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Hi , i really need help , im from portugal im planning in updating my gtx 960 2gb oc for a rtx 2060 , rx 5600 xt oc or gtx 1660 super , my friends keep saying it will bottleneck my cpu etc etc but I've seen videos of my cpu running red dead redemption ultra , call of duty warfare ultra , my current build is this one. Cpu: i7- 3820 Motherboard: asus p9x79pro Gpu: strix gtx 960 2gb oc Ram : venegance 32 gigs Ssd : yes Water cooling : yes (cooler master) power supply : 850w cooler master silent pro I really don't have money to upgrade the whole rig , i got 300 euros to work with either those cards arroun the same price , keep in mind in my country there are only those 3 cards in stock from the 4 main big hardware websites I really like my processor because it's very old but still kicks ***

So I've been rocking on my i7 3820 from the summer of 2012 (my god, has it been 4.5 years?). I chose the X79 platform for my first build, because I thought it would bring the best performance (quad channel memory and all the pcie lines ). Well it's certainly been very solid, but if I knew what I know now, I would probably have just gone with a mainstream system and saved some bucks. Back then the new Sandy Bridge Extreme edition 6 core chips were pretty expensive, so I settled for the 3820. I have done few "suicide runs" at 4.9 GHz, but for the 24/7 use the 3820 has been running cool and happy at 4,3 GHz (~1.29 V). It's still a very good chip, as there haven't really been any significant ipc gains since Sandy Bridge... So I thought heck, instead of building a totally new expensive system for some unimportant performance gains, I'll just update my partially locked (could be oc'ed past 4.3 GHz, but it was still kinda a pain in the ass) 4 core to an unlocked 6 core. Not really an upgrade that would bring everyday desktop performance to the next level (I think such doesn't exist atm...), but something nice for a couple of heavier workloads (okay, it's just for fun ). These days even the highest end SB-E parts can be found second hand for relatively cheap (at least when you compare to what they were going for even few years ago). I thought I'd check what I could find on ebay, and in the end I ended up winning some random auction on an i7 3970X of all things This cpu was stupidly expensive in 2012, but now It's possible to obtain it for a fraction of the original price. I would have been good with either 3930K or 3960X, but the 3970X is what I ended up with (the bragging rights... a little too late though ). Btw, if you are curious what the H100 AIO cooler pre applied tim looks after 4.5 years, here: Well I guess it looks just normal, and it's been good for all this time. Also, I've been wondering how long the H100 will still keep going until either the liquid has evaporated too much or the pump breaks... Anyway, while I was cleaning the parts with an old "credit card", I noticed the i7 3970X I got had a tiny bump around the edge of the hole in the heat spreader. I carefully chambered it away (lol), but I was surprised it was there. As a side note, looks like acetone can clean the markings off of the socket's cpu retention plate, along with any grease on the cpu So got the new cpu installed, booted successfully in the bios, i7 3970X recognized in the bios, yay! Tried to boot a couple of times in the windows: bsod "machine check exception" After heavily underclocking I made it into windows. I decided to reseat the cpu just in case. In the process I noticed I should have put a little more tim than just a "rice", so I put a healthy X. Eventually I got the cpu running fine, after tinkering with the settings in the bios. In the end it seemed to boil down to the fact that this 3970X just plain old required more vcore to run than what I was expecting. After adding some more juice it runs and overclocks quite nicely. The problem is that my H100 with push/pull can't keep up with this thing running at 4,8 GHz on 6 cores. First of all, the cores will hit 91 C in high stress test (throttling). And second, there is secondary kind of heavier throttling even if the cores are under 91 C, but high load is sustained for longer periods of time. After changing all power/current settings to max in bios, I thought it might be due to the motherboard VRMs overheating. So, I changed the rear fan from exhaust to intake and ghetto mounted it in an angle to blow on to the socket area: It might have improved things a bit, but the throttling still persisted. I noticed it starts to happen soon when the "cpu" temp gets around 67 C, so I guess it's the cpu throttling after all when it hits the Tcase limit of 66.8 C. So for now I'll settle for 4.6 GHz (+0.05 V offset mode gives ~1.37 V max, seems pretty stable so far). I guess I might ditch the H100 and add the cpu in the custom loop and also get an additional radiator. It would also improve the noise levels somewhat, but if I do that I guess it would be time to upgrade the case to something nicer as well, unless I do some (more) ridiculous mods You might think this is kind of pointless (which it kind of is), but I thought it might be interesting to actually try a cpu (only) upgrade which brings 1.5x performance increase (+ some from higher oc) in multi threaded scenarios. So far I'm happy with the results and I think it's still probably going to be good for years to come (I'm going to test out how long can I keep on going with this system, until I feel like I really need more performance)

My computer (specs in sig) wont run the AIDA64 stress test for more than about 2 minutes. This is all on stock speeds. I have tested the ram in memtest, and ive tried different psus, ram and gpus, without luck. About a week ago i was able to run a 12 hour stress test with the oveclocks in my sig, now im back to stock speeds, and im unstable. There are no error messages before or after the system shuts down and restarts. Anyone knows how to solve this?

So I have an Asus P9X79 Deluxe that I bought a while back that I’m planning to use to upgrade my current pc (specs in signature). I’ve been until now thinking to go with a used i7 4930k or a used 8-core Xeon like an e5 2667 v2 (I found a good deal on eBay). I’m currently saving, but when browsing the Norwegian used market, I found a deal on an i7 3820 for 1000kr (about 120 USD) including shipping. Currently I can afford this, and 3820s seem to go for about 1500-2000kr (about 175 - 230 USD) on eBay and such. My crazy plan would be to get the 3820 now (as my current a10 is bottlenecking many of my games), then later sell it (for the same price or more) and get something like a 4930k or a Xeon as a part of a major system upgrade (cpu + gpu etc.). In addition, I don’t know what bios my board has (Xeons need latest bios), so I would be able to upgrade to latest bios if necessary. Does this sound smart or am I just being impatient?

Hello all, So my rig is unstable and I don't know why. It started acting funny earlier today, and it crashed once as I was typing this post. My specs are in my signature so I won't type them out here (trying to get it posted fast before it crashes again. Heres my super unscientific log: 1st crash: was watching youtube and all of a sudden my computer stopped outputting a display to my monitor, however the audio from the video was still playing which tells me that my computer was still turned on and successfully posted and in windows. After checking all my display cables rebooting my monitor and checking the power delivery to my GPU i waited for a while and then turned off my computer by holding the power button. I turn it back on and my mobo post screen tells me that overclocking failed and that I needed to reset my clock speeds and such in the bios however I never overclocked anything. I save (no settings changed) and exit my bios and my system boots into windows just fine so I start looking into it. 2nd crash: My system was just idling while I was out of the house and I got home and it was turned off so I turned it back on and got the same mobo post screen message, so I went into the bios and this time I disabled the XMP profile on my RAM (now running at 1333 instead of 2133) and I booted into windows and have been running for just a few minutes while typing this post. I will keep updating with future crashes if they continue. Could my first crash have been because of the RAM? Have I potentially fixed it by removing the XMP profile? If not what else could be the issue and what can I do to fix it? EDIT: 3rd crash: 10 minutes after originally posting this, my whole system froze and showed the same frame from the youtube video I was watching and was stuck in an infinite sound loop of the sound form the exact instant it froze. Keyboard and mouse were unresponsive and this time my mobo showed me the post code 02 which means "AP initialization before microcode loading". I booted up my system and did not get any post screen message just booted straight into windows and immediately reopened Chrome and started typing this edit. What does that post code mean? (im not good with BIOS lingo) Thanks for any help!!!!

A friend of mine has a question about bottlenecking, but since he doesn't have a profile here I'm righting on his behalf. He has a i7 3820 overclocked to 4.5 GHz and GTX 680 4GB Edition. So he was wondering would that i7 3820 be bottlenecking his graphics card if he drops the frequency to 4.2 GHz to make his rig quieter? And what if he was to buy a second GTX 680 4GB Edition, because he is considering it?

Hey there, i currently have a Corsair H60 cooling my i7-3820. I really want to overclock but unfortunately i am unable to do so because my temps go out of control! I want to put my CPU through intelburntest before i overclock but when i do so my CPU will jump to 85 degrees or higher in seconds. It does this while at a stock clock so it baffles me why it jumps so high, and if i don't stop the test it will continue to go higher and higher. Could this be a problem with the H60 or the cpu? All help is much appreciated!

Hi everyone, I just had a few questions. 1. Is there a big difference between a 3820 and a 3770k. 2. Can you overclock a 3820? 3. I was looking at socket 1155 (3570k), when a came across a brand new 3820 for less then a 3570k, would you bother with socket 2011 if i could get that cpu cheap? Reason why I ask this is that supporting parts are quite substantually more expensive. 4. Is there any performance gains from 2011 hardwarewise (RAM, Mobo) compared to 1155? I'm more into gaming then anything else with mild photo/video editing if that helps at all? Thanks, Hope you guys can help out!

Hello, I recently bought a whole new computer. I have some problems with compatibility, the motherboard, Gigabyte X79-UD5, and the gpu, GTX Titan. I have tried to figure out this issue here on the LinusTechTips forums and we came to the conclusion that it is the motherboards BIOS that needs an update to work properly with the Titan. I can't access the BIOS Setup Menu, the compatibility issue, so I wondered how I am going to update the BIOS. Because of every part is new and that I can't boot or anything, I haven't managed to install Windows yet. Therefore I wonder how to do this. I am planning on borrowing my brothers gpu to be able to download windows and update the motherboards BIOS. Would this work? I have the same issue as the person in this thread: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/15097-x79-ud5-freezes-at-mobo-splash-screen-after-installing-titan/ This is the link to the thread where we figured out what the problem was: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/16633-cant-turn-on-new-computer/ Please answer fast! :)

So recently I decided to try and squeeze out as much performance as I could out of my i7-3820 that I had for 2 years, just as a fun thing to do, I hit a wall around the 4.5Ghz area, I was just wondering how good of an overclock this is compared to some other people out there. I've seen online that people were able to easily reach the 4.625Ghz by just setting the strap blk to 125 and setting the voltages higher, but I couldn't do that, so if you think its my other components then here are some specs. Intel i7-3820 (duh) Asus P9X79 motherboard Corsair Vengence low profile ram 4x4Gb in quad channel (CML16GX3M4A1600C9 if you want to know the part number) Evga 570 superclocked graphics card OCZ CX 850W power supply Corsair H60 AIO cooler. Included are some cpu-z shots, it says 1.296V but thats a lie, in the UEFI I set it to 1.320V for the VTT, other voltages weren't touched much RAM is still running on 1.5V

So I am in Singapore,so no newegg,amazon,ncix us etc for me. Asked this question b4 in toms hardware,and have been ignored.i dunno why. So here are the LGA2011 bundles i can get:(please do not suggest 4770K,it is much more expensive than 4820K or 3820,beyond my budget range unless i go with a non z motherboard) P9X79 Pro+ 3820(the shop that have this does not sell 4820K) P9X79 +4820K Sabertooth x79+ 3820(again,shop without 4820K)(stretching budget a bit) Rampage 4 gene +4820K GA X79 UP4+3820(shop have 4820K,but this does not have Ez flash,shop refuse to provide BIOS update) GA X79S UP5 Wifi+3820(stretching budget a bit,but looking at the enthusiastic review by linus,I made it an option)(no ez flash) GA X79 UD7+3820(no ez flash) Thanks for any help on which set should i choose;I am buying in november so no hurries.

A friend of mine was wondering about this and since he doesn't have an account here I'm righting on his behalf. Is it worth upgrading from i7 3820 to a 4930K? He currently has a: i7 3820 @ 4.4GHz and 2x GTX 680 Lightnings. He uses his rig strictly for gaming purposes, no editing at all. PS: his 3820 can be overclocked up to 4.8GHz

Is my VCore to high or im I just plain wrong? This is what my VCore was at when I first tried my luck on overclocking

Hello, i currently are on a 1155 Z77 rig with a 4.5ghz 3770k and got a offer to change to a 2011 rig with a 3820 with motherboard, since i run two 780's i wonder if i will gain anything on this swap or should i keep my 1155 rig ? Price is irrelevant and so is power draw, i am interested in performance.

I've got a 3820 and I adore it, my system's pretty much solely for gaming and multimedia, but I also use it for all of my schooling and it works great. That being said I don't overclock it despite it being water cooled, perhaps I should start. I noticed you guys speak of adjust the base clock, but on my asrock x79 mother board bios it says I can just put it on turbo which puts it at 4 ghz. Is there any disadvantage to simply using turbo instead of performing a real overclock? I'm sorry if this comes off newbish, I am quite new to PC's in general but I'm trying to learn everything I can.

This is an update to a previous build. 3820 P9X79 GTX 670 Power Edition 16 gb Corsair Vengeance Define R4 H100i Seasonic X750 watt Samsung 120gb Caviar Black 1tb 1XGentle Typhoon 2XAir Penetrator 1XNoctua