General computer talk/advice

One of 2 places I have to avoid for fear of going on a shopping rampage. The other being a store called harbor freight that sells dirt cheap tools. Walk In with 100 bucks and leave with every tool needed for a full engine swap. Beautiful.

 

I DON'T NEED A 6600K I DON'T NEED A 6600K I DON'T NEED IT

halp meh

 

Tried it with hypnosis? Also: DAAAMN!

 

I figured out why I keep having BSODs



Me thinks that's a little warm, if I do say so myself. I've found the limits of the Hyper 212 Evo it seems.

 

Oh wow. What voltage are you running Vcore? I have my 3570k at 4.5Ghz, 1.29v and I only see 90°c under very very heavy stress testing, and that's with my single fan pull configuration, I also have my 212evo facing upwards to exhaust out the top of the case which seems to be the best orientation, at leased from my testing. In beam with 4 cars I hit around 70 - 80ish and barely 70 in other games.

 

I recently lowered it to 1.2 for my 4.5GHz overclock. I think that my thermal compound is massed up because I moved the cooler a little when I put the SP120s on it. No biggie though.

 

Actually yes. That could be the reason. Try putting new paste on, it could help.

 

I did last night and it didn't help, I've gone beyond the limits of a Hyper 212 Evo. I just turned down my OC quite a bit and it's good now. I'm trying to select a new liquid cooler so I can go back to 4.5GHz. I like the NZXT Kraken X61 a lot, I might spring for it when I have the money to. Or I could get a Noctua NH-D14 which is supposed to be the most badass air cooler on the market.

 

4.5GHz does seem to be the limit for 212evo's to get over 4.5 now I have to bump my Vcore up past 1.3V and at that point I'm hitting in excess of 100°c in intel burn test. Which in fairness my CPU will never see loads like that ever, but it's throttling when it hit's TJ max "105°c" so I'm not really getting accurate stress results, plus I don't like it hitting 100°c even if it is under stress testing. Once I'm financially stable and gotten a new GPU I may start building a custom loop. See how far I can push this 3570K under water.

 

Nah, the NH-D14 isn't worth the like $90 when you had a 212 Evo before. Also, it seems like with AiO's the Corsair H100i GT/H110i GT is the way to go. Don't know much about liquid coolers though.

 

did I just luck out on the Hyper 212 Evo lucky dip only hitting very low 40s with the stock fan on a chip recorded to be pulling 110W.

 

My H5 Ultimate is keeping me under 75 degrees at 4.7 ghz, so I would definitely vouch for it, especially as it only cost me a little more than a 212 Evo.

 

Guys I really need your help.
Today something happened to my PC and now every time I start it the startup reachs to the BIOS menu and simply restarts it's stuck in that loop now, and I don't know what to do.
Tried to reseat the RAM to see it will work but nothing so far.

 

Well? Start troubleshooting, remove all the drives and all but one stick of ram and any expansion cards. If it still happens change the stick of ram, if that don't work try the ram in a different slot. When it does start to work start putting components back in one by one when it starts happening again, that's the faulty component. If the problem persists no matter what you do, it's either your CPU or motherboard. To me it sounds like a motherboard issue, I would say ram but normally you don't even get a post when your ram goes bad.

 

There's something terribly wrong with my PSU fan

 

Check your cooler. (Also, if you are on NVIDIA, did you update your drivers recently?)

 

I know now why my Fury graphics card was so cheap because it broke. When I started my pc nothing happend the ting booted up i could hear it working but no video so i threw my 750ti in it and it worked so I now need a new graphics card.

 

a PC wont heat up quickly enough to trigger thermal issues before posting, even if you removed the cooler entirely it should last a tad longer.

 

It was most likely a random hardware failure. Those are fairly common with every manufacture.

 

could be fortunatly I kept my 750ti.
What would be a good AMD Graphics card with good performance then that isnt too expensive?