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hehe, i was waiting for you to come back with some energy. I'm just makin sure you got that software. The thing that will get the cores running real hot with a "normal operation" is playing games with it. If you encode video or any type of consistent video rendering, it will get real hot. Asus Probe monitors the cpu shell, you know the part that the thermal grease is applied to. I'm just makin sure that you got that software because i didnt want to know that you may be in danger and i didnt say anything to ya to prevent it.

Asus Probe does NOT monitor core temp, just Shell temp, Asus Probe II does the same thing. You need to download RealTemp for 45nm chips and CoreTemp if you have a 65nm chip. IT's common sense by now after spilling out all this info, there are 3 separate temp sensors on a dual core chip... if your monitoring prog only shows one for the "cpu"... it's only monitoring the shell which is WAY off from what u need. here is PROOF - Notice I am using Asus Probe II CPU - 23C But my CORE TEMPS are a LOT higher because that is how Intel rates their thermal limits on their chips. If you go by the shell temp, then you gotta use this ridiculous formula that incorporates what the room temp is by all this other info you must know. Again, get RealTemp as Asus Probe I and II is not properly designed to monitor multiple cores yet.

Hey Chrismcdonald12, you may need to read this immediately! I was doin some quick research and got ahold of a guy online who also has your chip OC'ed to 4.2ghz daily and 4.7ghz for quick benches. He was tellin me that there is NO way that your core temps are that low. I had figured that, you really need to get the appropriate program to monitor your chip because if you don't, you could be harming it and not even know it! For a dual core temp, you will have 3 separate temp sensors to monitor, for a quad, there are 5. If your processor is 45nm which u say it is, you will need to download RealTemp as this software, unlike Coretemp is the only software out there that can properly calculate TJMax. TJMax for 65nm and higher are all the same so virtually any software could tell you the temp but these new 45nm chips need RealTemp to monitor as the TJMax spec is 95, not 100. Everest, the newest version also doesn't repost temps correctly either, over and over again have people stressed RealTemp is the only one suggested for temp monitoring for 45nm chips. Now, for dual core- You will have 3 temps- Core 1 Core 2 CPU. The CPU temp is the temp of the outer shell of the chip itself... that's irrelevant. This guy was tellin me that unless your room temperature stays at -36F would that be possible. He has his watercooled and at 4.2ghz benched, cores rise in the 50s Celcius. I'd suggest going to Intel's site and reading the document about that chip and finding out what it's max thermal rating is per core. My Quad is at 71.3C See, my Quad idles in the high 30s on the core but the CPU idles around 22C. During benches, 1 of my cores breaks 60C while the other remain in the high 50s. My CPU temp maxes at 38C. WAY Different than the core. The CORe is what needs to be monitored. If you used to monitor chips back when single core was big, using the same software will NOT work for multi core chips, especially 45nm. So, get that program and rebench and see what your cores get up too. You will have 2 temp readings, not 1 when monitoring dual core core temps. Make sure it isn't relatively close to it's maximum thermal rating or you could be causing premature failure.

except for video editing. When it comes to cpu speeds, video editing is really the only thing that really makes a difference when it comes to processor speeds. ALL of my video editing software except for one program has options to enable multi-threaded\multi-core support which allows me to encode video at such a high rate. Anything else i do on this pc, the FSB and the memory have to control the rest of the normal operations in terms of speed. In a few months, unless something else comes out that fits the bill by then, i'm gettin 2 4870s in crossfire. I seen multiple benchmarks where 2 4870s were faster than a single 4870x2, pulled less power, and were a little cheaper so i cant go wrong there. I do understand though, most games may only be written for 1 or 2 cpus at teh most so single core speeds rule over multi lower speeds. I understand what u are sayin.

UPDATE!! Just OC'ed to Quad 3.5 = 14ghz combined. Benched in Everest - I have Finally Beatin the First Dual Quad Core Xeon Processor of 2 in the list! It's impossible for me to beat the other one but it was my goal to beat one of them. What i just beat is a system that has 2 Quad core chips on 1 motherboard. The bench was FPUs, specifically what is used for video encoding. Just beat her, I'm happy as hell now, hehe. The 2 chips i just beat were Dual Xeon L5320s 8 cores of 1866mhz clock = 14.9ghz... surprisingly i beat it with a lower clock... AND underclocked memory at the moment! I'm running my memory underclocked so if i run into stability issues with these fast OC times, i know it's not the memory.

temperature efficient... my Q9300 is 45nm and it doesn't like high voltages compared to the q6600... Lot's of people have their Q6600 running as high as 1.5v, mine is still not over 1.3v yet and i'm 950mhz higher per core over stock speed. VID is 1.2375. Here is my results- Now, hehe, my 3d, and SM scores suck because i only have a $55 video card in here. this pc isn't ready for gaming yet, that i can say outloud obviously. What it is currently geared toward is just pure processing power capable of encoding video at high rates of speed and it does so very nicely. If you look at that pic, you will notice my CPU score. If you look to the right, i even beat an OC'ed E8400 at 4400MHz by almost 900 points. I don't really know how the point system works, wish we were comparing Everest to compare but i know it cost money so i understand. I'm happy so far, still tweakin so not done yet. I've been able to encode video so far with a 1 apss of up to 2,600 FPS! That's an 80:1 ratio! For every 1 sec of time that has elapsed, the pc has passed 80 seconds of video. Now, when actually encoding, the FPS drops some since that is when it does it's actual writing. The most it's gone up to so far is 880 FPS, that's still a 29.3:1 ratio. In lamen's terms, i can backup an entire 7.7gb DVD-9 to 4.37gb DVD-5 with 2 passes in less than 8 minutes. My last pc, hehe, Sempron 2800... it took about 2.5 hrs to do the same thing, lol. YOU MAY HAVE TO REFRESH THE PAGE IF THE PIC ABOVE ISN'T BIG ENOUGH. Photobucket resized it on me and i didnt know, it's fixed now.

Car audio... might want to disregard my post as well, thought you were referring to home audio too, hehe

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ok, i'm downloading 3dmark06 v1.10. I'll be postin some pics of results soon. I still cant believe that's your core temp but then again, i've always heard that quad runs hotter than dual, but that's insane if it's that much difference.

pssssh.... Be the first to Overclock your home audio setup while maintaining stability, hehe. Benchmark your setup with an SPL meter, hehe. You better be doin 130s and i dont care if it's DBs or GHz either.

same here, i still got a 5yr old asus here, it has OC abilities but if u are planning on goin high up, it doesnt have all the voltage settings required to get the most stability and control over precise areas as this new board i have does.

Is that Core temp or CPU temp? that def sounds like CPU temp to me. My CPU temp with my overclock right now is only - 22C at 19% work load I dont know my max temp for CPU because it's directly irrelevant to safety. Yours is already dual 3.0 stock so you'll def get higher speeds on your single cores, 1.2 over per is Terrific! I like to compare so i can have a comparison. Do you have Everest 4.60 Ultimate? If you do not, let me know a benchmarking tool we can compare tests with. I'm curious to compare. I know the battle of the cpus out there are the E8400 vs Q6600 vs Q9300 so this should be interesting.

hehe, i dont even wana go Graphics on this card i have... It doesnt have a fan on it yet it idles at 131F and maxes at 174F during gameplay... that's ridiculous. It's already at 750mhz Core\1000mhz RAM. I have a program that can adjust it's voltage just like a cpu but havent researched OCing graphic cards yet. Those little software progs that come with graphics cards to OC them are not stable and will only cause excessive heat generation due to the fact that you can not control voltage. I run my software that came with it just to monitor the temp on my other monitor.

if u think its the remote, get a relay, go to 12volt.com and get a diagram of how it should be wired and wire everything to the relay, relay must be grounded and ran directly to the battery as well as the remote line will just be used to activate the relay. See if that fixes it.

yea, i've been goin over all my other pcs i've built but notice that their mobos i chose are very restrictive on what settings can be changed. Like this one mobo i have, only thing i can change on it is the RAM timings... that isn't overclocking at all really, hehe. This board i have, Asus P5Q Pro, i've got someone else online that just purchased it because it has literally every possible setting for OC-ing and this, for price reasons, is Asus's budget board, but man does it come with a LOT of features. You can get it for around $130-140. It def. beats their other boards that range all the way up to $400 for the price.

Ever since i started doin research and doin it myself, it's very addictive and i'm very satisfied. I am running a Q9300 (Quad 2.5ghz) Intel off of an Asus board. Right now, i'm stable at Quad 3.45ghz with temps maxing out at only 61C and this is air cooling, no water cooling at all. Idle temps on 3 of 4 cores are below 40C. I'm being told this is an awesome spec'd benchmark especially this being the first time me doin it.... after weeks of research though. My idle times are actually the SAME as the stock speeds. I'm lookin for someone to compare benchmarks too because nobody i can find can compare to this pc. My memory write speed now is 9,600 MB\sec. Most people i've talked to think 6,000 MB\sec is pretty decent... My Memory Copy speed is almost at 9,800 MB\sec. My Memory speed is peakin at 8,800 MB\sec although i had to reduce it some the other day to OC my cpu more. I'll see if it helped later because i'm trying to get to quad 3.5ghz without going over 60C. That would be an extra 4ghz for free, lol. I have a LOT of info about this chip if anyone is interested in purchasing one, i can definitely help ya set it up.

if u want some money back, cancel it and contact squaretrade for a warranty. If it was a brand new legit purchase, they'll sell you a 3yr warranty for 10% of what u paid for it.

I've caught a sub on fire before, bout 6 yrs ago. Smoke was rollin out of both ports. Burnt straight through the spider at both terminal leads. Cause- excessive clipping below tuning. Time taken to cause this once bass started - approximately 20 seconds.

you can also try www.amprepaircenter.com They are in Ohio. Also, PM me about the subs if you're gettin them this weekend.

if u mean good as in rated power, it's just a hair shy of doin what it is rated at, if u give it just an itty bitty push of clipping, it will definitely do rated power. Tested do to around 1947w @0.5 ohms, rated to do 2kw at 0.5 ohms to let u kow, 80% efficient. if u buy from qualitycaraudio.com, you'll get full 3yr warranty through lanzar. If u dont, then go to squaretrade and get your warranty through them for 2 yrs.

Well, this PSU i am refering to, i'm thinkin about buyin it for my new pc i just built because it only has 1 rail. They have an article about it somewhere on their site about that PSU and why it's so much better than multi-rails, bla bla bla. That's what got me thinkin about this. I just don't understand why a PSU of such magnitude can be so cheap compared to bench supplies.

this topic is interesting to research about. IT is better off saying, good luck finding a bench power supply able to handle the amount of amps a decent amp will draw for the money... All bench supplies i have seen stop around 55 amps and are over $500. That's too much money for a project. Now, a company called Silverstone makes very nice PSUs and they just so happen to have a 1,000w PSU with single 12v rail at 80A for $189 after rebate. That makes for an interesting project if i can find the proper information for doing this and even if it's safe.

I have been doing lots of searching for detailed information on exactly how this is done and the safety issues wih doing this and have not found anything worth mentioning so let me lay out what i think would work and see what you guys think? To do so i would assume you would need the following- PSU with single 12v rail. PSU with 12v rail output equal or greater than the fuse rating on the amp. Cut off ALL 12v wires going into connectors and splice them all together to form the rated 12v output ready to connect to Power input on amp. Do the PSU trick so u can turn on and off the PSU via kill switch in the back. If all of this is true, then i have a couple questions. 1- Most PSUs have terrible -12v ground amperage ratings.... is this ok? Am i suppose to hookup the negative output from the amp to all -12v wiring on the PSU? I do not understand what the -12v amps are for so i am lost on that spec. 2- What are the safety issues with doing this if it works fine? Of course an inline fuse will be required but besides that? I've heard of someone running for a while and the PSU actually set fire. I can assume maybe excessive output to fast but i don't like to speculate about things that might burn the house down, hehe

I am trying to learn and since i have nothing to tell me whether i am understanding anything i "Assume" to be true or not, i need guidance, hehe. We all know what a disk array is, a backplane, etc....I want to build my own and have the edge that it will be cheaper compared to it's expandability potential. I need it to be standalone so lets start from scratch and fill me in on anything here. I will acquire a case with many 5.25 external bays for the purpose of using backplanes. Found an awesome deal for a backplane that uses 3 bays for 4 SATA drives for under $100 with great reviews so it's sold me on that. Now, without a motherboard required, i install a PSU that is strong enough to power as many drives as i want. I do the PSU wire trick so i can turn on and off the system via kill switch on the PSU itself. Question #1- Is it safe to power off all the drives via the PSU switch when i am done with the drives? I do not know what's different when it comes to doing a hard shutdown(kill switch) or when using an OS and letting it shut down Now, i have the backplane installed with all proper wires feeding into it... Let's say i have 4 drives, for example. Can I do the following with success? Run 4 sata cables from the backplane into this- Please read description Then run them out of that case via that bracket into a real computer using the SAME bracket? Then take it's 4 internal ports directly down to the motherboard? Or use that bracket and run all 4 cables out of it into this- SATA External Port Multiplier Official Website Then from there.. into an esata to internal SATA bracket that would run directly to sata port on motherboard. Remember, if you forget or do not know, this is to NOT require a motherboard in the external storage system and NO PCI RAID controllers of any kind in a pc that it connects to. Any pc it connects to will have RAID support on the motherboard. Also note - ALL drives will always be ran JBOD and JBOD only so if i list any type of wiring configuration that may make that impossible, let me know.

Found out that somehow the low and high limit for the generator to run at had been locked somehow to the low limit. What happened is the generator was then only putting out about 105v but also at 50hz. This would force electronics to start drawing more current to try and work properly thus causing excessive current draw and smoke, etc. we are looking at attempting to install a 100A single phase line reactor that one of my friends might be able to get.