just fukking with you breh

 

[Fatboi1]

I need to download more hard drive space on my SSD shyt is red.

 

[Liquid]

I need to download more hard drive space on my SSD shyt is red.

What size SSD do you have? I am thinking of a 128GB, but I feel like that it might not be enough anymore. Might have to go for a 256GB

 

[Fatboi1]

What size SSD do you have? I am thinking of a 128GB, but I feel like that it might not be enough anymore. Might have to go for a 256GB

60GB. I only got like 9GBs free on there. BF4 I wanted to put on there because load times on HDD's are insane(Like 3 minutes to load up a map).

 

[Liquid]

60GB.

 

[daze23]

when my 120 gb SSD started running out of space... I copped a 250. now all my games are on SSD, and shyt is glorious

 

[2gunsup]

60GB. I only got like 9GBs free on there. BF4 I wanted to put on there because load times on HDD's are insane(Like 3 minutes to load up a map).

Time to disable hibernation and system restore for that drive if you haven't done so already.

 

[Ciggavelli]

do you really need a sound card?
i got rid of mine last year when it started acting funny and just use my onboard audio...works just fine.
one less peripheral to worry about if you don't really need it, i don't know if you are doing any audio work.
then i could see fighting for it.

I need the soundcard to use my headset, Astro A50s. My motherboard doesn't do dolby digital live (which the headset needs for the the highest sound quality and to get shyt to run in 5.1). I don't NEED it, but I'd really like to be able to use my headset (the sound is amazing).

was shadowplay running? I can't think how geforce experience would effect you otherwise

I didn't have it set to run, but I think it might run automatically from what I was reading. So, maybe... I also didn't change any of the setting in geforce experience, so it probably was set to run automatically. Or geforce experience was just fukking up my shyt in other ways I can't think of. I dunno. All I know is some games run better now. It's weird.

Especially with the SLI performance bug when shadowplay is enabled. Can drop performance over 20%.

@Ciggavelli



What fan is it that you have that can do 5000rpms?

I don't know. HWMonitor says it's a "sysfanin" and my bios says it is "Cha_Fan1." I can definitely hear it. It is loud as shyt. I think it might be that little fan that ASUS has installed with their sabertooth motherboards. I think something might be wrong with it. It's hidden behind a bunch of shyt right now though, so I'm trying my hardest to figure it out without disassembling my computer. THe motherboard won't even change this fan though. I dunno what to to. I'm lost...

 

[DF is BUSY]

What size SSD do you have? I am thinking of a 128GB, but I feel like that it might not be enough anymore. Might have to go for a 256GB

trust, go 256.

128 is nothing.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

when my 120 gb SSD started running out of space... I copped a 250. now all my games are on SSD, and shyt is glorious

Yeah, I got all my games on my 256 SSD along with my OS.
When I start running low on space I just uninstall whatever game I'm done with and move the new joints on.

Loading times are so much better on SSDs.

 

[Ciggavelli]

trust, go 256.

128 is nothing.

Get 500

Those samsung evos are cheap as shyt right now

 

[Ciggavelli]

@2gunsup

This is what I'm seeing with HWMonitor and Corsair Link (I also see the same thing in my bios, but I dunno how to screen cap that).

Edit: Apparently Corsair link won't show my h80i in win 8 for whatever reason. It's still not 8.1 compatible.

All my other fans are normal fans hooked up to a fan controller or the case fans. I'm thinking the only thing that could possibly be 5000rpms is that fukking small fan on the motherboard, but I dunno.

 

[DF is BUSY]

@2gunsup

This is what I'm seeing with HWMonitor and Corsair Link (I also see the same thing in my bios, but I dunno how to screen cap that).

Edit: Apparently Corsair link won't show my h80i in win 8 for whatever reason. It's still not 8.1 compatible.

All my other fans are normal fans hooked up to a fan controller or the case fans. I'm thinking the only thing that could possibly be 5000rpms is that fukking small fan on the motherboard, but I dunno.

at 5k rpm. are you sure thats not your pump?

 

[Ciggavelli]

at 5k rpm. are you sure thats not your pump?

I don't think it's my pump because it starts off blasting at full blast when the system starts up and then goes back down to normal after a few seconds (this is normal for the h80i). If it was a full blast it would be loud as shyt. That's a different sound than what I'm hearing.

Oh, and the pump won't show in corsair link in 8.1 for some reason, so it's gotta be something else