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10 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

6 years ago would've been Coffee Lake (8th gen) and Zen+ on the CPU side.

 

GeForce 20 series launched in Q4 2018, too.

Eh, I stand behind my thoughts on the capability of a 4790K. If mine hadn't been killed by a POS Enermax liquid cooler, I wouldn't have replaced it until I came into the 8086K. If I hadn't come into the 8086K, I probably would have just held onto it until the R5 5600 came along.

Jesus Christ, an H5 Ultimate. What I wouldn't give to have one of those cooling my rig again.

10 years ago?

i7-4790K, GTX 980 Ti, 16GB DDR3, 1TB 7200RPM HDD

6 years ago?

Dirty little secret: there wasn't a whole lot out there in 2019 that the 2014 system couldn't have easily handled. A GTX 1080 wasn't really all that much faster than a 980 Ti.

10 minutes ago, filpo said:

Apevia's prestige isn't a bad lineup, If anything, it's the only decent option for $50 unless there's a deal for another psu. It's not the best (Tier C) but it's fine for budget builds

Dirty little secret about Apevia (and other bargain brand arson box manufacturers): whatever they sent out to get that 80+ Gold and whatever they sent out to reviewers to get whatever positive ratings they have is not what's in the unit that appears on your doorstep. Don't buy a PSU that will put your whole damned system at risk in order to save $3.00.

19 minutes ago, filpo said:

Power Supply: *Apevia Prestige 600 W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply

Dammit man, are you trying to kill him?

With the caveat that it's been a few years since I last worked with an E6420, my hunch is still that the power port has become damaged, disconnected or died. I don't really have much else to offer beyond suggesting that you open it up again, check the power port connections and cables. I recall that being kind of a PITA on the 6420, maybe one of the few things that wasn't a straightforward open-and-go, but my hunch is that something's gone wrong there.

Open up the system and check the power port. Kind of sounds like a solder issue.

1 minute ago, BaidDSB said:

I actually used a new CMOS battery too.

 

So I unplugged all the cables and took the car to another room. I opened the glass panel, unscrewed the card. Pulled it out of the slot. Then cleaned it while keeping the cables on. Then I pulled the CMOS. Then I cleaned the rest of the PC for about 30 minutes. Then put in the new CMOS. And then put back the card it. Yes the 2 cables from the psu were attached to the card the whole time. But obviously it was in another room from my desk so no power.

 

Anyway, i then put everything back in. Everything lit up, keyboard, ram, the card lights.

 

But no output on do or hdmi.

 

 

Btw, I cleared the CMOS again and held the power button for 5 minutes before plugging it again, after I made this post. Also i unseated the ram and stuck it in again.

 

 

Honestly I don't want to buy a new card if I can help it. But still wanted to ask.

 

Also, is 4070 ti super much better than the 4070 super?

Ah, so the PCI-E cables were connected to the card, but disconnected from the PSU? A little odd, but shouldn't affect anything afaik.

So a couple more thoughts, and then we're past my depth:

• Have you tried a different PCIe x16 slot with the card?
• Have you switched to the card's backup BIOS using the little switch on the card? I'm assuming a 3070 would have one.

It seems odd that your actions would have damaged the card, and more likely that something was unseated or damaged on the board. I'd do more troubleshooting there before giving up on it, because if you do buy a new card and it still doesn't work, well, that'd be annoying.

I don't own a 4070 of any type so can't comment beyond saying to check the reviews. 4070 Super is, from what I've seen, regarded as an excellent value, but the 4070 Ti Super will without a doubt be more powerful. No idea if the power gain outweighs the price increase.

Seems like you gave up pretty quickly. Have you tried resetting CMOS?

An exact sequence of events might help. It reads like you took the card out of the mobo but left the PCI-E power cables connected, then cleaned it and put it back, and did all of this without cutting main power to the PC's PSU. I'm thinking that's incorrect, but more detail would help.

If this is just you wanting a new card and knowing it, and using this as a flimsy excuse, that's cool. We've all been there. 4070 Super.

32 minutes ago, comsonic said:

Am looking for the hdd bracket that went with that case or a other one that do similar job

Just a bracket to mount an HDD to? There are lots of 5.25" to 3.5" adapters out there that either fit behind the 5.25" bay cover already or can easily be modified to do so. It'll cost you $10-15, probably a lot less than sourcing the original part off of eBay, if you can even find it, would.

Might not hurt to email Cooler Master, too. They may be able to help.

Centurion. I don't remember the exact model number and I know they made a ton, but that's definitely a Centurion.

What parts are you looking to buy for it? I ask because on a case that age, it might actually be cheaper to buy an entire system in a Centurion case off of Facebook or Craigslist or whatever, salvage what you need from the case, then resell it. Buying individual parts for cases that old off of eBay gets absurdly expensive really quick.

*Edit: or buy generic parts, if it's 5.25" bay covers or something that you're looking for.

Google straight-up harasses me for a backup email address almost every time I log in.

2 hours ago, noxtol said:

found this keyboard at goodwill for $15 anyone know how much its worth with keycaps (switches are mx red silents)

Used keyboards don't have high resale values unless you're talking really, really high-end or custom. Yours is neither. I would venture a guess that if you put a good $30 set of PBT keycaps on it, it would be worth about $10.

4 hours ago, da na said:

That's getting close. But technically not the worst.

These three miserable little pieces of sand would be among the worst possible chips. Note they're slower than a 1600mhz laptop Athlon 64, that is the caliber of chips we are dealing with. That 2011 AMD APU would actually be the best of the worst pairings because it would have a higher number of PCIe lanes on a newer version - 2.0 if not 3.0, while the Atom and VIA only have PCIe 1.1/PCI to my knowledge.

The VIA C7...there's a blast from the past. I don't think I've ever seen a VIA board with a PCIe slot, but I'm also not sure when the last time I saw a VIA-integrated board was.

I mean, technically, probably an LGA 775 Celeron, maybe even a Socket 478 Celeron, or AM2 single-core Sempron. Any motherboard with a PCIe x16 (physical) slot can install one.

The AM1 Semprons would also be a safe bet, as those AM1 boards did technically come with PCIe x16 slots that ran mechanically at x4, but I would assume even those painful little pieces of abject sadness outperformed the ancient Celerons and AM2 Semprons.

Grab a Thinkpad off of eBay, something like a T480. That is always the answer.

Looks metal (in material, not aesthetic), so be sure there are adequate standoffs and grounding. Also make sure you've taken weight capacity into account. Not every metal panel can support a large GPU and heatsink. And size, of course, to make sure everything fits.

Assuming you're putting the mobo in the bottom section, you'd need to either invert the mobo or do some cutting to accommodate the rear I/O. If you're mounting it horizontally further up, that's not an issue.

My biggest concern would be the modifications needed to support a motherboard/cooler/GPU, drives and PSU, assuming you wanted it mounted vertically, compromising the structure of the unit. Second biggest is grounding. After that is weight distribution if you intend to put heavy components at the top or focused on one side. Otherwise, if that's the design aesthetic you're after, yeah, go for it.

5 minutes ago, Mistr J said:

Minecraft 

Ok, not a game I could help you with, sorry. Might help if you edit the title of the thread to say Minecraft in there somewhere.

1 minute ago, Mistr J said:

What info do you want?

Let's start with the name of the game you're talking about.

I feel as though there's some information missing here.

8 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

The motherboard/CPU/RAM combo goes for about $60-100 on eBay, so something along those lines for those. I'd probably list it for $80 including the cooler and hope for the best. Realistically, X58 boards like that are at the point where the only people really interested in them are collectors, and so you will likely be trying to sell these for a while.

The bigger problem is that there are all kinds of Chinese knockoffs out there using shittier chipsets that don't support triple-channel or SATA III, but because those knockoffs are labeled as X58 and take X58-compatible CPUs, a lot of people would rather buy those than spend $90-150 on a really solid aftermarket X58 board.

That would be a very expensive NAS in terms of power draw. The CPU eats a lot of juice, and I don't think there's an iGPU involved, so you'd have to run a dedicated GPU with it. IMO, there is no X58 CPU that makes sense for a NAS, but there might be a low power quad Xeon out there that runs at low power.

X58 boards in good shape that come with their I/O shield are still worth inexplicably more than they should be on sites like eBay. For the board, RAM and CPU, $125-130 easily, maybe more. On FB Marketplace, not as much. I'd consider selling those parts and using the proceeds to fund the purchase of something like an N95-based mini PC.

Pretty sure those red tags mean the CPUs came from the return warehouse. I do hope that Best Buy made a couple of phone calls to get whoever certified those into some very deep shit.