blppt
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since ‎11-28-2011
‎03-17-2023

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I'm trying to figure out whether the motherboard or the cpu is the culprit here---using a 3900x, properly seated, and we get the multicolored LEDs and "Start" button illuminates, but neither the start button nor the front panel connected power switch...
One thing I've noticed after upgrading to the latest 1102 bios for this board is that my 7980XE no longer seems to reach the single thread performance as the previous BIOS, which I would just accept as part of the patch, but here's the thing---when I...
Got a really odd situation here....my Z-97E, even under full load with the AVX heavy Prime95, will never get into the 90s with a CM Hyper-T4 cooler, and wattage indicated in CoreTemp never goes into the 100s.Now, with the same model cpu (4790K), with...
On a whim the other day, I took my old i7-2600K out of the box and put it in the recently-vacated Bitfenix Outlaw case with a P8Z68-V board I had laying around. I then took the 2 R9 290x(s) I had in my 9590/CHVF-Z setup and put them in the Sandy Brid...
As some may know, for a while now, I've had problems with the cpu throttling back to 1404 under Prime95 testing, or h.265 encoding (heavy loads). The only way I was able to rectify this was either running the system with the water cooler outside the ...