Recent content by theelectic

I remember reading an article a couple of years ago when the Chargers were first coming out, there was one police department that got a couple. Officers initially flocked to them but they were quickly abandoned once the constrained visibility (compared to a Crown Vic, or even better, the even...

I got mine to 2.8GHz @ 1.35V, 3.0GHz @ 1.45V, 3.2GHz needs 1.65V.

Obviously. That's why I said *I* would go even lower.

I would go even lower. Keep the 8800GTS, but go X2 3600+ Brisbane, nForce 4 motherboard (upgrading to SLI rarely makes sense), Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, some other less expensive ProMOS RAM (maybe OCZ Plat Rev 2). You could save around $300 off what's listed in the article with very...

It's in the realm of possibility. I had an E6300 up to 3.22GHz @ 1.45V with an ACF7P, load was 58C.

Vista uses memory differently than XP so that metric is not really comparable. Vista will gobble up most of the available memory for preloading; if it's needed elsewhere, it will release it. XP doesn't preload as much, so it appears there's more free memory. Agreed, the built in demotest...

Try setting the DRAM termination manually to 50 ohms and lower your max async latency to 8 or 10ns, I got my Platinum Rev 2 to 528 that way.

I know many cottagers whose only broadband option is satellite, which is horribly expensive. Hell I know many cottagers who can't even get TV over the air with an antenna! For DSL you have to be a prescribed distance from a telephone switching station (or whatever it's called) if you're more...

Yes it's common, you need more VCore.

The dividers are typically labelled as settings, i.e. DDR2-400, DDR2-533, DDR2-667, DDR2-800. The dividers vary with the CPU multiplier used. Use this chart to figure out final speeds (not updated for .5 multipliers, but you get the idea)...

I returned it to where I bought it for a refund and used the same $ to buy a regular water cooling setup, based around a PA120.3. Much happier overall, even if the installation was a pain. Additional Eliminator review, showing it to be unsuitable for extreme overclocking (worse than air...

Well, I thought it was normal in the sense that the fan speed spun up when load was increased. However, even at max fan speed, cooling performance was mediocre at best.

Well, here's the thing. I had a bad experience with the Freezone, and if you look through the first 3-4 pages of this thread, so have a few other people, so I'm not a lone crank with nothing better to do but bash CoolIT :) If I was the lone dissenting voice out of a hundred, then maybe I had a...

That's a case, isn't it, not a CPU cooler.

Forget about CoolIT, it's marginal at best for quad core, see this thread: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1141982 Keep in mind a Swiftech MCW6500-T with a 226W direct die/IHS water cooled cooled pelt is barely adequate for overclocked quad core, so how can 56W worth of air cooled...