Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
Amazing what properly applied thermal paste can do. I had applied it like I used to do for my old P3 system -- spreading a thin coat over the contact point. Apparently on the newer processors you just stick a dab of AS3 on the spreader, and drop the heatsink on.
Now I'm down to 58C under...
Hello, I have a Prescott D0 ES, CPUID 0xf34, running at 3.6GHz. The processor is installed in a Shuttle SB83G5 case.
I downloaded ThrottleWatch, and while running CPU Burn-in I observe significant TM1 throttling; ThrottleWatch indicates throttling is jumping between 33% and 77% (not sure what...