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"I Need a New PC!" 2014 Part 2. Read OP, your 2500K will run Witcher 3. MX100s! 970!

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KePoW

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appaws said:
So assuming you have something like an H80 or H100, or one of the many other brands that do basically that same thing. That's good for a decent OC. My best guess would be that you could lower that voltage while keeping your OC at 4.2. You would have to use trial and error, lower it a little and stability test it, rinse and repeat until you find the lowest possible voltage that keeps it stable at that OC. This would lower your temps.

Also, of course you could keep the voltage at 1.225 and ratchet the multiplier up one step at a time....stability test and watch your temps....until you find how high you can get while keeping the temp at an acceptable level. I always aimed to keep mine around 80C maxed in Prime95 Small FFT. This leaves a lot of thermal headroom because no game or regular use will stress a CPU the way Prime does.
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Thanks again a bunch for the info!

I might have some more questions for you all tomorrow, if I poke around in the BIOS some more. The only thing I've done so far is use ASUS one-click automatic OC setting... the "CPU Level Up" to 4.2 ghz

After that I only manually lowered the Voltage, because the default Level Up setting for 4.2 ghz was really high at 1.28v
 
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SuicideUZI

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ekgrey said:
is 16:10 ever supported in games or would i be playing everything with bars? thinking about that Dell UltraSharp.

are there any 1080p monitors under $300ish with really good image quality? i'm almost exclusively single player, so i'm not sold on 144Hz. would love 1440p but can't afford it right now.

will be powered by a 970, if Amazon ever gets them again.
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been using 16:10 for years, only time ive had a problem with a game not natively supporting 1920x1200 were really old games, and in that case they typically don't natively support 1080p either, but there are usually tweaks for those games to make them run in whatever resolution you want to


I prefer 16:10 myself, unfortunately the industry is going away from it tho so I think my next monitor is going to be a 27" 16:9, possibly the ROG Swift
 
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Felix Lighter said:
I've used them a few times but this was my only experience with ordering from them and paying for shipping:
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An update on my situation.

I contacted NCIX and they apologized and refunded me my shipping costs but just like with your issue, they can't do anything or change the shipping.

2 of the items weren't even given to UPS until 2 days after my order finished processing.

My PSU won't be here until the middle of next week.

I should have all the other parts for my build by tmrw and I was planning on building it over the weekend.
 
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Phloxy

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Hey gaf quick question, a few months ago, I recently upgraded some parts to my older PC, got some fresh ram, new evga nvidia 770 2 gig, and all was well. However, shortly after the card started giving me issues, and today green pixels started showing up and decided I needed to rma the card.

However, when I was fiddling around with stuff I looked at my PSU, and at the power requirements for the card, and realizes I might have fucked up.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371032
That's my power supply, and my card says at a minimum it needs 42A over 12 volts. hoping somebody here can tell me if the whole time my PSU was actually not strong enough.
 
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The Llama

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Phloxy said:
Hey gaf quick question, a few months ago, I recently upgraded some parts to my older PC, got some fresh ram, new evga nvidia 770 2 gig, and all was well. However, shortly after the card started giving me issues, and today green pixels started showing up and decided I needed to rma the card.

However, when I was fiddling around with stuff I looked at my PSU, and at the power requirements for the card, and realizes I might have fucked up.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371032
That's my power supply, and my card says at a minimum it needs 42A over 12 volts. hoping somebody here can tell me if the whole time my PSU was actually not strong enough.
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Your power supply is definitely strong enough. Plus the issue you described sounds Iike a faulty GPU.
 
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opticalmace

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Any thoughts on the Zotac 780 AMP? I can get it for $280 CAD + tax. For reference, the 970s go for about $399 CAD here.

It only having 3GB of memory is a little concerning I suppose. Also would prefer one of the bigger name brands. Not sure though...

edit: my current card is an unlocked 6950 2GB.
 
jfoul

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I'm glad to see the EVGA GTX 970 FTW doesn't use the misaligned heat-sink from the other models. They might still get my business after all.

EVGA GTX 970 FTW
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EVGA GTX 970
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Soodanim

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Ended up buying powerline adapters yesterday, only because I can't be bothered to look for drivers for my old PCI Wireless card. Oh well, it should drop the dropouts I get and give me a higher data rate.
 
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Chance Hale

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Does anyone know why the Swift has such limited stock in the US as compared to Europe? I mean it's obviously popular for a monitor so do they not have the means to provide for a market as large as the US? I mean, they're a pretty big company.

Frys has totally removed it from their website as well.
 
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Kamakazie!

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Any Opera users here?
They just released v25 and it finally handles bookmarks in a proper way, picking up from a v12 installation.

All the best bits of both versions for me. So quick compared to v12 and based on my own anecdotal evidence, feels quicker than the latest Firefox.

Trying to decide between the 2 as my main browser and wondering if anyone knows of privacy concerns with Opera?
 
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thequickandthedead

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RGM79 said:
I've had good experience with Linksys and Asus USB adaptors. If you're in Canada, NCIX and Memory Express have some cheap deals on refurbished Linksys AE2500 ($10) and AE3000 ($20) USB wifi N adaptors, they're the midrange models. Good price if you don't mind refurbished.
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Thanks!

Do people who build their own PCs usually buy wireless network adaptors instead of having it built-in?
 
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samar11

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Just got my new build pc tonight, here are the specs.

CPU: Intel 6 Core i7-5930K 3.5Ghz
GPU: Gigatybe G1 Gaming 970 4G
MB:X99 Xtreme
RAM: 16GIG DDR4 2133
OS: Windows 8.1 64 bit

Haven't done any benchmarks. What you all think? out of 10 please :)
 
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I have an Asus Strix GTX 970 and a gigabyte g1 gaming GTX 970 for sale at retail cost plus shipping if anyone is interested. both brand new and still factory sealed.
 
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Cushions said:
Would a 970/980 be much of an upgrade from a 6990?
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I would assume that's pretty significant. I made the jump from a 7870 xt and it was a sizable upgrade. My FPS averages in 3Dmark almost doubled in 2 of the 3 tests and my score went from 6200 to 9400.
 
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NeoFaff

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Aria UK have the dell u2412m for £200. I think a 1200p IPS for that price is reasonable but there's so many potential problems the damn thing I don't know if I should bother ordering one. Light bleed, uneven light, yellow whites, blue/green tint. I can live with washed out blacks but not the rest.

Should I just get a £100 Asus or Benq off Amazon?


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Any120mm PWM fan recommendations?
So far I've been recommended the Alpenfohn Wing Boost Plus but wondered if you lot have any thoughts?

They'll be replacing some 6 year old Akasa fans in my case that are a little noisy as they don't make use of my new mobo's controllers.
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Looks good for a case fan. The noctua nf-p12 is a good quiet case fan, especially in cases with thick filters, but on the expensive side (£20+).
 
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Kamakazie!

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Any120mm PWM fan recommendations?
So far I've been recommended the Alpenfohn Wing Boost Plus but wondered if you lot have any thoughts?

They'll be replacing some 6 year old Akasa fans in my case that are a little noisy as they don't make use of my new mobo's controllers.
 
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-Digits-

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Uh oh, I think my PSU can't handle my upgrades. It runs the two games I tested without a hitch but when I try 3D Mark it shuts down completely. I hear a faint click sort of noise right before it. I assume it's the PSU that can't handle the power requirements. Can't be heat related, both cpu and gpu temps are well within reason. I was hoping this PSU could handle it. Maybe I'll try downclocking the CPU just a tad and see if it holds.
 
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knitoe

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-Digits- said:
Uh oh, I think my PSU can't handle my upgrades. It runs the two games I tested without a hitch but when I try 3D Mark it shuts down completely. I hear a faint click sort of noise right before it. I assume it's the PSU that can't handle the power requirements. Can't be heat related, both cpu and gpu temps are well within reason. I was hoping this PSU could handle it. Maybe I'll try downclocking the CPU just a tad and see if it holds.
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Computer spec? And, if you need to downclock to provide enough power, time to get a new PSU. You are already stressing it too much and not good long term.
 
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knitoe said:
Computer spec? And, if you need to downclock to provide enough power, time to get a new PSU. You are already stressing it too much and not good long term.
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It's an old i7 920 overclocked to 4ghz with a P6T motherboard and an MSI 970 GTX.
The PSU isn't great, some nobrand Chinese knockoff type thing, I'll look into a replacement. I bought this system at a local computer shop and the parts they used are all great except for the PSU.
 
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opticalmace

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-Digits- said:
It's an old i7 920 overclocked to 4ghz with a P6T motherboard and an MSI 970 GTX.
The PSU isn't great, some nobrand Chinese knockoff type thing, I'll look into a replacement. I bought this system at a local computer shop and the parts they used are all great except for the PSU.
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Yeah, definitely replace that PSU asap.
 
maneil99

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Goingto ask one more time before I go for it, for someone that strives for 1080p/144fps is a upgrade from a 780 to 970 worth 100$?
 
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RGM79

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thequickandthedead said:
Thanks!

Do people who build their own PCs usually buy wireless network adaptors instead of having it built-in?
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Most people don't opt for wireless as it's considered not as good for online games. For those that do use wireless, it depends on their needs, I guess.

Most internal PCI-E wireless cards have short antenna, which can limit reception (especially if the computer is on the floor). The antenna on those cards stick out of the back of the computer and can be replaced with larger antenna or antenna on a wire for better reception, but that's an extra cost.

USB wifi adaptors have a small antenna built into the body of the USB stick, but you can just use a USB extension cord so you can plug it in and put the USB adaptor somewhere higher or less obscured for better reception. Cheaper to get an USB extension cord than a antenna extension.

Internal wifi cards do have other benefits. For high speed like wireless AC networks you will want a internal card as USB 2.0 can bottleneck wireless AC speeds.

Gigabyte has an internal wireless AC and bluetooth combo card that comes with a wired antenna for $35. I haven't seen any reviews of it, but I like it for having both wifi, bluetooth, and an antenna on a wire I can mount and adjust myself.

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX49883

I noticed that Memory Express has a sale on the higher end Linksys AE6000 wireless AC adaptor, it's $20 which is the same price as the AE3000 wireless N adaptor at NCIX. It's also refurbished, though.

http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX52729
 
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samar11

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Guys I am getting an error

''The program cant start because XINPUT1_3.ll is missing from your computer.Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem. ""

Help
 
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Reckoner

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My GTX 970 just arrived, but... I'm having trouble connecting the PSU to it. The connectors are different and don't fit. I thought my XFX 550W would handle this perfectly. Am I missing something?
 
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opticalmace

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maneil99 said:
300~ but here in Canada 970's are like 379.99. Was looking at picking up a G1 for 419.99
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300 seems like a fair price to get for the 780, but the difference ends up being around $175 when you factor in tax (assuming you're in ON).

If it were me, if you are not having issues with specific games I would probably just hold onto the 780, but YMMV.
 
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