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Subjunctive posted:Well gently caress. I would try clearing the CMOS/BIOS first. The jumper should be around the USB2 headers on that board, if that helps.
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Roller Coast Guard posted:Is there anything I should be aware of if I'm intending to re-use my old mATX case (Bitfenix Prodigy M) in a new build? Don't want to stumble over some "oh yeah GPUs are all double size now and mATX cases got their layouts reworked back in 2018, none of this poo poo will fit lol" type scenario. Looks like that particular case has "Maximum Graphics Card Support (Length): 320mm (12.6 inch)" "Maximum Graphics Card Support (width): 150mm(5.9 inch)" stated on the manufacturer's website, so double-check and avoid graphics cards bigger than that and you should be fine.
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Ashsaber posted:Well, Good News: After bumbling around for a couple hours I was able to complete my build, and holy poo poo it actually booted! It installed the OS with no issues (though I didn't go online to validate the key)! It boots in like >10 seconds compared to the 30 or so my old (current) one does.  I suppose the HDD that isn't being recognized might not be partitioned, in which case this might help you (just skip the part about shrinking the C partition, since it's not relevant to you): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdHjolzl7Gk
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Klyith posted:This is pretty much every gamer / enthusiast hardware company I M O. Corsair isn't even the worst. The ones that aren't crap are forcing log in to a tracking server just to use. I still use an old (probably 2012-ish) Trust mouse where the system tray application just saves your settings to the mouse itself. It is so convenient and simple. I don't know if their newer models use a similar system, though.
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owls or something posted:SInce I can't seem to find/buy isopropyl alcohol and my stashed bottle got raided for pandemic reasons, what is a good or even better alternative for cleaning thermal grease off CPU/heatsink? If you can find it anywhere, Akasa makes a citrus based "TIM clean" fluid which I found to be quite effective.
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Umbreon posted:Thermals are looking ok While I have my game and browser up: What about the numbers in Task Manager? Do they add up? Might also want to check the Services section (below your screenshot) in the Resource Monitor, in case there's some service there using CPU time that's not being shown among the processes.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:I built my new PC about a month ago and since day 1 I've been getting very random hard locks where the screen just goes to black (monitor light starts blinking) and I need to reset the PC. What graphics card do you have? I had similar issues (seemingly random hard locks to black screen, needing hard reboot) starting maybe 7-8 months ago and it was my Vega 56 GPU seemingly going bad after having worked fine for ~1 year. Swapped back to my old R9 390 and the problems went away completely, so I had to RMA the Vega card. If you have or can borrow another graphics card to try with, see if that helps.
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:It's a Radeon RX 580 so same-ish family, which doesn't bode well. Hopefully it won't get to that because the RMA process would be a bitch and I don't have a spare. Yeah, I hope you don't need to do that. For reference, this is what my reliability history looked like while I had the issues up until I swapped back to the old card. In hindsight, I should have tried that much sooner, though I had forgotten about the old card. 
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wormil posted:Hmmm, getting no cpu detected or fail LED on my build. R5 2600, MSI B550 Edge, I can't link to pcpartpicker from mobile. I went through the troubleshooting steps on Tom's Hardware (reseat everything, try 1 ram stick, etc.) and no post. Unless it's a bios issue but it shouldn't be with a 550 board right? Do I just RMA the cpu first or is there anything else worth trying. B550 doesn't support 2000-series CPUs or 3000-series APUs, as far as I know, so that is not going to work unless there's some future BIOS patch for older CPUs. Assuming it's the MSI MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI (closest match I could find), here's the compatibility list: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/MPG-B550-GAMING-EDGE-WIFI#support-cpu
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wormil posted:I am such a dumbass. I meant to buy an x570 gaming edge wifi and bought the b550 gaming edge wifi by mistake. Okay, thanks. Now let me figure it what to do. As long as you can swap them like that, things should work out fine
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So-so Miscreant posted:Trying to decide between building my own system or getting a similarly specced prebuilt from bestbuy. I'm aiming for comfortably hitting 1080/60 on most new games while watching videos in chrome, but I'd also like to keep the door open for 1080/144 or 4k down the road. This system seems pretty good bang for the buck, and seems to compare well price wise to one you would have to build yourself: I'm not sure how good the airflow really is in that case what with the side intakes around the closed front, though one of the customer reviews claim it's good. I don't see anything else obvious about it.
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I would probably choose an expansion card if you have a decent amount of room in your case.
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Jul 10, 2020 19:32
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BrainDance posted:It's genuinely impressive how silent this heatsink is. I'm half deaf anyway, but even set to "performance mode" or whatever nonsense it may as well be silent, can't hear it at all. Yeah, I can't hear mine at all from ~2-3 meters away
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sean10mm posted:This may be common knowledge, but I've been reading up on B550 boards and they can be kind of weird with how they handle ports/slots/bandwidth if you try to use more than the dedicated PCIe 4.0 16x slot and PCIe 4.0 4x M2 SSD slot. Basically none of them can actually use all of their onboard SATA ports, M.2 ports and PCIe slots at full bandwidth at once. My MSI B450M Mortar Max also works much like this. One of the M.2 slots disables a couple of SATA ports if you use it with a 4x M.2 drive, as I recall, because they share the same PCIe lanes to the CPU. I have also known B350 motherboards to do the same. Edit: the manual usually mentions it, but it can be nearly impossible to find anything about it on the product pages, which sucks.
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Jul 14, 2020 15:08
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space marine todd posted:What's the reasoning behind picking the Noctua NH-U14S vs the Noctua NH-D15? Less overkill and smaller size (so better compatibility with surrounding components)
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Grumpwagon posted:Alright y'all, my cousin has thrown down the gauntlet to me to create the best possible gaming computer on a $500 budget. She mostly plays indie games and older games, but is interested in Bloodlines 2 and a couple of other modern games. She won't be playing Doom Eternal, or anything super demanding, and this will be on a 1080p monitor. We also have access to a Microcenter. According to Gigabyte's website, the GA-A320M-S2H needs at least BIOS version F40 to support Ryzen 3 3100. I doubt they will be shipping such an old motherboard model with any kind of recent BIOS preinstalled, so you would almost certainly need an older CPU just to update the BIOS before it would even boot with the Ryzen 3. You would probably also need to do at least two BIOS updates (from whatever is installed up to F32 and then on to whatever new version is available) according to their BIOS downloads section notes.
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Grumpwagon posted:Alright, thanks to both of you! I ordered this today. I got the better case you suggested, and the power supply was out of stock, so I got this EVGA 500 W1 power supply which Johnny guru reviewed and basically said was surprisingly well made for the price. I was hoping for at least a bronze, but at this price, I'll settle for "not burning the house down." We decided not to get the MB upgrade, as we were already pushing it and I don't see upgrades for this machine happening. That said, to Bofast's point, Microcenter supposedly has done the BIOS update on this, and we will be checking when we pick it up. If that's not the case, we'll probably end up with the suggested B450M DS3H. All that, plus a $20 Logitech KB/Mouse bundle, a SA mart Windows key, and a local $40 craigslist monitor has produced, in theory, a <$650 after tax and shipping complete system that will at least modestly well play games and stuff. I didn't think it was possible, so thanks for the thread knowledge and the tweaks. I'll report back once it is working. If the shop does it for you, that's great!
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Mu Zeta posted:I think Hyundai like all the other S Korean conglomerates make money on literally everything. Wouldn't be surprised if there was Hyundai life insurance, Hyundai assault rifles, and Hyundai tanks. Those things could be related. They do have companies for shipbuilding, petroleum refining, real estate, a racing team and a bunch of other things. A Hyundai branded drive is probably from what is now known as SK Hynix (formerly Hynix and before that Hyundai Electronics). It amuses me that these South Korean chip makers are also ship makers, and I only found out about it when someone in a hardware thread did a typo and accidentally called Samsung one of the world's largest ship makers (which turned out to also be true). 
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Klyith posted:Excellent sean10mm posted:Yeah I'm old enough to remember when onboard audio, if it existed at all, was trash. I think at one point they even claimed onboard audio hurt game performance it was so lovely! Nvidia Soundstorm on their Nforce2 chipsets sounded a whole lot better than all the regular AC97 chips, as I recall.
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The Gardenator posted:Is it recommended to replace ssds (move them to secondary stroage) with newer tech when upgrading or are they more reliable than platter hdd? Many of them can write crazy amounts of data before developing issues. https://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead/
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acksplode posted:Hello PC building megathread, I have a PC building megaproblem and I need PC building megahelp. tl;dr: I recently assembled a new 3700x/3080 gaming PC that I'm quite happy with, except that certain games seem to be causing it to hard reboot. I suddenly see a black screen, then Windows booting up like normal. Event viewer shows no errors prior to the reboot in the Windows system log. And it's only specific games where I'm seeing this: I can play some newer and demanding games for hours with no issue, then switch to a game that was released a few years ago and I'll see a reboot in under an hour, sometimes as quickly as a couple minutes. My first thought was this looks like a hardware problem with my GPU or power supply, but I've been unable to isolate such a problem. I'm at my wits end, desperately updating drivers in hopes of a fix, so I'd appreciate any suggestions for further troubleshooting steps. Below I have more details on the build, which games are causing reboots, and the troubleshooting I've done so far. In case you still have issues with this, I had similar issues a while back and it ended up being my Vega 56 card. Swapped in an old GPU that I still had left over and the issues went away, so I got it refunded and bought a different card. No issues since. This is what my reliability monitor looked like at the time  
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spunkshui posted:You laugh but I'm using one of these on a 1070 founders as I wait to see the 3080 TI vs 3080. I haven't really heard about Accelero since I used one of their enormous heatsinks to 100% passively cool my Radeon HD 4850 back in the day. It was fun, though.
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Nohearum posted:I hope you weren't joking when you recommended this approach. Case still hasn't arrived and I got impatient.  That's glorious
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KingKapalone posted:Not sure where to ask this but it didn't get much interest in the headphones thread. Is there a recommended PC mic for open mic gaming? The Blue Yeti can work just fine in some cases, but it varies a lot. I have one standing on my desk that works fine for open mic voice chat in Discord after I set the threshold manually but a friend of mine has the same one with roughly the same settings on the mic itself and we can hear his entire house much of the time. I did put some folded up paper underneath my Yeti to stop it from picking up keyboard vibrations through the desk and now it barely picks up my Logitech G810 unless my typing gets really intense. Admittedly, I have no idea how loud Cherry Reds are compared to Romer-G switches. edit: spunkshui posted:https://www.microcenter.com/product/512483/intel-core-i9-9900k-coffee-lake-36ghz-eight-core-lga-1151-boxed-processor A 9900K for $300? That's a pretty big price drop 
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Erfsom posted:Where I am the Ryzen 5600 won't be in stock until late january, early february at best. However I did see some cheap Ryzen 2600 in stock, all other AM4 processors except for the expensive ones are sold out. I don't think any of the B550 boards will support CPUs that old. X570 might (not 100% sure about this), but B550 seems to be 3000 series or newer CPUs only
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I picked up one of the 1TB WD SN550 SSDs during Black Friday. It is fine for reading and short burst writes, but it really tanked when I tried copying over my Steam folder from my old S-ATA game SSD. Started with transfer speeds around 300 MB/s (probably limited by the old S-ATA drive) but after a minute or two it dropped to ~15 MB/s and stayed there. Solid speeds copying back from it once I had replaced the other game drive, though. Just something to keep in mind. Edit: I can't seem to replicate it anymore, so it must have been some temporary issue. Ignore this post. Bofast fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Dec 4, 2020 |
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Some Goon posted:That's substantially lower than it was benched for, something is up here. I tried to replicate it today and it's just not happening now. No idea what was wrong on the day when I installed it, but maybe some odd driver issue? I edited my post to reflect this.
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Farecoal posted:True, but what about CPUs? Is it just the supply chains and it being the holidays? Intel CPUs have had varying degrees of supply issues since at least late 2018 or so, at least on the enterprise side. This is likely due in part to how they could not successfully ramp their 10nm process to replace 14nm capacity, and in part to the fact that Intel had to split their silicon wafers into bigger (and therefore fewer) 14nm chips to fight the multicore war against AMD. Meanwhile, TSMC's 7nm process is booked full by various customers right now and whatever share of the silicon wafer starts AMD has managed to purchase on that process is being split between their CPUs, GPUs, Xbox chips and Playstation chips. If demand would start to normalize early next year, that could help a bit, but a lot of it is simply that there is not enough manufacturing capacity and that new manufacturing lines/plants take a lot of money and time to set up in this industry.
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Funso Banjo posted:It’s sold by scan. Who are about as legit as it gets here in Britain It's listed as an OEM version, which would probably be why it comes without a cooler.
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Funso Banjo posted:Ah, that’s clearly my fault, I missed it in a rush because 3600’s have been completely out of stock for about a week. As far as I know OEM just means you don't get the normal full retail box with cooler (OEMs probably source their own anyway) and possibly different warranty terms depending on how things work in your country. It should not be any problem with the part itself.
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Butterfly Valley posted:So I did this today, basically having to rebuild my system, and it works! Thanks a lot for the advice and reassurance. Once you get your BIOS settings set up again, see if your BIOS has profiles that can be saved. If you ever need to reset things again in the future it can save time afterwards if you only have to reload the profile
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PirateBob posted:Thank you, "Toxic Fart Syndrome". Although the gaming performance looks tempting with a 5600x, the delivery situation looks terrible atm. A 3700x will have to do. I'll probably be gpu limited in the most demanding games anyway. Can't afford €500+ for a gpu. QVL means Qualified Vendor List and it's basically just a list of what specific memory kits have been tested by the motherboard manufacturer. You can typically see it if you look up the motherboard at its manufacturer's website and go to the support section.
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bus hustler posted:Cinebench is like the most brutal thing on the processor though right? That's an extreme stress test you will pretty much never duplicate in real life no matter how you try* If you do stuff in Blender or similar I guess that could duplicate the load, but then you're probably better off with just getting a 5900X or 5950X anyway.
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If you do want a Noctua cooler, a 5600X should be perfectly fine with the NH-U14S, which is a bit smaller and less overkill than the NH-D15, assuming you don't mind whatever colour scheme the NH-U14S is available in these days.
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If using a heavy CPU cooler or big GPU, I would probably place the case so that the motherboard is in a flat horizontal position with components on top of it. Should help lower stress on the motherboard from bumps in the road compared to if heavy components are sort of hanging off of its side. I've never had an issue with it, though, and I've just had the case wrapped in a blanket to prevent obvious dents.
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iroguebot posted:Yeah I'mma be honest the brown/cream is a real turn off, I hate to be that guy. Just eyeballing it looks like there's a 'Noctua NH-U12S chromax.black 55 CFM CPU Cooler' that seems similar but is black and silver, the reviews seem okay on it? Completely understandable. That's why I mentioned the colour scheme in the first place I've never used it, so I don't know how good the NH-U12S chromax.black is, but Noctua does list the 5600X in its compatibility chart for that cooler, too.
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I ran a Radeon HD 4850 passively cooled with some Accelero S1 or similar on it for years and it was perfectly fine in a case with very so-so airflow. Had better temps than the original GPU cooler, too. You just need a big enough heatsink.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Tons of RGB and a teeny little disco ball on the inside. At least having a disco ball inside the case sounds fairly original.
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Broken Machine posted:I was browsing through the AMD ryzens that are out, and I like the specs of the 4750GE - it's fast but also energy efficient, and it has good integrated graphics with it. Near as I can tell it's not really available? I found a few complete systems with it available but none that are actually out yet, and it's not on ebay either - there are a few 4750gs available (the 65w version). Would you actually have to contact system builders and ask them to source one for you at that point? Maybe check back in a few months? I have recently seen a few HP Elitedesk or Prodesk SKUs with the 4750GE in some Swedish online store but nothing that is showing up as in stock anymore.
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