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13 hours ago, rice guru said:

if it's just a stand alone amp get either the topping e30 , jds labs atom, schiit magni 3+ and Heresy. the magni 3+ is the warmest sounding amp. the topping e30 is the smoothest amp. the hersy is the most revealing amp, the atom is the weakest amp in terms of power but probably the cleanest sounding to an untrained ear or to most people in general you cant really tell a difference they all aim for the same kinda sound. pick the one is the cheapest to get to you. the e30 is pretty easy to get worldwide. 

The E30 is also notably not an amp.

Just now, Droidbot said:

After looking around, from base of the ram to the top, 40mm is the maximum for the drp3

Cheers. Sounds like it'll fit with plenty to spare. Where did you find that?

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

that's just standard memory size

Alright then. Does that mean it won't be compatible with the cooler? Be Quiet! don't seem to have published the RAM clearance specifications.

15 hours ago, Droidbot said:

Yes, the PCB is slightly smaller and has no heatspreaders. What RAM do you have at the moment? 

8 hours ago, NumLock21 said:

So much wrong info in this thread, even double facepalm won't save it.

 

All of those who replied with wrong info, do some research on physical ram dimensions. 

Hint: Vengeance LPX is not low profile ram.

At the moment I have this memory: [picture]

The total height (from the bottom of the contacts to the top of the heatspreader) is 33mm.

I can't find the maximum ram height anywhere, and I don't know if memory clearance is measured from the base of the contact or the top of the slot. However, I am reasonably sure that it fits the "low profile" description.

I am planning on buying myself a Dark Rock Pro 3 cooler for christmas, but I'm worried about the ram clearance. My current ram heatspreaders barely clear the PCB, but I don't know if that makes it low profile or not. Does low profile ram use a smaller PCB? Or is it just the heatspreader height?

3 minutes ago, Bubblewhale said:

Yeah it was...pinned at 100% at all cores while GPU was around 30-40%.

Well colour me surprised, my Q9400 isn't much newer and doesn't bottleneck my GTX 960, which is a completely different tier.

59 minutes ago, Bubblewhale said:

I wouldn't consider one for gaming, my Q6600 was bottlenecking all over the place...

Q6600 and a HD 5830 was getting 30FPS at 648P in GTA 5....

I don't think the Q6600 was the bottleneck there at all.

10 minutes ago, Quantum1 said:

I am going to be building a workstation this fall and I haven't decided if I want to go with X79(4790K), X99(5930K), or X179(6700K) for the CPU. I plan on using this workstation for primarily gaming but I also will be doing work in Visual Studio and other IDEs, light-moderate video editing and I want to be able to multitask out the ass. I initially was thinking X99 because of the shear power in those chips but would I be okay with X79 or X179 for what I want to do?

 

I would also like to dabble in overclocking on both the CPU and GPU. Does anyone have experience overclocking on these chips?

You have your chipsets confused. The 4790K uses the Z97/H97 chipsets, and the 6700K uses the Z170/H170 chipsets. There is no X179 chipset.

On 2/5/2016 at 1:05 AM, Grande_Forti said:

Yes, i know FreeNAS uses all the drive space for itself, i was just unsure about it speed and reliability. From what you've said i'd go straight with an USB, but from what djdwosk97 said i simply can't if i wanna use Skylake. And yeah, i've put freenas on a VM and used for a while, that's what made me chose it, i like it a lot and it's great and simple for what i'm doing. Thanks a lot for answering.

Thank you really much for the time you spent to answer this. And you configuration is really great, it's 200€ less than what i did, but it's still badass. I might go with Haswell then, i would save up a lot of money and still get great performance. I stil have one small question, so putting five 3TB drives in a RaidZ2 array is a good thing? Or maybe it would be better to get four 4TB drives? 

In my opinion if data integrity matters to you all your drives should be in mirrored pair vdevs. Easier to upgrade, easier to maintain, faster and faster to resilver with much less strain than RAIDZ.

I would go for 4 4tb drives in 2 mirrored vdevs, which are then combined in effectively a software RAID10.

Its a throwback to when motherboard sound was either nonexistent or crap. It is an audio cable. You probably don't need it, I have a 9500gt in my NAS and don't have it plugged in.

17 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

How did you get 5 GB of RAM?

I have 6 2gb sticks and 2 1gb sticks of DDR2, so 2-2-1. Trying to diagnose which DIMM the memory errors were coming from.

I have used 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8gb of ram in my current system. I am able to play all games with 4gb and above, and there is no bottleneck in the games I play above 6gb at 1080p on ultra settings (I don't have The Division/Hitman/FO4, so can't speak for those)

So you can buy it in stores before preorderers get theirs? hmmm

Do what I did - find old computers that companies/schools are getting rid of and use on of those. Capable of link aggregation, supports up to 8 drives, and has a 3ghz dual core with ram*

*not actually sure how much ram - I have 12gb total DDR2 and its either half-half gaming rig and server or 8gb-4gb one way or the other.

5 minutes ago, ddswh1pk0s said:

K70 and Strafe have Brown switches they have a similar clickiness to blues but if you want blues specifically look on pcpartpicker and you can search for keyboards specifically with blue switches

The whole point of MX Blues is that they click. MX Brown's don't click. According to Linus, they clack. Very different.

I live in Australia, and the fastest internet I can get is iiNet VDSL2. However, the Huawei modem it comes with is rubbish - only wireless b/g/n, a 10/100 switch and practically nothing else. I have been looking for a replacement, but they all seem to either not support VDSL/2, or be ridiculously expensive.

My main requirements are:

• Gigabit ethernet switch (All my computers mass storage is on a networked server, that currently caps at 100mbps because of the router)
• AC wifi (I believe this would improve steam in-home streaming to laptops? Both the laptops in the house support AC wifi) (I can't use ethernet because we don't have any wiring)
• Supports VDSL2 (On my current ADSL plan I get 10/1, the faster vdsl2 offers *up to* 80/20 with a 1 terabyte cap)

Ideally, less than $200 AU.

This seems to fit all my needs but costs twice as much as I would want to pay.

I have too much spare time - the coded message is 'Find the hidden directory.' Lets go! I assume it is on that website.

3 minutes ago, Kherm said:

I'm going to conclude that it's Nvidia. I came to this conclusion because those triangles and geometric shapes on the countdown page look strikingly similar to the leaked reference GeForce shrouds

I'm going to conclude that it's Nvidia because GamersNexus said he thought it was nvidia and also found some marketing materials. If they were for another company, then he wouldn't have said that.

2 hours ago, jj9987 said:

Mini-ITX is out of the question, because that would require motherboard change, which I'd prefer not at this moment (unless I happen to find a very good deal). I am looking for something compact so it wouldn't take up too much space.

As minutellim said, for a large NAS the Fractal Design Node 804 is by far the best mATX case in that category. I have been looking at it myself for my nas.

You have to convert the image to a .ico file. It is currently a PNG file, and you can convert it with free online tools. Also, you should link to the image url rather than just an imgur link, so http://i.imgur.com/Gu6vZrO.png rather than http://imgur.com/Gu6vZrO. This links to an actual image rather than another website.

6 minutes ago, dbidwell94 said:

Alright, so here comes the question that has probably been asked COUNTLESS times in the matter of a couple days. But I'm gonna ask it anyway. I'm a hardcore AMD fan. I am currently running an FX-8350 and was thinking about potentially switching from that to a 9 series when a buddy of mine told me off saying i should just cut my losses and switch to Intel. So here is my question:

 

What motherboard / CPU combo would you recommend? It needs to be a HIGH END gaming setup and able to be overclocked. With support for at least 1866 MHz DDR3 memory at 2+ channels. Eventually looking at potentially CF with two XFX R9 390's, so motherboard needs support as such. Also, would prefer an ATX as I currently have a Corsair Carbide 500R case with an MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard.

 

I was already sort of looking into it, and my two choices thus far are: I5-4690K OR I7-4770K. (Is it REALLY worth it to dish out the extra money for the I7?)

Still unsure about motherboards for either.

 

Thanks in advance guys!

Do you really need the extra CPU performance now? Your buddy was definitely right to stop you buying a 9xxx series from AMD, but it seems likely that within 8 months AMD will have released something very competitive with what Intel is offering now.

5 minutes ago, Nedrozak said:

As the title says I want to know which one is better if you take in an account the price difference. Two R9 380's are 570$ and two GTX 970's are 920$. Playing on a 1080p monitor.
Thanks!

Well, SLI 970s will undoubtedly be faster, but on a 1080p monitor saving $350 will not noticeably affect performance here. If you are set on a dual card setup, then the Crossfire 380s will be more than fast enough, but a single GTX 970/R9390 will perform just as well on a 60hz monitor.

EDIT: But at that budget I recommend a single 980ti.

3 minutes ago, MegaDave91 said:

SLI'ing two low-mid-tier cards is not generally recommended; always better to use a single high-tier card.

But if you already have one then it is often much cheaper.

Partially, as well as the DIMM orientations, and the fact that the entire board looks mirrored.

Power supply looks standard, but the motherboard definitely isn't.