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Emanuel Yam
Aug 22, 2004

Take it from our drummer, 'Puff'
Being good it gets you stuff
I recently bought a new desktop with the following components:

INTEL CORE i5 2500K 3.3GHz 6MB
CORSAIR COOLING HYDRO H60
ASUS P8Z68-V PRO GEN3 MOBO
THORTECH THUNDERBOLT 850W 80PLUS GOLD PSU

It gets here tomorrow and I'm a total scrub when it comes to computers but ive been learning a bit in the last week reading this forum/system building stuff.

I want to know whether the OP was being facetious with the 'Set the CPU multiplier to 42, save and exit' advice? Because i dont really want to crank it too much before i really know what im doing but it seems crazy not to go for a near 1 ghz increase for so little effort.. do i need to adjust anything else in the BIOS? is it not that simple?

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Emanuel Yam
Aug 22, 2004

Take it from our drummer, 'Puff'
Being good it gets you stuff

Dogen posted:

With that setup, you should be fine. Why the hilarious power supply?

Cause i didnt know any better when i ordered it (it was the suggested model for the moderate gamer) only realising later it might be a _tad_ overkill

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