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About Several Zombies

  • Birthday Nov 19, 1990

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  • CPU
    Intel i5 4690K
  • Motherboard
    Asus Maximus VI Impact
  • RAM
    G.Skill Ripjaws X 8GB
  • GPU
    Club3D Radeon R9 390
  • Case
    Corsair Carbide Air 240
  • Storage
    Crucial MX100 SSD 500GB
  • PSU
    Ultra LSP 750W
  • Display(s)
    2x HP Pavilion 20xi
  • Keyboard
    Razer Deathstalker
  • Mouse
    E-3LUE Mazer Type-R
  • Sound
    Thermaltake SHOCK Headset / Logitech 2.1 Speakers
  • Operating System
    Windows 7

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  1. Several Zombies
    Unfortunately people are reporting the same issue with boards they've received from RMAs (at least if Reddit posts and Newegg reviews are to be believed) so it's probably best to steer clear of this board. I'll be RMA-ing mine to see, but frankly I'll probably replace it one way or the other with an ASUS board or something.
  2. Several Zombies
    I'm having a strange issue with my Aorus Gaming 5 board recently. After a length of time between a few hours and a few days, the BIOS appears to randomly stop functioning. The board will not POST and instead enters a loop, with the POST readout of 65 3E 15 90. Clearing CMOS does not resolve this issue, nor does power cycling. The only solution I've been able to come up with is using the backup BIOS to re-flash onto the primary BIOS chip. At first the issue manifested with BIOS F22, but also appeared with F10, 20, 21, and 23d. Gigabyte support was wholly unhelpful and basically said the BIOS chip was a dud and that they could RMA it. To test this, I flashed BIOS F10 to the backup and a "safe" F4 to the primary. Lo and behold, the backup has become unstable and required reflashing. Does this indicate that the problem is with the firmware, or is my board circling the drain after less than a year in use?
  3. Several Zombies
    So I accidentally grabbed the wrong screw for my gpu terminal and cracked the screwhole of the block slightly (pictured). It doesn't come through the top and can hardly be felt from the bottom. Is the block kaput? Any way to salvage this disaster?
  4. Several Zombies
    Sorry to double post. So after a few days of testing, I think I've nailed it down and gotten rid of the stability issues. Problem was definitely a result of Quad-Channel incompatibility primarily. For anyone else who runs across this issue, here's what fixed it. VCORE: 1.4500v VCORE SOC: 1.35v VDDCR SOC: +0.0625 CPUVDDP18: 2.1v CPUVDDP: +0.2 With these tweaks, the system has been incredibly stable even when overclocked. Thanks for the help, all.
  5. Several Zombies
    I'll give that a go. Thanks. Just had another drastic crash where Windows wouldn't boot after restart. Kept throwing out STOP errors (Page fault in non-paged area, Bad pool header request) and wouldn't even start in Safe Mode. It's starting to make me think that the issue might be with the SSD. Going to try and source a temporary replacement to test with.
  6. Several Zombies
    Unfortunately I don't have any SATA drives to test with that aren't in use. As for the RAM, is there any way to troubleshoot? I know I could test with another kit, or pop the DIMMs out and figure out which ones are causing problems, but its a tough pill to swallow that such an expensive RAM kit is a dud. I also noted that I may have put the DIMMs in in the wrong order (I did A1 B1 A2 B2, when AMD advises A2 B2 A1 B1). Not sure if that could be the issue since it seems pretty inconsequential, but I know Ryzen can be finicky with memory.
  7. Several Zombies
    Hoping someone knows what's going on here. I've been dealing with intermittent crashes with a new Ryzen 1800X build. The system specs are as follows; Ryzen 1800X CPU Gigabyte GAMING 5 AX370 Motherboard (Rev 1.0, BIOS F6) 32GB G.Skill TridentZ RGB 2400MHz (14-14-14-34 Timing) Crucial 1TB M.2 SSD Two RX 480s in CrossFire. The system is all liquid cooled and thermals have been fine, so the issue doesn't appear to be heat related.The crashes are generally preceded by a period of instability before the computer locks up. Chrome in particular seems to be the canary in the mineshaft for these crashes; it usually closes to desktop or returns an "Aw Snap" error a few times leading up to the big freeze. Loosening up the memory timing seems to make the issue worse, which makes me think it could be a problem with the RAM or motherboard, but I'm not certain. The BIOS is the latest one provided by Gigabyte (F6) and the rest of the system drivers are up to date. The install of windows was fresh with the build. Any thoughts?
  8. Several Zombies
    Just have a question for you all. I've got an MCP 350 "Quiet" 10w pump that has just recently (as of this morning) started giving off an extremely high pitched whine. If I had to equate it to anything I'd say like an old tube TV or bad coil whine on a GPU. I've tried adjusting the mounting bracket, removing the bracket all together and using a shoggy sandwich, as well as totally decoupling the pump, with no luck. The sound seems to be coming from inside the pump and not as a result of any vibration. Not sure what could be the cause. For the record, its a Laing DDC 3.1 MCP 350 with a Bitspower acrylic top with Z-Multi 150mm Reservoir attached.
  9. Several Zombies
    Here's the readout from the latest crash. All the values seem to drop.
  10. Several Zombies
    The problems with my girlfriend's rig continue. Lately she's been having a problem with the computer slowing down and then crashing to a black screen with no cursor, requiring a hard reset. Thinking it was either a driver issue or overheating, I cleared off the old drivers and installed the latest ones cleanly. I also began to monitor the temps closely to look out for any throttling. Weirdly, right before an instance of slowness/crashing, the temperature readout for her GTX960 dipped to 0C momentarily. Not sure whether this points to a faulty card or a dud driver (she's on W10 and I know it doesn't play nice yet), but I was hoping you guys might have some input.
  11. Several Zombies
    Got a source on that? Definitely sounds like it'd be worth watching.
  12. Several Zombies
    Whatever the problem is, thorough testing will determine the cause. There's no question that Fallout 4 is poorly optimized, and perhaps the 4690k is choking out the performance, though anecdotally I've seen chips with far less performance run fine with much more demanding GPUs. At the end of the day I just want to make sure I'm getting the most out of my card. Let's keep it civil folks.
  13. Several Zombies
    Tried installing that Shadowboost mod and reduced shadows to medium. Seems to have improved it a bit but I'm still worried the card is under performing. Firestrike: http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/9605801 With a modest OC it seems to do okay. I just wish I had some frame of reference.
  14. Several Zombies
    Will try all of the above. As for general performance outside of Fallout 4, I ran a Valley benchmark on the Ultra Preset (Direct3D11, 1600x900, 8XAA) and got a score of 3642, with an average FPS of 87. This seems typical of this card but I'm still kind of worried I got something defective. EDIT: Also, in the most problematic sections, I checked to see if it was clocking up, and it was only reaching about 870MHz max. Don't know if this indicates a problem.
  15. Several Zombies
    Yup. Running the game currently and the GPU isn't breaking 60C.
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