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Frant
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Two weeks ago my system started acting very weird. Crashes, freezes, downloading to a HD stalled the system forcing a reboot etc. etc. etc.. Red light @ RAM slots lit up. Removed one stick, tried both separately in all slots, red light lit up no matter what. Came to the conclusion that my cheap board was dying on me (currently running with one stick stable, if I put the other stick in corruption would ensue no matter what slots were used, meaning RAM-sticks are OK.
It COULD be the memory controller in the CPU, but I doubt it. Anyway, decided to get some "new" stuff and ordered an ASUS Sabretooth P67.B3 board and a 2500K.
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| Posted: Tue, 28th Feb 2012 21:23 Post subject: |
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do they make an LGA1366 socket of that one?
been wanting to replace this POS gigabyte one i've had for a while now and may be able to afford it soon.
kind of a bit pissed off at my current one since it'll only recognize 2 memory modules at a time so i can't really easily narrow down which is causing the stuttering, gigabyte in general though has been nothing but problems for me.
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| Posted: Wed, 29th Feb 2012 07:40 Post subject: |
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Sorry to ask a silly question but... what's the point of that thermal armor?
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| Posted: Wed, 29th Feb 2012 08:08 Post subject: |
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| difm wrote: | | Sorry to ask a silly question but... what's the point of that thermal armor? |
was wondering that too, tempted to call shenanigans on it being a gimmick but i have to assume the sales pitch wants you to believe it functions as a heatsink for the entire board at once.
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| Posted: Wed, 29th Feb 2012 09:22 Post subject: |
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sounds like you got a keeper then, still haven't found the LGA1366 equivalent sadly.
does it make jumpers and other stuff as much of a pain in the ass as it looks like?
i mean, i may be wrong and it's a very low quality image to be sure but i can't even see one visible fan controller, kinda makes me worry that that thing goes right over top of stuff like that, it's already a pain in the ass not disconnecting the fan controller for the side door when i put it back on with the case i've got and that's without obstructions to the actual pins for them.
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| Posted: Wed, 29th Feb 2012 11:10 Post subject: |
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Overclocking doesn't increase max FPS, it does its magic for your minimum FPS - especially in heavy games like BF3, or in console ports ( ). Less stuttering basically; average may not even go up that much, but it'll be much more stable.
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yeah overlocking is more for higher average fps, more stable fps.
if you want more max fps, get a better GPU ^^
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Still running Prime95 here. So far perfectly stable @ 1.4v, temps are stable (and at the limit of what I feel comfy with).
4.8GHz... Schweeeeeet. I wanna hump my chip + board.
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| Posted: Sun, 4th Mar 2012 13:44 Post subject: |
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I hope so, it's not the cheapest board out there.
Not going too OTT though will be throwing a i7 3820 quad in it.
Doesn't work out that much more than if i went with a 2700K and a good board.
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I have to say that fitting the sabretooth onto the chassis is a bit of a pain in the arse though, due to the thickness of the "thermal shield".
