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Can anyone suggest what kind of paint I should use to paint some case trim, and possibly the tubes for the corsair h100. I have a maximus iv extreme so i'm going with a complete black/red theme, red custom braided cables, some ENERMAX MAGMA fans for the h100 in push/pull and one for rear case...

lol.. @ 44.0dBA you could probably hear it a mile away.

Think about what you just said there on this forum :P Don't get me wrong though, I fully agree. I was originally running 4.8ghz @ 1.44v and dropped to 4.5 @ 1.325v - This dropped my load temps from 80c to upper 58/59c. Huge improvement at a 300mhz difference. What's that, a few % difference...

Probably just upset he couldn't get his iPhone 4s on launch day :P

Ahhh, understood. Thanks so much :)

Thanks so much spine!

How do I calculate what I should use as offset? Was my original post right? Do I take the voltage given by cpu-z under load and subtract it from what it states the vid is in real temp?

Not sure how you can say this since every chip is different and each chip requires different amounts of voltage to stay stable. I've seen cases where someone has a stable overclock of 5ghz @ 1.368v, and another person with 5ghz overclock @ 1.488v. I think the diminishing returns would depend...

Well, There you have it. You answered your own question. Intel spec sheet states 1.52v Most people's opinions play into things beyond that. No one is absolutely sure of what the safe vcore is for sandybridge procss. What I do know is a lot of people prefer to stay in the 1.3x region. If you're...

Not only stable, but able to drop core voltage down and stay stable. I'm down to 1.325 from 1.375 @ 4.5ghz.

The Prolimatech Armageddon with two 14cm, 1,000rpm Prolimatech Vortex fans for push/pull. Used it on my 2600k @ 4.8 for a while before I just switched to the Corsair H100. idle was mid to upper 30c full load (IBT, P95) was 80c On the other hand.. the H100 keeps this thing cool at 28c idle and...

Thanks! I will tell you this, for anyone else who may be interested: I decided to play with CPU PLL Voltage lastnight. It was set at auto pumping out 1.8-ish volts. I manually set the PLL voltage to 1.525 to see what would happen. Not only was I still stable, but it allowed me to move the...

Also, I learned a valuable lesson too. Check your CPU PLL Voltage. It's usually set to auto humming along at 1.800v. Try setting this to 1.7v manually. The lower voltage seems to increase stability at lower vcore settings.

Okay... Hopefully someone can help me understand and/or fix this issue, let me get started with my system: Corsair Obsidian 650D Case Corsair Professional Series Gold AX850 850W PSU Corsair H100 Cooler Asus Maximus IV Extreme Intel Core i7-2600K 3.4GHz OC'd @ 4.5 GHz (originally at 4.8)...

This was a known issue on earlier versions of the firmware, which I experienced myself. After updating to the latest firmware the problem seems to have disappeared.

Thanks. I can, but it would involve me going out and buying one :P I sorta figured it *might* be the OC doing it, but was not sure. Since it's not your typical BSOD or freezing with buzzing I was hoping it wasn't related. It's just very frustrating that you can run a stress test on the...

Occasionally (not all the time, every few days, once a few weeks) for no rhyme or reason my computer will crash to a black screen, attempt to reboot and i'll get stuck with a message about inserting a disk to boot, essentially the mobo no longer recognizes my SSD from which I boot from. I can...

Prolimatech Armageddon Prolimatech Vortex 14cm, 1,000rpm fan (two in push/pull) I run a 2600k OC'd @ 4.8 GHz Idle is 37/38c Full load is upper 60's to low 70's c - depends on what i'm doing. If it involves both my 6970's running it's on the higher end, if not the lower. The fans are virtually...

It is, but it wouldn't stick once I booted into windows. The bios would show 1600, but as soon as i'd open up cpu-z, or AIDA64 CPUID it would show it running at the lower clock speeds. I'd also like to point out that, setting the XMP immediately set the ram to the proper speeds, but it also...

Thanks!

Hi - Someone help me out please. I've got 8GB of Corsair Vengeance in a Asus P8P67 Deluxe mobo. I've got a 2600k overclocked to 4.8 Ghz @ a vcore of 1.465 My issue is that even setting the DRAM to 1600 in the bios (and bumping the voltage from 1.50000 to 1.55000), cpu-z, or aida64 CPUID...

Yet you've managed to set up two raptors in a raid 0. Boggles the mind. I come here to read the articles, and see people's opinions about the particular subject at hand, not someone who wants to hit the reply button several times in a row defending themselves over something they may, or may...

You are quite correct, however it is one of the few places where you can order from with peace of mind. Personally when I order something from there I know that it will be shipped out in a timely manor, packaged well, and if it's broke they will replace it hassle free. You can't say that for too...

alright, thanks ;)

sounds good. I'll do that in a couple days when i have off work, else i'd have to let it run for 12 hours or so without supervision.

Nope - Since i've raised the voltage i've ran prime95 for a little over 30 minutes with no errors, and i've been playing crysis warhead for about an hour or so with absolutely no issues. I guess raising the voltage was all that was needed. If i continue to have any issues i'll update this...

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Hey Folks - I'm a first time over clocker. I've never done it before, but i just built a new system with overclocking in mind. Its a core i7 920 on an ASUS p6t Deluxe, 6GB of ocz ram system. I'm not sure if you need anything specific as far as system specs go, because i just want to know if...

Thank you guys :)

Hey folks - Won't waste your time with a huge long thread. The short and simple of it is i'm building a new core i7 system. I've already picked out all the parts, but the video card area is where i have a problem. I play games at 1680x1050: love FPS like crysis, and C-Warhead, Farcry2 etc...

I just had this issue. The problem for me was that i installed vista with two hard drives hooked up. Vista likes to install the boot file on the 'other' drive your not directly installing to. So when you go to boot up, it asks for the disk. For me, i downloaded easyBSD and vistabootPRO but...

Would most likely be two 260's as i couldnt' afford the 280's. i could squeeze in a quad core 45nm proc at that point. I just raised the FSB from 1333 to 1550 and got my proc running from 3ghz to 3.49 ghz. I don't know much about raising voltages n' stuff. I did unlink tho, so i could keep my...

Thanks for the replies - I don't have anything overclocked. TBH The last couple of times i tried to over clock something has broke on my machine. I'm not even doing anything absurd either. I've tried very small steps. Once my sata ports stopped working and when i got my new board i tried...

Hey folks - My first post. I've been reading a lot around here lately and have really learned a few things. I'm looking to upgrade my system with the ability to keep popping new parts in well into the future. I've spent several days reading about video cards, memory, power supplies etc...