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iKill[ShocK]
Vietnam3530 Posts
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On April 01 2012 12:22 xeo1 wrote: lol now you scared me.. so what do you recommend General wisdom is to unplug your PSU, then hit your PC's power button, THEN switch off the PSU. That discharges pretty much everything before you start dicking around with it. Then, as long as you touch something metal occasionally and don't wear wool socks doing it on carpet, you're good. (Advanced method I don't suggest noobs try is actually just discharging the PSU that way but leaving it plugged in and switched off so it's still grounded, keep one hand on the PSU chassis to stay grounded, and you can sit on carpet and do whatever you need to inside the PC safely. Just don't shift around a lot. Requires lots of experience and a reasonable amount of manual dexterity, but can be a huge time saver.) Given the subject matter and your name, I find this to be brilliantly ironic... On April 01 2012 12:25 iKill[ShocK] wrote: dude, man up. | ||
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Josh_rakoons
United Kingdom1158 Posts
/sarcasm | ||
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minitelemaster
United States95 Posts
Gruesome pictures from ER are in spoiler (not for the faint of heart). + Show Spoiler + I'm joking, I'm joking | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
On April 01 2012 12:20 JingleHell wrote: Yeah, but let's get technical here, if that was the case, the LAST thing you want is to have your body be a nice clean conduit to a good ground. So if that happened, you'd want to be wearing rubber shoes, not be using a static strap to ground yourself. Yeah pretty much. I just meant to say that there's nothing much dangerous in a computer except maybe inside the power supply, which you're not going to get in contact with unless you actually open it up. Then some general precautions against static electricity as described are probably enough with regards to static electricity harming the components. It's not really a big deal. There are lots of dumb people out there that build computers, so it's definitely not something to be much worried about. | ||
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xeo1
United States429 Posts
and I read somewhere that the best way to replace it is to have the old psu cables plugged in, replace it with the new psu, and then one by one switch out the cables. | ||
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iKill[ShocK]
Vietnam3530 Posts
On April 01 2012 12:26 JingleHell wrote: General wisdom is to unplug your PSU, then hit your PC's power button, THEN switch off the PSU. That discharges pretty much everything before you start dicking around with it. Then, as long as you touch something metal occasionally and don't wear wool socks doing it on carpet, you're good. (Advanced method I don't suggest noobs try is actually just discharging the PSU that way but leaving it plugged in and switched off so it's still grounded, keep one hand on the PSU chassis to stay grounded, and you can sit on carpet and do whatever you need to inside the PC safely. Just don't shift around a lot. Requires lots of experience and a reasonable amount of manual dexterity, but can be a huge time saver.) Given the subject matter and your name, I find this to be brilliantly ironic... hehe, old SC:BW clan tag, should've made something else tbh. | ||
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HotCookies
Greece149 Posts
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Alryk
United States2718 Posts
On April 01 2012 22:22 HotCookies wrote: quick question, would it worth it to upgrade Q9550->i5 2500k ? Probably... If its the worst piece of hardware, and games don't run fast enough for you, that's the most reasonable CPU to choose. (Idk what your gpu is. ) if games are still fast enough for you, might as well wait. Could always overclock and see if that helps, it would be cheaper than buying a new part. | ||
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alQahira
United States511 Posts
Here is a benchmark comparison. http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/50?vs=288 While the benchmarks look very different, if you scroll down to the games you can see that it doesn't have as big an impact. | ||
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Cozzak
Canada54 Posts
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TheMooseHeed
United Kingdom535 Posts
On April 01 2012 12:47 minitelemaster wrote: Yea, I got shocked pretty bad when I built my first computer. It's part of the learning process, really. My hand is pretty much back to normal now though, so no worries! Gruesome pictures from ER are in spoiler (not for the faint of heart). + Show Spoiler + I'm joking, I'm joking Ahahahaha very good | ||
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Ata
Canada356 Posts
On April 02 2012 00:45 Cozzak wrote: So I have a 2600k on a P8Z68-V Pro GEN3, 16GB RAM and 750w 80+ Bronze PSU. I also have the Noctua NH-D14 heatsink. When it comes to overclocking, my goal is to get up to 4.7GHz. I've done a little googling and found that quite a few people achieved this with a voltage around 1.38-1.42 (most with a 'worse' heatsink than mine). With this knowledge, can I just dive right in a overclock to 4.7GHz @ 1.4 right away? Or should I work my way up and find a safe voltage along the way? The amount of Voltage is more dependent on the specific CPU that you have, and 1.4 is pretty high if im not mistaking. I am not too informed but I wanted to leave this msg so u hold it off till someoeone else answers. | ||
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On April 02 2012 01:08 Ata wrote: The amount of Voltage is more dependent on the specific CPU that you have, and 1.4 is pretty high if im not mistaking. I am not too informed but I wanted to leave this msg so u hold it off till someoeone else answers. Yeah, diving right in on an OC is kinda a bad idea. I generally suggest looking up specific info for your motherboard, rather than general settings. That way, when there's some wonky thing in your BIOS, it doesn't trip you up and fry your CPU, which has a tendency of happening to people who try to find generic OC advice. | ||
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Cozzak
Canada54 Posts
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JingleHell
United States11308 Posts
On April 02 2012 01:31 Cozzak wrote: I found this video and seemed like he went over the details for the BIOS in pretty good detail, so I'd probably just follow it as a guideline for what settings to change/use. I know hes using a different CPU, but as for motherboard thats basically the exact one (mine just has an extra slot on the motherboard, same BIOS I'm quite sure). + Show Spoiler + Not neccesarily the same BIOS, but better research than most do. I'd personally suggest starting at a milder OC, like 4.3-4.4, something that can likely be done on stock or almost stock Vcore. If your auto tells you what voltage it's using, use that as a baseline, OC, use a few passes of Intelburntest, and then work your way up slowly from there until you start crashing from insufficient Vcore. Monitor temps while doing this, of course. Once you start crashing, if you have thermal headroom, bump Vcore just a touch, and try again. When you're happy with your OC, run a longer stability test, and adjust as needed. | ||
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Alryk
United States2718 Posts
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Shauni
4077 Posts
On April 02 2012 01:52 Alryk wrote: Is the multiplier (47 that he used) = to the clock the processor will run at? (In his case, 4.7)? huh? isnt it the multiplier * fsb? | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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Cozzak
Canada54 Posts
On April 02 2012 01:47 JingleHell wrote: Not neccesarily the same BIOS, but better research than most do. I'd personally suggest starting at a milder OC, like 4.3-4.4, something that can likely be done on stock or almost stock Vcore. If your auto tells you what voltage it's using, use that as a baseline, OC, use a few passes of Intelburntest, and then work your way up slowly from there until you start crashing from insufficient Vcore. Monitor temps while doing this, of course. Once you start crashing, if you have thermal headroom, bump Vcore just a touch, and try again. When you're happy with your OC, run a longer stability test, and adjust as needed. Yeah this seemed like the best choice, thanks Jingle  EDIT: Oh and also, I'm new to overclocking so hold your facepalms if they apply, if the overclock fails (BSOD, or whatever else) I've read something about a CMOS battery thing on the motherboard you have to reset? Is that true? Or can I just reboot and adjust settings? | ||
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