I can't speak for the rest of the country, but I work for a rural ISP in East Texas and I can tell you that people there are gettin nowhere NEAR 25mb and the providers that 'advertise' 25mb are full of CRAP
Finally joined the club right before christmas!
Pics in my Build Log
Got her up to 2070mhz and 8000mhz on the memory. (TimeSpy) I guess it's not a bad score. I don't have much of a point of reference. It's one hell of an upgrade from my 970FTW though!
So I started working on planning the water cooling loop today. I want to do something silly with 2 resos and a standalone pump. I'm still playing with ideas but built this in SketchUp this week.
It's still a work in progress...mainly because my Sketchup skills are....um....in progress.
But...
That's basically it. Now there are, depending on your motherboard, TOND of things you can do to ensure that the processor runs as efficient and stable as possible with the clocking information you request of it. Load Line, cash voltages, etc. But those are really advanced topics. For newcomers...
Cleaning out my parts box and I ran across all this stuff I need to get rid of. I was going to throw it away, but I decided to pay it forward. Some of this stuff is at small discount...Some of it is at an AWESOME discount. But everything is below MSRP.
Everything listed is $25 bucks. No Deals...
More work today! Got the layout for the cable on the backside of the case done. I'm going to sleeve and re-run all of this when I install the custom power cables but this is how it it will look.
And the vertical GPU bracket came in:
I also did some overclocking on the AIO. I got the...
I'm sorry. I went back a
I'm sorry I went back and looked at my notes and I actually was at. 1.37v.
But...
I switched to an Asus Z390 Prime board and started over. I'm Currently at 4.8 on 1.22v. I'm hitting max temps now so it seems like I don't have a terribly shitty chip after all!
Issues:
I have an 8600K that I picked up this past summer. It ran stock until about a month ago when I decided to try to get an OC out of it. I started with a Mugen 5 Rev. B cooler. I was able to get it up to 5ghz before hitting hitting 80c but I had to push 1.135v to it. But at that speed I...