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QuickFast · Aug 25, 2015

I should say when I am talking about failing that's when benching with Dice and getting that last 50-100mhz that you know the cpu can do but can't get there-So far with the best buy TIM if I use a little more or if a little less It always performs the same and hit my max clocks every time and who knows it could be a total fail on LN2 it could start to crack or stop performing altogether but for now it's one less thing I have to think about when benching plus if i run out it's 5 mins down the road

We should start list of TIM not to use when going cold I haven't test a lot but Antec formula7 does not work when cold

Witchdoctor · Aug 25, 2015

I use Tuniq TX-2 for GPU's and Gelid Extreme on CPU's

Both have preformed well under cold , both I can highly recommend

jiccman gave me some of that new Grizzly stuff

it's a mess IMO

OptyTrooper · Aug 25, 2015

Super clean Asus CUSL2. One of 3 (all super clean) I picked up off eBay.
http://hwbot.org/submission/2959143...um_3_850mhz_s370_1349.28_mhz?recalculate=true

Johan45 · Aug 26, 2015

Very nice Opty.
You seen to have lots of old stuff there, check out the team cup thread there may be something right up your alley.

OptyTrooper · Aug 26, 2015

Johan45 said:
Very nice Opty.
You seen to have lots of old stuff there, check out the team cup thread there may be something right up your alley.

I have been lurking around the team cup since it started thing is I don't have most of that hardware anymore, I just started "re-stocking" as it were. Plan on helping as much as I can but I can make no promises as funds are tight right now. I picked those CUSL2's up for a song otherwise................

It seems every time I say I can compete in a HWBOT competition I suffer catastrophic hardware failures too so I'll keep it as we'll see.

Johan45 · Aug 26, 2015

I picked those CUSL2's up for a song

NP Opty, never took you as an entertainer though. Ha ha

SwartHack · Aug 31, 2015

Science Always Prevails

After breaking down all the facts, examining ingredients and countless hours of testing....
I have come up with the best tim application method:

@Blaylock - for giving me the purple pill and selling me the t-shirt
@OG - who never stopped asking, "Why don't you just get a bench..."
Thanks guys!!!!

Cheers

OGMCVilleTC · Aug 31, 2015

Finally found some ram. Haven't had a chance to test it though.

Johan45 · Aug 31, 2015

Looking good guys,now go get em!

Tech Tweaker · Sep 3, 2015

Bought a system untested from someone that didn't know what it was or how to test it, for under $140. I guess someone gave them this system and they then had no use for it. The board, heatsink, and memory were a little dusty, but otherwise in good condition (and a few fingerprints on the heatsink).

Intel Core i7 3770K
ASRock Z77 Extreme4
8GB DDR3-1600MHz memory
Noctua NH-D14 heatsink with Intel mounting hardware and the stock 120mm and 140mm fans

You can imagine my surprise when I found it actually had the top-of-the-line LGA1155 Ivy Bridge i7 in it. Since the seller had no idea what CPU was in it, I figured it would be something older like an i5 2500K or i7 2600K. But knowing it had a high-end heatsink for cooling, I figured it probably wouldn't be a Celeron or a Pentium under there, because who would buy a low-end CPU and put a high-end heatsink on top of it?

Looks like I scored a home run with this deal.

Johan45 · Sep 3, 2015

Nice score there T_T, got lucky that time !

Blaylock · Sep 3, 2015

Wow! Very nice score indeed.

ATMINSIDE · Sep 3, 2015

Wow, nice score!

WhitehawkEQ · Sep 3, 2015

Tech Tweaker said:
But knowing it had a high-end heatsink for cooling, I figured it probably wouldn't be a Celeron or a Pentium under there, because who would buy a low-end CPU and put a high-end heatsink on top of it?

Would that NH-D14 even fit on a MB using those old CPU's?

Blaylock · Sep 3, 2015

Yes it fits Socket 1155.

Tech Tweaker · Sep 3, 2015

WhitehawkEQ said:
Would that NH-D14 even fit on a MB using those old CPU's?

Intel made Celeron and Pentium processors in the LGA1155 socket.

The heatsink works on LGA775, LGA1366, LGA1156, LGA1155, and LGA1150 in its stock configuration without any modifications.

WhitehawkEQ · Sep 4, 2015

Ok, was not sure about what socket those old chips used.

dyckah · Sep 5, 2015

got some new ram sticks

and another s775 board

a core 2 quad q6600

and heres an e8400 on some board with onboard vga, hope it will finish that benchmark!

Johan45 · Sep 5, 2015

Nice stuff there dycah 775 is a good socket

dyckah · Sep 5, 2015

Now that I got a spare board, and a few spare CPUs, a CPU pot is probably next on the shopping list, see if I can take things cold, maybe even kill some cheap hardware! Didn't take a pic of it, but also got a second q6600. So now I have 2x q6600, 2x e8400, and 1x qx9650.

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