Recent content by Khyris

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    Quad Core O/C... shouldn't be this difficult?

    While the system is not "much" for gaming, especially as far as our accounting department is concerned, it will be used for such on occasion... hence the BFG 8800 GTX OC in one of the primarey PCI-E slot. Hehe, I feel I knew what I was doing when I picked 680i as the chipset.... maybe not so...
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    Quad Core O/C... shouldn't be this difficult?

    Actually I was doing this as a D.I.Y. cheaper alternative to buying an HP 530, which is a QX6700 factory overclocked to 3.2ghz. I figured if HP is willing to put a warranty on that speed setting, it's probably reasonably safe to do. This isn't a mission critical application server, like...
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    Quad Core O/C... shouldn't be this difficult?

    Thanks much, that's good to know Does anyone have a clue why the RAM wouldn't work at factory specified settings?
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    Quad Core O/C... shouldn't be this difficult?

    I'm going to admit right off the bat I'm a newbie when it comes to overclocking... but I'm learning quick, so anyone who can help me, please feel free to be as technical in your explanation as you like. Premise: I've just built a machine for statistical simulation and visual modeling, so...