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I can't use TurboV Core on Win XP I'm getting "can't open asio.sys (2)" error notification. What am I doing wrong? Or is there a different way to change CPU multiplier in Win XP? --- Update: After some tinkering I found out that TurboV Core 1.02.02 from Apex X OC Pack works. It is a bit buggy, but it does what it should. Unfortunately no version of Mem Tweak It seems to be working properly. Neither ASrock Memory Configurator

I got quite surprised it went so smooth now I was nearly sure my money is forever gone. As for now I'm quite inactive in terms of OC. Big thanks to Xtreme Addict for showing me this thread :celebration:

Well, that was quick. I have my money back

I had 2 deals with Hazzan - 3770K and 3930K. I was really satisfied so I placed order for binned Haswell (at release). I paid 250 USD in advance. After some time Hazzan cancelled the deal but I never got my money back Despite numerous reminders.

Absolutelty amazing job! Keep it up

No, I haven't issues like that. BTW Your QX9650 is quite nice Mine wouldn't pass 5200 MHz

And what about nV? GeForce 5 series is no match for Radeon X8xx series and is mostly on AGP, when 925X boards are PCIe. Shouldn't be there GF 6 series?

Ok, THX for clarification

Is CrossFire with X800 cards allowed?

Think about it. There is thermal probe in TIM, layer of copper (heater), layer of TIM, layer of copper (LN2 container), thermal probe in TIM. When you turn the heater on, it would be quite strange if both thermal probes shown the same temperatures. It is rather obvious, that probes will show different temperatures. Springs are equally compressed, threads are of different length. I turned off and on the heater under -190 oC to simulate stress.

It was exactly 261 W load. I must admit it was quite fun for me to make this test The only downside was, that I had to "waste" LN2 which could be used for OCing I heated the pot to 50 oC (cured the paste) before pouring LN2.

Thanks Well, that is a good point. In near future I intend to check some of the pastes using i7-3770K with full pot, just to see which one offers best CPU-Z frequency and which performs well with e.g 3DM 06 CPU test. I also plan to check more TIMs. As you see in the picture below I have much more, then are included in the roundup right now

I also thought of that. For example it could be like this, that what you can buy now in shop, as Gelid GC-Extreme is not exactly the same, as it used to be at the GC-Extreme introduction to the market. But keep in mind - it is only my assumption.

Yes, ryba means fish in Polish There is no CPU in my test. I used dummy load (set of resistors), that is usually used to check perfomace of phase change cooling. By the way, it seems, that AAB TG3 is rebrand of Phobya HeGrease Extreme (all parametrs are the same), although it is not official info.

I also speaked with Xtreme Addict bout EVGA Frostbite. This paste shoud perform better in my opinion. He said that it needs very high pressure to work well. I didn't test it, since I wanted to give each paste equal chance. So every single TIM was given exactly the same pressure (you can see in the pictures, that pot springs were compressed, but not extremely tight).

And one more thing. I know it sounds not modest, but I think Roman didn't conduct his test 100% properly (sorry Roman). As it is said in the arcticle, his first mistake is, that he didn't go to -190 degrees C. Stopping at -150 makes the test not good, since at -150 some pastes just start to loose their thermal conductivity. In my opinion second mistake is this thermal probe attached to the top of CPU IHS.

Yeah, I know. I was also surprised. Before the test began I was 100% sure, that GC-Extreme would win with ease. Keep in mind that some of the samples were directly from vendors and some were just from regular shops. I know it is serious accusation, but maybe sometimes what we get in shop isn't exactly the same, what we get directly from vendor (there were several PSU issues like this, that I read about) But it is just my theory, I have no proof to back it up.

I made thermal paste roundup using liquid nitrogen. Results are pretty interesting Link to my test It is in Polish, but you can put it to Google Translate. I checked translation to English. It is rather imperfect, but you will know what is it all about

Is retail i7-5960X allowed?

It depends which pins are damaged. If GND ones there is no problem

Huh, then it is quite weird that 2900 XT has two CrossFire fingers, it clearly implicates that it should run 3 and 4 way Xtreme Addict suggested that there are some special drivers that AMD used for presentation of 3-way.

I tried running 3 and 4 cards but always only 2-way CrossFire gets enabled I used Rampage IV Black, Rampage III Black and P5E3 Premium (on this only 3-way), so it is rather not MB related. OS Win7 X64. I tried newest and oldest drivers that support 2900 XT. Are there any special drivers required for 3-way and 4-way? It is quite hard to find anything about 3-way and 4-way (even no validations at HWB!) but I have seen that during presentations such configurations were used - example.

ES CPU allowed?

What did you use for insulation?

Just made this today.