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The Smart Switch will help moving everything over from my s3!

dont get htc branded phones they are worthless. Ouch, too soon?

johnny guru has labelled EVGA's G2 series power supplies some of the best he's ever reviewed. here is the 850w review 9.9 rating. http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story6&reid=377 And the pricing is fantastic on these units. I have one.

I set it to 1 and moved from extreme to optimal and my temps at idle are cpu 23, and vcore 26. vcore is down from 48 at idle.

Topic says my issue. While gaming my CPU temp in Thermal Radar 2 reads 30-38 degrees, but my VCore temp readings are off the scale at 60+ degrees! It's even outlined in red colour, too. Anyone else have this issue? I searched around a bit and found that the CPU power phase control is set to extreme and the CPU load-line calibration is set to 9. I'm not too familiar with what that means, but someone posted when he changed some things the temp dropped drastically. Is this how people solved this problem?

God damn I love this case.

Build update! Got all my gear last night, except one SP120! I'm going to run out later tonight and throw it in the case. What I changed: -Swapped out my Corsair cx750m for a fully modular EVGA 750 G2. Very happy I did. -I Initially was going to do a black/white build on the board with white ram, but after looking closer at the board in the case, I ran to NCIX and got black Kingston Fury ram instead of the white. I like the look better in black. -Also, with the white/black build I purchased white sleeved cables. Again, after looking closer at the board with the black ram... ran out to memory express and grabbed black sleeved cables. Picture time! I will take a picture later tonight of my full setup once I clean it up a bit Thanks for all the help in picking my parts out LTT!

Oh awesome! Are you going with blue sleeved cables? I was thinking about going that route. Blue is subtle and looks great with white/black. Good to know! Do most people just use plastidip?

Because the armour of the sabertooth is mega sexy and way better looking

It sounds like you know something I don't about the subject! Elaborate, please! I just seen a few modders do it and it looks amazing. Thanks mate! I updated the post with my partpicker list, which I forgot to do last night.

Hey, this is just my build log of what I've got and my plans for everything in the next week or so. So, the last time I built a brand new computer was back when the i5 750 was first released (Q4 2009, I think). Current build: i5 750 8GB G. Skill Asus Mobo (Generic cheap one) ATI Radeon 5850 512MB Corsair 650 PSU 240gb Kingston hyperX 3K I'm getting a new smaller ATX case and am going to throw all this gear into it and make a HTPC. Running XBMC exclusively on it, and some web browsing when needed. Anyone can recommend a good HTPC case that supports full ATX? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New system build I bought last week from NCIX here in Vancouver. Picture of most of the gear. http://ca.pcpartpicker.com/p/hs2TVn Reason(s) for part list: Mainly I wanted to future proof myself. So I dropped the cash to do it. All I do is play CSGO, and some Blizzard games. Nothing too intensive, but if something comes along in the future that catches my eye the system will have no problem tackling it. CPU: I wanted the best I could get without going to x99, and I got it for a really good price. Mobo: Always had Asus boards and trust them completely. It was either this or the MAXIMUS VII HERO. I chose the Sabertooth, because I love the armour and wanted a white build. This fit the bill perfect. CPU Cooler: It really just came down to what corsair AIO cooler NCIX had in stock without waiting 3 weeks, because of back orders. Went with the H105. Will front mount the radiator probably(?) RAM: I initially had eyed out the dominator, but when the sales guy pointed out the Fury white edition I fell in love with it. Half the price to boot! SSD's: Dual 250GB 840 evo's. Nothing more to say. GPU: This was a super tough choice. Up until I walked into the store (more on that later). It was either 970, or 980. Researched prices, brands vs brands, was it worth it going to the 980 over 970, which GPU's had back plates, which didn't etc... The list was endless of topics that I read, and youtube videos I watched. I REALLY REALLY wanted the 970 reference from BAD, but no one in Canada sold them. Only BestBuy in the US, and they had it for $380 USD, which is $440 CDN for me, so that was out the window. After talking with the sales rep he sold me the Asus strix 970 for $380 CDN ($325 USD). Down from $450 he had it priced at before we talked. I took the deal. Oh, and I will be painting the enclosure white as well. Pics to come. Case: White/Black NZXT H440. Saw the case, saw builds over on pcpartpicker, and the massive thread on overclock. Was sold the moment it graced my computer monitor. PSU: Corsair is a trusted PSU brand. The 650 I have now has been working great for the last 5 years, so went with them again. Customer for life. Semi-modular unit, will be using sleeved cable extensions once they come into stock. Not sure on white sleeved, or maybe blue, red, or black. Monitor: I wanted a 27" and 144hz. Didnt care about 1440p, so the BenQ was perfect smile.gif I pick up the rest of the stuff once it comes into stock next week sometime. I will update the log with pictures with the rest of the gear and building process. Does anyone recommend anything about my build I may have over looked, or tips/tricks?

I can only find them at bestbuy in the US. Tried searching all the Canadian sites, but came up empty. If anyone knows where to get on in Vancouver let me know! Was thinking SLI for my new rig.

Gotcha. I will have to delve deeper into the asus/msi features, but I assume they would be close to the same thing, just rolled into different software. So theoretical question now that the main parts of the build are more or less picked. I've been reading more on the H440 that it really is more geared towards water cooling. What would a water cooling system add, or take away from the system? And what would that add to the cost? I would obviously remove the AIO, as the hoses would all lead back to the pump/radiator?

That looks great because that is the one build with the $450 (large chunk of the money) monitor included. I just had a couple questions about it though. 1. I only chose the cosair aio cooler because most of the videos and ratins are either for the corsair or nzxt one. the cooler master has equal cooling as the other two, youd say? 2. The mobo you put in there looks great to fot the red black build and is also $100 cheaper! Agai I only chose the rog board because of ratings, and other peoples builds. Both the boards offer what im looking for? and msi is a good brand of mobo?

How does this look? http://pcpartpicker.com/p/BNpdgs I really want the 970 that has the lighting on the side that says "geforce gtx". Not sure which brand has that.