Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 11m 14d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 21/07/16 08:14 AM Share Posted 21/07/16 08:14 AM (edited) You're not wrong - just went round to fix the old mans one because the mouse stopped working. He'd gone down to get a new mouse. Found the old one on the bin. Whole system was frozen - simple reboot and everythings working again. edit: sad to see happening - 5 years ago he was spot on with stuff like this. 18 months ago he'd have at least rebooted. Edited 21/07/16 08:19 AM by k31th no need to quote the post directly above yours 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 11y 10m 8d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 21/07/16 08:27 AM Share Posted 21/07/16 08:27 AM (edited) what if I want to quote it K31th? it is one way that that person will get a notification bloody adminihamster !!!! happy PC Edited 21/07/16 08:32 AM by bloodycrashboy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnz Member 3,047 Member For: 11y 2m 19d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 21/07/16 08:43 AM Share Posted 21/07/16 08:43 AM 5 hours ago, Ezy2Confuze said: ...Core i7-930...thinking of going an Intel Xeon E3-1270 V5 CPU at the high end level there is really nothing in it gaming wise between a xeon and an i7 they are very similar apart from a few things like the on board graphics being removed on the xeon... xeon is also good for what you want also. there are some good comparisons between high end xeon vs i7's if you have a quick google 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidxr6t skids Donating Members 2,754 Member For: 12y 1m 11d Gender: Not Telling Posted 22/07/16 01:18 AM Share Posted 22/07/16 01:18 AM (edited) 22 hours ago, Ezy2Confuze said: Looked into why my PC lost the SSD boot drive and it appears the on-board SATA controller is dying, as it's intermittently losing the BD-RW and storage drives. I built this PC back in 2010, it's a Core i7-930 with 12GB's of RAM - it's one of those triple-DDR boards - and 2x Radeon HD6800's. It's served me well over the years. curious if you used an asus motherboard? I had quite an excessive failure rate with X58 asus boards. I built an X58 rig when it first came out - $450 for i7 920 CPU, $670 for asus motherboard, $300 for ram excessive = 100% failure within 3 years of every system I built. Edited 22/07/16 01:19 AM by johnxr6t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 11m 14d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 22/07/16 02:27 AM Share Posted 22/07/16 02:27 AM I had about 4 boards in a row I had issues with. All were ASUS. That was about 15 years ago. I've been a Gigabyte convert since. I know ASUS get high praise almost universally, but for some reason I had a bad run. I also know others have had similar bad runs with Gigabyte (or any other brand for that matter) On a different note: Racing setup is all assembled. Just need to sort the room out that it's going into and should be good to go. Got some mates coming over Sunday for a BBQ, beer, V8's, F1's and sim racing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidxr6t skids Donating Members 2,754 Member For: 12y 1m 11d Gender: Not Telling Posted 22/07/16 02:45 AM Share Posted 22/07/16 02:45 AM (edited) Never ever had a single gigabyte board fail on me, but I'm not a huge fanboy. Sometimes I've been given a spec list and their adament they have the best parts and I just don't bother arguing except for power supplies and a few other exceptions. I generally don't have many issues but I put that down to my paranoid anti static procedures. Static discharge can kill your electronics MONTHS after occurrence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love how this thread is going with the custom w/c loop rig(s) and the real gaming setups like you're doing Rab. Edited 22/07/16 02:46 AM by johnxr6t 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 11m 14d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 22/07/16 02:59 AM Share Posted 22/07/16 02:59 AM Am the same - am happiest when they give me a budget and their usage requirements and let me decide on the best system to build them. That said - I do have a few who I do suggest "Just buy a Dell" to or tell them get themselves a laptop. Am getting deadlocks and disconnecting the home phones this time round so none of the kids decide to move back into the house and force me to dismantle the toys to make room for them again. Love the custom watercooling setups - will look at doing one someday for sh*ts and giggles and the experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 11y 10m 8d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 22/07/16 03:51 AM Share Posted 22/07/16 03:51 AM (edited) 1 hour ago, johnxr6t said: Never ever had a single gigabyte board fail on me, but I'm not a huge fanboy. Had 4 fail on me over the years, 1 in my desk top, 2 in my server 1 in my media center,2 Gigabyte and 2 Asus ATM,have 1 gigabyte desktop, 1 Asus desktop, 1 Gigabyte server and 1 Asrock media center. I put all the losses down to extreme humidity in Cairns. was cleaning up my server today and found this: I don't have dust, I got mud! Quote I love how this thread is going with the custom w/c loop rig(s) and the real gaming setups like you're doing Rab. I'm a self confessed computer geek, I just love looking at picks of hardware (geek porn) and Rab has the most exciting (2 1080's in SLI) been looking at custom water cooling for my desktop mainly for my GPU as it gets a little fan noisy when gaming. trouble is, GTX 690 is old now, can only find 1 water-block, it's in Germany and $200 + postage they also have this really cool pump: Gotta love the Germans Edited 22/07/16 03:56 AM by bloodycrashboy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 11m 14d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 22/07/16 04:05 AM Share Posted 22/07/16 04:05 AM 1 minute ago, bloodycrashboy said: I put all the losses down to extreme humidity in Cairns. 2 minutes ago, bloodycrashboy said: I don't have dust, I got mud! You don't run evaporative cooling in the home do you? Sometimes you just can't help your environment - need to make adjustments for it - closed waterloop could go along way to help there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodycrashboy Feeling the Love :-) Bronze Donating Members 4,421 Member For: 11y 10m 8d Gender: Male Location: Not in Cairns anymore Posted 22/07/16 04:08 AM Share Posted 22/07/16 04:08 AM trouble is I use the fans to cool the HDDS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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