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Looking to buy a used Aquacomputer R9 290/290x nickel plated waterblock to match my existing one so that I can upgrade before I go back to uni.
I can get a used 290 cheap enough but don't really want to spend >£90 on a new waterblock.
If you have a backplate available (and/or a 290 itself) then...
I'm not that familiar with kabini/am1 but could it be throttling due to power consumption rather than temperature?
Are there any bios options to increase tdp?
It should work fine if the daughter board is just functioning as a pci-e riser.
If you find you can't get it to run at pci-e 2.0 or 3.0 (depending on your new board) then you could just buy a flexible pci-e riser like this...
a 5820k can run tri sli (x8/x8/x8) but requires a board that can support this config. The x99-ud4 can (4 pci-e slots that would run at x8/x8/x4/x8 so you would need to use slots 1,2 and 4.)
x99s sli plus from msi and the asus x99 deluxe also support tri sli with the 5820k. I'm sure several...
RAM frequency has almost no effect on gaming performance above 1600MHz when you are using a dedicated gpu.
Regarding your first two questions: The memory controller is located on the CPU so this dictates what memory frequencies are considered overclocking.
In the case of the 4790k, anything...
I'm using a z87x-ud4h, never had any problems with other ssd's.
From what I've read it does seem to be more of an incompatibility with Intel systems or Intel rst.
I've switched to an 840 evo and am having no problems.
Regarding TRIM and RAID, Intel only supports passing the TRIM command to...
Just a word of warning on the mx100. I've been having random bsods caused by it after which the drive is not detected on reboot.
Quite a few people discussing it on the crucial forums but nothing being done.
A lot of sandy bridge cpu's would freeze at the windows logo at around 47/48 multipliers without 'Internal PLL overvoltage' enabled.
I would recommend starting at a lower multiplier and setting it for all cores rather than per core.
Try something that should be fairly easy.
Set VCore...
Definitely worth checking for bent pins, also non stop short beeps means it's not detecting any ram.
What happens if you try one stick in slot 3 and one in slot 2/4?