Recent content by anasuelli

Candidate for my <post of the year 2011> on every forum I read. This made me LOL a LOT. Thanks! :)

Thank you very much for partecipating to the discussion, here's my update: I tried changing the new Noctua fans with some old fans I had here, probably with higher static pressure: now the air flows better between the fins BUT... no results on temperatures readings; exactly the same values. So...

I'll keep you posted about this, in the meantime, you all get an endorsement for your collaboration. Again, thanks.

Thank you for your feedback, I suppose something's wrong here. I'll keep searching for the true reason for this heat-up.

Sorry to bother, I appreciate your reply very much, but I just want to be sure we are talking the same thing: when you say "my 2600k never goes over 60c" what do you mean precisely? You mean that in your daily use "full load" it never goes over 60 C? If that so, my 2500K too... it never goes...

I'm 4.4 GHz now, still no manual changes on Vcore, but I let the Load-Line Calibration on Auto so the real voltage in full load floats between 1.28 and 1.30 V. I hit 91 C on Lynx. Again: in real-use full load (playing games, using heavy image/video editing/transcoding) it doesn't get over 55 C...

I hope Millenium is right, but take a look at this: http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/showthread.php?t=2379254 it's the main italian hardware forum, 2500k/2600k oc thread. The second post lists a bunch of user's tests. As you can see with i5s and voltages between 1.168 and 1.272 V and frequencies...

It is possible! How much does it takes usually for the compound to reach it's best chemical state? I am using a cheap 30% silver Nexus compound. My arctic silver tube was deplete so I choose to use that Nexus. Do you think it's been a bad idea?

Thank you guys for your quick replies! Unfortunately I already tried a re-seat of the TRUE and the results didn't change. There are two things I didn't tell you: the heasink base is not lapped at all, it's very old and I used it on multiple processors over the years, maybe the base lost a lot...

Hi everybody, I just got my 2500K with Asus Sabertooth P67 Rev3. I installed my good-old Ultra 120 with a pair of Noctua FLX fan and silver thermal compound. Until now I tried 4.0 GHz and 4.2 GHz without any Vcore changes; seems stable but I'd like to compare my temps readings with yours...

I voted 2/10 because: Really really snazzy: too many different colors.

I voted 1/10 because: Just one photo, and I don't see nothing remarkable about the modding. Suspiciously high votes. 1/10

Because I DO love your reviews and I think TechPowerUp! as one of the few IT sites blessed with reliability

...I was taking to user "20mmrain" and I already use Afterburner... it's what I said: lol

Fan control? I don't see any fan control on Forceware control panel. I use afterburner to do that, it works perfectly.