Recent content by Twistex

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    Help! Trying to overclock my Athlon X4 860k

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    Help! Trying to overclock my Athlon X4 860k

    Ok. I found a cheap board now that I'm looking around with an A88X chipset for ~$35 with a MIR so I'm going to try and get that since its inexpesive.
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    Help! Trying to overclock my Athlon X4 860k

    I have an Athlon x4 860k in a Gigabyte F2A68HM-DS2H motherboard with a Hyper 212 and I'm trying to overclock. I disabled AMD Cool&Quiet and started overclocking. I put the base clock up to 3.8 ghz and the boost up to 4.1. but when i look at the task manager and AMD OD it keeps throttling it...
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    Dying MB? Issues with USB and OCs on GPU and CPU

    EVGA Supernova NEX650G
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    is 500W Liteon PSU enough for GTX 1080 G1 Gaming and i7-6700k?

    If your pouring that much into a build why would you cheap out on the psu. That's a good way to kill your build.
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    Dying MB? Issues with USB and OCs on GPU and CPU

    Ok, I know there's an ass ton of these threads. But my MB is acting up. I posted about this a few months ago and reset my CMOS and it went away. I have a Gigabyte GA-F2A78M-HD2 FM2+ MB. I overclocked my cpu a few months ago (Athlon x4 860K) by 200MHz and I was having a ton of issues. When...
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    AMD Athlon X4 860K Thermal Throttle issues

    I recently reinstalled my cpu cooler just to make sure that it wasn't the problem and my cooler isn't the problem. This issue is only in Source games. I also reduced my oc and it did nothing so heat/oc isnt the problem.
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    AMD Athlon X4 860K Thermal Throttle issues

    My cooling solution has no problems holding up the heat and is blowing full speed. i am about 30 celcius away from the temp target.
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    AMD Athlon X4 860K Thermal Throttle issues

    These threads are every were i know. I have a Hyper 212 evo cooler on my chip and yet it looks like its thermal throttling. I noticed this over the past 4 months when i started to get HUGE performance dips in CSGO I started at 200+ fps it dipped to 120 fps now im only getting ~80 fps I have my...
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    My CPU is at 75% and I'm only browsing google chrome!

    Figured it out, I disabled a program labeled as just program from starting on startup and now im not getting random spikes anymore.
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    My CPU is at 75% and I'm only browsing google chrome!

    No, not a new build. infact it just turned a year old 2 days ago.
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    My CPU is at 75% and I'm only browsing google chrome!

    Whoops, forgot to mention that. Athlon x4 860K
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    My CPU is at 75% and I'm only browsing google chrome!

    For some reason my pc is spiking up to 75% on the cpu usage, and at its lowest its at 40%, i have narrowed the problem down to Service Host: Local System (15) or occasionally (17) its spiking up to 40% and on average is at 30%. What can I do to stop it from spiking up so high. This system is...