99% of all overclocks "tested" with prime that fail linx will never give the user a single problem.
Possibly... But an hour is hardly testing... Eitherway... Just run fah for a few smp or bigger units..
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99% of all overclocks "tested" with prime that fail linx will never give the user a single problem.
Possibly... But an hour is hardly testing... Eitherway... Just run fah for a few smp or bigger units..
An hour of prime is like testing less than one linx loop. An hour of linx is like 48+ hours of prime, or 24 hours of FAH. Nothing stress tests like linx.
And I beg to differ on the '99% of overclocks tested with prime that fail linx will never give people an issue.' Those people either don't really stress their machines in general, or they are liars and are pretending they're stable. There's so much rampant lying that goes on in the overclocking community, it's disgusting.
Prime simply doesn't prove anything any more and is a worthless piece of software to the overclocking community now. It's only used by people that either don't know better, or are fakes.
If you think 'i don't need anything more' then you're a fake and should never discuss stability like you have any idea what you're talking about. If you say your pc doesn't crash - you don't use your machine fully, or you're a liar.
The above is just not true. The vast majority of games are now more stressful than prime95. They may not load up all your cores, but they'll stress the cores they do load more than prime can. That's why we see messages all over the forums whining about how they're prime stable but keep getting crashes playing xy game.then why are you talking about 99%? you extreme overclockers are the 1%, not the 99%. the vast majority (99%) will never stress their cpu to this extent. what kind of gaming/browsing/torrents/whatever could possibly stress a 2600 or even a 2500 to the point where its more stressed than running prime95? there are VERY FEW instances where us normal users will exceed the stress put on the cpu by prime95. it is absolutely not the most intense stressing tool, but it is still good enough for 99% of users. hell, ive seen a lot of people who just play crysis on all max settings at the most intense parts of the game for half an hour to stress test their cpus. sure its not a great way to test, but its good enough for them. 99% of users would be happier with 4.5GHz thats prime95 stable than 4.2GHz thats linx stable.
tl;dr linx is a more powerful stress testing tool, but prime95 is still more demanding on their cpu than 99% of users will ever encounter using their machines. imo its a perfectly acceptable stress tool for an average user. anyone who might actually put more stress on their cpu than prime95 better be knowledgeable enough that they should know to use linx.
That's because there's a bug in boomfield/lynnfield/gulftown over 9216MB memory size. To test more ram than 9216MB, you need to disable hyperthreading. First you stress your ram with HT off, make sure it's stable, then you stress with 9216mb problem size and HT on to verify full stability.I've had situations where LinX returned no errors after ~10 runs with 24gb memory while P95 resulted in a BSOD within ~30 minutes.
I'll try the linx.
The radiators do work well though. I have an over clocked GTX470 on the same loop. Played UT3 for hours yesterday at 5ghz without any problems.
Can't play stability testers but I do understand how important stability and temperature testing is.
When you do, follow this guide:
http://www.overclock.net/t/645392/h...inx-ibt-properly-an-explanation-maybe-a-guide
Also keep in mind the things I noted above, as not all of them are mentioned in the guide.
Nope. Easiest way to do what you want is to boot diagnostic mode.Don't have time right now to read all of that. Can linpack be ran from a bootable USB key in a pure environment?
UT3 is the best stress test EVAR!!!!!! I am sure it is using 25% CPU lol
you guys should move your annoying off-topicness to another thread and post more pictures of water cooling
SOOOOOO many sweet rigs!!! I can't wait to add mine!
A friend told me that those classifieds use the same pcb layout as a gtx 480 (you can just use 480 waterblocks), is that true?
That's exactly right.
The thing is the memory and power components are completely UNCOOLED using the stock heatsink. So adding a unisink with a fan is really all that's needed for those parts, and then you watercool the core... I'm able to max out the memory frequency in evga precision - just a measure so you can see how unnecessary FC blocks are.
I was pleasantly surprised how quiet these Hiper 80x15mm fans are!
Actually, you would be surprised how many cards you can cool with generic gpu water blocks and a 80mm fan, i been doing it for almost 10 years now. you just cant do those multi gpu cards without serious modifications. Its a lot easier if you can locate gpus that have segmented/missing vreg cooler from the gpu core. Im still going strong with my DD Maze4 gpu. 5950 ultra, 6800gt, x1800xt, hd2900xt, and now my 5870. couldnt water cool my 3870 x2
My Main Rig that I use for work and play. Thought about doing WC for a long time, so I finally decided to drop that hammer. The fans are stupid quiet but they are not pushing enough air through the radiator, so, new, more CFM fans are on the way. Hopefully it will drop my temps even more. We will see, thank god for fan controllers.
Beautiful, what case is this?
My Main Rig that I use for work and play. Thought about doing WC for a long time, so I finally decided to drop that hammer. The fans are stupid quiet but they are not pushing enough air through the radiator, so, new, more CFM fans are on the way. Hopefully it will drop my temps even more. We will see, thank god for fan controllers.
Is that the Bitspower res? How are you not getting air bubbles from the top inlet? Mine should be coming today but I thought it would create air bubbles if you use the top
Is that the Bitspower res? How are you not getting air bubbles from the top inlet? Mine should be coming today but I thought it would create air bubbles if you use the top
Nice setup! Which fan controller are you using? How do you like it?
Is that the Bitspower res? How are you not getting air bubbles from the top inlet? Mine should be coming today but I thought it would create air bubbles if you use the top
Looks to be just a fill tube. His inlet is coming from the video card. He's expelling behind the tray and around into the 2x120 rad.
New MSI GTX 560ti 448 TFiii PE/OC waiting for somebody to build a high quality full VGA block.