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Console ports might be optimized for AMD, but the pc gaming world will likely stay as it is (contended) for quite a while.

As far as I can tell the 770 is a bit of a disappointment from nvidia. it performs great, but is neck and neck with the Ghz refresh of the 7970 which is a much older card. I would save up for the 780 as it is nvidia's brand new GK110 architecture that is showing great performance and will only get better. The 770 is just the maxed out version of the old GK104 architecture that the 600 series cards used.

I've been looking into upgrading the case fans on my Cooler Master HAF 912. The best I can guess is the basic fans are http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103052 Whats most important to me is to not add too much noise while still increasing air flow. I found these fans http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103061 which seem to claim that they can produce incredibly good airflow with no increase in noise. These 10$ fans actually beat the airflow/noise ratios of all the more expensive fans. Are they reporting the decibels produced incorrectly? or is this legit? Also, any suggestions for your favorite awesome quiet case fan is welcome :)

Just a reallocation suggestion, I would say spend less money on the graphics card and more on the cpu. when the price difference is that much you will probably get bottlenecking in games.

No offense but thats a little steep for a mobo in a budget build. something around £60 (check my $ to £ here) will do the job they need just as well and the extra money could go to the rest of the build http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157280 Is almost half the price of the one you listed and still great quality

Looks pretty good. For a budget build I would usually recommend AMD though. Their processors are usually better value for the money and the motherboards are cheaper as well. Could put that extra money towards getting 8gb of RAM

Good decision! Don't be afraid to overclock a little bit. AMD is renowned for easy oc and you're just wasting money if you buy an aftermarket cooler and don't oc ;)

Folding @ Home is a crowd source supercomputer program through stanford. You use your computer's processor/graphics card to do a small part of a larger protein folding simulation, and when everyone else finishes their parts researchers at stanford can analyze the data to further research into cancer, alzheimers, etc. You just install the program, tell it how much processing power it can have, and let it go. "ppd" is points per day, or a measure of how much computing you're contributing per day

That video is a steaming pile of manure. When your benchmark is showing a comparable priced processor DOUBLING the performance of the competition, its not time to declare the second coming of computer jesus, its time to question your benchmark setup. Case in point, check out linus' videos on the topic of these two processors. you'll see a more reasonable result there, and anywhere else that the 8350 and 3570k have been benchmarked

HOW MANY SSDS ON THAT THING? WTF? Anyways. Assuming you're running windows, I've heard that it has a pretty good built in raid controller. About as light on processing power as a dedicated raid card and saves space. Those ports should do the job, no reason why they wouldnt work like normal ones in this case

Just to confirm, the integrated GPU on AMD APU units get HUGE benefits from faster RAM. More RAM is good, but faster RAM give way more performance. 20% fps bump from 1333 to 1600 is pretty standard

Anand was just testing the cpu capabilities of the APUs. The integrated graphics on AMD APUs (while powerful for integrated graphics) has a hard time beating most dedicated graphics cards even if they're a generation or two behind.

It seems like he's going for a "best bang for your buck" decision for which is best. An expensive cpu like the 3770 will perform better in nearly all situations but the question is, is it worth it? I do find it strange that anand picked 1440p for the resolution as it is incredibly taxing on the graphics card, and thus very likely to make the gpu into a bottleneck. Which would seem to be the opposite of what you want from a cpu benchmark

I don't mean upgrade. I mean remove and reinstall. A broken graphics driver could cause the problem you're seeing, and reinstalling the driver often fixes it

Once you're in you should try reinstalling your graphics drivers. They could be causing the hang you're experiencing.