You're trying to get F$ to go on a rant...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sphynx
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You're trying to get F$ to go on a rant...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sphynx
Lol
Nice job there! It's not something we see every day.......missing dust. I finished working on Bipolar myself. Surprisingly with the case all buttoned up, the dust wasn't that bad. The locked up cpu cooling fan might have had something to do with it. The gpu was worse but still not bad. I left her working on updates last night and found her powered off this morning. Gonna have to change out psus today. I guess having decent cases that aren't open all the time do help stop the bunnies from forming. So jealous of your builds!
Don't worry, y'all. These two are relatively dust-free, but I'm making up for it with my home rigs [emoji12] Three dogs and continuous home improvement projects don't lead to clean towers!
Taking a closer look at the Gigabyte motherboard that has been giving me so much trouble... is that a bent pin?? Could that have been causing all these issues?!
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...a928d4edfc.jpg
Yes, it could! With a light touch you can very often bend them back.
Well, I suppose I should have checked this before I got a new board :p
Yes, but then you wouldn't have a new board...Duh! I'll have to try that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by FourOh
Oh boy. RAM problems are back, on the new board this time :mad:
Again, system seems to be stable with a 2x8gb DDR4-3200 kit, while randomly crashing (no blue screen, just quickly shuts down) with the 4x8gb DDR4-2400 kit. Is it possible I got another bad RAM kit back from RMA? Do I need to go through all the testing again?!? Or is the universe trying to tell me I only need 16gb of RAM on this machine??
Remember not to blame Gigabyte anymore lol
Safe enough to say no further testing required. It's the RAM
Probably so. In other news, I finally heard back from MSI about my 280X RMA... they're out of stock and offered a 390X. It's worth at least twice what I paid for the 280X, but has even higher power usage and lower Double Precision... there's always a catch!Quote:
Originally Posted by John P. Myers
L'il oh me? Rant? You must be joking.... :PQuote:
Originally Posted by John P. Myers
[Rant time]
EVGA is a strange beast when it comes to MBs. My X58 board (refurbished) had SATA controller driver issues. Though it was Marvell's (SATA controller Mfg) fault, the EVGA board was very sensitive to it. My EVGA Z97 Classified MB is great except for the onboard fan controller. You cannot manually control fans with any form of software (like SpeedFan). Had to use a 3rd party active hardware solution. 1st one I tried was NZXT's but that unit requires internet access before it will allow you to manage fan speeds. My final solution was the mCubed T-Balancer. Works very well but it's a total PITA to set up.
[/Rant time]
Btw, how's that controller working out for you JPM?
It seems to be a lot more gpu, aside from the DP. Unless you're planning to use it on MW it still seems like a fair replacement offer. IMHOQuote:
Originally Posted by FourOh
Are you sure it's not the psu? I'm just wondering because what yours is doing is one of Bipolar's typical moves. Since I replaced the psu, she stopped rebooting at will.Quote:
Originally Posted by FourOh
Yep, I think I'll take the deal. I'm working on Collatz now, where it should really shine. I'll decide what to do with it after that and the Pentathlon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sphynx
It acts a little bit like a PSU issue... bonking out without a BSOD. But it's a new EVGA 850W Platinum PSU, and everything seems to work fine when the higher speed (and higher voltage) 2x8gb kit is installed. It could be a software issue, after all I did change out motherboards without reinstalling Windows 10. I cleaned as many of the old drivers out as possible, including a fresh NVIDIA (not the toxic release) install. And I would think if it's a Windows issue I would get blue screens instead of crap-outs. I've checked all RAM and cables to make sure they're all seated properly, disabled ECO mode on PSU, disabled CPU overclocking... still with the crashing :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Shandia
Yeah, it sounds just like a Bipolar move. It was one of the things that made her HER. Overclock, no overclock, underclock, ram -- all the of the above too, more voltage, less voltage....didn't matter. Sometimes she would run for weeks without a problem. Then, clear out of the blue, she'd start one of her fits rebooting every few minutes for hours on end. With windows xp, she would blue screen with the dvr card in her. The rest of the time with no dvr card, no matter the OS she was running, she'd just reboot whenever she felt like it. She was actually happiest with 8.1. But she would still start doing the reboot dance occasionally. She has done it since I first built her with all new everything. I actually started thinking it was the psu last year when I added the r-boxes to her/her psu. One by one, I had to unplug them until I was down to only 2 of them. With her most recent stunt, not powering up period, I had no choice but to change things out. Now she is happy running 4 r-boxes on her psu and hasn't shown any sign of any wanting to reboot whenever she feels like it. I actually am feeling a little stupid for letting her run 5 years like that when it wasn't necessary.Quote:
Originally Posted by FourOh
Working great last time it was in use.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fire$torm
[Rant_Time]GD Asus! Built a 4790k cruncher and it was awesome. Used an Asus mITX board and an m.2 SSD. Threw an R9 295 X2 in there with it and all was good with the world. It ran for a few months, then one day...NOTHING! BIOS made it through POST but no OS was to be found anywhere. After years of refusing to use Asus boards because of bad experiences 100% of the time, i finally use one and the m.2 socket died...lost everything. It's still down to this day because I'm afraid it won't work again even after replacement and then I'd have to send it flying through the nearest window... [/Rant_Time]
Anyway, the NZXT fan controller is in that build and i let all fans run full speed. All the extra fan headers on that thing are great since the mITX board has none to spare.
BTW, the R9 295 X2 is now in my QX9770 build. I'll be putting a 7990 in the 4790k when i get the nerve to see if it's going to work this time...
Also, i have another Asus board i haven't tested yet (Z10PE-D8 WS). If you hear on the news Asus HQ burned to the ground, you'll know it didn't work either...
ROFLMFAO.....Quote:
Originally Posted by John P. Myers
Sorry to hear about your 4790K issues. Hope the M.2 controller didn't take the drive with it.
I agree with you John 100% for my experience with ASUS boards are similar. My current problem is with an X99 board. One went up in flames in front of my eyes. it was working fine for months, using an i7 5820K CPU. Nothing needed to change for if it works, do not touch. I decided to try the RMI rout and as that will take months to resolve I purchased an X99-A board and a new spare 1000W CPU at the same time as well as a new SSD. The system lasted less than a week for it shows no life whatsoever. I know that the CPU and the SSD works fine having tested them in another machine and the Tech at my favorite local computer shop could not get it going either. If you want to make sure that you do a good job with ASUS HQ let me know, I might have a spare match or two to help out.Quote:
Originally Posted by John P. Myers
WAHAHAHA! So, it's not me that has it in for ASUS. Yeah, Bipolar is ASUS. I have two other ASUS boards. One won't boot with 4 sticks of ram......the second one has a bunch of bent cpu pins. It was an accident I assure you....it saved me from catching a felony for arson myself. It was showing signs of being a pain anyway. To date, Bipolar does one thing that none of my other computers can do. I'm not talking about not remembering the bios settings when unplugged from the power. She has this uncanny knack at unbricking gpus. Not sure why that is. I have yet to try the 580gtx on her. Can't find it atm. But yeah, when I installed the new psu, she unbricked 2 gpus for me that were left for dead since last year.
That's a monster board! Hope it holds up better than the other one!Quote:
Originally Posted by John P. Myers
I did some testing today on my X99 board... still won't boot with 4 sticks but works fine with 3. I guess 24gb is plenty for 12 threads anyway :p
This is the mobo in my dual E5-2630 v3 machine. Works fine so far.Quote:
Originally Posted by John P. Myers
Well, my X99 build has experienced a bit of "scope creep." Or cell division. Or cloning gone wrong. Anyway, here is what I ended up with:
Phoenix
i7-5820k
MSI X99A SLI Krait Edition
EVGA GTX 980 ACX 2.0 (EVGA Step-Up from 970)
2x8gb G.Skill DDR4-3200
Samsung 850 EVO 500Gb M.2
Kraken X61 (RMA replacement of leaking X31)
EVGA 850W Platinum P2 PSU
Fractal Design Define R5
RMAswell (Hat Tip to MindCrime for the name)
Xeon E5-2670v3 (12-Core) (Engineering Sample, $300 on ebay)
Gigabyte GA-X99-UD3P (Bent CPU socket pin carefully straightened)
EVGA GTX 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ (pulled from another rig)
G.Skill 4x8gb DDR4
Samsung 850 EVO 250Gb M.2
Cooler Master 212 Evo (from an old build)
EVGA 650W Gold PSU (from an old build)
Fractal Design Define S
I also received yesterday a new R9 390X from MSI as an RMA replacement of a 280X I bought on ebay last year. This thing is a BEAST! 8Gb 512-Bit GDDR5, pre-installed backplate, 1100Mhz clock speed. I have it installed in WaspRedux now... it's generating over 5 Million per day on Collatz, along with lots of heat :p I'd like to run a 280X with it, I have enough overhead on the PSU. But, I don't think the case has enough airflow to keep it from bursting into flames :D
http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...87810564a5.jpg
Phoenix & RMAswell
Great, these two siblings are confusing all my BOINC projects. They keep getting them mixed up... thinking one machine is the other when they request work. I guess I should have reinstalled OS after swapping motherboards after all! :p
Great pics! :-bd
Dirty 'em up a bit so I don't feel so bad! :)
Great stuff.
Will ship dust for free!
Ding Ding Ding! Shandia called it. After installing (yet another) replacement RAM set, Phoenix still would crash when I put load on the GPU. I reinstalled OS... no change. I threw in a budget PSU to see what would happen... yep, stable as a rock. So, I'll be submitting an RMA on the EVGA 850 P2 PSU.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shandia
RMA Count on this Build: 7
Wow...well at least the PSU is still under warranty. Come to think of it, i had a similar thing happen when using a Fractal Design 1000W Newton PSU on my 2700K build. Computer would work fine until i opened a web browser or anything requiring graphics, then it would die. Did some checking and the voltages were about 3.5% above spec steadily - no idea if it spiked above that. Replaced that PSU with an EVGA and no problems since. Put the Fractal in my QX9770 build and no problems since. Real head scratcher...Quote:
Originally Posted by FourOh
Congrats Shandia! Your prize is in the "Free Kittens" thread. Send me your address and you get a free R-Box!Quote:
Originally Posted by FourOh