Re: General discussion chat I know that both Asus and MSI have had review boards go up in smoke in the hands of reviewers. But i have no idea if the issue has been fixed or is still an issue, but i haven't heard much of anything about it so im not sure how widespread the issues are. I guess there is always EVGA and Gigabyte. Personally i have had issues with Gigabyte because they dropped the ball pretty badly with my GPU (which i have managed to fix by disabling features in the nvidia driver which shows its not a clock speed issue, so who knows what happened). Just have a look at the reviews, sadly i got the card before issues were being reported with it. Nvidia blamed Gigabytes card and Gigabyte blamed Nvidia drivers, Gigabyte published a bios update to try and patch things but all it did was clock the cards at 950mhz rather than 1Ghz. Pretty much negating the main selling point. But that didn't fix things, up until about 3/4 of a year ago my computer was crashing twice daily and i couldn't do anything about it since Gigabyte customer support while being polite refused to accept that their product was the issue. By Christmas this year i should be running an MSI GTX970, hopefully this time round i can enjoy plain sailing rather than constant instability. Cause having instability was one thing, but when it prevented you from playing games with friends it pretty much destroys your social life. Im happy that things run smoothly now, but i no longer have the opportunities to play with friends since they now all play on a competitive level in dota2 and cs:go. No pressure in choosing the right parts mate http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125369
Re: General discussion chat Somebody told me I was a nerd today. That isn't something I deny, its just the guy that claims I am a nerd is doing a computer systems engineering degree like I am... THE HYPOCRISY
Re: General discussion chat ASRock. Beware of ASRock. Their boards like to die. I'm on my second Extreme series board and a RAM slot just died. ASRock is one of those "I buy them for myself but tell people to beware" kind of things.
Re: General discussion chat Thanks, that actually was helpful. Does appear to be the review boards that are the issue. Welp. I'll know in a little while. This new processor's gonna be a monster.
Re: General discussion chat Can't agree more with this. I don't have any experience with their GPUs, but every Asus mobo I've used didn't fail during their useful lives. My Transformer tablet and "high end" K-series notebook however, are long dead. I still find it funny that my now 5 year old budget HP notebook outlasted a Vaio, an Asus, and a Thinkpad. One more thing: (imported from here) huehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehuehue
Re: General discussion chat My M5A78L-LX PLUS works like a charm. So did my X54C notebook. It just got old and tired and so after a reinstall of 7 Home Premium, my sister loves it.
Re: General discussion chat Get a proper cooler, Intel's is a piece of shit. Like 'I had to disable turbo boost in order to not overheat' piece of shit. 'First tests made me think I had to RMA the processor' piece of shit.
Re: General discussion chat Some of the mini itx cases mount the board horizontally. Intel's cooler inexplicably can't even prevent thermal throttle at idle in that orientation. Move mini itx rig onto its side (effectively putting cooler into conventional orientation) and its "fine" again. Awful coolers, just awful.
Re: General discussion chat AMD's stock coolers are quite the piece of crap as well. I used to run my FX4300 under the stock cooler. Had to down clock it by 400mhz to prevent it from overheating and causing my computer to just shut off. Like I couldn't play far cry 3 for more than 30 minutes before it would overheat and shutdown.
Re: General discussion chat Had my FX-6300 in its stock one for about 2 months, it stayed at 62C period playing Beam.
Re: General discussion chat My old A8-3850 ran nice and cool with the stock cooler. It was the aluminum one too, not the one with heat pipes. I've never used the stock cooler with my 8320 but at 4.8GHz it is almost at throttling temperature (80c I think.) under stress tests. That's with my Kuhler 620 AIO. No wonder AMD is shipping the FX 9590 with a water cooler.. (It has a 220w TDP which is about how much my CPU uses under full load according to power calculators.) I did put much stronger springs under the screws for my AIO which reduced the max temps a bit and now the temperature changes more smoothly instead of jumping all over the place. Idles cooler too. I also changed around some fans so now both of the fans on my AIO are actually the same instead of completely different.
Re: General discussion chat My current cooler is my hyper212 EVO. I'm thinking that should handle it. Mind I would adore going full ridiculous and getting ahold of a Noctua NH-D15. I refuse to touch watercooling due to paranoia.
Re: General discussion chat That should be more than enough to keep it cool even with some over clocking if you really felt the need to. Im pretty much the same with liquid cooling, it also means that my computer weighs less and can be a bit more robust. My case also does not have any places for a 240mm cooler to be placed which could be an issue. Then again my PC case [Enermax Luxuray] only has two case fans as it is and the front one is fairly restricted. When i get my GTX970 i will be keeping the GTX560ti in there. Blender can apparently use cuda acceleration on any modern GPU's you throw in your mobo, even if they are mismatched. The only drawback is you become ram limited to the lowest cards value. But 1GB is more than enough for rendering still images at any resolution i will need for quite a while. It also means that i will have a pretty bad ass PhysX card so that curtain physics in games will be able to run smoother than ever . I am interested to see if i could tell one game to run on one monitor using the 970 and then have second game on the second monitor running on the 560ti, that would make for a pretty bad ass local multiplayer setup if its possible. Should also mean i can tell one card to render while i play games on the other too. My PSU is powerful enough according to the enermax calculator. But i am a little worried about cooling, but i do have a side air intake that i might be able to put an extra fan in if i need to and it would be blowing directly over the cards. Should be interesting to see how it all functions anyway.
Re: General discussion chat If you get an AIO then the chances of a leak are very slim. I've been abusing mine for ~2 years now and it's still going strong.
Re: General discussion chat Me : What'll we do anyways? Friend : Idk Me : I got games Friend : I got a bed Heh, Smooth again xD
Re: General discussion chat I usually hear of clc/aio units actually being the MOST prone to leaking Sent from the 3rd galaxy via the talks of tapping
Re: General discussion chat I need coffee. Let's pull another all nighter for the communists at Loveland High School.
