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nice. apparently this CPU can overclock easily to 4.5Ghz if you watercool it; not that i need to/will.

I've never understood overclocking. It's like buying a car with a puny little 1'6 engine and then spending a bunch of time and money turbocharging it.

Oh, wait... :D

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1072707)

I've never understood overclocking. It's like buying a car with a puny little 1'6 engine and then spending a bunch of time and money turbocharging it.

Oh, wait... :D

Well I mean if you're smart you buy a 1G DSM and spend next to no money and get another 100hp out of it, reliably. Thats how you do it properly. My overclock that I run all the time cost zero dollar over the normal setup and took under an hour of tweaking an another couple hours of stress testing to make sure it was bullet proof.

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1072570)

Right now, I've got about a half-dozen hard drives in regular service spread across several machines. A couple of Hitachis, one WD Green, two Seagates (can't remember which fish), and maybe aother WD somewhere?

Of these, only the newest (the 4TB Seagate) is less than about 3-4 years old, and all are in mostly continuous service.

For any hard drive manufacturer, it's possible to point to some specific generation of some specific model and say "look, these drives were pieces of shit, therefore I'll never buy from X manufacturer." Does anybody remember the IBM Deathstar? And yet aside from the 75GXP, IBM/HGST have some of the highest ratings on the planet for consumer-grade HD reliability.

Same goes for WD, Seagate, Connor, Maxtor, Control Data, Burroughs, pretty much any company that has ever manufactured a hard drive. You simply can't take past performance as an indicator of future reliability.

The last time I hard an actual hard-drive failure was around 2009, and it was a 1.8" Toshiba drive in my old Vaio laptop. which lived a rough life. Prior to that, I literally cannot remember the last time I lost data in a hard drive failure. It was sometime in the 90s.

Actually, I don't care one whit about AMD vs. Intel CPUs. I care about the motherboard. If Intel manufactured a motherboard that would accept an AMD CPU, I'd be fine with that. Heck, if AMD themselves manufactured a motherboard for their own CPUs, I'm sure it would probably be fine, too.

What's not fine are poorly-designed motherboards made with cheap components by third-party manufacturers that suffer from poor driver support, glitchy BIOSes, less-than-optimal design in terms of power regulation and trace routing for high-speed lines, and will probably suffer minor, trivial component failures which take them completely out of service in less than 10 years.

That's why i said "take that information how you will". I do realize that anything can die. Hell i bought some really expensive "gaming" memory and it was DOA. I could have killed it with socks and carpet for all i know. I'm not blasting anything, just putting my experience out there.

I can respect your opinion on motherboards though. In fact i feel the same way. I had the old (first gen?) Asus "rampage" motherboard, and it was a pile. I think they got them figured out after a while though.

As far as overclocking an AMD processor, from my own experience it goes pretty easy until you need to start raising voltage. If the BIOS allows it even. If you can that's when i would see a good temperature increase. Rightly so i suppose.

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1072707)

I've never understood overclocking. It's like buying a car with a puny little 1'6 engine and then spending a bunch of time and money turbocharging it.

Oh, wait... :D

I seriously laughed out loud for 30+ seconds because of this.

Touche

Touche

Of course, I bought a 1.8 and don't really get overclocking either but...still, funny stuff.

You can buy a $250 CPU at 3.2ghz, spend 50 bucks on a cooler and overclock it to 4.0ghz, or you can spend $500 on an identical CPU factory overclocked to 4.0ghz.

With an unlocked multiplier its super simple, but I still usually overclock FSB because there is performance to be had there.

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Originally Posted by Full_Tilt_Boogie (Post 1072757)

I try to match FSB speeds. I haven't had good luck OC'ing the FSB. Ever...

What BIOS?

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Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1072707)

I've never understood overclocking. It's like buying a car with a puny little 1'6 engine and then spending a bunch of time and money turbocharging it.

Oh, wait... :D

Sometimes no money has to be spent. I had an Asus Radeon hd 7850 that came stock clocked at 860mhz. That thing ran reliably at 1150mhz without even changing the fan profile settings. That offered a huge performance increase, about 20-30 more fps. Later I got greedy and wanted more so I put an AIO water cooler on it, and can only get it to 1200mhz. Obviously the effort and money probably wasn't worth the extra 50mhz, but it sure was fun seeing how far it would go. I used that card for about 6 months, threw the stock cooler back on it and sold it for $10.00 less than I paid for it.

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Originally Posted by duffbuster243 (Post 1072781)

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*JOKE*

(Hence the smiley at the end.)

gets here monday, got all weekend to prep files/installations.

wish this rig was on sale monday so id have it friday to do it all this weekend.

Speaking of the static comment above. How many of you use anti-static straps when you work on computers? I never have and never ran into an issue.

Me neither.

I just make surer that whatever I am working on is plugged in (the power cord is connected to the wall, thus establishing a ground connection) but switched off. I then make sure to establish contact with an unpainted metal surface of the machine before touching anything else.

At work, we actually have a couple of special IEC power cords expressly for this purpose. They have only the ground pin connected, but not the hot or neutral pins.

Ive never done any anti-static anything. Although Ill probably use Joe's suggestion in the future. That is easy enough and worth the peace of mind.

I'd use Joe's apparatus too.

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Originally Posted by Braineack (Post 1073006)

I'd use Joe's apparatus too.

I'm sure you do.:giggle:

Usually i'll try to discharge myself before reaching in and grabbing parts. I don't use an antistatic strap though, that's to much for me.

Though I own an anti static wrist strap I dont often use it when servicing my computers. I do make a strong effort to hold on to a bare metal part of the case for a few moments before touching any PCBs after shuffling around on carpet though. I recently put together a gaming rig for my 13 year old cousins first computer and I bought him a anti static wristband to include with it. I think they are a good idea for those who are not used to working with ESD sensitive components.

My current rig is an AMD 8320 overclocked from 3.5 to 4.7 with very little voltage increase and a 220 FSB, it's cooled by a corsair H110 closed loop water kit. Very pleased with its performance.

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Originally Posted by Tw34k (Post 1073100)

I think they are a good idea for those who are not used to working with ESD sensitive components.

That is exactly correct.

On the factory floor, the assemblers wear wrist and heel straps, walk on conductive mats, use anti-static hand lotion, are forbidden from wearing certain fabrics, etc.

In the lab, we know how to not fuck up. We do have conductive mats on the work benches and the fancy $800 ESD-safe soldering irons, but that's about it. Smart people who know the difference between good shit and bad shit simply develop safe working habits, such as always grounding one's self before picking up a component, and then touching the leads of said component to the mat before bringing it into contact with the board, etc.

You can do the same at home by simply treating the chassis of the computer as a reference ground, and exercising common sense. Eg: don't wear gloves made from rabbit fur and juggle amber pins immediately prior to installing a CPU.

you know what's sad? the Case comes tomorrow, but all the rest of the parts come monday...