Hi, Do You Reccomend This or The Ghz Edition Or The MSI Gaming !?
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I am really partial to EVGA because of warranty and customer service. There is nothing wrong with the others, but EVGA really stands behind their product. The difference as far as speed is negligible, so customer service wins out. For example, say a better card comes out within 90 days of purchasing this card. If you register your card on EVGA website and upload your invoice, you can use their Step Up program to upgrade to a better card all you have to do with pay the difference. The customer perks are too good to ignore.
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I would recommend this one, I have two of them in SLI. It gets a bit hot but overrall its great
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The only card I recommend more highly than this is the 780 lightning if you can get a hold of one for less than 600. This card performs wonderfully under water. Maybe someone else can speak more of it on air. It ran a bit hot for me but my airflow was poor.
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Hi, if you plan to overclock your graphics card then I strongly recommend this card. If you don't overclock then I would go with the Superclocked edition. You really can't go wrong with any of these cards but I will say the ACX cooling works very well and is super quiet compared to the vapor chamber single fan coolers that some of the models have. I hope that helps enjoy!!
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I've heard of a lot of people having issues with the GHz Edition. I know for a fact this EVGA card kicks butt, I've had three of them and they all did 1350MHz+.
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Three cells is still better than what I'm using now. I'm very curious to get my hands on this one and see how good it is.The other new one in a similar price range is the HP 2133. The MSI actually has a processor I prefer to the Via in the HP. It also has a better battery life and larger screen. The HP has a better brand name and more memory and HD space. Only after really testing both of them in depth will I feel comfortable making a final call. But it looks like you might have gotten a decent one.
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No, you would need to update the BIOS. Go to the MSI site, look for this particular product, then look in the area for the product for Support (NOT the support listed at the top of the page) and then for compatibility. The BIOS update needed should be there. You can also look for Updates there as well.
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IT person here. I've verified all the components are legit. The specs on Amazon are in fact incorrect. The unit shipped actually has higher specs.This machine actually ships with an Intel Core i7-4810MQ @ 2.80GHZ. (Not the Intel Core 2.7 GHz i7 4800MQ Quad-Core)It also comes with 8GB DDR3 RAMAnd I've confirmed in the Nvidia driver settings that it comes with the 3GB version of the NVIDIA Geforce GTX870M
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Since you plan on keeping it a long time (more than 5 years), it might be best to get the i7. However the difference between them does not appear to be significant. I too am about to buy a Pro. I was gonna get the i7 but after watching countless Youtube videos and reading reviews about it I decided paying $400 more from the 2.4 ghz i5 was not worth the miniscule bump in power. From what I gather on youtube, the 2.4ghz is capable of playing all current games on high or close to high settings (not extremely high though). I've seen videos of people playing everything from Modern Warfare 2 to Mass Effect 2 to Crysis with relative ease. I've also seen a video of someone testing how capable the i5 was at multitasking by running multiple programs at the same time. He had 3 VMware windows open + itunes + email + Dreamweaver and a few others open and it ran very smoothly. If you are planing on keeping your Pro for at least 10 years (not impossible) then you may as well get the i7. If like me you predict you might upgrade in 5 years or so, then I would get the 2.4 ghz i5. The difference between that and the i7 is rather small and not worth the extra $400. Check out this video for more info: www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0-l37pgqa0 In case the link isn't working just go to Youtube and type in "2.4 GHz Core i5 or Core i7 2.66 GHz MacBook Pro". Also, according to this review, the 2.4 ghz i5 is faster than the 2.8 ghz mid 2009 macbook pro: www.macworld.com/article/150146/2010/04/15inch_macbookpro_corei5i7.html
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I received the VCGGTX650T1XPB as ordered back in January. If you're worried, spend a little extra and get the PNY GTX750Ti (VCGGTX750T2XPB-OC).
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The cooling on the msi is far superior. It runs nice and cool with its factory oc. I also have the gigabyte windforce and had the nvidia version and this card was the coolest, while being the quietest. Also, MSI has has great software for managing the fans and osd. Get the MSI. That's my opinion from experience.
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Everything as expected. Great processor. Do you need any extreme gaming/computing? You got covered ;)Recognized by system as i7-3970X @ 3.50GHz
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Dxdiag says i5 cpu @ 2.80 Ghz quad core. No, its i5 on mine. It is cheap for a gaming laptop and you can always upgrade the CPU. Im satisfied with my purchase. Can handle most games at ultra settings.
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Yes- we recommend we upgrade the card for you. We could add a 3.2 Ghz CPU, and the ATI Radeon 5870 for a combined charge of $200.00. Let us know if interested. Otherwise, these are very easily upgradeable. Thanks!
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The super clocked edition comes even more over locked than this one out of the box. If you're one to overclock anyways, thus one will be fine as I can get a 400+ ghz overclock easily. I have mine where I want it, but I can go further. And the temps stay fairly low, in the mid-upper 50's. The fan doesn't even ramp up too far!
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The .3ghz won't make a huge difference. Both get incredibly hot, so a high quality cpu cooler is necessary.
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I was planning to buy next week too. Hopefully its a temporary issue...I don't want to pay $200 more for a 2.0 Ghz processor & Superdrive.
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I had a 240 and the upgrade wasn't amazing straight out of the box - if you're lucky and get one that you can unlock, then you're obviously in good shape. Otherwise you won't notice much improvement until you overclock it a bit - luckily there you have a lot of guides on the Internet specifically for the Phenom X2 550. Mine's running comfortably at 3.72 GHz, (1.45v, x15.5 multiplier, CPU up from 200 to 240) - it's on all the time because it's a work/media server, and restarts are only necessary when I'm installing updates (or it crashes playing Far Cry 3). For the price, it was a good stopgap upgrade, but I'm still looking to move to Intel at the middle-to-end of the year.
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Depends on what it's use is for. Games don't take advantage of 2133 mhz+ unless you're using AMD APU. If you're video editing, etc then speed is good for throughput but this is the wrong board for that with only 2 DIMM slots. In my M6I I got Gskill tridentx 1600mhz but Gas latency 7 not the usual 9 or 10.... Just a thought
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a good (much cheaper) replacement is the MSI A88X-G45 Gaming motherboard. when using this however, make sure to use a socket fm2/fm2+ cpu/apu
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Gaming usually does better with a graphics card update. If you are doing fine on the i5 then I would probably recommend upgrading your graphics card first. I LOVE my i7 but I do a lot of video editing and rendering speed is where this shines. But yes it would play them better either way. I don't know how significant it would be though compared to a GPU update.