Recent content by Gadfly

This is nothing to be scared of, AMD and Intel both used to ship chips with no IHS. Mounting a HSF or water block directly to the die was common practice.

go into UEFI, Advanced, Sata, And change mode to "raid", hit f10 to save and reboot. The Bios will run, and then the Raid bios will display, and you hit ctrl+I to configure the array.

Here is where I ended up: Ran AIDA64 for 13 hours, simply need to use my computer before it could run for 24, fire-strike demo looped for 6+ hours 4.6ghz 1.295v vcore 4.4 cache 1.280v ring HT enabled PLL over-volt enabled + .05v offset to the I/O voltages spread spectrum disabled 1.9 input...

I disabled HT, and set the input voltage at 1.9, set memory to 1333, and left the cache at auto, I was able to boot into windows, but it was at 1.35v core (:eek:), and was not stable at all. It made it though @ 5min of Aida64 and BSOD'd; I am going to guess that I will need at least 1.37v to run...

First, Merry Christmas! I tested AIDA64 and even when only doing FPU with small FFT's that fit into cache it was still a full 14'C cooler. I still can not replicate it... but it did help. Yes it is , and that has been an issue with the "24 hour prime" test for the past 20 years. It is...

It still might be, What the combination of your overclock and prime95 changed was producing an outrageously high and artificial heat load that is proving to be difficult to replicate; the fact that it failed at 12 hours is further indication of an unintended consequence of the two. If it runs...

Pretty sure Prime95 is pretty worthless for these chips, even the the newer version. I can run at 100% load over 8 threads with multiple applications, load testers, benchmarks, etc. and temps always hang around at 60-65'c; I fire up Prime (any version) and it jumps to 80'C +. Not really...

Here is where I ended up: 4.5ghz across all cores 4.4ghz cache 2400mhz memory @1.65v 1.265v vcore 1.265v ring v left everything else at default. Run some 3d test looping most of the day (9 hours), ran prime for 6 hours and manually stopped it. Played some ARMA 3 for a few hours, had no issues.

Simply running prime95 for 24 hours proves little in terms of real world stability. If you use it as a tool to make yourself feel better, then fair enough; but it is hardly the be all end all tool for determining stability. It has been known for many many moons that the prime95 torture test is...

The application itself is very old, and at it's core, it is running the same stresses on the CPU by running prime number calculations. It was been used by overclockers as a stability test since at least the mid 90's as that is when I started using it. There are many reasons why a 24 hour...

If you have never overclocked with some micro-drill bits, and hand drill and a soldering iron, your are a beginner. :cool: Even the "bios" over-clocking on these wiz bang boards have a lot of pre-sets, and auto-built rules. At least the Asus ROG boards have a full memory timing suite...

Hey all.. I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding about semi-conductors in this thread. They get old, they start to "bleed" electrons, and will run hotter and hotter as they age, until eventually they start to fail. Most CPU's will be thrown out long before they fail, but most will...

Hey Hurin, I too am fighting a 4770k right now, but I am not willing to push V-core past 1.3; It has been a long time since I bought a new cpu, and I have to admit, I don't like all this auto OC BS. I am having trouble getting past 4.5 @ 1.28 with H100 push/pull

Perhaps I am just old school, but what is wrong with keeping what you have, buying a $20 SATAIII controller card, and your SATAIII SSD? I know add in cards are not as common as they used to be... but... for $20, you will get all the same performance increases (in terms of I/O) from a SATA III...

Wow.. not sure where you guys live, but I have had no problems with Sprint in all reality. My 3G speeds are not amazing, but they are still faster than I got with my iphone on At&t, and the wimax "4G" is available most places I go, and it appears the Sprint LTE goes live here (Dallas) in June...