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[PC Build Thread] Come For Advice, Stay For the Coil Whine.
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But there are plenty of other pieces of software that will display temps.
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That's Open Hardware Monitor (which has the same interface as HWMonitor). I like it because it has systray temperature readouts I find nice to have. But it doesn't seem to have proper Skylake support yet, unfortunately.
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No idea, I spray it with canned air every so often (if that counts as cleaning it) and about 6 years.
Well I have a friend who can come diagnose, really. I can't imagine the problem wouldn't be fixed with a new sink and paste, but if I for some reason need a new processor I'll also need a new mobo and that is just not a hassle I want to have to deal with.
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Thermal paste is dirt cheap and the procedure doesn't take very long.
I've noticed in my years of PC repair that when CPUs and GPUs continually overheat, will start idling hotter and hotter until the whole thing just shits the bed. I did a full thermal paste and new heatsink/fan job for a guy but his i~ CPU would never come down even idling on the UEFI screen.
But otherwise, yeah. A properly attached heatsink will still provide enough cooling for 'standard' usage. Even without paste.
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This happened to my pc back in may, removing one stick and seeing if it works is the simplest thing if you have the time.
You're just trying to figure out which stick is bad.
I'm maxing out video settings on a couple of games - Talos Principle and Xcom 2.
According to Steam I'm getting 47 fps gameplay on the former and 27(!) fps in-game cinematics - albeit 54-60 fps gameplay - on the latter.
With a 1080GTX and 16 gigs of DDR4?
Is that normal?
I'm running reasonable temp (64c) @ 1924 clock.
Cinematics are sometimes pre rendered at ~30fps in games so not affected by hardware.
I have similar frame-rate results in xcom2 with the same ram/gpu @ 1440p.
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One at a time. I have one into the HDMI and one into DVI because my card only has one HDMI for some reason. Technically there are three outputs because I also have the Rift audio plugged into... something.
Are you running your sound through HDMI/DVI or a seperate audio cable?
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If the TV provides sound for other devices, the perhaps the cable connecting the PC is lose and/or bad. Try swapping it, either on some other device or maybe just getting a new one.
Perhaps try connecting the sound directly to the TV from the PC, if possible.
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Not sure if I'm clear, but do you only connect to the TV or Monitor separately depending on need? Or simultaneously and you just switch it manually?
If simultaneous, try disconnecting all other cables and feed only the TV.
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My neighbor yesterday found the AMD RX 460 review that claims it's really good, and it's $110. So would I be better buying the AMD RX for less or should I stick with the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970?
The RX 460 is much newer, but it's a much lighter card as far as I can tell. What kind of gaming are you planning to do on it? What resolution? If you're going over 1080p, you'll definitely want as much power as you can afford (or even less if you're running intensive games).
So it might boil down to whether your GPU budget is x or 2x. A GTX 970 is going to cost you almost twice as much, but outside of DirectX 12 application and some other very specific circumstances, give you almost twice the power to work with. I believe both cards have the same VRAM, though even with the GTX 970 having some of its VRAM underclocked, the large majority of it is clocked faster (I believe). The GTX 970 is also a 256-bit card, versus a 128-bit bus on the RX 460.
There's also the issue of drivers: if you prefer AMD drivers to Nvidia ones, or vice versa, let that inform your decision. But power wise, a closer counterpart to the RX 460 would probably be the GTX 960 or even 950 (though again, much older).
The 970 is still a solid card, but is now one generation old, doesn't make it a bad card, just older now.
If you're gaming at 1080p and price/$ is important you should look at the GTX 1060 or the RX 480. Both are pretty compelling cards that'll do 1080p gaming well for less money than the 970.
The 1060 is probably a slightly better card, though a bit more expensive, and right now finding either in stock is near impossible.
Basically if you play nothing but MOBAs and CS:GO at 1080p it's supposed to be solid, but I wouldn't expect to push it any farther than that.
I mean, I'm playing on my SNES right now.
I have more, and I chose the matching shape (8-pin and 6-pin with no blanks.) The GPU gives me white lights but my PC won't turn on and the motherboard won't give me an error code. Power is the thing I understand the least and fear the most when working on my PC. How picky is it about cables? How do I safely get this turned on?
EDIT - Got it. The key was not using one 8pin cable and one 6pin cable. I had to switch to one cable that had both beside each other (and the 8 pin was a 6 pin with an extra two as an option.
I hate working with power supplies. The only reason this PC got built was because my roommate taught me in 2013.
the 460 is the "you can stick this in your 2 year old off the shelf dell for $110"
Basically it's the new 750ti.
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I might have a couple somewhere in a box, i'll dig around.
What they have marked as E. They're needed to install even a 3.5" drive. I'm told (based on googling and asking a local shop) that each case is typically different.