Z97M Anniversity OC limit?

HAHA, yes I remember there being a 24/7 prime club on some forum XD Gave me a good chuckle

I used to do a 12hour "burn in" on high volts on 939 when I got a NIB cpu, which seemed to help stability on higher oc :)

Nowadays I don't bother, dunno if it even helps anything anymore.

Same times as you on prime stress testing, 10min tops. Like when are the cpu going to run 100% load for more than 5 seconds in normal usage? :P In the 939 days it were a different story tho, as the cpus didn't pack that big of a punch, decoding stuff could take hours!

G.skill I have limited experience with, as I was a bh5/ch5 guy and I cant remember them offering anything like that. Had tons of OCZ VX sticks, my best ones ran 280mhz 2-2-2-7-1T @ 3.41v on my old DFI NF4 SLI-DR Venus (think it was board 872/1000), higher volts only made them more unstable. Venus died after I sold it to a friend, but the VX set is still alive =D

I did have one set of g.skill tho, a 1gb set pc4800 tccd.. They were quite good, 325mhz 2.5-4-4-8-1T  3dmark01 stable, cant remember volt, must have been 2.9v or something.


I never did any folding or such, but your ghetto ac plumbing story gave me a good laugh and made me think of something with my before mentioned friend that killed my Venus board..
He's into folding, hwbot points etc, and his autismo in the field is fuggin world class!

I was visiting him a few years ago and we decided it whould be fun to do some AMD oc'ing. He had prepped a quad socket AMD server board with copper sinks all over the vrms and custom mounted waterblocks, and we ducktaped radiators in the window, sucking the cold outside air in (it must have been -10c outside) The system had a total of 64 cores/threads, cant remember the socket name but you could access volt control/fsb etc via software in OS. I think it was wprime 1024 WR we were going for that day.

I think we ended up with 4.7ghz on all cores with around 1.47vcore, we ALMOST got the WR but on one of the runs we actually maxed out a corsair AX1200, drawing 1550w or something like that out of the wall socket, making the psu shut of..  in only cpu load! The air coming through the radiators in was hot!

Good times :)

Ahh yes. The 939 house heaters.

Somewhere her I still have my 10 Opty's I ran when folding. That room got 5 circuit breakers all it's own. 165's and  180's, all OC'ed on 3 ASUS A8NE's, 3 DFI UT Ultra-D's's, and the best Oc'ers among them ran on 4 DFI LanParty UT SLI-Dr's. All my NF4 boards raan with the same exact EverCool chipset cooler as you picture.

Long live Ockar Wu and his outrageous BIOSes he rolled while DFI still produced consumer boards. Oskar had a knack, and knowledge. Too, he did his magic at Abit before going to DFI.

Christ, I installed two, TWO, window AC units and had some ghetto plumbing using that flexible dryer duct hose plumbing the backs of all of 'em hoping to keep the room bearable when I was doing monthly maintenance to 'em.

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Ha! I do!They didn't steal them. PTL

Remember the high faluttin' magical G.Skill F1-4000USU2-2GBHZ kits? And the HZ Cheat Sheet that someone, forget now, from DFIStreet put together? I still have, and always will!, two 2GB kits of these HZ's. G.Sklill fanatic that I am. It was these kits from way back yonder that sold me on G.Skill and to this day I won't use anything but G.Skill. Even when I was building for customers up in MI, they all got G.Skill memory. No ifs ands or buts.

Those 10 boxes kept me in the Top 100 in The World for points produced daily.

Magical times indeed. With fondness I look back at 'em.



The 9590 @ 5.1 on all eight? Actually not too awful bad in the heat dept. The H115i keeps her cool regardless. Well, Ok. She does get warm but not toasty when I might run Prime wide open but I don't do that often here. And certainly not more than maybe 10 minutes.. I get shivers that folks still, still, will run P95 for 24hrs. All to prove what exactly? I dunno. But talk about drastically, dramatically??, shortening the life span of a processor. And I honestly believe most don't even think of the lasting damage done while doing so. Amazing. Simply amazing.

The, two yrs down the road they appear here complaining that their ASRock board is having issues with memory that's ran since then when in fact it's likely their IMC is nearing the peter out stage from days and days of running P95 when first built. i do not get it sometimes. I just don't.

TAMW wrote: Getting a Zen when it comes out? Gotta be pretty soon now I hope.

You have one guess there if I am or not. Choose wisely Grasshopper!


Zen = Intel Slayer

Xaltar wrote: Small builds are challenging to keep tidy and with decent airflow. I take it your CPU cooler was blowing air up into the PSU extractor fan?

Forgot to reply.. Yes, I switched out the original psu fan to a noctua and ran it on 12v, air out the backside was quite hot during gaming

wardog are you running your amd UNDERCLOCKED??? What the fug man.

Getting a Zen when it comes out? Gotta be pretty soon now I hope.

I haven't ran AMD since early 2010, but was always fun!

It can get very pricey if you use kits but not if you get it done by a glass shop. The problem is that it takes a lot more work doing it this way. Measurements, mock ups, more measurements then adjust etc etc until you have it all worked out then strip it down, tidy the templates and take them in to get cut out of acrylic. It gets even cheaper if you use parts from old cases like the mobo tray and back plate.