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Purpose According to the manufacture of AS5, there can be up to 200 hours of break in time required for temps to stabilize. This claim has been tested the results are shared in this thread. Materials, software, and experiment A delidded i7-3770k (over-clocked to 44x100 with fixed vcore) was...

I compared Arctic Silver 5 to MX-4 between my new i7-4790K and my NH-14D. In short, I ran mprime (Linux64,Prime95,V28.5,build 2) using large FFTs with 8 threads and logged the temps throughout the run once per second using a shell script. Ambient temp which is very important to consider did...

Under linux, displaying the processor's pstates can be done with programs like i7z, powertop, or turbostat. Can someone recommend a Windows utility that can display processor pstates? % sudo i7z Cpu speed from cpuinfo 3500.00Mhz cpuinfo might be wrong if cpufreq is enabled. To guess...

Just experienced something very odd. I switched on my workstation and was presented with an unfamiliar and simple black screen/white text which read something like: BIOS is updating. Do not shut down or reset the system to prevent system bootup failure. xx% complete Board is an Asus...

In order to support WOL, my Asus H87I-Plus requires an option set in the BIOS (Onboard>APM>Power on by PCIE). When I have this enabled, I can indeed start the machine using the wol magic packet, but there is an undesired side-effect: about 25 % of the time I shutdown the machine, it stays shut...

TL; DR Summary The linux kernel is a powerful tool to detect instabilities in your overclock settings with both greater accuracy and sensitivity than either Prime95 or IBT/LinX. More Details The linux kernel supplies users with a dead simple method for measuring hardware instabilities -- like...

PART 1 Introduction Feeling somewhat curious about the reports that inferior Thermal Interface Material (TIM) ships from the factory inside Ivy Bridge (IB) chips, I found myself taking my new 3770K out of the safety of its socket this afternoon and on to my desk where it went under the knife...

I have the system described below overclocked to 45x100 and am prime95/large FFTs now to test for stability. I didn't do a whole lot of tweaks but I do want to share the settings I am currently testing and get feedback: 1) Others settings I should tweak? 2) Are these values sane? 3)...

I am considering this CPU and wanted to ask if anyone has this chip to run a linux-based benchmark for me. How long does it take your system to compile the Linux kernel? To make things easy, I tarred-up and pre-configured the linux source for v3.4.5 and am hosting it here. You may use a...

Just installed an 80 G version of the X25-M (G2). Seems nice an snappy. Here are a few benchmarks on my machine. Anyone else have this SSD and care to post? # hdparm -Tt /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: Timing cached reads: 15644 MB in 1.99 seconds = 7845.48 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 788 MB...

Western Digital GreenPower drives - particular the WDXXEARS series have this annoying "feature" that parks the read heads of the drive once every 8 seconds! You can see this reflected in the Load_Cycle_Count value from smartmontools for example. WD support provides tool called RE2GP Idle Mode...

If I run my Zotac IONITX A-U (Atom 330 based all-in-one) at the stock settings (1.60 GHz) the temp monitor in the BIOS reads 34 for the MB and 41 for the CPU at idle. If I overclock the board (fsb up to 667 from 533) the temp monitor in the BIOS reads 34 for th MB and 14 for the CPU at idle. If...

Just bought a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P to replace my older DFI. I'm running my X3360 (xeon version of the q9550) @ a modest 8.5x400 and am looking for some suggestions as to settings as I minimize my voltages. 1) What is a reasonable MCH Core for this board running @ 400 MHz? I tested 1.30 V for...

I have a EG45M-UD2H running BIOS F3 and Linux. I noticed a pretty significant HDD speed decrease with this board. If I take the same Seagate 7200.12 (1 gig) HDD and benchmark it on another motherboard, the cached reads are about 7x higher. For example, under the EG45M-UD2H: # hdparm -Tt...

I need an mATX form factor MB that'll take an Intel 775 CPU (I have a spare e5200) that has the following key features: 1) Ability to set the CPU vcore, not just add to the stock VID (I want to under volt). My E5200 has a VID of 1.2875 V but runs perfectly stable @ 0.9750 V. 2)...

Guess I'm used to DFI naming for various voltage settings because I have a GA-G41M-ES2L and have no idea what "CPU Reference Voltage" is... what is this? CPU Vcore CPU Termination CPU Reference CPU Vcore is obviously the core voltage for the processor. CPU Termination I am assuming is the VTT...

I may have discovered a VERY quick method to test an overclocked system's stability. I need more data/people to test it though. What I've found is that a Linux installer seems *highly* sensitive to CPU's with vcores that are too low. I don't think this will help you understand if your other...

I'm not looking for an extreme overclock w/ the E6500. I'm tuning 10.5x333 right now and think that I have it stable but I'm wondering about my GTL settings. Should I be adjusting these down to 0.63x on the two CPU settings and leave the NB @ 0.67x? This is what I'm seeing in some posts with the...

Planning to build an E6500/P45 system for my folks. I think running it @ 11x333 instead of the stock 11x266 should be easily accomplished. I've read that the stock HSF is both inefficient and noisy. Can you guys recommend a HSF that is: 1) Quiet (120 mm fan probably) 2) Mounts using a...

Does anyone own this board (Zotac IONITX-A-U)? If so, does the onboard GigaLAN support jumbo frames and WOL? I see that it uses the rtl8211cl LAN controller, but I can't find out if this supports jumbo frames or not!

I'm looking to get a ZOTAC IONITX-A-U Atom N330 MB to use as a fileserver and potentially a DVR. I'm looking for case suggestions for this mini ITX form factor MB. Important features to me are: 1) Design/ergonomics (i.e. I can install the MB and get into it without problems) 2) Good...

I'm waiting on the 2nd gen Intel SSDs to make a purchase. In the meantime, I'm reading up on these things and have found numerous sources that suggest aligning partitions on SSD's to the erase block of the device. I found two major sources detailing the process. This one shows a setup using...

I'm thinking about picking up Corsair 32 GB SSD for my XP/Linux system. I have a P182 case and am wondering where these things mount internally? I have several 3.5 " drive bays, but I dunno about a 2.5"

I have a SATA-II drive that I'd like to put in an external enclosure. I've never even seen such a product before and have no idea what features to look for in one. Can someone recommend a good one that is too expensive for me? I see myself using this with a laptop that has both USB2.0 and...

Just added a WD1001FALS drive to my system. It's been idle for about 1/ 2h now and idle temp is kinda on the high side relative to my other drives. This WD drive is 39 C which is about 7 C hotter than my other HDD which is a 32 C. Room temp is 68 F. Is 39 C normal for this particular drive...

I have a Kill-a-watt that measures a power draw in Watts. I was curious to see what sort of real energy reduction the acpi in my kernel was affording to me so I measured the idle system under the two available multipliers both at the stock level for my system, and the overclocked level. The...

I just bought a Western Digital Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB (SATAII, 7200 RPM, 32 Mb cache). I ran a few disk benchmarks on it and found that is seems pretty darn slow compared to my Seagate drives. Does anyone else have this WD drive and would you mind running HD Tach on it if you run...

I have an MSI GeForce 8400GS (PCI-E 2.0 x16) that runs a little on the hot side for my tastes. I'd like to remove the stock HS and replace it w/ something more efficient. It seems like a number of people are recommending the Zalman series of product, particularly the ZF-700 or ZF-900. I only...

I bought a passively cooled sparkle 8400GS link here and the thing runs way too hot. Anyone have suggestions for cooling solutions? The cheapest solution would be to somehow attach a fan to the existing HS, but I'm not opposed to an actively cooled HSF either. Has anyone literally attached a...

I just bought one and I'm not sure I have the thing setup properly. Running @ 1680x1050 @ 60 Hz from my 8800GTS. I have brightness=100 and contrast=75 (not using magicbright or magiccolor). I'm using mode2 for gamma and RTA on mode 2. I found both the magicbright and magiccolor options to be...

I've read a number of posts and articles either directly trying to address GTL's or alluding to them, but none of them have thus far presented a step-by-step method for setting these values at a given overclock (8.5x450 say). If you've successfully overclocked a quad to a "high" FSB (>400...

Got bored yesterday, so I ran checked out the power consumption of my X3360 system for shits and giggles with my kill-a-watt. Powered Hardware Details: Intel X3360 (C1 stepping) @ 8.5x400=3.40 GHz 266/667 MHz Strap CPU Vcc=1.12500 NB Core=1.370 CPU VTT=1.310 DFI LT P35-TR2 (no...

How about it? Anyone else using these sticks? I'm interested in comparing my settings to whatever you happen to be running. My settings (out of everest simple copy/paste): Memory Timings CAS Latency (CL) 5T RAS To CAS Delay (tRCD) 5T RAS Precharge (tRP) 5T RAS Active Time (tRAS)...

I can't seem to find recent posts including my own. Seems like the db is old:

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About 7 months ago I posted data comparing two memory dividers (1:1 and 3:5 @ 333 MHz) on my then Q6600/P965 based system and concluded that for the 67 % increase in memory bandwidth, the marginal gains in actual performance weren't worth the extra voltage/heat. Since then I've upgraded my...

Is there a BIOS setting I'm missing or...? This same card was 16x on my old MB I have it plugged into the middle PCIe slot due to stuff in the way of the other two. Using driver version 169.21. Thanks for any insight. D.F.I. LP LT P35-TR2 (BIOS: LP35D317) Intel X3360 @...

Dunno what my problem is.. reinstalled the o/s a few weeks ago and just went to play COD4. It looks like shit! Way too slow. I have an 8800GTS/X3360 machine. It shouldn't look like this. Using 169.21. Is there a standard video benchmark out there I can run and get some numbers to...

Well, guys I wrote up this procedure I used to minimize my vcores on my new x3360/P35-based system, and I thought I'd share it with folks. It's a systematic method anyone can use to arrive at a minimized set of vcores for a given multiplier and FSB value. The examples I present in this post are...

Anyone with an X3360, can you please run the x264 Benchmark HD and either post the results here in this thread or simply PM them to me? Thanks!