If he'll be persuaded with a new case, some ATX ones are really quite small, like the Corsair 200R....
Is the case expensive? There are decent ATX cases for £30-£50, some barely bigger than typical MATX cases. There are loads of good ATX options for...
4+2 won't make much difference over 4+1, it depends on the quality of the design not just the number of mosfets. A good Asus 4+2 VRM is likely to...
If you get an 8320 or 8350 you'd best upgrade your board too. The cheaper ones don't have sufficient power/thermal design to run the chips well,...
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How much was the cooler? Most £25 ones can run 4.5GHz stable without heat problems. I'd have just used some standard TIM!
Well, lots of owners are reporting over 1GHz stable on the 290x with reference cooler with no real throttling problems - up to ~1200MHz. Gibbo's...
Overall the 280X beats a 770, but in nvidia sponsored games (e.g. Metro 2033) it won't. Overclock them both fully and the 280X is definitely...
All the things I've seen from 290x owners on ocuk forums suggest this problem doesn't exist. Throttling can happen on quiet mode, but not to a...
The 280X already matches (and often beats) the 770, plus has better memory specs.
A quick glance and things like this come up: Toms have based their conclusions on a couple of retail samples vs one press sample, which says it...
It's based on a single press sample versus two retail samples. No other review site has found anything similar. This isn't news, it's a way to...
It'd make sense to have a desktop environment along with Steam for flexibility, even if Steam autoloads full screen, but in their final build they...
The FX CPUs are very easy to overclock providing you get a decent board (like the one I suggested above). With the cooler I listed, people have...
Not necessarily, you can launch a full screen application without any desktop environment.
It'd be simple to put up a box on first run to ask if you want big picture mode or desktop as your default. Valve's said that the hardware won't...
AMD and Intel overclocking is more or less the same - increase frequency, test stability, keep going until you need to increase voltage. With AMD...
It'll improve multithreaded performance in Windows 7, especially on an i7 or 6-8 core AMD CPU. Sometimes very noticeably, e.g. in Metro 2033 it...
Yeah, just use RadeonPro and it'll do the same thing (it calls it Dynamic Vsync).
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