the corsair 760t or entho primo are excellent choices for either water or air. for water through the entho primo might be better suited as it hides more and can accomadate more. as u see in my sig im...

the 850 evo still uses the sata bus correct. as far as real time look at how many lanes are being used nothing that i know of but the 4690 i5 cpu only gives you a total of 16 lanes anyways....

absolutely no problems, like arbiter1 said the qvl is just whats been tested by the manufacturer. go ahead and throw that stuff at that motherboard

I just recently upgraded my system with the Maximus VII Formula and 4790k CPU... its a beast! system is in my signiture

and honostly just skip the z87 and go for the z97. you'll be much happier

have you completely removed power dvd and reinstalled it? also check for powerdvd patches. does your burner read back any burned data blurays?

ahhh the haf xb. I JUST sold my haf xb evo on ebay with corsair hx850 psu and kraken x40 water cooler. all together for $200.

great case but moved on to my corsair graphite 760t

http://i.imgur.com/uPnLT5Hl.jpg

current rig

and thanks so much Warsam71 and of course AMD. As you can see theres just a few AMD parts in my rig :)

Asus P9X79 Deluxe

24 hours is the typical time for a clean considerable pass in prime

between those 2 boards... I would go with sabertooth

just really personal choice there damn near the same though

now for memory, your in new territory if you try 8gb sticks, googled it and also...

good to see your getting close to your answer. so the good 3 sticks pass just fine when there all installed in 3 of the slots?

I do have to say though that is why you stick to the great hardware...

so for you i would recommend the following modules - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220687

there only like $30 more and you would be running 16gb

and take windrunner's...

I'm loving my i7-3820 wouldn't have any other right now. and for ram your doing 2x4gb sticks? to get to that 8gb you mentioned? to get full benefit of the quad channel memory you have to have 4...

again thats why you test each stick individually in each slot for a couple of passes. that will tell you weather its the motherboard ram slot or the memory stick itself

heyen:

so each stick by...

I own and am typing this comment from my Lenovo Ideapad Y560

I never install lenovo's display drivers, always amd's radeon mobility driver, currently at version 12.6

so when you run the...

if your worried about memory being bad just test each individual stick in each ram slot using memtest86+

make sure you download/install latest bios -...

http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/processors/Pages/desktop-processors.aspx

or just keep up on latest tech news from pcper.com

you can download and install latest windows install RAID drivers from cd or usb drive

what i do is make a windows 7 usb drive myself and add the raid drivers manually to it

here is the official...

ok in the bios can you make sure that the hard drive controller is set to RAID and not AHCI or IDE or legacy.

after that reboot, you should get a intel raid setup screen during post, usually...

I own and LOVE LOVE LOVE! the Asus p9x79 deluxe, rock solid performer and just some of the features that I love as a computer repair/techie standpoint:

usb bios flashback - flash the bios without...

I would say buy/borrow/scavenge a new/different power supply from somewhere. I'm suspecting bad power supply. What is the power supply thats in there? Make and model would be very helpful

like the...

Curious as to why you would put the cd into your computer and install drivers that way in the first place?