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- weevilone
- Post #44
- Jul 24, 2019
- Forum: Forum Issues and Feedback
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i7-6850k Easily degraded (My fourth replacement)

My Asus board will automatically overvolt my 8700k CPU at default settings, so I'm a little disappointed. I loaded things up and was getting Windows and my software squared away before doing any overclocking. Little did I know Asus had everything locked at 4.7 with Vcore, and the memory...
- weevilone
- Post #17
- Nov 7, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel "Coffee Lake" Builders Thread

Every Noctua heatsink I've ever installed, you work the screws down and they simply stop. There's no wiggle room or gray area. There isn't anything scary about it. It sounds like you didn't secure it all the way, which would be bad both for temps and movement over the CPU.
- weevilone
- Post #1,353
- Nov 6, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel "Coffee Lake" Builders Thread

I have a silly question. I just finished a build with 8700K, but I've recently had to reinstall Windows and don't have any of my performance monitoring tools installed any longer. What is recommended to monitor temps, voltages, etc during tuning of the CPU and RAM? I tend to deep dive into...
- weevilone
- Post #1,053
- Oct 23, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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PSA: Microcenter i7-6850K 6C/12T: $299

With 6850k you get 40 PCIE lanes and a stable X99 motherboard that can be had for very low prices, especially if you consider a Microcenter open box unit. I'm not interested in wading into the Ryzen memory performance or other maturity issues. Moving to 7800X is simply more money for fewer...
- weevilone
- Post #7
- Jul 15, 2017
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Am I crazy for Founders Edition?

I had an FE card, wound up with an AIB card. Other than the FE tax, the cards wound up performing generally equally. Did the FE make more noise to do so... ? Probably a bit, but nothing that was bothersome. I think most people that dog on them haven't used one. The only thing that's...
- weevilone
- Post #22
- Jul 21, 2016
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Nvidia 1080 paper launch..microcenter can go<redacted> themselves

I picked one up at the St. Louis MC. Same deal here mostly. They handed out slips of paper good for a card till 10AM. The 6th person in line said they were there at 6AM. About 20 people in front of me and I got the last one. Allegedly they had 35 cards, so a dozen or so bought 2. Saw...
- weevilone
- Post #21
- May 27, 2016
- Forum: Nvidia
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Reference cooler (NV's New Founder!) Yay or Nay poll!!!

I prefer reference as I often use SLI, but I'm not keen on paying a premium for reference. As long as it is a solid, quiet board with no coil whine I'm generally fine. And I'm definitely not doing SLI with a $200 marketing penalty.
- weevilone
- Post #19
- May 18, 2016
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Apple refreshes MacBook with Skylake, improved graphics, faster storage, battery

It was pretty much what any reasonable person would expect, perhaps aside from TB3.
- weevilone
- Post #14
- Apr 19, 2016
- Forum: Apple
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iPad Pro - Anyone pick one up yet ?

I'm just using the default Apple cover and case. They are overpriced, but the function hits the spot for me.
- weevilone
- Post #2
- Jan 5, 2016
- Forum: Apple
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12" rMB Owners Check In

I picked up a 1.3GHz / 512GB SSD model a few weeks ago. I wish I could wait for the Skylake update, but work is paying for this one and sometimes you have to strike when the opportunity is there. The front right foot of the Macbook doesn't (didn't I guess) touch the desk when in use, so...
- weevilone
- Post #15
- Jan 3, 2016
- Forum: Apple
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Upgrade to 6S Plus

I'd also consider the 128GB if you plan to shoot 4K video with the phone.
- weevilone
- Post #5
- Nov 25, 2015
- Forum: Apple
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The "New Apple TV" (2015) is great.

Not to mention the superb performance with the new one.
- weevilone
- Post #12
- Nov 14, 2015
- Forum: Apple
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Surface Book and Surface Pro 4

Honestly, I didn't consider it b/c it's been a long while since I've seen a Lenovo that had acceptable build quality. Maybe the Yoga is fine, but again it didn't get any consideration.
- weevilone
- Post #43
- Nov 1, 2015
- Forum: Laptops
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Surface Book and Surface Pro 4

So far the Pro 4's battery seems terrible, but it might be more of a Windows 10 issue. Since MS controls all of this, I'd have expected a better out of box experience, honestly. There are screen flickering issues as well. I've had to turn off Hyper-V as well as auto-adjusting brightness to...
- weevilone
- Post #41
- Nov 1, 2015
- Forum: Laptops

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