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07_Sev

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Limburg, The Netherlands
  • Interests
    Electrical Engineering, PC and console gaming though I preffer PC
  • Biography
    Electrical engineering bachelor student.
  • Occupation
    entrepenuer

System

  • CPU
    AMD FX-8350
  • Motherboard
    MSI 970 gaming motherboard
  • RAM
    2x8GB HyperX DDR3 RAM
  • GPU
    Nvidia GTX 970
  • Case
    Corsair spec-02
  • Storage
    1SATA SSD 120GB (C) 2 SATA SSDs (E & Linux) 1 SATA HDD (D)
  • PSU
    EVGA NEX 650 gold
  • Cooling
    stock
  • Sound
    headset plugged into a ps4 controller

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  1. Before you jump in, do realize that 3d printing is not easy. AT ALL. You WILL have to sink a lot of time into getting to know your 3d printer inside and out. You'll have to know about a bizillion different setting that can all massively impact your 3d printer's performance. You'll also have to carefully calibrate your print so your filement sticks to the build plate and not leave an elephant's foot. This calibrating has to happen with sub millemeter precision and accuracy.\ Personally I use a creality ender 3 pro. But I reccomend watching a lot of reviews and 3d printing tutorials online first before going out to buy your own.
  2. NGL this controller design looks super interesting. I'd love to try it but I was raised on PC so I don't really have that much analog stick experience. And the xp I do have is me being terrible at call of duty and battlefield, just longing for keyboard and mouse support on consoles. I'm also not familiar with Orbital Race. And last but not least, I live in the Netherlands. It's probaly quite costly to ship the controller to the other side of the world. Perhaps if you could go to r/ElectricalEngineering someone closer to you might want to have a look and give you excelent feedback.
  3. A complete shutdown means you're triggering the PSU's overload protection. The average continues current listed by the manufacturers of both PSU, CPU and GPU manufacturers are just that, averages. Unfortunatly it's not that simple. Sometimes your GPU or CPU will draw way more power than it is rated for in a very short time. If your PSU can't handle that it will shut down and power off the device with it in order to protect itself and the rest of your components. Edit: Don't worry, as long as you don't have a gigabyte power supply and a powersupply from a reputable manufacturer (thermaltake is decent enough I think) your components are not at risk for blowing up. Your data is though if your disk is writing a file at the moment of the shut down. That file might be lost for ever since it couldn't complete the write.
  4. Overclock is unstable.Lowering or disabling it should fix the issue.
  5. You can just pick any simple speaker or buzzer and put them on the PWM pins of the arduino uno (The pins with the ~ next to them) TBH, the code here could be way more sefisticated. But have you already looked at digital kitchen timers? It looks like they will fulfill your requirements with the physical buttons and everything and is way easier, less fragile and probaly cheaper to use.
  6. I've got the MSI 970 gaming motherboard.
  7. I found the issue. I had a leaking capacitor near the cpu power delivery system Edit: The motherboard in question was the MSI 970 gaming motherboard.
  8. Hello everyone, This isn't as much of a review of a single product but a long term review of msi products as a whole. I've been using MSI products since my first build about 6 years ago. I was very happy with their motherboard, their laptop and their graphics cards. However, after a couple of years of use, with proper maintenance, the products start to fall appart. First, my dad's laptop desktop replacement, which cost about 2000 euros with tax (about 2000$ excluding tax), it's screen began to fail by phisicaly seperating from the laptop. Now the only thing holding that thing together is lots of tape. Now, my desktop motherboard has failed me after only 6 years of use. their capacitors began to leak ruining the cpu performance and requiring me to replace my motherboard, memory and cpu. These problems are a sign of cost cutting on components. In the case of the laptop by not using the correct material or materialthickness in order to securely hold the screen. With the motherboard the choice was made to use less durable capacitors which start to leak after only 6 years. I've designed electronics which should hold out in way rougher environments while being powered and used for at least 12 hours a day, 7 days of the week. It doesn't cost that much more to get decent capacitors. I know people think I've used my pc for a long enough time when I use it for 6 years. But I usually use a pc for 8 to 10 years before I have to replace it, not because it broke but only because it was outdated. I have consoles with CRT's with an age of 38 and they still work fine without performance degradation. I expect non moving parts to practically work forever. I certainly won't be buying any MSI products any time soon.
  9. Thanks for clarifying. I couldn't make that out of the forum post I saw earlier.
  10. Hello, I'm walking against some peformance issues. First windows 10 didn't properly clock up my cpu to it's full base speed. After a regedit I mangaged to lock the clock at the base speed so turboing is gone I guess. However, now I've noticed windows taskmanager and cpu-z are both only detecting half of my actual ram speed(933Mhz. Is this normal. are there any known fixes? My setup is a AMD FX-8350 on an MSI 970 Gaming motherboard with 16gb of hyperX DDR3 RAM clocked at 1866Mhz in dual channel mode. Of course I've done some googling and I found an old post on the forums saying this was normal behaviour, which I think is quite hard to believe. If this is normal behaviour could you please verify this?
  11. I've bought the components new in 2014 so I know they have aged. I would however expect day 1 performance since all my never maintained 38 year old vectrex still works like new and Linus has already debunked performance degradation in the following video: I do take your advice to heart though. As my financial situation has significantly worsened over the yeas I am not able to spend as much as I did on new hardware anymore. A pal of mine is willing to sell he's 1st gen ryzen 5 plus some ram for 90 euros to me and another one is willing to donate a gtx 1060 if I help him moving. When I bought my PSU i made sure it had a long warranty (8 years in my case). That just leaves a new motherboard which I can afford in a couple of months.
  12. I run bitdefender. but this usually doesn't take up to much cpu power. for some reason, with a slight overclock a lot of the problems are fixed. though my pc now sounds like a lawnmoawer.
  13. Also, forgot to mention, I have Linux dualbooted on my device on a completely seperate ssd.
  14. Hello fine folks, I've got an AMD FX-8350 on a msi970 motherboard coupled with a gtx970 GPU. I've got a fresh install of windows 10 on my pc and my cpu usage is all over the place. I've already installed my anti-malware software, discord and all the nessesary game launchers. Discord uses 10-20% of my cpu recources, which I think it's quite a lot. My games also see reduced peformance from when I first got the PC. stuttering and sevire framerate drops are all to common. And I dont even play the latest game. I play titanfall 2, battlefield 4 and fortnite. all on the lowest settings except for the resolution. Fortnite even struggles at lowest settings, 1080p which I find to be quit odd for this setup. Anyone got any proposed solutions? Thanks for the advice.
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