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you need to turn off power saving in power options .. though i just looked on my PC and cant find it. i have seen it before. Maybe its in the nvidia control panel. But yeah CS is mad old and it will not take much but like you said, it will think it doesn't need it then it DOES need it thats when...

I have watched that..

So i was watching a video how to overclock a gtx 660. He was using MSI afterburner and said a few things that i have questions about. 1. He said when increasing the core clock i have to do it in increments of 13. Is that correct? 2. He said that i can't increase my vcore (volts) because they...

Card = MSI N660 TF/OC 2gb BOARD = ASROCK Z77 Extreme4 I want to SLI i get almost decent FPS but i have to turn off some features to get there, and at 200$ for another card its better than buying a 780 or something for me. I just wont do that. So my board says this on newegg "PCI Express 3.0...

and latley (always?) SLI > CF.. don't mess with ATI ati ;) (actually i never owned one so i shouldn't comment, purely fanboy love (kidding.. but honestly don't have much else to go on with this so it will look like that, which it technically is haha (self call out ftw.. stop using ()()( and no...

look for one with good sli, or (like first post) get a better CPU AND maybe mid-ranged card for sli later)) for the games you mentioned, especially ARMA. But other games are mostly GPU intensive and a 660 that i currently own kicks ass! though today i felt a little odd playing crysis 3 with...

http://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=1183&page=17 after reading (though i heard horrors of SLI, maybe thats in the past? cause nvidia is CONSTANTLY updating me with new SLI improvment drivers (20% here, 13% there) maybe i should SLI (why are some 760's LESS than my 660)...

www.tomshardware.com/forum/277977-33-understanding-nvidia-video-card-numbers I read it, and it is a bit outdated .. basically im wondering for the new line of cards that are only 3 digits long. i have a gtx n660 TF. Ok so i get the TF is just the fan right? and OC is just a "pre overclocked"...

No....in the ole days with BCLK overclocking you needed faster RAM because you were OC'ing the CPU by speeding up the entire system bus and RAM speed went up w/ CPU speed. Now we have a CPU multiplier separate from bus speed and the RAM is not tied to CPU multiplier. However with the memory...

you would think they would add this to some of the overclocking guides out there, so far none that I've read talk about memory timings. Strange. And I've done some benchmarks only a little bit off when using the new setting. Ill have to record the data to get real results to make more sense of...

Computers using Intel microprocessors have traditionally had a memory controller implemented on their motherboard's northbridge, but many modern microprocessors, such as DEC/Compaq's Alpha 21364, AMD's Athlon 64 and Opteron processors, IBM's POWER5, Sun Microsystems's UltraSPARC T1, and more...

what do you mean, sorry . Mem control is on die? and thanks!

So overclocking is defiantly a finicky bitch. 4.4ghz stable with a +.025V offset and .012V turbo and LLC off (level 5 on my asrock z77 extreme4, least compensation) I tried to go to x45 but i was getting a ton of WHEA errors, temps near 90C (volts were upped to like .040V offset and a .012V...

No i toatlly agree that 85 is fine for stress testing. I mean the TJ max is 105 .. so dont go above 90C and wala! Thanks for the tips How do you not buy into the vdroop ? Are you saying you dont belive its real lol? i mean i doubt that since the rest of you post is logical. Yeah seems like...

Semi-Noob here. I used to overclock P4 with FSB .. New way is semi-easier. But so many posts about i5 3570K each one stating something different. Some people say not to use prime95 but then i read more and it seems only asus mobos. So is my asrock z77 extreme4 safe to use prime still? Other...