Posts by pvt.joker

Quote:Originally Posted by japanesegorilla Plasticizer build up. http://www.overclock.net/t/1199158/severe-plasticizer-in-primochill-lrt that's quite a thread to read.. lots of possible culprits.. i haven't run clear tubing in...

That's normal with the onboard raid, or even a separate raid card.. does the same thing booting my E4G3..

it's possible the heatsink/fan has wiggled loose, or your application of TIM needs some help. if you tighten everything up and still have the same problem, it's possible the card has just gone bad. you've gotten several years of good...

Quote:Originally Posted by Ivan TSI Dazmode has those new kits but with EX rads, ~$300 shipped (EX240 D5 pump kit) I am just waiting for the tubing, when primochill sorts out their problem i will just get UV Blue tubing and...

that's kinda odd.. do you have cool and quiet disabled?

yeah, that was my next thought.. get MSI Afterburner and setup a custom fan profile. you can manually set the fan to run at a higher speed to see if it'll keep the temps down.

Quote:Originally Posted by DUpgrade The thing with SSD and the z68 chipset is SSD caching making files off of regular HDDs appear to access faster by going through the SSD. I'm not sure if AMD can do something similar to this or if...

have you tried blowing out any dust etc from your vid card? If it's heating up that fast and shutting down that's one of the first things i'd check. You might want to go back to stock on your cpu as well, just to make sure that's not...

Quote:Originally Posted by Viperlocc AMD APU A8-3870K OC'd @ 3.2 and 700mhz gpu Corsair Vengeance (2x4) 1866 Gigabyte GA-A75-D3H Tuniq Tower APU cooler I have the external fan controller set to almost half way. I disabled Easy Tune...

Quote:Originally Posted by JoeWalsh I see lots of talk about SSDs, but wouldn't I only get to install Win and some of my games on a 120GB or so drive and put the rest on a normal spin drive? My Steam folder is bigger than drives in...