Recent content by Davepl

I have a MacBook Pro with a factory SSD that runs Atto at around 3.1GB/sec. That's great. But, I ALSO have a OCZ RevoDrive X2 PCIe SSD in an even faster desktop, but it runs only 300M/sec. I'd like to find out why the desktop SSD is only 10% as fast! The PCI SSD is in a PCI slot (sorry I...

On my THIRD cooler it worked; runs in the mid-40s at stock clocks, about 60C if I push it to 4.2GHz. So when they work, they work. Odd that I got two bad ones when I bought one local and one from Newegg, you'd think they'd be different batches, etc. But there you go.

It turns out that the board was indeed running at 4GHz, but the POST says 3500. Every app I had, including a fairly recent version of CPU-Z, showed it at 3500. The -very- latest version of CPU-Z reports it at 4GHz. Why detection of clock speed is so hard, I don't know. Maybe everyone based...

I'm new to the board, but a lot of first answers on threads look like "I'm gonna park this boilerplate answer here so when the question expires it gets picked as the default answer". Neither I nor anyone on this thread needs to know that if the CPU as more power "its gonna run faster". FWIW...

It would appear this only happens when I use the ASUS Z87 "magical automatic" overclocking mode, which I wasn't aware was on. I'm surprised that takes it right to 100C, but there you go. With the stock Intel fan and completely stock ASUS timings, it's in the mid-60s under Prim95.

I don't find the UEFI BIOS all that intuitive, but I'm not entirely new to this. However, it's my first Haswell unlocked CPU. The problem is that if I do the following, it still boots at 3500MHz and stays there: - Turn off ASUS optimizations (ie: set it the middle, normal setting on the main...

Installed a new MB (Sabretooth Z87), RAM (32G Corsair) and CPU (i7-4770K). With expectations of eventually overclocking it, I bought a Corsair H80i liquid cooler. At max load (Prime95) it ran 100C. The pump didn't seem to be working on the H80i, so I exchanged it. Same deal. Went back to...