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Hi crystalcity. With further testing the computer crashed approx. 1½ hours into full load on all cores. Not sure exactly why. Temperatures seemed fine. Might have needed to increase the TDC (Amps) or TDP (Watts), but without knowing what is and isn’t safe numbers for those I have now changed...

Hi crystalcity. Thank you very much for your response. Not the most scientific overclock as trail and error due to my lack of knowledge but I ended up using 180 for the TDC Current Limit Override (Amps), 250 for the TDP Power Limit Override (Watts) as per the screen shot on page 2 of the...

I have a desktop computer that I’ve had since 2009. Until a few days ago I had a i7 940 in there, however I recently purchased a 6 core W3680 for it. From what I’ve read these are VERY similar to i7 980X. I installed it and it is working fine. However it seems that these can be overclocked so I...

Thank you very much for your prompt response USAFRet!! That is giving me some hope :). Any insight as to how I can determine if the panel they are providing would yield such satisfaction? Would the specs on that panel indicate that the one being provided would be such a beast...

Dear Forum. I had posted this thread last night and was thought I was happy enough to pull the trigger today. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-3620035/coffee-lake-coffee-lake-2018.html However just before doing so i realized the 1080 panel was not showing as an IPS. I called PC...

Thank you mrmez and urbancamper for your replies and making me more comfortable with the purchase!!

Dear Forum. Hoping someone can provide me with some insight. I'm considering buying the Octane IV laptop from PC Specialist (see link below). I'd be looking at getting it with the i7 8700K, 1070 GPU and 64GB of RAM. This will be used for various CAD software on large projects...

Dear Forum. When one overclocks CPUs, are they doing so (in layman’s terms here), by limiting the maximum allowed power draw or is it setting a limit on the max allowable GHz. If it is by limiting the power draw, and what you were working on is primarily single threaded on a given day, it would...