November 2009 - Overclockers

Socket 1156 (i5/i7) Burning Issues

November 30, 2009 Joe Shields 0

There has been a lot of discussion lately across many sites regarding Socket 1156 burning up and charring to the socket and pin area. The rare problems we have seen are on the Foxconn made socket and tend to only occur when using extreme voltages, clock speeds, and extreme cooling. Recently there has been one publicly posted occurrence of the Lotes socket showing the same failure, under the same extreme circumstances. While this is an obvious issue for extreme benchers, a valid question was raised regarding moderate overclocks on air or water, and whether this problem could happen to them.

USB 3.0 Testing on the Gigabyte UD3R and UD6

November 30, 2009 Jeremiah Allen 0

Today I’m beginning a series on Gigabyte’s newest additions to the P55 family, the P55A-UD3R and the P55A-UD6, both of which feature two SATA 6Gb/s ports, and two USB 3.0 ports!

Getting to Know the Rampage II Extreme With Benching in Mind

November 26, 2009 nzaneb 0

This article will be editorial in nature, full of my opinions. I’m a bencher, so my views will not be based on gaming performance, or how “cool” it looks in a LAN box. The ASUS Rampage II Extreme is the top of the line for ASUS, as such, it better be worth it. My goals and expectations are simple, meet or exceed the performance of my current eVGA E758. Ideally I want to see a 230 Base Clock and decent Tri-SLI performance.

An Overclockers Thanksgiving

November 26, 2009 Matt Ring 0

No better time than now to bring back this piece from JoeC in 2002:

“Thanksgiving is a day to reflect on those things for which we are thankful. I’m not going to go into a list of personal “thankfuls”, but I thought I’d share with you those things I’m thankful for which involve Overclockers.com.”

Are ATI and NVIDIA Running in the Same Race?

November 24, 2009 ratbuddy 0

Now that several outlets have released both the performance numbers for the ATI HD 5870 (see Anandtech, Tom’s Hardware and [H]ardOCP) and the official specifications for the Fermi, we can draw some conclusions regarding their expected performance.

Making the Most of Media Centre Remotes: Installation and Custom Mapping

November 23, 2009 Joe Citarella 0

Have you ever wanted to get more out of your remote in Linux? I sure did. I spend a lot of time setting up and programming for media centres. One thing that I have found with Linux is that many of the remotes that are “obsolete” in Windows Vista/7 actually are still well supported in Linux. This makes it easy to get great remotes cheaply.

Posterous – Overclockers.com’s Community Pictures

November 21, 2009 Matt Bidinger 0

Posterous blogging is the blogging platform for people who don’t like to blog.

MSI P55-GD80 Motherboard Review

November 20, 2009 Jeremy Clifton 1

Since the release of Intel’s P55 platform, a seemingly endless number of motherboards have been popping up, ranging from under $100 for basic entry-level boards to close to $300 for feature-packed overclocking powerhouses. MSI’s top end 1156 motherboard, right around the middle of the P55 price range, is the P55-GD80. With all of the features and overclocking options, I was very excited when MSI sent me this board for testing.

Gigabyte P55-UD6 Review

November 19, 2009 Jeremy Clifton 0

Since the introduction of the P55/Lynnfield platform a few months ago, I’ve had the opportunity to test several P55 motherboards. Each has had it’s own advantages, as well as it’s own quirks and bugs. But every time I test a new board, I always come back to this one: Gigabyte P55 UD6.

Corsair Labs 2009: Home Theater PC Build Log

November 18, 2009 Matt Ring 0

In December of 2007, Corsair Labs took a look at building a high definition Home Theater PC, or HTPC. Since that time, several exciting new technologies and innovations have become available that give us cause to revisit the the topic.