Recent content by Hashbash

Hey guys, would appreciate the input as it has been almost 7 years since I built my rig. I am expecting a nice stream of used Zen 2 CPUs coming up for sale and was planning on buying one preferably with a mobo. Other than the memory which I will have to buy since I have DDR3 now, I will...

So I've about the same rig for the past 4 years and I'm looking to upgrade the gpu and monitor. What I have now is a gtx 770, 24" asus 1080p 60hz monitor, gtx 770, and an i5 4670k that's been good to me (OC at 4.4 since day 1). So I been reading forums and watching reviews and I heard a lot...

I am running on an i5 4670k OC'd at 4.4 GHz (running at low temp), 8gb of RAM, and a GTX 770 (graphics setting of game are optimized by GeForce experience). I haven't had problems and have been playing this game on and off for years. Coming home on break I noticed that sometimes FPS will drop...

I got it solved, small oversight with plugging things in...everything is working now. Trying to focus on a build with kids running around definitely increases the chances of making a mistake.

Can I update bios without having Windows installed? I mean the CDrom won't even open up to put the CD in

Samsung Evo 850 for the OS, seagate 2tb for storage, the CD-ROM is Asus and haven't updated bios.

I forgot to add that from the PSU I plugged the 24pin connector and the 2x4-pin connector to the motherboard. Also the motherboard is an ASRock Z170 Pro4 and the CPU is i5-6500, if that makes a difference.

Just finished a new build, booted it up and had the USB with Win10 plugged in. When I got to the part where I pick the drive on which to install the OS there was no drives to choose from, even though I have a 250GB SSD and 2TB HDD. It prompted me that the hard drive may need a driver to be...

Nothing overly demanding, excel spread sheets, word documents, having multiple programs running at a time, internet browsers, etc. The person I am building this for is dead set on having an intel, and I realized after posting that an unlocked CPU would be pointless, so if I were to stay I'd use...

I've build a couple gaming PCs before and have always been a fan of going the i5 route, getting a beast cooling system and OC'ing it. However, this won't be needed for this build as it won't be a gaming PC. I mainly need this for work, be able to run dual screens so a GPU with dual dvi out and...

Like the title says, I have the overclock set since I got the computer almost two years ago and it is running great. Recently the computer has been sluggish and I am assuming its because of a torrent file...anyway looking to factory restore the computer but hoping I won't have to go through and...

I decided that to exchange my CPU and assumed I just had bad luck. It turns out that's exactly what it was because I'm stable now at 4.4ghz with 1.24v and my temps don't go past 60 C with prime95 100% load, so I'm pretty happy.

What is a safe voltage to never go over using haswell? I assumed 1.2V is pretty much the max and correct me if I'm wrong but crashing at 1.24V while only at 4.2GHz I am not sure I can go any higher.