Mikecdm

Thanks, finally starting to get the hang of this thing.

Good job angel, but we want to see pics

Thanks, better than I was expecting

change color of springs, might get you the mhz you need

cheating, you out muscled me with cpu power

Its only for teamcup scores. In the rules for teamcup it says to have a sensors tab and normal gpu-z tab. Most of this hardware and background is for teamcup. But this stage is supposed to be ddr2.

Elite vs extreme doesn't matter to me. I'm not sponsored and don't get free hardware. When I look at leaderboards, I look at overall. I look at where I fall among the "elite." I'm not a fan of separation by cooling.

thanks, quick runs after failing with 8800 ultra

card had 8 yr old dried up paste on it from the last time that i used it.

you don't have to touch the cpu if you don't want. There are two mods on that board. With both mods done, you can just flash the bios and it'll work.

Sarcasm since we're all being accused of using the same chip. Being that we both subbed a 7740x with nearly identical clocks around the same time.

Everyone knows its the same chip, can't expect it to clock much higher

Thanks, I recently bought two 560s and one 555 for team cup. The two 560s were pretty bad and the 560 i bought for last years team cup is even worse. So the 555 was best of 3 recent chips i bought.

Thanks, these long runs are horrible. Was trying 6.7ghz, but couldn't get it to finish.

Got lucky with random chip from ebay, it's pretty decent. Expected it to be garbage.

wonder whats left on the flash drive

Thanks, I had other issues, cpu wouldn't run 7.1 anymore, memory doesn't want to work right. Maybe score wouldn't have gone up at 7.1

Thanks, too bad the blocks are junk. The standard mounting system doesn't work and couldn't get good mounts. I had to buy screws and put them in through the back.

Mine degraded Using apex X now with same chip thats missing pad. Runs full pot with way lower dmi and pll.

thanks, i tried slightly higher clocks but -01 randomly closed and i didn't care anymore. Getting this to boot into windows is also a pain.

Pad come off cpu, stuck to pin and missing a pin. Was still running when i turned it off.

thanks, too bad it suffered injuries.

This makes good sense, sadly you can't buy a second hand apex anything for under $100 which is more than the price difference between dark and apex xi. So you're saying that the Apex boots faster and has software that works. Only thing not to like is that it doesn't support XP. In that case, what new does the dark offer? Slow boot, software that doesn't work, xp support which was available on prior apex models. To me it looks like it's all about trade-offs and what one is willing to give up.

That'd probably work and cost less

I think the rookie makes a valid point. Perhaps turning off balanced mode would allow you to make a proper submission and prevent this in the future.