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<0> and there's a groove sorta to make it even more roomy
<1> it was very easy
<0> yeah
<1> that 9500 is a bitchin heatsink
<0> zalman designs some seriously nice stuff.
<1> good choice :)
<0> yeah it's fantastic. :)
<1> I loved my 700cu
<0> keeps my oc'd opty chilly as all ****
<1> 7000
<1> its sitting here next to me until i find a use for it
<1> haha
<0> i can keep my overclock roarin during the hottest days in the summer, even.
<1> both my rigs are watercooled right now
<0> yeah i haven't ventured into the water yet, dunno if I will
<1> i suppose ill give it to a friend or my brother
<1> yea
<0> i've never had a noise issue or cared about noise
<1> the 9500 is a beast
<0> and it seems this does the job just fine.
<1> i dont do it for the noise
<1> i do it for the overclocking
<0> yeah
<0> i don't necessarily venture into the "extreme" overclocking so I feel pretty safe with good airflow and a quality sink
<1> hehe yep
<0> my machine has very, very good airflow.
<1> I take it as high as i can go
<0> yeah
<1> push it until it crashes
<1> see how high i can get it stable
<0> yeah I remained with stock volts
<1> using prime95 of course
<1> ah i see
<0> but the opty 148 got me to 2.8ghz with no issues
<0> totally prime stable
<1> nice
<0> been flawless since early jan when I put it together
<1> my new box is not up yet due to the case not arriving
<0> :D
<1> this old 2.8ghz intel is doing 3.4 right now
<0> tons of gaming, encoding, i/o rapage, etc.
<1> on a crappy thermaltake bigwater
<1> never gets over 40 degrees
<1> nice :)
<1> optys kick ***
<1> amd fo life!
<0> totally
<0> best chip I've ever purchased in my live
<0> life
<1> my new box has a 4000+ san diego core
<1> i didnt really need dual core
<1> im a big gamer
<0> I'm just titilated with the fact that I essentially paid $207 for an fx-57
<2> I have an x2 3800 in 3 machines of mine
<1> haha
<1> yep
<0> and by raising volts a tiny bit i could easily have an fx-59
<0> if i chose to.
<1> I hope to get this 4000+ to 3.0ghz
<0> yeah I'm not worried about dual core yet
<1> or higher :D
<1> we will see
<0> this thing is so freakin' fast i'm not worried bout dual core
<1> hehe yep
<1> i dont need it
<0> maybe later i'll plop in a dual core opteron
<0> but not for some time
<1> possibly
<0> i mean, I still have room to upgrade my gpu
<1> my next cpu upgrade will probably be m2
<0> before I really need to worry bout bottleneck
<1> until then
<1> the 4000+ will be blazing fast
<0> yeah that's kinda what I'm thinking
<0> i mean, I only have a 7800GT
<1> thats a nice card
<0> oh yeah
<1> no need to upgrade right now
<0> but like, in 1 year I could get the latest and greatest
<0> and this opty will still be bad***
<1> new comp will have a 7800gtx, but it will have an sli board
<0> this cpu won't be a bottleneck for some time
<1> and i plan to add another later
<1> however, im not watercooling the gpu because I switch them out so quick
<1> anytime nvidia releases a new card
<1> i immeadeatly upgrade
<1> cpu not so much
<0> i foresee using this opteron 5 years from now for a nice, cool running workstation either in my office or as a dumb box at home for whatever
<0> once I upgrade
<2> I'll say this. Service Pack 2 does keep my RAM usage down
<1> hehe yep
<0> it has a logn life ahead of it
<2> It used to be I idled at about 680MB
<1> same with the 4000+
<2> now...
<0> CJDeak - i've never seen any point to not installing sp2.
<2> RAM: Used: 436/1536MB (28% Load)
<2> And that's with 2 copies of Gmail notifier, mirc, zone alarm, xfire, trillian and AVG free running, on a skinned XP
<3> can you get refunds on newegg.com for some opened pc hardware?
<0> if it's doa, yes, they'll RMA
<0> for opened packaging you might have to deal with a restocking fee
<4> rma, yes, refund, prolly not
<0> if its not DOA
<1> but not if theres thermal paste um, burned into it
<3> wat if it isn't and i just want my money back?
<0> just try to rma the cpu and be more careful next time
<3> not the processor
<0> you've gotten this far, dude.
<3> everything else
<3> **** it
<0> quitters never win
<3> I am not spending any more money
<0> after all the shipping and restocking fees you could just buy a new cpu
<3> the processor cannot be rma'd on newegg
<0> and you still don't even know if that cpu won't get rmad
<0> how do you know?
<1> winners always quit
<0> call them and bs your way to an rma
<0> you can do this, stainer.
<0> c'mon
<1> it can be done
<0> you bought a retail cpu
<0> it was *cough* doa
<0> you followed instructions perfectly
<1> with thermal paste melted into it
<1> that processor probably looks like you torched it and took a piss on it
<0> well, the thermal paste gets gooey even when installed properly
<1> to cool it down
<0> just clean it up and send it back, including the heatsink
<3> where do i go to do the rma?
<0> call them
<2> "I installed everything perfectly, but I turned it on, and it shut off, I went back to recheck my connections and burnt my hand on your processor
<2> "
<1> ****ERS ILL SUE YOU!!!
<0> say you tested the hardware with a working cpu your friend let you borrow
<1> theyll take it.
<0> so you know its the cpu
<3> well, wouldn't cleaning the stuff off the processor and the heat sink not be a good thing to do?
<2> So I took it off, and looked, everything was in place, but the processor had thermal paste MELTED INTO IT, so I swapped out my old CPU and it worked, but it won't post with this thing"
<1> no it would be a good thing
<0> well tell them there is thermal paste on it and you're not sure if you should clean it or not
<0> they'll tell you what to do
<1> it has all the signs of a failed overclock
<1> UR FUXd
<3> wha?
<3> So what exactly is my story?
<3> for the thermal paste
<1> you cooked thermal paste on it and tried to eat it
<1> because it looked tasty
<0> even if it was installed properly, there will be thermal paste on it
<1> not BURNED into it
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