General computer talk/advice

Never said non-K chips couldn't be overclocked. It's just really taxing on the VRM's and the chipset as they aren't really designed for it on non-Z series motherboards. It's also really dangerous bumping base clock that high as it increases the speed of EVERYTHING in the system, not just the CPU.

 

Kill all the things! Motherboard should be fine given it's designed for overclocking "ASUS P8P67" and I'm sure bumping up the FSB by 6Mhz isn't going to hurt anything. But you do have a point. Never go crazy adding speed to the FSB. Thats' how you kill HDD's and memory.

 

Btw, it's base clock not FSB. The last Intel CPUs to have a FSB were the Core 2's. Core i series have the memory controller integrated into the CPU so they use QPI+DMI instead.

 

Oh... Shows how old I'm getting.

 

Thinkpad.

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Thin...168201?hash=item567f042f89:g:y0YAAOSwf-VWXKQ3

Boom. ThinkPad's have been the most reliable machines to me not one has ever let me down and I bet you could even play BeamNG on this W530.

 

Is 168f considered as too hot for a phenom II x6?

I did the benchmark playing Battlefield 3.

 

76c That's pretty toasty

 

Toasty, but not going to kill it.

 

Time to drag out the ol' air compressor and give that PC a good dusting.

 

Could get a bit on the edge in some moents, but it will not get anywhere near dangerous.

@Eastham I'm astonished of the quality that those Thinkpads offer. Btw, is it possible to build a great mobile graphics card in? Just curious.

 

I thought AMD CPUs were supposed to max around 65c, and that comes out to 75c. Could be I don't know what I'm talking about.

 

As far as I know, CPUs should never smoke off under like 85-95°C, unless they are at that temperature all the time. Should at leas be that way, I think.

 

Yeah thats pretty much true, although I think 75c is the maximum quoted temperature from what i remember from the ii X4 955 I had, they normally run pretty cool at idle and under load. So anything over 65-70c is more than they should be at for any long periods.

@RORCAT
I'd say try changing out the thermal paste and seeing how that goes for you as well as getting more case airflow if thats a limitation, it shouldn't really get that hot even on a stock cooler.

 

AMD says you should keep it under 70C. Anything below 95-100 won't kill the CPU, but running it at >70C for a long time will shorten its lifespan.

 

They're business machines not gaming machines, made for reliability/ durability over speed so you can't upgrade the GPU but the K1000m in the W530 series workstation ThinkPad's would be good enough for med settings if not high in BNG.

Exactly, I only let my I7 950 run at 90°c because it was a old chip and replacing would have been cheap

 

Oh, I didn't know that. Erm... *looks Thinkpads up, discovers weird stuff* Why would anyone pack an Intel Xeon into a notebook and sell it for $5.500? Doesn't make any sense.
The performance of the W550s does look quite nice on the sheet though. Don't know how it'd behave in real life, but it seems okay.

 

Well, new desk, revamped set up. Trying to get my Xbox to work with my Samsung S27E510C monitor, to no avail. There's literally no sound no matter what I do. Several cables and ways on input later, and a test of sound with my comp are leading me to believe that something is clearly wrong with this monitor. I don't even know anymore.

 

Silly question but does your monitor have speakers installed? I've had two monitors that had a 3.5mm jack on the back that turned out to be for audio pass through for headphones or desk speakers from the HDMI cable.

Took my ThinkPad apart as part of my every 4 month preventative maintenance check/ clean and decided to re apply the paste while I had the keyboard and plam rest off.I love how easy ThinkPad's are to work on.

 

That is something that you should be able to do with every notebook. Give the guys at Lenovo ("The new" - nice name...) cookies.