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you shouldnt flash a 580 bios to a 480 you should edit a 480 bios to the same clocks as a 580 and increase voltages slightly flashing a 580 bios wont enable more shaders and will most likely brick your card, but editing a 480 bios to 580 clock speeds should work.

possibly a controller board on an otherwise mechanically sound harddrive being damaged, but that would only affect the one drive...unless they were all similarly damaged. Similarly a weak drive motor can sometimes not spin up the first try and may do so on subsequent tries but again that would...

upper limit on RAM for stability is 2133. its rated for 1866 and will boot windows @ 2400 with a slight voltage bump but fails memtest unless timings are relaxed to 10-10-10-28 @2133 with the same voltage bump it runs stock timings 9-9-9-24 and passes memtest every time (I let it keep running...

I wouldn't. I've seen many motherboards bricked that way. (not your specific cpu/MB combo but same situation.) For the same reason I would not use 64 bit windows to do the updating (if your BIOS doesn't have a usb based or dos based updater) For the CPU issue just get a really cheap CPU of the...

Thank you. I plan on it. Ram is rated at 1866 @ 9-9-9-24 so should be good for a bit of headroom.

Passed overnight prime95 amd subsequently ran memtest for 5 full passes to check for memory controller issues. No errors in memtest. Bumped voltage up to 1.375 and increased HT ref clock to 203 for 4060mhz cpu speed. (4050 in cpu-z as my motherboard slightly under-drives the ht ref clock)...

Nope. setting high performance mode wont make it run at turbo frequency by itself. you also have to use Phenommsrtweaker (works for athlons and phenom's) and set all P-states to the turbo voltage and frequency. also click the little button and check the box to have it load settings at startup...

if you mean an R9 280 then just use catalyst control center to find your max stable clocks, abck both sliders off one notch from that, write it doen, and then if you feel confident editing and flashing your card's bios you can use radeon bios editor to program those numbers which you wrote down...

3.9 is stable, still waiting to see if 4.0 will be. Got Prime95 running on it now. I'll update in the morning whether it proves stable or not but so far it seems to be. The newer revision Phenom II's like my 975 scale better than the old Phenom II revisions (up to the 965) were voltage...

You MIGHT be able to get it to run at DDR3 1600. Gskill Ares is decent ram so there is likely a little headroom. look up the timings for their DDR3 1600 and loosen the timings to those before you try increasing the speed to 1600 and you just might get lucky.

Booted into windows at 3.9, slight vcore bump 1.365 (up from 1.3500) CPU-NB at 2.9 Load temp 52C Passed overnight Prime95. Slight improvement in Ungine Valley (still GPU limited) I added a 60mm fan to blow directly on the VRM heatsinks and they feel considerably cooler now. still warm but not...

Ok Thanks for clearing that up.

I know MBR partitions have to be 2Tb or less, but what about the drive itself. take a 4 TB WD black for example. Could I create 2 MBR partitions of 1.99TB each to make use of the whole drive. This would be on an older AM2+ motherboard that doesn't support UEFI but has no trouble formatting a...

UPDATE: With CPU fan upgraded from 120x25 basic low noise PWM to 120x25 Delta 152 cfm full load burn temps dropped to 49c ran Ungine valley on max (yeah gpu not up to it capped frames pretty bad) no artefacts (further proving my already tested proven GPU overclock ) no hangs, crashes, etc...

The copper heatsinks that I attached to them with artic silver thermal adhesive get pretty warm but not uncomfortably hot. They have the exhaust fan and PSU fan both drawing air across them but I can easily add a dedicated fan to blow directly on them. 60mm should fit perfect between the back...