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Gehad_JoyRider · 09-12-2013 04:46AM

Hey lads and laddies, I'm just wondering if any one can tell me why my PCIE slot is over heating.

I was playing bf4 my mobo 990fx sabertooth, vapor x 7950 fx8350 cpu water cooled, 550 watt psu . BF4 is killing my computer I just get constant over heating issues. any one got any ideas Ive got 1 fan pushing hot air out and 2 fans sucking cool air in any ideas?

Danger781 · 09-12-2013 05:04AM

Gehad_JoyRider wrote: »

Hey lads and laddies, I'm just wondering if any one can tell me why my PCIE slot is over heating.

I was playing bf4 my mobo 990fx sabertooth, vapor x 7950 fx8350 cpu water cooled, 550 watt psu . BF4 is killing my computer I just get constant over heating issues. any one got any ideas Ive got 1 fan pushing hot air out and 2 fans sucking cool air in any ideas?

Maybe your graphics card is overclocked too much.

ADD MOAR FANS

Gehad_JoyRider · 09-12-2013 06:17AM

Danger781 wrote: »

Maybe your graphics card is overclocked too much.

ADD MOAR FANS

its not over clocked which is weird.

TerrorFirmer · 09-12-2013 10:39AM

Sure its the gpu and not cpu? 8350 runs hot so ifs theres any issue with the cooler mounting could easily cause issues. I would say add more fans, but as long as you've at least one intake/one outake, there definitely should be no overheating to the point of actual shutdown.

ED E · 09-12-2013 10:41AM

Run temp monitoring software and see what's causing it.

Gumbi · 09-12-2013 11:35AM

How do you know it's overheating? Honestly, with a water cooled CPU that shouldn't be an issue. VaporX cooling is good so I wouldn't think it's that. Maybe the VRMs are overheating?

Def get some software (hardware monitor for example) and check it out.

Genghiz Cohen · 09-12-2013 11:54AM

Sabertooth motherboards have sensors all over the place.
It could be your case airflow. It was for my P67 Sabertooth. Moar fans.

btkm8unsl0w5r4 · 09-12-2013 05:34PM

Finally got off the dreded 3g dongle and got fiber....best upgrade ever

Seaaan · 09-12-2013 07:11PM

Esme Immense Dachshund wrote: »

Finally got off the dreded 3g dongle and got fiber....best upgrade ever

I envy you :mad:

alex1997123 · 09-12-2013 07:14PM

Bought myself a pair of these couldn't resist. €50 in total and great reviews.

BobbyPropane · 09-12-2013 07:16PM

Right I've been advised to upgrade my xfx 6870 to a 660 specifically this one http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-NVIDIA-GTX660-PCI-E-Graphics/dp/B0099AOAUI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1386612958&sr=8-3&keywords=660ti er so good idea?

BobbyPropane · 09-12-2013 07:17PM

alex1997123 wrote: »

Bought myself a pair of these couldn't resist. €50 in total and great reviews.

Did you get the game too? Same price

alex1997123 · 09-12-2013 07:18PM

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Did you get the game too? Same price

What? Ah.. ****e I never noticed that :mad:

Danger781 · 09-12-2013 07:41PM

alex1997123 wrote: »

What? Ah.. ****e I never noticed that :mad:

Contact Amazon customer support. They're usually great for this kind of thing.

TerrorFirmer · 09-12-2013 08:07PM

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Right I've been advised to upgrade my xfx 6870 to a 660 specifically this one http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-NVIDIA-GTX660-PCI-E-Graphics/dp/B0099AOAUI/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1386612958&sr=8-3&keywords=660ti er so good idea?

Terrible idea.

This is way better.

Headshot · 09-12-2013 08:39PM

Lads any good programs that I can use on my windows 8.1 to format hard drives to fat32?

BobbyPropane · 09-12-2013 09:26PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Terrible idea.

This is way better.

Right thanks anywhere with stock though?

TerrorFirmer · 09-12-2013 09:51PM

Sorry, didn't realise it wasn't in stock right now. Same story a lot of places. I really wouldn't spend 150 and postage on a GTX660 though. Total waste of money at this stage of the game. You'd have to spend a little bit more money to get a 270x then if you look around, not much more than another tenner or so though, still worth it, given how much faster the 270x is over the 660. Example of another good buy here, if you buy it soon here.

Here's another good option, £119 delivered and still faster than the GTX660.

BobbyPropane · 09-12-2013 09:54PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Sorry, didn't realise it wasn't in stock right now. Same story a lot of places. I really wouldn't spend 150 and postage on a GTX660 though. Total waste of money at this stage of the game. You'd have to spend a little bit more money to get a 270x then if you look around, not much more than another tenner or so though, still worth it, given how much faster the 270x is over the 660. Example here.

Here's another good option, £119 delivered and still faster than the GTX660.

I'll wait for stock so and just get an SSD in the mean time.

And now I see that Amazon don't ship SSD to Ireland, bloody brilliant

rd1izb7lvpuksx · 09-12-2013 10:07PM

BobbyPropane wrote: »

I'll wait for stock so and just get an SSD in the mean time.

And now I see that Amazon don't ship SSD to Ireland, bloody brilliant

Are you sure about that? I bought a couple of SSDs from Amazon, although it was early this year.

BobbyPropane · 09-12-2013 10:09PM

Amanda Ashy Flutist wrote: »

Are you sure about that? I bought a couple of SSDs from Amazon, although it was early this year.

Well they won't ship the Samsung 120Gb Evo to Ireland... they'll ship Kingston though.

Anyway that brings me to my next question should I just get a Sanddisk 64Gb SSD? Only going to be using for OS.

marco_polo · 09-12-2013 10:17PM

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Well they won't ship the Samsung 120Gb Evo to Ireland... they'll ship Kingston though.

Anyway that brings me to my next question should I just get a Sanddisk 64Gb SSD? Only going to be using for OS.

You sure it wasn't a third party seller? I just brought this all the way to the final order confirmation page, which is a good few pages after the point where they would usually refuse to proceed based on the shipping address.

BobbyPropane · 09-12-2013 10:19PM

marco_polo wrote: »

You sure it wasn't a third party seller? I just brought this all the way to the final order confirmation page, which is a good few pages after the point where they would usually refuse to proceed based on the shipping address.

Ok it's working now, actually think it was the package that includes the rail and lead that was causing the error.

Anyway should I get that or the 64 gb ?

marco_polo · 09-12-2013 10:41PM

BobbyPropane wrote: »

Ok it's working now, actually think it was the package that includes the rail and lead that was causing the error.

Anyway should I get that or the 64 gb ?

If you can get a 120GB as they offer a much better €/GB ratio, but if the budget is very tight you could manage fine with 64GB if it is just for the OS and key programs.

Seaaan · 09-12-2013 10:41PM

fk amazon. Increased mech keyboard price by 9 pounds :c
BUT THESE just dropped 30 pounds? IMPUT GUYS
Or should I just get These

McSasquatch · 09-12-2013 10:58PM

Anyone able to recommend a laptop repair place in north county Dublin?

TerrorFirmer · 09-12-2013 11:29PM

BobbyPropane wrote: »

I'll wait for stock so and just get an SSD in the mean time.

And now I see that Amazon don't ship SSD to Ireland, bloody brilliant

Did you check out the overclockers link? IceQ 270X for £149.99, pretty decent.

BobbyPropane · 09-12-2013 11:37PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Did you check out the overclockers link? IceQ 270X for £149.99, pretty decent.

oh right sorry didn't see. Still 180 quid right there, wonder would it be cheaper after christmas say around the start of January?

I'll probably just pick up the SSD in the meantime

BobbyPropane · 10-12-2013 12:28AM

Went for a SanDisk 128gb SSD

TerrorFirmer · 10-12-2013 12:38AM

BobbyPropane wrote: »

oh right sorry didn't see. Still 180 quid right there, wonder would it be cheaper after christmas say around the start of January?

I'll probably just pick up the SSD in the meantime

You might save a few quid by waiting, but to be honest, for the sake of a tenner or even twenty euro, did that ever stop us getting what we wanted sooner rather than later?

The 6870 is still OK enough to make hanging on relatively painless though. At the same time, what better time to sell the 6870 and upgrade. You should get about 90 for the 6870, making the upgrade less than a hundred for a huge increase in performance.

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