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Ok, that's good to know. Turns out the guy I was supposed to give it to is going to take it. You'd be surprised how hard it is to give a perfectly good graphics card to someone (he's using a 7870, so it'll be a nice upgrade for him). Thanks for the info.

Firestrike, the normal one. I just hit run benchmark. I assume it's max settings.

Hello. Ended up with a brand new Vapor X 290 for Christmas due to an odd series of circumstances. Was playing around with it and I just wanted to know if it was at all possible to change the LED color on the side so that it would remain static instead of changing with load. Also, I was able to get a solid overclock of 1175MHz, but my 3dmark graphics score was around 12.5 - 13k. Is that a normal score? Or is it low? If it is, can it be due to conflict with nvidia stuff that didn't get uninstalled properly? I don't intend to keep it in my main rig (though I may use it for a future project I have) so it's not extremely important, but I would like to know.

Yeah. After I reinstalled the BIOS, it mostly works. Sometimes it gets stuck on E6, but when I turn the power supply off and back on, it usually fixes it. These Xeons apparently really don't like any more GHz past 2.5. Not quite sure what to do with this i7 now, though. 1156 mobo's arent' as cheap as I expected them to be. May have to scrounge on ebay for something.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127913&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID= EDIT: You can go to pcpartpicker, choose the GPU you want and then sort via color scheme. For future reference.

Ok guys, I'm pretty sure garbage comp 1 is done for. Now it just continually shuts on and off every few seconds until I manually stop it by pulling the plug/turning off the power supply. Replacing the jumper to normal position just makes it stick with error code 12 again. Time to invest in an 1156 motherboard. =( EDIT: OMG, I don't know what happened, but now it freaking works.

After reading the Motherboard manual that I dug up online, I found that this thing doesn't have a CMOS Jumper, but a BIOS configuration Jumper. Seems to do the same thing except I have to reinstall the bios using a USB stick. Also I need to find a BIOS for the motherboard. Will get back to you after I've formatted USB and tried to reinstall the BIOS.

I only took out the battery on the mobo and unplugged the PSU and let it sit there for like 20 min. I think that should have cleared it, no?

TL;DR at end. Will make a lot more sense if you read the whole thing, though. So a few months back, I found an old intel skulltrail system that I somewhat refurbished for like 80 dollars (needed new ram and HDD) with two intel Xeon L5410's (they're older quad cores at 2.33) and a GTX 480. I got this for literally nothing, as the guys throwing it out didn't even know what it was. It has it's issues, like how it doesn't goddamn boot to Windows anymore after I increased the clock speed to 2.7 (it's stuck in a post loop and then stops at error code 12 and I have no idea what that means on a D5400xs, or anything really. I'm not too aware of post codes, to be honest), to clarify it ran perfectly fine at 2.66. If I can get any help with this, that'd be great. Back to the point, however, I found another computer that was about to be thrown out! This one, I was interested in purely because it had a wi-fi adapter, which Garbage Comp 1 needed at the time. So I asked the guy throwing it out again and he let me take it, again, for nothing. I really want to be a part of scrapyard wars. I'd crush everyone, with my luck. The wifi adapter ended up being a d-link unit that was worth around 100 dollars new, as well as 16gb of perfectly good kingston HyperX DDR3. Because the rest of the computer looked like straight up trash, I put it to the side and tinkered with Garbage Comp 1 for a few days. Even got a 3dmark score on it, if anyones interested in seeing it- http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6633949 That was, until it started bugging out on me. Because my initial pet project computer was acting like a dick, I decided to waste time by dismantling Garbage Comp 2. And lo-and-behold, sandwiched between its chunky, terrible looking stock heatsink and hideous green PCB sat an intel Core i7 860. Naturally, I threw the computer back together, sans wifi adapter, and amazingly it works somewhat fine with the harddrive out of Garbage Comp 1 after a fresh install. I'm at an impass now. Should I try and get Garbage Comp 1 back online? What the hell is post code 12 and why is it stuck there? Or should I scrap Comp 1 and put everything into Comp 2? Everything that I bought for Comp 1 I can use in Comp 2, except the DDR2 (which was only 40 dollars). Though if I scrap Comp 1 for Comp 2, I'd want to buy a new motherboard and decent 1156 mobo's aren't that cheap. TL;DR: Anyone know what post code 12 on a D5400xs is and why a computer would be stuck there? If I can answer this question with an answer that's easily do-able, I'll save Garbage Comp 2 for later and fix Comp 1. If it's dead, I'm hedging my bets on Comp 2.

I'm aware of the 480's...notorious reputation. Surprisingly, this one doesn't run as hot as I thought it would. It's idle is 50, but with full load, it'll hover around 75ish, at stock speeds and a slightly tweaked fan curve. The main issue with the 212's is, I have no idea if it'll fit the socket and I only kinda have a vague idea of what kind of heatsinks fit the mobo. I would put bigger heatsinks on it, if I wanted to spend the money, but the bigger they are, the more money they cost and I literally found this computer right before the maintenance guys were gonna dump it into the crushing machine. So at best, its' gonna get a new case (cause the Cosmos 1000 doesn't fit the EEATX mobo, it has garbage cable management and even worse airflow) and some decent, cheapo heatsinks. I don't really want to sink 100's of dollars into an archaic architecture.

It's been a week and a bit since I stumbled across an old computer that was getting thrown out with a dual socket motherboard and a GTX 480. At the time, it had no ram and or storage and the wonderful people on this very forum said I should try and bring this thing back to life, which is why I'm back on this forum and other places looking for some advice. After purchasing the previously mentioned components (was able to get my hands on some 8gb FBDIMM and a 1tb drive for about 60 USD), I discovered that the computer was indeed in mostly working condition. The GPU works, as far as putting out an image, both CPU's work (though I found out that they were Xeon L5410's and not QX9775's, which was a bit sad) all the memory detected properly, and the power supply works, though it has horrendous coil whine. I also discovered why this thing was probably thrown away. The heat. At boot up, after installing windows 7, the CPU's were idling at 53c when I checked with HWmonitor. From what I read online, it says its operational limit is 57c. It barely reaches the login screen before locking up on me, after having run it for about an hour. It is at this point that I'll mention that, for whatever asinine reason, the freaking CPU's are passively cooled and I'm willing to bet the thermal paste under them hasn't been changed since it was built. Not to mention the case has barely any airflow thanks to the lack of fans (it's got two, one on the back as intake and one on top, I have a few spares I can throw in there, but the mounting options aren't great). And thus leads to my question. I don't have a solid idea of what kind of CPU cooler this motherboard will accept. I don't have much experience with hardware this old, and I can barely find any information that isn't outdated by nearly a decade. I remember reading somewhere that the intel socket 771 motherboard can accept socket 775 heatsinks, but have found no supporting evidence since, because it's so old and all the pictures use the same old Zalman heatsinks or server coolers, both of which look like they'll be extremely loud. From looking at the socket, it looks like it'll fit most modern intel CPU coolers, but I'd rather not spend money on a cpu cooler that may or may not fit. I'm willing to spend the money, but only if it'll work for the situation at hand. If anyone has any info they can share that would help in my search for some coolers, that would be fantastic. EDIT: I've had good experiences with hyper 212's, so I'm primarily looking at those. It helps that they're cheap.

Ahh. That's good to know. I don't know anything about PSU's before certification. I might want to pick up a new one because this one uses a lot of adapters to connect to things. I dislike adapters. And some of the cables are crazy short (the PCI power cables are like 6 inches long). I'm just gonna get new DDR2. Found 8gb's on amazon for 35, sounds like a pretty good deal.

Thanks for the info! I've just ordered the stuff (literally open in a second window, just needed some confirmation on the DDR2). I'll get back to you guys once I get it.

Pretty sure he's talking about the folding team badge.

If they do, that would be a Godsend. I'll buy some cheap DDR2 (if that's what it uses) and a hard drive to see if things are in working order. And then I'll probably get a new PSU. I kind want to see how long it'll live. Not a huge fan of used parts, if I'm honest, but I might buy a used 290/290x just to see what kind of numbers it throws up.