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Gumbi · 24-04-2013 12:50PM

http://www.hardwareversand.de/120mm/49250/ARCTIC+COOLING+ARCTIC+F12.article

4 of these at medium speed should get some god cooling through my case. Was messing around with my 7950 yesterday. If I can control VRM temps (specifically VRM 1) at 1.1v, I can potentially maintain over 1200mhz on my 7950. The core temp is manageable. You mentioned cool air blowing over the the card can help a lot with the VRM temps.

BloodBath · 24-04-2013 12:54PM

I was talking about the mainboard vrm's. Do you have the Phenom overclocked. The northbridge on my old machine used to get crazy hot with my overclocked e8400. I had to put a fan on the back of the graphics card blowing up at it to keep it cool.

My old case had horrible airflow though.

Gumbi · 24-04-2013 01:01PM

BloodBath wrote: »

I was talking about the mainboard vrm's. Do you have the Phenom overclocked. The northbridge on my old machine used to get crazy hot with my overclocked e8400. I had to put a fan on the back of the graphics card blowing up at it to keep it cool.

My old case had horrible airflow though.

Hmm, OK. How hot would be considered OK for 7950 VRMs? I've seen conflicting reports. Some say they're designed to operate safely up to 120 degrees, others say less.

I don't think I have voltage control on my motherboard. It's greyed out in the BIOS. I could easily OC it if I could by modifying the FSB (it idles at 22 degrees and never goes above 37).

TerrorFirmer · 24-04-2013 01:09PM

Guy on Adverts selling a Pentium D system and saying it runs Battlefield 3 and Far Cry 3 at high settings perfectly. Actually makes my blood boil.

BloodBath · 24-04-2013 01:09PM

I don't know to be honest. I'd try keep them below 90c anyway.

What motherboard is it?

Guy on Adverts selling a Pentium D system and saying it runs Battlefield 3 and Far Cry 3 at high settings perfectly. Actually makes my blood boil.

Link?

TerrorFirmer · 24-04-2013 01:14PM

http://www.adverts.ie/desktops/gaming-pc/2975509

I'd actually love to see a Pentium D struggle with Battlefield 3.

Gumbi · 24-04-2013 01:31PM

BloodBath wrote: »

I was talking about the mainboard vrm's. Do you have the Phenom overclocked. The northbridge on my old machine used to get crazy hot with my overclocked e8400. I had to put a fan on the back of the graphics card blowing up at it to keep it cool.

My old case had horrible airflow though.

I need to figure out how to tame my VRM temps at higher voltages. My card is stable at 975mhz at 1000mv. That's it's ballpark OCing capability. (If that makes sense). At 1.1v I can go 1200mhz but the VRM temps climb quite a bit. (110degrees). I haven't tweaked much (I can probably go lower than 1.1v for 1.2ghz) but that's what I'm working with so far.

Burgo · 24-04-2013 01:42PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

http://www.adverts.ie/desktops/gaming-pc/2975509

I'd actually love to see a Pentium D struggle with Battlefield 3.

Struggle? I'm pretty sure it would catch on fire.

Brian · 24-04-2013 03:23PM

What's going on with the text wrapping, it's horrible.

Gumbi · 24-04-2013 03:37PM

Gumbi wrote: »

Hmm, OK. How hot would be considered OK for 7950 VRMs? I've seen conflicting reports. Some say they're designed to operate safely up to 120 degrees, others say less.

I don't think I have voltage control on my motherboard. It's greyed out in the BIOS. I could easily OC it if I could by modifying the FSB (it idles at 22 degrees and never goes above 37).

Figured it out. The voltages are greyed out, yes, but I can use +/- to configure them - only the +/- on the number pad though :P Not the ones by the backspace.

OK. I'll see if I can't get 3.6ghz out of this baby.

What would be a safe voltage for a Phenom II chip? I'm finding it really hard to boot at 3.36ghz by modifying the FSB to be 240 instead 200 (this is the correct way to OC it, right?). At the moment I'm at 1.375v and it blue screens as it's booting into desktop.

BloodBath · 24-04-2013 03:49PM

If it's the same as old pentium / core2 overclocking then raising the fsb would be increasing your ram speed and your pci speed. If there is an option to lock the pci at a certain speed then lock it at whatever it's supposed to be.

If it's changing the ram speed then set it back to clocks it can handle.

Just look for a guide specific to your processor, there should be loads.

Gumbi · 24-04-2013 03:57PM

BloodBath wrote: »

If it's the same as old pentium / core2 overclocking then raising the fsb would be increasing your ram speed and your pci speed. If there is an option to lock the pci at a certain speed then lock it at whatever it's supposed to be.

If it's changing the ram speed then set it back to clocks it can handle.

Just look for a guide specific to your processor, there should be loads.

I will thanks.

Gumbi · 24-04-2013 04:08PM

Probably a horribly optimised OC (but not something I can't fix), by I have a 3.4ghz OC stable so far in Prime at 1.3v. I just had to keep the ratio for the memory such that it was near enough it's rated speed. It's currently at 1280mhz.

OCing a 3570k is too easy! :P

Bazzo · 24-04-2013 05:10PM

http://www.adverts.ie/2665760

Got my laugh for the day in at least. Yes, I will take that brand new 2013 eircom router, at €50 it's a steal!

Headshot · 24-04-2013 08:45PM

That Radeon HD 7990 looks a bit of a beast

Eboggles · 24-04-2013 08:46PM

Headshot wrote: »

That Radeon HD 7990 looks a bit of a beast

It's nothing revolutionary; the only good thing to come of it are the new prototype drivers that seem to be awesome

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BobbyPropane · 24-04-2013 09:18PM

Have an AM3+ Motherboard and currently a Black Edition 965 @ 3.4ghz. FX 8350, yay or nay?

smileyj1987 · 24-04-2013 09:20PM

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Have an AM3+ Motherboard and currently a Black Edition 965 @ 3.4ghz. FX 8350, yay or nay?

I would say Yay especially because you could sell the 965 and make it a fairly cheap upgrade .

Serephucus · 24-04-2013 09:25PM

Gumbi wrote: »

Probably a horribly optimised OC (but not something I can't fix), by I have a 3.4ghz OC stable so far in Prime at 1.3v. I just had to keep the ratio for the memory such that it was near enough it's rated speed. It's currently at 1280mhz.

OCing a 3570k is too easy! :P

At 1.3 I can hit 4.6... Might want to lower the volts a bit.

Gumbi · 24-04-2013 09:31PM

Serephucus wrote: »

At 1.3 I can hit 4.6... Might want to lower the volts a bit.

I'm referring to my Phenom II x4 925

:D. It isn't very well optimised, but I assure you, it's not as badly optimised as a 3570k at 1.3v would be haha. I'm not THAT tech-illiterate :P My own 3570k will do 4.6 at less than that.

I'm awaiting a new motherboard from Amazon as my AsRock one failed, and HWVS effed up the RMA (gotta wait another 10 days to get it returned).

Serephucus · 24-04-2013 09:44PM

Talk about a brain fart... I knew that, I swear...

Nolars · 24-04-2013 11:57PM

http://instagram.com/p/YgRKhOSbOi/

i7 -4770k LGA 1150 linus has 1 no mobo tho

cherryghost · 25-04-2013 06:17AM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

http://www.adverts.ie/desktops/gaming-pc/2975509

I'd actually love to see a Pentium D struggle with Battlefield 3.

I've played BF3 on a Pentium D (3.2ghz) and ATI 4670. It was surprisingly playable on lowest settings at sub-720p res (about 20-25fps)

EDIT: Here's the game maxed out on a 2.8 Pentium D and a GTX550ti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQiAF-_OSf8

Gets about 15FPS :P But it raises the question... who in their right mind pairs a 550 and a crappy pentium D together?!

BloodBath · 25-04-2013 11:16AM

BF3 isn't really that stressful. He said it runs far cry 3 on high as well though. No ways.

Genghiz Cohen · 25-04-2013 11:34AM

I could nearly get 30FPS on low settings on a E6600 and a HD4870.

TerrorFirmer · 25-04-2013 11:42AM

BloodBath wrote: »

BF3 isn't really that stressful. He said it runs far cry 3 on high as well though. No ways.

Single Player isn't but Multiplayer is. I couldn't even get a respectable framerate on 64 man servers with a G620 and that's twice as fast as a Pentium D. It would dip to as low as 15 in intense situations, which realistically is going to happen a lot playing online. Even the 6600 is miles faster than a Pentium D!

BloodBath · 25-04-2013 12:00PM

My e8400 @ 4.3ghz served me well but still struggled with 64 man multi.

Gbear · 25-04-2013 02:46PM

What sort of gains do you actually see with an overclocked cpu?

I have everything I need to start overclocking the CPU but I'm just wondering is it worth the effort or do people do it purely for the fun of it?

Gumbi · 25-04-2013 02:56PM

Gbear wrote: »

What sort of gains do you actually see with an overclocked cpu?

I have everything I need to start overclocking the CPU but I'm just wondering is it worth the effort or do people do it purely for the fun of it?

Well, it makes your CPU operate more quickly, put simply. Whether you'll see a difference depends on what you use the computer for.

I play SC2, which is very heavily CPU-bound, which means if I overclock my CPU by ~30% I see my FPS jump 30%, which is massive.

What's your current setup? Do you have an aftermarket cooler?

Gbear · 25-04-2013 03:18PM

Gumbi wrote: »

Well, it makes your CPU operate more quickly, put simply. Whether you'll see a difference depends on what you use the computer for.

I play SC2, which is very heavily CPU-bound, which means if I overclock my CPU by ~30% I see my FPS jump 30%, which is massive.

What's your current setup? Do you have an aftermarket cooler?

Gaming. I also play SC2 but plenty of FPS/RPG type things as well.

Case: Corsair Carbide 500R
CPU: i5 3570k
Cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 Pro
GPU: XFX HD7950 3GB
RAM: 8GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz Ares
MOBO: ASRock Extreme 4 Z77
PSU: OCZ 700W Extreme

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