Posts by XanderDylan

This is the 2nd USB 3.0 drive I've had problems with in the last month. Originally, I picked up a Toshiba 500GB USB 3.0 external at a local Wal-Mart. I had nothing but trouble with it. I was able to copy a few games from my Steam...

Quote:Originally Posted by UsedPaperclip Yes, raising the BCLK is iffy but it is the only way you can overclock that chip. Some poeple have had success doing it. I am not familiar with your board but there should be something...

I heard some iffy things about raising the base clock. I just wasn't sure if there was a way to disable Turbo Boost and have it set so it would be power efficient and then just use 3.5GHz all the time when needed.

Now I've read countless threads about people stating the fact that "You can't OC on an H77 and a non-K CPU blah blah do you even lift, etc." What I would like to achieve is just a slight OC that would allow me to run on 4 cores at a...

Quote:Originally Posted by Conspiracy if you upgrade your heatsink and overclock some you can see some PPD improvement just one suggestion. also there is folding in ubuntu/linux i think I'm not sure how well a 3450 OC's especially...

Thought I would post some temps from my new mini-ITX build while folding. I got my new build set up and running, performance has been great on all the games I've played and the temps surprise me even more. I'm using a STOCK Intel...

So this thing folds pretty well and temps stay surprisingly cool for having only ONE CASE FAN. lol

Quote:Originally Posted by 2002dunx My HD 7950 has never seen a game, My GTX 480 has never seen a game, my HD 5870 has never..... Graphics cards are made to display an image, and to compute, They also keep me warm in the winter...

Quote:Originally Posted by Zap Educated guess: Graphics cards made for gaming = it will be used for gaming. Oh yes, it will be made for gaming. 1920x1080 res 42in. TV. I'll get back into folding more too.

I'm on a budget and it was only $179.99 and had decent specs. Figured I'd shoot for it. Mobo was $99.99, CPU $179.99. So $279.98 for those two.