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Just bought a 8700k with a z390 board to replace my 2600k. Wondering if the holes are the same for mounting my aio, or if I'm going to have to go digging to see where i put the other mounts that came with it.

8700k, asrock 390 phantom gaming it/ac, and 32gb 3200 ram

I have a 2600k and a pci-e slot on my mobo died the other day. Fortunately my motherboard has a 2nd one, and i moved my videocard over. But my mobo and cpu are nearly 8 years old at this point, and this is pushing me towards upgrading my system. Is the 9700k even remotely viable compared to the 8700k? The 8700k should be easier to cool and likely overclock higher with 2 fewer cores; while with the general rule of hyperthreading adding about half a core's worth of performance per hyperthreaded core, the 8700k should in theory have 9 cores worth of performance compared to the 9700k's 8. Plus, the 8700k is $270 at microcenter if i also buy a motherboard there, compared to the 9700k being $400 wherever i look. Am I missing something? It looks like the 9700k is a horrible value.

1 hour ago, KaminKevCrew said:

If you sleep with your phone on the bed, you're likely rolling over it in your sleep and putting a lot of pressure on the connector.

i don't sleep with it. its always on my stand. I have it on my desk next to my bed charging every night. IDK, I just find it hard to believe that the vast majority of people are gentler with connecting their phones to a cable than me. But regardless the magnetic charger should fix the problem.

yep, using the stock cable and charger. Haven't contacted LG because it has happened with previous phones as well. Thx for the idea on the magnetic charging port, just ordered one on amazon.

2 Phones ago, the Phone lasted about a year, and the charging port died, then i bought a LG G5 because it was relatively cheap and it has a usb type c port, and i remember reading usb type c was supposed to be more durable somewhere. But nope, a little more than a year later, that charging port failed. Fortunately the G5 has a replaceable bottom for like $20, so i just bought a new bottom; but that one died in like 2 months. So I ended up buying 2 more new bottoms, and the first one of those is starting to fail after maybe 5 months. I'm not rough plugging them in or out. Previously i thought the handful of times i knocked the phone off my table when it was connected might of damage the port. But I've been careful the last 2 bottoms i haven't dont that at all and both fail. I think the one that lasted a month might of just been defective. It died differently than all the others in that one time i plugged it in, it didn't charge, but the bottom got super hot; and then every time after that it just wouldn't charge at all. How can i ever justify getting a good phone if the port just keeps dieing?

Whenever i change a password on a site, i get the notification to save the new password, and i'll click save, but it never updates and keeps using the old password which doesn't work. Any idea what could be causing this?

I've had this phone for about a year now, and couldn't be happier with it.

It has a replacable battery and replacable bottom/charging port, which for me at least, are the two main things that force me to buy a new phone. It has expanable storage, and is decently powerful with a decent screen and camera. And while not razer thin, it is easy to hold in my hand, which can't be said about a lot of modern flagships with larger screens. Plus its dirt cheap for a smartphone. But somehow it was a flop? Because it doesn't look sleek even though most people put their phones in cases? I get it not being popular for people that want the newest, most powerful phone with the best looking screen, and best camera, but i don't get why for the average person, we're not seeing better adoption of phones with more consumer friendly features.

4 hours ago, Christophe Corazza said:

 

If the PC did not manage to boot properly and keeps turnin on and off... that might indeed be a PSU problem.

 

What power supply do you have?

Do you have another PSU that you can try?

I have a Silverstone 800w sfxl psu only 1 year old. Just picked up an extra psu from a friend.

I have a 2600k, so i think 7 and a half year old motherboard could be the culprit as well.

When i tried to turn my pc on today, nothing happened. I pressed the power button down and it started to turn on, but then off then on and off again like something that i might expect during a brownout.So i,flipped the psu switch off and I'm afraid to do any more testing and possibly damage other components. Also there was no blinking lights with the surge protector.

7 hours ago, theunnamedgamer said:

 

i am using a i7 2600k with a 1080ti and i can't justify upgrading my 2600k.  If i bought a i5 2500k, i probably would of upgraded my cpu like 4 years ago. Also, future upgrades of a CPU will probably require a new motherboard and new ram, if its long enough in the future, so spending more on the cpu will make your motherboard and ram last longer as well. It would cost like $900 to get a new cpu, motherboard, and 16gb of ram, and i might average like 5 extra fps.

CPUs can last a long time if you invest in a good one. IMO even for gaming there is no piece of equipment more worthy of being splurged on than a cpu.

edit: i don't know how to get rid of these boxes!!!

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It is still too early to tell just how big of a performance hit we're going to see because of specter and meltdown.

I would say that if you are buying a pc primarily for gaming and web browsing; the greater single threaded performance of intel cpu's still really make them the best choice as long as you can get the latest gen at their msrp, get an overclockable i7 or i5, and indeed overclock it.

If you have other work loads that better utilize multiple threads, or streaming, or if you can't find intel CPUs at MSRP, or don't plan on overclocking, or plan on getting something lower end than i5, then i would either wait or get AMD.

12 hours ago, SupaKomputa said:

Hmmm... I'm sensing this whole shenanigans just to force everyone to upgrade their systems.

My office still use a bunch of core 2 pc, and its running well for office work.

If it ain't broken why upgrade?

And now it's all broken.....

yeah, and even the older ones that they are fixing, it seems like the older they are the harder hit they are with performance. Someone said its even noticeable browser stuttering on their laptop with the changes.

Intel said they're providing firmware updates for all CPUs made in the last 5 years. So does that mean everyone still using a 3770ks or 2600ks are fucked?

I just got a light strip for bias lighting on my desk. I plug the strip into the usb port on the back of my monitor and it doesn't turn on. I plug it in to the back of my pc and it turns on fine. Any ideas what could be wrong? Power Saving features? usb port disabled somewhere? Do i have to run a usb cable from my pc to my monitor to power the usb connection on the monitor?

The monitor is the BenQ XL2720Z https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GWFNMJS/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

So, it doesn't fit this sub forum, perfectly, but i don't see another one where it fits perfectly. But I've been using a thick white plastic folding table as a desk for almost 3 years. An upgrade would be nice. I think my only requests are that it is relatively large, sturdy, easy to break down and pack if i need to move.

yes, the hole spacing is different, the holes don't line up. I can't get the holes to line up, so what options do i have?

9 minutes ago, unkn0wn1 said:

turn the hdd around

if this is serious, how can i turn the hdd to get it to attach securely?

A 3.5" HDD died, i bought a replacement, the replacement doesn't have holes in the same spot anyone know of like an adapter that i could use?

There are only 4 holes in the bottom of the new hdd and 2 extend past the mount when i have the other 2 attached, no way to use the other two. Is there maybe an adapter i can buy or maybe just duct tape it?

new hdd: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822146142

For gaming i see three basic options. You can go the I7 8700k for the ultimate high end, highest possible frames per second which most likely is fairly future proof, but that comes at the highest cost. Or you can go the R7 1700 for better value, still capable of very good fps, and possibly even more future proof than the 8700k. Or you can go r5 1600 for great value and still capable of very good fps, and probably will be capable of very good fps for quite a long time.

For a high end system, I7 or AMD imo.The way Intel removes important features like hyperthreading and overclocking from so many of their CPUs make them hard to recommend for anything but the highest end chips.

ok, yeah, so it boots fine with all the hard drives plugged into the power but only the boot drive's sata plugged in. Double checked with everything plugged in it still froze on boot. With everything plugged in but the sata drive of the opposite hdd that i originally, it still froze on boot. With everything plugged in but thesata of the hdd i unplugged originally, it booted fine. So definately looks like something with a non boot drive causing the problem. Not really much troubleshooting i can do with it when i can't boot into windows with it plugged in, is there?

alright, but i'm going to be pissed if it takes me another like 4 hours to get into windows...

6 minutes ago, owluitar said:

Just out of curiosity... Try stopping superfetch and see if your RAM usage drops.

looks like it might of dropped slightly from doing that from 4.0 to 3.85GB of usage

no. so if i unplug my boot drive, it will freeze later on while trying to install windows on another drive. But I got my computer to boot by unplugging one of my HDD while having my boot drive plugged in. So i'm wondering if maybe because the PSU is SFX-L, it is doesn't have as beefy of a rail for HDD and its struggling with 2 ssd and 2 hdd.

yeah, the boot drive is the 120gb sata II ssd, bought back in 2010 https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231378