Doecky

As stated in the title, will my gtx1070 bottleneck the i5-6600K?

I'm onboard on either MSI or Sapphire

I randomly thought about the hilarity of hearing the LMG crew singing their own rendition of a tech-themed Christmas/holiday album? Anyone else kinda actually want that? Just me? Probably just me.

Make it Wireless 
#problemSolved

Take it apart, the same thing happened to my old K70, I spilt coffee on it, so I took all the caps off and the screws and took it apart, then I got a shit ton of cotton swabs and 99% Isopropyl Alcohol and just swabbed everything. I would recommend doing the same, it's save-able but it takes some time.

I'd say just get a vesa mount, put it on a Monitor and have a bad ass Imac like PC, for your kitchen so you can post on the LTT Forums while you cook steaks and drink brandy.

honestly I have no idea what to do with a nuc...

Hate you so much. Enjoy your mini computer machine. 

You can even strap it to your balls

So it'll work on your uh, you know....?

I hate it when companys tease products so much that the end result is not even nearly to be worth it. Also I think flagship phones are kinda out nowadays, I mean who pays freaking 300-400$ for a phone (with contract) just so he can have it like 3 Yeas, soo looking for ARA

Good evening tech community,
 
 
 
first off, I am not a native speaker, please go easy on my spelling/grammar/etc mistakes.
So I've had this issue, that I will come to later, for a while now. This morning I was close to killing myself over it, until this "5K Imac" video of linus released decent amounts of adrenaline to keep me from ending my life - and also brought me the idea to give the community a shot, that linus admire so much. 
 
 
1. This is what happened
To start things off, my system specs:
CPU: i7-4770K                    GPU: MSI 780 Lightning   PSU: Corsair RM 850W MB:  MSI Z87 MPOWER       RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance Black (running XMP) Storage:  128GB Samsung 830 SSD, 1TB WD OS: Windows 7 64 Bit Service Pack 1 The Computer has been running in this configuration for at least 6 Months (Stable, no crashes / errors / issues whatsoever). No changes in hardware have been made whatsoever. However it should be noted, that the harddrives (and os) are from a previous build which used an i5-3550 and a asus gtx 660. This previous build was stable for almost a year, until I upgraded everything but the harddrives. Although online folks told me differently, I could just plug in the harddrives and boot into windows with all my old folders / layout / data without any issues. Once again: NO CRASHES for at least 6 months straight.
I used MSI Afterburner 4.0 with my MSI card. Also installed the MSI VGA Fan Tool which was made for the 780 Lightning, mainly to control that noisy ass fucking useless middlefan. Good knows why there is a fan in front of a metal plate with no cooling fins.
Everything worked flawlessly.
Then, about 4 Weeks ago, Afterburner suddenly told me it couldn't connect to the update server (See attachments). It also stopped recognizing my GPU and Gpu driver along with all temperature checkpoints on the card. It only showed Windows Ram usage. MSI VGA fan control didn't pop an error message, but also managed to stop working . Neither afterburner nor vga fan control can be adjusted anymore (see attachments).
Fuck. Now the middlefan ramps up like a little b**** when playing games. What used to be my beloved near silent 1500€ killer gaming/edeting/working machine turned into a damn jet turbine. Could've had this much cheaper. 
Then I tried out EVGA Precision x16. Surprisingly, It worked. It showed some graphs regarding the gpu (I am not sure if power consumption and gpu clock are the only two that can be displayed, or if the others are hidden in some submenu). The fan control regulates one fan controller (The two big fans on the left and right), however not the second one (The yellow noisy middlefan). This smaller one still turns up like hell in video games. 
Precision x16 gave me an error this morning saying it couldn't connect to the internet. It could again after a reboot - afterburner still denies its services.
 
2. This is what I've done so far
as mentioned, installed precision x to see if it might be due to gpu (but it is prooven that it isnt, right?) reinstalled EVERYTHING MSI related  (tried to) reinstall everything nVidia related (after reboot, an old driver automatically installed itself .. dont know how that happened. maybe the pc took it from the downloads folder?) Just for the heck of it and in between steps rebooted the pc millions of times contacted MSI support twice:  First guy told me to dump my pc and buy a new desktop from the MSI website (S***er) :angry:  :angry: Second guy was a lot nicer. Told me to reinstall stuff, update stuff, clean regestry, and then to reinstall windows I did everything he said but to reinstall windows. I even used a regestry cleaning tool, although internet told me otherwise (I is said to be really unsafe). However, I dont feel like I did it properly. searched the web forever, however no one seems to have my certain issue updated everything (got my hands on afterburner 4.1 just today, same result : "can't connect to update server") "downdated" everything, used most older versions - still, all tell me they cant reach the update server#  
3. Conclusion (about the question)
I need to control the noisy middle fan. It is jus not necessary for it to run at 45% since booting (it always did that, and I always turned it down).
I dont feel like its a Windows or GPU problem. Why would a problem randomly accur after over six months of problem free use without hardware changes? This doesnt make any sense to me.
I think that something is preventing Afterburner from working - in the sense like afterburner needs (at least once maybe) a connection to the internet to varify (that I am not some spammer or anything?), but as it cannot establish a connection, the program locks itself and doesnt work? I mean why else would Precision x work? What could be hindering Afterburner?
I really dont want to reinstall Windows. This would mean so much work for me as I really costumized my desktop and OS and file management etc.
As I know the least about the regestry, and the nice MSI guy talked about it and cleaning it, I suspect the regestry to be the fault. (?)
 
If you made it until the end, I want to thank you - I dont take it as granted that you take your time to help or even read about my issue.
If you've any Solution, or idea, or know someone or know some place or website I could write to, anything - please let me know.
 
 
Thank y'all so much in advance,
yours truly, from the north of Germany,
Richard

Most of what we don't need to send back we keep around for future comparison. It's only when we're 100% sure that we won't need it again that we'll get rid of it via garage sale or some other means.
 
Also, many manufacturers have strict guidelines in terms of what we can do with samples. Intel and WD are great examples of this. We can't even give them away without prior approval.
 
As for the "awesomeness" of so much hardware, honestly it's less exciting than you'd think after a certain point. How many power supplies does one person need? I don't know about you guys, but for me the answer is three: personal rig, media PC, home server. Anything else just sits in a box until we need to do a case review and put a power supply inside, or we need to build a test bench or something.

Looks awesome. It's still too deep though. I'd be okay being stuck with ITX size video cards and no internal power supply if we could bring the size down.