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Yes.. that was my last plan, but I cant make it freeze/crash anymore. My friend said the PC was freezing every hour, nothing for me anymore. I stressed both sticks of RAM to hope they crash so I can remove one and stress again, but it just works right now. I really doubt the thermal paste change was causing such freezes and system instability. I update the original post if you want to see more details and if you can help.

I'm writing this in the name of a friend who will soon come to me to check his PC. Problem: Problem started around march. He uses the PC for gaming mostly. He didn't change any bios settings for years, or change any specific settings which would affect stability. The PC will freeze time to time and stays like that. The only way to resolve this is to restart, waiting wont unfreeze. It happens during gaming such as Call of Duty or Fifa or sometimes while installing a software without anything significant in the background. A few times in the last few days he start received BSOD with error WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR which is mostly hardware from what I saw online, and regarding overclocking. Specs (It is a pre-build): i7-7700k + Cooler Master 212 Black Edition Zotac GTX 1080Ti Rear Exhaust Asus Prime Z270-P PSU Corsair TX650M What he already tried: Reset bios to standard settings (turned off all auto overclocking which came with the PC). Freezes still happen. Stress CPU & Memory (together at same time. might try separately) with prime95, freezes still happen. Idle for a while to see temps, freeze wont happen, but after he tried to install HWMonitor, PC froze. Windows Memory Diagnostics - passed just fine Used FurMark, PC did not freeze while using it, but froze later when the cpu was idling after the stress. *Clean reinstall of Windows 10. Up to date. Still wont solve the problem. Temps: While stressing with prime95, the CPU will get up to 92* sometimes in small spikes to 100. Depending on what stress test the prime95 does (we used the blend feature to go through all the tests) It will overall range from 80-90 usually. While the CPU is hot at like 92*, which is too much in my opinion, I see the Clock Speed dropping to 4.1-4.18 from 4.2 standard. For GPU. While FurMark is running, GPU gets up to 88* at 1080p settings. More details about GPU when I get the PC. What I want to try: Change CPU Thermal Paste. Take GPU out and stress again only CPU (no fail for a 2h stress) A little busy today, so I will let prime95 stress test all options (CPU+RAM) and using the internal GPU (failed/froze after 3h 15m of blend stress test) Stress testing the CPU only again but for many more hours, 2 is not enough.(Averaging at 85% after 8h of full heat and power in prime95, nothing happened) Testing memory with memtest86 (passed all 4 x13 tests without any error) Stress memory with prime95 (after 8h this didn't make the pc freeze) Try to replicate the last freeze i had by using prime95 in blend mode (again it didn't freeze this time) I had prime95 with blend mode + a youtube video playing in BG + FIFA playing as this game used to cause freezes (This worked flawlessly for many hours) Run chkdsk and sfc /scannow (No problems were found) TRY TO FREEZE/CRASH THE PC somehow... it just doesn't want anymore. Cant troubleshoot a working PC. EDIT 2: What can I try? FIFA 2020 and COD used to freeze the PC every 1h. FIFA worked without problems for hours with prime95 in background. Didn't try COD yet, downloading all 210GB+. Did that thermal paste change fixed it? It was indeed CPU throttling before, and the last freeze was before 24h passed since the thermal pastel paste application (takes 24h to work properly). I can't make it crash anymore to check other what could crash it. NOTE: without gpu it froze in the past. EDIT: *Added info about Windows being clean installed. *Stressing without Gpu atm *Added more specs *More details about tests, and what I don't know what to do.

My free time is very limited, so I don't really want to spend some of it on selling parts online. I guess I will give it a pass.

This is a computer from a random seller online (which apparently is not a scam) and I was wondering if it's worth £1000. Is SLI still any good these days? I play games like Rainbow Six Siege, Red Dead Redemption 2 and hopefully Cyberpunk 2077. Just wanted to know what is your opinion Intel Core i7-7700K Quad Core CPU - 4 x 4.20GHz (Turbo 4 x 4.50GHz) WD 3.0TB SATA3 3.5" Hard Drive - WD30EZRZ WD 512GB M.2 2280 Black NVMe PCIe SSD- WDS512G1X0C Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB (2X8GB) DDR4 2400MHz CL15 - HX424C15FB2K2/16 Windows 10 Home 2 x KFA2 GeForce GTX 1080 EXOCGraphics Card, 8GB, GDDR5 Stormforce Watercooler with Black Venom Fan, Socket LGA 1151 Asus WiFi Card 3 Years Warranty

Yeah... I think I will pass. I have friends with bad experiences with 2nd hand cards from eBay in UK. Everything noted. I guess Zen 2 will still use the same socket AM4. And if I get the 2700x (not sure if £40 is worth 15% increase in performance) instead of 2700 non x, the selling value should decrease the same way (probably) and don't lose that much when I will upgrade (if I decide to). 0.5 Ghz on 8 cores should make a difference. I think.

Thank you. I appreciate that. Also, anything better than the founder edition 1080ti with a rear exhaust? EDIT: you already told me about the 120mm coolers, I forgot i was talking to you.

Do most of the current games still use only 4 cores? or they moved to 6-8? What about R7 2700x? is still £100+ cheaper than the 8700k. Do i need it? Will that power help me future proof the PC ?

Oh yeah. I want to play in 1440p at 144hz. forgot to add that to my main post. I know I will not play all the games at 144, but everything over 60 is fine. I need the 144hz for competitive games

I just saw as well few builds with holes in the front panel. I don't want to do that, so I will consider a different CPU. However, Rysen R6 2600 is ~25% slower, but cheap as well. So I'm not sure what to do. Any other CPU your recommend? What is the limit for a 1080ti to don't get a bottleneck?

I can fit 2 fans on the right side of the case (the blue part in the attachment) and the intake air is coming from the yellow "spaces". What fans should I get to deal with the air pressure ? Noctua? And if I don't have a water cooler, I can fit a fan on the bottom to get rid of the hot air

that looks cool. Do you consider that that cooler good enough? I don't have experience with such small heatsinks EDIT: Im fine doing over 1500, I may also get some offer on black Friday. So I guess I will still go for an M.2 and a black WD

100% looks. That's why I'm thinking to get a GPU with exhaust to get the heat out on the top, the CPU will have a water cooler which has the exhaust on the bottom and will have 2 (or 3, depends how I fit them) to pus air inside from the front of the case. Should this help for thermals? However, I don't know what GPU to get, and many people complain that these are very noisy because they have only 1 fan (like 1080ti founder edition)

Hi everyone, I just sold my gaming laptop and now I want to build a PC in a Phanteks Evolv shift mini ITX case. However, I don't have an amazing knowledge about which of the CPUs to choose or motherboards... So what I 100% want: The Phanteks evolve shift case GTX 1080 Ti (don't know exactly which brand and model), should I get something with back exhaust? What I don't know and need help with: CPU, I see the i7 8700k everywhere, but do I need 6 cores? CPU Cooler, I know that the 120mm water coolers are bad, but what else I can do? Motherboard. The one I choose just looks cool. I don't know anything else Case Fans? I'm sure I need airflow in this case, and I'm not sure if the default fans which comes in the case will be amazing, so what can I get? I aim to play AAA games like (Assassin's Creed Origins/Odyssey, Cyberpunk 2077, Farcry 5, Rainbow Six Siege, etc) I have this list for now which is over £1500 but I hope on Black Friday I may get some deals. If not. I will pay the full price. (I still want to stay at 1500, so Id like to hear suggestions on what to change) EDIT: I will play on a 1440p ~144Hz monitor. I know that I can't play all the games at 144, but everything over 60 is fine. I need 144hz for shooters. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU Intel - Core i7-8700K 3.7GHz 6-Core Processor £383.99 @ Aria PC CPU Cooler Corsair - H60 (2018) 57.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler £69.94 @ Amazon UK Motherboard Asus - ROG Strix Z370-I Gaming Mini ITX LGA1151 Motherboard £192.40 @ Alza Memory Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory £127.19 @ Aria PC Storage Samsung - 970 Evo 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive £64.79 @ Aria PC Storage Western Digital - BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £69.08 @ Amazon UK Video Card EVGA - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB FTW3 GAMING iCX Video Card £708.11 @ Amazon UK Case Phanteks - ENTHOO EVOLV SHIFT Mini ITX Tower Case £89.82 @ Ebuyer Power Supply Corsair - SF 600W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular SFX Power Supply £96.83 @ Ebuyer Other Phanteks PH-LEDKT_COMBO RGB LED Strip Combo Set £14.48 @ AWD-IT Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total £1816.63 Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-11-04 02:08 GMT+0000

had some problem with windows backup, I prefer the sync, easier to get a file if I need it. This list is what I was looking for. I will try Resilio, if it is not what I was looking for, you gave me many more to try, Thank you What if I don't have a PC? I will not let my HDD on someone else PC, many important documents and projects there.

I will sell my laptop soon. But I want to save everything I have on my drives on my NAS. I want something to sync, not just to copy. If I shut down my laptop I don't want it to re-start the initial copying, I want it to continue. I have like 700-800GB of small files to transfer... Until I find a buyer, I want to make sure that everything I have is already saved. What software should I use? P.S. I don't want to take the HDD and put another one in. The one in the laptop is crappy, I will sell the laptop with it.