Demaurice

A video explaining types of rgb strips and connections? I saw different strips from rgbw rgbww rgbww+ and other types of led strips even. They all have different copper connections and controllers and it's confusing

Update: the motherboard hits 90 degrees and the cpu 82, this might be the problem?

The CPU temps are hitting around 85 degrees under load and GPU barely 65 max. Those have been the same for as long as I know. And I only have acces to one other power supply that I have lying around, but it's a really old 550 watt power supply that's filled with dust, I don't think I trust that thing with my current pc. Plus it doesnt have enough gpu pins to give power to the GPU.

Hello everyone, Sorry for the long story. TLDR: PC instantly turns off without a notice or whatsoever whilst the power isn't cut off. First of all I want to say, I this topic is in the wrong forum category I'm sorry, but I'm not sure where else to put it. What happened twice now is that my pc shutdown unexpectingly, not really shutting down actually, just going black and... nothing. The weird part is that the power brick that it's connected to stays on, and the light that's connected to the same power brick stays on aswell. So my only guess is the hardware. In the windows event viewer all it said was: "The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly." The previous time this happened I made sure the chord that connects to the power supply was tight in there and wasn't loose or anything. Now that it happened again, I'm clueless of what it is, I have been using this setup for 8 months or so without this every happening since a few days ago. It doesn't happen on startup or under heavy load aswell. Both times it happened after using my pc for several hours after closing my game. Previous time it was GTA 5, and this time League of Legends. Just 20 seconds after shutting down the game both times, but I'm not sure if this has to do with anything or was just a coincidence. One thing I could imagine is the motherboard failing, as I got it broken. Everytime I startup my pc it's a black screen, until I hit the reboot button under the power button a second later and then it boots up. This was becoming a habit and always worked aswell for all those months, but it could be that the motherboard is now really failing. All I really want the know is what could be the problem? And can I find in my event viewer or somewhere else a confirmation of my claims? Or any other software to test on system parts failing? Edit: Well whilst trying to get my pc specs through speccy for this article, my whole pc froze for about 3 minutes when I was detecting my CPU, even my mouse froze and Ctrl+Alt+delete didnt work. Speccy got terminated after 3 min and it started working again, so I just copied the specs from another post I had. But this might confirm my thoughts about the cpu/motherboard failing. Maybe worth mentioning: Whilst this happened I am only running: Chrome, Steam, Discord and Spotify both times. PC specs: Operating System Windows 10 Pro 64-bitCPU AMD FX-4100 62 °C Zambezi 32nm TechnologyRAM 16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 933MHz (10-11-10-30)Motherboard ASUSTeK Computer INC. M5A78L-M/USB3 (AM3R2) 72 °CGraphics PL2473H (1920x1080@60Hz) 8192MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 390 Series (Sapphire/PCPartner) 54 °CStorage 931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-08M2NA0 ATA Device (SATA) 48 °COptical Drives No optical disk drives detected Power supply: Cooler Master G750M Again sorry for the long post, and thanks everyone in advance for the help, Maurice

Thanks everyone, will keep an eye out on sales from shops trying to get rid of them. It's very hard to get them second hand here as there is at the moment almost nobody that sells it used for a lower price, so i thought i might aswell get it new then.

Hello everyone, I have been planning to buy an i7 4790 for a while now, the only thing that stopped me so far is the price. So with the savings I have I can probably afford it in a week. But I was wondering if I should wait for AMD zen CPUs to come out. Might these drop the price of this i7 below 320€ maybe? Or is this certainly not going to happen and would this be a waste of time? Thanks for the help everyone, Maurice Ps: I'm currently running on an amd fx-4100 with a Sapphire r9 390. So everything is bottlenecked by the cpu. Also my friend gave me his old motherboard which can hold the 4790, so there are no other costs then the CPU, this is why im not going to 6th gen.

Thanks for the comments everyone! sorry for the late response. I'm planning on buying an i7 4790 soon enough when I have the money for it. The thing is that I also want to wait for it to drop below 300 euro's but that's probably not happening anytime soon

Hello everyone, The title is pretty clear in this one. My CPU is bottlenecking almost everything. PC Specs: Operating System Windows 10 Pro 64-bit CPU AMD FX-4100 62 °C Zambezi 32nm Technology RAM 16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 933MHz (10-11-10-30) Motherboard ASUSTeK Computer INC. M5A78L-M/USB3 (AM3R2) 72 °C Graphics PL2473H (1920x1080@60Hz) 8192MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 390 Series (Sapphire/PCPartner) 54 °C Storage 931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-08M2NA0 ATA Device (SATA) 48 °C Optical Drives No optical disk drives detected Basically what I need is help finding the best settings for my games. For GPU bottlenecks its always opvious, turning down graphically demanding settings will increase FPS, not that hard. But for CPU usage I've read on several forums that putting these settings on high will take load off the CPU, onto the GPU. I've tried this in several games (battlefield 4, CSGO, Dota 2, H1Z1 etc.) but haven't really found any difference. I can run battlefield 4 with 80 FPS flat (not in 64player rush though, poor 10 fps there). But I can't get H1Z1 to run any higher then 50 fps. In H1Z1 I've tried lowering the render distance, as I've heard this task is mainly CPU bound. This increased my FPS by 5, but its still not smooth gameplay for me. In Dota 2 I've tried any graphical setting, but I have not found any difference in FPS from the highest or the lowest settings (it's also stuck around 50~55 and doesn't feel smooth). The only thing outside of games I found working, is closing chrome completely (as in activa programs at the bottum right and closing it there). This increased FPS a bit again. But I have still not found any solution to make the games feel smooth yet. Does anyone have tips or a solution for this? Thanks for all the help in advance!

Thanks arch_linuxos and Funtron5000 !! only thing left is, will saving up for the 4790 be worth it or is there a slighty cheaper i7 for roughly the same performance?

The thing is, this gigabyte motherboard is literally the cheapest motherboard in my country with 1150 socket, atleast on the best known comparison and pc parts website in the Netherlands. To be honest I have no idea what the difference is between h97 or z97. But thats something with the chipset right? (watching this as fast as possible )

Thanks for all the responses so quickly! I dont know why but I have a bad feeling about getting an i5 (I'd feel like if i waited one month and saved up i could've had an i7). I just included my current budget in the post aswell. The main issue is the motherboard because those things confuse the hell out of me, Friends of mine bought motherboards with memory leakage and stuff like that and I feel like you guys' advice is probably better then my guess at "this one is cheap and probably works"

Sorry I just edited the topic, I accidently saved it before finishing it. I didnt think people would react so quickly thanks already

So lets start off listening my current specs: Operating System Windows 10 Pro 64-bit CPU AMD FX-4100 35 °C Zambezi 32nm Technology RAM 16,0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 933MHz (10-11-10-30) Motherboard ASUSTeK Computer INC. M5A78L-M/USB3 (AM3R2) 52 °C Graphics PL2473H (1920x1080@60Hz) 8192MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 390 Series (Sapphire/PCPartner) 45 °C Storage 931GB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX-08M2NA0 ATA Device (SATA) 41 °C Optical Drives No optical disk drives detected Audio Plantronics GameCom Case Some old cooler master case that is not even listed on their website anymore, it also has a massive gap where there used to be an optical disk drive. So for a while now I've been wanting to change the cpu and motherboard of my pc. Trying to listen music from youtube and having my games stutter because of the video playback taking too much cpu power is driving me crazy. Aswell as terribly slow video editing and several musical synthesizers just overrunning errors because of the cpu. Also the motherboard has been failing since I brought it home without protection in the train... So basically it blackscreens at first startup and always starts up after 1 reset. Really weird, but I have no idea how to fix that. You might see from my specs that my budget isnt that great. Now I've been wanting to get a new motherboard and CPU for a while now, and the worst thing would be for me to upgrade and find out half a year later that I need an even better cpu for what I want to use it for. Now what I want to achieve is atleast get rid of the problems listed above, but I would also want to record game footage and maybe stream aswell. I will not be gaming above full HD but if possible want to record at 60fps with OBS. I've been wanting to save up for the i7 6700K, but then I'd have to sell the ram and buy new sticks again and it's just a lot of hassle. Now I am pretty unfamiliar with CPU Price VS Speed or "bang for your buck" comparisons and with the budget I have, I'd rather not buy the i7 4790 but rather something as close to its performance as possible. (sidenote: I will not be overclocking any cpu) Also I've been looking at several motherboards with the least functions as I need, basically only 2 ram slots, 1 video card slot, enough usb ports on the back and the green audio jack, and support for usb 3.0 case when I have that money. the Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 is the first motherboard I found for this. But I'm not sure if there might be a better/cheaper/more reliable option anywhere. Thanks for all the help in advance! Edit 3 (the more info the better the help i guess): my bank account currently holds just about 240 euro's and within a month I will get about 150 more from work and some other stuff. That might be barely enough to get an 4790 and motherboard? right? Another edit: My setup has also been on Worst setup wars from techsource over here: (at 3:51) if you're interested