Recent content by Ryan F

Well this is embarassing. Turns out it was the paste. I guess I installed the stock cooler incorrectly, because it looks like I slapped it down unevenly and the paste spread only to one side. I blame the push pins. Regardless, the H7 is in now. I ran P95 for 10 mins and my temps never went...

My vcore doesn't go higher than 1.1 while under stress. I mentioned that earlier. I could try turning turbo off just to see, but I was already planning on getting an aftermarket cooler anyway. H7 is ordered. I'll post updates once I try it out.

If it helps clear up some things, I can try explaining a little more. Since yesterday, I've been getting spontaneously better idle temps (in the low to mid 30s). It's been getting colder here, but the room's temperature hasn't gone down more than a couple degrees. Whenever I run P95, the cpu...

Not sure how to read my fan's max rpm through the bios. When running P95, speedfan reports my CPU fan caps out at almost 2000rpm.

Also would just like to mention offhand, my CHA_4 fan (which in this case happens to be my front intake) won't stick with the turbo fan preset. It'll either immediately go back to Standard, or go back to Silent depending on what I had it set to before. This happens both before and after the BIOS...

With Prime95 v26.6 it takes a little bit longer for the cores to get hot, but it still eventually goes into the 100C range. Took maybe 20 seconds. My clock and voltage appear unmodified in the bios. 100MHz x 35 with 1.008V. Turbo is enabled. In CPU-Z while I was running Prime95, I noticed the...

Idle temp: 40-45C When running Prime95: Shoots up past 90C and would easily hit 100C if I didn't intervene. When running RealBench: in the 60s during the GIMP test, on the encoding test, shoots up to 90-100C Have not tested any games yet. Downloading some as I type this. This is a "new to me"...

Fixed it myself. Turns out it WAS because UEFI got disabled. Re-enabled it and it booted up fine. Still have that SecureBoot watermark, though. I'm just gonna wait for Microsoft to hopefully release a hotfix for it. It seems like a popular enough issue.

I have a strange BIOS-related problem that I feel would best be fixed by people who know what they're doing. I updated my Sager laptop (NP2650) to Windows 8.1 a few days ago and got the annoying "SecureBoot isn't configured properly" watermark in the bottom right. After googling, I tried to...