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Excellent job with the OP. I'm running a 2600k at 4.5GHz on an Asus Gene-Z mATX motherboard, cooled with a Corsair H60. I like this cooler, helps me keep the inside of my Fractal Define Mini case neat. On the video card front I'm using an MSI 560 Ti 448 Twin Frozr III. Overclocked to 950/1800/2200. With this overclock its as fast as a stock Geforce 580. Very happy with my system, and overclocking is not just a neckbeard hobby, it really makes a difference in performance.
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Agreed posted:Unigine Heaven is great at showing you errors of varying severity. 3Dmark11 is good, too, but running that sequentially is way more of a pain in the rear end than Heaven. The thing to remember though is that DX9, DX10, DX11 are different and your card might wall at different frequencies for them. E.g. my 580 will do about 950mhz in DX9 stably, but 920mhz in DX10, and 925mhz at DX11. Different parts getting stressed. I go with the lowest common denominator because I can't be arsed, personally. Thanks for this tip. DX10 seems to run way hotter than DX11. Thats curious.
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Bad Coffee posted:Stupid question - if I overclock a 2500k, will that drastically affect its power draw at idle? I'm a little confused by the distinction between idle/regular/turbo modes and because I usually leave my computer on 24/7 I don't want to mess with anything that could cause it to suck down 200W all the time. If you leave the power saving settings enabled in the BIOS it will downclock normally. Power consumption at idle should be very small regardless.
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Feb 9, 2012 04:16
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Dogen posted:It never got fixed for Animal, but I agree that most people who still had problems were unlucky outliers Indeed it seems to be some bizarre issue that not even EVGA is willing to touch with your own dick. God knows if its a software issue or a hardware glitch. All I know is that life is lovely now with a 560 Ti 448. Going back to the overclocking topic, can anyone explain what the is the purpose of auxiliary voltage on MSI video cards? I can't find any good explanation. Animal fucked around with this message at 07:04 on Feb 12, 2012 |
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Feb 12, 2012 06:59
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DinosaurHouseParty posted:G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2133 (PC3 17000) WARNING FOR MOST PEOPLE: This RAM is 1.6v, you do not need it or want it in your Sandy Bridge build.
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Feb 15, 2012 17:57
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redeyes posted:This rules actually. I love being stuck at 3.8Ghz with no stupid declocking. I do low latency audio recording and this is extremely useful. Thanks. 3.8 is paltry. Take it to at least 4.2
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Feb 15, 2012 19:14
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Factory Factory posted:Try QuickSync next. If your software is appropriately configurable, it should give 95-99% the image quality (any deficit is a software problem, not something inherent to Quick Sync) at four times the speed without ANY CPU load. If his CPU was only 45% load then he was probably using Quicksync
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Feb 23, 2012 21:00
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Yeah and I bet Metro 2033 kinda sucks for him now so he really should get another 580, right Dogen?
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Mar 28, 2012 03:18
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It's been a mystery how the new tri-gate technology would handle overclocks. I was hoping for better, but it seems it might be worse.
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Apr 14, 2012 21:47
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Looks like watercooling is gonna become hip again for a lot of people
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Apr 23, 2012 19:53
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CancerStick posted:I did the standard 42 overclock for my I5-2500K. Using core temp i had both Counter Strike:Source running and Diablo 3. I was playing CS:S multiplayer while browsing the auction house of Diablo 3 in between rounds. Default cooler? Yeah its fine.
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May 22, 2012 01:27
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movax posted:I have a CNPS9500 sans-fan passively cooling my parents' i5-2500K, keeps it ice-loving cold. Idles at like 26C I think. How is that possible?
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May 22, 2012 02:21
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I've been reminiscing the "golden ages" of overclocking. Anyone experiment with peltiers? I remember sandwiching one between my Celeron 366 @ 550Mhz and some  Ultra heatsink. Idle temperatures were almost below zero, but load was worse than the heatsink by itself.Also this concern about noise didn't exist, at least not among my friends and the message boards I frequented. It seemed to be that the louder your PC was the more hardcore you were
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May 31, 2012 16:26
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I had two Alpha PAL8045's mounted on two Celeron 366 running at 550mhz on my Abit BP6 
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Jun 18, 2012 04:37
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That is really awesome
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cheesetriangles posted:So my parts are getting here two days early (Yay UPS) and I am wondering how long I should let the computer sit at stock speeds before trying to overclock? I remember hearing something about letting the thermal grease have time to set in or something. Don't worry about the thermal grease. You do wanna dick around with it for a little bit to make sure its stable at stock clocks, that way you are not troubleshooting inherent instabilities after the overclock busting your head figuring out what you did.
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Oct 24, 2012 13:43
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UndyingShadow posted:This one is weird as hell. My system is actually UNSTABLE at stock speeds, but runs perfectly at 4.3 ghz. Maybe its downvolting too much. Probably a setting in the BIOS.
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Cardboard Box A posted:Ok I have my Intel iGPU (HD 3000 graphics) on my i5 2500K up to 1500 MHz, still nice and stable. How much higher can I take it, or is this pretty much it? What benefit do you get from that? Isnt it still pathetically slow for games?
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