Milton_Moore27

So here's the issue I'm having: I've had this system built for 4 years now. For most of it's lifetime, the CPU has been overclocked at 4.2GHz @ 1.25V. It ran solidly with no hiccups, no BSODs, etc. The only upgrades was a GTX 970 from a 660 in late 2014, and an additional 16GB of RAM in January of 2018, making 24GB total. This was all done on Windows 7 Professional. A week after installing the RAM, I decided to do a clean install of Windows 10 Education (because the University gives out a free copy to students). I lost my overclock profiles on my CPU so I decided to try to do a new overclock. The OC that worked stably was a 4.4GHz @ 1.34V. I stress tested it using AIDA64 and OCCT and the thermals were fine. I was stable for about 3 weeks until one morning, within 10 minutes of the PC being at idle, the system lost all power and rebooted. The system informed me that the overclock failed, so I tried the OC Genie profile that the BIOS provides. The issue still persisted, so I manually set my CPU to 3.9GHz (which is the turbo boost frequency), and it actually failed again. However, upon restarting, it's fine (even at the OC profile). So from what I have determined, there are three possible culprits: the CPU, the PSU, or the motherboard. I really need help on solving this issue as my funds are limited for troubleshooting. Thanks! Specs: Intel Core i7 4770K @ 3.5Ghz Corsair H100i MSI Z97-G45 Motherboard 24GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM (2x4GB G Skill Sniper + 2x8GB Corsair Vengeance LPX) 120GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD 1TB WD Blue 5400RPM MSI GTX 970 4G Seasonic M12II 850W 80 Plus Bronze Windows 10 Education

I've been trying to get an SQL trigger to work. It is supposed to throw an exception if a tanning bed fee is lower or higher than the requested range by the tanning bed. Upon inserting or modifying the fee in the RESERVATIONS table, I get an error saying that RESERVATIONS is mutating, trigger/function may not see it at line 6. Here's my code: create or replace trigger TriggerCost BEFORE UPDATE OR INSERT on RESERVATIONS for each row DECLARE var_MinimumFee NUMBER; var_MaximumFee NUMBER; var_Fee NUMBER; BEGIN SELECT MINFEE, MAXFEE, FEE INTO var_MinimumFee, var_MaximumFee, var_Fee FROM MODELS INNER JOIN RESERVATIONS ON MODELS.MINFEE = RESERVATIONS.FEE AND MODELS.MAXFEE = RESERVATIONS.FEE; IF :new.FEE NOT BETWEEN var_MinimumFee AND var_MaximumFee THEN RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR(-20000, 'Input fee is outside of the allowed range.'); END IF; END TriggerCost; What could be causing the mutation?

I used to use prime95, but I was also told to use the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility to test it since prime95 is "bad for your CPU"

Curiosity, what is the default stock voltage for a 4770K on a z97 board? I've been running into some blue screens regarding my CPU and I concluded that I was overvolting... my current voltage seems to be 1.2V... HELP Specs. Intel Core i7 4770k @ 4.2 GHz MSI Z97-G45 GAMING G. Skill Sniper 8GB DDR3 Samsung EVO 840 120GB SSD WD Blue 1TB MSI GTX 970 Seasonic M12II 850W Corsair H100i Windows 7 Professional 64 bit

My start-up time takes a similar length, and I need to investigate why it does that. In regards to the shutdown time, I have no earthly idea. My shutdown time takes about 6-7 seconds.

So! An idea popped into my head when I was looking at laptops. I got the idea to do an all MSI Intel based Mini-ITX travelling PC build. This would be primarily used for LAN parties and would fit in at a university for the nerds like me who don't party. It would be primarily used to play games like CS: GO, LoL, RuneScape, and possibly some of the AAA titles, many played at 1080p-1440p (possibly even 4K for those "less demanding" games). For the 1080p rig, here's the choice: Barebone case: MSI Nightblade. It looks cool, has a 600W 80 Plus Gold PSU inside, 12 USB ports (6 are USB 3.0, I think.), support for a full sized GPU, but it has limited space for a liquid cooling unit, or even a high performance air cooler. A K series processor might not be the best idea, but could be proposed. RAM: I want to keep the black and red color scheme with this proposed project, so I've decided between G. Skill Ripjaws, G. Skill Sniper, or Corsair Vengeance. All of these will be minimum of 1600MHz, but I'd like to test out 1866 memory. Amount proposed needed: 8GB (2X 4GB) Storage: Due to lack of space inside of the case (and due to other biased reasons), an HDD will be a little on the unpractical size (to me). So an SSD will be used. Which one? Whichever is cheaper, but preferably a Samsung or a Crucial drive. For capacity, most likely a 512GB drive, which will give enough room for music, videos, the AAA titles, and many of the smaller applications. GPU: In order for 4k gaming in CS: GO and LoL, a flagship card MIGHT be needed for 60 fps gaming. Basically, an MSI GTX 970 or equivalent AMD card. For 1080p gaming, the new 960 would suffice. CPU: This is where it gets tricky. Overclocking or none? If Overclocking is neccessary, an i5 4690K will be used and cooled by the Cooler Master Seidon 120V. If not, either an i5 4690 will be used. An i3 could also be substituted, but there might be a performance bottleneck for gaming over 1080p resolution. Opinions? Add criticism and new ideas.

The past few weeks, I've been playing competitive mode in CS GO. Out of nowhere, there will be a huge server lag that affects everyone on the map except ME. People kept saying "omg hax" and telling me that I was cheating. It's hard to cheat when you don't know what's going on. So what could be causing the lag? Their pings were in the 120-180 range during this lag and mine hovered right around 40. Was I the cause of this lag, and why was it me? It also happened when a friend of mine and I were playing on the same server. Him and I were not lagging while the others were. This has happened at least 5-8 times the past week.

The funny thing is... I have noticed a lot of newer laptops DON'T come with recovery disks.... Her's didn't come with one if I remember correctly. Suppose on cold reboot it still doesn't do it. Windows 8 and 8.1 makes it hard to access the BIOS. How will I be able to access the advanced startup options without loading the OS?

In the case that I do, will it still be possible that I can go in and do a factory reset?

Yesterday, I was attempting to speed up my girlfriend's laptop since she claimed it was sluggish overall. I ran Hitman Pro 3 to do a deep scan for viruses, revealing nothing except removal of PUPs and Internet Cookies. After the scan finished, and removed the unwanted material, the computer was restarted, and Windows initiated automatic updates as well (seven of them). The updates completed, and the machine restarted again. Upon reboot, it is stuck at a screen that only says "Please Wait..." I tell her to leave it overnight and see what it does. It has been approximately 20 hours since, and the computer screen still states "Please Wait." It is an ASUS laptop purchased from Walmart running Windows 8.1. What is there that I can do? Is it safe to do shut it down by the power button?

With prices falling because of the Maxwell NVIDIA cads, you probably could get a GTX 760 for $199.99 USD. But like stated in previous comments, if possible, Pick up the Radeon R9 290. Based off of average rating from Newegg, either the ASUS or XFX models.

Most of the GTX 970s are the same. I'd pick up whichever one is in stock, whenever they are in stock. But IMO, pick up an EVGA or an MSI if you can.

So call me biased, stupid, whatever. All of which may be true, but I wanted to get a discussion going regarding the experiences I've had, and those my friends have had with AMD drivers for their GPUs. Feel free to add input and your experiences. First off, I want to start off with what I've run into at my local community college that I attend... You'd imagine that a state-owned college would put some money and some thought into their computer systems, right? Yeah, let's go with that. Most of the systems that are being used are Dell OptiPlex 9010 desktop PCs, loaded with an Intel Core i5 3570 @ 3.4 GHz. Not bad, probably the only good thing that the school thought of. Some systems have an i7 3770 in them, but those are scarce. The standard 8GB DDR3, yada yada yada... Ideally, these would be running Intel HD Graphics 4000. Ha, they decided to load it with an AMD Radeon HD7470. Okay, so it has dedicated graphics. Neat. One problem, Deep Freeze is installed. For those who haven't heard of that, it's a software that restores the PC to a certain restore point after it is shut down. The way the college has it, it's set to factory default, with maybe two or three programs installed additionally. So basically drivers and Windows updates are eliminated. Which brings me to a major complaint. THE AMD DRIVERS SUCK! For this particular set of computers, the AMD Catalyst drivers constantly crash in the most basic situations LIKE WEB BROWSING. It's pathetic! Now, to one of my friend's cases... For Christmas in 2013 he got an ASUS Radeon R9 280X. Supposed to be a fantastic card, right? Well, he ran into an issue. Artifacts, crashes, and crashes. The card even shorted out some of his components, so he had to RMA half of his build. He sent off his card via RMA to ASUS (given it was properly packaged, and protected). ASUS sent it back, saying nothing was wrong with it, and they put it in a box. Was it in an anti-static bag or in a protected environment? Ha, no. He even claims that strangely, it smelled like someone had spilled Ramen on it... he tried it again when all of his components came back. Same result. He sent it off again, with no success. ASUS refused to replace the card. From reviews that I've seen, other R9 280X users have had problems with all of the brands, but specifically the ASUS model. It seems to me that AMD is throwing the support for the R9 280X out the window and not releasing any [working] patches in the drivers (correct me if I'm wrong, I haven't heard from my friend regarding his drivers). So with the announcement of the R9 3XX series cards, AMD is trying to pounce back at NVIDIA's GTX 970, 980, and even the 960 (whenever it comes out). Will AMD fix the issues of the R9 2XX series, or will they fall further in the rut in the battle of the GPU world? I'm hoping to see a comeback because it gives NVIDIA competition and keeps the prices from skyrocketing.

After becoming lost in all of the arguments over a fix to the severe frame drop... I'm really hoping the patch to fix the severe frame drops comes soon, because I really love the Far Cry series, and FC4 is disappointing me daily. Like Linus said, they just "keep on digging..."

I'm noticing this issue as well in 1080p. For me, when I don't use V-sync, I ran the game fine (which was making my way to the first bell tower). Saw over 80fps on Ultra w/o MSAA. Once I turned on V-sync, that's when I saw the frame drops into the 30-40 range. It shocks me because I have a GTX 970 running in my rig with a 4770k. I will test it without V-sync on and see if I get the frame drops.