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Brad, I have the same board, but with a i5-2500k. Going to 4ghz with your setup is pretty straightforward. First, you want to make sure you have a few programs installed to monitor your system when overclocking, the three that I use are RealTemp, cpu-z, and prime95. realtemp is to get an accurate read on your cpu temperatures. cpuid cpu-z will give you an overview of your system devices. prime95 is a program to stress test your system. If your using the stock cooler a 4ghz overclock should be fine but you always want to keep an eye on temperatures when your stressing your cpu during testing, but don't worry your cpu will throttle down if temps get too high. There are a plethora of settings in the bios but all I changed were two, the turbo ratio and cpu voltage. I set the turbo ratio to "by all cores" and the ratio to 40, on the attached images it shows 42 because I'm at 4.2ghz. I set voltages to manual and set it to 1.120 to start off with. If your pc crashes it is usually due to under voltage, and all you should do is enter bios again and raise the vcore, or cpu voltage, incrementally by .005, to 1.125. Open up cpu-z and realtemp, then fire up prime95 and run a torture test and monitor your temps and frequency ( overclock ) to make sure your running at 4.0ghz. A lot of people run the test for 24 hours to assure stability but I couldn't wait that long and ran it for a few hours. The true test was running dcs, if my system crashed I would up the vcore by .005. A few notes: I use a COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus with one fan and I have my system overclocked to 4.2, and my cpu temps are ~52c at full load, and my vcore is 1.195. In BIOS under memory timings I made sure the timings were the same for my ram. Another thing to keep in mind is your system power options in the control panel, I have two, balanced and high performance, under the advanced settings you can set the processor power management state to a min and max setting. So ,if you ran cpu-z you might notice your cpu running at 1.6ghz, then at load it should go up to 4.0ghz, if it is always running at 4.0ghz then your power settings are probably set at high performance. When I ventured into overclocking I did a ton of research online before I touched my bios but in retrospect I changed very little and my mother board and cpu run like champs, a 4ghz overclock and even a 4.2 are mild. I consider myself a novice so someone might have a better method or insight into overclocking but this worked for me. I attached some pics of my bios settings. Good luck, Miguel

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That helped me and I don't miss the FX, thanks Xerxes17

I just purchased a pa248q yesterday, there is some backlight bleeding at the bottom right and left edge, but that is only in a dark room with a black screen, other than that it is a nice upgrade from a 20" apple display. The 20" was still pretty decent, but I do notice that the image is crisper and colors are more vibrant on the asus. Image distortion is not visible even at wide viewing angles, the apple display was pretty good but the asus is much better. Response times seem better compared to the apple but I have not done actual testing other than my initial perception compared to the apple display. other sites have done in depth analysis on response times and the asus always comes away with high marks. I'm very happy with my puchase.

I get noticeable stuttering in the su-25, it happens every 5-10 seconds. The a-10 and the mustang run pretty smooth when compared to the su-25.

Night missions in the A-10 are a slideshow, but the P-51 is fine at night.

SAM's can take out an A-10 well above 12k, so going low or behind mountains would be the best tactict, and helicopters do that the best, but then AAA might get you. My guess would be the more skill the pilots have would be the decider on who lives longer.

I've seen the water replacement texture mod but is there a way to make the surface less reflective and almost no ripples, I prefer water that looks like this image from fsx.