The PC Snobbery Thread

[Blinx123]

32 for the lower socket no? Also, how do you get to 104? I count 12 slots, not 13.

My bad.

Can't count to 96. Damnit!

What lower socket? Socket 1? Yea. 4x8GB in quad-channel mode without ECC/registered.

[Badger3920]

My bad.

Can't count to 96. Damnit!

What lower socket? Socket 1? Yea. 4x8GB in quad-channel mode without ECC/registered.

Right, which was what I was referring to when I said 32 =)

[Blinx123]

Right, which was what I was referring to when I said 32 =)

Oh. Ok.

I thought you were referring to the whole setup (which would be the case with 12x3GB and a badly optimized QPI, btw).

[CorruptedDragon]

Lol.

You guys make me feel like a rebel/non-conformist.
Owning a Noctua DH14, a Z68 board and a super heavy (almost 24lb without any hardware installed) big tower and all that.

Am I the only one on here who didn't buy a P67 board alongside a Coolermaster Hyper 212+ and a Coolermaster case?

lol I was looking at z68 boards too. The problem I was running into was I wanted a mobo that would support Crossfire and SLI, depending on what I want to do in the future. Most of the Z68 boards I was able to find in this price range only supported one or the other. I liked the one I decided on because it did support both. It also got really good overclocking results ( the highest of any Asus boards, even the more expensive ones!)

I am still undecided on the SSD though. I picked up an extra 1TB 6.0 SATA drive though. It is a single platter and 7200k, and got really good benchmarks. Eventually I may decide to add an SSD when I do my annual reformat but for now, while it will load things up faster...it's not really an advantage in what I do.

[Blinx123]

After seeing this, I'm glad I bought the German first edition years ago.



Main character sounds like a dork with fake teeth in that version. As opposed to the German voice acting that make him sound like a dork exclusively.
Lol.

[Blinx123]

After running for roughly 62 hours, my computer just crashed again.
Once again, the monitor lost sync, the driver quit and the whole thing rebooted.

So much for cleaner power. Damn it!


EDIT: Great! I'm once again not getting any signal from that graphics card.
Something is dead wrong with either that card or my mainboard.

[CorruptedDragon]

This is the review that made me choose the video card I got.
Beats the regular 6970 and gtx580 in benchmarks and is $100 less than a normal 6970 and far cheaper than a gtx 580

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/...o_card_review/

[Favelle]

This is the review that made me choose the video card I got.
Beats the regular 6970 and gtx580 in benchmarks and is $100 less than a normal 6970 and far cheaper than a gtx 580

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/...o_card_review/

Nice work man! My fingers are crossed for your overclock/unlock!!!

[Badger3920]

lol I was looking at z68 boards too. The problem I was running into was I wanted a mobo that would support Crossfire and SLI, depending on what I want to do in the future. Most of the Z68 boards I was able to find in this price range only supported one or the other. I liked the one I decided on because it did support both. It also got really good overclocking results ( the highest of any Asus boards, even the more expensive ones!)

I am still undecided on the SSD though. I picked up an extra 1TB 6.0 SATA drive though. It is a single platter and 7200k, and got really good benchmarks. Eventually I may decide to add an SSD when I do my annual reformat but for now, while it will load things up faster...it's not really an advantage in what I do.

Good call man - you need to get what's right for YOU. Personally, I'm kicking myself for not getting a larger SSD than 60gb, because I'm frequently moving things to my 500gb drive to clear out space. If I ever have to reformat in a year or two, hopefully SSD costs will have come down a lot by then and I'll just pick up a 320gb SSD and use that as my boot drive.

[Favelle]

Good call man - you need to get what's right for YOU. Personally, I'm kicking myself for not getting a larger SSD than 60gb, because I'm frequently moving things to my 500gb drive to clear out space. If I ever have to reformat in a year or two, hopefully SSD costs will have come down a lot by then and I'll just pick up a 320gb SSD and use that as my boot drive.

Costs are coming down rapidly in fact. What a 64GB cost you can now get 128GB.....they are dropping. It just doesn't seem all that fast, LOL.

[Badger3920]

That's definitely good news. I'll just wait a year or two and pick up an SSD with a ton of storage. Platter drives are coming to an end =)

[CorruptedDragon]

That's definitely good news. I'll just wait a year or two and pick up an SSD with a ton of storage. Platter drives are coming to an end =)

That was pretty much my thinking also. I had an SSD in my cart but was like...eh, it's 64gb which is obviously plenty for the OS and frequently used programs but I kind of want something bigger so I don't have to worry about cleaning it out and moving stuff all the time. I figure in a year or so they should be bigger and cheaper.

[Blinx123]

Downloading older drivers from the NVIDIA archives right now.
NVIDIA admitted that 280.xxx and 285.xxx tend to be unstable in some cases, so perhaps that's why I can't get it to work in any config but Virtu i-mode (deactivating the Intel graphics only made it worse, btw).

If it isn't a driver issue, I'll have to make sure to return it for RMA. If it isn't a driver issue, then my first hypothesis does indeed apply: A broken framebuffer.


The good news: If someone on here is ever going to discover issues with his PC, chances are I'm the most competent person to talk to. You know, since I have already run into 90% of all Windows 7 and hardware related issues.

[twonunpackmule]

Google is most resourceful. Most of my PC problems were Hackintosh related. Terminal fixes are the tits.

[Blinx123]

Google is most resourceful. Most of my PC problems were Hackintosh related. Terminal fixes are the tits.

Yea. Google is quite helpful.

Too bad I'd already programmed my own registry bits by the time I found out about NVIDIA's 280.xxx statement.

Time spent for nothing. Didn't fix a thing. The only thing it changed was that my PC won't reboot nor try to repair the drivers on the fly.

EDIT: Ok. Installing a pre 280.xxx driver didn't change a thing.
So apparently it really is broken (seems to be the framebuffer portion). I just realized that, during bootup, it won't initialize the GPU through regular means. I need to use the onboard graphics to get into UEFI, there I need to scroll to the save settings portion, plug the DVI-I to VGA adapter and the VGA cable into my graphics card, push enter and let the system reboot. Probably just another clue suggesting that the card really is broken.

BTW: I still lost a good 6GB on my HDD, even though I uninstalled all drivers and wiped up with Driver Sweeper.