Posts by Art Vanelay

Quote:Originally Posted by Kaltenbrunner trying......to resist.....urge to.........sidegrade to a 2600k or 3770k that OCs well unlike my chipYou can get a used 2600k for pretty cheap these days.

Quote:Originally Posted by Conners Thank you Art for verifying my point...Well, it's not like he was trying to make a makeshift power adapter out of a decade old power adapter that didn't label its grounds with black for some...

Quote:Originally Posted by Cyclops Yeah, that's what a dirty OC is. There is still room for improvement / fine tuning. In Cinebench, the 4770K @ 4.5 Ghz is getting 9.82 which is pretty much exactly the same as 3770K @ 4.8 GHz...

Quote:Originally Posted by Conners I'd say just because a person asks this question to start with.... They know they they FUPED lol...It's pretty hard to make hardware smoke. The only time I ever did that was when I accidentally got...

Quote:Originally Posted by Raghar Can someone explain this? Intel doesn't sell 4.3 GHz chips, nor 4.5 GHz, thus nobody should expect these high numbers, nor try to run business on selling chips with these speeds.Some resellers sell...

Quote:Originally Posted by d-block Say goodbye to your warranty if you decide to delid.How often do CPU RMAs actually happen?

Quote:Originally Posted by koniu777 I was gonna upgrade to Haswell just for the z87 formula board from asus but I can't stomach the downgrade from my current 5ghz 3770k Sent from my toaster using Tapatalk 2That's a nice board. You...

Quote:Originally Posted by Dimaggio1103 Unless you got a good deal on a ivy or went from a sandy i5 to a ivy i7, then ya it's pointless ass well. I had. 2500k and made 20 bucks by upgrading to 3770k from my 2500k so I can't...

I recall some people saying that this would be impossible, but Asrock had a demonstration where water was being poured onto one of their motherboards at Computex. That would make liquid nitrogen overclocking so much easier.

Wow, I really didn't expect Sandy Bridge to still hold up so well against Haswell. It's not like I planned on upgrading either way, though.