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Shane Martin

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About Shane Martin

  • Birthday Mar 25, 1992

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  1. Thank you for all your replies, you guys are awesome. Bit the bullet and going this route:
  2. Hi, thanks for the response, currently have an H80i GT cooler.
  3. Hi all, Currently rocking a Ryzen 1700x, Crosshair VI Hero motherboard, 32GB DDR4 (2666Mhz) RAM and RTX 3070 TI. I'm looking at possible upgrades as I want a bit more performance, and was looking at the following options: * Stay with AM4, upgrade CPU to a 5800X3D (confirmed compatible with BIOS 8503). * Upgrade to AM5, upgrade CPU, motherboard and ram. What would you guys suggest, as AM4 is now not getting any further upgrade paths for the future because of AM50. Kind regards, Shane
  4. Hi all, I currently have a GTX 1080 8GB in my main rig, along with a 1700x on a Asus Crosshair VI Hero motherboard. In DirectX Diagnostic tool and in task manager, it is saying that it has 8GB of dedicated memory, 8GB of shared memory and 16GB of GPU memory in total. The question is, how do I turn this shared memory off / reduced it to 0 please? Kind regards, Shane Martin.
  5. Well, The thing I like about the 900 series is how much overclocking you can get out of them, they are beast. Link that into a nice looking design, and a good strong aftermarket cooling and you've got the potential for an amazing graphics card!
  6. Hey, sorry for late reply, Just went out to get a VGA monitor, can actually now boot into bios and happily overclocking like mad, had a sneaky suspicion that the tv was messing up the system. Thanks for the help guys! Really means a lot that a noob like me at building systems can come and ask foolish questions :) Thanks Again :D
  7. Yeah, it says press F2 or DEL to enter bios, held it down before i powered system on just in case i'm missing the timing interval you have to press. Just getting annoying though, been 3 weeks with this problem, never had it with my Gigabyte motherboard, but as i said i don't know if its a problem with the gfx card- tv. Thanks
  8. Hi guys, Wondered if I could get a little help. I'm currently got my rig hooked up from my graphics card to my tv via hdmi. I know this could just be down to the tv not supporting bios display, but everytime i try and boot into the bios all i get is a blank screen. I've even got a dvi-hdmi adapter which hasn't done anything. Quick Specs: FX-6200 @ 3.5 Ghz Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 Sapphire HD 7850 2GB O.C. 1 TB Seagate HDD. Generic DVD-RW Yes, as you can also see i'm having trouble with my processor too, but since i have no bios access i cannot determine whether the cpu is faulty or id i need to change settings. My question is this, if i got a monitor like the ACER S191HQLMB, and connected it via dvi cable to my system, do you think this would solve the black bios screen problem? Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance, Shane
  9. Yeah I've tried all that, guess it teaches me to not cheap out on a motherboard and a processor, this fx-6200 won't even do 4.4Ghz, but It's eother going to be down to the power delivery system of the motherboard or just the silicon lottery draw that i got a chip that works great at stock but not overclocked, as core 0 and 1 ( one bulldozer module) fails at that overclock. Going to make a few changes I think, this sound good?: Mobo to Gigabyte 990fxa-ud5 Graphic Card from Sapphire HD 7850 2GB OC to Sapphire HD 7950 3GB Vapour-X Case from Zalman Z11 to Coolermaster storm enforcer And my LCD Tv to Hanns G HL198DPB 19" monitor. Keeping the fx-6200 until either Steamroller is a viable upgrade with performance increases ect or go the intel route with a z77 mobo and a I5 3550K. Don't get me wrong, I can game good on the AMD platform, and they are turning the business around, but i just want a robust system which I'm not fixing errors all the time (Some my own stupid faults though). Thanks guys for the replies, you've been a great help :)
  10. Yeah I'm on BIOS 1602 which is the newest one, tried clearing cmos by changing the jumper and pulling the battery, no joy. Max overclock I've had it on is 4.4 Ghz no higher, i mean it's hardly doing anything right now when i'm typing this and it's only on 11 degrees celcius, so don't know. Thanks for all the help, Shane
  11. Hey guys, Well, finally updated my system (Using the word updated loosely) and switched out my motherboard to an Asus M5A97 LE V2.0 and my processor to the FX-6200. Only problem is i'm seeing core parking issues with core 0, and core 5 and 6 (One bulldozer module if i'm led to believe) fails P95 after a few minutes at 4.4 Ghz. I know that if i go into my main bios i could probably fix this, but even though i can get booted into windows if i try and get into the bios all i get is a black screen. I'm led to beleive this is a HDMI problem as thats whats hooking my pc to my t.v. My question is this, if i traded the HDMI-to-HDMI connection and got a DVI-to-HDMI cable would this allow me to get a displaying bios screen? Thanks in advance, Shane
  12. Isn't the TLB bug fix for the original phenom's and not the phenom II's, because I'm sure I can remember that the problem was with caching on the older phenom's which were fixed with the new phenom II's?
  13. Ahh you never know, AMD might have a little nest egg somewhere. See i would stick with the 965 as per core it's properly managed, something the piledriver-based cpu's are not. So stick with the 965, get an ssd, get a 7970, what motherboard should I look at getting then. And there's me toying with the idea of going the intel way but don't want to be seen as a traitor (Plus I've heard rumours of poor t.i.m application on the i.h.s) Hmmm decisions decisions.... Hope you feel better mate
  14. Yeah the 1tb hdd is a 7.2k drive, was going to do a raid with the two 3tb drives for games and applications ect. I was looking at the Silverstone Stryders, but since I live in the U.K and only really buy thing's off amazon.co.uk since i get free next day delivery they aren't available with amazon themselves, only independent sellers. I guess I could always keep the psu and ram I have now and wait until new processors and gpu's come out later this year, but I'm getting crashes in Far Cry 3 ect and tried everything to fix things like drivers and settings and it'll still crash, hence why I've decided to upgrade. Thanks for replying anyway mate, much appreciated!
  15. Hi, Just wondered if anyone could have a look over my planned upgrade to my system. Currently I'm running: AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE Gigabyte GA-78MLT-S2P Bios version F3 8GB Corsair XMS3 ram Sapphire HD 7850 2GB OC edition 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD OCZ OCZ600MXSP-UK ModXstream Pro 600w PSU Noctua NH-D14 cpu cooler Zalman Z11 case. This is what I'm thinking of upgrading to: AMD FX-8350 Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3 Crucial CT128M4SSD 128GB M4 SSD for boot drive 2x Seagate 3TB 7200 rpm Sata 3 hdd. Kingston HyperX 1600mhz 8GB (2X4) Corsair AX750 modular 80 plus gold psu. I'll wait for the new gpu's to come out to upgrade the 7850, doesn't seem viable to me to upgrade it when new gpu's are in the pipeline. I know for the price I could of gone for the I5-3570k but I'm more familiar with AMD set-ups and overclocking, but not a fan boy, as I see it it depends on what you want the system to do. Thinking the planned upgrade would be a viable gaming platform, even though most games would not run on all 8 'cores' but only utilize between 2-4. Thanks for the helps guys, Shane AMD FX-8350
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