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Repurpose I7-860 for Gaming??

Thanks for your thoughts. I will start with the I7-860 for the grandson and if that doesn't meet needs, will upgrade. The plan is for us to do this together early Thanksgiving week. I should order the graphics card next week. I have been reading and trying to come up to speed on graphics...
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- Post #7
- Nov 2, 2016
- Forum: Computer Building
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Repurpose I7-860 for Gaming??

It has been suggested that I re-purpose an I7-860 PC for grandson's gaming. I'm NOT a gamer and don't know the issues. Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 motherboard has a PCI Express X16 2.0 slot. I read that graphics cards do NOT saturate a X16 2.0 slot??????? Considering adding GTX 1050 graphics card...
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- Oct 26, 2016
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Computer Building
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Fans connected directly to power supply run during Win7 Sleep?

Ahh, and that was indeed my original question! Thanks for the help with the fan connector style-molex!
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- Post #6
- Nov 9, 2012
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Fans connected directly to power supply run during Win7 Sleep?

Sorry, I wasn't more specific. The 4 pin connectors on the fans are NOT the ones that will plug into 3/4 pin fan headers on motherboard. They are much larger and the same style as the ones that plug into PATA hard drives and DVD Drives. Question is whether the 4 pin connectors (ones that...
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- Post #4
- Nov 9, 2012
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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Fans connected directly to power supply run during Win7 Sleep?

About to do a new build with Antec 300 Illusion Case that has been in the closet for some time. I discovered that the fans all have the large 4 pin power supply connector that doesn't plug into motherboard. Question: When Win7 goes into Sleep Mode, will these fans that are connected...
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- Nov 9, 2012
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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BIOS Start, Shutdown, Restart with SSD on Marvell 6G port

Set Marvell Controller from AHCI to IDE (RAID not a choice) per your request and got same results. Andle: I'm not OCing and get same results with Fail Safe Defaults loaded
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- Post #4
- Sep 24, 2012
- Forum: Motherboards
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BIOS Start, Shutdown, Restart with SSD on Marvell 6G port

Set Intel and Marvell SATA controllers to AHCI in BIOS. Did a Win7 Pro clean install with AHCI pre-install drivers on SSD connected to Intel 3G port. Installed Marvell 1027 drivers. Boot sequence is normal. Then moved SSD to Marvell 6G sata port and I always get a fans starting for about 1...
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- Sep 24, 2012
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Motherboards
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SSD-AHCI on Marvell 9128/SATA 3

Bankster, Thanks, worked perfectly! Dick
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- Post #3
- Sep 19, 2012
- Forum: Motherboards
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SSD-AHCI on Marvell 9128/SATA 3

Need to do Win 7 Pro clean install on new SSD (no raid). SATA 3 ports on GA-P55A-UD3 are only available via Marvell 9128 Chip. I will not be using AHCI on Intel chipset SATA ports. Which, if any of the following drivers are required: 1) Intel SATA Preinstall driver (For AHCI / RAID...
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- Sep 13, 2012
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Motherboards
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IE 8 Window Size

Milk-Inc, good question! When I click 'maximize' from the globe memu on IE title bar, I get a 'full' screen on my display. Soo, I tried both of the suggested methods in the link provided, closed out IE, relaunch the shortcut, and still get a much smaller IE than full screen. I even...
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- Post #3
- Mar 21, 2010
- Forum: Windows
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IE 8 Window Size

When I launch IE 8 from desktop shortcuts or quick launch shortcuts, the window always launches less than full screen. I would like them to always launch as full screen. Is there a way to configure for this outcome? Thanks
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- Mar 20, 2010
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows
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Motherboard Monitor for New Build

Thanks for the link to HWMonitor. Unfortunately, it reports my +12V as +3.65 (the bios sees it as +12.3). It does correctly recognize the I7-860. It reports that the GA-P55A-UD3 sensor chip is an IT87-I don't know if that is correct or not. While everything else looks OK, reporting 12v...
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- Post #3
- Feb 24, 2010
- Forum: Motherboards
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Motherboard Monitor for New Build

About ready to button up new I7-860/GA-P55A-UD3. I interested in watching the temps closely for a while. I started searching for a voltage/temp/fan speed monitor and I'm not finding much that is current and certainly no consensus. Recommendations? Thanks
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- Feb 23, 2010
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Motherboards
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WD Caviar Black Good for Raid0???

The benchmarks from the extremetech article didn't show the raid0 advantage over a single drive that I expected! Soo much to learn and so very little time! Thanks for your comments!
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- Post #7
- Jan 16, 2010
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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WD Caviar Black Good for Raid0???

Seems that I have read on the forum that Caviar Blacks don't play nice in Raid array?? Looking at a pair of 500Gb of either Caviar Black or Samsung F3. Thanks for your comments.
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- Thread
- Jan 14, 2010
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Memory and Storage

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