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    glennhl reacted to Blue4130 in I’ve messed up my new cpu.. what do I do?   
    I'm fairly certain that the solder melting temp is lower that the temperature required to make copper measurably softer. 
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    glennhl got a reaction from miagisan in Cases you hate?   
    I absolutely hate my Meshify C case.  Why?  It's just too perfect and I always feel so inferior to it! 
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    glennhl got a reaction from Morris_lee_9116 in Cases you hate?   
    I absolutely hate my Meshify C case.  Why?  It's just too perfect and I always feel so inferior to it! 
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    glennhl reacted to Allyxxx in Im Losing My Mind over Cases   
    Meshify C seems to be the perfect size case to me. Every other case I've had seems like it has so much wasted space.
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    glennhl reacted to Slottr in Im Losing My Mind over Cases   
    Meshify C or P400A are really the best cases you can get on average
     
    Good airflow, lots of support for drives/cooling/gpu length
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    glennhl reacted to RadiatingLight in Beautiful cases with good airflorw   
    My personal choice would be the fractal design meshify C
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    glennhl reacted to BlueChinchillaEatingDorito in will ryzen 5 3600 bottleneck rtx 3080 or 3070   
    One thing I hate more than people asking whether or not their system is bottlenecked... is asking if their hypothetical build will be bottlenecked. It's a dumb term used by people who don't know what they're doing or too insecure and need to show off their specs just to make themselves feel good. As long as you're happy with the experience you're getting, who cares. Could you imagine if people started asking if their tires or engine oil will bottleneck their cars? 
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    glennhl reacted to NzxtGzn in Computer Wont Start|Did I do this right?   
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    glennhl reacted to Haro in PSU blew up, looking for a new one   
    Well to name some. 
    MWE gold 550w. 
    Focus gm 550w. 
    Pure power 11 500w. 
    Straight power 11 550w. 
    Rm550x. 
    AMP 550w. 
    Tx550m. 
    Ion+ 560w. 
    Bitfenix formula gold 550w. These are all good. 
    Nvm @LukeSavenije and his links are back at it again LOL. 
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    glennhl reacted to CrypticDiamondz in scratch on CPU IHS from cleaning thermal paste?   
    I mean SURE if it's completely ruined let me know your postal info ....  hehehe... seriously though thanks, I mean it's not a HUGE gouge per say but running my finger over it I could definitely feel that it's not level, so probably a small-ish gouge but as "TempestCatto" said - "That's what thermal paste is for. It will get into those groves and create a point of contact between that scratch in the IHS and the cold plate of the CPU cooler." so I'm holding onto that for reassurance... but also, I used Corsair TM30 for my thermal paste and cleaned it with isopropyl alcohol and then wiped with a coffee filter, that wouldn't cause any corrosion would it or degrade the ISH at all? Cause im just trying to put logic into how it would've happened, I wasn't using much force when cleaning either just enough to wipe the old paste away.... it is a mystery, but as long as it's working then that's really the silver lining.
     
    Thank you all for your feedback, this is my first post on here and no one else had any threads relating to my situation. If I ever need to donate this CPU you got first dibs though glennhl
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    glennhl reacted to Mateyyy in Build pc   
    PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6 GHz Quad-Core Processor €116.00 @ Azerty Motherboard ASRock B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard €84.95 @ Bytes At Work Memory G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory €62.95 @ Bytes At Work Storage Kingston A2000 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive €67.89 @ Alternate Belgium Video Card Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER 6 GB GAMING Video Card €249.05 @ Azerty Case Corsair 275R Airflow ATX Mid Tower Case €82.89 @ Alternate Belgium Power Supply be quiet! System Power 9 400 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply €51.95 @ Bytes At Work   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total €715.68   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-12 18:27 CEST+0200  
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    glennhl reacted to gloop in Build pc   
    Just a quick reminder, if you want people to see your reply use the small arrow in the bottom right of the post to ‘quote’ them, or tag them (like @gloop). 
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    glennhl got a reaction from IC4 in New Seasonic PSU   
    The (excellent) fan spins slowly if there is no load.  I never hear the (excellent) fan even under load.  From the Seasonic website:
    S2FC - Smart and Silent Fan Control
    The intelligent thermal circuit feature is designed to find the optimal balance between the necessity to cool the components and the need to run the power supply in the most silent manner possible.
     
    The fan runs in the silent mode up to 50% load.  And the fan also has a fluid dynamic bearing. 
     
    I think seon123 must be thinking about the Seasonic CORE GM-650 which does have a crappy fan. 
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    glennhl got a reaction from gloop in Build pc   
    Gloop, you are right.  I used to travel for work and I have to say when it came to electronics the US was always cheaper than the rest of the world.  And you didn't notice that I said I knew he was from Belgium, but I really didn't know that when I posted the Paul's Hardware video! 😀  I just figured the video would give him some ideas and show him how hard it is to build a $700 unit.  If he wants to not exceed his budget then the $500 build in the video is probably a good starting point.
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    glennhl reacted to gloop in Build pc   
    But conversion rates aren’t always direct??
     
    Where I’m based a build for $1000 should be equal to €851.55, but is more like €1200. 
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    glennhl reacted to LienusLateTips in New Seasonic PSU   
    Nope, he's definitely thinking about the FOCUS. it's very well known for having a crappy fan and revving up at load
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    glennhl reacted to seon123 in New Seasonic PSU   
    Seasonic likes to use the same crappy Hong Hua fan for a lot of their PSUs, including the Prime Ultra Titanium series. I have the Prime Titanium, and the loudest part of my PC under load is the ticking motor noise from the PSU fan. It's a crappy fan, which bothers people that have functioning ears and PCs that aren't as loud as jet engines. Also, the fan is crappy at moving air, so it needs to spin faster than if Seasonic had chosen an actually decent fan. One major difference between the Corsair RMx and RM 2019 is downgrading the fan from an NR135 variant to basically the same Hong Hua fan that Seasonic uses. The result is of course lower costs for the manufacturer, and the fan needing to spin faster to cool the PSU.
     
    What Seasonic is talking about with their "silent mode" is that the fan just spins at its minimum RPM. Which you can also see on their graph of the fan RPM, right next to the marketing blurb that you copy pasted.
     
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    glennhl reacted to Haro in To-the-point PC for mom   
    um hardeware for the most part like the cpu do not degrade over time, unless you were shoving insane voltage to the cpu. 
    an optiplex with an ssd will be more than enough or..
    PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Athlon 3000G 3.5 GHz Dual-Core Processor $49.00 @ B&H Motherboard Gigabyte B450M DS3H Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $72.99 @ Best Buy Memory G.Skill Aegis 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 CL16 Memory $53.99 @ Amazon Storage Crucial MX500 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive $64.98 @ Amazon Case Fractal Design Focus G ATX Mid Tower Case $58.98 @ B&H Power Supply SeaSonic S12III 500 W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply $54.99 @ Best Buy   Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts     Total $354.93   Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-10 03:41 EDT-0400   a little over budget but will also be more than enough.
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    glennhl got a reaction from CrypticDiamondz in scratch on CPU IHS from cleaning thermal paste?   
    That CPU is completely ruined but I'll take it off your hands!  😀  But seriously, unless there is a huge gouge that would hold the heat sink off the CPU then it's not a problem. 
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    glennhl reacted to Mateyyy in Cheap 650w PSU   
    If you're looking to get a 650W PSU at 50 quid, then you probably don't need 650W in the first place.
    What components are you using?
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    glennhl reacted to Haro in Good PC tool kit?   
    I fix it? What do you exactly mean? Generally for building a PC a Philips head screwdriver is all you need.
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    glennhl reacted to Vishera in Case Recommendations   
    The Fractal Design Meshify C is nice,and has plenty of airflow,but you will need to buy fans for it.
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    glennhl got a reaction from xg32 in Budget $650 USD (USA) (Help With Parts AMD)   
    Oops, that's an Intel board listed, you will need an AMD board.  Something like this:
     
    https://www.newegg.com/msi-mag-b550-tomahawk/p/N82E16813144326?Description=b550&cm_re=b550-_-13-144-326-_-Product
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    glennhl reacted to TVwazhere in Which case shld I choose?   
    Because when you add an extra fan or two, it performs as good as the rest, while still maintaining objectively better build quality, more optimized space efficiency and (aesthetic preferences here)

    It's an option. It's not #1 case every and everyone should buy it. 
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    glennhl reacted to Master Disaster in My 3 day battle with my PC randomly shutting down while gaming and how I solved it.   
    This one isn't a request for help, it will be more of a detailed log of how I solved my problem (fingers crossed anyway) in the hope it might help others with a similar issue.
     
    I should add that my issue was something specific to having an X570 & Zen 2 pairing while also running PCIe 4.0 devices. If you're not running this setup its unlikely this solution will help you.
     
    The Problem.
     
    After a random period of time (between 10 minutes and a few hours) while specifically playing games (and not all games were affected) the system would hard reboot. By far the worst affected game was SW Battlefront 2 (I'd be lucky to get half an hour before the crash happened) so this is what I concentrated on for testing moving forward.
     
    Testing.
     
    The first thing I did was leave memtest running overnight on Friday. It passed a full pass with zero errors.
     
    On Saturday morning I quickly established that it was only happening in games. I left P95 Small FFTs & Furmark running simultaneously for hours (according to AMD CCC Furmark was running for 6 hours) and the system was totally fine. Temps were completely normal on the CPU & GPU. CPU reached 90c peak & GPU reached 76c peak on the die and 94c peak on the junction. Temps were not the problem.
     
    My next thought was that it was being caused by GPU Hardware Scheduling so I DDUed the AMD HWS Driver and went back to the non HWS but this did nothing.
     
    Next I went into UEFI and disabled EVERYTHING I could think of that might have been causing this, all settings in AI tweaker were set to Auto (or so I thought, more on that next), PBO was set to Disabled, all power limits were set back to 100%, LLC was disabled, heck I even turned off IOMMU & SVT. Rebooted and fired up BF2 and almost instantly it crashed again.
     
    Rebooted back into UEFI and this is were I kinda got lucky, I noticed that while turning everything off in AI Tweaker that I had missed the DOCP setting so my RAM was still OCed however I ignored this because the system had worked for months with DOCP and never had an issue. (Spoiler: I shouldn't have done that).
     
    Anyway I then wasted the rest of Saturday night and a few hours Sunday morning swapping out the GPU, RAM & PSU for spares I had lying around. This also did nothing.
     
    After putting all my original components back I went back to the HWS idea so after doing a full HDD image I proceeded to format Windows 10 2004 and reinstall Windows 10 1909. After installing drivers & Steam/Origin I fired up BF2 and literally as soon as I hit Start Mission the crash happened again. At this point I was starting to get annoyed so after reimaging 2004 back I shut it down and went and watched a movie.
     
    When I came back to it, for reasons unknown, I decided to turn off DOCP. I went back into Windows and got 3 hours of play time in BF2. Went back into UEFI, reenabled DOCP, fired up BF2 and 30 minutes in it went. Progress, its the RAM, right? Wrong.
     
    I noticed that when you turn on DOCP the UEFI warns you that the FClock will be overclocked from the base of 1200Mhz to 1800Mhz (the same effective speed as my 3600Mhz RAM) and that doing this might cause instability with PCIe 4 devices. Then it hit me, the first time I noticed this issue was around a month ago, the day after I installed a Corsair MP600 PCIe 4.0 SSD. At the time I put it down to a random crash and thought nothing of it (since it had never happened previously). Between then and now I've not really played games on the PC at all (I've been playing a lot on my Original Xbox instead) so it stands to reason I've not noticed any crashes.
     
    The Cause and solution.
     
    I did some Googling and discovered, what I think (hope) is the cause. The FClock (or the Infinity Fabric Clock) is controlled by a little SOC built into the CPU. With just my PCIe 4 GPU installed the SOC was fine with OCing to 1800Mhz but as soon as I added the SSD to the bus the SOC could no longer cope with running both the GPU & SSD at 1800Mhz. The solution was as simple as upping the SOC Voltage for 1.1v to 1.15v (according to the article I read it can go up to 1.2v safely on air).
     
    I've been playing BF2 this morning with my system running at its normal UEFI settings, DOCP on, PBO at Level 1, Power Limits at 120% and LLC on Optimised and so far its been rock solid.
     
    Obviously I cannot say its fixed yet as I haven't had the time to test it thoroughly but its played BF2 for over 2 hours with no crash where as normally it goes within 30 minutes. If it goes again I'll make sure to update this thread.
     
    It was a very frustrating but also very fun weekend. It feels good to track down a problem and solve it.
     
    Happy Monday everyone.
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