The TPU UK Clubhouse

[RCoon]

Dual Hydrocopper?! You dog you.

 

[Finners]

So will you be on BF tonight then void? I won't be fitting a new pump in my rig tomorrow, I need some longer screws for it

 

[the54thvoid]

So will you be on BF tonight then void? I won't be fitting a new pump in my rig tomorrow, I need some longer screws for it

I'll speak to wife. She'll understand my needs

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Ugh... I want to get a Corsair 760T soooo bad but my money needs to go on paying off my CC before anything else..... fuck this cruel world.....

Alternatively i can be a complete twat and just charge it on my CC which i should be paying off im not happy about it but at the same time im down for crying every time i look through the big windowed side panel at my sexilicious hardware.

I'll also need to grab 2 blue LED stips and a Corsair H105

 

[RCoon]

Ugh... I want to get a Corsair 760T soooo bad but my money needs to go on paying off my CC before anything else..... fuck this cruel world.....

Alternatively i can be a complete twat and just charge it on my CC which i should be paying off im not happy about it but at the same time im down for crying every time i look through the big windowed side panel at my sexilicious hardware.

I'll also need to grab 2 blue LED stips and a Corsair H105

Got my led steps from scan, Silverstone ones I think. Same as the bitfenix alchemy but far cheaper!

 

[Fourstaff]

Nice mancave you have got there Freedom

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Nice mancave you have got there Freedom

Not mine. I dont own the case yet. Just wanted to show off how awesome it looked

 

[kurosagi01]

I have just placed my order on my new rig will be posting some pics around Tuesday-Wednesday hopefully.

 

[d1nky]

man i miss having a pc!

 

[RCoon]

man i miss having a pc!

I was thinking the other day if we were likely to hear from you again

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Gonna start breaking stuff down and moving up to my new man cave in an hour or so... means breaking my desk down and moving everything upstairs

 

[d1nky]

I was thinking the other day if we were likely to hear from you again

i keep dreaming of a new uber pc! i will be back!

 

[kurosagi01]

i keep dreaming of a new uber pc! i will be back!

Lol i miss having a PC myself which is why i'm going back had enough of using a laptop for work and games.

 

[the54thvoid]

Ach pooples.

Yes, I said 'pooples', what of it?

It seems my board was damaged after all. My DIMM slot A1 is not reading. In BIOS it is coming up as abnormal. I've switched memory around and it is only the A1 slot that is affected, each memory 'card' is fine. Now reads 12Gb instead of my lovely 16Gb. That would explain my BF4 BSOD that mentioned some form of timing, I guess it was the DIMM slot failing.

So, do i march on with my current set up and wait till Skylake or do I switch to a new mobo and CPU (and W8) now?

 

[RCoon]

Ach pooples.

Yes, I said 'pooples', what of it?

It seems my board was damaged after all. My DIMM slot A1 is not reading. In BIOS it is coming up as abnormal. I've switched memory around and it is only the A1 slot that is affected, each memory 'card' is fine. Now reads 12Gb instead of my lovely 16Gb. That would explain my BF4 BSOD that mentioned some form of timing, I guess it was the DIMM slot failing.

So, do i march on with my current set up and wait till Skylake or do I switch to a new mobo and CPU (and W8) now?

New mobo only, don't see the point in investing in that much tech (which won't make too much difference to your beastly machine). I know you like shiny fast things, but even in your position of buying all out power, I'd replace the MoBo and then hold fast for some kind of monster machine when new processes hit. Also besides the UI crap with windows 8, it boots within like, 5 seconds, and shuts down just as quickly. Well worth the rest of the pain IMO.#

X99 just doesn't provide enough of a gap from your rig to make the jump worth it, even with your budget. X99 to me felt very much like a bit of a cop out from intel.

 

[the54thvoid]

Time to invest in some external HDD back up for these pesky new OS's and mobo's.
I'll stick with the old board for a bit. I like my shiny new things but I also hate reinstalling everything.

EDIT: I know for sure that when I do upgrade, the old board will be a free giveaway to someone on TPU due to it's busted A1 DIMM.

 

[Finners]

How did your CPU/dimm slot get wet? Thought it was the bottom card that leaked? Would have thought the water would have just run off.

I would also try loosening the CPU cooler slightly, I know on my board and I've read others, if I over tighten the board I get memory bsod's as a connection breaks somewhere.

EDIT*

dibs on that board! If you do replace haha

 

[the54thvoid]

How did your CPU/dimm slot get wet? Thought it was the bottom card that leaked? Would have thought the water would have just run off.

I would also try loosening the CPU cooler slightly, I know on my board and I've read others, if I over tighten the board I get memory bsod's as a connection breaks somewhere.

EDIT*

dibs on that board! If you do replace haha

The water went as far as the CPU socket and DIMM slots. It was a mighty flood. I'll try loosening the cooler, theory makes sense.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Meanwhile in wisconsin...

 

[kurosagi01]

I am now back on a desktop,feels so much better to be typing on keyboard and looking at monitor and feels good to have a big tower by side of me.

 

[RCoon]

I am now back on a desktop,feels so much better to be typing on keyboard and looking at monitor and feels good to have a big tower by side of me.

Looking at your specs, it appears you've built rather well. Certainly gives me a run for my money

 

[kurosagi01]

Looking at your specs, it appears you've built rather well. Certainly gives me a run for my money

A big upgrade from what i had before which was Intel core i3 530,4GB DDR3 ram and GTX660 non ti

 

[FreedomEclipse]

@RCoon move is almost complete, all thats left is to sort out the junk but i cant be arsed to do that tonight. Computer is back up and running which is the main important thing.

Unfortunately im suffering from some minor teething issues with regards to net speeds. for soms reason, im only getting 14-20mb/s down instead of my usual 60-80mb/s

ANyway here was the previous tip

Shit is still all over the floor, but ive managed to move all the main shelving (not in the pic) upstairs - whats left is just random junk

This was a gift from my sister before she left to go back to Japan.

And this is the new room - Ignore the rather 'baby room'ish' curtains - they were the only ones we could find at the moment.

With everything set up and ready to party. I originally wanted to fit my 23" NEC monitor somewhere but it was just too big fit with this 27" and would mean moving the 27" 'off center'

Bit of a closer look and also the mass of cables and other junk on the other side of the room that still needs sorting.

And heres the other corner of the room which has been turned into a 'storage' area for all my boxes and other crap, but those will be moved elsewhere.

and thats pretty much it. Nothing super glamorous.

 

[kurosagi01]

Room looks sweet Freedom

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Room looks sweet Freedom

which one? ;p the ransacked room or the fly tipped room? the heavy lifting is done - all thats left to do is the mundane task or sorting all the small bits n pieces out