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    ARMA 3 - FANS will spend close to $800 million in hardware to run this game!

    One of the most immersive game ever and glad to see hardOCP including it in many of the latest GPU reviews - http://www.pcworld.com/article/2046151/report-one-pc-shooter-will-drive-800-million-in-hardware-purchases.html It seems that the Radeon R9 290X is the single card champion for this game!
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    Dang...AMD is giving out FREE RADEON 7970s at the Radeon ExtravaLANza event!

    Apparently people who attended the BYOC LAN party at the AMD Canadian HQ last weekend got free NVIDIA to RADEON TRADE: http://www.overclock.net/t/1312965/event-radeon-extravalanza-october-20th-2012-5-000-in-prizing/930 One guy got a Radeon 6990 and some other guys traded their GTX 470 for...
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    Four Vertex 4 128GB RAID 0 on LSI 9266-8i performance - please chime in...

    Thanks again for the reply and I've tried to make sense of my result by comparing with the online results. Is 4K (non-threaded) random read write the biggest determining factor of storage performance for applications?
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    Four Vertex 4 128GB RAID 0 on LSI 9266-8i performance - please chime in...

    Thanks for the reply and attached are the AS-SSD benchmark screens. The motherboard is the ASUS P9X79-WS mobo and the SAS card is in a PCIE 8x slot. The other PCIE Slot has two Radeon 7950, one soundcard and another Theater 750 pro TV tuner used as an analog capture card.
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    Four Vertex 4 128GB RAID 0 on LSI 9266-8i performance - please chime in...

    I've just upgraded my workstation's storage sub-system with the following hardware: RAID Controller - LSI 9266-8i (No fast path or cachecade, just the bare card) SSD Drives - 4 X Vertex 4 128GB Firmware 1.4 in Raid 0 Stripe size: 64KB Other controller setting: - write through caching - direct...
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    4890 --> 5450

    I think the 5450 is too weak with only 80 Cores, the 6450 is a much better choice IMO with at least 160 cores and will provide better image quality too!
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    Adobe Photoshop CS6 + OpenCL GPU acceleration = MIND boggling result

    Sorry it was a wrong title for the thread which I've just edited.
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    Adobe Photoshop CS6 + OpenCL GPU acceleration = MIND boggling result

    Tomshardware did a test on Adobe Phoshotp CS6 and the result with OpenCL acceleration is simply impressive: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/photoshop-cs6-gimp-aftershot-pro,3208-13.html I just hope one day the entire Photoshop engine is full GPU optimized and it will be completely free of...
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    New NEC PA301wbk with a small problem?

    Welcome to the club! This is one of the best 30 inch monitors out there!
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    My video editing and gaming rig is finally ready for prime time action!

    Will do it soon but I am not going to get any awards for cable management prizes haha!
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    My video editing and gaming rig is finally ready for prime time action!

    OCZ did have its quirks with BSODs and firmware issue when the Vertex 3 first came out. But almost all of it is resolved with the latest firmware update. I have Zero Problems with this SSDs since the day I bought it and it is using the 34 nm Toshiba NAND that is more durable than other SSDs with...
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    Stable motherboard for i7-3930K

    Are you doing critical task on your computer for example video rendering/editing for commerical/ work purpose? If not a regular ASUS board will suit your needs as they are all pretty solid and you should choose a board that has 8 DIMM slots as opposed to those that only have 4.
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    My video editing and gaming rig is finally ready for prime time action!

    The Application drive is backed up periodically and it incurs almost zero writes, since it is used to store all of my applications and games and executing them is totally read based. The 256GB Vertex 3 MAXIOPS SSD is one of the best performing and most reliable SSDs out there, using 34 nm...
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    My video editing and gaming rig is finally ready for prime time action!

    After months of scouring the forums here and looking for hardware, I've finally completed my video editing and gaming rig and I am glad to say everything is running smooth as butter! Here are my specs: CPU: Intel Core i7-3960X @ 4.2 GHz RAM: 32GB Corsair Vengeance 1866 Mhz (4 x 8GB)...
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    Xeon in LGA2011 MB?

    The ASUS P9X79-WS WORKSTATION model X79 single socket mobo is certified to work with Xeons FYi.
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