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    pcgamer1999 reacted to GuruMeditationError in Is this a normal problem?   
    ^ try flexing / rolling/snaking the cable to see if you can eliminate this as a possibility?
     
    But it does look like a failing GPU. Heat issues maybe (Looks like it could be a solder-ball problem).
     
    Also, to answer your question more precisely: no, not a normal problem; probably not a quick fix :0/
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to MLG Doge in 4K consoles!   
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to Forza-x73 in Tech Confession Time!   
    I use an 1280x1024 VGA monitor with a GTX 770 ;(
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to LinusTech in Can you guys please cheer me up.......   
    Totally sorry to hear about that. I would be devastated if my car was taken. I also don't have theft insurance
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to Chris is awesome in Post Your Best Possible Tech Insult ..   
    You sing like a dial up modem.
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to Marvzl1357 in Post Your Best Possible Tech Insult ..   
    you're as useful as a stock intel heatsink
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to BrandedUpontheGrave in How many lights do you have at night?   
    I have all lights on at night, never understood how anyone could sleep in the dark...
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to LinusTech in SSD's are so overrated.   
    SSD performance has nothing to do with boot time. Who shuts down their computers these days anyway? Modern machines sleep and wake so fast and use maybe a couple of watts when sleeping.
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to Slick in Some topics on here are LOL worthy, and others are kind of annoying   
    This thread made me sad.
     
    I like to think of the LTT forum community as a friendly and welcoming place. This thread was largely comprised of neither.
     
    If you don't like a users purchasing decisions then utilize that to steer them away from their current ideas. That is the entire point of the planning section...
     
    Instead of looking at the uninformed like lower beings look at them as a clean slate. This is your opportunity to be an upstanding member of the tech community and give them great advice/references so they too can become a gleaming pillar of the community.
     
    My thanks to those who stood up for their fellow community members instead of bashing them down
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to peterd in What is BIOS?   
    Basic Input/Output System
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to gizmetti in Capsule Corp. PC! My very first modded PC ever!   
    Hey everyone! Just thought I'd share my very first modded PC! I really want to get involved more in the community and I promise my next build I will do a build log. It's obviously inspired by my favorite TV show ever, Dragonball Z. Hope you guys enjoy!
     
    System Specs:
    Intel i5-4960K 5th Generation
    Kingston 16gb DDR3-1866 HyperX Fury
    Gigabyte 2gb 770GTX Windforce
    ASROCK Z87E-ITX
    Samsung EVO 840 250gb
    Corsair RM850 PSU
    Corsair H100i Liquid Cooling
    NZXT Sentry 3 Fan Controller
    Corsair 250D Case
     






     
     
     
     
    Shout out to Decalzilla for hooking me up with the custom decals.
    http://www.decalzilla.com
    Also Ensourced Custom Cables for making my awesome PSU cables.
    http://www.ensourced.net/
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    pcgamer1999 got a reaction from Askew in What CPU/GPU were in your first gaming PC?   
    Pentium 3 500mhz Nvidia TNT2 PRO
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    pcgamer1999 got a reaction from Recon-UK in What CPU/GPU were in your first gaming PC?   
    Pentium 3 500mhz Nvidia TNT2 PRO
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to MrBucket101 in How important Cache is?   
    Without cash you couldn't buy those fancy computer parts, so it's very important
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to nillas12 in Experiences with non-techies   
    Thought it would be fun to make a topic about, all of our experiences with all the people, who doesn't really understand all the tech.
    Note: Don't make this too harsh on them. You need to help them, not yell at them.
    I'll go first:
    So my mom has a daycare. And one day I am sitting on the floor with my laptop. And one of the kids, with real dirty hands come and put his hand on the screen. Guess he thought it was a touch screen. Still haven't gotten it off, and it was 3 months ago.
    My grandmother is scared of getting rid of the computer, because she thinks it will cut the power to her house.
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to nj4ck in Siberia - My Rig   
    Hey guys, 
     
    so since I have this log linked in my signature, I figured I might as well keep it up to date... so out goes the old post, here's the update: Some rather drastic changes have been made to my watercooling setup since I originally posted this build log, the PC hardware has remained the same:
     
    i5 4670k @ 4.4GHz
    8GB DDR3 1600MHz ADATA XPG RAM
    ASRock Z87M-Extreme4
    XFX R9 290 @ 1100/1400
    SanDisk Ultra Plus 128 GB SSD
    Seagate Barracuda 1TB
    Corsair CS650M 
    Fractal Arc Mini R2
     
    The current watercooling components are:
     
    EK LTX Copper+Acetal CPU block
    EK FC R9 290X Copper+Acetal GPU block
    XSPC Fittings
    PrimoChill UV blue tubing
    1x XSPC 120mm radiator (EX120)
    1x Coolgate 240mm rad (CG240HD)
    1x Coolgate 360mm rad (CG360HD)
    7x Noiseblocker Black Silent Pro PL2 fans
    EK pump-res combo with X-RES 100 and DCP 4.0 pump
    Aqua Computer Poweradjust 2 Ultra (for controlling the pump and monitoring coolant temp)
    Revoltec UV cathodes
    Shoggy Sandwich
     
    So here's what the system looked like when I first built it a few months ago: 
     
    It had just one 360mm and one 120mm radiator in it, the storage drives were still mounted in the hard drive cage, the pump was running at a constant 100%, there was hardly any dampening for the pump and there was a multicultural mixture of different fans.
     

     
     
    A 240mm Coolgate rad was added in the front, making it necessary to completely redo the tubing runs (using PrimoChill tubing this time, last time it was XSPC). I also needed to get rid of the HDD cage, because I needed to place the pump/res there. I ended up putting the HDD in a dampened plastic HDD enclosure and velcro-ing the SSD to the side of it. You can't see it in the picture, but it's behind the reservoir. I also added a Shoggy Sandwich for dampening vibrations.
     

     
     
    Used a tripple-rotary for the tricky connection between the third radiator and the reservoir, space was way too tight to use standard fittings and tubing.
     

     
     
    Right above the front radiator is where I mounted the pump controller, hidden behind the tubing in this picture. You can  also see the runs I had to do, things get pretty cramped when trying to put this much radiator space into an mATX build.
    I'm pretty happy with the results though.
     

     
     
    Here's the whole thing as it is right now, the crappy cellphone pictures don't really do the UV lighting any justice, even though I must say the old XSPC tubing I had before looked nicer. It was also harder to bend and easier to kink though, so I'll have to think twice about going back to it or sticking with PrimoChill next time.
     

     
     
    The front intakes. All the fans in this rig are now Noiseblocker Black Silent Pro PL2s, a fan I think is highly underrated and I can definitely recommend for pretty much any type of use. Right up there with Noctua in terms of silence and performance, in my experience.
     

     
     
    Here it is all closed up. Its hard to capture the subtle UV glow that can be seen through the window on camera...
     

     
     
    Some glamour shots from the inside, this was before I switched to PrimoChill tubing and XSPC fittings. The EK ones I had before SUCKED. I have several EK parts in this buld and the quality is amazing, everything except these fittings. They were terrible, tolerances were off (you could actually SEE the differences in size) and they tended to "stick" shut after a few minutes, so that re-opening them required brute force. Oh, and the chrome started chipping off after a few weeks.
     
    Replaced with much better fittings from XSPC.
     

     

     

     
     
    So that's my build. I still don't dare to say its finished because you know... it never is. I'm currently having some minor issues with the pump and pump controller, which makes me think I might be replacing it with a D5 Vario or a PWM DDC in the future, depending on how things turn out.
     
    Hope you enjoyed my build, feel free to leave me some feedback.
     
     
    -nj4ck
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to Cacao in Ultimate Gaming Setup 3.0 - Custom Water Cooling - 4 Monitors - SLI GTX Titan   
    Hey guys, I thought I would share my setup with you, now that I finally finished filming my setup video. All the information you need can be found in the description and if you're interested in the PC make sure to checkout the build log.
     

     
    Let me know what you think! 
     

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    pcgamer1999 reacted to imthewalrus in Just a Typical Build   
    So you clicked the post and you are wondering, why did you pick that name? Well it is black and red like most computer themed builds, and I already had some spare parts that could go along with the overall theme. The purpose of this build is to play Skyrim heavily modded in high settings at 1440p, as well as some less known games (goat simulator)  with a minimum budget. I also needed it to render images using adobe suite, and for coding. 
     
     
    I want to say thanks to AsRock because the provider of whom I bought the motherboard sold me an open box item and refused it. However AsRock customer service not only provided me with the missing accessories but they were quick about it too. 
     
     
    Parts:
     
    Motherboard:
    - AsRock z68 Fatal1ty motherboard
     
    Processor: 
    - Intel core i7 2600k
     
    Graphics Card:
    - Asus HD 7790 (1 GB)
     
    Memory:
    - Patriot Viper Extreme (1 x 8gb)
     
    Storage:
    - Seagate 1 TB Hybrid Desktop Drive
     
    Power Supply:
    - Corsair CX600M
     
    Case:
    - Cougar solution ATX (black)
     
    Cooling:
    - Cooler Master Hyper T4 (just the heatsink, the stock fan sucks)
    - 1 x Corsair SP 120
    - 2 x Bitfenix 120mm Fans (don't know which model)
    - 1 x Cougar 120mm CF-V12
     
    Peripherals:
    - Monitor: QNIX 28" 1440p QX2710 LED
    - Keyboard: Corsair K40 
    - Mouse: Logitech Soccer mouse.
     
     
    This is the case. I am quite impressed about this case, it does its job pretty darn well.

     
    Boxes!


     
     
     
    Haven't seen one of these in a while.

     
     

     
    The best PCI Wireless I have ever come across.
     

     
     
    I have installed most things, I am just waiting in the monitor and keyboard to get it started.






     
     
     
    I will be posting more pictures throughout the month. I will probably upgrade a lot of stuff throughout the summer too! 

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    pcgamer1999 reacted to Urbz7870 in Fractal R4 HAWK(Update May 27th 2014)   
    I'll let the pix do the talking enjoy
     
     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    pcgamer1999 reacted to skullbringer in Thoughts on Intel's stock cooler?   
    mine's working great for me, as a coaster.
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to alpenwasser in APOLLO (2 CPU LGA1366 Server | InWin PP689 | 24 Disks Capacity) - by alpenwasser [COMPL. 2014-MAY-10]   
    Table of Contents
    01. 2013-NOV-14: First Hardware Tests & The Noctua NH-U9DX 1366
    02. 2013-NOV-16: Temporary Ghetto Setup, OS Installed
    03. 2014-APR-01: PSU Mounting & LSI Controller Testing
    04. 2014-APR-02: The Disk Racks
    05. 2014-APR-08: Chipset Cooling & Adventures in Instability
    06. 2014-APR-09: Disk Ventilation
    07. 2014-APR-11: Fan Unit for Main Compartment Ventilation
    08. 2014-APR-12: Storage Topology & Cabling
    09. 2014-APR-26: Storage and Networking Performance
    10. 2014-MAY-10: Sound Dampening & Final Pics
    PDF Version of this Build Log
    http://alpenwasser.net/repository/files/apollo.pdf
    Hardware - Final Config
    CASE:               InWin PP689
    PSU:                Enermax Platimax 600 W
    MB:                 Supermicro X8DT3-LN4F
    CPU:                2 × Intel Xeon L5630 (quadcore, hyperthreaded)
    HS:                 Noctua NH-U9DX - Socket LGA1366
    RAM:                24 GB Hynix DDR3 1333 MHz ECC
    HBA CARD 0:         LSI 9211-8i, flashed to IT mode (Tutorial)
    HBA CARD 1:         LSI 9211-8i, flashed to IT mode
    HBA CARD 2:         LSI 9211-8i, flashed to IT mode
    SSD:                Intel 520, 120 GB
    HDD 0:              WD VelociRaptor 150 GB (2.5")
    HDD 1-3:            Samsung HD103UJ 1 TB F1 × 3
    HDD 4-7:            WD RE4 2 TB × 4
    HDD 8-13:           WD Red 3 TB × 6
    Total Raw Capacity: 29 TB
     
    Pics of Final Form - More in Final Post
     
    (click image for full res)

    (click image for full res)

     
    Wait, What, and Why?
    So,   yeah,    another   build. Another   server,    to   be
    precise. Why? Well, as  nice of  a system  ZEUS is,  it does
    have two major shortcomings for its use as a server.
    When I  originally conceived ZEUS,  I did not plan  on using
    ZFS (since it was not  yet production-ready on Linux at that
    point). The  plan was  to use  ZEUS' HDDs  as single  disks,
    backing up the  important stuff. In case of  a disk failure,
    the loss of  non-backed up data would  have been acceptable,
    since it's mostly  media files. As long as  there's an index
    of  what  was  on  the  disk,  that  data  could  easily  be
    reaquired.
    But right  before ZEUS was  done, I  found out that  ZFS was
    production-ready on Linux, having kept a bit of an eye on it
    since fall  2012 when I dabbled  in FreeBSD and ZFS  for the
    first time. Using  FreeBSD on the  server was not  an option
    though since I was nowhere near proficient enough with it to
    use it for  something that important, so it had  to be Linux
    (that's why I didn't originally plan on ZFS).
    So,  I deployed  ZFS on  ZEUS,  and it's  been working  very
    nicely  so  far. However, that  brought  with  it two  major
    drawbacks: Firstly, I was now missing 5 TB of space, since I
    had been  tempted by ZFS  to use those for  redundancy, even
    for our media files. Secondly, and more importantly, ZEUS is
    not an ECC-memory-capable system. The reason this might be a
    problem is that  when ZFS verifies the data on  the disks, a
    corrupted bit in your RAM  could cause a discrepancy between
    the  data in  memory and  the data  on disk,  in which  case
    ZFS  would  "correct"  the  data  on  your  disk,  therefore
    corrupting it. This  is not exactly optimal  IMO. How severe
    the consequences of this would  be in practice is an ongoing
    debate in various ZFS  threads I've read. Optimists estimate
    that it would merely corrupt  the file(s) with the concerned
    corrupt bit(s), pessimists are  afraid it might corrupt your
    entire pool.
    The main focus of this machine will be:
    room to install more disks over time ECC-RAM capable not ridiculously expensive low-maintenance, high reliability and availability (within reason, it's still
    a home and small business server)
    Modding Instead of some  uber-expensive W/C setup, the  main part of
    actually building  this rig will  be in modifying  the PP689
    for fitting as many HDDs  as halfway reasonable as neatly as
    possible. I have not  yet decided if there  will be painting
    and/or sleeving  and/or a window. A window  is unlikely, the
    rest depends mostly  on how much time I'll have  in the next
    few weeks (this  is not a long-term project, aim  is to have
    it done way before HELIOS).
    Also, since  costs for this  build should not spiral  out of
    control, I will  be trying to reuse as many  scrap and spare
    parts I have laying around as possible.
    Teaser
    More  pics  will  follow  as  parts  arrive  and  the  build
    progresses, for now a shot of the case:
    (click image for full res)

    That's all for now, thanks for stopping by, and so long.
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to LinusTech in December 26th Ultimate AMD Value APU PC Build Guide   
    They are an incredible amount of work. They take about 2-3 weeks worth of man-hours to produce (the water cooled one was closer to 4), so they're very expensive. Not many manufacturers can afford the sponsorship that pays for us to make them, especially because part of the terms from our side is that aside from including one of their components they don't get any say in the process...
     
    They don't even get to pick which of their components we use unless we agree on it...  This ensure that we end up with GOOD, unbiased build guides, which improves the value of them for the viewers now and in the future, but not all companies are that... open minded. We aren't willing to be flexible about this, however, so only Intel and AMD have engaged with us on these so far.
     
    Next year you might see a new sponsor though... It'll be someone very unexpected
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    pcgamer1999 reacted to Ryan Leech in Old pc hardware   
    Pentium D Extreme Edition 965 HT oc to 4.53Ghz (4 threads)
    6GB DDR2-667
    GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P
    EVGA GT 220
    Rosewill 630W
    Seagate 250GB 5400rpm
    DIYPC bench case

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