[marty370]

While we’re all anxiously awaiting the conference later today, Sony is rewarding “loyal” PSN members with a voucher for $10 dollars. You can find a picture of the message above, which strongly implies we will see something huge at the conference later today. This will most likely come in the form of the PlayStation 4, but it could also be something else I suppose. In any case, you might want to check your messages to see if you’ve been “loyal” enough to earn the voucher. Going off what I’ve heard from others, it seems to have nothing to do with when your account was created or trophy total, so it might just be for playing on the PlayStation 3 an absurd amount of time. Whatever the case might be, it’s nice to see Sony rewarding their “loyal” fans with a small bonus.

http://www.justpushstart.com/2013/02...0-psn-voucher/

[haz367]

wow...snony on a roll there...giving 10 away..wohoooo

[General Plot]

They sent me one. It's only $10, but hey, I'll take it.

[BobbyBangin]

I would like to reward $ony with a mushroom stamp on the forehead for banning me.

Off topic @General Plot , have you ever overclocked your i7 920? I have an i7 950 with 16 GB Ram and Nvidia GTX 560 ti. I've been looking into overclocking mine or possibly waiting until I upgrade to an i7 980 xtreme.

[General Plot]

Originally Posted by BobbyBangin I would like to reward $ony with a mushroom stamp on the forehead for banning me. Off topic @General Plot , have you ever overclocked your i7 920? I have an i7 950 with 16 GB Ram and Nvidia GTX 560 ti. I've been looking into overclocking mine or possibly waiting until I upgrade to an i7 980 xtreme.

The clockspeed in my sig (3.4 Ghz) actually is an overclocked speed. Stock speed on the i7 920 is 2.66 Ghz. I could probably get more out of it, but don't really have a need for more. My baseclock is normally 133 and I've set it to 170.

[BobbyBangin]

Originally Posted by General Plot The clockspeed in my sig (3.4 Ghz) actually is an overclocked speed. Stock speed on the i7 920 is 2.66 Ghz. I could probably get more out of it, but don't really have a need for more. My baseclock is normally 133 and I've set it to 170.

Ah yes, I should have realized that seeing as my default speed is 3.07 ghz. A modest overclock is all I really want as well. Something like 3.4 - 3.8...maybe, MAYBE as high as 4.0. Just don't want to deal with a lot of heat. My biggest problem is I'm not sure about what to set all the bios settings to but I'll keep researching.

[General Plot]

Best place for info is here: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...ocking_11.html

Just make sure you have decent (but not too high) voltage settings for your RAM and chip, and you can crank up the BSCLK setting to bring up the overall clock speed (baseclock is shown as bus speed in CPUZ). It looks like the 950 has a 23x multiplier (as your bus speed is roughly 133, and 133.64Mhz x 23 = 3.073 Ghz). This being the case, baseclock 148 would get you 3.404 Ghz, 166 would give you 3.818 Ghz and 174 would be 4 Ghz.

[DarkMessiah]

@BobbyBangin The max stable multiplier on your cpu would be 23.It would be the best for high overclock but still pretty low voltage.Of course check you cpu temperature, and if your gonna overclock I would say go download Core Temp and keep an eye on your max load temp (run a demanding game or Prime95).Then see what is your load temp and write it on somewhere.Then go to BIOS and increase the multiplier by 1.Then launch a demanding game and play it for some time or run Prime95 for a bit and see what is your load temp and if your system doesn't crash.I would recommend to not let you CPU get hotter than 70 degrees celsius.

[BobbyBangin]

Originally Posted by General Plot Best place for info is here: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...ocking_11.html Just make sure you have decent (but not too high) voltage settings for your RAM and chip, and you can crank up the BSCLK setting to bring up the overall clock speed (baseclock is shown as bus speed in CPUZ). It looks like the 950 has a 23x multiplier (as your bus speed is roughly 133, and 133.64Mhz x 23 = 3.073 Ghz). This being the case, baseclock 148 would get you 3.404 Ghz, 166 would give you 3.818 Ghz and 174 would be 4 Ghz.

Originally Posted by DarkMessiah @BobbyBangin The max stable multiplier on your cpu would be 23.It would be the best for high overclock but still pretty low voltage.Of course check you cpu temperature, and if your gonna overclock I would say go download Core Temp and keep an eye on your max load temp (run a demanding game or Prime95).Then see what is your load temp and write it on somewhere.Then go to BIOS and increase the multiplier by 1.Then launch a demanding game and play it for some time or run Prime95 for a bit and see what is your load temp and if your system doesn't crash.I would recommend to not let you CPU get hotter than 70 degrees celsius.

You guys are awesome. I've been looking for advice like this for a while now. Thank you!

[Theeze]

You should invest in the 2500k/2600k very high overclockers for not much stress on the vcore. I'm comfortably sitting at 4.5Ghz. Pair it up with a gtx 670 and you're golden for a long time.