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Yttersta

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About Yttersta

  • Birthday Sep 07, 1990

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Ankara, Turkey
  • Interests
    Information technologies and computer hardware, photography, astrophysics, cars, music.
  • Biography
    Undergrad student in Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in the department of Computer Technologies and Information Systems, I am a high achieving and ambitious person whose biggest joy in life is to learn and explore anything that is new to me.

    I have built my first PC when I was 7 out of parts my brother brought me home from work once in a while and a few that I got 2nd hand at the time, and my first full build was when I was 11.

    Currently I follow all that is new about computers, data processing and storage technologies, photography, astrophysics, whilst I am very interested in cars and music of types classical, metal, rock and jazz.

    I have been into video games since I was 5 years old and have so far put together 27 computers, including those for school labs, friends and just for charity once in a while.
  • Occupation
    Student (Undergrad)

System

  • CPU
    Core i7-4930k @ 4.5GHz w/ 1.29v
  • Motherboard
    Asus Rampage IV Extreme
  • RAM
    G.Skill TridentX 4x4gb @ 2400MHz
  • GPU
    Asus R9 290 DCUII OC x2
  • Case
    Corsair Air 540 (Modded)
  • Storage
    2x Samsung 840 EVO 250GB, 1 Corsair Force GS 128GB, 2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB
  • PSU
    Seasonic X-1050
  • Display(s)
    Asus PB278Q
  • Cooling
    Thermaltake Water 3.0 AIO for CPU; 6x Noctua NF-F12 fans for case cooling
  • Keyboard
    Logitech G710+
  • Mouse
    Logitech G700s
  • Sound
    Creative SoundBlaster Z sound card; Edifier R2000T speakers and Sennheiser HD598 headphones; Antlion ModMic v4.0
  • Operating System
    Kubuntu 14.04 / Windows 8.1 w/ Classic Shell
  1. CPU and memory issues usually result in bluescreens and not instant restarts, which is a whole different area and requires more detailed troubleshooting. Can you please provide full system specs and, if possible, pictures from inside you case? Those would be mighty helpful
  2. My apartment complex has a generator that powers on the router my ISP has in the building, which provides POE for devices compatible, so my switch in house is always powered on, and since the mATX machine (at most 150watts of peak power consumption right now) is on a 1.5KVA UPS I should be fine for even quite long power cuts. We rarely have power cuts but once in a while there's the occasional storm, it never goes beyond 2-3 hours. Indeed, mine is very similar to yours! Though I wanted parity instead of mirroring and I will have very little writes on the system so I'd rather have the low write performance of RAID5 than the much bigger capacity reduction of RAID1/0. Sounds like your cloud solution is much better than using FTP as I thought, sounds amazing in fact! What cloud service do you use for that? A PCI-e RAID card is definitely worth it I agree with you but I am on limited budget and an extra 150 pounds is a lot of money (considering the card, WB cache, battery bank etc.). So I thought that since the host CPU won't be used for anything else than the parity calculations, it should be fine hopefully, also there'll be very very little write operation on the array once it is settled up and filled with the current data I have archived. RAID technologies have come a very very long way the past few years, you can easily rebuild an array you had in one system in another now, as long as you've got the drives you need healthy. I've done this very recently for a friend who upgraded from X79 to X99 on her production machine; she had a RAID 0 array set up by me a few years ago and we were able to rebuild without much hassle.
  3. Hello everybody! Recently, being tired of not being able to access my media across all my devices and over the Internet, I have installed Plex server on my main machine and it has been an amazing experience so far as now I can access all my movies, tv series and anime episodes stored on my PC wherever I am, as long as my main desktop is online. Being so satisfied, I want to take this to the next level now. However, I am on a corsair Air 540 and coupled with the very little storage expansion possibilities I have with this chassis, I also have had the long dream of getting rid of the ugly 3.5" bays in the bottom so here is my plan as follows; aiming for storage expansion, protection against hardware failures, dedicated for Plex, FTP and network storage use; a reliable server of my own for file level storage access throughout all my devices: - Modding wise and main chassis wise I am all planned out. Cutting the bottom plate, mounting a new one in, using SSDs for the hot swap bays there for the looks etc. etc.. What I would like to hear your opinions about is the planning of my server, which will be built into an mATX machine I have for my current TV machine. Specs of the mATX machine: H97M-e motherboard from Asus, 16GB of RAM (to be used for RAM caching purposes, I have a UPS in place that can hold the machine up for 3 hours upon power loss), i5-4590 CPU. Please also note that this mATX machine will not be utilised for any other use case so the CPU based parity calculations will not interfere with normal work load; they will be the only work load on the machine. My plan is to use all 4 SATA ports on my H97 motherboard in there to set up a single parity (RAID5) array of 4 disks using WD Red drives, have the m.2 slot of my motherboard in PCI-e mode to install a small 120GB m.2 drive for OS (it'll be over provisioned for 50% to ensure the highest life expectancy). I plan to use Debian as host OS with the LUN of all 4 drives being shared over the network to my main desktop machine using simple network drive sharing features, so that I can simply map a drive from my Windows desktop and use it as if it is directly attached. Alongside of that I will have the Plex server on it for any media access I might want to do remotely, and/or using my phone, laptop etc. Then I will have a FTP server operating so that I can do file level operations on the server, to utilise it as personal cloud also, over my phone and laptop. So what do you guys think, is using a combination of network drive sharing / Plex and FTP good enough for this, or are there any better solutions you can think of; or would you have a completely different approach? I look very much forward to your comments, thank you very much in advance for your time and thoughts.
  4. If it says 4GB on the box, this is a statement that 4GB of total VRAM is expected to exist on the card physically and that all of it should be homogeneous by the standards that volatile memory operates. The fact is though, their official statement on the issue pretty much says "the performance effect from the issue is <5% so just deal with it". This is completely unacceptable, it is a shame on Nvidia and they should back their hardware up with all that smugness they've had over the last couple of years. Every 970 user should at least receive 1 more free game and/or a recall as a choice. If I had a 970 I'd be very very disappointed, be strongly experiencing a loss of trust in Nvidia, and sadness.
  5. There is no amount I would expect to be cut off the Internet, it is the greatest source of information and nothing is more valuable than that to me. I can drop the phone if you accept to explain all my friends why I only use IM, voice messages and VOIP to communicate from now on for a year
  6. Have you tried to boot up in safe mode to see if you have it working there? Also are you sure you have installed the 64bit drivers?
  7. First thing in my mind... Have you tried using a different crossfire bridge than the one you use normally? This is very very unlikely a software related issue as it appears that your cards halt as soon as driver is loaded, since the driver is loaded before all else that runs off of it, I would say you are fine on that front. However still use 14.4, that is the latest stable release and it never hurts to have the latest of drivers He said he has tried out 14.6, that is pretty much 14.4 with some updates in game profiles and CCC, the core is the same.
  8. Very interesting, at first it sounds like a driver crash, but... weird. A few follow up questions might help though: What version of AMD drivers are you running? Is your card overclocked beyond out of the box settings? Do you have any cooling issues? In what games exactly does this happen?
  9. Hope you get a better response from than you got from Seagate and that it somehow solves your issue, good luck!
  10. Greetings to Netherlands! Seagate told you that they cannot help because of that specific reason? That is purely ridiculous from the technical perspective. With the information from your side I can very easily say that this issue is related to your Samsung TV, not your HDD. However, this does not make Seagate's response any less ridiculous. An HDD is an HDD and it will always be an HDD. No matter what it is designed for it will be able to perform tasks that all HDDs can, which are read/write sequentially and read/write randomly, with some HDDs doing certain specific things better, for your drive these are backup and restore features that it does better. So just as you said this does not, in no way, mean that it cannot play a video file, that is nonsense, and Seagate's response here is basically shows you how little they have listened to your issue in details. Anyway, you say your HDD works fine with any device other than your Samsung TV, so this points the pin to your TV unfortunately and there I cannot offer any fixes as I know very little of what you can and cannot do on a Samsung Smart TV. Maybe try to contact Samsung to check if there's a software update in the pipeline that might help you, and/or beforehand try to check if there is an update you are missing already.
  11. How have you connected your screen to the motherboard?
  12. I'd recommend you don't leave it on charge if it doesn't appear to be charging. But it really might be your battery dead unfortunately, which variant of HTC Evo do you have?
  13. Have you tried to hold down the power off and volume up button for 10 seconds to force a restart? Something like you describe used to happen on my Xperia Z, never caused anything too serious. Your device seems to have just frozen in a state where the low level stuff such as identifying itself as a USB device to your computer works, whilst higher level stuff in your firmware does not. Anyway, after you have tried to do the forced restart as I said, if it doesn't help, try to plug your phone in to the wall charger, see if it reacts within 15-20minutes with the charging boot screen etc.
  14. Before taking such drastic measures let's try to see if a simple restart solves it, Windows recovery is not a very intelligent tool I am sad to say still at this day and age. Anyway! It appears to me your PC's last boot was interrupted unexpectedly reasons varying from power loss in the system to software issues might have caused this. Press F8 to go into your startup settings and select your boot drive from there, it is the HDD or SSD on which you have installed your Windows that you should select here. See if it boots, let us know what happens.
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