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The price was right, come tomorrow the price goes up to $69.99 for the kit I bought and $119.99 for the 16gig kit which was $99.99 during the introductory sale. I will say that it makes sense in a way, it gives the die hard fanbois a way to have a fully eVGA build minus the drives. Indeed, I'm...

I got an email from Micro Center the other day announcing that eVGA has released PC ram. Oddly, for now at least, it's exclusive to MC. Since they had PC3 2400 for $50 for an eight gig kit, I had to go buy a kit. I have to say that it's really not too shabby. I picked up some decent...

The 4690K isn't "faster" on a pure multi-cored benchmark, indeed, it's a tad slower. Where it counts, in gaming and in applications that don't leverage more than 1-4 cores at a whack, it kicks the stuffing out of the AMD. I never felt a big difference between the 955 BE and the 8320E, I can...

the AMD rig is now my backup. It's running on air with the GTX470 as the GPU. Now I've made the move to an i5 4690K and damn, I kind of regret throwing all the money I did at the AMD rig although I now have a very capable secondary rig in the even something catastrophic happens to my main.

Very nice. Sorry I missed this earlier, I've been tied up with a Z97 build. I would love to play with an X99 setup one of these days although the Tesla is totally beyond me.

Too bad I don't do the Twitter.

Last night after work I got to feeling a bit froggy and I plumbed my loop. Of course, I had been looking at this since Thursday night when I pulled the H100i out and the GPU's so I could fit them with waterblocks and VRM heatsinks. Surprisingly, that setup was considerably quieter than...

They bench above a 780. In between a 980 and a 780ti. The secondary system is going to be strictly backup. just in case my main box goes down or I'm gutting it for some reason, I won't be out of touch.

No, the GPU's are still rocking the air coolers. I'm going to plumb the loop after I settle on a motherboard. Right now I'm running the H100i on the CPU and that's the only liquid cooling going on but I FINALLY have all the parts on hand for the custom loop. Here in a bit I'm going to shut my...

A few more parts and my custom loop will be set to go in. It'll consist of an Apogee Drive II, a Feser X-Changer 240, a pair of MCW82 gpu blocks and a Black Ice X-flow 120 rad. It's only 360mm of area to cool the cpu and both gpu's but the Feser is a free flowing low FPI 60mm thick rad that'll...

The second 760 arrived today. I got it setup and enabled SLI. The scaling on these is fantastic. My frame rates in Furmark and 3DMark went up by 80%. So far I've only played BL TPS but in spots where it would start to lag (recently it's gotten laggy after switching from the regular 5.1 outputs...

The conversion top is for the MCW80 I currently have. I'm going to run the GPU blocks in parallel which lowers the restriction compared to series by 75% but requires both blocks to have the same flow characteristics. The MCW80 I have already is a much more restrictive block than the 82 I bought...

So far, today, I've spent close to $400 on PC stuff. The GTX 760 was $135 (used), I also got a used Swiftech Apogee Drive II for AM2/3/3+ for $95, a used MCW82 for $25, a bunch of 3/8" fittings, clamps, tubing and other sundries from Sidewinder for $73 and some mounts for the 760's, a PWM 8-way...

Today I picked up the second 760 (used, online) and ordered $100 worth of WC goodies. 2015 should be epic.