Weird. Well, seems I have similar ones, but mine came out easy...
Weird. Well, seems I have similar ones, but mine came out easy...
Those screws are all Philips heads for me, I had no trouble removing them. Reference cooler :<
I got my massive Christmas paycheck today, but you know what? No, I'm going to hold off, wait, and save money before I go buying some IPS panel. Seeing how often people can get dead pixels, even in clusters on their Korean ones bugs me. Or light bleed or whatever. Part of me really just wants to get an ASUS/Dell/Samsung/LG 27" 1440p monitor and have the nicer shit. Granted those are locked to 60 Hz I do believe, so Korea would likely be the better option in that case.
Things I do still need to get though:
USB DAC for separating my studio monitors from the annoying electrical sounds my sound card picks up from the internals of my PC... which I was able to confirm did NOT originate with the GPU... Might even be the sound card itself, but they are not present when using headphones.
I need another SSD, my old m4 128GB is just not big enough for all the games I want to be able to play on the fly. I'm thinking either an m500 or 840 Evo 250GB~ SSD.
Going to be getting one of these probably in the next few days, though, as it would really make life... simpler.
Other than these things and a monitor upgrade, I'm pretty happy actually all-around with my computer! The GTX 760 is outperforming my expectations and the studio monitors are sounding fantastic and will only sound better once they have a cleaner input! The ol' 2500K is going very strong at a healthy 4.4 GHz and everything is just dandy. Happy camper Deltrus is happy!
Asus DCII cards also use exactly 4 screws between the heatsink and the PCB, undo those and the whole thing comes right off :P
WoW Character: Wintel - Frostmourne (OCE)
Gaming rig: i7 7700K, GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4, BenQ 144hz 1440p
Signature art courtesy of Blitzkatze
I sent Sapphire my rma request, which I doubt I will get a number from them. For the receipt I just sent them a screen capture of the paypal transfer, :P.
If they deny it I might just try grab the cooler off my broken gpu and put it on my shitty one. Would not hurt to try.
Update: OMG, they gave me a rma number. How do you package a rma? This is my first time.
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Time...line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. ~ Caboose
Guh, I do not have any anit-static bags, oh well we will see what happens. I basically wrapped it in bubble warp and put some air bags around it(I just happen to have them being lazy not throwing away other boxes). Is shipping through USPS shipping fine for this kind of thing?
Time...line? Time isn't made out of lines. It is made out of circles. That is why clocks are round. ~ Caboose
So have any of you guys experienced an issue with sound cutting out when at high cpu load, high being 85%+. The speakers simply dissapear completely but the other audio devices are still there and this goes on until the cpu usage goes below 80%.
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@Evil: No.
WTF. Wind chills on Monday are going to be below -50 F, yes, FAHRENHEIT because the actual temp already is set to be, oh, around -11 F MAX during the day for the high. -.-
What... the fuck. My work better close, I AM NOT driving there for a damn 5 hour shift if this shit goes through.
http://www.weather.com/news/weather-...-cold-20140103
(Check the video on coldest arctic outbreak in two decades something something)
So basically I'm getting my new cpu, mobo, cooler and some rams and I thought it'd be a good idea to clean my HDD when installing these. I'm thinking of doing a complete wipe and then just redownload whatever I need and use(you'd be surprised how much crap I've got on my HDD which I don't use but store anyway, just because "who knows if I won't need that later...").
Which OS would you recommend? I'm currently running a Win7 Ultimate x64, but I'll be having a free copy of Windows 8 and all their visual(c++/c# etc) software thanks to some Microsoft project in my school and I'm currently torn apart between those two. Which one would you recommend?
I don't really care about Metro, it's not a problem for me, I actually like the design very much, but I'd rather not put aesthetics ahead of performance, if possible.
Windows 8.1 is a much smoother experience than 7 in my opinion. It's faster to boot, has more functions as well as app-support (optional), which is great since the app for Netflix actually supports DTS and surround and whatnot, which the Silverlight browser plug-in does not.