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

orbitalwalsh said:
Woopa l.
In windows setting , find power plan , and change from balanced to max power

Right click on windows icon , will bring up options along with power options .
Select it and advanced options . Either select max performance and AMD Ryzen option if there
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:)

My option were Balance or High performance, i selected high performance! I need to check my bios version, I think i might have updated it, I can c heck this through one of the apps in the app centre cant I?

Ive update my chipset and gpu drivers............ I think

I still need to set up memory and get the HDD working at the moment its not showing?
 
  • set up HDD (STILL TO DO)
  • Perhaps flash BIOS (DONE)
  • setup memory (STILL TO DO)
  • install apps (CPUz, CoreTemp, AFterburner and all round stress test software) STILL TO DO
  • Check device manager (STILL TO DO)
  • update drivers (IVE DOEN THE CHIPSET AND THE GPU......I THINK)
  • Stress test and monitor temps/stability for a bit
  • If all OK - use and abuse the system
 
orbitalwalsh said:
Right click windows icon , and I think it's disk management

https://www.isunshare.com/windows-10/add-a-hard-drive-to-this-pc-in-windows-10.html

Also set GPU to max or optimal performance

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answ...ent-mode-from-adaptive-to-maximum-performance

Down load Asus Real Bench .
Normally use that for stressing system as it's real world tests and not synthetic
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Second HDD sorted, thank you! Im guessing my system is currently set to install everything to my SSD at the moment, how do I change that, can I do it as and when I download things?

Im going to download the software now.
 
I installed RealBench and run a 15 minute stress test at 8gb, it kept closing the program when I selected 16gb.

I just said "Result Hatch Match" and Stress Test pass, have I done this correctly? @orbitalwalsh
 
orbitalwalsh said:
When you install a program it'll ask you which drive you want to save it to.

Steam also works the same, but you can either install that to HDD or SSD and it'll start to save games automatically to that given drive. You can move games around or tell it to install in another drive , buts that's another topic and Google :)

Now to install CPUz, latest version off Google . Check it, then restart into bios and enable XMP , and check CPUz to see if it's working .
Ram speed is reports at have the memory speed - DDR = double data rate, so CPUz picks it up as single, and just times it by Two :).
Bios reads it at its double state
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I will do this now!
 
orbitalwalsh said:
When you install a program it'll ask you which drive you want to save it to.

Steam also works the same, but you can either install that to HDD or SSD and it'll start to save games automatically to that given drive. You can move games around or tell it to install in another drive , buts that's another topic and Google :)

Now to install CPUz, latest version off Google . Check it, then restart into bios and enable XMP , and check CPUz to see if it's working .
Ram speed is reports at have the memory speed - DDR = double data rate, so CPUz picks it up as single, and just times it by Two :).
Bios reads it at its double state
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Ok, so i downloaded CPUz and then went in to the BIOS and enabled XMP. I then saved the settings and went.back to CPUz but i dont know what im.checking for?

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orbitalwalsh said:
You've enabled xmp to ram should be working at 3200



It's working ! No need to disable, leave it enabled
Run RealBench again, 30 mins

Technically you don't, but hammer in good practices .
Then it's only fun overclocking the CPU...
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Is it ok running Realbenach at 8gb, it shuts down if I select 16?
 
Plec said:
Looking good guys.

And still, Bleah! to app centre. :D

Nice one orbital/leeince - you're almost at the stage of 'using and abusing'.
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Cheers mate, app centre was doing my swede in earlier, multiple uninstalls and reinstalls done the trick and it allowed me to.update the bios with no grief so worth it!!
 
orbitalwalsh said:
Ah yes, true. Ram sticks should be plug and play but cpu luck might be low.

As plec has mentioned ... Cold boot.

Now that you've go ram running 3200hz on stock CPU speed , and stable with RealBench .
Maybe Cinebench is that was on the list .

Your going to want to power the rig down, turn off at the wall/PSU switch and give it a few mins.
Turn power on and turn in the system .
You'll be looking for if the PC resets it's self once or a few times or goes straight into BIOS with boot error.
Once in windows, check cpuz if ram is still running 3200hz.
Should boot straight into windows or maybe reboot it's self once and into windows with correct speed
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Shutdown the computer, switch off at the wall and the PSU. Left 5 or 10 minutes and turned it all back on again.

Checked CPUz and memory still at 1596.2

Are we sorted? Was the XMP setting up the memory from the list?
 
Plec said:
All, i got from that was you updated your BIOS via the Window's environment, on a virgin setup :eek:

/fingers in ears - lah lah lah lah lah lah!

Worked out though - so congrats and PHEW! Look up Q-Flash for next time - a much safer environment for wiping and reinstalling your motherboard's brain.

Kudos, @orbitalwalsh for sticking with it while working - it's tough to keep track when multitasking isn't it?
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Sounds terrible when you put it like that ha ha!!

You boys have been mustard, i better download some games to try out!!! Any recommendations??
 
Plec said:
Lol, yes and Unigines Valley, Cinebench, Aida 64 - all great games.

BF1 - solid choice.

Do you like RTS type games - if so StarCraft 2 or Company of Heroes 2 are great and would tax the system.

TBH, play games, watch YouTube, browse - general usage is the ultimate test for stability - if it's stable you'll have zero issues. However, any freezes, screen flickers, reboots or the dreaded BSOD post back immediately with details of what you were doing at the time.
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Ive just had my first issue.

I loaded up The division and started the first level, after a couple of minutes I wanted to check the settings and the resolution was 2560x1440p and 75hz, I also checked graphics and shadow settings these were on high a couple on Ultra. I changed them all to Ultra and one of themto Nvidia NPCSS (or something like that) I then had to restart the game for the setting to take effect and went back into the game. I quickly checked that the settings had set and they had except one, Graphics, this was now set to Custom? I changed toultra and went back in to the game. After running around for a couple of minutes I pushed the left menu button on the xbox controller and the screen went black! I check the unit and all the lights inside had gone out, the only light still on was the power button. I turned everything off, PSU switch and wall switch, gave it a minute and turned it all back on again. It light up and then went off again and then on again, it then stayed on and rebooted as normal. Any ideas what happened??
 
Plec said:
Have you ran any stress tests monitoring temps?

Could also be the memory - may need dropping to 2933MHz for testing.

Have you got Afterburner installed?

First, run a stress test and monitor CoreTemp while it's running - after 5 minutes post back with temps.

EDIT: Run CPU-z and look at memory tab - what does it read (frequency)?
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Its dropped to 1064.1mhz it was 1596.2 earlier?
 
Plec said:
This should solve your issue - it's an easy fix (hopefully).

Nothing wrong with running at 2933MHz - you won't notice any speed difference and it can be tweaked later (if possible).
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The system memory multiplier is set to auto and i cant change it.

If i disable xmp the mem freq drops to 2133mhz and if i set xmp to profile 1 the mem multiplier changes to 3200mhz (I had it on Profile 1) but both option have the mem multipler set to auto and it cajt be changed?
 
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