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mistermaximal

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About mistermaximal

  • Birthday March 14

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Profile Information

  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Austria
  • Interests
    Games and PCs and Friends and Stuff
  • Biography
    Something something
  • Occupation
    Student

System

  • CPU
    Intel Core i7-4790k
  • Motherboard
    ASUS ROG Maximus VII Ranger
  • RAM
    16GB Kingston Savage DDR3-1600
  • GPU
    ASUS GTX970-DC2OC-BLACK
  • Case
    Cooler Master CM 690III
  • Storage
    500GB 850 EVO SSD + 4TB HDD
  • PSU
    EVGA Supernova GS 650W
  • Display(s)
    LG W2443T 24" 1920x1080
  • Cooling
    Be quiet! Dark Rock 3
  • Keyboard
    Corsair K40
  • Mouse
    Razer Imperator
  • Sound
    Logitech Z3
  • Operating System
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit

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  1. The current AMD CPUs are pretty bad unfortunately, i5+8GB are clearly the better choice. Hope this changes soon ^^ #HypedForZen
  2. Yeah, I have an old HD6670 lying around, I'll pop that one in until I've sorted out the second RMA. If that one dies as well it must be the PCIe Slot ^^
  3. Of course I checked reviews before I bought the PSU, and they all showed very good voltage delivery and ripple suppression. They just use cheap capacitors which may not last for very long, but that shouldn't kill components. But yeah, I think I'll never go down on that price level again ^^ Btw, afaik the CX series isn't a lot better than the VS series but still works very well for most people. That's why I was confident the VS450 would suffice.
  4. I know the inportance of a PSU, but as I said, it was on a very strict budget and I expect even Corsair's VS units to at least not kill other components. Many people use the CX PSUs that are not much better and seem to get along well with them. Also, if the PSU really is faulty, why does it only affect the graphics cards and no other components?
  5. Cheap mobo, has only one PCIe slot.
  6. The drivers where always the latest ones, and it worked for 2 months until the first one died. The second one also worked for a day, so I don't think it is the PCIe slot either. I installed my old PSU which works fine, but at the moment I don't have a working GPU that requires a PCIe power connector to test it.
  7. I got all that stuff from Amazon I'm just wondering why the rest of the PC is working just fine and stable if the PSU really is faulty. Then again, It's hard to believe that I got 2 faulty GPUs as well. I'm thinking about buying a PSU tester, or maybe looking up if it's possible / how to test PSUs with a multimeter (which I have).
  8. Hello LTT community! I need a second opinion from you. Over 2 months ago, I built a gaming PC for a friend of mine. He was on a very strict budget so I tried to get as much performance as possible by spending as much as possible on CPU+GPU. This is the build: CPU: i5-6500 GPU: Sapphire RX480 4GB Nitro MOBO: Asrock H110 PSU: Corsair VS450 (450W) RAM: 16GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 And kinda cheap SSD,HDD,Case etc. I know that the VS series from corsair isn't the best, but I figured it would be enough since the system shouldn't draw over 300W at any point, and 34 Amps on the 12V rail should also be enough. GPU wasn't manually OC'd. About a week ago, after ~2 months of service, the GPU died (suddenly black screen and nothing more). No problem, can happen, he used the Intel graphics until the new card arrived. The new one only worked for one day until it died as well (starting with a few picture errors that rapidly turned into a color pixel mess and then stopped working). I am not sure if either we are really unlucky and got 2 broken GPUs, or if the PSU is kinda killing off the cards. The rest of the system works fine, he's back with the intel graphics again (and a different PSU I gave him just in case). What do you think? Card or Power Supply? And what should I do now? The case is cheap but still has enough airflow (2x120mm fans), the cards shouldn't overheat. Thanks in advance!
  9. Come on, anyone have an idea? Or at least tell me which one should be the actual clockspeed
  10. Hello LTT community! Today, I tried overclocking my GTX970 for the first time (Model: Asus GTX970-DC2OC-4GD5-BLACK) and I was wondering why the Mhz and other values are inconsistent. On the Asus GPU Tweak software, I set my GPU Boost Clock to 1400MHz (+147) and let the voltage sit at stock (1175mV). When running FurMark, the GPU Monitor shows a clock of 1475MHz and a voltage of 1212mV. When running the Firestrike Benchmark, it tells me my GPU had a Core Clock if 1261MHz. I tried different clockspeeds and when changing the offset, it also changed on the other values (e.g. when lowering the offset by 20MHz, the other two values also went down 20 MHz) Can anyone explain why it shows me these different values? Thanks!
  11. Welp, I'm gonna try contacting Asus, maybe they have some Idea...
  12. Looks nice, what GPU are you planning to use? Also, i have heard some negative feedback on the CM seidon, maybe consider getting something a little better?
  13. Hello LTT community! The audio playback of my PC only works on one device at a time, if i want to switch from speakers to headset i have to open playback devices on Windows and change the default device everytime. I'd really like it if the audio would be played back through all devices at once and I just switch on/off what I need right now. It worked on my old PC, but I can't get it to work on my new one. I have the Asus Maximus VII Ranger Motherboard with the latest Realtek Driver installed (Version 6.0.1.7525). My speakers are plugged into Line-out and my headphones are connected via USB. I already tried activating the Stereo Mix and letting the Headphones "Listen" to it, but it has a huge lag, so that won't work. Thanks in advance!
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