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11 minutes ago, jrhaberland said:

That should work, I do see any reason why it wouldn't.

I have no idea what impedance is but just checking if they're compatible that way! 

May i ask what does the phone/rec out do?

Hi all,

I've just gotten an electric guitar off a friend for cheap and am looking for an amp to play with.

I've read online that we could theoretically wire a guitar amp into an external speaker.

My question is:

Let's say my guitar is hooked onto a Boss katana mini https://www.boss.info/global/products/katana-mini/

then from my boss katana mini I'll mod it and add an audio output where it'll be connected to my Creative Sound BlasterX Katana https://sg.creative.com/p/speakers/sound-blasterx-katana?gclid=CjwKCAiAu8SABhAxEiwAsodSZKmPBk-JRVcJFLoeeMyupw9MFjjv3VzEtT5PFG_E1m-UmAJydkx-9xoCfhAQAvD_BwE 

will that work?

Thank you!!

2 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

Honestly depends on what gpu you pair it with. If you are going to be gpu bottlenecked anyways at 1440p or higher then it may make 0 difference in performance. If you are shooting for the maximum fps at 1080p on a high refreshrate monitor than sure buy the extra ram. 

ah that's true

I'm planinng to use a RTX 3070 on 3440x1440 100hz display so probably it wouldn't matter

Hi all, i'm about to snag a 5600x and was wondering if the ~5-10% performance increase is worth adding the extra ram?

1 set of 2x8gb 3600mhz Corsair Vengeance LPX will run me about $129SGD which is ~$97USD

I've encountered compatibility issues if the motherboard bios is too old before (this was with a i7 860 and a GTX 1060), updating the motherboard bios made it work so you'd probably want to do that first

Display:

Main Display: 3440 x 1440

Side display: 1080 x 1920

Use case:
- Computer science student

- Barely plays games (I'm talking ~4-6 hours weekly), when I do it's usually:

    - indie titles

    - BF4

    - BF1

    - FF14

    - Tabletop simulator

Spends ~14-16hours a day on my computer writing programs / reading off PDF files

In my country a 5600x + RTX 3080 is about the same price as 5900x + RTX 3070

with the above use case which combination makes more sense?

TLDR: 5600x + RTX 3080 or 5900x + RTX 3070 for com sci student

16 hours ago, YSL_know_plug said:

so if i run a radiator on top as exhaust i should also still use an exhaust fan in the back of the case?

16 hours ago, narrdarr said:

Yes

8 hours ago, shoutingsteve said:

We are all saying the exact same thing (flip the fan to make it an exhaust) , but for different reasons.  The advice seems clear.

Thanks guys!

5 minutes ago, narrdarr said:

Not sure what these guys are mumbling about.

 

But a few things here.

1. Hot air doesn't raise in a case. Air (hot or cool) goes where you tell it to go. Unless the case is designed to work off of convection or assisted convection. 

 

2. The case is designed to move air in from the front and bottom and out the rear and top. However placing a fan in the top front position without a radiator for water cooling is a waste.

 

It will remove fresh air from system before the components can use it.

Ah i get wym. Should i just cover it up with the included cover R5 provides? 

What about the exhaust from GPU? would having the fan as exhaust help?

Hi guys,

My question is actually whether having the top front 140mm fan as intake or exhaust matter as much?

Currently its installed as an intake fan (filtered) for positive air pressure and in my mind im thinking it feeds fresh air directly into my Hyper 212X cooler

Or should i put it as an exhaust since heat rises due to convection?

18 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

are you sure they are plugged in the pcb of the  gpu? try aftermarket cooler?

24 minutes ago, flo_306 said:

60C at idle indicates a broken cooler or poor contact

 

i have the same GPU in a PC and it doesnt get that warm in idle or load. But it does get pretty noisy since its getting very hot

 

your fan configuration looks good. 

24 minutes ago, boggy77 said:

might have to push that up and live with the noise

28 minutes ago, Mateyyy said:

60C at idle? Are you sure that the cooler is mounted properly and that the TIM was good and properly applied?

What are your ambient temps?

30 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

Lower temp if you open the side panel? - If yes this indicate airflow restriction. If not then your cooler/heatpipe probably broken or didn't make proper contact. 

 

I hope you cover the whole die with thermal paste and not using the pea/rice/line/x method.

Hi all,

So i found out that out of 3 fans, left (flushed to rear) is not working (i tried moving it with my hands it wasn't stuck or anything, just not moving)

center was working as per normal

right (flushed to front) was stupidly stuck cos my pci-e cable was jamming it, now it's working

WITH CENTER & RIGHT FAN

Idle = 60c

Load = 81c

is there a way to diagnose and fix the only fan that is not moving?

5 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

Lower temp if you open the side panel? - If yes this indicate airflow restriction. If not then your cooler/heatpipe probably broken or didn't make proper contact. 

Oh my god i did this and saw only 1 of 3 fans r spinning 

guess that solves it!

rip 7 year old card

Hi guys, currently this is my setup as shown in the screenshot.

WHAT'S THE ISSUE

60c idle, 94c under load

Too toasty under load -> thermal throttling

WHAT I'VE DONE

1) Replaced r9 290x (Tri-X) thermal paste with MX-4

2) undervolted by -31mV in MSI AB

3) max fan speed at 55% (it sounds like a jet engine if its any higher)

4) core clocks and memory clocks are at stock (1040/1300)

Do you guys have any idea what may be the issue?

And another thing is should the top-front 140mm fan be an exhaust instead of an intake?

Thanks!

Hi guys im contemplating for a gpu upgrade.

Currently im running a 290x and a i7 4770 with 20gb ram.

im going to wait for rtx 3000 series card but let's say the most intensive game i'm playing on this res is BF1 what RTX 2000 series GPU would you guys recommend me to pair with my i7 4770? 

Just want a rough gauge on which GPU to get when 3k hits.
(and i'm going on team green side because of tensor cores since im partially doing AI)

On 5/9/2020 at 2:05 AM, Falcon1986 said:

Gotcha!

 

You should really be running the AX58U in access point mode if you want to avoid double NAT and the slowdowns/hiccups associated with it. Then, disable AiMesh thereafter if it’s still activated.

OH!!! i tthink i managed to resolve the issue.

What i did was separated all the ethernet cables going into the router (i had them all cable tied previously together)

and scheduled a daily reboot @ 4am and that seem to fix the issue

1 hour ago, H40N said:

Hey Lads.

Im pretty tired of renting minecraft servers and shit online, without having to pay a huge shitton for a server you only can play 10people lag free on, so i was wondering how to build my own physical server, and make it into a minecraft server, what i would need of hardware to do that, and what i would need of software to do that.

 

(i know that this would be an fairly expensive build, but in the end it would pay off)

 

I hope yall can help

 

just for a gauge when i play / host with ~10ish people on my system (i7 4770 + 20gb ram) my cpu usage hits ~90% so keep that in mind. Ram wise it's hovering around 4gb usage 

6 hours ago, Falcon1986 said:

What's the purpose of this?

 

That Huawei ONT is an internet gateway. So it has its own router/NAT. Are you, therefore, running the AX58U in bridged/AP mode? See Advanced Settings > Administration > Operation Mode.

 

Also, I notice that the AX58U includes what looks like a lot of security features through AiProtection. While having a few of these active might not be a problem, having them all all takes a hit on the CPU at some point (especially things like IPS). Try temporarily turning AiProtection off to see if the problem persists. You can always use 3rd party DNS providers (e.g. CloudFlare, Quad9) for filtering.

The purpose of the trunk is for wife approval. I can't exactly have 20 meters of ethernet cable running through the house in a straight line

It's currently in router mode!!

As for the AI protection I'll give it a shot... The thing is only my wired connection is affected. The WiFi side of things are perfectly fine when my ethernet is hit

5 hours ago, Falcon1986 said:

What is the Asus AX58U plugged in to? Exact make and model, please.

 

1. What is this trunk?
2. What category of ethernet is it?
3. Did you crimp this cable yourself or was it pre-crimped?
4. Have you tried a different pre-crimped cable altogether?

The ax58u is connected via WAN port to my ISP's Huawei Echolife HG8240h modem and it's fibre (500mbps up down)

Then it's connected to my computer's ethernet port(the onboard motherboard's killer gigabit and pcie ethernet card have the same issues so I doubt it's the port on my mobo)

1) the trunk is just some plastic trunk I got from a hardware store

2) cat 7 flat cable

3) precrimped 20m cable

4) nope

7 hours ago, PorkishPig said:

Based on my understanding, heat/cold/humidity, florescent lights, or even just poorly made cables can cause interference. I would give shielded cables a shot anyways, since it's probably not an issue with your hardware.

All the lights in my place are LED T.T I may just replace the cable if it comes down to it but its a pain

1 hour ago, PorkishPig said:

My best guess is that you're running into some sort of interference, which might require you to purchase shielded ethernet cables. I'm not all too familiar with this myself, but you might find this article to be helpful.

hmmm but the route from the router to my pc is through a trunk and inside that trunk its just the cable itself

im plugged directly into the router (not extended via wall RJ45 connection)

Hi, my ethernet has been dropping really randomly (like there's no pattern) and at a very sparse rate (maybe once per 2 days)

What i've done

1) upgraded router to asus AX58U

2) bought an ethernet pcie card (realtek gigabit)

3) reformatted pc and reinstalled drivers

the wifi and other devices works fine during this period

I've asked here previously and it was mentioned that the cable is highly unlikely to cause this issue

The thing is im really only left with the cable as the issue

Hi, i've recently reformatted and everytime its my first boot (either a restart from windows / from off state) my pc will go into EFI shell instead of going into my windows boot manager.

when i go into bios from first boot i can see that my windows boot manager is not shown.

windows boot manager only shows when i ctrl-alt-del (and thus will boot proper)

Specs:
i7 4770

MSI H87 G43 Gaming

Sapphire Tri-x r9 290x

Boot drive: Samsung 840 evo 250gb 

other drives

plextor 500gb ssd

2x 1TB HDD

What i've tried

1) flashed MOBO bios

2) flashed GPU bios 

3) connect my boot drive to SATA_1

4) cleared cmos

5) disabled MSI fast boot (i cant enable it anyway my GPU doesn't support UEFI for it to be enabled)

I suspect that it's something to do with UEFI not playing well with old parts.

Any solutions regarding this? I can't seem to find CSM in my BIOS anywhere for legacy hardware support too

1 minute ago, Enderman said:

Unless you moved something at the time it disconnected, the cable is most likely not the problem.

Thank you!! I'll give it a shot

7 minutes ago, Enderman said:

I would plug another computer in and see if it happens to both computers.

If not, you should reinstall windows.

If it does, replace the router.

would it be safe to assume that the cable is okay? Because these steps would assume so

1 minute ago, Constantin said:

I though it was regularly disconnect ....

it usually does it in the middle of the night but throughout the day it's fine and wifi's working fine during disconnect as well. (it could happen in the middle of the day but that's like once every 3 days).

5 minutes ago, Pickles - Lord of the Jar said:

Issue could be cable or the swithc in the back of the router. The ports can go bad and wifi still work fine. 

should i replace the router?

23 minutes ago, Pickles - Lord of the Jar said:

Possible cable is the issue. Possible bad wifi router/switch. Ports can go bad. 

15 minutes ago, Constantin said:

This means it is not from you,

This standard hours should be from the ISP... 

issue is my wifi works perfectly when my PC disconnects. Most likely a cable issue? But it's not like it's regularly disconnect (there isnt a pattern). 

I've also swapped the ports my cable connects to on the router

Hi recently my PC has been experiencing intermittent disconnects.

It usually happens in the middle of the night and for about 2-3 seconds before coming back on.

What I've done

1) Bought a new ethernet PCIe card and used it (seems to decrease occurrence by ~70%)

2) Reinstalled drivers for both PCIe ethernet card (realtek) and onboard motherboard ethernet drivers

3) Cleaned ethernet cable on both ends with the router's port and my PC's ethenet port with alcohol wipes

4) WIFI was still working when my PC disconnected during that 2-3seconds.

I know the cable could the obvious problem but i really wanna exhaust all other options before replacing the cable (it's well trunked and a pain to replace).

Any suggestions?