Recent content by Pilot53

So I have an i5-6600k at 4.7, with the midrange ga-z170xp-sli board. Unfrontunately the board has quite a bit of vdroop, it goes from 1.475 idle to 1.415 under load. So to get a decent OC the chip needs to idle at 1.475 to hit 1.41 at load. Will a high idle vcore do damage the way a high...

idk it keeps going down to 25 percent after gaming for about a minute, ive used rivatuner, evga precision, and ntune.

Is there a bios flash available for a 9800gt for 100% fan speed?

Im getting 55 idle, 75 load.

I know for a fact that the 1.4v limit is not a myth from my personal experiences. I used to run my e3110 at 1.45v at 4.4ghz, but I am no longer able to maintain that overclock. I was forced to back it down to 1.4v at 4.2 So no, Degradation is not a myth.

Hi, im running the latest cat 8.7 drivers on an unoverclocked 4850 with the fan at 100% and I am getting crash in world in conflict. The screen turns black and the pc doesnt reboot. Is this a known driver problem or is the card dead?

Interesting, where can I buy one? ;)

IMO the pcp&c psu is the best, but the corsair is so good that you wont ever notice the difference under pretty much any circumstance.

Nvidia die shrink could be a while, and the prices are already very competitive. If you want a new video card, get one now.

The 4850 is plenty for that resolution and those games and will work fine with that psu. A 4870 would be overkill imo.

The 3870 is the slowest, a very bad option, it gets its ass kicked by the competing nvidia cards. The 4850 is much faster and is pretty much the bang for the buck deal right now, and the 4870 even faster for $100 bucks more and is in between the nvidia gtx 260 and gtx280, but closer to the 260.

Its good to see somethign new, how does this new stuff overclock?

You dont get it. The 256 bit bus with ddr3 memeory is bottlenecked to the point that adding any more ram over 512mb is useless.

Thats pretty damn stupid. 512mb of DDR3 is all that is useful with a 256 bit bus.

WTF? So its exactly the same as the 8800gt then?