KnightSirius

Well that makes sense, the more hardware you run overclocked the less stable the computer will be in general. so you might not be able to reach the same heights with everything OCed vs individual parts running OCs alone.

Man that sucks, probably bad contact between IHS and Die, I think it was 4th gen that had that problem where it wasn't soldered or what not. Again why I'm so lucky with my OC c: 4.2 is still a respectable overclock though and the difference between 4.5 and 4.2 is negligible. Hell I've been running my chip recently at stock due to some complications I've yet to figure out and I can't tell the difference

I have a pretty damn good one so I'm lucky, It's running at 4.5Ghz, 1.25v core, VRIN Voltage 1.75v, Ring Voltage 1.15v and of course LLC enabled (2nd highest setting)

As Lotus said, as long as you have an unlocked CPU it doesn't matter at all. For example I have dominator platinums however only a 1600Mhz kit, and I have a 4.5Ghz OC on my 4770k even if that feels too high end i could throw in the cheapest DDR3 RAM you could get your hands on and it wouldn't affect my OC in the slightest. I'd still be running a 4.5Ghz overclock on my 4770k. You don't have to have expensive high performance memory to get a good overclock. Also it doesn't matter how much RAM you have.

I would aim for around 100-150$ for a GPU for each. (750Ti comes to mind) Then try selling them at 300-400 I doubt you'll get more than that but you never know. Honestly for a complete system with midrange (older sure) but still midrange components I think they're pretty decent for the price. Don't bother swapping CPUs or RAM or other things just leave it as it is, the more money you put into it the less you'll make off it and it'll get to the point where you're barely breaking even very quickly... Knowing you paid 20$ for both of them together, and you spend 150 at most on each GPU and you sold them at 350 each. You'd make 380$ profit. That's spending 150, you can get 750Ti's for like 110-120$ though so you can end up with almost 500$ profit overall if you pick well. Edit: Also I wouldn't recommend changing cases for them especially because they according to your description seem to be HPTX motherboards a case that can hold that would be pretty pricey. I'd leave it to the buyer to change that if they want to.

Shouldn't have to worry about screwing in too much on the Hyper 212 though, thankfully it includes a nice spring system for mounting. So that eliminates one variable at the least.

Check your temps using RealTemp and google around to find what would be considered "standard" or "good" temps for that particular CPU. If it's hotter than standard by a considerable amount (8+ degrees I'd say) then you most likely seated it improperly. Apart than hotter temps not much, unless its a skylake and you applied too much pressure to the chip it could crack or what not but thats only applies to certain coolers that are above the standard spec in that regard.

NOTE: This ENTIRE thread is completely false information I made the mistake of taking my readings in Fahrenheit (Which I thought was in Celsius because I NEVER change it from Celsius however i must have by mistake.) So All this discussion and having my heat sinks at allegedly 130+ degrees Celsius is completely false & Impossible. However adding fans to the motherboard did still help greatly reduce temperatures which were ranging from 50-70c now down to 30-35c. Hey all, Trying to get the most out of one of my old systems. Recently one old board died on me (an Asus P5Q Turbo Non-Pro) so I swapped my old PC around so my Q9550 is now sitting in an Asus P5K-E Wifi Edition Mobo. I had an overclock running on my Q9550 on the other board it was at 3.6Ghz - 1.225v core - 1.25v Northbridge - Memory running at 1066Mhz 2.2v Good temps never went above 60 degrees core. However. I never checked it before really cause I KNOW that running the Northbridge at a voltage between 1.2-1.5 is safe generally. 1.5 is High and can get hot but often people are totally fine there for the more extreme clocks as long as you have decent cooling and good heatsinks on the motherboard etc... etc... Point is I was curious and touched my heatsink while my PC was running doing some stress testing. and Holy Hell its hot, I figured it'd be hot as my Sniper 5's heatsinks w/ 4770k @ 4.5Ghz are toasty (100-110c) but this was like scalding so I grab my infrared laser thermometer and it was reading me between 140-150 degrees Celsius ... Now this isn't the northbridge itself but the heatsink on the motherboard. I don't think this Mobo has thermal sensors on the NB which is a shame. So maybe this is okay? Maybe I'm just not used to the old chipsets? Just wanted to ease my mind with some opinions from people who overclocked in the p35 days, and remember this stuff.... Edit: Hit the 160c mark during stress testing ! for fun I plugged in a small desk fan and ran it over it and watched my thermometer drop like nuts. like 1c/second drop! Got it down to 90c now ... Maybe it just needs some fans on it and passive cooling isn't enough ? ... It's in an H440+ so it's pretty toasty in there but still thats pretty friggin hot so I'm unsure...

Nope not a thing worked and i actually was doing much of my last tests with all sides off. Still was bad temps... I said f*ck it and just spent the past couple hours swapping cases again [i'm ditching the H440+, too small and not even any quieter than my 750D in any meaningful way... I'll use it for my HTPC but I really have too much in my main desktop to cram in that thing. Gonna eventually go with my original plan of getting a Caselabs Magnum SMA8. However after all that crap I'm magically 8c lower at idle... and my load temps are down by 3-5c on stock at load. Gonna try my overclock again (literally just finished building it again) These temp changes make no sense to me, how does changing to a case with less airflow make temp spikes more harsh? not over-time load settings where it equalizes at a high temp but instantly spikes to a higher temp than normal ?

Sigh I'll attempt another reseat later... I can't see how I'm screwing it up though -- It's a pretty simple system you put the backplate on screw in their included standoffs, apply thermal compound (rice sized), screw pump to the standoffs, cross pattern, and keep screwing until you can't cause its a spring system...

Wondering if its my damn pump now cause I've been fiddling with it and I for fun let it run at full speed just Sata power connected to it PWM unplugged. It's noisy as hell and sounds horrible. It's always sounded this way but now I'm wondering if it was screwed to begin with... but running it at full has helped decrease my temps around 15c so at stock i hit at most 62c on my hottest core, and average at around 59c I have a audio clip i just recorded of the noise maybe somebody with knowledge of these pumps used in the swiftech h220/h320 and their replacements could help ...? It's a dropbox link only 5MB if you're on mobile... https://www.dropbox.com/s/no3lf5nmsqgr8yc/Pump%20Noise.wav?dl=0 Again this is the pump running at FULL speed.

Alright, great to know ! Just sticking with the tried and true AIDA & RealBench I guess

Alright I'm back, just set my OC back to normal. Ran AIDA64 for about a minute. Hit 80s in seconds, and climbed the temps pretty quick after that. Max Temps reached. core 1: 92 core 2: 86 core 3: 89 core 4: 79 Hate the discrepancy in temps between core 4 & 2. core 4 is 12c difference from 1 & 3 usually. and core 2 is usually 6-8c difference. while 1 & 3 are always very hot. so strange, i notice too if i open a program like chrome or firefox my temps go from 35-38 idle to 60 ! never used to happen

Alright I'll do that tomorrow -- Off to bed right now [This has kept me up until 3AM UGH] I'll report back once I've tested it again on OC settings... Apologies If i sounded rude in any posts just very frusturated. I knew going into this swap SOMETHING would go wrong...

Yes they are fine in that of itself. but thats at stock. the fact that I had those temperatures BEFORE with an extra 1Ghz means there is an issue somewhere. I'm 99% sure it isn't the case because again temp spikes and hitting 90-100c in p95 within 30 seconds doesn't have anything to do with the case... I just want my old OC back or at like be able to hit 4.2 or so. but as of right now that doesn't seem possible. Is it possible i just degraded my CPU over time with that OC? or degraded my Motherboard?

Right now on stock its what it should have been overclocked. 38-42c idle. Load up to 75c on P95 only 5c cooler in P95 at stock that with an extra 1GHz was hours ago. Also hundred percent sure its a good mount, unless my paste is bad somehow, it is pretty old. from around when i built the PC I have some other stuff like TIM Mate and MX4 I can try later...

definitely not a bad mount I've reseated it about 5 times now. As well I use P95 so i can verify worst case scenario. realistic or not, plus its what i used for my temp reading prior to all this so I have to use it now to make a fair comparison. I set my pump so its inaudible but I've had it that way for the past 2 years or so as well. -- However I did plug the pump into power and let it run at a speed that was audible and quite annoying (their replacement pump is very noisy)

Hey guys, I just today took my current system and swapped it into another case... I previously had my system in a Corsair 750D, pretty good case served me well for about 2 years now. Wanted to swap it cause i've cut it up, beat it up, painted it etc... So I looked for cases forever and set my sights on the NZXT H440, and saw there was a new one coming which I waited for and now own. Anyways I rebuilt my system in this case. (Note my system is in my signature check it there.) So problem is prior to swapping it I had a stable overclock of 4.5Ghz on my 4770k which i was quite happy with. My settings specifically for it were the following. Base clock: 100 Multiplier: 45 Core V: 1.275 VRIN V: 1.75 Ring V: 1.15 CPU VRIN LLC: Extreme CPU VRIN Current Protection: Extreme Temps for this overclock were pretty amazing, idle between 35-42 or so, moderate use like gaming and such was 55-65 or so, and extreme use like stress tests maxed out at 80. Temps were safe, and i rarely went about 70. I ran that overclock for at least a year maybe 4 months more. Never had a problem after I spent a couple hours one day getting it perfectly stable at the lowest voltages I could and all that. Been running up until i turned my system off to take it apart and rebuild it. Now in the new case I turned it on and I set my fans to standard cause I knew this case needs more airflow than normal. On my way into windows my fans ramp up and hit around 65-70 degrees! I figured oh crap I didn't seat the cooler properly. so after doing some stuff I shut down open it up and reseat it. Same thing, no difference. Now before you say "Oh well H440 is known for being a hot case because it has meh airflow ... " The IMMEDIATE temperatures should not spike like that, Sure it'll be a bit toastier if I'm gaming for 3 hours and the case has time to heat up. But booting from cold and having spike like that when it wouldn't before is worrying. Now I've given up trying to use my OC cause my fans even on silent get noisy so I just gave up on it. Set it back to optimized defaults all stock. Ran Prime95 for about 5 mins and it hits about 75C... So I'm very confused as to what changed in the timespan of 3-4 hours ... So what the hell is going on guys? any ideas? I've had my H320 fail before and had the pump unit replaced, is it dead/dying again? is the my CPU dying from using that OC for so long? is it actually my case? Some extra details I'm using MS5 as my thermal compound, I'm running the PC with all fans intake except rear exhaust. Radiator is set up to pull air into the case. not sure if I'm missing anything helpful if so ask. Edit: Extra Extra detail: there is a 5-7c difference between my 4th core and my 1st/2nd/3rd cores but thats always been there.

If you've actually read any of this you'd see that it isn't that easy. It won't update drivers, it won't auto detect the right ones (even though windows has them by default) and it won't accept the drivers from Google.

Multiple times I've done so didn't help either... that's been clear from the start, but even installing the "nexus drivers" didn't help anything. it doesn't even want to use them.

I'll definitely try all the USB ports on my PC. Check post above though we posted at the same time. it works cable and phone its my PC. Also yeah it doesn't show up immediately cause marshmallow automatically sets it to charge only by default.

Welp Just booted up another desktop this one is quite new as it has dedicated USB 3.1 ports ... or USB C "ready" or what not... Plugged it in and switched to MTP mode instantly detected and i could open files no problem! So Cable and phone are DEFINITELY fine. must be something to do with drivers or something ....

This really irks me, booting up 2 other computers to try it on now... I'll get back on those ...

Yes, Yes I have tried that of course. If you read my post I even used the dev. version of it. neither changed anything.

I'm not able to at the moment only have the cable that came with it ... I'll definitely buy another cable to see if its that if i can't do anything else. If it's the damn cable I'll be pissed. Especially cause it actually looks well made! dammit google.