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Thank you anyways for your help. I will go and check if the power brick can be easily replaced on the unit and avoid using cheap cables.

Do you know what the cause could have been? The cable was working fine yesterday and was brand new. I have a feeling the controller demanded more power than needed and somehow killed itself (as is the case with most cheap hubs and cables). Sad thing is, it took the monitor alongside the cable itself.

I purchased a 4k monitor, and to connect it to my laptop, I bought a USB-C to HDMI cable that says supports thunderbolt and can do 4k 60Hz as the native HDMI port on the laptop can only do 4k at 30 Hz. After updating the bios of the laptop, the laptop restarted with the monitor not turning on. A message on the Windows notification panel stated that there was a "Power Surge on Hub Port” or “USB Device has exceeded the power limits of its hub port”. I tried to troubleshoot the issue, thinking the update somehow stopped allowing my laptop to recognise the monitor, but any device I connect to the HDMI ports of the monitor, whether its my phone, desktop or Macbook, there is nothing to be displayed on the Monitor. I smelt the HDMI end of the cable, to find there was an electronic burning smell and no subsequent cable allows the monitor to be recognised. Is it possible for a USB-C to HDMI cable to kill a monitor off? The monitor was working fine prior to this.

There are no driver updates at all in Windows updates. I am not sure which controller the Gigabyte board uses but looking at their driver list on their website, they seem to be intel drivers and intel does not have any updates for this particular system after scanning and analysing for updates.

Hello folks, I have a system which has the following: Gigabyte X99 gaming ultra I7 6850K MSI GTX 1070 32 GB DDR4 3200 quad channel ram There is an issue where the mouse freezes intermittently and the keyboard would spam a key while typing. These are issues with the system itself and not the peripherals. I cannot transfer between USB drives and it would stop any transfers. I see this only with windows 10 and I had tested with Ubuntu, which did not show any problems. I currently have the F6 bios installed and the drivers on Gigabytes website does not support windows 10, I get errors of unsupported os or that the system does not meet minimum requirements. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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It is most likely due to you having an APU, the APU provides only 8 lanes of PCI-e connectivity. If you have managed to get around the drivers and have got the card working to play games, verify the performance of the card. PCI-e 1 will bottleneck the card for games, though it isn't the card's intended use case.

Can confirm this is normal but from a 2500k instead. You could replace the thermal paste from factory to get lower temperatures across all cores, it will also give you an opportunity to remount the cooler for your laptop but in all honesty you have nothing to worry about, especially if those are the temps you are getting after running P95 small FFTs, you should be fine.

The graphics card you have installed, is it a card that was built specifically for mining? Because if it is then it is only rated at PCI-e 1st gen standards. If not then there is something wrong with either the bios of the card or the drivers.

What have you set your LLC to? You seem to be getting some sort of Vdroop.

I suppose you are right about investing in a good aio for future builds, plus I would be getting all my money's worth for the processor.

Well thank you for all your help, I can send the AIO back (amazon are the best) and I think my case, which is the S340, can handle bigger and thicker rads than the Seidon. Problem is prices, I got the Seidon for £45 which is 10 quid cheaper than most places so going up will cost more $$$ and I dont know if it is worth spending all that money for a 6 year old CPU.

OK I repasted and reseated the cooler to the cpu and I've noticed a slight drop in idle temperatures, around 32-35C and at load the the the hottest core still exceeds 80C but now it doesn't fail as early. The temperature difference has narrowed to 5C now but I still feel I'm being ripped off as an entry level 240mm aio competes against an mid tier tower cooler.

Yeah it's getting pretty warm here too but the temperature discrepancy between cores is absurd. The CPU fans ramp up to around 1800-2000 rpm and I can't say much about the pump as it's just 3 pin so it's probably running at full throttle, I did hear the pump when I first switched my PC on so I know it's working.

I haven't really tested it properly yet, but the high load and idle temperatures are very unusual, especially the temperature between cores, I could try reseating the cooler