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59 minutes ago, GuiltySpark_ said:

RMA/Return/TCL service, it sounds like. 

Unfortunately the thing is just over three years old and TCL only give a 24 month warranty, so RMA not available.  I'll reach out to TCL technical support and see if they have a local technician who could check it out.

Hi all,

Using a TCL 55".  I got into the service menu by highlighting the contrast option and entering 9735 on the remote and it gives this information (don't know if it helps at all):

SW NO: V8-R851T02-LF1V363.015392

Project Name: 55P715K

Panel Name: UD_ST5461D12_4_TCONLESS

SIACP Version: 10.1

C4p Version: Null

It's got an issue where almost the whole screen has a mesh pattern over it, it's really hard to make it out but it's like a grid pattern with X's inside the grid.  I've tried googling this and can't find anything and it's really difficult to take a picture of it because the mesh is so small.  I have a set of calibrated Mitutoyo vernier callipers and they appear to be maybe 0.5mm wide.

The mesh/ grid covers almost the entire screen except around the perimeter, there's an approx. 5.0mm gap between the borders of the mesh and the borders of the screen.  The image in the clear border area is perfectly normal in terms of appearance.

Anyone have a clue what has happened and if it can be fixed or whether the TV is now broken?

Troubleshooting already done:

Factory reset from normal menu = didn't fix,

Factory reset from service menu = didn't fix,

Tried cleaning and re-installing GPU drivers = didn't fix,

Tried brand new 8K HDMI cable (instead of DP) = didn't fix,

Tried brank new DP cable = didn't fix,

Tried a different GPU = didn't fix,

Tried a different HDMI input = didn't fix,

Tried a different PC into all three HDMI inputs = didn't fix.

On 4/16/2021 at 11:36 AM, Piecku said:

What is the first image supposed to show us?

RIP sorry didn't log back on until now and didn't realise I messed up that pic so bad.  It was supposed to show that it only cleared the case fans and NZXT USB hub by millimetres.  It was tighter than a ducks butthole inside the case.

16 minutes ago, curiousmind34 said:

Surely installing a d15 cant be that hard....

To be honest I didn't think starting out that I would have used the stock cooler for so long.  It works pretty good though and handles the small overclock I made on the CPU just fine.

Whoopsies I meant to type 2080 Ti, my bad.  Also, for the record: I love tentacle porn.

Original build thread: here

Well I upgraded from the Palit RTX 2090 Ti to an MSI RTX 3090 SUPRIM X.  I have had an extremely busy time since I first built my PC and I have went from wanting to custom water loop my first rig to now I am just upgrading the GPU as a stop-gap until I have the spare time and consummate number of F's to devote to a whole new build.

Just thought I would show you how it looks now.  The only issue that I had was that the 2080 Ti only needed one PCIe 8-pin to double 8-pin cable and I couldn't be bothered re-doing my back-end cable management so I just stuck another cable in through the cable slot and stuffed the excess cable into the cavity.  Forgive my tragic cable management in the front but I just wanted it done.

Another small issue is that the NZXT USB hub I had didn't have anywhere to go so I pushed it up against the back of the fan cage and it cleared the card by a few millimetres.  Will do a benchmark on UserBenchmark to see how much better the 3090 is over my 2080 Ti.

18 hours ago, VeganJoy said:

nah b550 and x570 will be able to fully utilize zen 3 features and will likely be the final am4 series of boards. theres a chance that we have a generation of crossover boards between ddr4 and ddr5 but we dont know yet. i personally wouldnt get a gigabyte board as the msi and asus boards are nicer but thats a you thing. 

 

if youll be doing heavy video editing and need a ridiculously fast 10-20gbps scratch disk then yes. otherwise theres no discernible difference between these utlra fast ssds and a cheap pcie 3.0 one, or even a sata one for games tbh

 

would also recommend waiting a little bit on ram as gskill is coming out with 4000c16 2x16gb ram kits in all their major lineups, you could get two sets of those and itd be kickass

In all honesty the most intensive thing I would be doing is rendering in AutoCAD or REVIT, I sometimes do some video editing but it's very seldom now that I can just pay people on Fiverr. 

On 9/28/2020 at 4:03 PM, boggy77 said:

you can keep your current x470 board, what's limiting your ram speed is your cpu, not the board.

wait for 4000 series

ram sweetspot for 3000 series is 3600, with 4000mhz you'll have to run them at 3600.

maybe for 4000 series, the infinity fabric will be able to take 4000mhz.

 

On 9/28/2020 at 4:30 PM, VeganJoy said:

bruh

 

by the time you build this, gskill may have their 2x16gb 4000c16 kits out, chances are that you can get them to 3733c14 or something ridiculous. with two sets you might be limited to 3600c14/c15 which would still be stupid fast for 64gb. given the memory performance of renoir apus, zen 3 will likely break 2000mhz fclk if not higher. maybe get the xtreme or a godlike for that sorta crazy memory stuff.

 

also, you could get two 980 pros or those sabrents that are coming out soon, 7000mbps read and 5000mbps write or something silly. or maybe two 970 pros before they stop making 2 bit mlc drives.

Well I think you are both right that I should just wait for the 4000 series processors to drop, I assume that the motherboard I picked would need to be changed up at the same time to make the best use of them?  

I really, really like the look of the Samsung drives, I will definitely switch those in instead.  At these speeds is there a point to putting them into RAID?

Budget (including currency): £7,500 (max.)

Country: United Kingdom

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: nothing particularly intensive

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 

Well, the new RTX 3000 series cards have got my juices going.  I was actually going to upgrade from my X470 build to X570 when the ASRock Aqua boards were launched but I couldn't get one, I didn't realise they were only 1,000 of them made worldwide!  This won't be getting built until December as most of the budget will be coming from a Christmas bonus.  Right now I am looking for discussion on the components and what could be swapped in or out due to incompatibility issues.  I wanted to get four DIMMs of RAM to work at max frequency in my X470 build but they would never be stable, I had to drop two out so I am hoping I won't need to with X570.

Here is what I have picked so far, please let me know your opinions:

CASE:  Phanteks Enthoo 719 Full Tower DRGB Case - Gunmetal Grey (£180),

MOTHERBOARD:  Gigabyte X570 AORUS MASTER (£400),

CHIPSET COOLING:  EKWB EK-Quantum Momentum Chipset AORUS X570 - Plexi (£40),

CPU:  AMD Ryzen 9 3950X (if 4950X is released will swap with that) (£690),

CPU COOLING:  EKWB EK-Quantum Momentum AORUS X570 Master D-RGB - Plexi (£140),

RAM:  Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO Black 32GB 4,000MHz DDR4 (placeholder only until someone can recommend a better kit) (£335),

RAM COOLING BLOCK:  EKWB EK-RAM Monarch X4 - Nickel (£45),

RAM COOLING PLATES:  EKWB EK-RAM Monarch Module - Black (2 x £30 = £60),

GPU 01:  Nvidia RTX 3090 (£1,400),

GPU 01 COOLING:  EKWB EK-Quantum Vector RTX 3080/3090 D-RGB - Nickel + Plexi (£160),

GPU 01 BACKPLATE:  EKWB EK-Quantum Vector RTX 3070/3080/3090 Backplate - Black (£40),

GPU 02:  Nvidia RTX 3090 (£1,400),

GPU 02 COOLING:  EKWB EK-Quantum Vector RTX 3080/3090 D-RGB - Nickel + Plexi (£160),

GPU 02 BACKPLATE:  EKWB EK-Quantum Vector RTX 3070/3080/3090 Backplate - Black (£40),

PSU:  Corsair AX1600i full modular 80+ titanium (£480),

SSD 01:  Gigabyte AORUS M.2 (2280) PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD - 1TB (£170),

SSD 02:  Gigabyte AORUS M.2 (2280) PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD - 1TB (£170),

WATER PUMP/ RESERVOIR:  EKWB EK-Quantum Kinetic TBE 300 D5 PWM D-RGB (£175),

RADIATOR 01: EKWB EK-CoolStream SE 360 (Slim Triple)  (£70),

RADIATOR 02: EKWB EK-CoolStream SE 420 (£90),

RADIATOR 01 FANS:  EK-Vardar X3M 120ER D-RGB - Black (3 x £25 = £75),

RADIATOR 02 FANS:  EK-Furious Vardar EVO 140 BB (3 x £20 = £60).

Those above come to £6,290 but by time I throw in fluid, hard tubes, fittings, thermal compound and fan cables it will probably come out to £6,500.  I can go more on RAM but I am unsure of the platform limitations to be honest.

I can understand OP's reason for doing it: because they can.  Simple as that.

I am currently waiting until my Christmas bonus drops then I am going balls deep on a new £6,000 - £7,500 build.  When I do my current PC will go to the first decent bid as it won't be used anymore.  I got two years out of her and she still runs great, but I love my overpowered PCs for playing Crusader Kings II.

On 9/20/2019 at 11:27 PM, SpookyCitrus said:

With that sort of budget just for ram you can get a 64GB kit of 3600mhz if you wanted or a C14 Lat 32GB kit. But Trident Z Neo is supposed to be pretty decent and made "specifically" for Ryzen 3000 and X570 systems. However I personally haven't tried it and I don't know much about it's availability outside the US.

https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820232863?Description=trident z neo 3600mhz&cm_re=trident_z_neo_3600mhz-_-20-232-863-_-Product

 Corsair Vengeance LPX is also a great overclocking ram, I've been able to get it pretty high with decent timings, and best of all it's very reasonably priced.

Whats your take of these?

https://www.technextday.co.uk/memory/64gb-16gbx4-gskill-trident-z-ddr4-pc428800-3600mhz-c17-f43600c17q64gtz?sort=p.price&order=DESC

I’ve never used Newegg do they ship to UK without import taxes? 

On 9/19/2019 at 5:39 PM, Fasauceome said:

What is the performance target of this rig?

When working from home:

1. Finite element analysis,

2. REVIT,

3. Maya,

4. Some video edit/render in Adobe Premiere.

When having fun at home:

5. Max settings 4K (locked 60fps since my home TV I run on doesn’t go higher anyway) w/HDR gaming, I have an RTX 2080Ti but I am unimpressed with ray tracing so I don’t care about that anymore.

On 9/19/2019 at 5:41 PM, SpookyCitrus said:

Jesus Christ that's a $1000 motherboard. X570 has been known in most cases to allow for higher overclocks than X470 with most ram however I don't know for sure if you'll be able to get to your target of 3733mhz with a 3200 kit, the price difference between 3200mhz and 3600mhz isn't too far off. You could sell your 3200mhz kit and go for a 3600mhz kit if  you 100% need those speeds.

Any recommendations for a 32GB kit? Budget I can do probably around £600 mark.

On 9/19/2019 at 5:41 PM, 5x5 said:

No way to be sure but overclocking past 3733 is actually going to end up reducing performance slightly since you'll go in 2:1 IF operation

I am really sorry I don’t know what this means.

On 9/19/2019 at 5:50 PM, Jurrunio said:

Maybe? We dont know whether you're currently limited by the memory kit or the memory controller in the CPU or the board itself. Overclocking is never guaranteed.

I could get 3433 MHz on all 4 DIMMs stable while keeping T1 and almost stock timings. Moving to 3733MHz was unstable on 4 DIMMs even if I changed to T2. Moving to 2 DIMMs I could get 3733MHz on T1 and stock timings. Guys at Toms Hardware have got better but I couldn’t reach it.

On 9/19/2019 at 6:15 PM, Jurrunio said:

Srsly If he goes for a $400 (or maybe $300) board instead, there's enough money to get a 3950X later instead of the 3900X, and a 32GB 3600MHz CL16 2-DIMM kit.

I don’t have a problem waiting the extra month till 3950X comes out and paying the little extra it will be, but I thought it had the same number of PCIe lanes so wouldn’t help with RAM speeds or am I wrong?

Hi all,

I am going to be upgrading my current rig and I have a quick question: does moving to a 3900X with an X570 board (specifically ASRock X570 AQUA) allow me to overclock my current RAM higher? My current limitation was due to the motherboard/ cpu and not the RAM modules themselves as being used with only 2 sticks the frequency was easily 3733+ compared to the mere 3400 using 4 sticks. 

Current Spec:

Gigabyte AORUS X470 Gaming 7

AMD Ryzen 2 2700X

Gigabyte AORUS 32GB (4 x 8GB DIMMs) DDR4 3200 (OC to 3400)

Upgrade Spec:

ASRock X570 AQUA

AMD Ryzen 3 3900X

Gigabyte AORUS 32GB (4 x 8GB DIMMs) DDR4 3200 (OC to whatever possible)

Sorry but as you guys know I am a complete dumbass when it comes to how shit is compatible with each other. 

Hi all, 

I came across a little quirk in one of my old benchmark runs on UserBenchmark:

https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/12659435

I noticed that the drive came in on the 39th percentile with the following:

2,494 MB/s sequential read,

2,255 MB/s sequential write. 

I was surprised because I thought my motherboard could support the full capability of the drive (3,500 read and 2,500 write). So I ran Samsungs' benchmarking software (Wizard) and got:

3,412 MB/s sequential read,

2,308 MB/s sequential write.

Is this difference because of the way UserBenchmark do their benchmark or did my drive just have a bad day then? 

Now time for probably a stupid question, but since the PCIe 3.0 x4 bus can handle up to 3,940 MB/s is there a way to overclock or tickle the Samsung drive up to that limit? It isn't far off it. 

Ok consider this post answered by myself because for some reason I started swapping round all four modules and powering back on and incredibly after 6 permutations the system post again and bios shows all 32GB so what the fuck actually happened these electrics and their angry pixies leave me in constant bewilderment

Tried taking out all the ram sticks now and it didn’t change anything except give another error code “46” and wouldn’t turn off again using the power button, all that happened was the fans spun faster wtf

Hi all,

Was trying to tinker with ram timings in bios and the computer now fails to post giving me these error codes:

dE, Ad, C2, 10, 01 and 60.

Ive tried resetting the CMOS but it still doesn’t post, again giving the same codes.

Anyone know how to fix this?

OK running it in compatibility mode has entered a whole new world of problems. 

Constantly getting bootstrap error, .dat error, directories error, etc pop-ups now, tried taking compatibility mode off and still causes the same issues, even done clean installs again and still having the same issues. 

My god why does it have to be complicated getting an old game to work.

26 minutes ago, -rascal- said:

SWAT 3 first released in 2001?

It could be hardware/software incompatibility due to the game written in code that is 17 years old.

For an example, O.G. Command and Conquer (from Windows 95/98 LOL) is glitchy with modern hardware.

 

You might need to run the game using Compatibility Mode.

 

 

How can you run compatibility mode with a game through steam? If I right click the desktop icon it doesn't give me the usual options.

I have a problem with trying to run SWAT 3 from my steam library, so I titled this as a graphics problem, but I don't think it is the hardware which is an issue. 

When I first started up the game on my new PC it played in green instead of full range colour, I thought this was a resolution issue because the game was made to all the old PC monitor standard sizes. So I picked 1024 x 728 in the games resolution settings then exited and changed the resolution of my display output using the nvidia control panel to match this and it worked - it started playing the game in full colour but the game was extremely stutter and laggy, and well you can see my build specs below so again I don't think it's because my PC is too underpowered for a game from 2004.

I went into the in-game graphics settings again and noticed I could change the graphics from "Graphics Driver" to "Software", I picked software and the game immediately started playing very smoothly and I got an hour or so into it. After restarting my computer though, no matter what I do I cannot get the game to open again. It gets to it's loading screen and then just closes itself and the task ends in task manager.

Any ideas? 

15 minutes ago, voiha said:

Wow.. just wow, happy for you !

Thank you, you too mate.

Not that anyone cares, but here's mine:

I started out working as a Roads Design Engineer for a Local Authority (Civic/ Regional level Government) while I went to University part-time to get a Bachelour of Science (with Honours) Degree in Civil Engineering. One day I got really bored of spending my entire working day designing car parks, local roads and maybe the occasional small footbridge and wanted a little more variance in my day. 

It was then that I moved to a Contractor as a Site Engineer (later promoted to Site Agent/ Site Manager) and I was very lucky that my employer continued to allow me to go part time to University. I left this job because I was playing wingman/ moral support for a friend at University who was going to an open evening at a Consulting Engineers but didn't want to go alone so I went with him and got talking to the Regional Director for Structures at the event and was offered a job there and then and I accepted it because at the time they were getting extremely prestigious jobs and Civil/ Structural Engineering was at it's pre-2009 financial collapse peak and there were opportunities to be seconded to the American offices and it is my dream to emigrate to the United States. 

However the 2009 financial collapse happened and I was made redundant (unemployed) from the Consulting Engineers after being there for almost two years. I can't really complain though because I got some incredible and condensed experience in that role. As it was during the financial collapse I struggled to find a job in Civil Engineering or Structural Engineering because the job pool was flooded with very highly qualified Engineers but no jobs for them and you had cases where fully Chartered Engineers were applying for Graduate Engineer roles as it meant they would be in a job and happily accepted the massive reduction in wages for that. 

I was unemployed for two months before I couldn't stand being unemployed anymore and took the first job I could find which was with B&M Bargains (a low-cost discount store in the UK) and I hated it. Retail work is truly terrible. I used my spare time to apply to other jobs and by chance in a conversation with one of my ex-lecturers at University I was given the details of my current employer and told they were looking for a Mechanical Engineer, so I bought a copy of "The Mechanical Engineer's Pocketbook" and I was amazed at just how much overlapping skills there is between Civil/Structural and Machanical Engineering. I applied for the job, got an interview and then the job. 

I've been working here now for almost 10 years and been eventually promoted over time to Technical Director where my job now contains very little design element. I oversee and manage a team of Engineers, Technicians and Laboratory Assistants who carry out the technical functions of the company. I really enjoy my job and I have been very lucky that my employer has allowed me over these years to complete Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy postgraduate Degrees and during that time I have been professionally recognised as first an Incorporated Engineer and then later as a Chartered Engineer.

I have been very fortunate in my working life and I love what I do now.

Mixed feelings: on one hand I would now need to sit down to pee but on the other hand I could probably have some fun as an overpowered megalomanical psychotic Nazi loli I guess. 

1 minute ago, CamoFlage said:

Nice Build. I like it!

Thanks mate 

Hi all, 

I am going to pitch a program, its functions and what I expect from it and hopefully someone can tell me what kind of programming level someone would need to be to accomplish it. Hopefully it is nothing too complicated and something I could learn and create over the course of say 12 to 18 months. 

Essentially I want to take a list of all my companies part numbers and then our next biggest five competitors part numbers and put them into a database that essentially matches them equivalent part for equivalent part. The user interface of the program will simply be that the user types into a search box any of the five competitors part numbers and it provides my companies equivalent part number.

As part numbers can be complicated with spaces and different characters it would be nice if the search function returned "likely" competitor part numbers in the instance where a user has mistyped the part number or is mistaken (but close to correct) and can then click one of the suggested part numbers which would then follow back into generating my companies equivalent part number. 

It would be really nice if when my part number popped up it would also give a simple table showing some pertinent technical information (such as mechanical properties, chemical composition, etc) and maybe a jpg line drawing of the product with some basic dimensions along with a link that when pressed would open a webpage to the product page on our website. 

How complicated would this be to make? It wouldn't have to have a flashy UI, it simply has to be clean, simple and functional. 

Thanks in advance guys