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paulpicks21 said:

essenbe said:

paulpicks21 said:

In all honesty Steve, using Asus TurboV Evo I cannot go any higher with the voltage, that is the maximum it will allow me and yes I agree 2V would be insanity.

I will stick with my maximum and see if the clocks will go higher as the weather gets colder.

Personally, I think where you are is insanity. I don't trust the numbers as much as you do. It is still software and we have seen it be wrong a number of times.

Personally I agree with you, but I don't mind blowing it up, It will be annoying as I could use the money towards a new CPU but it won't stop me at the end of the day.

As you know I have ran it a fair few times at this voltage now, it's only for a brief moment to validate a score before it BSOD lol.

I understand your concern Steve, I would say the same to anyone else, but as a veteran OC'er I know the risks and to be honest I don't think we can even call ourselves proper overclockers until we have blown a chip up! Well maybe we can lol, but you know what I mean.

Edit: I remember a saying going around when I was younger before I could drive, they said you were not a proper driver until you had a good crash. I think that is true, it certainly made me wise up. I spun a car off the road at around 80mph and smacked into a big tree that didn't move. It hurt me but not as much as it hurt the car :)

I have Blown up one Board Overclocking MSI GD-80 990FX Terrible board ,If you can blow a board up and it catches fire that is just as good as a chip melting down

COMPUTIAC said:

Solarstarshines
Did you have a video or a pic of it ?

No but there is a pretty explosive post I made when it happened


MotherBoard Burned out

Solarstarshines said:

COMPUTIAC said:

Solarstarshines
Did you have a video or a pic of it ?

No but there is a pretty explosive post I made when it happened


MotherBoard Burned out

That was an explosive post Tommy.

Paul, great overclock there mate, you once again own the crown.....for now

you taking it, Dude?

essenbe said:

you taking it, Dude?

I don't think I can but I think you can!

Very Nice oc Paul, Nutter!

Doug, how can you get such high OC with a stock, inefficient Intel cooler? My experience with them ahs yielded 80C+ temps with no OC at all.

Britton30 said:

Doug, how can you get such high OC with a stock, inefficient Intel cooler? My experience with them ahs yielded 80C+ temps with no OC at all.

Like I have experienced in the passed few weeks some coolers are more effective then others

Playing Roulette with these parts seems like 1 out of 3 chance of you getting one that works well for you

People swore by the H80I but to me it was Garbage I waited for the TIM to settle it never did my temps got even worse over time

I figured it might look good on the paper but the performance wasn't there hence I stuck to what I know best Antec :)

Dude said:

essenbe said:

you taking it, Dude?

I don't think I can but I think you can!

Maybe I could, but I'm not willing to push it that hard.

COMPUTIAC

Solarstarshines
Did you have a video or a pic of it ?

You have a destructive streak in you, don't you?