Recent content by Tiberizzle

I searched a good bit and haven't really found any serious discussion regarding running these much over 1.4V for daily usage. I've found a handful of anecdotes of people running 32nm Westmeres at 1.45-1.55V accidentally or intentionally for extended periods with no claims of failure or greatly...

How do water-cooled TitanX overclocks compare to water-cooled 980 overclocks? Is anyone getting 1550/8000+ with these? ~1400 seems to be the highest people are reporting this early, but I haven't found more than a handful of results and none under water. I think the real world performance...

"Following ASUS' $799 28-inch 4K monitor from earlier this year"? following!? really? that's pretty bold language considering the 28" is still riding on a 6 month paper launch so far or maybe they're implying you shouldn't get your hopes up for this one actually shipping either :rolleyes:

Some of the hexcore xeons will run computationally stable at a higher BCLK than the buses (PLLs?) can operate stably at, the bus ECC may play some part in masking the issue. They will start to have unstable tsc due to missed cycles and tscs are synced between cores only once at boot, while most...

I have a loop with 2 480 radiators and a single Koolance PMP-500. My (Tygon) return hose to the reservoir is a short angled tube run from the last CPU block and it nearly always partially collapses like in the picture. After the hose partially collapses my measured water temperature is...

It will probably work but it would seem like there's a much higher than usual probability that you're going to run into some bug in a rarely tested corner case doing that much shrinking, growing and swapping. If you do not parity scrub it's likely that any parity RAID which has been used for...

/proc/cpuinfo shows the rated speed of i7 processors regardless of their set BCLK*multiplier, turbo, or speedstep. I believe this was clarified by Linus on a mailing list somewhere (I don't have the link handy and may be misattributing) to be the intended behavior a few years ago in spite of...

I couldn't say offhand what the actual power usage is "with numbers", but a properly configured dual socket i7-Xeon system (LGA-1366 or LGA-2011) shouldn't use terribly much power at low load. With speedstep/turboboost/c-states/etc all enabled the idle cores clock down to as low as 12x and...

That video card is one of the latest AGP cards produced and is a lot newer than the core of your dual socket A system. It claims to have OpenGL 3.3 and DirectX 10 support. You shouldn't really have to look very hard to find supported benchmarks. (3dmark vantage or earlier should work) Radeon...

nVidia has been backing off their "stellar" support of proprietary PC drivers for several years, at least from the Linux perspective. We haven't had overclocking on Linux for soon to be 4 GPU generations and essentially every non-trivial feature is officially supported for Linux drivers only on...

Vtt 1.4, uncore multiplier 16x, and memory settings (in my case DDR-800 multiplier, DDR-1600 MCH strap auto defaults, 1.65V) seemed the most relevant to high BCLK stability One of the CPUs has 3x 8GB DIMMs and I am pretty sure they are responsible for the uncore / memory setting sensitivity, at...

Is 1.456V set VCore (1.43-ish measured) with Vdroop off too high for 24/7 on x5650s? Is there a overvoltage breakdown or extremely accelerated degradation due to VCore at some point for the 32nm chips, or is the main concern thermals? Has anyone run with high or very high VCore on these chips...

220V supply should improve power conversion efficiency in practically all cases by like 1-3%, but you would want to run 220 into the PSU. Nearly all recent PSUs of quality are 110/220 auto-sensing and even cheaper or older PSUs will have a 110/220 switch, but you will probably want to confirm...

I don't think there are any single expanders with enough ports to offer 4 paths to 48 drives, but you may be able to use multiple expanders. As in, use 2 28-port expanders to connect to drives, and a 3rd 28-port expander to aggregate the drive-connected expanders while connecting to 4 host...

The main motivation in RAID-1 of the swap isn't performance, but it certainly won't hurt compared to a single swap partition. It's mostly to prevent the system from crashing after paging out to a disk which later decides it is tired of your crap :p Incidentally, multiple swap devices will be...