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by Published on 03-08-2013 02:51 AM
So after many years of hesitation and a lot of pressure from forum members, I finally decided to go with a real water loop instead of my fake all-in-one Corsair H100. There's a surprisingly huge difference in performance...I was finally able to push 5GHz on my CPU. The downside to all this is that I picked up 6 Delta ffb1212eh-pwm fans. Now...if you know anything about these fans, they are extremely extremely loud. 6 of them running together sounds like a vacuum cleaner, with no exaggeration. Fortunately, the reason they are loud is because they are extremely efficient! Running at 5GHz at 1.44v, on the Prime95 Blend test I stay at under 70 degrees Celsius. Now...you're probably thinking...Hyper, you messed up your loop! Under 70c isn't all that great for a 5GHz 1.44v i7 3770k with HyperThreading on when running prime. But you'd be wrong! Because these are the temps I got with the fans limited to no more than 35% of their max rate! So they are very very quiet.
Oh, and did I mention that the fans are so powerful that I didn't need 6 of them? These are my numbers with 3 fans, limited to no more than 35% spin rate. I'm keeping the other 3 for a separate loop I'm going to build for my 3 GTX Titan cards. Perhaps it does seem silly to pay $250 for 6 fans that I'm running at 35%. But the upside to this is that for benchmarking purposes, they will provide incredibly ridiculous levels of cooling. And for normal day to day use, they'll go back to being nearly as quiet as my previous H100 setup.
Anyway, still waiting on this supposedly amazing and godly thermal paste...if you can even call it that. It's the Indigo Xtreme "Advanced Phase Change Alloy." That on its own is supposed to drop average temps under load down by 5 degrees Celsius compared to the arctic silver 5. That's pretty huge. So I will test that and see how it works out when it comes in. I will follow up with more details. For now, here's a picture of what I've done. Minus one of the tubes being longer than I'd like it to be, I think I did a pretty alright job.
by Published on 03-04-2013 06:15 PM
*icon property of Sand Mountain StudiosWanted to do this last week. Got around to doing it now. Basically I show you how to pre-edit 60fps video/audio to play back at 60FPS in YouTube's HTML Player.
You'll need the following applications:
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by Published on 02-26-2013 04:13 PM
Some SSD's have issues with Intel's Link Power Management system which is designed to be power efficient, but causes slowdowns, lag, and freezes on SSD's. If you've ever opened a folder or hit the start menu and had it not populate IMMEDIATELY, then you may be a victim of LPM! I show you how simple it is to disable it through the registry.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH9Fnes2tYwby Published on 02-26-2013 02:20 AM
Promised I'm going to be doing more videos! I'm not sure how many of you guys are aware of this...but you can get some pretty heavy discounts on official retail CD keys for games. My FIRST entry into this was with MW3. I had it on Xbox...and didn't feel I should pay full price just so I could play the same game on my PC. So I found this site that sold me a CD key for $23 for the Russian version. You could switch the language to English and play on all north American servers. You just needed to connect to a Ukrainian VPN when activating for the first time.
Anyway, I'm not covering the whole VPN/Russian Language File Download part. But I'm doing the simple "Click to buy. Enter CD Key in Origin/Steam" portion. Enjoy the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpZCSMJY3XY
*image property of neoseekerby Published on 02-24-2013 12:49 AM
Hey folks,
HyperMatrix here. This is one of the reasons I want more use out of 120Hz.Net. We need a place for game reviews and optimizations for the 120Hz minded gamer! Not like the other review sites that will do a review in 720p and be happy with anything over 30fps. And that's why I'm thankful for Whitespider and his list of games with performance/fps issues and possible fixes.
I decided to make an article out of this as I find this to be quite a big one...and likely quite beneficial to many people considering how popular Crysis 3 is. This helps with those of us who are CPU capped. So if your GPU is sitting at less than 100% and you have low framerate, this will let your GPU do more work and subsequently give you more fps.
This does NOT involve overclocking. However, it DOES involve Over-Working. Running on my i7 3770k at 4.949Ghz (I know...ever so slightly short of 5Ghz), and current Triple-SLI GTX 680 system, in a particular scene my CPU usage was at 85% and my GPU usage was at 45%-50%, while getting 69-72 FPS. After this fix, GPU usage jumped to 65% and FPS jumped to 88-92FPS. That's a 28% increase. Anyway, click below and watch the video for details:
http://youtu.be/_hcuYiqib9I
by Published on 02-23-2013 09:16 PM
This is a rather big announcement here:
I just discovered that with Nvidia's newest 314.09 drivers, made specially for Titan, monitor overclocking is back! The 330Mhz limit appears to have been dropped!
You can download the drivers here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/win8-wi...ql-driver.html
To use this driver on non-Titan cards just drop this .inf into the installation directory created after the driver unzips.
International: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ejt8g0
English: http://www.mediafire.com/?itdrt8lmlue9u0h
I can also report higher FPS in all games and better overclocks!
+1 Nvidia for paying attention to us.
by Published on 02-20-2013 06:02 AM
If you want to watch Sony's event live, where details of the PS4 are hopefully going to be revealed, click here:
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Okay. Looked at the post history. Got the picture now.
Thanks sneaky
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killface Yesterday, 05:56 AM