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Hello, I'm interested in building a fileserver on the cheap. As it stands currently the cheapest parts one can find on the net belong to socket 1366 Xeons. So I was looking to an HP Proliant DL360 G6 Board (this one...

My card most often than not stays below the 200w mark, but it has some spikes to ~210 watts, it does not happen too often, but if the wiring is of low quality as you say would it lead to lower performance at those moment, or -worse- to a lockup as the card won't be fed with enough current for...

I already have this: http://cdn.overclock.net/1/17/900x900px-LL-17c73841_gtx_970_pcb_34642.jpeg Sadly it can only take 2x6 pins, when I bought it that gigabyte was not anounced, then again I think my cards cooling is a little better. I have unlocked the card's power limit and it routinely...

But if I connect my Asus Strix which only needs one single 8-pin adapter on my PSU it has no problem. Clearly the power supply is far from being the issue. I even had my Strix unlocked and overlocked way over, the PSU clearly is made to last such amperage. My problem is clearly with the molex...

Hi, I'm building an ITX machine which is quite small. In it I can only fit a GTX 970 card (that's the best I can get). Problem is that the PSU only has one PCI-E 8-pin cable. Now I could use that, and one two-molex -> 1x6-pin adapter to feed my GTX 970, but that would give me only 210w at best...

1998 - 3dfx Banshee, 16MB (great 2d, veeery bad 3d acceleration in complex scenes) 2000 - Geforce 2 - MX 200, 64MB (my first truly 3D card, still bad though) 2002 - Geforce 4 - MX440, 128MB DDR (noow we're getting somewhere, still relatively slow) 2003 - Geforce FX 5700, 256MB (first performance...

Well that would be interesting. Having Windows boot from a live linux distro, but all "in one move" (i.e. I don't want the boot sequence to get significantly longer). Any links which would let me experiment with grub-windows interaction (similar to the one you described)?

Hello, A couple of years ago I bought a couple of Z68 ITX motherboards which (as it turned out) they're some of the lowest quality motherboards I've ever owned. With hardly any experimentation from my part one failed (now I'm on its replacement) and the other one cannot cold boot (it is...

Heh, basically that's my greatest fear, if your 780s lose a couple of frames, imagine how many more my TIs will. Oh well, let's hope not, 'cause I've already put the order. BTW do you think you lose framerate due to CPU's bottlenecks or due to the PCI-E being v2.0 instead of 3.0 . I'm asking...

Hey, great to see a fellow X58 owner. Do your 780s run well or do you feel them choke a little bit (I guess it would help if you are/were playing on relatively high resolutions). I mean if you compare your framerate to that of popular reviews is it close by or do you get something significantly...

Heh given that I want to achieve at least 80fps @ 1440p in most/all games I would need a second 780. Playing a game at 1440p at 120fps is almost the same as playing a game at 4k at 60 fps so I probably need the same firepower as you... If you say your stock 4930k was/is enough then I suppose...

My 5 year old PSU actually has dealt with worse than that for a time. (GTX 285 tri sli for the heck of it :p, but only for a short while). It's a Corsair TX 950 with one really fat +12v rail (78A, but in practice close to 80+ :p ). As I said my machine was no slouch for its time, it had almost...

Hello, Sometime back I received as a gift one of those Korean overclockable panels which can achieve 120Hz at 1440p ( in particular here's my model ). Anyway, to make a long story short I eventually decided to try my luck and sure enough I was able to push the monitor *reliably* at 119 Hz...

OK, after multiple attempts what did solve the issue was doing as follows. First I installed a PCI-E 1.0 card and it worked. Then a PCI-E 2.0 card and it posted as well And FINALLY I've put my GTX 750 and now it works splendidly. I know it sounds kind of silly, but trying anything else didn't...

I honestly tried everything I could think, that's why I came here hoping some other member also had a relevant issue and hopefully he'd tell us how he troubleshooted it... The list of things that I did are as follows: Checked the port is OK by putting a PCI-E 1.0 card on it. It worked fine...

Hello, I own an old 915p express based motherboard running a single core P4 cpu on top. So I bought a GTX 750 graphics card hoping to turn that old machine into something useful. My plan was to use it as a rendering machine for some quick jobs that I may need it. Using the CUDA enabled...

PCI-E 1.1a offer the same bandwidth as with 1.0 and I'm 99% sure that that's the one I own, the only reason I referred to it as 1.0 is because I was referring to its bandwidth... Also (concerning the other post). Why on earth would a quad core be less of a bottleneck? I recall correctly it's...

Yeah, that's where I ended up too, thanks. Apparently there are two versions of GTX 650 ti, one is the vanilla and the other is the "boost" version. They're 20 bucks apart but in performance they're much more so, I was wondering if the lowly processor could even use the additional...

Hello, I ... unearthed an old mobo equipped with an X6800 (conroe) CPU (dual core @ 2.93GFX), 4 gigs of DDR2 Ram and a piss-poor 8600GT GFX Card. I'm looking to give it to my nephew but before doing so I'm willing to upgrade its gaming power... Now I know the above setup is severly underpowered...

I am using Linx for quite some years now since it stresses the cpu much more (temp wise) than Prime and every time it would tell me that the CPU is stable (50 passes on very high), indeed it was. I have never had any problem with Linx Stable cpus, *however* I never checked them with Prime...

Hello, I'm running an i5 2500k and I found it to be Linx stable at 4.81Ghz and 1.405v . It made 50 passes on IBT's Very High Setting, also it's rock solid to anything I've tried it thus far. However when I'm running Prime95's blend test it fails in the first half and hour. The temperature rarely...

Under "normal" circumstances (i.e. I had 6 pci-e cables). I would have them delivering around 5Amps each... I think, now I would need 2 of those to deliver around 10 amps. Basically what I'm asking is if/whether a single 6pin cable can deliver 10Amps w/t melting / being damaged... Also I'm...

Hello, so I have a rig I wanna use for general processing (folding and such). I decided to install 3 gfxs and an old i5 lying around. I was thinking to run it all on my Thermaltake 775w PSU which apparently has a single 64A 12v+ rail. My problem mainly lies on the fact that it only had 4 PCI-E...

Yes, but if you read correctly none of them are dead. They running circles around anything I throw at them when they work separately, it's crossfire what makes them act up... And -btw- the artifacting is/was not during Furmark (I didn't even check it while on CF) but during an ordinary run of...

OK, so I'll try to keep it simple. Got two 5850s which work fine on their own (stock or even overclocked). They're both "Furmark approved" due to my tests. I put them together and all hell breaks lose. The first is a powercolor, the second one is a Sapphire but they work at the same...

Sorry if I have not made it clear but I haven't bought the card yet, I'm *planning to* in the condition that it does/can undervolt (because if it doesn't it will be dead weight for my system). The answers seem hopeful 'till now. If someone who owns the card could fill us in (I think) it would be...

Hello I own a tiny HTPC case running an i3 sandy bridge which is being fed from a measly 90w external AC adapter. I do not complain, the system is quite good for what it does but I thought of putting some basic gaming to the mix. I found the HD7750 to be the one with the best...

Hello my PSU is of the 2008 series, I think it's called "Purepower" and it is modular (yeah I know it lowers the efficiency). As for my theoretical numbers I pulled them directly from reviews. HD 5850s are consistently (on all reviews) at the 20w mark while the core i3 (plus the mobo, plus the...

Yeah but those cards (supposededly) use as little power at idle as even the newest cards: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/HD_5850/28.html. The 5xxx series (Evergreen) was the one that started the trend of low idle consumption, so I'm most certain that it's not the GPUs. Maybe it's...

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the right section but I'd post anyway. So I'm building a PC from 2 year old parts and I have two priorities. a) To be able to play even the latest games, b) To have relatively low Idle Wattage. I'm using an i3-530 as the CPU, Two 5850s CFX as my GPU(s) and a...

Yeah but all the examples referenced here was for voltages above 1.45v, I'm obviously running below that. What's so special with 1.35v, I mean not even Intel uses that figure? Who came up with it? That's why I'm so much perplexed, the recommendations are/is not accompanied by evidence. Anyhow...

Because those figures are a bit more fluid than most people think and cooling MATTERS. I have an i7-920 for 3 years now at 1.4v. Intel's max recommended was/is 1.375, if I was to ask for your opinion you guys would scream at my face "lower the vcore immediately", no offence; but given how...

At 1.35v my chip only does 3.8GHz, it's not worth it... I'm not asking whether I'd go at 1.35v there's no question in the fact that I wouldn't; so please do answer on what I'm asking (if you can), stay on topic if possible. Would staying at 1.44 volt in low stress with liquid cooling on top...

...'k, after 2 days of testing I'm thinking to leave it at 1.44v for 24/7. My temps remain on low 50s at most loads while on full load it hardly ever surpass 65c. Is this a voltage (in conjuction with my cooling/usage both of which I think are important) going to degrade my CPU in the...

I'm at 1.35v VTT, I think that's enough for my BCLK (196-200Mhz), but also within the margin that Intel allows... Right now I'm @ 1.44v, 4.35GHz stable, given how great my ventilation/cooling is should I keep it at that or should I go lower? Keep in mind that apart from occasional video...

Because I have the cooling for it? Then again voltage degradation is not something I would like either :( edit: OK, 4.35GHz @ 1.43v and it is stable for the last hour or so. It it keeps going (remain stable for the rest of the time) should I keep it, or this extra 0.03 is going to harm my...

So what would you recommend? Is 1.45v too much given that Intel recommends 1.4v at max, but due to my better temps I may be able to squeeze and extra 0.05? Or should I go even lower than that? (in that case I may have to lower my overclock significantly as well, sadly...)

Yeah, but doesn't it matter that I'm on water (instead of being on air)? I mean doesn't that make *some* difference on the tolerance of the chip? As I said I have never seen going to anything more than 60c and only Prime95 could stress it enough to go to >70C . From what little I know about...

Hello, I found an old i3-530 CPU and I though to make a PC out of it. The chip is a bit weak so I though it right to overclock it as far as it can handle so that to "modernize" it (use it with latest programs/games). The 4.4Ghz mark sounded good, but the problem I encountered was that I...

I'm not aware of any low profile cooler which can cool a quad core silently. I do know of some Scythe coolers but those are barely good enough for dual cores, that's why I wondered "how can a protruding Heatsink be of any help at all". Also a water cooling setup, even a tiny one (to my...