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Guys, I have been out of the hardware game for many years, i wanted to dip my toe back in the water, i was considering fitting an AIO on my Intel i7 6700K, right now the CPU has a stock heatsink and Fan. But been considering the Corsair Hydro 100i RGB Platinum, Hydro Series, 240 mm Radiator (Dual LL120 RGB PWM Fans, Advanced RGB Lighting and Fan Control with Software) Liquid CPU Cooler However i am not entirely sure how many fans i need, there seems to be quite a big selection on sizes of fans and quantity of fans. No plans to overclock at all, just wanted something primarily quieter. Can anyone offer some advice? Cheers John

Hi All, So after the comments above, I have decided to just upgrade what I have. Starting with RAM & new Case.. Thinking:- Memory - Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 3200 MHz Case - Cooler Master MasterCase MC500M Midi-Tower Black, Grey computer case My next upgrade in the next 1-2 months will be GFX Card - MSI Nvidia RTX2060 Super Gaming X 8GB Fan GDDR6 DP/HDMI PCI Express Graphics Card AIO Cooler - This is the one I am not sure of, Looking for some advise on this, thinking one of the Corsair RGB coolers, its mainly to make it really quiet...Whats peoples suggestrions - Was thinking the below:- Corsair Hydro 100i RGB Platinum, Hydro Series, 240 mm Radiator (Dual LL120 RGB PWM Fans, Advanced RGB Lighting and Fan Control with Software) Liquid CPU Cooler However i am not entirely sure how many fans i need, there seems to be quite a big selection on sizes of fans and quantity of fans. No plans to overclock at all, just wanted something primarily quieter. Any assistance appreciated and thank you for all the responses so far

To be honest, I am not unhappy with the performance at all. My main plan initially was to upgrade the ram to 32GB as i wanted to build some small Virtual machines... I wanted to learn linux command line so wanted to build a couple of VM's using different distro's However, when i bought what I assumed was identical 2x8GB hyper X i started to get really weird memory problems, machine crashing, then not powering up. I returned the 2 DIMM's I ordered and got a replacement thinking that the DIMM's were faulty, however they had exactly the same issue. I swapped sockets between old and new, but still was getting weird errors..So eventually gave up. My machine has been stable for the last 3months since returning to the old DIMM's. I don't do much gaming on my PC, usually the occasional Diablo 3, WOW and I use bluestack's for Android gaming. I really fancied jazzing it up with some RGB, the case I have doesn't support it and i don't think an AIO would fit. also wanted a 3.1 Gen2 USB-C front port as my board supports 3.1Gen 2 and I bought a samsung 1TB external SSD which connects via USB-C and supports 10Gpbs, this is a nice to have, not a must.

Hi All, So right now here is what I have Novatech Eclipse High Performance Mid Tower Case - https://www.novatech.co.uk/products/novatech-eclipse-high-performance-mid-tower-case/b4020..html Intel i7 6700k MSI M7 Gaming Motherboard 2x8 DDR 3200 HyperX Dimm's Standard Off the shelf cooler MSI GTX 9600 2x 512 Samsung EVO 970 NVME M2 HDD's 1x 4TB Seagate SATA HDD Corsair RM650x or 750x...Cant remember off the top of my head. So my dilemma is to either slowly upgrade my current setup over the next few months...I want to play about with some RGB AIO cooling, ARGB case fans, considering replacing my 2x 8GB HyperX with 2x 8GB Corsair 3200 RGB dimm's & eventually to replace everything with the below Ryzen 3700x CPU MSI Carbon X570 Motherboard MSI 2060 Super or MSI 2070 Super GPU Coolermaster MC500M 4x 8GB 3200 Corsair RGB DIMM's ARGB Case Fan's ARGB AIO Cooler So my question to you all is, Is it worth replacing components over time? Initially was going to put everything i have into the Coolermaster MC500M case, then replace the AIO cooler, then add Case fans, then replace the DIMM's and GPU. Then eventually replace the Motherboard and CPU. I think my CPU and board is really good. so was going to leave that last. What are peoples thoughts? Cheers John

Guys, Right now i have a 3 year old Mid Tower Case which has 3 year old bits in it, i7 6700K, 16GB DDR4, MSI Z170A Gaming M7 motherboard, Geforce 960 GFX card. A lot of this rig is still very fast to this day, but I wanted to get a new case to initially transfer all this kit over to..With the longer term planning of replacing various components with up to date kit Must Have's - RGB, Front Panel USB 3.1 Gen2(preferably USB-C port), Windowed Side, Room for a RGB AIO cooling setup and a few RGB fans Anyone have any recommendations? Cheers John

Porina, do you have any thoughts on above?

according to RAMMon my Kingston DIMM's are Maximum Clock 1333 Mhz 2666 Bandwidth - PC4-21300 Row of Addressing Bits - 15 Column of Addressing Bits - 10 Banks - 26 Ranks - 2 Voltage 1.2V CAS Latencies Supported - 9,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18 Timings - 15-17-17-35 MAx Frequency 1333 This is why i was hoping for some help, I really dont want to buy 4 DIMM's, only wanted to get an additional 2, but all the settings i have supplied just confused the issue.

Thanks for the fast response, I would love to agree with you. But I have had some issues with RAM on this setup, I currently have 2x8gb Kingston Hyper Fury DD4 DIMM's, which have been working solidly for 2 years, I then bought another pair of the same memory to take my machine to 32GB and all I had was crashing problems, not booting..etc...No matter what slots the memory was in, I RMA'd the 2 new sticks thinking i had been unlucky and got 2 faulty DIMM's, got 2 new ones and had exactly the same issues again. I was concerned that my slots originally unused slots were faulty, but I put my existing working DIMM's in these slots and the machine has been working for months. So I thought it was sort of timing/config issue...Hence the question Cheers John

Hi All, Looking for a little advise, I have a Intel i7 6700K CPU on a MSI Z170A Gaming M7 motherboard. I am looking at buying 4x 8GB DIMM's - Corsair DDR4 Vengeance LPX Red, PC4-19200 (2400), Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 14-16-16-31, XMP 2.0, 1.2V This is a bit black magic to me, just hoping someone could advise if this is the correct memory I am ordering that will be supported by the processor and motherboard Any guidance would be appreciated Cheers John

As previously stated, it would be a good idea to take a screenshot of your disk management before the USB key is inserted, then insert the USB key and take another screenshot, there is a possibility that when u insert your USB key, its trying to grab a drive letter that your laptop is already using. If you take the screenshot of disk management with the USB key inserted u should be able to see it in the list, and then you can change the drive letter if thats what the issue is.

Yep. I have synapse 3 on my desktop...Just struggling to get my head around setting it all up properly

Guys, Are there any good guides on setting Chroma up on Multiple devices? I have 4 devices on my desk that are all Chroma and wanted to get Chroma sync'd on all of them, for example wave to run from left to right on the devices in order of their positioning. Cant quite get my head round it Cheers John

It was a stock build, so dont believe its actually been overclocked. But your comment about the DIMM's being slightly different certainly sounds true, as the memory supplied with the machine was 18months to a year before I bought the second set

so my initial thoughts were clean the RAM slots with a can of air and/or an ESD Brush 1st, then download memtest86 onto a USB key, test the RAM in my existing slots on a multiple loop, if this runs clear, then shutdown and put the RAM in the other 2 slots, I am guessing i can do this....fingers crossed.and repeat the memtest process, that should then allow me with a certain level of confidence prove the slots are all good and the 2 existing DIMM's are both good. Then I will order another set of 2x8GB DD4 HyperX RAM Thanks for the reply Warelf....Also love the fact you called me JV, thats what everyone normally calls me

Guys, I have a rig which is now a couple of years old, i7 6 or 7 series, MSI M7 Gaming Motherboard, it has 2 Hyper Fury 8GB Dimm's in slots 1 and 3 if memory is correct. I bought an additional 2x 8GB Hyper Fury DDR Kit which in my mind should have been plug and it just works, however, sticking the DIMM's which were detected correctly in BIOS and Win 10, I started to get lots of weird issues, pc occasionally crashing, sometimes, it wouldnt power back on..etc..etc.. I took the 2 DIMM's out and all was well again, so I got the new dimm's replaced by Amazon as faulty. Stuck the 2 new dimm's in and tried again, everything seemed okay for a day or so, then I started getting the weird issues again. I ended up just returning the DIMM's and got a refund. But I am at a point where I need more RAM as I am trying to run some virtual machines on my PC for training that I have to do for work. I am wondering if anyone could give me some thoughts on the above, possible things to test or prove. Any guidance would be very much appreciated