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  1. CPUmodder
    I always go with WD black drives but WD blue and segate barracudas are good
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    Yeah download from geforce.com and double check storage, may not be a problem but worth a check
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    500+
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    agreed you should not take out the cpu but taking the cooler off or out is ok as long as you don't damage the other components in the computer. sounds like you have done a good job for cleaning though. if it was my computer or one that came into my computer shop, i would start to look at something happening with the software and what is running on the computer. did the computer start to run hot (after an update or app install) or did it become hot over time?
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    Try this: check your rad for dust, change the thermal compound and check the pump is working, I have a h100i and can run an i5 3570K @4.2GHz with temps around the 60s so something sounds wrong for you. if you used stock thermal compound that came pre applied with the cooler I have had problems with it not spreading on the cpu properly so that may be the same fore you
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    have you tried replacing the thermal compound. it may help but it may not. Also i have found that sometimes when disassembling the cooler to clean that their are hidden pockets of dust that can't be accessed other than opening the cooler up, when you cleaned the computer did you take the fan out? also do you have excessive background apps running that may be taking resources away from the games
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    Waterproof for the win and dbrand makes some of the best skins i have used
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    cool I think i can borrow one of those
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    yeah the board was new and i have no idea if it actually was at 1.9v but either way it is dead
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    ok, thanks i will keep that in mind
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    yep already have the board in the bin, and i had tried to reset/ update the bios before i tried the i5 but clearly that did not help
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    nah sorry, surprisingly I have not used one or even seen one other than in a shop
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    well at the first time i just thought it was the i7 that died but thinking about it now i do agree with you i should have got rid of the board after the i5
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    hi i know their is no single answer to this but any advice or help is most welcome so this morning i started up my system as usual and the power went out. i went and fliped the fuse back on thinking it was nothing. (this happened 2 times) on my third attempted the system booted no problem. i got into windows and boom the computer went off. being a computer technician i went through all the things you do when a system goes off and wont post and found nothing wrong except my i7 3770 was dead (strange). so i borrowed an i5 3570k thinking that some how i killed my i7 and after about 1/2 hour the system went down again and did not start. i then went to my parts shelf and found an old pentium and managed to get into the bios to find (to my horror) i found the cpu running at 1.9V (i am not sure if it was but the board must have had something really wrong with it). i am no overclocker or anything but i have enough experience to know that they should not get that high and i had never changed that setting and sure enough just as i was about to change it the pentium died. again i tried with an old i3 i got out of a computer i was recycling for parts and the same got into the bios and dead. i did not get enough time to look at temps and stuff but i was running on water. i took each chip out and tried them on 3 different gigabyte boards with an array of different graphics cards, ram and psus as i have acces to them because of my work. now i am at the point where i am on an old laptop 12 hours into fixing the computer with 4 blown cpus a bill of over $1500 in parts and no idea what to do now. i cant contact the seller as i have no prof of perches because the board was a gift some of the cpu's i can return but i doubt that i will get anything back. i am not sure what else to right but if any one wants any more specs or info i am more than happy to give them out
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    ok thanks for the help
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    I know that this is properly some where on this sight but I did not find the answer to my questions. I am going to be water cooling my system (2 660's and one i5 3570K) I am still quite new to water cooling only using pre done systems so any advice would be helpful. I will be using 2 dual 120mm rads. I quite like looks of coolant over deionised water and coloured tubing. Is their any brands that I should stay away of for coolant or parts and is their some way to figure out how much fluid I need to bye. If any one has some tips for a first time custom water cooler that would be helpful thanks. P.S does any one have a pump recommendation as I have no idea what to get
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    i already have a nvidia 650, 8 gb of ram, case, ssd, power supply and all the peripherals just need to get a cpu/apu and a motherboard
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    and thanks for the fast responce
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    I have a everything to set up a system Andrew0472 and i am just looking for a motherboard and cpu/apu, i also like the suggestions from mineblaster i will proberly be going down the path of individual CPU and motherboard
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    Hi, I am planing to build a small pc like a steam machine, (size matters) for as cheep as possible. I want to to be able to runs some games like TF2, CS:GO and those types of games. my budget is very small (AUD$200) but I do have a lot of spear parts, just not cpu's and motherboards (ram, graphics, ssd, hdd, power supply ect) my problem that I am facing is this; do I get a motherboard with a fution apu on it like this one: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Gigabyte-Ultra-Durable-4-Classic-GA-E350N-WIN8-AMD-A45-FCH-Mini-ITX-Motherboard-/271241899167?pt=Motherboards&hash=item3f2746ec9f&_uhb=1 which is cheep and I can spend money else were or do I go and get a motherboard and cpu witch is more expensive. for both options I will be putting in 8 gb of ram and a nvidia 650. any help is welcome, thanks
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    all right good luck
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    is your fire wall maybe blocking the connection? but that sounds like a strange problem, the only thing I can see that would be stopping the connection is like a fire wall or a filter of some kind. I will have a look around to try to help find you a solution
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    sadly yes you will have to join their pool. you say that you have friends on wdc, are they having the same issues or are they running different hardware?. I know when i set up a mining rig for my mate the same thing happened and that is how i discovered bit minter, nothing would detect the cards. I am sure their is a fix out their but I can't answer that (sorry) but keep having a go and their will be a solution in the end weather it's the drivers or a hardware issue. For me I now just try to stick to bitminter as it is simple but I will have a look around the internet to try to help
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    If their is no device detected their it may be because of a driver or something underlying. If all else fails I found the best to be bitminter (bitminter.com). If you don't have much money or are attached to another pool then bit minter is worth a shot. their is no complex ui's or programming needed, their is a start mining butten and you are good to go. just make sure that all drivers are up to date though. Before I end this post, are you using you GPU for mining? or do you have some asic miners? any way hope this helps and good luck with the mining
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    @MrRX7 you remove the IHS (or lid) and replace the thermal compound that comes sanded from Intel (which in my opinion is cheep and rubbish) and replace it with some thing better from an aftermarket vendor
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