Recent content by RedJamaX

Has anybody tried this yet? It seems that most people using Liquid Metal are always going through the delid process... at least, that's all I can find with any results posted online. With the 9700K, Intel has returned to a soldered IHS.... I and I've seen several reviews that show how Liquid...

I'm currently running a 2500K (yes) at 4.7GHz on an Asus Z68M, Upgrading to a 9700K soon... - 4.7GHz was achieved using the ASUS A.I. Auto-Overclock Utility - 4.7 is only applied to the Turbo Frequency, so it is not running at 4.8 ALL the time - 4.7 is used along with Speed-step, so when idle...

Interesting.... I should be getting a Hyper 212 EVO for my 2500k soon (waiting on RMA), and I am giving the 212+ to my brother. I'll swap the K and non-K between those two board and see how they behave differently with default Boost settings.

So, here's the question... Would an i3-3240 (3.4GHz) with 16GB of 2133MHz memory be faster in gaming than an i5-2500 (3.4) with 16GB 1333MHz memory?? "When" the CPU is a significantly limiting factor, RAM speed can make a significant performance impact. I've got an HTPC build currently...

I have an i5-2500k in my Game Rig (my office), and a non-K i5-2500 in my HTPC (my wife's office) which I use for less demanding games from time to time. The default boost clock on the 2500K hits 3.7GHz, but on the non-K, it only hits 3.4GHz. It will reach 3.7 if only one core is being used...

Didn't say it wasn't "limiting" at all ... I said it's not worth the cost of a platform upgrade, and not "required". And the question posed was ... New CPU platform?? Or GTX1080?? When is a 6600k and GTX970 "better" than a 2500K and a GTX1080? (for gaming)

Why get a GTX1080 vs a GTX1070 if you're still on a 1080p monitor??? Super-scaling!!! Super-scaling to 2k or 4K on a 1080p monitor damn near eliminates the need for Anti-Aliasing and makes everything look so much better. So yes, it's absolutely worth it to get a 1080 over a 1070. (or for...

1080... I also have a 2500k running stable at 4.8 (hits 5GHz, but voltage is too high for comfort). Will games be faster on a 6600k?? Sure... But you've got to consider performance increase vs cost. GTX 1080 with i5-2500k - $600 = upto 120% increase in performance (most will be 100%) New...

Back to the OP... My thoughts.... In the past... the x70 series has always been slower than the x80 of the previous series... However, the X80 this time around has a HUGE performance jump, and even placing the 1070 half way between the 1080 and the 980 is a fairly performance crippling...

Ive done this mod about 4 times now.... Whats really fckd up is that since this has become more popular, the OLD 775 boards that work with the mod are selling for ridiculous prices on ebay... Now its to the point that getting a new board and cheap proc will give you the same performance for...

That chart looks similar to the results from Digital Foundry... I had seen that before as well. However, I plan to game at 4K once I get the GTX 1080 and the 35" wide screen, that should shift any bottle neck over to the GPU with the extra work it will have to do to run games at 4K. In any...

I was just pondering this same question... The answer depends on what you do with your computer. Just Gaming? (Or, primarily gaming?) Given the upgrade to the GTX 1080, if you are playing games at 1080p, then you will likley see a nice boost in performance if you go to the i5-6600k...

Yeah... I had always only gotten low, or moderate overclocks and had always attributed it to just bad luck of the draw.... So I was surprised at just how much influence a quality power supply really matters. Probably because everybody just spouts out crap like ... "your PSU sucks, you need to...

SORRY.... Typo.... 34c is idle... @64c gaming (I will confirm this soon) ... utilization bounces between 50% and 80%. I saw an increase in FireStrike min-FPS from 24 up to 30 (1080p), didn't expect that... Air Cooling with a Hyper EVO 212

Thanks guys... just wanted to make sure I was looking at this logically.