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Hey Everyone, I am currently running an AMD RX 550 2GB as a placeholder card until my GTX 960 arrives and have begun to "explore" ways of overclocking this GPU. So far I have installed the Gigabyte Aorus software and put the card in OC mode which only moves the GPU clock from 1206 to 1219 Mhz. I have noticed that there is a "Professional mode" and would like to see what this little GPU is capable of. Having never overclocked any piece of hardware I've ever owned I would like some recommendations on what to set the following settings to. GPU Clock: (Base: 1206Mhz) Memory Clock: (Base: 7000Mhz) Power Target: (Currently at 0 or 50%) Hopefully, I haven't made myself sound completely OC illiterate. Hoping to get better with you help! Thanks everyone!

I would love to but I'm going to be honest here... I have no overclocking experience whatsoever. I have no idea what the safe voltages and really don't want to damage the CPU because I believe I should still be able to build a fairly decent PC out of it. If anyone has any time at all to help run me through the process... I'd really appreciate it. In fact, I wouldn't mind using this PC as my first "over-clocked" rig if anyone is willing to teach me. Motherboard: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/990FXA-GD80/Specification Thanks ?

Thanks very much, WereCatf. It turned out that the AMD Turbo needed to be turned off. It's booting correctly now. Would this impact my CPU performance at all? Because I thought this CPU had turbo... I could be wrong though.

Hey All, I've recently had an MSI 990FXA-GD80 motherboard given to me (friend updated his system). The motherboard posts fine and will sit in the bios for as long as you leave it, The crazy thing will also get 100% through installation of Windows (7 or 10) but as soon as the computer tries to boot to the OS (after installation) the system immediately blue screens and gives me the error "whea uncorrectable error". I have no idea what is causing it and I have even tried to load up a live USB of Ubuntu to see if I could get anything that way. It's absolutely crazy. Current CPU is AMD Phenom II X4 1045T. Please help? Thanks all.

Hey Everyone, Needing some expert advice here... I'm currently throwing together an entry level gaming PC for one of my family members with parts that I have been able to get very cheap (Scrapyard wars style). I have managed to get an AMD A4-7300 APU which is currently running at 3.80 GHz (paired with an AMD RX 550). The problem that I am having is that this particular CPU is idling at 60 - 80 degrees Celcius (140 Fahrenheit) and maxes out at 95 degrees Celsius (after running Unigine Valley bench for 30 mins). At the moment everything seems stable and I have not had any crashes but I was just wondering what the normal operating temps are for this CPU as I found this to be very high (having mainly only dealt with Intel CPU's) P.S - Is it worth the money to just throw in the cheapest AIO to make sure all is safe? The case has space for a 240mm (dual) rad at the front, Was considering it & the RGB would be a nice touch to an otherwise stock looking case. Thanks All ?

Hey All, I have recently purchased myself a Dell Inspiron 15 Gaming 7567 and currently only have a 256GB M.2 SSD installed for my OS. I naturally went to the generic Windows 10 disk cleanup utility to see if there were any previous windows installations to clean up and have discovered the "Compress your OS drive" option. Can anyone recommend/advise against this option? I will soon be installing a 2nd 2.5" SATA SSD for increased storage but would like to clear any unneeded space from the OS drive at this time. This machine will be used mainly for gaming and if this compression option impacts gaming performance in any way, I will not use it. Thanks, everyone!

Can anyone give me an idea of what the best overclock levels for a passively cooled 9600 GT Silent Cell card would be? And what software is best for overclocking beginners? I've never overclocked any of my GPU's before and have chosen this expendable card for testing. Hopefully, I should be able to push it enough to see some sort of fps boost with Unigine's Valley. haha

Finally got my GTX 690 to give me a decent score after pairing it with an AsRock Z77 Fatality Performance & i5-2500... Also tried running Valley on an i3-530 @ 2.93Ghz & 9600 GT machine for laughs. I think that gives me the worst score on the thread haha.

Hello again everyone! So I've just upgraded my system with an ASRock Z77 Fatality Performance & i5-2500. Paired with the GTX 690 I am now receiving the FPS that I was hoping for in the beginning. This GPU is still so impressive! I love it. Only thing I need for this system now is to max out the RAM. Going to Hawaii next week (Australia is Home) so hopefully, I can pick up some cheap DDR3 somewhere, Bestbuy seems to have some decent corsair ddr3 in stock. Screenshot attached to show Unigine Valley bench performance. ALSO... I was hoping you could enlighten me as to what utility it is that Linus uses in his videos to monitor the temperatures of new cooling software. I've started work on a REALLY old system (i3-530 @ 2.93Ghz & 9600 GT) of mine and the GPU seems to be running really hot which does not surprise me but I'd like to find out if it is going to stabilize at a certain temp or just keep rising! I would like to run 2 of these cards in SLI eventually (partially for nostalgia reasons but mostly for my daughters "Roblox" pc haha). Thanks very much! I have also included a screenshot of the 9600 GT running the Unigine Valley Benchmark haha!

Just followed the options exactly and for some reason, the benchmark tool is telling me I only have 2048mb VRAM when I should have 4096mb due to the GTX 690 has 2 x GPU's built in. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hey All! For some reason, the superposition benchmark is only seeing 1 GPU in my GTX 690. I know it's not going to be an awesome score but would like to run the thing with the entire graphics power that i have lol.

Hey BlockedTheShot... Thanks for your recommendations. I also have a spare i5-2500 @ 3.3 GHz (not 2500K) laying here that I could buy a decent motherboard for. Not sure whether or not that would only be a tiny step up from what I'm currently running but I'm almost tempted to spend the money and go for the i5-8400. That way when I can afford to upgrade my GPU, Bottlenecking shouldn't be too much of an issue. Also, Not really obsessed with old GPU's as such. I had only recently sold my last gaming PC (G4560 + 1050Ti) and was not going to build another one so soon and when I got given a new PC case I didn't want to leave it empty haha. So with the parts I had laying around the house, I built what you see now only with a Gigabyte GTX 260 OC installed, So when one of my colleagues offered me a GTX 690 for only $50 AUD, I jumped at the chance. Now I just want it to run at 100% haha. This rig is only mainly for last gen titles like Crysis (Original, 2 & 3) most importantly, Some World of Warcraft & Eve Online.

Thanks very much for the responses guys! Appreciate the help!

Hey All, Hopefully I am not going to get scolded too badly for this one but I've recently purchased myself an nVidia GTX 690 and I absolutely freaking love the look of this card! I am having some trouble in figuring out what CPU is going to "not bottleneck" this GPU. Currently, I am running it with an AMD Phenom II X6 1045T @ 2.70 GHz however it is in a rather generic and bad quality motherboard (Asrock N68-S3 UCC) and I was wondering should I spend the money and upgrade to an i5 8400 with the Gigabyte B360M HD3 Motherboard & 32GB RAM (which I know is going to be overkill) or should I just stick with this CPU and just upgrade to a decent mobo for it ? (eg MSI 990FXA). Please be gentle guys! I can't help my obsession with these old cards! Would love to get 100% out of it though! Thanks!