Sozakir

Hi guys, Me and a friend of mine are working on a school project in which we're measuring speed difference before and after overclocking. The pc we're using is a Dell Optiplex 760 with very basic specs. Something along the lines of a 2-3 ghz dual core, 2 Gb's of ram and the rest of the basic stuff. Now we're wondering, what would be a good benchmark to check results of overclocking this cpu? The benchmark should give clear results and shouldn't be too heavy (Let's be honest, this isn't truly a gaming rig). I did some research myself and found PassMark / PCMark 8. Are these good options, and what other options are there? Suggestions are very welcome. Thanks in advance ~Sozakir

OS is windows 10 64 bit, Monitor is plugged into my GPU, will try the bios

Hi guys, I just finished building my first pc. All went well (I think), but I've got just one problem. It seems like my videocard isn't being detected by my system, although the msi logo light is working. GPU: MSI R9 380 4GB CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 For those who are wondering: Motherboard: ASRock B85M Pro4 RAM: Crucial Ballistix BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU (2x 4GB) PSU: Seasonic S12II-Bronze 520W HDD: WesternDigital Blue WD10EZEX, 1TB I tried to install the latest drivers through the AMD Catalyst control center, but it gave an error. The weird thing is, when I run dxdiag it says my gpu name is Intel HD Graphics 4600 but in the memory box it does say 4035MB. I don't think my i5-4590 has on board graphics with 4gb Vram. Does anyone know how I can get my driver (and my gpu working ^^) edit: Monitor is plugged into GPU, Default VGA is PCI-e and I can't find settings to turn off iGPU (See pictures) http://prntscr.com/8fm35a and http://prntscr.com/8fm43m Thanks in advance ~Sozakir

Ah I found the CPU power, thanks guys

So if I plug the 8-pin into the Atx12v1 (this 8-pin is not connected to my psu) what goes into the other end of the 8-pin cable? The other end has 6 pins.

Hi guys, Im actually writing this during my first build but I'm kinda stuck. On Linus' build log he says to plug in all possible pins from you psu to your mobo before you install the gpu etc. Now I have a few questions. 1) My motherboard is a Asrock b85m pro4, and the manual sucks as far as I know. There is no map that shows what pins are what, there is some writing on the motherboard itself though. I can't find a useful manual online either, can you guys? 2) My psu is a Seasonic S12II-Bronze 520W and it comes with a loose 6 to 8 pin connector. The 8 pin end fits into the ATX12v1 port but what does that do? 0.0 3) The psu manual doesn't actually say anything about the cables either, what are the standard cables the come out of a psu and what do they do? (For instance there's a PCI-e cable, which has 2 connectors made of a 6 pin and a 2 pin stuck together. What is the pci-e cable and why does it have 2 pairs of connectors?) Any responses are more than welcome I'm kinda getting stressed lol. ~Sozakir

Hi guys, This is my first own build I'm doing and I'm wondering what you guys think of it: CPU: Intel core i5-4590 / Intel core i5-4690 (The 4690 is a bit out of my budget, so I'm trying to find a good deal for it. Is paying extra for that processor a good call?) Motherboard: ASRock B85M Pro4 GPU: MSI R9 380 4GB HDD: WesternDigital Blue WD10EZEX, 1TB RAM: Crucial Ballistix BLS2CP4G3D1609DS1S00CEU PSU: Seasonic S12II-Bronze 520W (Will this be enough? I don't have any experience with buying powersupplies) Case: Fractal Design Core 1100 SSD might come later Any tips and comments are welcome. ~Sozakir

Hi forum members, Me and a friend of mine, are working on a paper for school about overclocking. This paper is the occlusion of Dutch "High school" and it's supposed to be quite comprehensive. The thing is, we're both "overclocking noobs" and we do want to do some overclocking ourselves. We were thinking of buying a cheap pc (2nd hand) and try overclocking on that, but we're wondering how good the results will be on a system that doesn't have proper overclocking support (no extra cooling, no unlocked processors). So, some questions: 1) Is it even possible to overclock a non-K series processor from Intel/AMD? 2) What brand would be most suitable to get some decent results for a low price, Intel or AMD? 3) We found a dutch website selling some cheap 2nd hand pc's; will any of the following CPU's give us any overclocking headroom? 3.1) AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ 3.2) AMD Phenom II X2 B22 (http://www.usedpc4sale.nl/nl/category/amd/) (http://www.usedpc4sale.nl/nl/category/intel-core2duo-/) (http://www.usedpc4sale.nl/nl/category/intel-pentium-dual-core-/) (We could potentially use an Intel Celeron G1820 which we saw Linus use, but we'd have to build a system around that which would be a bit pricey) 4) What are good benchmarks to run on such a low-end system? 5) What is the difference between overclockable and non-overclockable CPU's? Any general tips would also be very helpfull, we hope to get lots of feedback here and excuse our "noobness" ~Jonas & Jesse, The Netherlands

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