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preferred the old glossy icon styles, but then again those things do tend to age hesitantly... UI design styles seem to acquire a sort of forced-acceptance bordering on eventual love. i'm sure people will come around to it. it's not like apple don't put enough thought into the design/aesthetics side of things (i mean come on it's practically their only strong-point, realistically).

also other photos of iOS7 showing the new UI/features make it look a lot crisper and nice. just focussing on the new app icons alone kinda misses the point of the revamp.

for e.g. it looks really nice here: http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/#videos

My board's only SATA 2

So, my PC is doing something annoying.

At random times, usually after my PC's been on for a bit, I will get 3-5 second freezes. These will happen about every 10-15 seconds until I restart the PC to make them go away.

Audio doesn't pause, and if I move my mouse, the movement is still "registered", in that when it unfreezes, the mouse will be somewhere else.

Task Manager shows the CPU usage drop from 100 after every little freeze, with no indication of any specific process causing it.

I've tried turning down my Overclock and slightly increasing some voltages (for possible stability), but no change.

I've narrowed it down to either:

GPU
SSD
Windows

Sometimes it will happen after being on for half an hour, but sometimes it can be on over a day before it happens.

Specs:

Intel i7 920 @ 3.7GHz
GTX 460 SLI
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB
Asus Rampage something
Windows 7 64-bit

Any ideas where to start? So far I have to try one GPU at a time and maybe reverting back to older drivers (can't remember whether or not this happened before the latest ones).

A reinstall will be completed at some point...

i'm in london, you wanna go for a ride sparkle?

FFLink wrote:

So, my PC is doing something annoying.

At random times, usually after my PC's been on for a bit, I will get 3-5 second freezes. These will happen about every 10-15 seconds until I restart the PC to make them go away.

Audio doesn't pause, and if I move my mouse, the movement is still "registered", in that when it unfreezes, the mouse will be somewhere else.

Task Manager shows the CPU usage drop from 100 after every little freeze, with no indication of any specific process causing it.

I've tried turning down my Overclock and slightly increasing some voltages (for possible stability), but no change.

I've narrowed it down to either:

GPU
SSD
Windows

Sometimes it will happen after being on for half an hour, but sometimes it can be on over a day before it happens.

Specs:

Intel i7 920 @ 3.7GHz
GTX 460 SLI
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB
Asus Rampage something
Windows 7 64-bit

Any ideas where to start? So far I have to try one GPU at a time and maybe reverting back to older drivers (can't remember whether or not this happened before the latest ones).

A reinstall will be completed at some point...

I had that happen with crappy chipset drivers (hard drive).

ez things to try link (run from cmd):

chkdsk C: /r
sfc /scannow

then do a repair install ('upgrade' to the same version of Windows you're running (you will have to reactivate)).

Looks like the 320.49 drivers still don't fix the issue I was having under 320.18

Probably getting a new build soon anyway that doesn't include my now neglected GTX 560 Ti

Last edited by _j5689_ (2013-07-03 12:33:00)

I have a new build. My CPU is a FX-4130 and my GPU is a 7790 1 GB. I plan to run it off of a 37 inch LCD.

Question: How will it perform for games at that resolution? Should I add another 7790? If I buy a 2GB one will it crossfire alright with the 1 GB card?

Thank you for your time.

Last edited by Macbeth (2013-07-06 09:05:36)

glad to see you're back

what res is the 37" screen?

To be honest I have no clue. I have to see when I get home. I will update you then. Thank for the help.

you'll be fine with the 7790 then