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Offline MyndFyre

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Core 2 Quad: Rugged!
« on: May 02, 2008, 02:27:36 am »
I've got a Q6600 - and let me tell you, it's rugged.

I had something go wrong with my last PC in which the Core 2 Quad was installed.  Thinking the motherboard at itself (based on the fact that the mobo was overheating when it died), I bought a new one.  It's beautiful; nForce 790i chipset, three PCIe 2.0 x16, and a 2000MHz DDR3 memory standard.

So I haven't been able to figure out just yet how to get the new case's power button to talk to the motherboard.  Everything appears to be connected right, but I apparently am green-green colorblind.  Whatever, I just wanted to make sure that the power was OK.  There's a power button directly on the motherboard (handy!) so I pushed it.  It came on.

Sadly it looks like it's my video card that's the problem :(

Anyway, go into the BIOS, look through settings.  Pretty awesome for overclocking.  Go into the system status window....

I must not have my heat sink seated correctly.  Current CPU temperature: 102 C.

Hard power off!

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Re: Core 2 Quad: Rugged!
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2008, 02:33:05 am »
That's pretty intense...
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I'd bet that you're currently bloated like a water ballon on a hot summer's day.

That analogy doesn't even make sense.  Why would a water balloon be especially bloated on a hot summer's day? For your sake, I hope there wasn't too much logic testing on your LSAT. 

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Re: Core 2 Quad: Rugged!
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2008, 03:35:28 am »
Fuck heatsinks, just boil a pot of water with that cpu.
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Re: Core 2 Quad: Rugged!
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2008, 12:07:33 pm »
102c?  Sounds like my video cards playing Crysis on Very High.  :D

Yeah, something isn't right there.  I'd give you some lame noob advice about reseating it, but I'm sure you know what you're doing.   :)
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Re: Core 2 Quad: Rugged!
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2008, 02:52:29 pm »
Only slightly slower clockspeed and vastly more cache, I am happy with: Xeon E5410's. (slightly more expensive).

Probably for a different purpose than what you're going to be using that Core 2 Quad for, though :)
« Last Edit: May 05, 2008, 05:17:14 pm by Skywing »