Building New PC - thoughts/suggestions

Boston

Jonathan wrote: »

Shouldn't be any more than a meter away at most.
I assume there is no problem with pairing with another BT dongle? One built into a laptop for example?

Well afaik you'll need to use the receiver which comes with it, or another logitech one. The BT devices should be able to operate no problem however wifi is a massive interference source for BT, so you may run into problems.

Jonathan

Well my computer finally arrived.

Thanks to everyone for the tips and suggestions.




On second thoughts, it might have been worth the extra €25 for a modular psu. That said, the airflow seems pretty good.

Benched the cpu and only hit about 60 degrees at full tilt. It seems to idle at about 35 degrees.

I've yet to load the gpu though, should be interesting because it is passive. Just installing Orange box at the moment.




My 12V seems to be acting the bollix tho.
Anyone know why?





Whole system:

Jonathan

Also:

Any reason to go for Windows 7 Professional 32bit over 64bit?

marco_polo

Jonathan wrote: »

Well my computer finally arrived.

Thanks to everyone for the tips and suggestions.




On second thoughts, it might have been worth the extra €25 for a modular psu. That said, the airflow seems pretty good.

Benched the cpu and only hit about 60 degrees at full tilt. It seems to idle at about 35 degrees.

I've yet to load the gpu though, should be interesting because it is passive. Just installing Orange box at the moment.




My 12V seems to be acting the bollix tho.
Anyone know why?





Whole system:

Error is with CPUID I'd say. I severly doubt the PC would even post if it was actually only getting 4.3V. Don't trust software for PSU measurements.

No reason not to go with 64 bit IMO. 32 Bit OS should be banned for all new computers so so 64bit apps can start taking off.

Jonathan

marco_polo wrote: »

Error is with CPUID I'd say. I severly doubt the PC would even post if it was actually only getting 4.3V. Don't trust software for PSU measurements.

Oh well yea, I guessed that. But I was thinking maybe there was a known bios fix or something that someone had come across before.

marco_polo

Jonathan wrote: »

Oh well yea, I guessed that. But I was thinking maybe there was a known bios fix or something that someone had come across before.

Should do a quick google for 12V rail and cpuid. Seems a suspiciously large amount of MBs need a bios fix is that is the case.

Jonathan

marco_polo wrote: »

Should do a quick google for 12V rail and cpuid. Seems a suspiciously large amount of MBs need a bios fix is that is the case.

Ahhhh grand. I thought I was the only one.

Just stressed the gpu and it never went over 72 degrees. I'm happy. Means I don't have to add more case fans

somakasvh

Jonathan wrote: »

Nice looking setup. How is it fan noise wise?

Also, nice map of the internet :P

Jonathan

somakasvh wrote: »

Nice looking setup. How is it fan noise wise?

Fan is very quiet. You can barely hear it. I was expecting louder tbh.

Fan was awful loud when I turned it on at first mind you. I had another look, and the cpu fan cable was obstructing the fan :pac:

somakasvh wrote: »

Also, nice map of the internet :P

Hahaha thanks. Didn't intentionally include that though!

Jonathan

One of my sticks of RAM is faulty. Kept getting BSODs

Currently typing on 2GB single channel.



Has anyone delt with HWVS for RMA's before? My german isn't great and I can't find a link on the site.

Can I just RMA the one stick or do I have to return the two as they were in the one twin pack?

Do I have to pay for shipping over and back? A stick of RAM is only €20, shipping would prob cost more.


Can I RMA directly to Corsair?

somakasvh

Did you try using the two red DIMM slots instead of the yellow?
Do you get the BSoD with just the faulty DIMM installed on its own?

Try running memtest86 with a few different configs just to be sure. You can grab a bootable ISO here

Jonathan

somakasvh wrote: »

Did you try using the two red DIMM slots instead of the yellow?

No. I haven't tried that. Didn't think it would make any difference tbh.

somakasvh wrote: »

Do you get the BSoD with just the faulty DIMM installed on its own?

Yes. BSOD'd before the windows login screen had even come up. Two start ups in a row.

No BSOD's now since I switched to the single good DIMM.

I haven't tried memtest but used the windows memory tester yoke and with both DIMMs in, they failed the test with a hardware error. The good DIMM on it's own passed, and the bad DIMM failed twice.

somakasvh

Jonathan wrote: »

No. I haven't tried that. Didn't think it would make any difference tbh.

Could potentially be a dodgy DIMM slot.

Also, did you remember to set your Vdimm to 2.1V in the BIOS?

Jonathan

somakasvh wrote: »

Could potentially be a dodgy DIMM slot.

I took both of them out and reseated them in opposide slots, and when i was testing them individually, i tested them in the known good slot.

somakasvh wrote: »

Also, did you remember to set your Vdimm to 2.1V in the BIOS?

Yup. Speaking of which, when did RAM start running at 2.1V? I always thought it was 1.8V

Solitaire

RAM started running at 2.1V when all the OEMs started focusing on DDR3 production and the supply of decent chips dried up, forcing many memory manufacturers to overvolt their RAM to keep up :rolleyes:

And RAM rated for overvolting often has issues. Especially DDR2. Try overvolting the chipset. A lot. That's the usual fix for overvolted DDR2 not behaving itself

Jonathan

Swapped slots and ran at 2.2V and it passed the memory test.

Dropped it back to 2.1V again in the opposite slots and passed too.

Solitaire

Could be a bad slot or mobo/northbridge/PCB traces favour the other slots over the ones you used originally.