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Cuddlesworth

ED E wrote: »

Build is 8 months old now, never moved since (EEB, 2P, weighs a tonne). One vertical one horizontal. Tubing could cause a pocket but I'd expect to hear that at boot is the thing.

Permeation is a thing that most AIO's seem to ignore. Are they the ones they let you fill them? If so I would pull them out, move them around a bit and then give them a distilled water top-up.

ED E

No such luck unfortunately.

There's problem per se at the minute as thermals are fine (must enable IPMI alerts in case that changes) so only really worried about potential leaking killing a €600 mobo.

Cuddlesworth

ED E wrote: »

No such luck unfortunately.

There's problem per se at the minute as thermals are fine (must enable IPMI alerts in case that changes) so only really worried about potential leaking killing a €600 mobo.

Air bubbles won't break the seals and if there was a leak you would have noticed it by now. Constant air hitting the pump will cause it to break but in your case its a odd but every couple of hours so no worry. How are the rads orientated, are the inlets/outlets on the vertial, on the bottom or the top?

Grahamer666

Pac1Man wrote: »

For those who have moved from gaming consoles to PC, is there a 'right' time to move? I know there are no defined generations in PCs but would it be wise to see out this console generation with the hardware I have already invested in?

Trying to justify the move here! :P

My PS4 Pro is now gathering dust and i moved over to PC in April. Do it now if you can afford a good GPU. I only have a locked i5 CPU and it hasn't struggled in any game i own. DO IT NOW !!

TerrorFirmer

So since I installed my 1080Ti, Windows shutdown has stopped working...nothing happens at all when I hit shutdown. If I hit 'restart' it does go the restarting screen but just hangs forever. Same graphics driver as I had with my GTX1070 so at a loss....any suggestions?

I keep everything on externals so a fresh install is not a big deal but it's just irritating me that I can't work out why it's doing this. Tried killing various processes but still happening.

frozenfrozen

run 'shutdown -s -t 0' and see if it shuts down

dunworth1

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

So since I installed my 1080Ti, Windows shutdown has stopped working...nothing happens at all when I hit shutdown. If I hit 'restart' it does go the restarting screen but just hangs forever. Same graphics driver as I had with my GTX1070 so at a loss....any suggestions?

I keep everything on externals so a fresh install is not a big deal but it's just irritating me that I can't work out why it's doing this. Tried killing various processes but still happening.

try the start menu troubleshooter see if i finds anything

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12385/windows-10-troubleshoot-problems-opening-start-menu-cortana

Pac1Man

Grahamer666 wrote: »

My PS4 Pro is now gathering dust and i moved over to PC in April. Do it now if you can afford a good GPU. I only have a locked i5 CPU and it hasn't struggled in any game i own. DO IT NOW !!

Yes, I think I am ready to join the dark side.

However, part picking is an absolute head melt. People a lot smarter than me tell me the i7 is overkill, the i5 is a poor choice for future proofing and the Ryzen 1600 will need BIOS updates and tweaks to make it run right since it's a new CPU.

I'm certainly not expecting console level of maintenance but I would like to make the transition as pain free as possible starting off.

GPUs are another story!

It's fun researching and learning about it all though.

wotzgoingon

Pac1Man wrote: »

the i7 is overkill, the i5 is a poor choice for future proofing and the Ryzen 1600 will need BIOS updates and tweaks to make it run right since it's a new CPU.

The Ryzen 1600 is a excellent CPU. The onlything that wasn't working at launch is high speed RAM wasn't compatible but that is mostly fixed now.

Digital Solitude

Has anyone experience with water damaged keyboards?

Its not even water on mine, chocolate milk

Its been described as sticky, smelly and none of the keys work. Should I hold out much hope of being able to repair it?

Can't afford a new mechanical board right now

ED E

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

Air bubbles won't break the seals and if there was a leak you would have noticed it by now. Constant air hitting the pump will cause it to break but in your case its a odd but every couple of hours so no worry. How are the rads orientated, are the inlets/outlets on the vertial, on the bottom or the top?

Cuddlesworth

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Has anyone experience with water damaged keyboards?

Its not even water on mine, chocolate milk

Its been described as sticky, smelly and none of the keys work. Should I hold out much hope of being able to repair it?

Can't afford a new mechanical board right now

Pull it apart, carefully clearn the board with isopropyl alcohol. Hope for the best.

Cuddlesworth

ED E wrote: »

Nice system. I would guess its the bottom rad and pump combo doing it, bubbles would form in the hose kink about the cpu and then get pulled in when large enough. Just guessing though.

Its a pity you can't fill not because there are not many other options for stopping it with dual rads.

Serephucus

Are you not using any PCI-E cards? If not, you could always rear-mount that bottom AIO. Should solve your problem.

Otherwise, I don't know if there's a lot you can do; gravity's a bitch.

Samuel T. Cogley

Digital Solitude wrote: »

Has anyone experience with water damaged keyboards?

Its not even water on mine, chocolate milk

Its been described as sticky, smelly and none of the keys work. Should I hold out much hope of being able to repair it?

Can't afford a new mechanical board right now

Back in the day our tech support used to tell people to immerse it in warm water then stick it in the airing cupboard (hot press). Advice that was stopped after some lazy so and so didn't log into the customers account and gave that advice, which was dutifully followed, by one of, the then few and far between, laptop owners.

Digital Solitude

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Back in the day our tech support used to tell people to immerse it in warm water then stick it in the airing cupboard (hot press). Advice that was stopped after some lazy so and so didn't log into the customers account and gave that advice, which was dutifully followed, by one of, the then few and far between, laptop owners.

There's no hassle in opening the fecker up, I've dug into enough phones at this stage, I'll take a toothbrush and some isopropyl and see how it goes. If a departments answer was a quick clean that does make me feel better

Redfox25

Digital Solitude wrote: »

There's no hassle in opening the fecker up, I've dug into enough phones at this stage, I'll take a toothbrush and some isopropyl and see how it goes. If a departments answer was a quick clean that does make me feel better

It's not like a quick clean with water then IPA to remove the water then sometime in the hot press won't **** it up more than chocolate milk.
Once it gets a chance to dry out properly it should be fine. If it's totally sunk then you have wasted nothing but some time.

fingers crossed for you.

bluestripe93

What would be the best brand 4TB HDD for file storage?
WD, Seagate, or Toshiba

dunworth1

bluestripe93 wrote: »

What would be the best brand 4TB HDD for file storage?
WD, Seagate, or Toshiba

if this is the Toshiba you meant to link https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toshiba-X300-7200RPM-128MB-Drive/dp/B013J7HO8G/ref=sr_1_6?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1502060529&sr=1-6

it's a faster drive than the other two 7200rpm over the 5400rm in the WD drive and 5900rpm in the Seagate

also has double the buffer of the other two

K.O.Kiki

bluestripe93 wrote: »

What would be the best brand 4TB HDD for file storage?
WD, Seagate, or Toshiba

Western Digital or HGST (Hitachi)
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-failure-rates-q1-2017/

ED E

Serephucus wrote: »

Are you not using any PCI-E cards? If not, you could always rear-mount that bottom AIO. Should solve your problem.

Otherwise, I don't know if there's a lot you can do; gravity's a bitch.

Picture was pre GPU and SSD daughter card.

glynf

ED E wrote: »

Picture was pre GPU and SSD daughter card.

Maybe an option would be an AIO with longer tubes. It should allow you to have gentler curve radius' so less resistance and less chance of air getting trapped in the loop. Think the NZXT AIO's are a decent length.

There's always the Swiftech H220x2 or similar AIO kits where you can add a second block, not sure how these would work vertically though.

frozenfrozen

I still have my incredibly noisy h100. I've got approved for an RMA no less than 3 times and I never go through with it because they won't send me out a replacement in advance

GSV

Hey, anyone want a case? Unused, still in the box.
It's free. You will have to collect it. Dublin.

It's a Phanteks ECLIPSE P400S Midi-Tower. It's White.
It doesn't have a window.

Jacovs

GSV wrote: »

Hey, anyone want a case? Unused, still in the box.
It's free. You will have to collect it. Dublin.

It's a Phanteks ECLIPSE P400S Midi-Tower. It's White.
It doesn't have a window.

Would love a decent case. Whereabouts in dublin?

Lu Tze

Very generous, I'm sure somebody here will find a good home for it!

scanlant

I'll take it off your hands (if you can hold it until Thursday or Friday when I'm in Dublin). If not, no bother.
New to building complete computers (Intel NUC was the most complex so far). I'm hoping to get started soon, waiting on RX Vega release.

GSV

Jacovs wrote: »

Would love a decent case. Whereabouts in dublin?

scanlant wrote: »

I'll take it off your hands (if you can hold it until Thursday or Friday when I'm in Dublin). If not, no bother.

I think it's gone. A guy PM'd me. If he doesn't pick up, I'll post again.

scanlant

GSV wrote: »

I think it's gone. A guy PM'd me. If he doesn't pick up, I'll post again.

No bother. Someone will get a good case at least.
It's very generous of you to give it away.

Jacovs

GSV wrote: »

I think it's gone. A guy PM'd me. If he doesn't pick up, I'll post again.

Jaysis thought i was quick replying a minute after. Will keep an eye out if they change their mind, thanks.