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umm
this actually happens quite a lot with older systems where the thermal compound has dried up to the point it has become like really sticky. It's not uncommon to see this with 939/AM2 motherboards. 

umm
this actually happens quite a lot with older systems where the thermal compound has dried up to the point it has become like really sticky. It's not uncommon to see this with 939/AM2 motherboards. 

umm
this actually happens quite a lot with older systems where the thermal compound has dried up to the point it has become like really sticky. It's not uncommon to see this with 939/AM2 motherboards. 

umm
this actually happens quite a lot with older systems where the thermal compound has dried up to the point it has become like really sticky. It's not uncommon to see this with 939/AM2 motherboards. 

umm
this actually happens quite a lot with older systems where the thermal compound has dried up to the point it has become like really sticky. It's not uncommon to see this with 939/AM2 motherboards. 

I decided to try delidding my old E6400 for shits and giggles using the vice method. It turns out the solder intel uses is actually REALLY soft. You can deform it with your fingernails. Kind of like gallium. I'm amazed that the CPU still works after I took a dremel to it to polish the DIE...

Not a Single one! Think about a Card from 2007 that would be usable today?!

Well thats one less bad thing left in the world

great video! Thumbs up!

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Why buy when your body is conveniently full of blood!?

because of easy cost saveings

der8auer is love, der8auer is life 
 

I would go with a basic Core i3 or Pentium so you don't have to buy an extra graphics card... Or, if you're an AMD fanboy, go for their APUs, they're quite nice

Core 2 Duo E6320
2GB DDR2
Some Random HP Board 
 
Athlon 64X2 5000+ BE 
2GB DDR2
Asus M2N-SE
 
Not that great, but they're folding 24/7

As long as you're funding it then I'm all for it.

Okay, there are 2 SEPARATE problems on this story.
 
First, the part where the driver crashes. OC is unstable. Plain and simple. For example, my particular Gtx 970 can OC to 1506mhz, 1510 causes a crash every once in a blue moon (didn't try middle values, though, too lazy). Reduce your OC until you no longer get crashes. That's just the way it is.
 
The second problem, is the super low clocks. IT'S A BUG WITH THE DRIVER! Pay attention to this, don't let any idiot say it's MSI Afterburner, or that your card is with a problem, NO, the problem is with the DRIVER. I personally thought this was fixed already, as it's been ages since I've seen it happen with me, but I guess not....
 
Anyway, I'll explain what's happening, skip this paragraph if you just want a fix without understanding what's going on. There's this thing called P States. These are various clock presets in the Bios, and the driver uses that to determine actual clocks and voltages, depending on demmand. On the Gtx 970, in particular, there are 4: P10 (lowest, 135mhz core, can't remember the rest), P5 (405 or 540 mhz, depending on the brand), P2 (your card's stock, 3005mhz on Mem, voltage lower than normal) and P0. MSI Afterburner, and pretty much every OC software outside of Nvidia inspector, can only tweak with P0, they can't fiddle with the other Ps. What happens is that SOMETIMES, when you put up an app that does requires some GPU use, but not quite as much as the full boost (say, a light game), the driver tells the card to go into P5....... and you get stuck there. No matter what you do, the driver locks itself and won't allow you to ever go higher.
 
So what can you do about it? "Reinstall the drivers!", said a certain noob above. True, that will fix it, but there are better ways to do it. All you really need is to "reboot" the driver for it get unstuck. You can do that via hard system reboot (duh), or going into Device Manager, disabling and enabling it manually.... OR, here's a SUPER QUICK method: get GPU-Z. There's a button called "extrac Bios". Press it. It'll ask if it can disable the driver for a quick while, say yes.
 
Done. Fixed. It'll quickly shutdown the driver, read the Bios, and put the driver back on. You don't even need to save the Bios file, you can just cancel it, what you wanted to do (reset driver) was already accomplished. It's a hassle, but once you know what to do, it doesn't become that bad....

welp, im completely out of ideas, best of luck to you

I would go with a basic Core i3 or Pentium so you don't have to buy an extra graphics card... Or, if you're an AMD fanboy, go for their APUs, they're quite nice

Your OS.

Origin has an offline mode. I think you need to login once, but it still reduces the problem.
 
But yes, DRM is stupid and anti consumer. When you get a better experience by pirating the game you know something is wrong.

It's probably an external graphics card

It's probably an external graphics card

It's basically just a PCB with some memory on it. SSD's are really light. There are no moving parts or any reinforcements on the case to stop shrapnel if the disk that's moving at 5400+ RPM decides to shatter...

I don't miss the lighting that made everybody look like recovering meth addicts, though.