Recent content by Percussionist

I live in the Portland area as well (Oregon City) and was thinking of underclocking my rig after the past few days of nastiness. After seeing the power go out two times in the last two days I'm thinking it might be a good idea to give our house's circuits a breather!

Oh yeah . . . I checked this one out several weeks ago and forgot all about it! It definitely would be nice to exhaust hot air out the back of the case. Do you know if any RAM sinks come with that cooler or would I need to buy some separately? *edit: oops, not RAM sinks; I was thinking of...

Wow; do you run it passively or have you got a fan on it? (The link to your system isn't working for me; have you got a 4850 or are you running something else?)

How does it fit on your 4890?

I'm looking for an aftermarket solution for my Sapphire 4850. I've done some reading and have narrowed down my selection(s) to either the Zalman VF1000 or the Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev.2; do any of you have experience with either/both of these coolers on a 4850? Mostly I just wanted to...

Excellent; I think this leaves me with a little headroom to either drop my vCore and keep the CPU @ 4GHz or see if I can push beyond that clock speed (although I'm pretty happy with the extra 1000MHz as it is). jaredpace, you've been extremely helpful; hope to run into you some more on here...

OK, cool; thanks. That's what CPU-Z (and SpeedFan) tells me; in BIOS I currently have the voltage set @ 1.4. But this kind of goes back to my original question: which is best for a [somewhat] definitive reference point?

Thanks for the link; looks like people have driven their E8x00's pretty high with relative success. I've got mine at 4GHz with a vCore of 1.36 and temps are in the low 60's so I think I'll try it again with a lower voltage (previous Prime95 run went 8+ hrs before I stopped it). I'm with you...

Originally posted by: udneekgnim Heh, yeah I know; I was just interested since someone else had been asking about the very issue I happened to be dealing with! Originally posted by: udneekgnim Thanks for the clarification; this helps a lot. In pushing to 4.0GHz I find that setting my...

@Psynaut: I'm wondering if you ever got a definitive answer to your voltage question. I'm doing some experimenting with overclocking my system and have the exact same question. I've been able to push my CPU to a relatively stable 3.9GHz (6+ hrs in Prime95) with a setting of 1.3625V in my BIOS...