RainbowTylernol

Well this was two years ago but I'm pretty sure it was direct with Corsair? Maybe I was mistaken idk? At the time I figured their shipping policies just sucked because I was in Canada.

Okay super weird. I was playing around with clocks and voltage settings in the bios to see if maybe it was getting stuck in a weird power state on boot, preventing it from turning on. aaaaand one of the things I tired was underclocking my memory from 3000mhz to 2666mhz. And that has apparently fixed it???? Like I just turns on and off as it should now.

Well the other PSU died with a different board. My current Strix Z270H is only a year old.

Welcome to being Canadian.

yeah I've been doing more research on this power on issue and it seems like it could be PSU OR Mobo. Impossible to tell unless I swap hardware, and I don' t exactly have extra boards and PSUs lying around... It would be pretty annoying if it were the board, that's even newer and even more expensive to replace...

I addressed this in the post. Corsair was going to charge me shipping in both directions (like $30 each way) and potentially take 2 months to get it back to me. So I threw away the PSU. I wasn't going to go 2 months without a PC.

My last 2 PSUs were Tier 1 on that list RIP I actually haven't gotten the Asus mobo notification yet of this. It's just that the symptoms of what my PC is doing points to this. It just won't boot or do anything at all without me unplugging (or switching off the PSU) first. It can't even recover from sleep mode without me doing this.

So I've been building PCS for myself since about 2012 and the component I seem to have the least amount of luck with is PSUs. So far I've had three that have failed me. 2012: Coolermaster 600W 80+bronze [can't remmember model name] - completely stopped working after two years 2014: Corsair AX650 - completely stopped working after 2 years 2016: EVGA Supernova 750G2 - Surge errors causing PC not to post unless I unplug for a few seconds before powering on. Also after 2 years. All of these PSUs were still on warranty obviously. But all three manufacturers wanted me to pay shipping both ways for the repair, and told me it would take 6-8weeks to see it back. Obviously I'm not going that long without a PC. Anyway TL;DR, shopping for a new PSU again. Hopefully looking for something a little more bulletproof. Considering buying something 80+ Platinum (under the mindset that maybe those higher quality components are not only more efficient but maybe also more durable??? idk I'm not a PSU expert by any means)

Yeah I guess I was just looking in the wrong place. When I was originally digging through forum posts for info I was seeing people saying it was as much as $50 for a tube of liquid metal. Can you use the liquid metal again for the CPU cooler or should you just use standard thermal paste for that?

I've been thinking of doing a delid on my 7700K, but I need help answering a few important questions. A lot of tutorials and guides seems to pretty thoroughly show the process of actually deliding the chip, but few actually say anything at all about re-applying thermal compound and more importantly, re-seating the heat spreader in a perfect, centered position. My main questions are: What is a good recommended deliding tool? Preferably one that you can actually buy, unlike the Rockit 88 tool kit which is unavailable anywhere. What thermal compound should be used to replace the TIM? I've heard people recommend the liquid metal one but it's expensive. Is it really necessary? What type of glue should be used to re-attach the heat spreader, and how do you make sure it's perfectly centered?

Yeah I guess I forgot to mention I'm playing on a PG348Q. 3440x1440 eats a lot more Vram. So pretty much every AAA game was capping out the 3GB of my 780. Now I don't see VRam being an issue for a long while : )

I ended up replacing my 780 simply because of Vram bottlenecks. 3GB just isn't enough anymore. So I replaced it with a 1080ti because I figured the 11GB of Vram would make a big difference in its lifespan.

Yeah this worked. After getting the board to post again and having the bios updated, I was able to get the chip to 4.8Ghz at 1.3v stable. 5Ghz still won't even boot windows but whatever. I'm happy with 4.8. Temps are still pretty high though. Mid 80s in AIDA64, and that's with a top of the line AIO. But shitty temps seems to be the norm on these chips I guess.

I updated the bios and now it won't post at all. And as far as I know this motherboard has no clear CMOS feature. I have no idea what to do anymore.

Where can I get the most recent bios? I might try to update it.