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Unsure as to which exact models. But a quad core CPU (she complains as soon as anything slows down) and just a basic itx motherboard. AMD or Intel doesn't really matter.

So basically, a couple of years ago I built a PC for mom, which I then later upgraded to a decent gaming rig when my sister wanted to do some light gaming. i5 7500, 1050Ti, CXM550. 8Gb Ram. Since then sister has gotten a gaming PC of her own and I've sold the 1050Ti and at the same time downsized my own Plex server to a smaller case. So I basically have a free case laying around (TT Suppressor F1) and I'm thinking since mom no longer needs a tower PC with a 550W PSU and a fancy gaming motherboard I'm thinking of building a little "office" ITX cube and sell off the other system. Because of that I'm looking for a basic but good 300-350W PSU, trouble is where I live (Iceland), most power supplies are 500+ and the few that are below that are well....crap. There is the Corsair VS350 and a Raidmax unit that does look like it'll catch fire as soon as it's turned on. The internet hasn't yielded many results so far that are at least Bronze rated except for maybe a BeQuiet Pure Power 10 that is 350W and bronze. Anyone with any other recommendations?

Two Corsair ML140 Pros and two identical on the radiator exhausting. They are now all on the rad in push pull at the front

Alright something I'll try out. I still have the 140s that came with the cooler

So I decided to change the placement of my Kraken x62 radiator to front intake in a push pull config as oppsed to the top exhaust I had it in. I had noticed that in some games, BF1 in particular, the CPU temps were rising into high 60s and into 70s since the GPU (also similar temps in BF1, lower in other games) was blowing warm air and the radiator took all of that in. However, with the change I made the CPU is now at lower temps, but not so much lower idle temps, but the GPU is always in low 70s unless I really crank the intake fans on the rad but then it's like a jet engine and I don't want that. I'm inclined to change it back to the previous configuration where I had the front intake fans blowing fresh air directly onto the GPU with no obstructions. I don't have any top exhaust right now (just rear 120) but I'm not convinced that would help anyway, maybe I could have top intake? The case I'm using is Enthoo Pro M TG

Hmmm I just had a thought. The PSU fan might be kicking in much earlier than I'd like since the PSU should be running at close to its maximum wattage.

Gonna play with the system a bit tonight. run Furmark and maybe Prime and see how it goes

This is interesting. https://tekeverything.com/8700k-1080-mini-itx-build/

The CPU will only be tasked with some lightish gaming and Plex encoding when that is required.

So basically I shouldn't worry about my system overloading even with CPU+GPU on 100%.

I did check a PSU calculator which I suspect is more of a guide than anything accurate. Load wattage came back as below 450 but around 400. Of course I won't be doing any OCing

So I just got a great deal on a used RX580 for a small form factor Plex/HTPC build I'm doing after the holidays. But I just remembered that they specify a 500w PSU requirement and I only have a 450W SFX power supply, Corsair SF450 Gold power supply. This should still be ok right? CPU: i5 7600 (non K) GPU: Aorus RX 580 Storage: M.2 Sata drive and 6TB 7200rpm NAS hard drive.

Basically my question is. Is it worth the trouble to disconnect the cooler and take it all out and put at the front, which is a bit of a work to line it up. Also, wouldn't the gpu get less airflow with a radiator at the front ?

So, I have a PC in my living room which is and has been mostly used as a Plex server/storage. I did however have some plans over the summer to maybe start playing some games on it and upgraded it to a gaming rig, 6700k, 1070 and even a Corsair wireless lapboard, way overkill and turned out I never played any games on it since I never had time and all my gaming was done on my dedicated PC elsewhere in the house. So I've sold the 1070 and the CPU for something that made more sense. i5 7600 and a smaller itx case to save some space. But I do want to have the option of some light gaming, it's hooked up to a 4k television but of course I won't be gaming at that resolution, just 1080p from the couch which I think will be plenty good enough. Mainly looking at older shooters and current sports games (FIFA) so I can use my Xbox controller. I have been thinking that either the 1060 3gb or the even cheaper 570 4gb should do the job well enough but I'm stranded on deciding on which one. I might, if I'm lucky, be able to find a used 580 for similar price as a new 570. But of those two options, which one would be a better option?

No, I'm running Windows off a NVME SSD drive. My system is a SSD only system. Using this kit and I've been happy with it. Been playing with using the pre configured DRAM OC profiles built into the BIOS. Im pretty sure this started before I did that, so that leaves the CPU overclock but I'm still having doubts about that since I've yet to encounter this in gaming. https://www.gskill.com/en/product/f4-3200c14d-16gfx

So I've noticed recently that my PC is stuttering or locking up for like a second or two. Most often when I open a new program or something like that. I have not seen it in games yet. I have 2700x overclocked to 4.1 at 1.265 volts on C6H motherboard and 3200Mhz RAM from G.Skill. I've been playing around with overclockign the ram but this started before I did that. I'm on the latest 1809 Windows 10 build with all the latest drivers and the newest BIOS. Could it be the overclock not being stable? Which would be weird cause i'm not seeing this in games at all, at least not so far. Maybe it's the problematic 1809 version of Windows 10?

I'll try that tomorrow. Never seen top intake being recommended before.

You mean top radiator intake?

I have the Phanteks Enthoo Pro M TG case which is great. In it I have the 2700x cooled with Kraken x62, Strix 1080Ti and the C6H motherboard. I currently have the radiator configured as top exhaust. The CPU is overclocked to 4.1 and is stable at 1.268 volts. If I want to go few increments higher I need much higher voltages and I don't think it's worth it. Temps are decent, currently I'm getting around mid 30s for regular use with spikes up to the 40s. AIDA64 stress test has the CPU at mid 50s but if I Stress FPU it rises to mid 70s. Gaming temps however kinda depends on the game such as GTA is in the mid 50s but BF1 spikes way up to the 70s. I used to have the radiator in push pull front intake with two top exhausts and one back exhausts. I changed it to top exhaust with two intake fans at the front to blow fresh air directly onto the GPU area of the motherboard and GPU temps are as a result, great. But I know the general consensus is that it's better to have positive pressure than negative (which is what I have now) and I wonder if I'll get overall better temps with the rad as front intake in push pull config? I don't think I'll be getting much better temps on an overclock since the voltage required to get above 4.175 is much higher than I'm OK with. Does anyone have this case in a similar setup?

Cautiously excited......

Should add that my drives are all in good health. I'm currently runing Memtest 86 and I'm getting at least 4 errors on the CPU

So two times over the last week I have had this BSOD show up. Once when I was loading up Samsung Magician and then again just now when I was gaming. Also I noticed a brief system lock up the other day when I was checking for Windows updates. Currently running 2700x at 4.125 Ghz (which has been stable so far) and 16 gigs FuryX 3200 RAM on the C6H on a recent Windows 10 1809 install. Here is the crashdump info Unknown bugcheck code (154) Unknown bugcheck description Arguments: Arg1: ffffc08ceaf62000 Arg2: ffffd60e2c9477e0 Arg3: 0000000000000001 Arg4: 0000000000000000 Debugging Details: ------------------ TRIAGER: Could not open triage file : e:\dump_analysis\program\triage\modclass.ini, error 2 DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: WIN8_DRIVER_FAULT BUGCHECK_STR: 0x154 PROCESS_NAME: MemCompression CURRENT_IRQL: 0 EXCEPTION_RECORD: ffffc08cf89014c0 -- (.exr 0xffffc08cf89014c0) ExceptionAddress: 0000000000000000 ExceptionCode: ccddccdd ExceptionFlags: 00000000 NumberParameters: 256 Parameter[0]: 00000000ccddccdd Parameter[1]: 0000000000000000 Parameter[2]: 0000000000000000 Parameter[3]: 0104fffe00000103 Parameter[4]: 00000000ccddccdd Parameter[5]: 0000000000000000 Parameter[6]: 0000000000000000 Parameter[7]: 0104fffe00000103 Parameter[8]: 00000000ccddccdd Parameter[9]: 0000000000000000 Parameter[10]: 0000000000000000 Parameter[11]: 0104fffe00000103 Parameter[12]: 00000000ccddccdd Parameter[13]: 0000000000000000 Parameter[14]: 0000000000000000 TRAP_FRAME: ffffc08ce1402100 -- (.trap 0xffffc08ce1402100) Unable to read trap frame at ffffc08c`e1402100 LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from fffff80229b15c4e to fffff802299c4040 STACK_TEXT: ffffd60e`2c947728 fffff802`29b15c4e : 00000000`00000154 ffffc08c`eaf62000 ffffd60e`2c9477e0 00000000`00000001 : nt!KeBugCheckEx ffffd60e`2c947730 fffff802`299dc4b5 : ffffc08c`eaf62000 ffffd60e`2c9477e0 00000000`00000001 fffff802`2990b3c8 : nt!SMKM_STORE::SmStUnhandledExceptionFilter+0x7e ffffd60e`2c947780 fffff802`299a0c8f : 00000000`00000003 ffffd60e`2c948be0 ffffd60e`2c943000 ffffd60e`2c949000 : nt!`SMKM_STORE::SmStWorkerThread'::`1'::filt$0+0x1b ffffd60e`2c9477b0 fffff802`299ccb2f : ffffd60e`2c948be0 ffffd60e`2c947d90 ffffd60e`2c947e70 00000000`0010001f : nt!_C_specific_handler+0x9f ffffd60e`2c947820 fffff802`298b2b40 : ffffd60e`2c947e70 00000000`00000000 ffffd60e`2c947d90 fffff802`29bd56e4 : nt!RtlpExecuteHandlerForException+0xf ffffd60e`2c947850 fffff802`2991adb4 : ffffd60e`2c948788 ffffd60e`2c9484d0 ffffd60e`2c948788 ffffc08c`eaf62050 : nt!RtlDispatchException+0x430 ffffd60e`2c947fa0 fffff802`299d5942 : ffffc08c`f89014c0 fffff802`298ef2d6 ffffc08c`e1402100 fffff802`298eebf1 : nt!KiDispatchException+0x144 ffffd60e`2c948650 fffff802`299d4341 : 00000000`00000103 00000000`00000000 ffffc08c`eaf63788 00000000`00000001 : nt!KiExceptionDispatch+0xc2 ffffd60e`2c948830 fffff802`29a57c54 : ffffc08c`eaf620e8 ffffc08c`eaf620d0 ffffc08c`001cbcd6 ffffc08c`0017cc38 : nt!KiRaiseAssertion+0x301 ffffd60e`2c9489c0 fffff802`2995584f : 00000000`20908e92 ffffd60e`2c948a69 ffffc08c`eaf62050 ffffc08c`001cbcd6 : nt!ST_STORE::StDmPageRecordRemove+0x102790 ffffd60e`2c948a00 fffff802`2995625d : 00000000`20908ed5 ffffc08c`eb199e60 00000000`00000000 fffff802`00000000 : nt!ST_STORE::StDmPageRemove+0x203 ffffd60e`2c948ad0 fffff802`29923659 : ffffc08c`eaf8f240 ffffd60e`2c948b98 00000000`00000001 ffffc08c`eaf62000 : nt!ST_STORE::StWorkItemProcess+0xc1 ffffd60e`2c948b20 fffff802`29923351 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 ffffaa01`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!SMKM_STORE::SmStWorker+0x2f9 ffffd60e`2c948be0 fffff802`299346c5 : ffffc08c`eaf62000 fffff802`29923340 ffffd60e`2c8c3288 00000065`b4bbbdff : nt!SMKM_STORE::SmStWorkerThread+0x11 ffffd60e`2c948c10 fffff802`299cb49c : ffffaa01`9135a180 ffffc08c`eaf8f240 fffff802`29934670 00000000`00000000 : nt!PspSystemThreadStartup+0x55 ffffd60e`2c948c60 00000000`00000000 : ffffd60e`2c949000 ffffd60e`2c943000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiStartSystemThread+0x1c STACK_COMMAND: kb FOLLOWUP_IP: nt!SMKM_STORE::SmStUnhandledExceptionFilter+7e fffff802`29b15c4e cc int 3 SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 1 SYMBOL_NAME: nt!SMKM_STORE::SmStUnhandledExceptionFilter+7e FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: nt IMAGE_NAME: ntkrnlmp.exe DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 3eeaaca9 FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: X64_0x154_nt!SMKM_STORE_SM_TRAITS_::SmStUnhandledExceptionFilter+7e BUCKET_ID: OLD_IMAGE_ntkrnlmp.exe Followup: MachineOwner ---------

Wow...very weird. I did plug in an HDMI cable instead of the Displayport and I've not managed to replicate the issue yet with that....other the limitations of HDMI. Didn't manage to find DP cable in a store, will have to try again tomorrow. But what a weird issue.

So this is probably the weirdest PC issue I have ever had. I have the Asus ROG PG279Q 165Hz and since last week it's been acting funny. Whenever I stand up from my chair it turns off for a spilt second, maybe 0,2 of second before turning on again and all is good. This is not happening when I'm working or gaming JUST when physically stand up from my chair. A quick google search suggested a faulty cable, I haven't tried another one yet but wouldn't the problem be happening during regular workloads. Also ESD, someone suggested that the monitor wasn't plugged into a grounded outlet, which it is, but again. It would be happening constantly if it was the outlet or some form of ESD. I'm not touching the desk or the monitor when I'm standing up. In fact I just tried to shake my desk and the monitor to see if there were any loose connection and nothing. It is only happening when I pull away from the desk and stand up. Plugged in HDMI just to try for few minutes before heading out to get a new DP cable just in case.

Any more ideas or suggestions?