Hey guys, im in some serious need of help on getting a new rig.
Im tomorrow sending back my "Ultima Tyrannosaur" system for a refund to OcUK and I need to get a new system.
Basically the main dilemma is as follows:
I bought the "Ultima Tyrannosaur" on 23rd February this year and since ive had it ive suffered from constant random reboots. The reboots have always happened whilst im gaming and never when im doing anything else. Ive sent the machine back to OcUK twice for repair and still I suffer from the reboots.
The most stable ive managed to get the system is when running on stock settings to which it didn't restart at all for a whole week until one day whilst surfing the web one of the GeForce 580's fried (I have the SLI). This was seriously strange to me as I was literally only using google chrome to watch some reviews on youtube.
Im not sure exactly what OcUK have done on both occassions with my PC as the second turn didn't produce a report on what had been fixed. The first however they changed the mobo for a newer revision.
The one suggestion that seems to be the only option left is that Sandybridge systems rely on a constant stable source of power and apparantly Scottland and Wales have poor sources to power (I live in Cardiff so I assumed this wouldn't be an issue being a capital city and all...).
The other is an issue with overheating (the graphics card frying).
The only real tests ive done myself are memtest with 1 pass which was fine and 2 simultanious heaven dx11 benchmark tests (was trying to see if the graphics card was overheating, it got to 85-90 and stayed there).
Im really stuck on what to get now. I really do like the machine I have but its just not working out.
If its an issue with heating I could get the Ultima Plesiosaur which is basically the same setup but with watercooling otherwise ill have to get another build altogether.
Ive done some research into what could be the problem and apparantly at the beginning of the year the sandybridge chips were known to be crap and were apparantly recalled. Could I be suffering from a bad sandybridge processor?
Any help is very much appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
Im tomorrow sending back my "Ultima Tyrannosaur" system for a refund to OcUK and I need to get a new system.
Basically the main dilemma is as follows:
I bought the "Ultima Tyrannosaur" on 23rd February this year and since ive had it ive suffered from constant random reboots. The reboots have always happened whilst im gaming and never when im doing anything else. Ive sent the machine back to OcUK twice for repair and still I suffer from the reboots.
The most stable ive managed to get the system is when running on stock settings to which it didn't restart at all for a whole week until one day whilst surfing the web one of the GeForce 580's fried (I have the SLI). This was seriously strange to me as I was literally only using google chrome to watch some reviews on youtube.
Im not sure exactly what OcUK have done on both occassions with my PC as the second turn didn't produce a report on what had been fixed. The first however they changed the mobo for a newer revision.
The one suggestion that seems to be the only option left is that Sandybridge systems rely on a constant stable source of power and apparantly Scottland and Wales have poor sources to power (I live in Cardiff so I assumed this wouldn't be an issue being a capital city and all...).
The other is an issue with overheating (the graphics card frying).
The only real tests ive done myself are memtest with 1 pass which was fine and 2 simultanious heaven dx11 benchmark tests (was trying to see if the graphics card was overheating, it got to 85-90 and stayed there).
Im really stuck on what to get now. I really do like the machine I have but its just not working out.
If its an issue with heating I could get the Ultima Plesiosaur which is basically the same setup but with watercooling otherwise ill have to get another build altogether.
Ive done some research into what could be the problem and apparantly at the beginning of the year the sandybridge chips were known to be crap and were apparantly recalled. Could I be suffering from a bad sandybridge processor?
Any help is very much appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
