Instead of the gigabyte 7950 I would get this one right here since the the gigabyte is voltage locked.

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Unless you order the psu in 3 days for the discount, I would get this modular corsair one.

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Unless you really care about the 5 year warranty on the WD black, I would save some money and get this wb 1tb blue since people have said it's faster.

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I'll just leave this here, its my build without the extra 7970
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JustHereForAFriend wrote Instead of the gigabyte 7950 I would get this one right here since the the gigabyte is voltage locked.

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Unless you order the psu in 3 days for the discount, I would get this modular corsair one.

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Unless you really care about the 5 year warranty on the WD black, I would save some money and get this wb 1tb blue since people have said it's faster.

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I've heard of plenty of manufacturers shipping voltage-locked cards. From what I can tell, it's a complete shot in the dark. If you want to buy a different card, so be it, but you can't guarantee that one will not be locked either.

I recommend parts based on the information available. The CX series is inferior to other PSUs out there like the one I suggested.

I've heard nothing but the exact opposite regarding Black vs. Blue drives and seen the benchmarks to back it up. It's a fact that WD uses higher-quality parts for the Black drives.

dhero27 wrote I'll just leave this here, its my build without the extra 7970
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Your PSU is inadequate unless you leave the 7970s at stock clocks. Be careful and get yourself a Kill-A-Watt.

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JustHereForAFriend wrote Instead of the gigabyte 7950 I would get this one right here since the the gigabyte is voltage locked.

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Unless you order the psu in 3 days for the discount, I would get this modular corsair one.

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Unless you really care about the 5 year warranty on the WD black, I would save some money and get this wb 1tb blue since people have said it's faster.

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I've heard of plenty of manufacturers shipping voltage-locked cards. From what I can tell, it's a complete shot in the dark. If you want to buy a different card, so be it, but you can't guarantee that one will not be locked either.

I recommend parts based on the information available. The CX series is inferior to other PSUs out there like the one I suggested.

I've heard nothing but the exact opposite regarding Black vs. Blue drives and seen the benchmarks to back it up. It's a fact that WD uses higher-quality parts for the Black drives.

dhero27 wrote I'll just leave this here, its my build without the extra 7970
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Your PSU is inadequate unless you leave the 7970s at stock clocks. Be careful and get yourself a Kill-A-Watt.

I'm new here but I'll help you you out "JustHereForAFriend"

I've heard nothing but the exact opposite regarding Black vs. Blue drives and seen the benchmarks to back it up. It's a fact that WD uses higher-quality parts for the Black drives.

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It may be inferior, but they are by no mean bad psus. Corsair is very reputable for their psus, and having a modular psu is always helpful.

I've heard of plenty of manufacturers shipping voltage-locked cards. From what I can tell, it's a complete shot in the dark. If you want to buy a different card, so be it, but you can't guarantee that one will not be locked either.

There is no need to be mad, it seems as if he was just showing the OP his options. Read the reviews of the gigabyte and the msi one. Recent reviews have stated the gigabyate is voltage locked, while the recent reviews of the msi don't say anything about it.

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The Black drive has considerably better access time, burst rate, IOPS, and consistency, warranty, and warranty policy (they mail the drive when you contact them, not when they recieve yours). The Blue has slightly better sequential reads due to (if I recall correctly) higher data density. I don't know how these drive perform acoustically. The Black is the better drive and numbers > people on Macrumors.

Channel Well makes the CX units, not Corsair. It's got absolutely nothing to do with Corsair being reputable; it's got everything to do with Seasonic's (XFX OEM) unit being higher-quality than CWT's. You also can't find a single real review for the CX500 and I know it's not the same CWT unit as the current CX430, which is known to be relatively good. PSUs are guilty until proven innocent by a professional review.

You should do a little more reading about voltage locking on the 7950s and 7970s, then. I'm seeing it across the board and it's very unclear. I don't know how you think I could possibly get mad about computer hardware; that's pretty pathetic.

i5 3570k > i7 for gaming.

But overall your build is good, and r00t's build he showed you is a really good one, I would recommend asking him for help a lot, very good person on TTG.

Mode wrote i5 3570k > i7 for gaming.

But overall your build is good, and r00t's build he showed you is a really good one, I would recommend asking him for help a lot, very good person on TTG.

i7 is not for gaming, i5, i3 is for business. You can use i7 for gaming but it won't perform like an i5 because it's not meant for gaming.

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Mode wrote i5 3570k > i7 for gaming.

But overall your build is good, and r00t's build he showed you is a really good one, I would recommend asking him for help a lot, very good person on TTG.

i7 is not for gaming, i5, i3 is for business. You can use i7 for gaming but it won't perform like an i5 because it's not meant for gaming.

Mode wrote i5 3570k > i7 for gaming.

But overall your build is good, and r00t's build he showed you is a really good one, I would recommend asking him for help a lot, very good person on TTG.

The i7 will perform better in games that can use more than four threads. The 1155 i7s are virtually identical to the i5s, but they have an extra 2MB of L2 cache and Hyperthreading. The reason people never recommend them for gaming PCs is because those two things are almost always completely pointless for gaming. The Sandy Bridge-E CPUs are faster and therefore better for gaming, if only for the greater number of PCIe lanes. They're also more expensive, go figure.

Judging by a recent review (a review posted today) the MSI 7950 has an unlocked voltage.

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IHateR00tB33r wrote Judging by a recent review (a review posted today) the MSI 7950 has an unlocked voltage.

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Not every card is the same. After a good bit of research, I've seen reports for EVERY model of the 7950 being locked and also EVERY model being unlocked.

You can keep making accounts all you want, but they will all be banned and any posts you make deleted. This is my final response to you.