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yeah the RAM works just fine in the other slots

EDIT: I don't know why but when I turned my PC on this morning all 32 GB started to show up. Guess she issue fixed itself haha Heyo, so I bought a second kit of RAM, exact same model as the first, as an upgrade, everything is snug and secured in, OS should support 32 GB aswell, but it just won't show up in the BIOS. A1 and A2 work as usual, B1 and B2 are N/A Specs: i7 6700k ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming AURA 4x 8 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3000 MHz ZOTAC GTX 1070 500 GB Samsung 860 EVO Windows 7 Professional Where do I start trouble shooting except for checking if the RAM actually sits properly in the motherboard? 'Cause that's all I can think of doing.

Hey everyone I bought the acer XF270H 144 Hz gaming monitor off of an amazon warehouse deal recently, and it's a great monitor, but one thing that bugs me is that it displays my refresh rate number in the top right corner in yellow, pretty much at all times. It's not even a useful feature because it isn't the FPS I'm currently getting it's literally just a fat, yellow "Look, this is the refresh rate your monitor is currently set to :^)" I keep going into the onscreen menu to turn it off but it keeps turning itself back on again at random. I know it's a minor inconvenience but if there is a setting that helps me leave it off, that would be great

Hey there, I've been looking to get a new cooler for my i7 6700k. While my Hyper 212X cooler is doing a fine job, I don't like it hitting 80-83°C whenever I hit it with workload (streaming, gaming & recording all at the same time or rendering videos) so I'm looking for an upgrade. Performance wise I don't need a bump so there will be no overclocking happening. Right now I've been looking into the H115i from Corsair or beQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 3. Criteria are obviously temperatures, noise and also ease of installation. Any experiences with these coolers? Thoughts? Would appreciate some tips! PS: I've read that the thermal paste under my 6700k's lid is crappy which causes poor heat transfer and could explain wild fluctuation in temperatures of up to 20°C within very short amounts of time. I've observed that on my own 6700k aswell while using typical desktop applications. Any more info on that? Should that influence your cooler choice if you don't wanna de-lid it?

Thanks for your help guys!

What's the difference between the Skyhawk and the Barracuda though?

Hey there everybody! I'm currently looking into buying an HDD dedicated to gameplay recording. The drive is going to write huge files using Dxtory on a regular basis and is going to be cleaned out of unnecessary footage on a regular aswell. Right now, I'm wondering which would be the better solution of these 3 options: WD Black 2 TB Enterprise Storage (this is a 2011 model I found on sale, newer models are labeled "Performance Drive") WD Red 2 TB NAS Drive Seagate Barracuda 2-4 TB I guess the question here is- Where's the difference between Enterprise Storage and a NAS drive and which is better suited for my usecase? I'd obviously love for it to work as long as possible. Hope someone can help me understand!

So I have built my very first intel based PC, and my second build in total, but sadly I can't enjoy it right away. In fact, I spent an entire day trying to make it work to begin with. Before I get into the problems, the specs: ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming Aura Intel 6700k (stock) CoolerMaster Hyper T212X ASUS STRIX GTX 1060 6 GB 2x 8 GB Corsair Venegence LPX 3000 MHz DDR4 (XMP profile enabled) Corsair RM750x 80+ Gold PSU Samsung 850 EVO 120 GB SSD (Boot & OS) Crucial MX300 525 GB SSD > CoolerMaster MasterCase 5 Pro upgraded from an old FX 8350 + GTX 780 Ti build. Right off the gate my assumption is the OS I'm running, which is Windows 7. I'm not a big fan of neither 8.1 nor 10, so I tried my luck with my age old USB install of Win7. Putting everything together, the PC would not let me install Win7 on any of the drives, claiming some sort of drivers would be lacking. Installing the SSD's in my old build, however, allowed me to put Win7 on it and then boot from them in the new system. Pre-installed Intel LAN drivers on my SSD so I can download everything else once the drives are back in the new system. It sounds short and simple but me getting to the point of the system reliably booting without system lock ups (and trying to figure out how to install anything without the drivers for the USB controllers working, until I got the idea to pre-install LAN) took me a whole while. I went through multiple re-installs of the OS on both SSD's until it stopped freezing and crashing itself to death. The price for a reliable boot off of my 120 GB SSD was me no longer being able to choose my SSD's for boot priority (simply won't show up in the list) which means every time I turn on the system I have to mash F2, then F8 and then choose my boot OS. But at least it's running and the GeForce Drivers no longer killed the system. The next problem would be strongly fluctuating core frequency. So I have no idea about intel but is it normal for the CPU to fluctuate a ton when going from idle to light tasks? Like I'll be sitting anywhere from below 1000 MHz to about 2400 MHz and it keeps adjusting depending on the load, but it also causes really sudden spikes and hitches when I start heavy loads like starting up a game. I feel like locking the frequency would made far more sense- Is there something wrong with my settings or CPU? Overall I'm getting really weird vodoo type issues on this system which I feel has to do with my outdated operating system and the way the OS handles the hardware in terms of load distribution and stability. On default fan configurations, my system would be dead quiet but whenever I go from low or medium to high load, the CPU would spike to (up to) 77°C for a brief few seconds while my cooler ramps up rapidly. Again, this causes massive hitching and sometimes even freezes up to system lock-ups. Adjusting the fan-curve seemed to help a little bit with that, but the fluctuating core clocks still worry me. Furthermore I (for some reason) can't use Firefox anymore- Apparently my connection is not secure? Never seen that problem before. Chrome works just fine but I do need both browsers to work, and Firefox won't let me access anything. I'm sorry, this post is already way too long, but those are some of the problems I'm dealing with. Am I right in my assumption that a fresh install of Win10 would likely fix all these problems? Or is it something else entirely? I'd like to avoid moving away from Win7 if at all possible. Thanks for taking your time to read through this.

Hey guys, currently putting together a list of components for a new build I wanna do in early 2017 and since this is my first intel build (and my second build, period) I'm not too sure which Motherboards are considered good. I've been looking at ASUS' Z170 Pro Gaming/Aura and Z170-A motherboards. https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0126R2LBK/ref=pe_23451_167579571_em_1p_4_ti https://www.amazon.de/dp/B01I5F9H8C/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=1KFDID2NFK5RY&coliid=I2L322K55KP4C9&psc=1 As stupid as it may sound to some I actually like the RGB feature on the Gaming Aura, what I've primarily been wondering was wether or not anyone has experiences with how stable these boards overclock compared to each other. Planning to put a 6700k in it. If possible I'd like to stick with ASUS since that's what I'm using now and it's been overclocking reasonably well and you know, rather stick with things you know. If there is any other brand you'd say is better, I'd put it into consideration though. Thanks in advance!

That was a very comprehensive reply, much appreciated!

Ha, nah. It's just sitting in the corner unused since a while so he said I can have it.

Heyo, so my brother doesn't need his old rig anymore and offered it to me. I've been wondering if it's worth swapping some of my components for his. I am wondering if it'd be worth the hassle replacing the motherboards and my FX-8350 on 4.4 GHz with his i7 2600. I'd be pairing it with my current GTX 780 Ti and 16 GB of DDR3 1600 MHz RAM in dual channel. My FX chip gets really hot on the OC and the poor airflow of my case isn't helpful either. I'm doing a lot of gaming but also content creation so I'm wondering if I'd see any benefit in terms of raw FPS ingame but also video editing and CPU based rendering of videos, as also of course streaming or recording with CPU heavy software such as Dxtory. It is worth noting that in Tripple A titles, even on the OC, my FX can't record using Dxtory without a massive hit on performance. Shadowplay is alright but I would like to go back to Dxtory. I know a thing or two about AMD chips but never worked with an intel so I have no idea if it'd be worth it. Any experience?

Heyo! So I'm having this problem with Shadowplay that sometimes, seemingly for no reason, it will start recording in the resolution of one of my side monitors. So instead of being 1920x1080 the recording is suddenly 1280x1024 or 1440x900. I've always had this problem even before the recent update to GeForce Experience but now it seems to happen more often. If I know why it does that I could possibly figure out how to solve it. Before a recording session I will usually test it to see if it's 1080p but sometimes when I save a capture and then start the next one, the new one will have a different resolution again. It never records the other monitors, though, always the main monitor but in different resolutions. I wanna say I'm using Desktop Recording Mode over ingame because ingame usually doesn't work with borderless window, BUT in the new GeForce Experience I can't find the button that says wether I'm in Desktop or ingame recording mode, so I'm assuming it just uses my previous settings since everything else stood the same aswell. I do know that in the customnization settings you can choose to record in different resolutions, one of which says "ingame" but it still seems to be a Desktop recording since it captures the desktop aswell when I tab out and not just the game. Help would be appreciated!

I'd love to have a new AMD Graphics Card to replace my brother's 270X

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