PC Tech/Gaming Info Thread

Ronaldo95163 · Postby **Ronaldo95163** » December 25th, 2015, 8:35 am

Looking to get some Distilled water asap...how the temps with coolant tho?
The board turns on btw...well sometimes.
Most of the times it turns on and off repeatedly

If I take out the 750 it turns on and stays on but from the moment I put it back in it does the same thing. The times it does turn on well with the gpu it says no drives detected while there is a ssd and hdd in there. Switched connections, cleared bios same thing.

The gpu problem confusing me too cause it working on my x58 board.
At the moment it back to turning on and off repeatedly

Merry Christmas btw fellas

amd-dude · Postby **amd-dude** » December 25th, 2015, 9:51 am

Sounds like the board gone or messed up. For distilled water just get some battery water as for coolant I never tried it before but I can tell you Redline Water Wetter works well. Does not drop temps that much but it stabilizes it. I use to get 76c with my 2500k @ 5Ghz when using prime 95, sometimes it would spike around the 74-78c but with the water wetter it is stable at 73c.

Add about 4 cap fulls of it to your loop, mine is around 500ml so give or take with that. It also works well with mayhems dye so no need to worry about it messing up the color or anything.

Merry Christmas all.

HCCA · Postby **HCCA** » December 25th, 2015, 10:21 am

Straight distilled/battery water with a few drops of PTNuke biocide/silver killcoil or a bottle of swiftech hydrx coolant works very well.

If conductivity/spill issues bother you too much u can use the Feser one coolant.

Ronaldo95163 · Postby **Ronaldo95163** » December 25th, 2015, 11:23 am

Will have to see if I can get this thing running first ughh
All it does now is say that no drives detected and jumps to Marvell 8es61xx initializing and stays there.

Unplugged everything usbs etc the ssd/hdd
Same thing
Cant even get into the BIOS to change any settings.

iM@st@1 · Postby **iM@st@1** » December 25th, 2015, 11:36 am

Look on the bright side you have an excuse to upgrade (skylake)

Merry xmas everyone

Ronaldo95163 · Postby **Ronaldo95163** » December 25th, 2015, 4:56 pm

Bout upgrade
Went through so much work to get this thing up.
Managed to get in the UEFI bios but it doesn't load completely and just freezes :cry:

Arcmanov · Postby **Arcmanov** » December 25th, 2015, 7:57 pm

Feser coolant works great.
77C @ 4.3 GHz with 1.35V...full load.

Considering it's a 6-core CPU with HT enabled...I can't complain about the temps.

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Ronaldo95163 · Postby **Ronaldo95163** » December 25th, 2015, 11:21 pm

Nicee will be draining it soon.
The board works. For some reason it wasnt working with the 750 but it worked with my 560 with bad vram.
All I did was install windows on the ssd. Will have to get another GPU for it to finish set it up

Postby **gfbl** » December 30th, 2015, 2:41 pm

hey guys what would this system cost to build?

Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Gene Motherboard
CPU: Intel i7 3820
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws 16GB
GPU: Nvidia GTX580
Hard Drive: Hybrid Seagate Momentus XT 750GB
PSU: Thermaltake 850W
TPlink Wireless card
Windows 7 Home Premium

Cooling:

1 - 120mm x 25mm Intel Water-Cooler
2 - 120mm x 25mm Scythe
2 - 120mm x 12mm Scythe
1 - 80mm Scythe
1 - 80mm RocketFish
Scythe Fan controller

Temperatures:

CPU overclocked to 4.7Ghz
Scored a 26999 overall on 3DMark Vantage

skylinechild · Postby **skylinechild** » January 1st, 2016, 4:08 pm

posting this info here for tuners it may benefit.

how to make your own windows bootable flash drive

all credit goes towards the original author "RendiN" and his post can be found here
>>>> http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to- ... /?ALLSTEPS

Step 1: Using DISKPART command

Insert your USB flash drive to your running computer. As the first step, we need to run Command Prompt as administrator. To do this, we need to find cmd by typing 'cmd' in the search box on Windows Start Menu. After search result for 'cmd' appears, right click on it and select "Run as administrator".
Type 'diskpart' on Command Prompt (without quotes) and hit Enter. Wait for a while until the DISKPART program run.
Type 'list disk' to view active disks on your computer and hit Enter. There would be seen that the active disks shown as Disk 0 for hard drive and Disk 1 for your USB flashdrive with its total capacity.
Type 'select disk 1' to determine that disk 1 would be processed in the next step then hit Enter.
Type 'clean' and hit Enter to remove all of data in the drive.
Type 'create partition primary' and hit Enter. Creating a primary partition and further recognized by Windows as 'partition 1'.
Type 'select partition 1' an hit Enter. Choosing the 'partition 1' for setting up it as an active partition.
Type 'active' and hit Enter. Activating current partition.
Type 'format fs=ntfs quick' and hit Enter. Formatting current partition as NTFS file system quickly.
Type 'exit' and hit Enter. Leaving DISKPART program but don't close the Command Prompt instead. We would still need it for next process.

Step 2: Creating Boot Sector

Let us assume that the flash / USB drive is the e: drive and the DVD installer located on drive d :. The first step, we will navigate Command Prompt to set installation DVD as its active directory.

By default, Command Prompt's active directory for Administrator permission is on C:\Windows\System32>. We will navigate Command Prompt to set on DVD (D:) as its active directory. Just type 'D:' then hit Enter, and the active directory changed to D:.
Type 'cd boot' and hit Enter. Active directory changed to D:\boot>.
Type 'bootsect /nt60 e:' and hit Enter. Creating boot sector on E: drive (USB flash drive).
Type 'exit' and hit Enter to close the Command Prompt. Until this step we have made a bootable USB drive sucessfully, and the flash drive is ready to be used as a boot media.

Step 3: Copying Installation Files

To install Windows from a bootable USB drive, we just need to copy the whole installation files contained on the DVD installer to flash drive. To do this, open the Command Prompt as in previous steps. Once it opens, type 'xcopy D: \ *. * E: \ / E / H / F' and then press Enter. Wait until all the files in the DVD installer copied to the flash drive. Now bootable USB drive is ready to be used for installing Windows from flash drive and you're done !

Cross Blood · Postby **Cross Blood** » January 1st, 2016, 8:44 pm

^ So why not just use Windows 7 USB DVD Download tool or Rufus instead of going through all that? It just takes about 10 clicks and you have a bootable USB drive.

ismithx · Postby **ismithx** » January 2nd, 2016, 9:41 pm

Yeah it's much faster

HCCA · Postby **HCCA** » January 3rd, 2016, 11:51 am

Wanna try this, looks interesting.

Ronaldo95163 · Postby **Ronaldo95163** » January 5th, 2016, 1:56 am

You saw the 7 gamers one????

Sighhhhhhhhhhh

HCCA · Postby **HCCA** » January 5th, 2016, 9:32 am

Ronaldo95163 wrote:You saw the 7 gamers one????

Sighhhhhhhhhhh

Yeah but the cost is too much for that.

I gonna use what parts i have, want to see if the dual cpu server system i have could do it as well.

Prototype-Tuner · Postby **Prototype-Tuner** » January 6th, 2016, 2:34 pm

Guys have a GTX 550ti all of a sudden it starts showing up on the monitor with a bluish tint to it.

Whats causing that?

Is the card dying?

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ismithx · Postby **ismithx** » January 6th, 2016, 9:49 pm

check the monitor settings.... maybe a power loss reset it. otherwise check the nvidia display settings particularly the part about color

sMASH · Postby **sMASH** » January 8th, 2016, 11:22 am

Switch !monitors or switch the monitor to a different source, this will help isolate whether its the monitor, PC, cable, or jacks.

jm3 · Postby **jm3** » January 8th, 2016, 11:43 am

preordered the oculus rift, that means my rift dk2 will be up for sale soon if anyone is interested.

iM@st@1 · Postby **iM@st@1** » January 8th, 2016, 1:51 pm

How much you asking? & can it be demoed?

Spitfir3 · Postby **Spitfir3** » January 8th, 2016, 1:55 pm

Prototype-Tuner wrote:Guys have a GTX 550ti all of a sudden it starts showing up on the monitor with a bluish tint to it.

Whats causing that?

Is the card dying?

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sounds like a cable problem try shaking the jack see if the color changes vga(blue) cables notorious for doing these sort of things

sMASH · Postby **sMASH** » January 8th, 2016, 5:44 pm

Sometimes the jacks have bad pins or solders to the board. By swapping components out and in, he could narrow down. I have encountered bad chords, bad jacks, bad cards and bad monitors.

Switch the chord then if it doesn't work then the monitor and/or card.

jm3 · Postby **jm3** » January 9th, 2016, 12:11 am

iM@st@1 wrote:How much you asking? & can it be demoed?

Yes it can be demoed just fine,
going rate seems to be 300usd on eBay for a used one,
much less than I paid but that's ok,
it won't be available until March at the earliest though as I still need to use it for r&d until the new one arrives.
Just wanna try and let someone else experience it locally rather than sell it on eBay.

Ridorii · Postby **Ridorii** » January 9th, 2016, 12:36 am

jm3 wrote:
iM@st@1 wrote:How much you asking? & can it be demoed?

Yes it can be demoed just fine,
going rate seems to be 300usd on eBay for a used one,
much less than I paid but that's ok,
it won't be available until March at the earliest though as I still need to use it for r&d until the new one arrives.
Just wanna try and let someone else experience it locally rather than sell it on eBay.

You seriously paid $500 USD for a rift?
why

Arcmanov · Postby **Arcmanov** » January 9th, 2016, 12:21 pm

Oculus would have had me at 400 US, but 600 US? Nah boi?

I'd much rather get a 1440p, IPS, 144 Hz monitor with GSYNC for that money.

VR will have to wait on me just a little bit longer. :lol:

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bushwakka · Postby **bushwakka** » January 9th, 2016, 6:35 pm

Well pc gaming is not for the cheap of heart

iM@st@1 · Postby **iM@st@1** » January 9th, 2016, 6:48 pm

jm3 wrote:
iM@st@1 wrote:How much you asking? & can it be demoed?

Yes it can be demoed just fine,
going rate seems to be 300usd on eBay for a used one,
much less than I paid but that's ok,
it won't be available until March at the earliest though as I still need to use it for r&d until the new one arrives.
Just wanna try and let someone else experience it locally rather than sell it on eBay.

glad you mention that. PM me so we could organize the demo when you have time.

rick46176 · Postby **rick46176** » January 9th, 2016, 8:37 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXOaCkbt4lI

ok this is literally 1 gaming pc , that can be used by 7 people

sMASH · Postby **sMASH** » January 9th, 2016, 11:10 pm

Very cool.

But what good use is that application ?
Not what u can do with it, but what can be justified.

Prototype-Tuner · Postby **Prototype-Tuner** » January 9th, 2016, 11:23 pm

sMASH wrote:Sometimes the jacks have bad pins or solders to the board. By swapping components out and in, he could narrow down. I have encountered bad chords, bad jacks, bad cards and bad monitors.

Switch the chord then if it doesn't work then the monitor and/or card.

I tried different vga cables same thing and different monitors
/displays.

Same problem..

Is the card worth anything anymore?

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