This is something I have been wanting to try for a long time and right now the moment has come. My i7-6700K is OK with the Zalman CNPS10X Optima heatsink, max temperatures with the warm weather during gaming will see close to 70 Degrees C and that is with all the fans set to max…
Just seeing how far I can overclock the memory beyond the rated 3200MHz (200MHz) and so far it is working at 3600MHz (225MHz). To get this working I enabled the XMP profile, 3200MHz. Then set the memory frequency to 3600MHz. Restarted and it happened to work with the BIOS automatically scaling up the memory timings…
Graphic cards come with different style cooling fans / heat sinks, some perform better than others but in most cases the blower type cooler as featured on the MSI GTX 1080 Aero are worse when it comes to cooling performance. There are situations where the lower profile design can work better but it requires a…
The Adata XPG Z1 3000Mhz kit arrived along with all the other items and I doesn’t fit under the Scythe processor cooler. So the easiest option was to remove the XPG heat spreader which came off quite easily. The ADATA heat spreader is quite flimsy and doesn’t feel very solid in comparison to the Corsair…