Recent content by The_Tester

Granted this is only 4 threads in use, the temps are quite nice at only 65-ish. If I disable hyper threading, I can run it all day long at 4.5GHz. At 4.6GHz it just gets too damn hot. 4.7 has stability issues under load (might get a bench mark or two). I got it to hit 4.8, but it was extremely...

The simple answer is, most cases that are not specifically marketed for liquid cooling are designed that way. It does make since to think of it like an automobile as they pass/blow hot radiator air right onto the engine. The engine itself sucks at heat dissipation/absorption because it's more...

Best??? for gaming that would probably be the NVIDIA GTX TITAN X, it supremely outperforms every other single card currently on the market. For stuff other than gaming, pretty much anything AMD with tons of ram is a good choice (they got some scary good workstation cards).

I'm going to say that there is a component/s on you mother board that none of these programs can properly interpret. For example, on my motherboard there HWinfo consistently reports a solid 100~102 degrees celsius for AUXIN3 regardless of how much freeze spray or IR thermometer scanning I did...

I'm not seeing anything that I would consider a problem really. I do see the "digital lines" on the outlines of certain objects (seeing individual pixels vs them blending into surrounding pixels). In Nvidia control panel, I usually just stick to "Application-controlled" and "Use the 3D...

I honestly believe we are not too far away from dual CPU boards being a common thing in the performance consumer market. Who doesn't want a 600W peltier cooler attached to a couple 4.5GHz 12 core black holes to get that carbon offset these days??? seriously, the price of a really nice Z97 or...

I'd say wait for the next new thing (GTX1170/80???) I'm running dual GTX 970's and the only real issue I run into is lack of ram. The only time notice any actually performance hits are when I run above 1080P on 3 displays, turn the settings up to the absolute max, run a game that has poor SLI...

Thanks guys, the resident IT folks here at work confirmed what we could get for the price. E5 1620/30 V3/4 seems the way to go for the single thread speeds we will need (unless we buy like 100 or something lol).

Speed is not a huge factor but i'm not 100% sure on that. 28 lanes won't do unfortunately. Not to go into too many details, but there are going to be a few PCIe extension cards that are going to eat up ALOT of lanes in addition to a few M.2 and PCIe SSD's. I need a minimum of 36 lanes. Also...

Hello folks. I'm on the hunt for a 40 lane PCIe CPU alternative to the 5930k. Specifically one with single thread performance similar to a 4770. I don't really need more than four core/8 thread but, if I can snag a 6 core/12 thread cheap that would be cool. I've already confirmed the intended...

10/90 mix of CLR/distilled water (not full strength). Operate the pump for about 10~30 minutes and see what the fluid looks like. Basically when you stop seeing a "film of bubbles" your loop is squeaky clean. As for flushing, just flush like normal (distilled water) until there is no notable...

All the fan headers should be 12VDC (max). 3 pin should be a regulator type where the input voltage is increased/decreased to adjust speed (POS/GND/SN). 4 pin should have a constant 12VDC and uses feedback tachometer (or similar) and a pwm signal to pulse the 12VDC (POS/GND/SN/CNT). The specs...