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Stupify

alex1997123 wrote: »

Ah, I want to go for it but...

Sure g'wan, you can never have enough memory in SSD form.

I'd get away with not needing to use a HDD with that much memory on the SDD now, will I?

alex1997123

Stupify wrote: »

Sure g'wan, you can never have enough memory in SSD form.

I'd get away with not needing to use a HDD with that much memory on the SDD now, will I?

Nah, want to upgrade case and Psu for later upgrades so I'll spend the money there.

alex1997123

Good cheap case without a door any suggestions?

Serephucus

Fractal Design Core 1000?

alex1997123

Serephucus wrote: »

Fractal Design Core 1000?

That can fix ATX?

raymix

raymix wrote: »

Interesting bug... my PC freezes if I watch twitch.tv recorded broadcast or netflix on any browser fullscreen or not, but only If the actual movie is on screen not in background.
Here's the funny part - If I play game in fullscreen on main monitor PC won't freeze and I will be able to enjoy movies no problem. As soon as I close the game while movie is running on second monitor PC freezes. Event viewer shows nothing.

Details:
Secondary screen is plugged in top DVI socket with VGA converter, main screen is plugged in bottom one with DVI only.
BIOS/chipset/audio/GPU drivers I use are updated, even switched around nvidia drivers, nothing helps.
Reinstalled silverlight and flash.
Haven't done memtest yet.
CPU clocked to 4.5Ghz, tested 4h

any ideas?

bump, update:
PC will only freeze if playing videos online on a secondary screen.
GPU acceleration on/off does not fix the problem.

I am running out of options...

anyone?

tuxy

alex1997123 wrote: »

That can fix ATX?

no

Supported Motherboards microATX, Mini-ATX, DTX

glynf

raymix wrote: »

bump, update:
PC will only freeze if playing videos online on a secondary screen.
GPU acceleration on/off does not fix the problem.

I am running out of options...

anyone?

Try disabling hardware acceleration support, e.g. for youtube-left click and settings and un-tick the "Enable acceleration support" box.

Crash could be caused while gaming if the video triggers hardware acceleration support, the video freezes because the card can't do both at the same time.

BTW, happy new year all.

Serephucus

Question: Does EVGA's warranty cover coil whine? My 780 is squealing like a mother****er.

Gumbi

Serephucus wrote: »

Question: Does EVGA's warranty cover coil whine? My 780 is squealing like a mother****er.

They might try fob you off, but it's a legitimate cause for return. I don't think it will be much of an issue with EVGA, though. They're supposed to be fantastic customer care wise.

There are also some ways too minimise the effects of it (takes a bit of research though). I'd try going down the RMA route tbh.

Many high end cards have cool whine in high FPS (several hundreds, thousands FPS) situations, but if you're getting it in normal (gaming or idle) use, that's bad.

Serephucus

Just submitted a ticket there. I sort of figured I'd be ok, but as it's a grey area (there being nothing "wrong" with the card performance-wise, etc.) I wasn't sure.

Yeah, it's happening in every game I've played so far. It's a shame too because it's holding up the water cooling stuff going in. Going to see if I have enough for the Advance RMA I think.

Squaredude

I experience a slight bit of coil whine from my 780 but only at stupidly high fps.

Serephucus

I can hear it over the stock Intel cooler anywhere from 40-100 FPS. :P

Gumbi

That's a pity because that is a problem! You have it water cooled? You could flash a BIOS with voltage control on it and get it to 1300-1350 MHz 24/7 which would be cool

Serephucus

I don't have it water cooled yet, but the rads and blocks and all that are sitting here beside me.

Might/might not flash BIOS. As it stands I'm on a 1680x1050 monitor while I wait for G-Sync, so there's no real need.

raymix

glynf wrote: »

Try disabling hardware acceleration support, e.g. for youtube-left click and settings and un-tick the "Enable acceleration support" box.

Crash could be caused while gaming if the video triggers hardware acceleration support, the video freezes because the card can't do both at the same time.

BTW, happy new year all.

thanks for the answer, but you got it all upside down
that's the funny thing, crash does NOT happen when gaming. PC freezes when watching videos on second monitor without anything happening on primary monitor. It does not crash when gaming and watching videos at same time. It does not crash when watching videos on primary monitor without game on.
weird huh?

glynf

Very odd. Sounds driver related to me though. Maybe search nvidia forums for similar issues, Good luck with it.

Edit; Just re - read your post, try forcing whatever player you are using to use hardware acceleration instead of software and see if you can watch movies on the second screen without crashing.

Genghiz Cohen

With all this talk of mITX and console sized cases it's about time someone stood up and said "Naw".

Enter Lain Li and their new desk case.

kevovek

Wow! Very very slick looking! I wonder how much it will cost when they release it.

Danger781

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

With all this talk of mITX and console sized cases it's about time someone stood up and said "Naw".

Enter Lain Li and their new desk case.

Seriously nice looking!

Guaranteed to be expensive though. Kind of puts a downer on my table case plans for next summer..

Headshot

Can anyone recommend book or a site that has detail information on linux using terminal. I want to start learning more about this area. For example what information does directories like of Dev, Bin, var and so on hold?

commands in general like wget (stuff like that)

Iv an idea of stuff but im probably a bit far from called being rated average when using Liunx. I dont need to be a pro at the moment
A book with examples would be brilliant

Wossack

think theres a forum, who might be able to better steer you

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=32

best thing really, is get a small distro (smaller the better imo), and install, break, reinstall, break, fix, break, reinstall etc You'll learn far more doing so then just from reading imo. Google up the specific issues or queries, and learn to read man pages

alex1997123

Anyone ever use this case. Reviews seem good and it doesn't have a door(Yeah I'd rather a case without a door)

Seaaan

My hyper 212 evo came today.. Do I clean off the old thermal paste with surgical spirits? Is that what Americans call rubbing alcohol?

VenomIreland

Seaaan wrote: »

My hyper 212 evo came today.. Do I clean off the old thermal paste with surgical spirits? Is that what Americans call rubbing alcohol?

I use dilute isopropanol, which, as far as I am aware, is the same as surgical spirits and rubbing alcohol.

Nolars

Seaaan wrote: »

My hyper 212 evo came today.. Do I clean off the old thermal paste with surgical spirits? Is that what Americans call rubbing alcohol?

Got my evo today aswell

Ive the Arctic cleaner 1 and 2 stuff. what sorta cloth are you suppose to use with it?

Luck100

Seaaan wrote: »

My hyper 212 evo came today.. Do I clean off the old thermal paste with surgical spirits? Is that what Americans call rubbing alcohol?

Yes, it's surgical spirits. The chemist had individually packaged wipes with surgical spirit for 5 cents each, so I just got a few of those. Works perfectly. You can wipe off most of the old paste with ordinary paper towel, you only need the spirits to clean the remaining residue afterwards.

Seaaan

Nolars wrote: »

Got my evo today aswell

Ive the Arctic cleaner 1 and 2 stuff. what sorta cloth are you suppose to use with it?

Microfiber cloth I believe.. Or just kitchen paper

Luck100

Those of you with the new 212 evo coolers - make sure to read the mounting instructions carefully. There's also some good youtube videos that show the mounting process. The mounting pieces can be used in several different positions (for different motherboard socket types). If you get it wrong it will wobble around instead of sitting secure.

deejer

Not sure under what forum to address this question so thought I would ask it here as I know there are some knowledgeable people here with regards to all areas of tech!

My plan is to get a good av receiver and 5.1 speaker separates for my living room along with a 50inch tv (i have been saving for a while now). Im wondering in relation to network access which is very important - is it more important that the receiver is network capable or the tv, or both for that matter??

My thinking was that it was the receiver is the most important and after that it doesn't really matter but I am starting to question myself. I have a htpc build in the living room also that will remain as I think its the handiest for web browsing.

anyone here with a similar setup?

Cheers