The cable has two plugs right? (HD audio and AC97) use the HD audio and just leave the AC97 hanging.
New Build, need advice please.
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The cable has two plugs right? (HD audio and AC97) use the HD audio and just leave the AC97 hanging.
Need a bit more info.
If its the PWRSW/RESETSW/HDD LED etc then the Gigabyte manual will show where they go.
If its a SATA data cable (like used on the drives) that comes from a ESATA port on the case, you stick it into a SATA port on the board.
If the board has marvel controlled SATA 6Gb/s ports (dark Grey?) then try not to use these at all as they other worse performance than the White Intel ones.
Also while in the BIOS set the SATA controller to AHCI.
Messed with the PW button on the front and it worked once with the botton. Then it stopped after GPU was put back in, worked again with short, restated to test button and didn't work again, even the short won't work anymore. Could there be a possible fault in the front connector part on the mobo?
Got it on again with a short, retstart buttons work, so does the front light. If the power button is broke, I'll need replacement, don't think it's the mobo.
Installing windows now just formatted the drive, do I also format the facory image?
Installing windows now just formatted the drive, do I also format the facory image?
Its a HDD you are re-using correct?
Certainly wipe/format it all at the start of the windows installation and re-do the insatll with the latest drivers available on the net.
Right, I have it up and running again. I made sure every power cable is connected and it is. I don't want to risk turning it off again until I go to sleep.
Buttons seem to be fine. It was either a weird glitch or something is faulty somewhere. I can't see it being the mobo though, it wouldn't work if it was would it?
Buttons seem to be fine. It was either a weird glitch or something is faulty somewhere. I can't see it being the mobo though, it wouldn't work if it was would it?
Try running Prime95 or SuperPI at the same time as CPU-Z is running and see if the core speed reported jumps up?
Prime95 will stress the CPU, thus making it run at its maximum (what you have set it too)
Have CPU-Z open as well and see if the core speed goes from the low figure to what you expecting.
If Prime95 fails (one of the four workers stop) then the PC is unstable, Prime95 should be left running for well over 8 hours to be considered stable.
Also I would have started of a bit lower, say 40X
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Won't really need it at 4.4GHz all the time will I? When running games or CPU intensive programs such as Vegas the CPU should clock @ 4.4GHz right?
Do you recommend leaving the stress test on while I sleep? I was also thinking about testing Unigine Heaven for GPU and such.
Do you recommend leaving the stress test on while I sleep? I was also thinking about testing Unigine Heaven for GPU and such.
The other thing about Turboboost is it normally allows the CPU to jump to,
1 Core used = 3.7Ghz
2 Cores used = 3.6Ghz
3 Cores used = 3.5Ghz
4 Cores used = 3.4Ghz
As its very rare for just a single core to be used, then usually you only see 3.4Ghz.
In the image above of my BIOS, you can see the four Turboboost values (see how they decrease
), I can set these all to say 45X and that gives 4.5GHz when the CPU needs it, or I can disable the Turboboost with the option directly above, then set the CPU clock ratio to 45X and thats 4.5GHz all the time.
1 Core used = 3.7Ghz
2 Cores used = 3.6Ghz
3 Cores used = 3.5Ghz
4 Cores used = 3.4Ghz
As its very rare for just a single core to be used, then usually you only see 3.4Ghz.
In the image above of my BIOS, you can see the four Turboboost values (see how they decrease
), I can set these all to say 45X and that gives 4.5GHz when the CPU needs it, or I can disable the Turboboost with the option directly above, then set the CPU clock ratio to 45X and thats 4.5GHz all the time.
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