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"I need a New PC!" 2012 Thread. Ivy, SSDs, and reading the OP. [Part 2]
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Similar to the Samsung 830 256GB SSD deal today, Crucial has a 256GB SATA3 6Gb/s on sale today only for the same price ($40 more expensive on Newegg):
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004W2JL2A/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Prime eligible.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004W2JL2A/?tag=neogaf0e-20
Prime eligible.
3M Scotch Heavy Duty Mounting Tape.
It's black, covered with red lining. I had to literally fold my sheet metal in half to get it off of the drive bay area.
I also use it as sound dampening whenever I can mount something with it. My D5 bay/res is now mounted with it. A lot more quiet.
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I never registered my gtx680 am I boned?
Need some help please!
My specs:
Asrock z68 Extreme3 Gen3
Intel i5 2500k
Antec Cooler Freezer i30
8GB Ram
1TB HDD
MSI Geforce GTX 460 v2 1GB DDR5 192bit bus (SLI - 2x of these) [INFO]
Antec Truepower 750W
Case: Antec 900
Ok I think I got everything listed. I have some issues with some games such as NFS: Hot Pursuit (2010-2011) PC and say Tribes Ascend games. My issue is that I'll be playing the game for a few minutes then the video/game freezes for like 2-3 seconds, screen goes black and then the game comes back on like nothing happened. On tribes, the audio goes out after the crash but still playable.
Im curious whats wrong. Not sure if my PSU cant handle the load or if my graphic cards are faulty or maybe they just cant "sustain" HD assets [
...wtf is the point of SLI then?]
NFS:HP Settings
Res: 1280x720
Shadows: High
Textures: High
Antialiasing 8x CSAA (game does the same without this)
Anyone here know what I can do to see what the problem is? Is it the 1GB video memory just not good enough? If so why sli cards in the first place? Well just looking for some advice here. Weird I can run PlanetSide2 beta on all High settings at 720p without any crashes. Nothing is being OC'd, maybe that would help?
My specs:
Asrock z68 Extreme3 Gen3
Intel i5 2500k
Antec Cooler Freezer i30
8GB Ram
1TB HDD
MSI Geforce GTX 460 v2 1GB DDR5 192bit bus (SLI - 2x of these) [INFO]
Antec Truepower 750W
Case: Antec 900
Ok I think I got everything listed. I have some issues with some games such as NFS: Hot Pursuit (2010-2011) PC and say Tribes Ascend games. My issue is that I'll be playing the game for a few minutes then the video/game freezes for like 2-3 seconds, screen goes black and then the game comes back on like nothing happened. On tribes, the audio goes out after the crash but still playable.
Im curious whats wrong. Not sure if my PSU cant handle the load or if my graphic cards are faulty or maybe they just cant "sustain" HD assets [
...wtf is the point of SLI then?]NFS:HP Settings
Res: 1280x720
Shadows: High
Textures: High
Antialiasing 8x CSAA (game does the same without this)
Anyone here know what I can do to see what the problem is? Is it the 1GB video memory just not good enough? If so why sli cards in the first place? Well just looking for some advice here. Weird I can run PlanetSide2 beta on all High settings at 720p without any crashes. Nothing is being OC'd, maybe that would help?
tigerdirect, use a coupon to bring it to $180. PM BB for price difference
Im curious whats wrong. Not sure if my PSU cant handle the load or if my graphic cards are faulty or maybe they just cant "sustain" HD assets [
NFS:HP Settings
Res: 1280x720
Shadows: High
Textures: High
Antialiasing 8x CSAA (game does the same without this)
Anyone here know what I can do to see what the problem is? Is it the 1GB video memory just not good enough? If so why sli cards in the first place? Well just looking for some advice here. Weird I can run PlanetSide2 beta on all High settings at 720p without any crashes. Nothing is being OC'd, maybe that would help?
Your power supply certainly appears to be strong enough for that setup but it sounds like a power issue. Have you tried reseating your power connectors or running in single card mode?
Neither avoid wireless for desktops
only plug in 4, just won't overclock as well
go pci, that way you can buy a better antenna for better reception
but wireless is bad for gaming in general
God damnit Antec Earthwatts. Get your fucking shit together! I didn't want to have to buy a new psu...
Nah, they did away with that. People holding on to old data without updating it, don't listen to them. They switched it to serial # like every other company in the world finally.
It should just be some random cooler master fan. Look for something similar on the cooler master store. It probably has PWM function.
They did away with this. MSI, ASUS, et all, all do it through serial #.
Before (GB GTX 285, 6GB DDR3 1333, stock cooler):
After (GB GTX 670 WF OC, 8GB G.Skill RJ DDR3 1600, CM Hyper 212 Plus w/ 2 fans):
I'm done for now. Upgrading the wife's PC with an SSD later this week, plus some more RAM, and then it's time to actually play some games. LOL
Thanks again for this thread. It was really helpful in guiding a number of my purchases and OC paths.
After (GB GTX 670 WF OC, 8GB G.Skill RJ DDR3 1600, CM Hyper 212 Plus w/ 2 fans):
I'm done for now. Upgrading the wife's PC with an SSD later this week, plus some more RAM, and then it's time to actually play some games. LOL
Thanks again for this thread. It was really helpful in guiding a number of my purchases and OC paths.
Bump. Anyone?
Well, unless I can find a 200-300ft Ethernet cable I'm pretty boned.
I live upstairs and the modem is all the way downstairs :\
Power off your machine. Turn PSU off. Hold power button for 20s.
Clear the CMOS/BIOS using a button or jumper or taking the battery out for 20s. Reseat the RAM, GPU, and unplug/replug all power and data connectors. Swap your HDD cable to a different port on your motherboard (Usually the left most slots are the best).
Thank you. Back in the Bios now. What the fuck was the problem -_-
Like I know. It's computers man.
Well I can boot up to the windows error recovery....then I get a blue screen and the computer restarts when I try to boot into windows. Safe mode just restarts on me.
I have 0 desire to reinstall windows 7, and even if I did, that's another several hours of backing shit up and reinstalling everything...
Would popping in a repair disk work?
I have 0 desire to reinstall windows 7, and even if I did, that's another several hours of backing shit up and reinstalling everything...
Would popping in a repair disk work?
It's not a hard and fast rule. Read 'Inside the Second' article posted in the news section of the OP. Bottlenecks are entirely game dependent. It will exist no matter what kind of GPU you have in games running UE3, or in Bilzzard games. It won't matter a lick in Battlefield 3.
Buy the best GPU you can afford, then upgrade mobo+cpu when you can.
Infinite Justice
Member
Wouldn't hurt to try (hell its usually the first thing i do when Windows goes to complete shit)
If ya have an ssd go into the bios and check to see if your ssd is in ACHI mode, had a similar problem when my bios changed it for some unknown reason.
What's the bsod code.
I have no idea, it pops up only long enough for me to recognize it's a blue screen of death
Go into the bios, there should be an option so the computer doesn't reset when there is a critical fault.
Computer Properties -> Advanced System Settings -> Startup and Recovery Settings -> Uncheck "Automatically restart" under system failure.
Dr_Boris_Goltz
Banned
Hey guys I'm prone to headaches and I've read that low refresh rates can contribute quite a bit to them, so I'm in the market for a high refresh rate monitor.
Any suggestions?
I would say my budget is around $200.
Any suggestions?
I would say my budget is around $200.
Yeah it went into VGA. I checked the device manager and it was coming up and standard VGA device, really odd. I tried the 12.8 and 12.7 to no avail.
I believe low refresh rates only contribute to that if you're using a CRT monitor. LCD panels don't "flicker" at low refresh rates because they don't do blanking.
Dr_Boris_Goltz
Banned
Ah that makes sense.
Do you think a 120hz monitor is worth it then?
I suppose I'm still in the market for a new monitor, so any recommendations around the $200 level would be great, 120hz or not.
Wifi is not THAT bad. Unless there are a fuck ton of walls in the way, it doesn't add any significant lag to the connection. I've been gaming all my life on wifi and I've never got ping values above 50ms for regional servers.
If you send a ping through the windows command prompt:
Code:
ping -t "IP address of your router"you'll see the response time of your wifi connection. Protip: it barely adds 1-2ms lag.
Just my two cents, I think it doesn't hurt trying a 10 bucks PCI wifi card.
I would get the Gigabyte.
Infinite Justice
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The Gigabyte has gotten some nice praise in this thread so i would go with that one imo.
I'm idling at 26 but it's really cold today (4 or so celsius) and the heating isn't on. And I've got 2 fans on the heatsink, 2 top exhaust fans and a rear fan if that makes a difference.
You shouldn't worry much about idle temps because most of the times they're not completely correct and they are affected by the room temperature, anyway, maybe you could google "3570k EVO 212" and there most likely will be somebody reporting their temps in a thread, or in a benchmark. The most important temps are load ones, and as far as I know anything below 70ºC is completely safe.
Even before reading any kind of reviews and benchmarks (which you should do
) I'd initially be interested in the Gigabyte one for the extra fans.- Status