Recent content by demonbane23

after reasearching what stepping I wanted I had narrowed it down to the MPMW or a 0547 TPMW,,,, just kept checking ebay for a week hopeing one would pop up and checking the forums for sale section on a few sites and finally found one on ebay,,, retail box $350 ,,,lucked out I guess...

spent a little time trying to get 2.9 stable but i could boot just fine but would crash and BSOD on prime,,,, so i just stayed at 2.8 and played some COD2 for 2 hours,,,, totally stable at 2.8ghz and the new g.skill is running great,,,,

Yeah I like water cooling my processor I never took the step to phase change yet,,, as for my temps the DFI expert reports my idle around 21-22c and my load at like 34-35c but its known to be off for opteron's..... im gonna try 2.9 later tonighti m waiting for some new g.skill to show up...

Just installed a brand new opt 165 on my expert,,, I pulled the board did some mods to the north bridge cooler,,, since the twinkle at jabtech is out of stock,, added some AS5 and got rid of that heat pad,,,, Well I have booted the following and run prime for 20 mins on each so far just to...

thanks for the replies,, im going to give it some more time tweaking,,, going to burn it in and see if I can lower the volts or get some more out of it,,, if not id be more then happy to settle in stable around 2.68 ghz,,, I was just wondering if anyone here had any experiance with burn in...

I just got my OEM 170 from monarch,, got a 0543 stepping which is pretty decent.,, I hit 2.6 ghz with as little as 1.475 dual prime stable,,, im currently trying to burn in core 0 and get it stable past 2.7,,, it has been performing well so far and is definetly taking nicely to the DFI expert...

yeah I was reading over on xtremesystems of some people having sucess with the burn in theory,,, showing some significant stability gains,,, I guess it wouldnt hurt to try ,,, I just dont see how it works technically...

I am currently in the process of finding my max overclock on my new rig in signiture,,, and seem to have hit a wall around 2.68 - 2.7 ghz,,, I can get core 1 to run prime stable Large FTT for 10 hours just stopped it myself while core 0 only ran for 1 hour and 30 mins and then failed on rounding...

Well the wait continues for my DFI expert,... I called monarch on Friday and asked if they did actually have the expert in stock to which I was told yes they had 35 and I was the 32 order. So even though I usually stay away from monarch I ordered it. Well then no emails all week so I call...

The only reason to really go with the opt 170 is if you plan on Overclocking and would rather deal with the 10X multi rather then the 9X of the 165... also if you are buying new or OEM you cant get a 165 for $300 even only ones I found in stock were closer to $340 so i opted to go with the 170...

I did some research and just bought a opt 170 over the 165,,, mainly just for the 10X multi rather then the 9x that is in the 165,, just for a bit more flexibility,,, also hoping for a good stepping. I ordered from Monarch actually just because thats one of the few places I could find it in...

yeah for water cooling I can recomend the swiftech options,, im running the H20- Apex extreme and havent had a any problems I was running really low temps on my pentium D like bellow 30c so I cant say it was a temperature issue...

dont feel bad about the over clocking I couldnt get my pentium d 820 on the top of the line asus P5N32-sli board with ocz gold ram to overclock, It wouldnt post or it would give me overclock failures or it would fail in prime and 3dmark the nforce4 sucks for INTEL and it was a nightmare,,, i RMA...