Dubry2016

Loooooooool Almost finished the whole sensor test, it asked me to locate prime95.exe, I did, and i let it complete till the end, and almost at the very end prime95 itself has crashed.... Damn it, what the heck? Did exactly as you asked run the Small FTT Stress Test. It never even reached even 80C (I guess I have to thank CoolerMaster for amazing 212x beast) Judging by the low difference between the CPU Core and CPU VID Voltage Readings in AIDA64, is it actually possible, that, for some reason, the real CPU voltage isn't being read correctly... From what I have seen before it is usually 0.200 - 0.250V difference when I kept it at stock speeds... And not only does AIDA64 read it, but also the CPU-Z does... There must be some bug while the CPU is under load... sensors go haywire...? Also that 12V+ voltage reading is insane... The whole PC would be fried at those 18V+... and like immediately Below is the screenshot:

Ok, duly noted. Will do the prime95 test. Here is what the mib section looks like... and the voltages after applying multi to 40x saving and reentering BIOS.

Hey there community... I just wanted to hear your oppinion I'm quite new to OC-ing with this recently-made rig, so i was wondering if I did this correctly... (just cranked up the multi to x40) and set the RAM to 1866MHz... The CPU cooler I'm using is: CM Hyper 212X. PSU: ThermalTake SmartSE 630W Is that CPU Voltage O.K. at this frequency or I can lower it. I've read somewhere that this ECS mobo isn't that good for overclock. I've ran the AIDA64 FPU Benchs and they're quite close to i7-5820k (6436) and i got 6401. Woow, that really surprised me. Looking forward for the community response

Yeah, exactly that - some games (maybe those that support dx12, but we have to wait and see the real impact of DDR4)... I've read many articles (tom's hardware; techspot; etc...) saying that there isn't any difference between 1866Mhz DDR3 and 2133MHz DDR4, concerning the impact in most of the games. 1. http://www.pcgamer.com/the-differences-between-ddr3-and-ddr4-ram/ 2. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/asrock-fatal1ty-z170-gaming-k4-d3-ddr4-vs-ddr3,4431-2.html GRID2 for example utilises the CPU to RAM bandwith much better. Most other games show not-so-significant FPS delta.

I have to say, two days ago I found dirt cheap mobo + i5 2500k combo for only 120$ (here in Bosnia), for my brother, i just need to get 2x4 GB of DDR3 (to have dual channel) which shouldn't cost more than 30$ (in my currency). When i looked at that advertisment, i just couldn't help it, had to buy it.... The motherboard is asus p8h67 rev. 3.0 At this moment of time, no chance i would go for the overpriced 6600k, even if people sold it as used IMO, the 2500k is the best cpu of all times Here's us testing it out, if everything works fine, and it did. I still can't believe we were so lucky to get this deal.... What memory modules would you recommend since the cpu supports up to 1333MHz DDR3 only?

Just to mention how happy i am with my SSD Even while i had my old rig, i have seen amazing snappiness boost in everything (most of all boot up of my win7, with lots of startup items). How much of a boost is putting two SSDs in RAID mode, and is it really worth the extra bucks? What do you think of the following item (for my other parents' PC), not that it is necessary, but since it is dirty cheap, is it any good? Anyone had experience with Chinese brands' SSDs? http://www.gearbest.com/hdd-ssd/pp_356735.html

I use turboboost at 3,7Ghz (i recently pushed it up to 4,2GHz). The reason i had turned off OC is beacause i was affraid of shortening the CPU lifecycle, since it's on the stock cooling...

Ok. Thanks for the heads-up. I'll keep that in mind. Which one would you recommend that isn't too expensive (pls don't say SeaSONIC -it's beyond my price range)...

Yeah I sorta was wrong. For me the GTA V works perfectly. The GPU is almost 100% utilized, but i have maxed out all the eye-candies On the side-note, my CPU is getting kinda hot (around 90C), but i guess it is time to change thermal compound or find myself a good cpu cooler... I haven't had a chance to play Witcher 3, yet, but i guess it would have around 30fps, at least.

Thank you. What was your bad experience with the mentioned PSU? I did a research on it before buying at the store, saying it is was quite decent at the time.

Thanks for your reply. At what point of time would you suggest swithcing to Skylake-based rig (say i5-6600k), since the prices in my country are still skyhigh Is it clever to opt for i7 2600k if i find a good deal (since it isn't much of a boost (no game is optimized for 8 threads anyway)... On the side note i paid less than 300$ for the MOBO, CPU and RAM,6 months ago...

In the future i was planing on making some slight video editing - max 1080p (for some gearbest reviews). Gaming, wordpress, FULL HD movies and tv shows, for the time being...

Greetings to everyone! A bit over 6 months ago i finally upgraded my c2d e8600 p35 chipset rig for the following: CPU: QuadCore Intel Core i5-2500K, 3719 MHz (37 x 101) MOTHERBOARD: Asus P8Z77-M (1 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Video, Gigabit LAN) RAM: 16323 MB (DDR3-1866 DDR3 SDRAM) [HyperX Fury 2x8G dual channel mode] GPU: Sapphire Radeon 280x DualX VaporX 3GB/384-bit CASE: ThermalTake ARMORMX+ PSU: ThermalTake SmartSE 630W semi-modular You can also view the full config on my profile. My question to you is: How long am I future-proofed with this config, having in mind that AMD soon releases new Polaris GPUs? I suppose that my rig has enought RAM to deal easily with any current game (I don't count QUANTUM Break, since it's heavy on sysreq and I don't plan on transitioning to Win10 anytime soon - WIN7 FTW!)...