Anyone here try Easy Energy Saver and if so, how did you like it?

[bytheway_r]

I'm certainly thinking about it but they're a little hard to find here . I have to say I'm quite interested what 28nm will bring to the table, though. I don't really use my GPU all that much so the power consumption isn't that big of an issue.

[soarwitheagles]

I'm certainly thinking about it but they're a little hard to find here . I have to say I'm quite interested what 28nm will bring to the table, though. I don't really use my GPU all that much so the power consumption isn't that big of an issue.

Ok, cool!

Any thoughts on these new Z68 MOBO's?

Soar

[Dark Mantis]

Ok, cool!

Any thoughts on these new Z68 MOBO's?

Soar

Yes my thought is that they should send me one to play around with! Preferably the UD7!

The one thing that I do think lets down a lot of these boards is the lack of SATA ports and SATA3 ports in particular. Most boards have only two and even the top of the range UD7 has only four.

[soarwitheagles]

Ok, cool!

Any thoughts on these new Z68 MOBO's?

Soar

Yes my thought is that they should send me one to play around with! Preferably the UD7!

The one thing that I do think lets down a lot of these boards is the lack of SATA ports and SATA3 ports in particular. Most boards have only two and even the top of the range UD7 has only four.

Your point is well taken DM....yet if I found a good deal on the Z68 UD7 I would probably jump on it in a moment!

I am still trying to figure out what the term "Discrete Graphic Card is required " is saying!

What is a "Discrete Graphic Card" if I may politely ask?

EDIT: Ok, I just Googled it and was surprised to find such an easy answer:

An integrated video card is "integrated" into the motherboard. That means the motherboard has a video card built in.
A "discrete" video card means that you have a separate video card, one that typically plugs in to one of the expansion slots.

I sure felt dumb after reading the definition!

Duh!

Soar

[Dark Mantis]

Thing is everything is easy when you know the answer. Often it is just a case of not understanding the terminology used.

[Aussie Allan]

 Soar.....I'm in a quandary on this one mate.......We/I work so hard to get every ounce of performance out of our systems, why in God's name would I want to throttle it back or have some Gigabyte software utility  (haven't you learnt your lesson yet!)  adjusting voltages up and down per second after we've spent month tweaking it to run hard and smooth on the abyss.

 I think I'll do my bit to save the worlds energy by shutting down and going to bed 15 minutes earlier each night!

 On the subject of crook software and all the crap it can leave behind, my motto is " Only pay for software you really need  or really have too!"

 Revo Uninstaller comes in two flavours , free and pro.........it actually does a pretty tidy job and always picks up files and folders on the second or forced sweep, I have so much review software going through my machine , it's a credit to the developers I'm not doing a fresh install quarterly.

 Aussie Allan

[Dark Mantis]

Revo is a brilliant uninstaller utility. If you run it at the deepest level there is practically nothing that it misses. I would agree though that it's best not to use any software that is not absolutely necessary. At best it only clogs your machine and slows things down and at worst, well.......

[soarwitheagles]

 Soar.....I'm in a quandary on this one mate.......We/I work so hard to get every ounce of performance out of our systems, why in God's name would I want to throttle it back or have some Gigabyte software utility  (haven't you learnt your lesson yet!)  adjusting voltages up and down per second after we've spent month tweaking it to run hard and smooth on the abyss.

 I think I'll do my bit to save the worlds energy by shutting down and going to bed 15 minutes earlier each night!

 On the subject of crook software and all the crap it can leave behind, my motto is " Only pay for software you really need  or really have too!"

 Revo Uninstaller comes in two flavours , free and pro.........it actually does a pretty tidy job and always picks up files and folders on the second or forced sweep, I have so much review software going through my machine , it's a credit to the developers I'm not doing a fresh install quarterly.

 Aussie Allan

Allan,

Yes, I totally see your point!  I never thought of it before, but to risk all your time and effort of fine tuning your rig on overclocking software or energy saving software that is questionable and/or sub par makes no sense at all!

I will definitely look at the Revo uninstaller!

Thanks for the good advice Allan!

Soar

[Aussie Allan]

 Your more then welcome soar, I still load-up new apps and software board manufactures churn out hoping for a magic bullet find, but the reality is there like finding a two headed turtle...........Revo usually kicks in within a week...........if you still have some glass platers in you machine , ...another brilliant one is "Ultimate defrag" worth it's weight in gold for the $29.00 US for the top version......if you get into it, it can even arrange your drive to put the programs you use the most on the edge next to MTF and storage on the inner rings.there's also some meaty savings via a excellent tutorial about system compression of sys., dll and exe file touting speed increases of 400% to 600%........don't know about 600% but I got some pretty handy speed increases....maybe 300% ....have a look anyway ,...a good read at worst.......

The Ultimate Tutorial For Optimizing Your Hard Drive For 400% to 600% Better Raw Performance....

                                                     http://www.disktrix.com/UDFree.htm

 that's the link for a free older copy to have play with but I have it on all machine at home including the kids.......configure and forget, ... my type of software.

 Aussie Allan

[soarwitheagles]

 Your more then welcome soar, I still load-up new apps and software board manufactures churn out hoping for a magic bullet find, but the reality is there like finding a two headed turtle...........Revo usually kicks in within a week...........if you still have some glass platers in you machine , ...another brilliant one is "Ultimate defrag" worth it's weight in gold for the $29.00 US for the top version......if you get into it, it can even arrange your drive to put the programs you use the most on the edge next to MTF and storage on the inner rings.there's also some meaty savings via a excellent tutorial about system compression of sys., dll and exe file touting speed increases of 400% to 600%........don't know about 600% but I got some pretty handy speed increases....maybe 300% ....have a look anyway ,...a good read at worst.......

The Ultimate Tutorial For Optimizing Your Hard Drive For 400% to 600% Better Raw Performance....

                                                     http://www.disktrix.com/UDFree.htm

 that's the link for a free older copy to have play with but I have it on all machine at home including the kids.......configure and forget, ... my type of software.

 Aussie Allan

Allan,

Thank you for the tutorial and software site.  I will definitely give it a whirl and I look forward to seeing some speed ups!

Have a good one!

Soar