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Fluke wrote:Also I see your GPU seems to be sagging quite a lot, that could lead to issues in the future.

I'd suggest applying some upward force when installing it (so that the screws hold it properly) - or installing it when the case is flat on the ground.

Alternatively, or if the above doesn't help, you could ghetto-rig / make a GPU stand like this:

I did notice that when I was working in there too. I saw that mentioned in a review as well because the weight of coolers but it said it wasn't a major issue. It was installed with the case on its side. Of course now it's been standing vertical for months. I could see about some sort of support though. Not sure what I'd use.

I've never had an issue with my GPUs (and I've owned some of the heaviest), but it definitely seems case-related. So maybe try propping up the GPU when installing. Or temporarily use a cut wooden rod from a home depot shop - colored black to blend in.

Glitch MadDragon wrote:

I am officially terrified...

So Ryall decided that his PC could do with an upgrade, and asked me to decided on some parts and help him assemble it.
This is the result:

Mobo: Asus Maximus VIII Ranger Intel Z170
CPU: i5 6600K @ 4.7GHz
GPU: Zotac GeForce GTX 1070 AMP Extreme 8Gb DDR5
RAM: G.Skill TridentZ Series 16GB (2x 8GB) 3200MHz DDR4
PSU: SeaSonic X750 Gold 750W
Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE
Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv

I had fun putting this together. It runs pretty cool and quiet, even under full load; Ryall keeps going to turn it on not realizing it is on already.

As a tech-y this is definitely the first thread I visit on any forum. :3

I tried to insert pictures, but @ insane_resolution, I'd rather not, ya'll can look if you want to, Pictures are at my Imgur:

Finished my build a few months ago, built myself 2x gaming computers. Why two? Why not.
(One is a stay-at-home and the other is a LAN-box)


Stay-at-home:
Enthoo Evolv ATX Tempered-glass edition.
Intel i7-4690K @ 5Ghz
32GB DDR3 1866 HyperX Fury
Noctua NH-D14 Air cooler
2x Galax Hall Of Fame GTX 1080
MSI z97 Gaming 7.
Seasonic snow silent 1050w PSU
Phanteks XP edition case fans.
~1TB Samsung evo 750 SSD storage (multiple drives)
~5TB HDD storage (multiple drives)


Lan Box:
Enthoo Evolv ITX (white!)
Intel i5-4690K @ 4.5Ghz
16GB DDR3 1866 G.Skill
Corsair H80i-GT All-in-one cooler.
Sapphire AMD R9 Nano.
MSI z97i Wifi
Antec Truepower classic 750W
Arctic el-cheapo fans.
~1TB Samsung evo 750 SSD storage (multiple drives)
~2TB HDD storage (multiple drives)


I'll definitely skip over the older computers and the many laptops in my possession, as those above are my main gaming devices.
Why the overkill graphics? Gaming at 144hz @ 2K resolution is simply beautiful. (Battlefield 1 anyone?)

All my purchases done through wootware, bar one or two components which I acquired years ago from evetech.

Everything sits behind a wonderful 750VA, 200Ah UPS system. (Which I am using right now, as our wonderful country never seems to have electricity, it keeps everything running for a good 12-hours or so if I'm gaming.)

That's my stuff. At least, some of it. :3
#Hardwaregeek.

I finally treated myself to a new PC case...

Deep Cool Tesseract White...

I wanted to get the black one. But they didn't have the windowed one in stock...
But once I saw the white one... WOW! Instant love!

First time I did cable management aswell, and I did pretty well me thinks!

Also got the Redragon Karura keyboard (I was mentioning to Kirtaro that I disliked my regular keyboard, and liked the feel of my Laptop keyboard... And he mentioned this one...)
And the Redragon Lagopasmutus headset, and the mousepad...
I still have my R.A.T. 5... Though its getting kinda old... LOL!

Intel Core i5 3470
4GB DDR3 RAM
Intel motherboard... Nothing fancy....
Have 3HDD's
Seagate Momentus 1000GB
Seagate Momentus 2000GB
Seagate Momentus 500GB

The 2000GB one is the one causing the annoying vibrations...

I currently have a GForce GT540M in there...
I'm looking for a secondhand graphics card if anyone has one...

I got a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti for xmas... total surprise, I was expecting to get a hand-me-down upgrade soon

Hellooooo ARK!

Bought myself a new rig in the beginning of August, but forgot to post here.

• Cooler Master CM Storm Trooper
• Vengeance® LPX 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 2400MHz C14 Memory Kit - Red
• Hydro Series™ H115i 280mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
• X99-DELUXE II LGA2011-v3 5-Way Optimization SafeSlot X99 ATX Motherboard for Intel Core i7 X-Series With DDR4 3x3 802.11ac Wi-Fi M.2 U.2 USB 3.1 Type C
• Intel® Core™ i7-6850K Processor (15M Cache, up to 3.80 GHz)
• ROG Swift PG278Q Gaming Monitor - 27'' 2K WQHD (2560 x 1440), 1ms, up to 144Hz, G-SYNC™

I retained a few items from my previous build:

• Gigabyte nVidia GeForce GTX980 Ti Graphics Card
• Western Digital Black 2TB Desktop Hard Drive
• Samsung EVO 850 2TB 2.5" Solid State Drive

[UPDATE]
I've removed the links to the retailers and instead linked to the manufacturer, where available.

Nice. Replace the fans on the H115i - they're terrible. I put some EK Vardars on mine. They idle at 60rpm.

Yusss! I got a GTX680!!
And it wasn't outlandishly priced either!

Interesting purchase....

Fluke wrote:Interesting purchase....

I got it for less than a secondhand GTX750TI...
So... I would say it was worth it...

I was quite pleasantly surprised to find out that my work PC has an i7-6700 in it. Slap a 1080 in that beast, and it would be one hell of a gaming rig.

...

I also built my sister a new PC, which has a i5-6500 and an EVGA GTX 1060 6GB. For the amount that it all cost, it runs really well.

...

If you guys are wondering what I'm running, prepare to be amazed:
2500K @ 4.8Ghz
EVGA GTX 570 SC 2.5GB

Yeah, it hasn't been upgraded in six years now.

Same here, still rocking the 5Ghz 2500k. It's been sitting at 5Ghz since day 1 lol.

Even with all of my cooling and voltage increases, I couldn't get mine stable past 4.8.

Highest I got was 5.2Ghz or so for benchmarking, but the voltage was over 1.6v for that - so obviously couldn't keep it 24/7.

My 5 year old beast can still play a lot of the modern games though not at 60fps

Cpu= Intel i5-3570k runs at 3.40GHz
Gpu= MSI HD 7850 Twin Frozr III OC 2GB
Ram= G.Skill F3-1600C9D-8GAO is 8GB
Psu= corsair gs800
Storage= one barracuda 1tb and a barracuda 250gb
Motherboard= AsRock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3
Case= cooler master storm
Case fans= 2 extra 120mm cm fans with the fans that came with the case
And some WiFi pci card not sure which
And some generic Bluetooth USB radio
Screen= samsung S24D590L+ some old mecer screen

OK how agrees I will need to get a job now so that I can upgrade my pc in two years time (I believe that my pc will absolute in two years)

Ooh, I would love to get a case that can actually hold my AIO.
I'm currently rocking a
-Coolermaster CM Force 500 tower (with half the HDD rails removed for front mounted AIO)
-Asrock x370 Gaming K4 (when I get a new tower I'll switch back to my x370 Killer SLI
-Ryzen 7 1800x @3.9GHz (on all 8 cores)
-G.Skill RGB 3000MHz 16GB @2600MHz (because the pc bombs out if I go higher, I just can't even -_-)
-Corsair MP500 120GB M.2 (boot drive)
-Galax GTX 970 HOF (a bargain second had @ R3300)
-5TB of x2 2TB and x1 1TB drives
-Coolermaster Masterliquid Pro 240 to keep those 8 cores under 65C

Ideally for my next build I want to go super compact in the GHOST S1 MkII from Louqe.com, perhaps in 5 years time there might be another form factor I really like, who knows.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700x
GPU: Gigabyte Radeon RX Vega 64 Gaming OC; 8192 MB HMB2
Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8 GB, 3000 MHz
Motherboard: Gigabyte X470 Aorus Ultra Gaming
SSD: Samsung EU 860 Evo Internal, black, 500 GB
HDD: Western Digital 1 TB WD10EZEX Blue
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G2, 80+ GOLD 750W
Case: Sharkoon, BD28 MIDI ATX TOWER
OS: Antergos Linux (4.18.16-arch1-1-ARCH)
I had a bunch of weird crashes with my old system, upgraded PSU and GPU but kept getting crashes. Upgraded everything else then went through a nightmare of trying to find the crash by removing or replacing everything I could. I still never found the source of the crashes but it didn't crash yesterday or today... I don't think it's my hardware. I started recording crashes and I'm not seeing a pattern. Given everything I've tried, I suspect it might be something in the building because there are a lot things being done to the building. Hopefully it will just stop.

I had considered sticking in my old R9 280 as well for virtualisation but now I'm fiddling with Steam Play which is supposed to help games run on Linux. So far Dishonored 2 wouldn't start at all but Tomb Raider: Underworld seems to run without any issues. I also stuffed a bunch of new fans in there because the Ryzen 7 seems very capable of generating heat.

Problem was the new card was defective. It's been sent back and I've got the replacement which seems to be working fine in stress test so you can probably discard most of the text under the picture. Specs above are all correct. Well, kernel's been upgraded...

Seeing so many uni students with beasts of a system. How dafuq do you guys afford it? I am just happy to have my quadcore 8th gen i5, 8GB RAM 2GHz processor Dell laptop. And I had to dig into savings for that.

Taking it to Aandklas and showing how it at least has an HDMI port gets me all the girls.

Well I dunno about others. I may be a PhD student but I'm also, till the end of the year at least, employed as a researcher so getting a salary. Actually that was one of the reasons I looked to Europe for a PhD, in most programmes you get paid. Unlike South Africa where you have to pay to study even when you're doing research that they would normally have to pay a pretty penny for.

It's honestly crap >.-.< Runs League of Legends on 3 to 20 FPS >.-.<
CPU: Pentium D 2.8GHz.
Ram: 4GB
Graphics: GeForce GT 610

New system 'Blinmachin"
(bad picture)

Ryzen 7 2700
Asus ROG strix X470-F
Asus ROG strix RX580 oc top
Nzxt h440 matt black
Corsair RM850X
Corsair vengeance RGB Pro 16 gb kit
Corsair vengeance RGB Pro Lighting kit
5x Coolermaster rgb fans 120mm
140 mm nzxt case fan
Coolermaster hyper 612 ver.2
120 gig Kingston SSD
1.5 terabytes of Hardrive storage
Coolermaster MS120
Coolermaster master pro headset
Lg 75hz freesync display
and a random cheap mouse pad

Been 3 years and I have upgraded my system to its max. Was a amazing 18th present.

Meh Dusty Rig:

His name is i7Power and he will be turning 9 in October.
Upgraded him and replaced fans as I went along but is still not a bad lifespan... so far.
Case: Cooler Master Storm Scout
MB: ASUS P6T Deluxe V2
CPU: Intel Core i7 960 Bloomfield 3.2Ghz
GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX umm 960 4Gig
RAM:12 Gig DDR 3 @1066MHz
SSD:Kingston 120Gig (3Gb/s)
HDD: 5No. Total 17TB
PSU: Huntkey Titan 650 W
Screen: Sony Bravia 40” TV
Keyboard: Old Zboard
Mouse: R.A.T. 7 (Madcatz)
Headset: SteelSeries Siberia 200

Awww, it's got little Toothless on it.

I did a thing awhile ago;

Fluke wrote: ↑Tue Apr 30, 2019 5:58 am I did a thing awhile ago;

Oh snap my n***a we have the same case!

Awesome setup and liquid cooling though!