Posts by Austin Castillo19

60 degrees is actually pretty chill for that clock speed. Wather? Personally, my cores hit about 70 degrees when I run Prime95 at 4.5, so I’m thinking about dropping down to 4.3 and hoping I can stay under that 60 mark. 🤷

I know this is an Overclock forum, but let's be real, this question fits right in here too. What's your go-to recommendation for an SSD? My RAID setup is running on AHCI, so what should I be doing to really optimize things? On my other rig I've got plenty of RAM, but I'm stuck with just 8GB on this one—should I go ahead and disable the pagefile here? I've already turned off hibernation, standby, defragmentation, and disk spin-down.

Benjamin King2 said:What, you running some kind of computer museum over there? 😁
Don't try to lecture me about busted cards... you’re probably a bit older than I am, honestly. I was messing around with a Spectrum back in the early 80s.

I've got an i5-2500K at home.

😂

What's the overclock on that i5 looking like, and what kind of temps are we talking? I finally finished the build after listening to your advice—just went with a single SSD this time. Got the clock set to 4.5 and now I just need to tweak a few things in the BIOS. Then I can actually start playing games, surfing the web, and watching movies instead of spending all my time building and tinkering. It's been going on for ten days straight now, and honestly, just finding a decent case and an SSD was half the battle. 🙂)

You make a good point about the drive. Even on my old rig, the disk score is sitting at 7.9 😂 while the memory, CPU, and 3D scores are all right there at 7.9 too.

Benjamin King2 said:The temperature shouldn't be climbing past 70.

What kind of rig are you running for your day-to-day stuff? I noticed you’ve got quite a few "junkers" lying around just like me, so I figured you’ve seen some things. Personally, I’ve been messing around with this tech since 1980. I’ve survived everything from those old MRX and VAX systems to RISC architectures, and even those heavy-duty IBM machines—the 2000 dark series and the 7000s. I remember back in the day actually having to load software using punched cards 😂 then eventually moving up to a server that weighed a literal ton and had maybe 64k of virtual RAM, which was such a joy at the time 🤣. Man... the years just fly by. About 6 or 7 years ago, we had a 400MB hard drive delivered to us via a literal delivery truck, and the thing weighed about the same amount. It was a total marvel. There were five of us just hauling it inside. When we finally hooked it up and it wouldn't even spin up... well, you can imagine the comments we got when we had to lug that thing right back out to the truck for decommissioning. Nowadays, everything at my job is just these lightweight, slim Dell servers everywhere and tiny hot-swap drives...

What kind of clock speeds are you guys running for 24/7 stability on an i7-2600K? Also, what's the highest temp you’re seeing when hitting it with Prime95?

Thanks.