Recent content by Jermaphobe

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    What is considered worse? CPU or GPU Bottleneck?

    Greetings I plan on upgrading to the Ryzen platform soon and I'm not able to afford a GPU upgrade as well. My computer's soon to be specs (more or less) CPU: Ryzen 5 1600 GPU: EVGA GTX 960 SSC 4GB Mem: 16GB DDR4 @2666mhz I already know my GPU is "slow" compared to the current pascal cards on...
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    How to overclock an FX-6300 on a Gigabyte 970 Gaming-Sli

    Motherboard: Gigabyte 970 Gaming-Sli Graphics: EVGA GTX 960 SSC CPU: AMD FX-6300 Black Edition Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo Ram: G.Skill 16GB DDR3 Power Supply: Corsair CX600 80+ Bronze (600 Watt) Case: MSI Thermaltake Commander HDD: Toshiba DT01ACA100 Title says it all, I would like...
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    CPU stable at 3.8Ghz for weeks, Bios settings, reset. No overclock possible at all

    Would like an explanation of to why this is happening instead of "Oh, you shouldn't be overclocking on that board anyway because *insert reason here*"
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    CPU stable at 3.8Ghz for weeks, Bios settings, reset. No overclock possible at all

    Motherboard: MSI 760GM-P34 (FX) Graphics: EVGA GTX 960 SSC CPU: AMD FX-6300 Black Edition Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo Ram: 8GB DDR3 Power Supply: Corsair CX600 80+ Bronze (600 Watt) Case: MSI Thermaltake Commander HDD: Toshiba DT01ACA100 I reset my motherboard's settings to fail-safe...
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    FX 6300 odd temps

    I own a FX 6300 and I use Arctic Silver 5 for my thermal paste. My temps after a fresh layer of the paste are great temps rarely go above 65 C in Grand Theft Auto V (Which is the worse game for my CPU temp wise) But a week or two after the thermal paste is applied the temps start getting...