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HalloKitty posted:lovely plastic lugs, and having to push really hard on a stupid bent piece of metal with a screwdriver were just awful things about old heatsinks. I had to try and figure out why my in laws' PC kept shutting down after a few minutes of use. I figured it was dust (they kept it on the floor in a house with a border collie and two cats  ) so I opened it up and started removing the dust... and found that the heatsink was only attached with two sodding pushpins. The other two utterly refused to go back in; managed it eventually but it had been off for long enough that the processor had just had it. So yeah, balls to pushpins.An actual thread relevant question - should I be following the three step overclocking guide that grumperfish linked for overclocking my 760? I realise I won't be going for exactly the settings in the link as that's not specifically for the 760 but the principles seem clear(ish). FF, the OP is superb - I especially liked the explanation for exactly WHY you need to raise voltages to avoid crashes really helpful. The time spent is greatly appreciated.
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Agreed posted:Unigine Heaven is great at showing you errors of varying severity. 3Dmark11 is good, too, but running that sequentially is way more of a pain in the rear end than Heaven. The thing to remember though is that DX9, DX10, DX11 are different and your card might wall at different frequencies for them. E.g. my 580 will do about 950mhz in DX9 stably, but 920mhz in DX10, and 925mhz at DX11. Different parts getting stressed. I go with the lowest common denominator because I can't be arsed, personally. At first I thought that second one was the start of a memory sequence in one of the Assassin's Creed games, where all the buildings expand up out of nowhere. Grumperfish, thanks for the Lynnfield link - as soon as I can get up the energy to take out the old heatsink and get the 212 Evo on there I'll be giving it a go.
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