You obviously don't have the knowledge necessary for overclocking. The fact that you tried to overclock a socket 775 cpu to 3.6 on that motherboard says it all. You're lucky you didnt blow one of the mosfets.
Anyone with overclocking experience would of took one look at that motherboard and...
Battlefield 3
GTA IV
Assassins Creed 3
Shogun 2
LA Noire
Lost Planet 2
Batman Arkham City
Skyrim
Its hard to top Battlefield 3 64man though. Even Bad Company 2 32man used more than any other game.
Lots of games max out 2 cores, but only Battlefield seems to max out 4 cores.
Enjoy your new hardware bro, I hope the build goes smoothly and is relatively painless.
But do you really need 64 gb of RAM?
What program could possibly need or use that much ram?
The more ram you add, the slower your ram will be due to increased latency.
In terms of voltage, 1.4 volts or...
Good news is a damaged cpu cannot ruin a motherboard as far as I know, but a damaged motherboard can ruin a cpu, but its rare. CPUs are generally pretty hard to destroy.
I would bet both your cpu's are fine, but your motherboard is fried.
Engine may be "ancient"(Im not ignorant, graphics havent changed much since CoD 2), but its still far more advanced than the Source engine. Where is all the hate on Valve for being even lazier than activision? Calling it Quake 3 engine just shows what a moron you are. There is probalby not a...
Im not some huge CoD fan, but I doubt any of you people bashing BLOPS 2 have actually played it.
It has better graphics than any other cod that came before it, and much better graphics than any source engine game by about a mile.
Also, they added a FOV slider which is nice since FOV has been...
Asus said the max safe 24/7 always under load voltage was 1.425.
The engineer who posted this number knows more about stress testing sandy bridge cpu's than anyone posting on these forums, but still it didn't come from Intel so take with grain of salt.
For all we know, a sandy bridge cpu...
You would be a fool to buy fx8120 for gaming, or anything else for that matter. I dont know what people try to be nice about it, compared to sandy bridge bulldozer cpus are trash. The performance per watt figures dont lie.
You would be better off buying a phenom2 cpu.
And if you want to...
Voltage doesnt kill chips, current does.
The sandy bridge chips can take alot of voltage, as long as you arent running prime 95 24/7.
Ivy bridge chips are even more efficient so that 1.9 volts isnt drawing as many amps as you might think, and thats what makes the voltage "safe" for dice...
A single 6970 would be bottlenecked by 3ghz phenom 2.
You are going to need an overclocked intel 2500k to take full advantage of both gpus in modern games.
6970's are great cards and you should be able to enjoy them for many years without feeling the need to upgrade, but your cpu is crap...
an intel sandy bridge dual core will destroy the phenom six core is most games, especially a game like starcraft 2 where it annihilates it.
I wouldnt bother upgrading unless youre gonna spend the money to upgrade to intel, otherwise you are throwing you're money away (imo)
You can upgrade to...
You say you dont need more than 4.5 sandy bridge, but I can list many games thats would benefit from ridiculous amounts of cpu power, most are mods though
Elder Scrolls 3 with graphics extender, would have no problem eating up 6 ghz of sandy bridge power if properly configured(only uses one...
Its looking like ivy bridge will have a nice ipc increase from these benchmarks.
If ivy bridge has 10 percent increase in IPC, its looking like sandy bridge will be quite obsolete.
20 percent higher clock speeds and 10 percent high ipc is a massive increase.
4.5*1.2 = 5.4
5.4*1.1 = 5.94...
2500k
ASRock P67 Extreme6 (only 165 on newegg, 18 digi power phases)
4 gb DDR3 2133 (2x2)
Should only cost 400 and with that motherboard you can reuse your old 775 cooler.
From what I read the asrock extreme6 is able to keep voltage lower than any other board, which is most important...
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