Thanks!
Gave Prime95 a run and it didn't seem to run into any issues. I have a CPU temp monitoring app and the average temp of all the cores maxed at 147'F degrees Fahrenheit.(The Celsius scale is foreign to me much like the metric system, so I use Fahrenheit for my temperatures.
) I got a beast of a heat-sink on this thing. Had to get a wider CPU case as a result when I first got it. Never really had issues with the temperatures.
I think the only thing better would be a water cooling system which is probably what I need if I ever wanted to overclock this CPU.
I'd test the GPU, but at this point it's getting replaced anyway, so no point. If there was a defect in the CPU I would be pretty pissed. I think the i7's or at least the 965 is still pretty pricey and have been quite satisfied with it.
Does the Asus P6T motherboard accept current generation of i7 CPUs? I checked and this is the appearent current gen equilevent of my current CPU:
http://ark.intel.com/products/77779/Intel-Core-i7-4960X-Processor-Extreme-Edition-15M-Cache-up-to-4_00-GHz
Compared to what I have now:
http://ark.intel.com/products/37149/
They both appear to use the same amount of power and I have 1333 DDR3 ram which both supports. But the current gen one says it supports 4 memory channels while my current one uses 3. The amount of i7's they have is vast and confusing. I'm just curious as to which of the newest CPUs I can drop in this thing without replacing the motherboard/RAM had I gotten the money to do so.
I'd never be able to afford to replace this CPU, but just looking at this hypothetically. Even if I could, it looks like my current i7 has aged pretty well and isn't really obsolete yet.
Gave Prime95 a run and it didn't seem to run into any issues. I have a CPU temp monitoring app and the average temp of all the cores maxed at 147'F degrees Fahrenheit.(The Celsius scale is foreign to me much like the metric system, so I use Fahrenheit for my temperatures.
) I got a beast of a heat-sink on this thing. Had to get a wider CPU case as a result when I first got it. Never really had issues with the temperatures.I think the only thing better would be a water cooling system which is probably what I need if I ever wanted to overclock this CPU.
I'd test the GPU, but at this point it's getting replaced anyway, so no point. If there was a defect in the CPU I would be pretty pissed. I think the i7's or at least the 965 is still pretty pricey and have been quite satisfied with it.
Does the Asus P6T motherboard accept current generation of i7 CPUs? I checked and this is the appearent current gen equilevent of my current CPU:
http://ark.intel.com/products/77779/Intel-Core-i7-4960X-Processor-Extreme-Edition-15M-Cache-up-to-4_00-GHz
Compared to what I have now:
http://ark.intel.com/products/37149/
They both appear to use the same amount of power and I have 1333 DDR3 ram which both supports. But the current gen one says it supports 4 memory channels while my current one uses 3. The amount of i7's they have is vast and confusing. I'm just curious as to which of the newest CPUs I can drop in this thing without replacing the motherboard/RAM had I gotten the money to do so.
I'd never be able to afford to replace this CPU, but just looking at this hypothetically. Even if I could, it looks like my current i7 has aged pretty well and isn't really obsolete yet.
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