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Rebel Rebel wrote: »

I am hoping to strip down my pc to finally install a new psu to resolve the failing to boot up issue have been happening for the the last few months, and give it a bit of a clean.

my question is what should i use to clean the old thermal paste off the CPU and cooler, that would be readily available in most towns?

I use Isopropanol for cleaning thermal paste (and almost anything else related to electronics). I got 600ml off my local pharmacy recently for €10, 70%. I've also had success with "Sticky Stuff Remover" but this seems to leave an odd smell for a while.

Right, not long finished putting my rig back together, i used Isopropyl Alcohol which i picked up from the local pharmacy 500ml for less that a tenner. It was easy enough in the end.

In the old off topic thread i posted in June I was having issues with my PC starting after a power cut. Brian and Glynf recommended changing the PSU. I took until now to get the job done, and i am pleased to say it appears to have do the trick. 3 successful booths so far, as i and not long finished.

Thanks again lads.

What are people's thoughts on X99, after having looked at reviews, etc.?

Personally I think it's cool that we now have a couple of cheap-ish 6-core options (maybe that'll trickle down into the mainstream socket, though probably not), but it's ridiculously expensive.

You're looking at around €800 all told to upgrade, and it just doesn't offer that much of a bump over Haswell at the moment, when looking at the 5820K.

Serephucus wrote: »

What are people's thoughts on X99, after having looked at reviews, etc.?

Personally I think it's cool that we now have a couple of cheap-ish 6-core options (maybe that'll trickle down into the mainstream socket, though probably not), but it's ridiculously expensive.

You're looking at around €800 all told to upgrade, and it just doesn't offer that much of a bump over Haswell at the moment, when looking at the 5820K.

I was holding off on a new build to see how it compared to Z97, a bit under impressed to put it mildly. As predicted, its about 10% overall improvement on Ivy BridgeE-I'm sure this will improve with better BIOS/driver releases though.

The cost of DDR4 is also (currently) nuts, could not justify..

I was thinking about going 5820, but as I run SLI 28 PCI lanes is just....ugh. I have not seen any X99 boards with a PLX chip, and I assume it won't happen either.
As I mainly use my desktop for gaming, office & CAD, I can get a 4790K and a decent mobo plus a 500 Gb SSD for less than an X99 build.

Dell have one on the way too. Very interested to see one of those in person.

As for X99, ASUS's WS board has two PLX chips. It's not like x8 vs. x16 makes a huge difference at the moment though. Maybe with the 900 series that might change, but I don't think so.

There's a reason NVIDIA and AMD are both looking into stacked memory for their cards down the line. the PCIE bus just isn't an efficient way of communicating with the CPU, and there's a lot of overhead there. That's one of the reasons DX12 and Mantle are a big thing as well. All of this is to help cut down on the amount of data communicated between the GPU and CPU. If more things can be calculated on the GPU's framebuffer, all the better.

Had a 3 series like that chair once, always going into limp mode

Working away on photo shop there i jump into a browser window, and just looking at something and the display went really weird and the computer went completely unresponsive.

There is a weird flicker on the screen now it wasn't there an hour ago any ideas how i can figure out what the problem is?

I would go for restarting first too.

Assuming you did that, I would suspect a dying graphics card, but it could be just corrupted drivers.

Edit: Also check cables are secure.

miralize wrote: »

Just upgraded the BIOS on my motherboard and now my PC crashes everytime with a WHEA error.. should I revert the BIOS or contact GIGABYTE?

Did you clear the cmos or take the battery out after flash?