Recent content by fitduarte

@SeñorDonut Never did an alternative bios flash before. How risky is it?

How accurate is the Package TDP measure in Intel XTU (and other monitoring softwares)? It shows 45w when my cpu is in full load (doing a render in Blender). Droping the clock to 2.8 Ghz lowered it to 35w.

I checked the bios and it doesn't have the option to change voltage, unfortunately. It's a very basic board and chipset.

Thanks for all the responses, guys. Really helpful! @Runamok81 That's the idea. I'd like to find the best performance per watt Haswell (non K) chip to keep the fans quiet. I tried my 84w (i5 4570) chip in there and it was not pretty. The fans got louder than I'd like. Tried disabling turbo...

Hey guys, A full kit upgrade is not a choice right now because I'll repurpose the following parts from another build: Motherboard: MSI H81I RAM: Kingston 2 x 8GB DDR3 1600 GPU: Gigabyte GTX 1050 Ti 4GB OC Low Profile Boot drive: 250 GB Samsung 850 EVO Game drive: 1 TB Seagate Laptop Thin SSHD...

Hey, guys! Long time reader, first time posting. This card just showed up on retail in Brazil and I can't find any info on the card beyond the basic spec sheet. Couldn't find even the official EVGA product page. My main concern is noise level. I had the Gigabyte model before and it was...