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Discussion in 'Other Hardware' started by pingpongmury, Nov 16, 2011.

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  1. pingpongmury Newcomer, in training

    LMAO! " Warranty Void if used"
    pingpongmury, Dec 1, 2011
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  2. Leeky PC Arsonist & Moderator

    Gotta love that picture!

    I like this one too:

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    Creating flames, blowing up stuff and generally destroying things is what I do best. Although on another note I'm equally good at fixing things -- its just not as much fun! :haha:

    Though I have to say this Q6600 has lived up to my cannibalistic tendencies for several years now. Just a shame my last system it actually replaced was wiped out by that PSU failure. :haha: I can live with losing most of the stuff, but I'm still pissed it took out my 256GB SSD. :(
    Leeky, Dec 2, 2011
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  3. red1776 Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe

    Geezus, a 256GB SSD then was a hunk of change, still is actually.:(
    red1776, Dec 2, 2011
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  4. Leeky PC Arsonist & Moderator

    Was well over £600 when I paid for it. Though in hindsight if I knew back then what I know today about it making very little difference to gaming I wouldn't have bothered. Still, that failed PSU wiped out everything except for one mechanical hard disk and my DVD R/W drive. Everything else was destroyed.

    Was only a newer version of a Core2Quad system with a Q8300, but I lost a GTX280, that SSD, two other hard disks, the motherboard CPU, RAM, and obviously the PSU.

    Been steadily building it back up since. Despite using the older backup Q6600 and the older Abit AW9D-Max board its going quite well still. Even better now I've added a HD6870 to the mix. Will grab a new motherboard, another 8GB of Corsair RAM and a i7 3930K shortly though once prices and stock settle down.
    Leeky, Dec 2, 2011
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  5. LinkedKube TechSpot Project Baby

    Oh, boy, not if AMD drops the ball in 1st quarter of next year.
    LinkedKube, Dec 2, 2011
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  6. Leeky PC Arsonist & Moderator

    I'll have it well before then anyway. :haha:
    Leeky, Dec 2, 2011
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  7. ikesmasher TechSpot Enthusiast

    I would get a better quad core phenom, as hardly any programs use quad core let alone hex core.
    Plus, the quad core, if i remember, does run a bit faster on most applications.
    ikesmasher, Dec 3, 2011
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  8. red1776 Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe

    On what planet is this?
    Have a look at game reviews over the last year or so. Not to mention non game software.
    red1776, Dec 4, 2011
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  9. pingpongmury Newcomer, in training

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    I finally decided on a rig and am having a bit of trouble enabling SLI =[
    System info:
    M/B: ASUS Crosshair V
    CPU: AMD Phenom IIx6 1100T
    GPU: (2x) ASUS GTX570 DCII
    PSU: Corsair HX850W
    RAM: 8Gb G.Skill Ripjaws X 1866

    OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64

    I cannot for the life of me get SLI to enable on this meddling machine.. It's driving me insane.. When I go into nVidia Control Panel and click "Maximize 3D Performance", and then apply, the screen immediately goes black and when it returns, the resolution is reduced to 1280x1024 (can't be put any higher in display settings) and the dialogue "The setup has changed. Update the SLI configuration." appears, and the card in the lower PCI-E slot shows a "Code 43" in Device manager.
    pingpongmury, Dec 22, 2011
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  10. pingpongmury Newcomer, in training

    (Quotes Unrelated)

    I finally decided on a rig and am having a bit of trouble enabling SLI =[
    System info:
    M/B: ASUS Crosshair V
    CPU: AMD Phenom IIx6 1100T
    GPU: (2x) ASUS GTX570 DCII
    PSU: Corsair HX850W
    RAM: 8Gb G.Skill Ripjaws X 1866

    OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64

    I cannot for the life of me get SLI to enable on this meddling machine.. It's driving me insane.. When I go into nVidia Control Panel and click "Maximize 3D Performance", and then apply, the screen immediately goes black and when it returns, the resolution is reduced to 1280x1024 (can't be put any higher in display settings, though the control panel says it's set to 1920x1080), the control panel is locked up, the dialogue "The setup has changed. Update the SLI configuration." appears, and the card in the lower PCI-E slot shows a "Code 43" in Device manager. (regardless of which card is in it)

    I have tried two different drivers (285.62 and 290.53beta), both with clean installs, and running Driver Sweeper. I have also tried switching the cards around, as well as a different SLI bridge, with no improvement. So both cards are good, and it doesn't seem to be the bridge.

    The 570's are tri-slot, so I had to skip over a PCI-E, could it be that W7 is looking for the card on the second PCi-E rather than the 3rd? Both cards are recognized though, and I don't seem to have this problem until i try to enable SLI.

    Any ideas or suggestions? I'm stumped.... and very... very frustrated. ha
    I'll try putting the lower card down one PCI-E slot, see if that helps.

    Again, thank you guys for your help
    -Pat
    pingpongmury, Dec 22, 2011
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  11. PC nerd TechSpot Enthusiast

    Dilldozer?

    Yyyyyeah.

    Stay the hell away from Bulldozer. It's utterly awful.

    Get a phenom 955 and overclock it to 3.8GHZ. 'Tis what I've done, and it's fantastic for £90.
    PC nerd, Dec 22, 2011
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  12. ViPeRMiMiS Newcomer, in training

    It's fantastic for the price. He could also get a Phenom II X6 1055T and overclock it to ~3.4-3.8~GHz, which costs just a few more € , but it it has 6 cores which means it is more future proof :D
    ViPeRMiMiS, Dec 22, 2011
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  13. pingpongmury Newcomer, in training

    Yep, and the cores can be overclocked Individually.. I have 4 of the 6 cores stable at 4.3GHz =D

    And as for the SLI issue, there was a driver issue with a LAN controller.. I guess it's a common issue with 64-bit Windows 7 and SLI
    pingpongmury, Dec 22, 2011
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  14. PC nerd TechSpot Enthusiast

    You can over clock them individually?

    That's so cool!
    PC nerd, Dec 23, 2011
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