Recent content by Diffin

Just to be clear, I'm not a gamer.

But I thought bulk silicon had better heat dissipation than SOI?

Right now, I'm on an Athlon X4 750K at 4.3GHz. I do mostly programming and only play very light games e.g. Team Fortress 2. The reason I want to upgrade is because I tend to also play Dolphin and use Visual Studio, which are both incredibly CPU intensive (the former more-so than the latter) and...

CPU: Athlon II X4 750K Name: Diffin Frequency: 4200 Multiplier: 100*42 CPU Voltage: 1.35v NB Frequency: 1600 NB Volts: Auto RAM: 4GB 1333MHz DDR3 7-7-7-21 @ 1.5v Motherboard: ASRock FM2A75 PRO4 (Not +) Cooling: Air/CM Hyper T4 OS: Windows 8.1 x64

I was just looking to know if these are considered safe temps for this processor? I'm at 1.3 volts (still fiddling around with the voltages :P) and I'm at 4.1GHz as stated above. I should add that it's pretty hot where I am right now (not sure of the room temps exactly, but I'm sweating as I...

So, because of all the news about AMD's Carrizo line of APUs, I was looking to know if it would be a good idea to upgrade to FM2+ next year? I only bought my current motherboard about half a year ago, but the problem is that I'm afraid that I'm already going to be (and possibly already am)...

Thanks again :)

Hello. So I was just looking to know if there is a way to turn off PCI-E cards in the motherboards' BIOS. I currently have a Wi-Fi card (ASUS PCE-N15) in my PC, but my wonderfully designed case (that's sarcastic, by the way) doesn't allow me to put the PCI slot cover back in after taking it out...