Posts by hotrod717

Quote:Originally Posted by d1nky its a magic lil mod, my vrm temps stay low and it helps oc well. im actually testing now and my vrms are warm. hopefully this will catch on with case manufacturers, I even drilled holes in the case...

Got my exchange chip and already looks promising. Stock voltage is now 1.04 vs. 1.318 with previous chip and is sitting at .984v @ 1.6ghz during idle in cpuid. Don't have time to oc it tonight, but am looking forward to it tomorrow. It...

Quote:Originally Posted by ANDMYGUN Sad to hear, hope your next chip is better Thanks, I hope so too. They keep a couple in a case and get the stock from the back. I'm going to go for the case. Chances are they've been in there a...

Quote:Originally Posted by Rangerjr1 Mine clocked well. Decently. But thats not what i didnt like about it. Also. Got a 3dmark score at 1300/1800? Quote:Originally Posted by Rangerjr1 Red1776 and Karlitos would be proud of...

Quote:Originally Posted by Rangerjr1 You're happy with a 7970 Matrix? lol.Sorry, you got a bad card, but that doesn't make them all bad. Yes, i'm extremely happy with it. Does 1300/1800 no problem. Love, not hate brother.

NP, this has just been extremely frustrating. Unfortunately I have to drive an hour and a half to return the darn thing and then drive back. Not the best Intel experience, but I know it's not the norm. However, I'm definately copying...

Quote:Originally Posted by DerComissar Good luck getting a water block for it.Ek makes a block for the lightning and frozen cpu or performance had it in stock last time I checked. However , boost edition cards don't seem to do well....

Did you really read what I've posted previously?Let me start from scratch. I started at 1.2 - 4.0ghz and progressively increased clock to fail to boot or bsod which ever came first until reaching 4.4 - 1.3v. At that point I tried for...

Well having issues with this chip. At default this thing is at 3.18. Manually entered in bios and it's showing "red" . Called Microcenter, explained the issue and to my relief, said thay would exchange it! Side note : An overclocked...

I read the ivy overclocking guide before i bought the chip. Even printed it out to make sure everything was good. If memory serves me, i had 1.316 at stock. I am starting to think this chip is definately really bad. Bad, returnable?...