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  1. The popular benchmark that showed the 8350 beating the intel cpu's was benching games with XSPLIT running in the background, that is a broadcast-stream application, and terribly optimized it essentially cuts your system in half, 8 cores simply held up better than 4 cores. People use that application to stream gameplay videos live at www.twitch.tv, you can reduce the taxing from XSPLIT if you have a fast upload speed on your ISP, if you have slow-standard upload speed you'll prefer an 8 core AMD cpu to make up for the lack of bandwidth, something like a 3570 would be using dual-core-type performance in a game during a broadcast if your ISP does not have fast upload speeds . If this is not what you will be doing, in just games alone the 3570k will outperform the 8350 and should give you better gain on overclocking.
  2. It really depends on your monitor situation. 1080p? single monitor? 60hz refresh rate (standard)? In that case, the 550ti is "okay", about the most you'd want to upgrade it to is a 7870 or 660ti, anything higher is generally made for either A) Higher than 1080p B) 120 or 144hz monitors C) Multiple monitors. Something like a 7870, ~240$USD has been showing scores in benchmarks (linus's benches) beating both the 660 and 660ti (300$usd). It also comes with a 256bit arch, and 2gb video memory standard, this should give you better overclocking headroom than the 192bit 1memstandard 660ti, provided cooling is sufficient. Probably the most reasonable upgrade for a single 1080p display @ 60hz, is a last-gen 6870 or current gen 7850, both are very affordable and a solid step up from the 550ti.
  3. At January - Started this in early january. Recycled the PSU and GPU from old computer. CPU - 3770k 4.0ghz (3.5 stock) GPU - GTX 560 Superclocked (non-ti) Cooler - Stock Intel Cooler Ram - 4 GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer 1600mhz SSD - 120GB Sandisk No Hard Drive. PSU - Zephyr 720w - not modular. http://i.imgur.com/EtwH0.jpg?1 February - Installed H70 core and NZXT white led strips. http://imgur.com/n0Oxptk.jpg http://i.imgur.com/m2NlSvB.jpg Here's the overclock, remember, with the stock cooler i would get 85~c at 4 ghz after 15 min p95. http://i.imgur.com/DtWydJp.jpg
  4. thats amazing, get some 3dmark 11 benches and make sure your score is up where it should be, if it's lower then ur card throttled down
  5. 1.2v is real high for a 4 ghz 2600k. Best bet is to remove the h100, clean off the thermal paste on both the cpu and the h100 plate, re-apply, set your clock to default in bios, check your temps that way to make sure it's not a problem with the CPU or the H100. If u get high temps after that you need to use your warranty if possible. If your temps are normal then start the overclocking again, but 1.2+v seems real high for just 4 gighz, you really shouldnt need that much, but i dunno what stock volt is for 2600k i only used ivy bridge as far as intel goes
  6. dont really see a point in going 3570k if ur gonna be using onboard video, the i3 should do just fine and be more than enough. In fact, if it's ju st a media PC u could get away with an athlon dual or quad core for well under 100$, and light gaming as well, slap an old 8800GT on it from ebay and for the same price as that i3 u'd have a more capable media pc.. it would basically be a 100$ playstation (200 if u pay for windows operating system)
  7. sorry for the wait - It was on stock cooler and i could get 4.4 and operate just fine in windows but like clockwork it would shut down prime 95 at the 30 second mark, i did 4.3 and it works on stock volt in games but not prime 95, 4.2 at stock volt did everything indeffinetly. Got a corsair H70 and now just waiting for xigmatek fans to arrive then its off to the races :) edit: Also with the stock cooler at 4.2 i never got above 86c in prime 95, but i only ran it for an hour and a half.
  8. That's what i've been doing with my 560 since october 2011 :) Gonna hold over til amd 8000's @op - get a 7950, it'll perform like a 670 at stock, and when overclocked it sits right inside of 680 territory. Only cost 300$, same price as a 660ti.
  9. Completely and utterly false. Physx is just directed to the CPU, and right now, an athlon dual core is more than enough for ANY game's physx.
  10. Eh. I'd say Budget-AM3 motherboard - 65$ Phenom 965 - 100$ AMD 6770 gpu - 90$ A cheaper case.... save 70 bucks... frankly... 4gb of something like crucial ballistix tracer ram 1600mhz, 20$.. Same PSU. No aftermarket CPU cooler. Now we've only spent 400$ total and the performance is better... granted, the case is not pretty either.. and still not including the 100$ for the operating system. or about 60$ for a basic hard drive... Which would make your reccomendation 700$ total. And the phenom cpu + gpu + cheap case route about. 560$ and a little bit better performance, but uglier :p
  11. Take the plunge to PCIE 3.0 and Z77, you can still use that z68 in a spare build, it's got SATA 3 so it's not terrible, but it's still out-dated if you're wanting to couple high end current, or next gen GPU with that 3570. .
  12. Using prime95 My 3770k goes to 4.2ghz stable at DEFAULT voltage.Would this be considered a win or a loss in the silicone lottery?
  13. im calling shenanigans on this. pics or it didnt happen
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