Ostardva
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In my naivety I recently bought a Samsung 960 EVO NVMe SSD. I don't have the board for it CURRENTLY but have been researching Z97 boards that could take advantage of it. Looking on the web I see choice quotes such as: 1. "Most Z97 M.2 slots only support PCIe 2." 2. "If you run your M.2 in a slot X you'll restrict your GPU bandwidth." 3. "On Z97 you just can't get the best speeds for that drive." Is my research right? Am I idiot? Probably. I'd love to take use of this drive, but if not easily return it. I haven't yet bought a Z97 board but if there's a setup, even with adaptors, that may work, I'd love to know. Feel free to judge me as I currently have an ASRock H81M-G board, which is bare minimum for my current setup.
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I'm going to have to use that on a new account. I can't login to the help community on my existing account either.
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I'm in the UK and have not been able to find any contact details for them directly. I am appreciative of your help so far though. ^__^.
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As per original post, yup. I've tried new browsers, fresh installs, different machines and even a fresh OS wipe. Same issue regardless of system, program or state.
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So I go to it, make sure it says facebook.com, then I login, get the same error. From there, on the error screen, I delete everything and go to facebook.com. It brings me back to the login screen and I have to start again.
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That's the screen I get after I hit "login" after entering my e-mail and password, so I can't go further than hitting login.
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I've been locked out of my FB account since Saturday, using my password works but brings up a "this feature is not available" screen. It does this on every device and piece of software I have tried, and after re-installs and cache-cleans. I do account recovery, use a new password. Same issues. Doesn't say it's incorrect, just says "not available". I get a white screen on iOS, and Facebook messenger doesn't work at all. I haven't been banned or anything like that. I'm now getting notification updates on my timeline to my personal e-mail, my profile can still be looked at by friends (and nothing has changed to show a hack), but I just seem entirely locked out. I can't even login to Facebook customer care, community or business as I get the same error. I can't find anyone with a similar issue online and now I don't have Facebook I realise how much I use it to communicate with certain friends and groups. >__> I have made a new account purely to contact customer service, but even then I just get an automated response that says "thanks, we may not reply, we appreciate the feedback". I've had my account for roughly 12 years. Don't really want to lose it over what seems like a technical issue, any ideas guys?
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1. Wait for Zen Architecture. 2. Go for an Intel i5 of some sort. 3. Get the FX CPU. - AMD's APUs are horribly dated now. I still run an A8-7600, and it's a pretty bad bottleneck. Sure it's cheap, but that's all it it, and when gaming with a competent GPU it *feels* cheap. - Take these things from someone who chose AMD at the outset because they were affordable, and 3 years later regrets it.
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AMD A8-7600 Safe Temperatures?
Ostardva replied to Ostardva's topic in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
Update on this for reference. Had this APU for 3 years and just realised the following in the BIOS: - AMD Turbo Core Technology enabled made the make clock speed 3.8ghz (overriding the 3.1ghz stock). - Checking in Speccy, the CPU was constantly throttling to 3.8ghz, and this was set as maximum multiplier by default when applying Turbo Core. - Disabling this resulted in WAY LOWER / SAFER operating temps, and actually better game performance to be honest. TL;DR - Want lower temps? Disable AMD Turbo Core and check your clock speeds in your bios to be your the BIOS isn't thermal throttling your build. -
See the issue I'm having right now is that it runs stable for normal tasks, but when I go to game the card cuts out after a few minutes then re-starts once the game crashes. Is it safe to assume this is a riser issue? I say this as the card stays powered (has LEDs behind the heat sink fans).
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Thanks for the feedback all. It's installed now on a load of books, through a riser. It's being intermittent mind, and I saw the card tested in another rig. Possibly power issue or riser. Otherwise looks foiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.
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Haha I plan to get a new case, or at least use a horrible cheap mid-tower one I have laying around. Believe me I feel awful for committing this cardinal sin. I've bought a X16 20cm riser, so it's relatively short, but my PCIe slot is quite close to the case edge anyway.
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So I dun goofed today. I run an ITX build in a Thermaltake Core V1. I sold my Zotac GTX 970 and then hastily bought a Palit GTX 980 Jetstream. This upgrade cost me no money, fyi. I sold my 970 for the price of the 980. It was a lucky coincidence. OBVIOUSLY this GPU doesn't fit my case and I'm an idiot (inb4 you're an idiot, check the clearance first). So my ghetto solution is to use a riser and have the card sit fans-down outside of the case. I did a brief search and it seems as long as the fans of the GPU have air, it shouldn't impact performance, so i will have the card raised from the table my PC sits on without obstructing the fans. This is a temporary measure. As stupid as this sounds, does it sound do-able / realistic for now?
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Fan-tastic. Final scenario then, if wasn't overclocking and ran an Intel i7-4790? Best/cheapest MoBos? This is the Intel equivalent of the ASRock MoBo I have in my system right now. I wondered if there was anything wrong with this model? http://www.ebuyer.com/554363-asrock-h81m-itx-socket-1150-dvi-hdmi-7-1-channel-hd-audio-mini-itx-asrock-h81m-itx
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Got'cha. I'll keep an open mind... but what about other generations of processor then, such as 4th and 5th gen? I'm not doing a great deal on my PC so I imagine any high-end Intel processor is going to smash the performance of my A8-7600.
