Recent content by Xylophone

I don't know if you ever found a solution but I just had this problem after a large Windows update and when I went into Nvidia control panel, I found that GSync had been switched off. When I switched it back on, the problem went away. Not sure what that means but maybe it's worth checking out?

Oh I haven't tried changing the monitor! Haven't noticed any problem in windowed mode and the temperature doesn't go above 80C. I do have up-to-date drivers though :) I tried it in fullscreen mode again without the overclock and haven't had any problems so far so I'm gonna keep going and if it...

Every once in a while when playing World of Tanks (the only game I've noticed this on so far), the screen freezes and I can't do anything other than ctrl-alt-delete, which makes the screen go blank and I have to restart my computer. After I restart, my desktop icons will have been rearranged, so...

The only difference between testing 50C and 60C was the bios version, so I might look into that. I guess Windows power settings could have also caused the disparity. I have a Gigabyte mobo and I've been reading that their bios support has been kinda crap with the new Skylake boards but hopefully...

Oh, thanks for the information! That really puts me more at ease. I think I'll have to wait for new bios versions to come out though because my bios seems to be missing a lot of the features I read about on overclocking guides. It's good to know all that though; I was worried I was doing...

I was wondering why the box didn't come with a stock cooler. Well, I overclocked to 4.5GHz at 1.4V and under Prime95, temperatures seem to have stabilized at 74C. Seems a little high given that some people are reaching 4.8GHz. Maybe my thermal pasting job was a little shoddy? Or could it be my...

Double post/update: preliminary results are in I ran Prime95 for 30 odd minutes on my i7-6700K (stock) at an ambient temperature of about 20C and the CPU temp stabilized at 50C. I'm fairly confident the cooling's working fine but I'm gonna commence overclocking and then we'll see. The...

So I tried installing a tower CPU cooler in my first build and I held the cooler by sandwiching the top and bottom fins between my thumb and other fingers (I'm guessing I shouldn't have done that). Anyways, I noticed that the fins moved along the heatpipes and also that some of the fins weren't...