Recent content by TheSilentHorker

I'm having an issue where my computer randomly shuts off and reboots. It's totally random and the workload doesn’t matter at all. It happens when I'm just browsing the web and also happens when rendering in Maya (100% CPU usage). Sometimes it happens after being on for an hour, other times it...

I'm not really sure what category to put this in but because it mostly deals with overclocking I'll put it there. Recently I stumbled upon this video: https://youtu.be/PTwuO2Tpdd0 It details a hacked up 5000 BTU conditioner with the cooling element inserted into a bucket to cool off liquid used...

My issue was that my socket temps were too high, and I realized this was caused by having my back panel of my case on and almost no airflow over the back of the motherboard. I ghetto rigged a fan to blow over the back of the socket and now at 1.3v and 4.3GHz I get a max socket temp of 64C and a...

I have been trying to overclock my FX 8300 recently on my Enermax ETS-T40-BK in push-pull but have had really high load temperatures. At 4GHz and 1.26v I get a load in P95 of around 60C with it still going up little by little. It idles at 32C. I applied Ceramique 2 as my thermal paste, using the...

So basically I got overclock hungry on my Toxic 280X card. There was not that much information on overclocking this card when I was looking for it so I thought I would add some to the collection. I wanted to share my results and post a few questions I have. First off, my system specs: CPU: FX...