deWaardt

Purchased i7-3770 I'm happy, FPS are good

My car has a 1.6 litre engine, but it has 4 cylinders. 4*1.6 = 6.4 So in reality, my car really has a 6.4 litre engine.

Contacted the guy, the motherboard he sells it with isn't even compatible with the 2600k >.< Welp, would €250 be worth it for a locked i7-3770 with an MSI Z77A-G43 motherboard? Price seems a bit high, but I could be wrong. I know it's a Z77 motherboard with a locked CPU so that's a bit of a waste, but whatever. 2600k is about out of the question at this point, searched every available site and asked around for a bit but no good compatible motherboards anywhere. How would the 4670k compare? I know it's a hot chip, but how would it compare to the 3770 in terms of gaming performance? Can get one for roughly the same price (€265) with a z87 motherboard.

I might have got a deal on a 2600k with a motherboard. My other choice right now is a locked 3770 with an MSI Z77A-G43 motherboard. The 4770 is out of the question unfortunately, the guy isn't responding at all. Overclocking the 2600k could give me better performance than a locked 3770 wouldn't it?

Hhmm, the motherboard problem.. I hadn't thought about that, but they're indeed hard to get. The 4770k is just out of my budget, it's a great chip so I might consider it, and the guy gives me a motherboard with it. I might consider it. The motherboards that support the 2600k, you can still get some new but they have like a 4 week arrival time, if they arrive at all.

Hi, I'm looking for a cheap upgrade from my Athlon. I found a 2600k for a good price, but I'm not too sure how the 2600k does today. Is it still good enough? I plan on playing Battlefield 1, I've heard it's a very CPU demanding game, how well does it do? My other choice is an i7-4770 + mobo + ram, but it's more expensive. Second hand i5's are undoable, they're sold for ridiculous prices or too slow for what I need.

I'll just RMA everything. Either I wait half a month with a non-functional PC, or I wait half a month without the entire PC, makes no difference to me. Sigh.. Thanks for the help gents, I'll start packaging things and hope my problems will be over with one day. The webshop's warehouse can deal with my demon-cursed hardware.

Haha that sounds like a pretty good solution to this problem. If this thing isn't cursed I don't know what it is.

I already tried that. I wrote it in the OP. I tried the driver version that was on the disc, tried the one that was recent at the date I bought it, tried 5 different recent versions, no-go.

Uh, yea should be possible. If the motherboard goes RMA, I'll just package everything up and send everything RMA. Wish I didn't have to go this path. This PC has been nothing but trouble.

Unfortunately trying another motherboard is no option. Everybody here hates AMD with passion, because welcome in the land of fanboyism. I could try the GPU somewhere else, it could be a culprit as it only crashes during gaming. But why would the GPU crash while gaming, but is rock solid in a stress test? The PSU is adequate. I could go out and RMA literally every single part... Yea, even tried running a completely different operating system, same problems. Stable during stress test, unstable during actual gaming.

Hi, I'm coming to beg for help as I'm completely done. I have this computer, it is not stable. It never is stable. It's not gonna be stable and it's an annoying turd. I'm at a complete loss as to why it keeps crashing. The specifications: AMD Athlon 860K @4ghz 12GB DDR3 (some 8gb kingston and some 4gb kingston of the same specs). In case you ask, yes I've ran the system with just 8GB of ram. Still crashes. Testing with 4GB is near impossible as barely any game runs with 4GB. Asrock FM2A88M-hd+ rev 2.0 Gigabyte GTX 950 Seasonic S12II 520w. The symptons: It just dies. It whatever, sometimes it quits with graphical distortions over the screen, sometimes the screen just turns black and the computer becomes unresponsive, sometimes the screen turns black but sound keeps going, sometimes it just restarts. It started doing this two or three months ago. It usually happens during gaming, but is very intermittent. Sometimes I go a week without anything going on, other times it just craps out after 5 minutes of gaming. The computer works perfectly fine with no ill-symptons, until it just quits. What I tried: At first I started with stability tests. I've tried multiple tools for the CPU and the GPU, both of which passed a ~30/32 hour stress test. Also if you run the CPU and the GPU at the same time. I hooked a multimeter up to my power supply and noticed a lot of frequent drops to 11v or even lower. As I thought the power supply was bad, I swapped the power supply out with a brand new Seasonic S12II 520w and was confident all my problems were gone. Basically a day after I installed the new power supply it crashed again. I cleaned the entire PC, made sure all temps stay within their range, cleared all overclocks, ran a memtest, but it just doesn't matter. Everything comes out fine, but the PC still runs like ass. I DDU's the drivers multiple times, I completely reinstalled the motherboard/chipset drivers multiple times, tried all kinds of different driver versions, but no-go. Should I just toss the entire system in the trash, light it on fire and build a new one, or is there something I completely oversaw? I'm pulling out my hairs as I try to prevent myself from dumping the PC out of the window from third floor. Please send help and prayers. A bottle of whine is fine too.

I have my system specifications in my profile, but I'll write them down here: Cpu: AMD Athlon 860K Mobo: Asrock FM2A88M-HD+ R2.0 Gpu: Gigabyte GTX 950 Psu: Corsair VS350 Cpu cooler: Cryorig H7 The sound is clearly coming from the general area of the CPU. The HDD is mounted in the front of the PC, I checked all the fans and none of them are squealing. The squealing also seems to come and go. I can't really grasp what could be squealing. Capacitors? Voltage regulators? I've ran the PC during night before, but only this time it is squealing. I'm sure my hearing didn't increase! Good thing is that prime95 is still going, no crash yet.

Hi all I've been having stability issues since last month, with the graphics drivers crashing a lot and the computer blackscreening. I have run multiple stress tests, but never too long. Today I decided to run a stress test while I was asleep. One night I'll do the CPU alone, the other night the GPU and then the CPU and GPU simultaneously. It's been a long time since I actively listened to my PC. I usually wear headphones while using my PC. So about half a hour in, and I noticed some terrible squealing. I got out of my bed and noticed it came from my desk. Pulled the side panel of my PC, there's pretty bad squealing coming from the CPU and GPU area, I have not ever heard this before. I checked the fans, but they're not the problem. Here's a video of the sound: What could this be? What could be squealing so bad, and could this have something to do with my stability problems? Thanks for your attention, deWaardt

This is the absolute closest I can get, I don't have any camera's that can focus that close I took a look at the retention holes, and they don't appear damaged. I can fit a needle in just fine. If I only insert one side of the other part it's also fine, it's just that both pins won't fit. The holes have identical shape on both sides: A little slope in which I suppose you are meant to slide the pins, and the actual hole.

Ehm I'll do my best, give me a second. Gotta find something that can focus this close up, must have something here.

Hi all, Today some little piece of paper slid under the left control key of my Lenovo Y700 laptop. The idiot I was, I decided it'd be easy to just remove the key, take the piece of paper out and put the key back on. I've done this a lot of times before on other laptops. I only made a big mistake: I didn't realize this thing isn't meant to be user-serviceable without the user dying of brain trauma getting very frustrated. The key came of just fine, just like any other laptop. Except this time, the scissor assembly came of, but only half. One side stuck to the laptop's keyboard, the other side stuck to the key. After some examination, I noticed neither of both were damaged, so I'd just put them back together and put the key back on. So I removed the piece of paper, and started putting the scissors assembly back together..... except they don't fit! The pins on the smaller part don't fit in the larger part at all No matter what I try, the pins are too wide to fit, and I thus can't get the key back on. Does anyone have some tips on how to get this fixed?

Yea I agree. Whether your music/pictures/movie collection, or massive video games are installed on your SSD or your HDD make little difference. I was dissapointed myself when I found that lots of games don't actually load that much faster on an SSD than they do on a HDD.

Can recommend out of experience. R.I.P. Core i3 530 and some shitty OEM motherboard.

Oh yea, that's a thing too. Lucky enough to never have encountered it myself.

Try to unplug all fans except the critical ones and turn the system on. Dying fans can make all kinds of noises too. Alternatively, stop the fans one by one by holding the blades. I don't recommend this method though, it's not good for the fans to be held still.

I would recommend a 1070, or gross out a little more for a 1080 instead of crossfire 480's. Although crossfire 480's can technically yield more frames per second than a single 1070, multi-gpu setups have always been a little sketchy and you might be dissapointed when you find that not all games can take advantage of the two GPU's or utilize it poorly and performance is not as well as expected.

Naaah, you think so? That'd suck, but the GPU is still in warranty. I'm not too sure though, I just restarted the game after the driver crash, ten minutes in and the PC completely locked up to a black screen. No response from caps-lock button. I had to hard-reset the PC. I'm not too sure where to search, the PC has been fine for over a year, gaming on it daily. Could it be a software issue somewhere?

Hi all, since not-so-long ago my graphics driver just keeps dying. I don't get the "Blah blah driver stopped responding and restarted blah blah" message, but the screen goes black, afterwards it slowly starts redrawing UI elements and I can no longer tab back into the game. After a minute or so it complains about the display device being removed or having timed out. It happens occasionally and it doesn't matter which game I play - GPU intensive or not - . Even Minecraft triggers this. My graphics card is a non-overclocked, completely stock Gigabyte GTX 950. I already updated my drivers, but it didn't help. Does such driver crash also leave a logfile somewhere, I'm starting to get completely pissed off because of this completely random thing that started happening out of seemingly nowhere. If anybody can help me, that would be greatly appreciated EDIT: Some other problem that has been going on lately: if I skip through YouTube video's, chrome will often lock up entirely. After it's done being locked up I get a nice green video player returned to me and I have to reload the webpage. Possibly related?

Ah, the "It doesn't happen to me so it does not ever happen to anyone else and therefor this is like that" argument. I'm sorry, I don't support these kinds of arguments.