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Other MY NEW BUILD GOES BANG!!! :( UPDATED...IT LIVES!!

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Guest-44432, 21 Dec 2011.

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  1. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead It's big, and it's clever.

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    Problem sorted. Just re-installed chipset drivers. No idea why I needed to do that, but clock for clock, it's as fast as my P9 board... which one would expect.

    :)
     
    Pookeyhead, 23 Dec 2011
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  2. mrbungle

    mrbungle Undercooked chicken giver

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    Just read through this and it sucks. It especially sucks as its a set up nobody else will have and you wont have any parts to problem swap without buying more.

    Happened to me when I built a 754 system, nobody had any parts to swap and I couldnt tell if it was the cpu or shitty msi motherboard. Guess which it was? lol
     
    mrbungle, 23 Dec 2011
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  3. rogerrabbits

    rogerrabbits What's a Dremel?

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    Why you building another computer anyway? I thought you had a really uber one with GTX590s or something?
     
    rogerrabbits, 23 Dec 2011
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  4. feathers

    feathers Minimodder

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    Because it's christmas and he didn't have x79. Now he's beginning to regret it. Grass is always greener type of thing. Same can't be said of x79. Nothing green about it. Big big power sucky.
     
    feathers, 23 Dec 2011
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  5. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead It's big, and it's clever.

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    X79 is awesome, what you on about :)

    Check my Geekbench scores at stock speeds (3.3). It's almost the same speed as Simon's 990X @ 4.7

    If you do anything heavily threaded regularly, X79 is a huge gain in productivity. If you play games only, then it's not the best value upgrade you can make, no.
     
    Pookeyhead, 23 Dec 2011
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  6. flame696

    flame696 Terminating People Since 1980....

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    ^^he is right you know. I managed to overclock my i7 2700k to 5.25ghz and I'm still behind pookys X79 stock settings I cant get close!
     
    flame696, 23 Dec 2011
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  7. feathers

    feathers Minimodder

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    Of course it's awesome, it's just that the processors are way overpriced.
     
    feathers, 23 Dec 2011
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  8. Pookeyhead

    Pookeyhead It's big, and it's clever.

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    Well.. there's a story there. I was more than happy to get the 3930K, but Scan had none in stock, so I'd have to wait 11 days. As my wife was getting my old X58 rig, and her Phenom system couldn't play BF3 very well, she stumped up the extra £300 or so for the 3960X :)
     
    Pookeyhead, 23 Dec 2011
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  9. .//TuNdRa

    .//TuNdRa Resident Bulldozer Guru

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    Everything's overpriced when it first launches. I rather regret buying Bulldozer when I did, rather than at least leaving to to mature for a few months first.
     
    .//TuNdRa, 23 Dec 2011
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  10. feathers

    feathers Minimodder

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    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Why would you buy bulldozer ever?

    Maybe by the 5th revision it will start to pick up speed. I won't hold my breath though.
     
    feathers, 23 Dec 2011
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  11. .//TuNdRa

    .//TuNdRa Resident Bulldozer Guru

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    Start to pick up speed? I can outpace 2500k's at the same clocks as me. Not by much, but I can. Sadly only in Multi-threaded tests, however.

    I'm just more peeved most stuff was a touch glitch out of the box. At least the F6f bios update has stopped Saints Row 3 from Blue-screening the PC every time I try and start it.
     
    .//TuNdRa, 23 Dec 2011
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  12. noizdaemon666

    noizdaemon666 I'm Od, Therefore I Pwn

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    Thing is, Bulldozer isn't that slow. It'll match Nehalem i7s. I think due to Sandy Bridge a lot of us have forgotten that processor power really is more than most games need. I mean, if me and .//Tundra compare our processors and Geekbench scores, he wins. He can achieve higher clocks and has 8 cores to play with. Bulldozer isn't crap, it's just not as fast as other insanely fast processors in certain applications.

    Having defended Bulldozer, I would still choose Sandy Bridge/Ivy Bridge even with the added expense purely because of the powah available :D
     
    noizdaemon666, 23 Dec 2011
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  13. feathers

    feathers Minimodder

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    The crashing is normal for AMD processors? I mean games crashing?

    I guess if you do 3d rendering or HD video rendering the 8 core might be useful.
     
    feathers, 23 Dec 2011
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  14. .//TuNdRa

    .//TuNdRa Resident Bulldozer Guru

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    It's a glitch with the release Bios. Gigabyte's getting there with updates. Asus have already got some out to solve all issues and MSI have the same.

    Are you implying that Sandy Bridge didn't have issues when it was first launched?

    AMD Shouldn't've branded it as an Eight Core, anyway. It's a four core, just with beefed up Hyperthreading.

    Edit; I should really stop turning every single thread I post in into a Bulldozer related argument.
     
    .//TuNdRa, 23 Dec 2011
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  15. Guest-44432

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    Guess What...It lives!!!:rock::rock: It was the CPU:(

    Max temps after Intel burn test 46*C with a nice low Vcore of 1.168
    [​IMG]
     
    Guest-44432, 23 Dec 2011
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  16. feathers

    feathers Minimodder

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    There is no argument for bulldozer. LOL.

    What issues did sandybridge have?
     
    feathers, 23 Dec 2011
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  17. feathers

    feathers Minimodder

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    So your first cpu was killed.

    All 3 x GPU working ok then?
     
    feathers, 23 Dec 2011
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  18. Guest-44432

    Guest-44432 Guest

    Yep, all GPU's and SSD's, HDD, etc are fine!:D
     
    Guest-44432, 23 Dec 2011
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  19. azrael-

    azrael- I'm special...

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    Glad to hear that! :)

    Been reading your heartwrenching tale for the last couple of days, but had nothing worthwhile to add. You could argue I still don't. :p

    Anyway, hope you can enjoy the rest of the holidays with that new über-rig of yours...
     
    azrael-, 23 Dec 2011
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  20. feathers

    feathers Minimodder

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    That's great news then. What a nightmare it's been overall.

    I like the open testbench case btw.. I considered one a few years back.

    I guess u have to test BF3 on ultra with the firestorm multiplayer map...
     
    feathers, 23 Dec 2011
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