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Don't rely on Ethereum crash to "kill" all mining. ZCash is on the rise, and so are other alt coins. The only thing is Nvidia GPUs are king for ZCash. Though Nvidia GPUs were still pretty fucking good at Ethereum, the 1070 had a higher hashrate than the RX 480 & Fury X.

This build was stupid, and you all know it. I don't think you are incompetent enough to build a 1,000 dollar PC with a bloody i5-7500, surely. So.. are Be Quiet like a proxy sponsor? Intel encourage them to sponsor this shit, they get some money in return?

CPU: Intel Core i7-6950X (silicon lottery win that can attain ~4.4GHz) Motherboard: ASUS X99-Deluxe II Memory: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-4266 Memory Storage: Samsung 960 Pro M.2 SSD (1TB) Storage: Few solid HDDs Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB ARMOR Video Card x2 Power Supply: Seasonic Prime Platinum 1200W I mean... this PC would be stupidly fast, and stupidly expensive. You could make it better with better storage... and shit but if I had the choice of ANY PC, I'd take this core, and build a beautiful beast with great case fans, great cooler, great case... etc. That being said, a PC lasting 5 years without the need for an upgrade isn't possible. At least if you wish to remain at the same settings when you started. The GTX 780 was released in 2013, 4 years on and its... near redundant. Can't really do 1080p maxed out anymore. GPU technology moves WAY WAY to fast.

Honestly... this has been the dullest year for games ever for me. I've started no big AAA games this year. I will have to go with Rise of the Tomb Raider, it was released in Jan '16 for PC. Otherwise... very dull year, Doom isn't my thing. Hope next year is better.

Update: On Monday night I booted up DayZ and the main menu is notoriously stupidly resource-heavy, it will max out GPU and so forth. Anyway, I heard a very loud buzzing noise so I immediately unplugged my PC and ordered an EVGA SuperNova G2, I was without a PC until 5 hours ago which was painful but I do believe that PSU was arcing. I did short the P_ON thing and stopped the fan and it was virtually silent except the coil whine but whatever happened during the DayZ run caused it to sound like a mini-tazer going off in the PSU so yeah I'm RMA'ing that thing with Seasonic so I can use it in my HTPC. I do believe the fan was a bit broke, but whatever made the buzzing sound.. it wasn't the fan. Also the EVGA is SO much more quieter. I had thought the loud idle noise was my GPU but it is virtually silent and it is 2 feet away from me at head-level. (And that's with ECO mode off) All in all... a bit bummed that I am out £80 but glad I didn't fry my entire PC. I believe if I had kept playing or using this PC that it would be dead before the replacement PSU came.

@corrado33 I've shorted it this way before I put it in my PC, so I can easily do it again. But it does appear to get louder as the load increases, right now I can hear a faint clicking, if I load up GTA that clicking will remain audible over my GPU fan (which is a reference 970.. so its loud) I think its the fan, so I will just get a new PSU and RMA this thing, I've been needing to buy a new PSU for my planned HTPC build anyway. Gives me an excuse to get the EVGA Supernova G2 650w and use the Seasonic in a HTPC. Seasonic provide 5 years of warranty which is great, I'm well within that but you do have to pay for shipping. So it's something I will do soon. But I can't really have any downtime with college assignments so I will just buy another. It's certainly the PSU though, I even unplugged my CPU fan in addition to HDDs and all other fans.

Well I have no backup PSU so I will probably just buy another and use this in a planned HTPC build once I RMA it. I have mounting College Assignments so I can't really be without this PC so yeah I will RMA it once I get a new PSU. (Wednesday-ish)

Yep, I was an idiot and done this once with the PSU that this was replacing, I didn't die. Perhaps because it was a few weeks later and it had discharged by then. Felt a bit sick when I found out it can kill, I touched every inch of it.

I've had this Seasonic S12II-520 for two years now, but in the past few days I've noticed a slightly ticking noise, it gets slightly more audible under load, so it could be the fan is dying and the PSU is ramping it up as the system gets hotter. I'm probably just going to replace it with an EVGA SuperNova G2 650watt because I can't deal with the risk of frying my entire PC if it is in fact arcing, I've read that it could be the fan, coil whine or arcing. (EDIT) - it just doesn't sound like arcing, its so consistent it sounds like the fan... and all examples I've found on YouTube have arcing being less inconsistent. I've removed all case fans, including GPU + hard drives and the noise persisted. But I only unplugged the SATA connector to the HDDs, I left SATA Power in. (Surely they shouldn't spin up right?) So, question is... if it is in fact arcing could it fry my entire PC? Earliest a G2 can be delivered is Wednesday. JonnyGuru gave it a 9.7/10 so I presume it is a high quality PSU which should have safe guards against frying my entire PC should it fail. Also have ASUS Anti-Surge on my MOBO. Thanks.

I've had this OC for a few weeks now, not a single BSOD except when I pushed to 4.7GHz, 4.6GHz was stable in everything (including games) until I ran Linpack then it crashed, 4.5GHz seems to be the sweet spot for my voltage. But anyway thanks, Task Manager made it look like a bigger issue than HWMonitor, will use it from now on!

Ok, so I ran x264 for around a minute and I don't know if this is normal but my core frequencies will jump between 4521 and 4525, I suppose since it is such a minor increment I suppose it is normal? My OC is stable, it has passed 12 hours of x264 and 6 hours of Prime95 (pre-AVX instructions obviously) and also a few hours of Linpack. My voltage is also at 1.320, but ASUS seems to offset this to 1.330, my temperatures are good however.

I forgot to mention this is under load during an x264 stress test, I haven't checked if CPU frequency does this in HWMonitor, I will do so now and update.

So I overclocked my i5-6600k to 4.5GHz on an ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming. Task Manager shows it jumping between 4.45GHz and 4.48GHz. I'm a bit confused right now, any BIOS settings I need to tweak? I couldn't find an option to disable CPU Spread Spectrum, but I found VRM Spread Spectrum (which was already disabled) and I set Digi+ power control to Optimised. Thanks.

I believe Intel's highest (at least recommended) voltage for Skylake is 1.52v, so your motherboard caps it at that. My ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming has a CPU overvolt jumper that will allow me to set it to anything I wanted, but yeah I have that thing disabled 100%. I don't want to push past 1.350v nevermind 1.52

Run a MemTest for 4 passes, if its stable then damn. I never had Prime95 blend fail on me, even with unstable RAM. Only once on Test 25 when core 3 worker stopped due to an unstable overclock, pulled down 100MHz instead of overvolting (4.6GHz is more than enough) and it was stable, passed test 25 about 5 times before I couldn't be bothered waiting anymore.