Recent content by DarkOutlaw

Reading overclocking guides thoroughly will give you all the answers you need.

Try thoroughly reading some overclocking guides, and it should answer that question and then some.

Did you verify the voltage using cpuz or some other program? Could be a bad chip or bad board, it is hard to say without swapping one out.

Any of the corsair closed loop coolers are sufficient, but really (especially if you are not overclocking) the cm hyper 212 should be more than enough for your needs.

Generally 24 hours of Prime95 is a good indicator that your system is stable.

Reseat the CPU

I am sorry, but I do not believe any of you should be overclocking anything. 1) Overclocking can take weeks worth of testing. You have no business building and overclocking a computer just to play games on it a week later. Reset bios, turn the computer on, have fun with games. 2) This...

Intel® H61 Express Chipset Your motherboard does not support overclocking.

Any overclocking you do to this, if you are even able to overclock a lower end card, will not gain you anything noticeable.

Overclocking Coffee Lake This guide provides you everything you need to overclock the Coffee Lake.

Toms did an article about this, tooth paste works the best if you do not have thermal paste.

I actually had to look this up and read this post three times. You have a <WATCHING MY LANGUAGE> 1080 ti and you can't afford to spend more than $50 on a PSU to support it? <WATCHING LOTS OF MY LANGUAGE>

+1 that PSU is garbage. I swear I have never seen so many PSU issues on here before. Step 1: If your PSU contains the word 'bronze' you obviously have money to flush down the toilet. Instead give it to me. Step 2: Buy a PSU that contains the word 'gold'.

Your PSU is a POS and you shouldn't have cheaped out and bought some bronze certified junk. Buy an 850w gold certified PSU that your mother would be proud of.