Newegg customer service is top notch. I just ordered a NIC card and I believe it was DOA/not fully functional and it wouldn't connect fully to any network. I got on the online tech support, asked him what to do...his reply?

"Throw it away."

He then said they will credit my account the full purchase price less shipping and tax so I could buy a new one. That's just awesome right there... (I didn't want to exchange for the same item)

 

that thing looks pretty cool

 

I had to RMA a DOA mobo back to newegg

my rig came from all over, newegg/zipzoomfly/mwave/tigerdirect/directron/xoxide/ebay/frozencpu/compusa

looks like I might have to RMA this damn striker extreme now, I cannot monitor my motorboard voltagase, half of them show 4.08v

 

Yeah, them motors need at least 5 volts to function ...

 

haha, I had to get out the dor to work... no time to check spelling, I'm bumed cause now the only voltage I can monitor is vcore 3.3 5 and 12. everything else shows 4.08. which blows cause I'd really like to see my vdimm voltage. at least I still got my temps. reflashing bios didn't help either, oh ya how hot is too hot for a c2d under load? I had to bumb vcore up to 1.375 to get 3.4 stable

 

Hi.

Can you measure junction/core temps or just case temps?

If just case temps, you can infer junction/core temps by looking in that specs doc for your specific proc and applying the thermal transfer correction.

If you have core/junction temp capability, just look up the max values.

You'll know if you exceeded them - things will go downhill fast - but no damage should occur. Over the long term, perhaps, but by that time you will have moved on.

bubba

 

I have my cpu temp seems to max out about 50c idle its 28-31c. my gpu on the other hand can reach 70-80c under load

 

Well if you want to get anywhere with Pelts, you're going to need to water cool the hot plate lol or else you'll get nowhere.

And also, it's been studied and tested that human beings can notice changes in the 90+ FPS range, specifically fighter pilots and hardcore computer gamers. I can definitely notice a difference between say 60FPS and 100FPS on a game.
And if you guys want to see liquid cooling in a computer, well here's mine lol:

The workspace:


The computer:




Specs:
CPU: Intel Extreme Edition 965 Engineering Sample @ 4.6GHz (E6850 is being shipped to my house right now)
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-G1975x (I now have an EVGA 680i SLI Rev. A1 in there)
RAM: G.SKILL 667MHz DDR2 @ 888MHz 4-4-4-12 with Stock Volts (Now have Crucial Ballistix Tracers: 2GB Kit DDR2 1066MHz, I put it down to 4-4-4-8)
GPU: EVGA 7950GT KO 512MB @ 600MHz Core 1600MHz Memory (8800Ultra being shipped to my house right now with a Swiftech Stealth Waterblock)
Case: MGE Quantum
PSU: Silverstone Zues 560w with specialy 38a Single +12v Rail
HDD's: Two 36.7GB 10,000RPM Raptors in RAID_0 and a 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7,200.9


Yep.

 

3dmark06 scores?

 

I don't remember, that was such a long time ago. I went through three 965 chips and multiple 7950's, they all died for various reasons. Right now I'm on a backup Pentium D 920, at 3.5GHz, and a dying 7950GT KO lol. If I remember correctly is was around 7k? My Aquamark 3 score was 122,000.

 

I havnt got an aquamark score, I've been running more stress tests lately, maily memtest and orthos with a little sandra thrown in, 3.4 seems to be happy so far, I really want to shoot for 3.6 but without any mobo voltage monitoring. last time I ran 3dmark06 I did 95xx @ 3.2 with ddr2 800 4-4-4-12 and 570/1400

I still haven't had time to get the tracers where I want them, I think they are at 950 4-4-4-10.. altho I've played with memset a little and had them down to 4-3-3-8. I won't put more tha 2.1 to the ram. I killed some ocz ram with 2.3 (that crap wouldnt overclock a single mhz)

 

holy crap you guys are WAAAAYYYY into computers. I am happy with my laptop I ordered from DELL.

 

that's pnly one step above the yuppie with a mac

 

Well technically My work paid for it and they get all their computers from Dell. I paid $0 for it

 

wooohooo, broke 9800 3dmark06's today
also doing high 14s in 1M superpi's

aquamark3 was 175xxx