try capping your fps at 60? I think coil whine gets bad when your card is pushing as hard as it can in menus.

if your not sure its your gpu check to see if your psu is the problem.

if you think...

this is what i wanted sony to do with the ps2.
a mini console that plays last gen games with features from the current(next) gen.

With the PS4 coming soon with the prediction of 1080p @ 30fps I think PC gaming might have less of a draw than it has had over the past few years just because of consoles starting to match hdtv...

I had a similar problem with a hot northbridge, I bought a mini scyth fan and mounted it right on top of the onboard passive cooling with double sided 3m #4010 tape.
i'll try and find some links...

I think crysis 3 was already approaching that level of facial detail in game.
I wouldn't be surprised to see next gen games at least come close that and pc games surpass that.

It is a good rig. you should be happy with it :)

while its nice that you got an i7.. I would have took the hit and got a 7970
you would have noticed that more while gaming.

clean your drivers out and reinstall, make sure your not just installing over the old ones or still have intel/nvidia stuff

did you try lower settings?
I would try low/medium and see if you...

same. Never going back to a single slow hdd ever

Are you overclocking? if not stock i5 cooler is just fine.
SSD. Yes it matters and you'll notice the speed.
Modular PSU would be nice. Antec BP 550
I love G.Skill too but you could save on memory...

are your drivers up to date?
I'm running 13.2 beta 6 with no problems
I think the latest amd driver out is 13.2 beta 7

i5 2400
7950 oc
8GB DDR3
Win7 64 bit

ultimate settings 45-60 fps

If you figured out how to change your graphics card and psu you can build a pc. It's not hard, it saves you money, and it's a rewarding experience.

for 1500 you could build an excellent rig that...

I don't think that's right. I'm pretty sure it had to do with fully encompassing your entertainment needs as a whole

I'm about to start getting into it. I hear c++ is the language you want to learn but i think i'm going to start with java.
there's some good tutorials and "classes" online like codecademy.com...

Doesn't durango also have the ablity to output different resolutions to the same frame, allowing it to minimize the overhead needed over the bandwidth?

It doesn't seem like the PS4 would be that much easier to work with over the next Xbox. Easier than the PS3 yes but it's just likely you wont see as big of a discrepancy between the two platforms...

how much did the mod cost all together?

just saw newegg has the ARCTIC Accelero on sale for $100
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Looks like it has pretty good reviews too.

also do any of the radiators that support...

I just pushed my card in catalyst to 1100MHz and the memory 1575Mhz
fans started to push really hard to keep it around 70c so i dialed it back a bit but in afterburner I want to see if i can push...

Did you set up the cooler yourself?
I've always wanted to get into water cooling stuff but just afraid the time money and effort wont be worth it.

corsair makes a nice closed loop cpu cooler...

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k139/Maltrophstitan/build_zps8e841917.jpg

here's a quick picture

http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k139/Maltrophstitan/build_zps8e841917.jpg

I might add another af140 fan in the top rear and move one of the lower front intake to the...

Saw a tweet from amd saying they delayed the 8000 series cards again so decided to jump on a 7950.
browsing Microcenter website last night going over the options, fully intent on going in and...

was wondering if there was a buy sell trade section, figured before i sell on amazon or something i'll offer up my 6870 on the cheap here.

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turned up some settings to very high with a pretty smooth 60 frames at 1440 x 900

even with multi running surprisingly smooth, I'm still not hopeful my 6870 can handle the campaign.