Sergeant Fist

I wouldn't worry man. Even if they won't run at 1866, the sticks will just run at 1600. You can set them to do so yourself, just check and set the frequency in the bios. I've read that this motherboard supports up to 2800 OC'ed though. I don't think you will have a problem.

You are right, there is support for multiple hard drives. You don't have to use storage spaces at all. It's just there to give users another option. Raid works in the same way as it did on Windows 7. Install the raid drivers on installation of the OS. As for Nvidia driver problems, I can say that I haven't had any problems whatsoever. The only time that I can remember having a problem with graphics drivers in my life is when they haven't been uninstalled properly, or when I've bought a new GPU on release day and the drivers aren't up to scratch yet. Regarding the Call of Duty problems Google mentioned, I can't comment as I don't play it. I have had no problems with any games myself. Yes if their were none of the tablet UI stuff it would be the usual desktop OS. You can also shut off the things that would concern you regarding privacy (E.g. sharing, apps using your location etc). Google, maybe if you had taken more than a day to use the OS, you would have found that it is not all that bad. You may have also worked out the problems you were having with a little time, patience and research. You know what they say......Google it.

No, not really. Go with 8 though, it uses less resources and has much better support for SSD's if you have or are going to get one in the future. Most of the haters are just complaining about the Metro part which you don't even need to use. Think of it as Windows 7, but using less resources (E.g. RAM etc). Some people also complain that there is no start button. This can be overcome by downloading some third party software. Not an ideal solution but it works flawlessly. The start button may even be a non issue on Windows 8.1 release....not sure as there have been different reports suggesting that there will / won't be a start button. With Windows 8.1 there will be an option to boot straight to desktop, so you won't even have to look at Metro ever again if you don't want to (Most of the third party software for the start menu already offer this option anyway). It's up to you at the end of the day, but both Windows 7 and 8 are good. You can't really go wrong with either if you prefer to use Windows OS. Some people just like to moan about things, and look back on older OS with rose tinted glasses. For example, dealing with drivers was a nightmare with Windows XP. Windows 7 and 8 make life a lot easier regarding drivers as they automatically find many of them. Windows XP was good on resources, but many people are comparing it to Vista when they say this. Vista was well known to be a fucking travesty. Anyway, rant over. Enjoy whichever you decide to go with.

Hi, for gaming you should go for the i5 really. If you are rendering video then the AMD FX 8350 would be the better option due to it having more threads. Although if you are rendering, then it would be better just to shell out for an i7 as they smoke the AMD 8350 in every way. (If you don't believe me, check out a few benchmarks) The AMD 8350 is an eight core CPU but it is widely known that AMD cores do not perform as well as intels. Roughly half the performance, meaning that the AMD CPU performs roughly the same as a four core intel even though it has 8 cores. TBH though, if you are only using it for gaming then the CPU does not matter as much as you might think. You should spend the most money on a graphics card. Many people seem to make the mistake of buying an overly expensive CPU, and buying a lower performance graphics card. Just make sure the processor is a quad core or higher in order to avoid bottlenecking the GPU. Both of these CPU's are good mid range choices though. You won't really go wrong with either.

Thanks everyone for the welcome. Appreciate it. Hope to see you all on the servers soon. Take care.

Yup, another idiot Mr Smurf. Don't worry, when I get back from offshore i'll bring the jeep and C4. You just need to bring the tank. Hehehehehehe.

I won't ask how you knew he was a "fister" Edd Oh, he knows. He knows very well........ (sinister laugh)

Cheers Ed. Thanks for sponsoring me too.

Lol, Thanks Damit........i'll do that. Is that an order?

Lighten up Mr. Keg. We have been drinking since the discovery of fermentation (before even), and rolling since we were given the gift of opposable thumbs. None of these things are particularly good for you, but we do them anyway. Call it human nature. What about cirrhosis of the liver. Is that sound justification for the widespread use of alcohol? I think not, but we still drink. As you have said it contains non sequiturs. Why so serious then?

Don't forget the haggis and scurly. If you don't know what scurly is........google time.

Congrats Dave.

Sorry, gone a bit of topic. Lol

plus the fact that Corsair has the lifetime guarantee for the ram as well as their power supplies,,,i used a power supply warranty once and the service was outstanding....they shipped me the new first so i wouldnt have any down time...and i sent the bad psu back in a postage paid label paid for by Corsair..so the choice is yours The RAM has a lifetime guarantee, but I don't think that the PSU's do. More like 5 years give or take a couple of years each way depending on which power supply. Corsair are very good though. yeah i had the HX1000 modular....which was two 500 on split rails....so they replaced it with the 1050 modular single rail a better psu in my opinion..... Yeah, their service is very good. Most of my psu's have been Corsair. I believe that most of Corsairs range are actually made by Seasonic, who are well known for making some of the best power supplies out there.

plus the fact that Corsair has the lifetime guarantee for the ram as well as their power supplies,,,i used a power supply warranty once and the service was outstanding....they shipped me the new first so i wouldnt have any down time...and i sent the bad psu back in a postage paid label paid for by Corsair..so the choice is yours The RAM has a lifetime guarantee, but I don't think that the PSU's do. More like 5 years give or take a couple of years each way depending on which power supply. Corsair are very good though.

Hi, It would be better if you had given your system specs (what CPU / motherboard), what you will be using your computer for, whether you are overclocking, and the memory speeds you were looking at etc. It would have been easier to help you then, as all of these things would influence your RAM purchase. I agree with djMNot. You should not blindly buy RAM.

I agree with most of the things Ironcity has suggested, but you could probably get an intel i5 4670k instead of the i7 4770k. That will save you around £100 and all you loose is hyperthreading and 2mb of cache. Games generally see no benefit from hyper-threading anyway. I don't see that changing any time soon. You will still be able to overclock it as it is unlocked too. For the SSD, i'd say the Samsung 840 Pro would be a better purchase. It's £10 cheaper at scan and they are actually faster than the OCZ one. OCZ have been known to have some reliability problems in the past, although that may or may not have been resolved by now. TBH even the intel drives which are well known for their reliability due to extensive testing, are cheaper than the OCZ one highlighted in the previous post. For the GPU I would go for the Nvidia 780 as Ironcity has linked, but I'm in the Nvidia camp. So that may be biased. The reviews that I have read on the AMD 7990 have not been that kind to it. Also, AMD may have a reply to Nvidias gtx 780 by the end of the year to early next year so you may be better waiting if your an AMD fan. I would advise you not to try and save money by getting a cheap power supply though. Get a well known and reliable brand such as Corsair, Seasonic or Silverstone. The last thing you want is the power supply failing on you, or damaging expensive components due to bad ripple for example. Just a few things to think about. At the end of the day it is up to you though. Enjoy.

I get what you're saying Fist, but with the GFE, you're experimentation time is cut down to nothing. With all the settings games like Crysis 3 has, you could spend days goofing around trying to find thee optimal settings, and still not feel confident you really hit the magic combination. That's where GFE comes in. It's already aware of the capabilities of the hardware in question, the requirements of the game, and the subtle interplay of settings. I had my Crysis 3 set to what I thought was going to be correct, but GFE set it up quite a bit differently and the visuals really came alive for me! Not to mention the fps were totally playable with no noticeable lag, something I really fought with initially. I'm an Idiot, but I ain't no dummy when it comes to a PC. That said, I'm very happy to let the GPU manufacturer recommend and set the optimum game settings for me. I mean who better to know, right? Yeah, I can see where you are coming from man. It is quicker I suppose. But I like tinkering around myself anyway. Like I said before, if it works for you use it. I know you are not a dummy on the pc....I would never try to imply that. What's Crysis 3 like anyway? I enjoyed the first but not the second. The 3rd one any better?

Oh, and I've had no problems with Nvidia's latest drivers either.

Well no offence intended guys, but I don't go for software like IOBits. I tried that advanced system care and didn't think much of it TBH. It just does things that I could already do myself. Why add another piece of bloatware to the system. Same goes for game boosters. All they tend to do is kill a few services, which again I can do myself and in a safer manner. I know which services that I can kill on my computer. Why let a piece of software decide with the possibility of it stopping the wrong service and causing problems. I'm sure there are some that do a few more optimisations than this but I don't feel that they are worth the trouble. If it helps you though, go for it. P.s. I also tried the Geforce Experience. Again, I didn't like it too much. I understand that it could be useful for someone who doesn't know, or doesn't want to bother with tinkering around with their graphics settings, but that's why we own PC's isn't it. To mess around with stuff like that. Otherwise I would just go and buy an Xbox or something. Just my 2 cents.

IMHO, I wouldn't go for the AMD CPU, although if you are gaming only they are good. If you are doing other things besides gaming e.g. photo / video editing then Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge are better options. All of the chips you just mentioned come with IG, so Haswell is no different in that regard. If you want to overclock the shit out of it, I would go with Sandy Bridge as Ivy Bridge gets way too hot unless you de-lid it. (I have experience) If not go for Ivy because it's pretty much the same price and will have 5% performance gain (roughly) over Sandy. To be honest, there is very little performance difference between Sandy, Ivy and Haswell as Intel doesn't really have any competition in the enthusiast market at the moment. Therefore, there is no real incentive / pressure for them to hit massive performance increases between generations right now.

There are lots of free programs for this purpose, many of which have already been mentioned. For CPU I use real temp, and for the GPU I usually just use MSI Afterburner as i'm overclocking the GPU anyway. Any of the programs mentioned previously are good though.

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Hi, you would be better to clean install Windows 7 and then reinstall windows 8. I think these threads may help hopefully. Windows 8 boot manager is very different to any of the previous Windows. It is better to install the earlier version first, then Windows 8. Good luck. http://www.7tutorials.com/how-dual-boot-windows-8-windows-7-windows-vista-or-windows-xp http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/software-os/f/4677/t/19478575.aspx