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brosen1109

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About brosen1109

  • Birthday November 6

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    New York
  • Interests
    Computers, duh

System

  • CPU
    7700k
  • Motherboard
    Asus z170i Pro Gaming
  • RAM
    Crucial Ballistix 16gb
  • GPU
    Asus 1080 turbo
  • Case
    Fractal Design Define Nano S
  • Storage
    3 x Samsung 850 pro 1tb, Samsung 960 evo 512gb
  • PSU
    Rm 750i
  • Cooling
    Corsair h100i v2
  • Keyboard
    Razer Blackwidow Chroma Tournament Edition
  • Mouse
    Razer Deathadder Chroma

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  1. Hi guys, So, I recently got setup with a 7700k, z170i pro gaming mobo, and a flashy new samsung 960 evo 512gb nvme drive to be my new OS drive. I was using a 850 pro 256gb as my boot drive but a) it was getting a little cramped b) I really wanted ultra fast boot times, and while I know it would only be a tiny difference, every second counts to me. Anyway, I get it all built and I create a windows 10 installer on a usb and install it to the 960 evo. Now, I messed up the first time because I left my other drives plugged in while I was installing windows, so I cleaned the 960 evo and installed windows again with only it connected to my mobo. I have been looking at 16+ second boot times and no matter what I do I cant seem to bring them down. I know it doesn't sound like much but I turn on and off my comp a lot so its important, also that boot time is slower than on my 850 pro when it was my boot drive. I finally get so aggravated that I clean the 960 evo and the 850 pro and I try to reinstall windows back onto the 850 pro so at least I could get back to my sub 10 sec boot times. But now on my 850 pro the boot times are exactly the same as on my 960 evo (16+ secs). What is going on!?!? Also, when I had my os installed on the 960 evo I noticed in my bios that it was not showing up under the m.2 section, as in the bios said nothing was connected there, but in my boot priorities it did say there was a 960 evo, but wouldn't give its capacity, and in the boot priority it said i was actually booting off of something called Windows Boot Manager, not the drive itself. I officially have no idea whats going on and would super appreciate some help, any suggestions are welcomed and I try to respond to any and all questions! TL;DR Bought a 960 evo, installed windows 10 to it, 16+ second boot times (slower than on my old ssd boot drive), went back to my 850 pro, installed windows to it, still have the unusually long boot times (16+ seconds), what is going on?
  2. Hey guys, So I've got a question that I'm not sure the community will be able to answer yet but I thought I would throw it out there anyway. I've got a 256gb 850 pro for my boot drive and 2 x 1tb 850 evos for mass storage. I'm doing a new mini itx build and I've got 1 m.2 slot on my mobo. Now my plan was to replace the 256gb 850 pro with a 500gb 960 evo. The 850 pro is getting a little cramped and I love those NVMe speeds. However, with the announcement of Optane I'm not sure anymore. Looking at the preliminary results, it would seem that I would see greater performance gains by adding a 64gb optane drive. So, what are your guys' thoughts? Which will give me the better performance gain, NVMe or Optane? Thanks in advance for all the responses and I'll try my best to respond to any questions. P.S. I have a mainly gaming workload. A lot of CS GO but also titles like Fallout 4 and Rust.
  3. Hey guys, thanks so much for the feedback. I'll try to address all the questions. The h100i is brand new this December and came with a pre applied application of thermal paste, I was also thinking that maybe I should put on a fresh coat just to be safe. I'm running at whatever the default voltage is for a 6700k. The cooler is actually plugged directly into the motherboard via a USB 2.0 header on the board, but yes it's also plugged into the CPU header. Finally, no there aren't any exhaust fans and I was also starting to think that could be part of the issue (duh). I always meant to get another mag lev fan for exhaust but just never got around to it. The front two fans spins really slow so there's a shot that I'm just suffocating my case, but is it really possible for the motherboard to get so hot just from lack of air flow? Also it's important to consider that I've got a blower style gpu so all that hot air is being exhausted out the back, and the psu has its fan downward facing so it's heat is out of the equation as well. With absolutely no overclock shouldn't the h100i have enough radiator space to keep the CPU cool? Is rma really my only option left?
  4. Alright guys I've got an interesting problem today that I can't seem to figure out. I have a mini itx build in a define nano s. 6700k, 1080, all the works. I was even able to fit a h100i v2 in there to cool the processor, so it occurred to me the other day that with all this great cooling capacity I should be overclocking! I was able to get a pretty nice overclock up to 4.8 but this is where I learned something existential about myself: I hate noise. Long story short I turn back everything to default (I'm still using the XMP settings) and I even worked my fan curves on the h100i to get as little noise as possible. Now this is where all my problems come from. I was checking hwmonitor and the motherboard temp caught my attention, it was at 110 Celsius and climbing. I hiked up all the fans and it kept climbing, opened up the side panel and it went even higher to 115. Finally I shut it off fearing that eventually I could cause some real damage. I rebooted into the bios and it too was reading 100 Celsius. When I went down into the case you could feel the heat resonating and the heat sinks on the motherboards were incrediblely hot. (It's a ASUS z170i pro gaming) I left the system off for a few hours and it cooled down. Now, whenever I have a gaming session I'll return to CPU temps in the 90s and motherboard temps in the 100s. I really can't figure out what is causing these components to get so hot and I'm worried it may cause long term harm. Any ideas are very much appreciated!!
  5. NEW RAZER BLADE (14) ITS A DREAM TO BE ABLE TO GAME WHEREVER I AM
  6. THANK YOU GUYS! special shout out to W-L for helping me through this. I'm currently running aida64 stress test with a nice overclock on the 4790k and so far everything is going great. temps are still a little bit high at around 75 degrees but this is an intense stress test so its not too bad, and most importantly i have absolutely no throttling at all so its running hot but a controlled hot. when i went to reseat the cpu block i noticed that there was just a ton of cpu paste on there. I do have the bad habit of over applying but i never thought it could be this detrimental. i reapplied a smaller amount and things are going good! thank you!
  7. umm that is correct loop order and i didn't change the jet plate when i got the block, the documentation said it came with the 115x plate installed
  8. alright thank you so much, ill try reseating my cpu block tonight, anymore suggestions that i should try also, like push vs pull or speed of my pump?
  9. the loop moves clockwise so does it matter that the water hitting the cpu is coming directly from the two 970's, would reversing my loop so the water moved the opposite direction do anything?
  10. I mean during load though, my reservoir can get very hot to the touch and the sides of my case is pushing out like noticeably very warm air. is it possible that i just don't have the cooling capacity for all these chips with only two 240 radiators? and actually i have repositioned my water block twice already on the cpu, don't know if thats the same as reseating
  11. hi guys, over the summer i put together a custom water cooling loop using all EK products. I've got a 4790k and 2 msi 970s on the loop. I have a 240 rad that is 40mm thick and another 240 that is 80mm thick. Now my graphics cards are fine, 40 idle and up to 55 under load. But its the cpu where all my issues are. Even with no overclock I'm at like 55 degrees celsius just idling and around 80 under even a gaming load. And when i try to overclock the idle is at like 65 and under load my computer slows to like 2 frame per seconds and then usually crashes due to overheating. I have absolutely no idea why these temperatures are so high on a custom loop and would really appreciate feedback and suggestions, ill answer any questions you guys have. thank you in advance! rest of the build: Case: cooler master 652s fans: vardar fans on the radiators blocks: EK supremacy EVO elite, EK msi 970 water blocks fittings: all EK compression fittings tubing: primochill primoflex advanced radiator and pump: Bay Res combo with a d5 vario (
  12. alright, thank you guys so much, that was kinda my suspicion, and i was already looking at the fractal define so i guess now im settled
  13. i want to custom loop water cool my pc and i was wandering if my case, the corsair graphite 230t, will be able to handle it or if i need to get a new one more suited for custom water cooling. i plan on water cooling just my cpu, i5 4690k (with oc), and my dual msi gtx 970s in sli. if any of you have actually worked with this case and water cooled, i would love to hear what parts you used and how you did it, this is my first water cool and my first post to linustechtips!
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