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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Help figuring out the most effective route to an SLI upgrade

    Hey all, Looking for a bit of build advice - I'd say upgrade advice, but it's looking like I'll be changing up so much in my current build, it's almost becoming a new build at this point :D Basically what I have now is i5 3570k 16GB Ram GTX 970 650W PSU P8Z77 V-LX Motherboard Which I use to...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Monitor Advice for SLI 970s

    Hi All, Been thinking of upgrading to an SLI build but don't really see the point unless I upgrade my monitor also - any excuse eh ;) Anyway, I originally had a 3570k/16GB/7970 build, which I've since upgraded to a 970. My monitor is a 27" IPS display, 1080/60hz. I've been looking at where to...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST What kind of gaming performance should I be getting from this PC?

    I bought a PC earlier in the year from PC, the specs are Intel i5 3570k 3.4 Asus P8Z77 V-LX 16GB Radeon 7970 When I was researching the spec for my computer, I was under the impression that this would play pretty much any given game out now (bar maybe special exceptions like Metro LL and...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST PC Keeps hard-locking - possible driver issue?

    Well it looks like I spoke to soon as I just had a BSOD. Just used BlueScreenView and it's highlighted any ideas/guidance?
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST PC Keeps hard-locking - possible driver issue?

    Recently my PC keeps suddenly locking up, requiring me to power it off at the tower and restart. It's a problem that seemed infrequent enough at first to be put down to 'one of those things', and I assumed it was just some weird driver clash or something since it'd go away for weeks at a time...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST PC keeps hardlocking randomly

    Basically every so often my PC will just totally hardlock without warning and have to be manually shut off at the tower and rebooted every time. The first few times it did this, there was a large buzzing sound from the speakers, and the last few times there haven't been, although on the...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Very simple question from someone totally clueless about overclocking

    Hey guys, I have a Radeon 7970, when looking around in CCC, I noticed that the default speed sliders for the settings aren't all the way up what is the benefit/risk to just turning that all the way up? I'm assuming higher temps, but is performance going to be significantly increased to make...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Weird cases of PC hitching or hanging doing low key stuff.

    Hey guys. My PC is about 2 weeks old, generally had no problems with it so far. However, recently I have had it hitch or stutter and sometimes completely lock up (needing a hard reset to restore) and every time it's happened, it's been doing relatively low key multi-tasking. Like my machine will...
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    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Sound constantly cutting in and out

    Games are stuttering to the point they are unplayable I fixed my sound problem, but I am now having another problem that has suddenly started up I can't figure out, so I figured I'd just use the same thread. I got my PC on Friday and have been playing games fine on it the entire time, no...
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