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Got that covered still have my front 200mm fan plus the one that used to be on top is now drawing in cool air from the door right onto the memory and chipset heat sinks
Any suggestions on what settings I could change? I'm pretty new to over clocking haven't really done it successfully since the athlon Thunderbird CPU came out ��
OK since my initial post I have reseated the cooler and removed some excess thermal paste. Idle temps went down 3 degrees average. After reading today's posts I looked in the bios and turned off XMP on my ram. And disabled EIST (enhanced Intel speed step) and ran the burn in again. It completed...
thanks for all the responses. I haven't even started to overclock. i wanted to get a baseline first and those are the temps i got. im gonna go over the settings again and make sure i didn't miss anything. maybe theres something auto clocking thing to get that high.
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Could my water cooler be at fault here? the temps are within expected range at both idle and when gaming. played a couple hours of games this weekend and while the air under my desk (vented from the fans) was warm i left hardware monitor running and the temps never went over 62 degrees C. any...
I got my new system last week and was doing a quick burn in test before trying to overclock.
im using Inter Burntest V. 2.54 on maximum the temp im getting see to high though. it shutdown my pc the first attempt on the 5th pass but i also had a bunch of other stuff running when i started it...
Is it possible to use laptop displays with a standard videocard? Like a old 4870? Is there any resources I could tap? Did a quick Google search but just kept getting results on connecting laptops to monitors via HDMI. I'll keep searching but thought I would drop a line here to see if anyone had...
awesome, thanks for the link Pieter3dnow gonna check that out right now. buttons, i was thinking the same thing, just not sure how soon that will play out. i figure i will keep the next system for 3 years before i upgrade again. At current prices though i would only save about 50 buck between...