Azortharion

Bought some eBay cherry MX o-rings for my black switch CM Storm Trigger off e-bay, fit them on all the leter keys (plugging the keyboard out while I did), all done, I plug the keyboard back in and it stays dead. Restart PC has it still dead. Unplugging its USB cable gives its caps lock/indicators a faint red "blink" of its LEDs, then it dies again. Not really sure what to do. How could o-rings have caused this?

"Your" CPU as in my CPU, is that the 3770k I'm thinking of, or? I do use OBS with the NVENC shadowplay encoder thing. I reckon good old CPU-based stuff still looks better but I can deal. As for that PSU, it's $100 more than the SeaSonic.

Having re-checked some SLI results for WoW it seems that scaling is close to 80%.. Might be shooting for that second 660 Ti as we're looking at TITAN-780 Ti GPU performance with that. Only nasty thing is that a 660 Ti is the same price as a 770 unlesss I get some wacky version, but I do save $100 that way.. Wish I could save more though, because getting that second 660 Ti I'd still have to get a new PSU because this one is just shit (both on reviews + it's old, not gonna stuff new hardware in with this), AND a motherboard AND a Haswell processor and I simply can't fit that into the budget. I do agree that jumping Sandy > Ivy seems wacky, it's mostly for the clock speed though which WoW really likes. What do you think? 660 Ti SLI + 3770k + Some higher-end PSU? It's BARELY possible with the budget but can be done. Or 770 + 3770k + the PSU I picked? Other-than-WoW-gaming is a fairly low priority. On the other hand it's pretty sick to be able to wreck almost anything with mid-range SLI cards. How would I go about cancelling an order I made about 7 hours ago? (It's 11:30 PM here now), or changing it a little bit? Is that possible/feasible/too much hassle? EDIT: Naturally Haswell is an option too, WoW seems to like both architecture and clock speed but I'd feel dumb sticking with a 660 Ti and going all-out with a 4770k and overclocking that. I really want some kind of balance, WoW likes it, streaming likes it. The whole PSU problem is bad - I'm not even 100% sure it's dying, it's just.. Not a PSU I like: http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story5&reid=188 is the unit. It has developed a nasty habit of just.. Shutting down. Or well, the PC has. The PC goes into black-mode with the GPU fan at 100% (UNFATHOMABLY loud), when I press Reset it usually launches and does it again. I have to let it cooldown but OklahomaWolf mentions that it has problems when it hits 40c, however I mostly get this during simple web browsing. Sometimes I can game 12 hours a day for 5 days straight, then it just starts going down on me when web browsing. Is it dying - should I get a new PSU at all, can I trust it, will it blow me up? 660 Ti SLI + Motherboard + 4770k is possible with the budget if I don't have to buy a PSU I think. Or a 780 instead of the 770?

WoW has a pretty crappy SLI profile, doesn't scale very well at all and I'm more about "stable" play than max FPS (WoW is not particularly hard to run, it likes clockspeed lots and I'll be doing livestreaming on top.. Dunno if I'll do Shadowplay encoding for it or not tho). Also the reason I am getting a new PSU at all is that the current one is sort of dying. The "main" reasons behind the 3770k choice 1) Streaming likes hyperthreading. 2) WoW likes clock speed. 3) WoW is a CPU-bound game to start with, at least in 25-man raiding where I actually crave the performance - during raiding I also wish to log all combat actions which is pretty taxing. Not sure if that benefits from hyperthreading though, it's in-OS. I should probably have mentioned that I'm playing @ 2560x1440 too, though it might not be super relevant. 770 reasons 1) Figured the 7GHz memory would help driving a higher resolution though that's not necessarily entirely scientific. 2) Best price:performance I could find in my range for a single-card, I'm not going SLI, I think it sucks and I -especially- think it sucks for what I'm doing, which is just WoW + livestreaming. Literally not really any other games. Just keep these things in mind, I'm still willing to hear suggestions. Not doubting the magnificence of SLI, just not for my usage. I'm not satisfied with my GPU temps to begin with and my current 660 Ti is basically from when the card was released. The goal of the upgrade is to sort of take the weakest points in the system for what I'm doing and making them sort of up-to-shape. Like I mentioned I'd go Haswell if it didn't mean I'd have to buy a new motherboard and my current one is recently acquired. Not going for 140% gaming performance in Triple-A's or anything like that, I just wanna stream WoW in a 25-man environment and with WoW loving clockspeed as much as it does and me having a water cooler.. Well, yeah. But yeah still open-minded just keep the things in mind. EDIT: On the PSU thing, I really wanted modular or at least semi-modular else I could've gone significantly cheaper pretty easily.

Well I already have the sound card - it's not a new build. I am upgrading atm: i7 2600 to i7-3770k (could go Haswell but that'd mean I have to buy a new mobo and bllerrhh) 660 Ti to 770 CoolerMaster GX750W to SeaSonic M12ii 620W I researched a bunch on the GPU brand, and while the Windforce OC seems to have a slightly better cooler, ASUS just seems like the most reliable/safest option out there and that's why I went with it.

Well I ordered them a few hours ago so I don't think it's too late - what tweaks are they? XFX is $100 more, Rosewill is not a thing here, SeaSonic G is $40 more, Cooler Master is p.much the same price and looks pretty compelling for that price (almost too good.. dundundun?), it does look nice too, Idunno. EDIT: Live in Denmark btw so PSU prices are all over the place and don't make much sense at all.

Yo - I'd like to know if this PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817151095 can run these components, all pretty heftily overclocked. CPU: i7-3770k @ as high as I can get it. Cooling: H100i Mobo: AsRock Z77 Extreme4 RAM: Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB @ 2400 MHz (1.65v) GPU: ASUS DCU2 GTX 770 @ as high as I can get it. Soundcard: ASUS Xonar Essence STX SSD: Kingston HyperX 3k 120G HDD: WD Black 1TB Other PCIe: Some wacko wireless card. Fans: 2x 140 in front + 4x 120mm elsewhere. Not expecting to fully tax this system (WoW/Streaming machine) with 100% load on everything but I'd like to know if 620W is cutting it - the PSU appears to be a pretty damn good one, if we check a PSU that's sort of in the same class on JonnyGuru it's pretty high rated: http://www.jonnyguru.com/modules.php?name=NDReviews&op=Story&reid=185 I ran it through this PSU calculator and this is the results (I went a bit overboard with a lot of things to be "sure"): http://i.imgur.com/cnb6bKD.png Set it to 100% peak load and stuff, but I want to be sure before I unwrap this PSU (or well it's scheduled to be here on Friday), will it do?

They stay at the same speed.

It is OC'd yeah, but it never really gets utilized (I only really play WoW) and it's been running these for its lifetime and it has even been higher. http://puu.sh/7BWeP.jpg

Lights/mobo still on, it's not the monitor shutting off it's just a black screen - I did double-check all the PCI-e connectors on the mobo and GPU because I thought something along the same lines. It hasn't done it since I put it back up after cleaning filter/pressing a little on the connectors (though they did not seem lose), I'll see about testing the GPU in my other rig though I somehow doubt it's the GPU messing up. Just seems weird that it'd work just fine playing games and whatnot only to spontaneously go crazy, then come back up just fine. /shrug

Just did it again (again just YouTubing/hanging about), then decided to test for a good 2 hours with no PSU errors. Max CPu temp was 54c, max GPU temp was like 90c - I cleaned the dust filter and compresso-aired the GPU PCB but it worked fine through torture. It seems kinda random to me, any help appreciatied, got a $900 upgrade budget lying around and I'd like to know whether some of that should be a new PSU.

Did for 2 mins and it didn't burn down. Heading to bed now and will do a longer test tomorrow.

Me too, I'd like to be sure though. It's a pretty shit PSU and it's semi-old, served me well until now though, might just upgrade that to keep this system running... Not sure yet tho.

Started just today while web browsing/chatting back and forth, my PC just decided to shut down (black screen) and the GPU fan went -nuts- (100% it sounds like, I can only take it to 80% by software and it's definitely louder than that). First time it did it restarted, then did it again and came back up without issue. (Nothing in Windows error event logs or anything either). 5 mins before writing this post it did it again, the screen remaining black while GPU was nuts till I hit reset and it came back up for me to write this post. Specs: CPU: i7-2600 (non-k) Cooler: H100i Mobo: AsRock Z77 Extreme4 GPU: EVGA 660 Ti Superclocked Case: Fractal Define R4 SSD: Kingston HyperX 3k HDD: WD Black 1TB PSU: CoolerMaster GX750 The CPU is semi-old (3 years), the Z77 mobo is about 2½ years old, the 660 Ti is about 2½ years old too, PSU is 3 years old, SSD 2½.. Basically it's all 2½ years old or more. So basically, what's wrong? 1) It's not temps, I put my hand behind the GPU (blower-style) on the back of the case and it was spewing out chill air, when the PC came back up everything was normal-temp wise (nothing above 35c) 2) Didn't happen before I put my case on the floor but it's been there before without issue (year ago tho) - it's on a flat wooden floor so the PSU definitely isn't air-starved. Dust filter on 24/7 too. 3) Generally clean case, no excess dust on anything that may short out whatever. 4) Generally clean well-ventilated room/battlestation 5) 2 monitors off the card if it matters. 6) The PSU generally gets shitty reviews for being an underperformer but its wattage is WAY beyond the system's max capability and it's only happened just web browsing (haven't gamed since tho) So.. More ideas?

I'm 17 years old as of today.. Basically when I got the H100i and Z77 mobo (got em at the same time) I didn't actually -know- it was a non-K (this was initially a prebuilt 2600 + 560 Ti system), I just never realized it was not an overclockable CPU till I tried increasing the BCLK like a fkn retard and wondered why the PC froze at higher loads.. I thought the missing "K" in CPU-Z was just because it couldn't distinguish K from non-K, so that was a mistake of retard me. So I'm running a watercooled, non-overclockable Sandy Bridge processor on a fairly overclocking-branded Z77 motherboard. I'm retarded, I knoow. I know better now, though.