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Alright, I'm in. Hot deals are good to look at because of the large amount of bang that can be had for one's buck.

Your post reads like broken wind across the keyboard. You could have just spared everyone the meaningless contribution.

It's nice to have a sounding board, and an opportunity to analyze my preferences and the underlying reasons, good or bad, rational or irrational, behind them. Sometimes I find it nice to discuss these things, especially if I have some notion in my head that does not follow the general...

I stated earlier that I'd probably be upgrading the monitor as well, if I get a new videocard. Presumably, I'll be running 1920x1080. I may just have to raise my budget in order to appease my desire for a faster GPU AND more VRAM. The next best stop looks to be the GTX 470. There's an EVGA...

Currently, I'm at 1440x900. This resolution fits the rendering power of my 4850 pretty well for the latest games that I've played, like DAO and ME2. Yes, I realize that I could have PROBABLY been just fine with the 512MB version of the 4850, but I'd be feeling buyers remorse in a big way if it...

I'm irrationally risk averse at times, and I absolutely DO NOT WANT to experience the stuttering and poor framerate associated with too little VRAM at any time during the service life of my videocard. If I were to upgrade my card more often than every 2 years, I'd also want to spend less on...

So in the next three years, I'll never ever have to worry about having too little RAM on a card with 1GB, no matter what games are released and what mods might be made for them?

According to that Anandtech article, the price premium looks to be in the neighborhood of $50. As I recall, that's close to the premium I ended up paying for the 1GB version of my 4850. I'll probably be gaming at 1920x1080 if I upgrade my monitor when I upgrade the videocard. Being that I...

How much of a price premium will there likely be for these versions of the GTX 460? I'd like to get an upgrade sometime this summer, or maybe for my b-day a few months from now. I've had my 4850 for just over two years now, and I'm feeling it's time for an upgrade. My mobo doesn't have a...

Count me in. Thanks, HardOCP and MSI!

I told myself that I wouldn't buy Nvidia again because their CEO is a prick, and the fact that they've locked ATI users out of Physx. However, I'm a sucker for things that give really sweet performance for a relatively low price. Lord, keep me from temptation, or at least lower the...

I've had the H50 in my system for a couple months now, and while it allows me to reach 3.5GHz with my Q6600, the temperatures are quite high. I have all the little clock and voltage stepping features enabled, but even when idle at 2.38GHz 1.25v in Windows, I sit at 59*C. On a warm summer day...

I've had bad experiences with pulling air into the case through the radiator on the H50. my 4850 will idle between 15 and 20*C higher, and the sensor on the mobo will read ~ 10*C higher than if I were exhausting past the radiator. Furthermore, there is no appreciable temperature difference for...

I am yet another person who will stick with their socket 775 system. I bought this Q6600 from a friend only 6 months ago or so, for $75. Before that, I had an E2180. I've got the Q6600 @ 3.4GHz right now, and perhaps if I can get a different fan configuration, I might be able to get a stable...

The OP and I should start a 100*C club. I've managed it on the stock cooler for this Q6600 I'm using. I got spooked at 102*C and backed off on the volts and clocks until I got a Corsair H50.

Yeah, I just need to get a new case and get the PC out of the desk cubby. I sort of need a new desk for that too. :(

Unfortunately I can't fit two fans on the radiator due to there being too little space between the block/pump assembly on the CPU socket and the back of the case. I tried fitting the fan sandwich into the case, but it's a no go.

I don't think there are any screw holes to mount fans on the front of the chassis. I'll have to see if I can rig something up. My case was a freebie, and it's just a cheapo inWin.

I've only got one exhaust fan in the case, and it's doing double duty as the radiator fan. As for thermal paste, I just used the pre-applied paste on the water block. The block is mounted so that the corsair logo is upright, waves parallel with the bottom edge of the CPU socket. The fan is...

So, I went to bed all those hours ago, but now I'm up again. It turns out the bios I was running, F9c, was a beta bios. Version F9 is available at Gigabytes website, so I flashed to that one. I'm going to fire up IBT with RealTemp, and Throttlestop to see if anything has changed. 9 x 376 @...

For the Gigabyte P35 DS3L, the latest bios is F9c, which I'm already running. I'm not sure where I'd begin looking for a guide as to which bios versions are the best for OCing on this board. Maybe XS forums? Anyway, core 0 and 1 are definitely throttling. They're definitely hot, but not...

So for kicks, I bumped the CPU up to 9 x 378 @ 1.350V in bios. This is what happened according to throttlestop. I'm not sure which of the system fan RPMs correspond to the pump, but maybe one of you can pick that out. I've got all the mobo headers plugged with fans.

About an hour ago, I switched the fan to pulling air through the radiator into the case. The temperature of all the components in the case, CPU included, rose significantly. I should have figured that this would happen, as my PC sits in a desk cubby, and the only direction to draw fresh air is...

I'm using Vista Business x64, and I've been using the high stress test (2048 MB). At 3GHz, my tests do indeed take around 66 seconds, @ 3GHz with 1.275V, I can get up to 72*C. I've got the stock corsair fan blowing into the radiator, and out the back of the case. The fan is set for...

To make a quick recap of the issue for everyone who may be just entering the thread, this is the situation: 1: IBT produces wide variances in test run time, but no calculation errors when voltage is set above 1.3V in bios. 2: One of the two pairs of cores (core 0 and 1) will drop in...

C1E and EIST were disabled, and the problem still persisted.

I've been hesitant to use P95 to verify stability, since it was my understanding that if you have issues with IBT, then the system isn't stable. There's definitely something strange going on, which most likely indicates that the system isn't actually stable.

Yes, I've tried voltages between and including 1.3 and 1.42500 volts. Anything that's 1.3v or above results in that strange issue with IBT.

I just checked out the advanced settings tab, and the min and max processor states. Both were already set to 100%, but as you said, it was worth a look.

Unfortunately I don't have control of load line calibration in the bios on this board. The v-droop that comes with the board is the v-droop that I'm stuck with.

Why would 4 sticks of RAM be holding back the CPU clock? Why would 4 sticks of RAM have anything to do with that anomaly that occurs in IBT when the CPU voltage is 1.3V or higher? I don't mean to come off as confrontational, but I don't understand why that would be.

I've tried taking 2 sticks of ram out, and the CPU tops out at around 75*C in IBT, so I've definitely got some breathing room temperature wise. Idle temps are 44*C, and the temperature distribution is very close across all cores. Core temp reports 43,44,44,44 at the moment.

The issue is that I basically can't use voltages above 1.30000 in bios, regardless of what the CPU clock is. Perhaps that's due to the board I'm using, perhaps it's due to something else. The fact that IBT shows such anomalous results with higher voltages makes me believe that the CPU isn't...

My q6600 is a G0 stepping, though you wouldn't really be able to tell by the measly 600MHz OC it's maxed out at. My friend suspects that if I were to get a P45 board, I could probably get a better OC. He may be right, but I think I'd rather put that money toward a new GPU or monitor. What's...

Greetings, A friend sold me his old Q6600 as an upgrade from my valliantly struggling E2180. I had that little dualie OCed to 3.1GHz, but some games still had framerate dips in high action scenes which didn't bode well for future game performance. Anyway, back to the Q6600, I recently...

I'm not aware of anything beyond the announcement of the coming "Eyefinity 6" versions of their HD 5xxx cards. Too much news on refreshes might reduce sales of current 5xxx stock. I can see what WorldExclusive's point is, though. If you were willing to wait 6 months for Nvidia's DX11 cards...

I like how people brush off the economic ramifications of sharply curtailing (or eliminating) fossil fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions as though it were nothing. Renewables CANNOT replace fossil fuels in such a manner that economic prosperity can be maintained. Renewable energy tech is too...

:D Nice one. Honestly, "demo unit" gives an impression of legitimacy and often times, functionality. Newegg calling these fake/counterfeit goods "demo units" is inaccurate and misleading at best. When someone says "demo unit" I think of the monitor on display at the store, or an engineering...

That should be "...easier to inhabit,"