£1850 Budget for Gaming Rig, Monitor snd Rift Bundle.

Plec said:
What driver release did you get?

Have you downloaded the just the drivers or have you installed GeForce Experience too?
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Chipset from the gigabyte site
GPU from Nvidia

Those are the only drivers ive installed.

Ive also installed core temp, cpuz and HW Monitor.
 
@orbitalwalsh @Plec

Chaps, can you explain AMD powerplan please? That link takes to me to the AMD chipset drivers, I have installed the top on, do I need to install them all?

Edit: and I'm still getting access denied when trying to change the "Power management Mode" in the NVidia control panel?
 
Ive set BF1 to download, its currently downloading to my SSD but I will wont to move it to the HDD. I might need to pick a brain when I do this. I tried earlier and it got a bit messy!
 
Battlefields got 5 hours to go! Sky broadband is pretty poor. I miss my 200mb Virgin connection.

I will try the game tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

Chat soon,
 
Morning Chaps,

I left the PC downloading over night but didn't change any settings!!! It must have gone to sleep!!! What are the best settings to use?
 
orbitalwalsh said:
Any luck this evening ?
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Hi Mate,

Been in meetings all day, didn't finish till 7pm and then an hour and a bit to get home :mad:

Ive quickly tried BF1 and everything works perfectly!!! I had it on 2560x1440p @ 75hz and all on Ultra and runs fine.

I'm not going to able do much more tonight but what should be my next step?

Chat soon,
 
orbitalwalsh said:
Enjoy it ! Can okay around after a bit , but after this restart need to really enjoy the gameplay !

Got it for VR so get yourself some good games and go nuts .

Get the kids involved :)

did you get the RGB on the board changing ?
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Hi Mate,

Been a busy few days so haven't had much time to jump on. I still haven't managed to sync the led strip on the motherboard, its not even selectable in fusion, odd! I can change the gpu no problem.
 
orbitalwalsh said:
In the the basic Fusion mention, when you select colour cycle or music or pulse, it changes the other lighting area but the side strip ? Or are you using the advanced option and selecting on each area and tell what lighting effect you want it to have ?

Not sure if forum rep @GIGA-Man has come across this issue before ?
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When I go into Fusion and select the mother board I have three possible areas I can change the colour on. I have selected them all and changed colour and mode on all of them but none of them do anything to the colour showing through the Perspex strip on the mother board? All is does is slowing change through each colour and never changes.

When I select other devices I can select the gpu (the others a greyed out) and control that without issue?
 
orbitalwalsh said:
In the the basic Fusion mention, when you select colour cycle or music or pulse, it changes the other lighting area but the side strip ? Or are you using the advanced option and selecting on each area and tell what lighting effect you want it to have ?

Not sure if forum rep @GIGA-Man has come across this issue before ?
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All sorted mate.
 
@orbitalwalsh @Plec

Afternoon Gentlemen,

I've been a bit quite this week, its been mad at work and I haven't time to do much else.

I'm going to try and get on and play the weekend, I will also upload some pics on the LEDS all the same colour:)

I've downloaded Elite dangerous, its supposed to be good in VR, I might wait until I pick up a HOTAS before playing it though.

Chat soon,
 
Plec said:
Hey @leeince - glad to read a post that's all positive, you deserve it.

I bought the exact same joystick for the exact same game (3 years ago) - i can't comment on the game as i never got around to playing it properly but the joystick is great quality. From the bits i did see it should be fantastic experience using VR.

I'm thinking of buying one for my kids - as Google Earth looks great and i'm an F1 freak so i'm interested in VR driving games but i'll probably get nauseous using it. :/
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VR is stupidly good, cockpit games really come in to there own.

Google earth is very impressive, we have just booked to go Mexico and I was able to visit the hotel, stand around the pool, go on the beach............its bloody good!

There's a game called Aircar on the store that is a very basic cockpit game where you just get to free fly around a city at night, it blows you away!
 
@Plec @orbitalwalsh

I was playing battlefield today, i wad only playing for about 5 minutes and the pc crashed, screen went black and the no signal message came up. I restated the pc and tried again and it happened again but a bit longer this time. On both occassions there was a lot going on on screen with explosions and things, any ideas what this might be? And what i should do to stop it?
 
Plec said:
Hey @leeince

Is the crash 'game specific' or is it replicated in any other games?

You'll need to run a few diagnostics - most obvious being your CPU and GPU temps - do you have any monitoring software and a couple of synthetic stress tests (i think you have core temp)?

We need the idle temps of both the CPU and GPU and then again when under load - this may have to be done/observed quickly if it is a thermal problem.

For speed try a couple of brutal synthetic tests - prime 95 for stressing the CPU and MSI Kombustor (you'll need to scroll down to the bottom of the site to get to the link) for making the GPU sweat.

Have the monitoring software running at the same time (Kombustor will do this within the software) - watch the temps closely. If it's thermal issue it will show up very quickly - likewise if it's a fundamental component flaw (but not always guaranteed) - but we're really just exploring temps for now. You will only need to run each test for 15 minutes for thermal testing as both will stress each component far more than any game so the heat generated within the cores will be very quick.

The other test you may want to consider running is memtest - this will tax your memory but unlike the other tests this is best left to run overnight unless it gives up errors straight away.
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I've been playing VR without issue but other than that I have only played Battlefield.

I have HW Monitor for temps, I will download both the stress tests and us those.

My current temps are:

CPU = 39c
GPU = 36c

I will run the test and report back.
 
Plec said:
Hey @leeince

Is the crash 'game specific' or is it replicated in any other games?

You'll need to run a few diagnostics - most obvious being your CPU and GPU temps - do you have any monitoring software and a couple of synthetic stress tests (i think you have core temp)?

We need the idle temps of both the CPU and GPU and then again when under load - this may have to be done/observed quickly if it is a thermal problem.

For speed try a couple of brutal synthetic tests - prime 95 for stressing the CPU and MSI Kombustor (you'll need to scroll down to the bottom of the site to get to the link) for making the GPU sweat.

Have the monitoring software running at the same time (Kombustor will do this within the software) - watch the temps closely. If it's thermal issue it will show up very quickly - likewise if it's a fundamental component flaw (but not always guaranteed) - but we're really just exploring temps for now. You will only need to run each test for 15 minutes for thermal testing as both will stress each component far more than any game so the heat generated within the cores will be very quick.



The other test you may want to consider running is memtest - this will tax your memory but unlike the other tests this is best left to run overnight unless it gives up errors straight away.
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I don't know what settings I should be using on prime 95 or kumbustor? I'm going to runlbench for now and see what that gives.
 
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