Recent content by discourse4

I have a new-old-stock motherboard that turned off during a stress test. It now only powers on for about 1/10 of a second before losing power (I can tell because of the fan LED). I will try recapping the solid caps since I have more than enough capacitors to spare. Is it safe to use...

Have you used AMD Overdrive before then? Because I accomplished your claim of impossibility twice. This is on an a phenom 840t after 5 minutes. EDIT: this is on a different MSI motherboard. Also, this was only after 3 minutes. I sent the wrong pic to my email.

HWMonitor is not reliable for FX processors. It also doesn't support a per core reading of the temp for the processor. I posted a pic yesterday of my HWMonitor temps and was told (and I agree after research), that only AMD Overdrive should be used for FX temps. On that point I am having trouble...

Can you explain this more thoroughly? It seems counterintuitive. This is a 20 minute average of the thermal margin, polled every 1s. For this to have a 1C difference, it would mean that I would have to see my cores at different temps at ALL times (this would mean 1 core stuck at 25, another at...

The average looks different to me. Unless you are expecting variance of at least 1C.

That means that 70% of the worlds 9590s are also thermal throttling. This is actually both extremely funny and also realistic - meaning that I want to prove this to be true so badly. Anyone know of any other way to prove I am being throttled? Aida64 is not showing drops in usage or clocks after...

Air cool a Ryzen 3 for my next project? I'm not crazy, I wont disrespect the thermal output of that thing. Anyway, I put this in the worst case I have available (X Sniper 2). I removed all the case fans as well. Prime95 running on the Maximum CPU Heat setting only gets me a thermal Margin...

If you go to Logging, it will have 2 decimals. Also it looks like the AMD Stability test is better than Prime95. I am getting "better" temperatures. Minimum is now at 22.12 after 5 minutes. Anyway, I am heading off to work. I am shutting this down for now. I will probably disassemble this again...

Using AMD overdrive. I am getting 25.12 min & 26.62 average on the Thermal Margin for all cores. If the 0 point is 70C, then that would be in line with the current data from coretemp and hwmonitor. Yes, the challenge was to air cool this thing. After hearing stories for years about this CPU...

Core Clocks looks fine. There was a possible issue that it was throttling or was underclocked by the mobo. 20 minutes is probably not enough to say that this was the "stable" temp under load, but I have to leave in about an hour and I dont want to have this running while I am away. Besides...

After ~20 minutes

Since there is a genuine possible issue that it may be unintentionally underclocked (BIOS setting, heat, or perhaps a defective cpu), I will be rebuilding this and take a closer look at the clock speeds. I will post the results & pics after I get back from work. I used a Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3...

WiFi routers are cheap, so just get one. I have a $40 one, and a $15 trendnet as a backup just in case. To set up the wifi hub is simple 5 minute thing. Just connect it via ethernet wire first to your PC. The instructions will give you an address (usually http://192.168.0.1/ ), and from there...

WiFi on the motherboard is used to connect to a WiFi router. I hope you weren't planning on using it as the wifi hub. As for activating the wifi, it is a simple driver installation which windows should do automatically. Simplest way to make sure the WiFi on your motherboard is enabled is to...

Again, be careful when buying the q9505. This is a hotter cpu due to the TDP, so your cpu cooler may not be able to handle it. Also, just to confirm, I hope you understand that the 9800 GT is a 10 year old card. It is period-correct and will be an ok match for your system, but do not expect to...