swordsm3n

As long as its dry, you're fine. If you leave it in the box until it warms to room temperature, you should be fine. Opening it while it's still cold in a warm room is what could cause condensation.

Lol, I would have never thought of that as being a possible issue to this problem. I'm glad it didnt happen to me. I think I would have drove myself nuts trying to figure that one out!

Apple has been pulling this stuff for years. Telling you to buy new units instead of SIMPLY REPLACING A BATTERY, soldering ram to motherboards, filing lawsuits to stop people from repairing easily repaired issues.

Imagine you have a very hot pan that you just took off the stove. If you were to put water on it, it would cool very fast. That's basically what thermal paste does. It allows for the fast transfer of heat. Now imagine if instead of using water, you took another pan and tried to cool the first pan by merely making contact with the 2 pans. That's essentially what you did. There was WAY more heat being generated than could be transferred to the cooler. Your cooler will be fine. I would be more concerned about whether or not I damaged the cpu if I were you. Just because it still operates doesn't mean it hasn't been degraded. Operating at extreme temperatures can and will degrade the cpu.

How is your case airflow? Maybe try speeding up your case fans to lower the temps inside your case. Simply turning down the fan on the video card is somewhat counterproductive. It will just get hotter and the fan will ramp up again to cool it down.

I think it's a little early for that. If it's an issue with the power supply, what you did would have solved your problem as well. The integrated graphics doesn't draw nearly the same power load as a discrete gpu under full load. I would either test the video card in a different system, or try a new power supply in your system. You may go through the whole rma process and still have the same issue if you dont diagnose your problem first.

Could be a power supply issue. I had the same issue and also had nothing showing under the event viewer. I swapped each part out until the issue stopped. It stopped when I changed my power supply.

I upgraded from a 4690k to an 8086k and didnt see much of a gain in gaming. The joy of tinkering with a new cpu is always fun.

I would love to see a radiator that is so dusty it causes 100 degree temps. You probably wouldn't even see the radiator at that point anymore, just a big clump of dust lol.

Yep, pretty decent board. I would recommend it.

Probably your fast boot. Boot into windows and hold shift when you hit restart.

No, most who say this are probably miners who know what they're doing. Miners are in it to make money and you dont make money overclocking. Increases in clock speed results in an exponential increase in power consumption, thus the undervolting. It makes much more sense to get 50% performance at 25% of the power cost, rather than 110% performance at 250% of the cost(not real numbers). It would make absolutely zero sense to overclock for mining unless you are getting your power for free.

In case you didnt know, you dont have to use a 390 board, 370 will work fine.

When they told you they couldn't fix it under warranty, were you calm and rational? Or did you fly off the handle? Did you ask to speak to a supervisor at all? Front line service reps generally have little power to do anything and they are people as well. As such, anything other than kindness towards them will probably not help your case at all. I worked in a position like that once and 95% of people revert to being absolute jerks when they hear something they dont like.

Intel didnt perform the benchmarks. They hired a 3rd party to do it. As to why the 3rd party did what they did, who knows. Could they be a bit incompetent when it comes to running gaming benchmarks? Possibly. Could it be that Intel hired them and PT intentionally did things to skew results so intel might hire them again in the future? Possibly. Could intel have directed them to run tests a certain way? Possibly. The point is, Intel didnt do the tests and as to why PT did what they did, who knows for sure. It's all speculation, as is knowing where to exactly place the blame for this.

The people looking at the k series aren't going for 4.3Ghz though. They will be aiming for around 5Ghz. You actually get less performance than the way intel markets it on the non k sku. They market it as being able to turbo to 4.6, which most uninformed consumers would probably expect all cores to run at 4.6 even though it's only 1 core that will. I think this post might be informational to some, but not in the way you were expecting. Most people who buy the k series wont be running at stock speed, so I'm not really sure what you are trying to point out here.

Take the 8086k if you can find it cheaper, no doubt. It's the exact same as the 8700k. Intel just took the fastest 8700ks and branded them as a special edition, the 8086k. 8086ks can easily reach 5Ghz+ on all cores.

Those are some awesome prices considering the price just a month ago. I was thinking of getting a 2nd 980ti for sli since I already have one. I have a MSI gaming 6g. Would I need to get the exact card again? I probably would just for aesthetic reasons, but I was just wondering if one of the other MSI 980tis would work.

Wireless mouse and keyboard. I had a wired mouse and keyboard with the pc, so not really sure if there would be issues with two wireless sets.

Yea it would work. I had mine rigged up like that before my htpc. Worked well other than running the long wire. I actually had 2 15 or 20 feet hdmi cables connected together with some connector that had two female ends.

This has nothing to do with what OP asked.

It is quieter, but I dont have a case made to dampen noise. However, it isnt near silent as the video I posted obviously shows. A side panel wont dampen that much noise significantly. Argue all you want, and post what is definitely a paid review all you want, twin frozr is not near silent. I posted my proof.

You're talking about how quiet a card is in your sound dampened case, pretty sure that isn't what OP is using or he probably wouldn't be here asking what he is.

Bullshit. I HAVE a 980 ti twin FROZR as does my buddy. They are not "pretty quiet" under load. This is 80%. Does this sound pretty quiet? Kind of funny, my GF walked in while I was recording this and even said, "That's loud." LOL

I would be surprised if it WAS damaged. I have yet to see static cause damage to anything of mine or anyone else's stuff that I know and I have personally never seen anyone use anti static anything. Unless you count unboxing new items while pulling it out of the anti static bag