Phil Cunningham

Hey Guys, I hope I am not breaking any rules by asking this, and if I am my apologies ill bring the post down asap! Does anyone have and leads on where I might get a replacement LGA1150 motherboard? My friend who is going through some rough times just had his motherboard conk out. Ive narrowed down everything else and its the only thing I can rule out other then a bad CPU but if it was a bad CPU I shouldn't be able to get anywhere. I live in the Okanagan Valley of BC canada and am willing to travel to grab one. Just trying to help a guy out. Thanks, Phil

I don't have an exact number for ambient temps, i usually keep the room cool, and there is an AC unit right above the tower. So ambient temps are never very high. The AIO is about 3 years old so a new one wouldn't be a bad idea. I suppose i am just on the fence. (I mean lets face it, who wants to spend 150-200 bucks if they don't NEED to, right? lol) But its always amazing to hear other peoples opinions on the subject. ?

I guess what my real question is, would i see enough of a loss in temps to warrant the purchase of a 150$ AIO. If i am only expected to see a 2 or 3 degree change, then its not worth it.

The case layout is as follows: 200mm intake fan located on the bottom front of the case 200mm exhaust fan on the top of the case 120mm exhaust AIO near the top of the case, close to the 200mm exhaust. If i go with the 240mm Radiator, it would take the place of the 200mm exhaust on the top of the case, and i would add a 120mm intake fan to provide some cool air feed closer to the Radiator. https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/legacy-products/cases/enforcer/

Hey Guys, So, with my income tax return i was able to purchase a PC upgrade to a Ryzen 7 3800x. Currently, i have a Corsair H80i v2 AIO attached to it. Stress testing showed my temp couldn't get over 81 degrees. (As they are rated for 100 degrees, 20 degree wiggle room seems fine) The Radiator has 2 fans in a push/pull configuration, and has a lot of airflow through the 120mm radiator. My question is, should i just keep this AIO, or would it be better to upgrade to a 240mm rad with 2 fans in a push configuration? Such as the Corsair H100i? The rad would have more surface area, but the airflow would be stepped down without the push/pull configuration. Thoughts on this?

ROFL!! Duct Tape.... I was thinking a hot glue gun is worse comes to worse... But i was hoping it wouldn't come to that lol

Hey Guys, Its that time again where i ask a really oddball question because finding information for this very specific question is.... well.... not working in my favor. I have a new motherboard, but looking to add a usb 3 expansion card so i can dump my old usb 2.0 hub. But i ran into an unforeseen problem. The Pcie 1x slot i want to use is under the graphics card. The only other slot available is a Pcie x16 on the bottom of the board. What i would like to do to keep airflow rolling is to bold the USB card in the single vertical slot i have, and just run a Pcie 1x riser to the 16x slot. Solves a lot of problems and is a cheap solution. The question i have is, without locks to hold the riser in place, will there be enough tension to keep the riser in place on its own? (IE, not slide out of the 16x slot, and not slip off the card itself) Ive never used such a cable, and i can't find anything about this issue, which may indicate its not an issue at all but i wanted to ask anyway. Thanks. Phil

PERFECT!! Thank you so much Mariushm!! Thats exactly the information i needed! =D I'll let him know!

Hey Mariushm, So if he wanted to go SLI, the x470 chipset is a better option? I am not sold on the x570 for him, just picked it as it boasted some improvements over the X470. Nothing make or break imo. But if SLI was not the goal, could i use a x570 with 2 cards in non SLI configuration without problems?

(My reason is to take work load off my CPU, which has worked fantastic for my purposes. Mind you i will re-evaluate that now that i have a 1080 as suggested. But with my 970/960 setup, i was getting much better frames in both recording and gaming vs just the 970 alone)

No idea. But that is what he has requested so i am looking to see if it is going to be a problem. (And honestly i would like to know this for my curiosity as well for future reference as i run 2 separate nvidia cards in my 9590 machine)

Hey guys, This is going to be a dumb question but... Do you need a motherboard that supports SLI to run 2 nvidia cards in NON-SLI configuration? Trying to build a machine for a friend, and x570 boards are insane expensive for something with SLI support, and if that's not needed to run 2 separate cards in non SLI format, then it makes my life so much easier. I have tried several google searches and for the life of me i can not get a simple "Yes" or "No" answer. Thanks, Phil

For the record, i am aiming for a Ryzen 7 3700x CPU. Maybe an i7-9700k. Something like that. But again, thats end goal.

Its not so much that i am attached to this CPU. If i had an option on hand, or if i had the money in pocket, i would toss it out and not think twice. I am glad everyone is concerned with my power bill, but the honest truth is, the power consumption isn't going to change anything for me. I have been running this CPU for 3 years now. Trying to justify to the wife "Hey, im going to dip into our savings and buy 400-500$ worth of hardware for my computer so we can save 10$ each month on the power bill!" Yeeeaaaahhhhh.... I get that it will eventually pay for itself, but if paying for itself takes 2 or 3 years, then its a little pointless when i am trying to replace everything in that time frame ANYWAY. As for selling the hardware i have, the motherboard will net me 100$. Cpu, 40$ to 60$. the GTX 970, 60$. And thats if i wait for someone willing to pay those prices. (those prices are from referencing Ebay and averaging whats available) So lets say that drops me 220$. Thats a motherboard. I still need to come up with 300$ for a CPU and another 100-200 for Ram. Meanwhile i now no longer have a computer cause i just sold the components. So while i am not disagreeing that replacing it all is the best solution, again i have to point out that its not an option. Selling all my stuff may net 1/3 of the cost of new parts, but that means i still need to come up with the other 2/3. Even second hand parts might break me at 50/50 but then i would be buying them knowing i would want to replace them again very soon, so im still throwing money out. The "I want to hold onto this setup for another 2 years" is simply a budget issue. Selling what i have won't get me to a point where i can afford to replace everything. So i would rather wait until i can afford something that will carry me for a few years, versus buying the bare minimum upgrade. I mean, if i could afford to replace everything, i wouldn't be asking for advice on how to squeeze a bit more out of this poor CPU! LOL! And if i can't get anymore out of it, then i am totally fine with that, but i don't know what i can try, so here i am. ? Long story short: Yes, replacing everything is the best option. Not arguing that point. But its not an option. Telling me to do so is... well... not helpful. (Simply saying "you can't get more out of it, give up now." is much more helpful.) But some here seem to think i might be able to, and i am really interested in hearing how. Might work. Might not. And, hey, if i do everything and waste a weekend tinkering and it was all for nothing, at least i can say "Hey! At least i learned about overclocking first hand!"

Awsome!! Thank you guys for the responses, its really appreciated. =D So i took a peek into my BIOS last night just to get a better idea of what needs to be done. I noticed that my turbo was disabled, so i decided to try an experiment. I enabled turbo, double checked that all power saving was disabled, and fired it up. I then opened windows task manager to just see what the cpu was reporting, and then booted up AMD overdrive. I set the turbo to 6 cored (The max allowed in the program) and ran a stress test with CPU-Z. Now with my old Phenom II x6, this would put all cores at turbo clock and maintain. With the 9590 it stayed at 4.7Ghz for 10 seconds, then all cores would drop to 1,3Ghz for a moment before climbing up to 4.7Ghz and the cycle repeated. I found this very odd as if nothing else, if it could not turbo at all it should have just stayed at stock speed. (At least i would THINK it should) but for all 8 cores to bottom out like that seemed very strange. (Anyone have any thoughts on that??) I rebooted with the same BIOS settings still in place. Left Overdrive off and ran the stress and it maintained the 4.7Ghz. As of right now, the BIOS is configured to the baseline of the guide i first posted minus turbo control which i left on. (Ill disable that once i get in there and start tweaking voltages.) So if i am understanding everyone correctly, my first step is going to be drop the voltages to the point where it can still maintain 4.7Ghz under load. Then attempt to step up the clock speed multiplier in 0.5 increments. If instability occures, bump up the voltages and try again. Question: should i drop the voltages as far as i can first? Or would it make more sense to set them at, say 1.45v and then attempt to step up the clock? While i am at it, the guide was talking about the "Vcore loadline calibration" option in the BIOS and changing its settings around. (Its options are Auto, Low, Standard, Medium and Extreme. Can anyone explain what exactly this is doing? Should i be worried about this?