I've had enough - again.

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Damn... I followed your thread in Case Central and your PC is/was my 'dream' PC.
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Was mine too :(

now on to a new build with a different board manufacture seems to happen a lot with the evga micro so gonna build a gigabyte system hate the colour but they have never let me down once

Lol @ biffa, mine looks like a red flat cereal box :/
 
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Gigabyte always been good for me too mate. I seem to have more trouble with Asus with bios updates killing the board etc, so end up back with Gigabyte quite often.

Sorry to hear about the case tho. Always borderline with mATX tho. I've built a few and always ended up having to compromise somewhere along the line.

Maybe we should all switch to Macs :D
 
Biffa said:
Quit pushing the envelope and then complaining. Either stay on the extreme and shrug it off to experience or if you need something to be stable 24/7 then drop it back to stock and run it that way, or a slight overclock.

I run months at a time without a hardware glitch on F@H

Not much you can do about the electricity however other than scale back on your efforts.
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A couple of points.
Firstly, none of my rigs are "pushing the envelope". I overclock them all until I find the maximum stable overclock and then drop them back a bit. All my Q6600s are capable of running stable at 3.6GHz but they all run 3.4GHz. The gaming rig is capable of running stable at 4.2GHz but was running at 3.8GHz.
Secondly, the machines that fall over usually do so after running fine for weeks and run perfectly well when rebooted for many weeks again. They are stable, they just decide to take a break every now and then.

FYI, it turns out the problem with the gaming rig was one of the graphics cards dying and nothing to do with "pushing the envelope" but, hey, don't let that stop you making assumptions.
 
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Even a factory-built, fully stock and working PC will eventually fall over for no reason. Especially after weeks at a time of being pushed at 100%.

A graphics card dying could happen to anyone and there isn't terribly much you can do about it! :p

Still, you can't get around the leccy bill and run all that hardware 24/7. Any effort you put in will be greatly appreciated and it would be good if you stuck around! Maybe you can fold like one of use mortals now :D:eek:
 
SiriusB said:
Maybe you can fold like one of use mortals now :D:eek:
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Don't bank on it :p

I've decided, once I've got the watercooling set up properly, I'm going to run my gaming rig as a single Folding machine as a compromise. It's an i7 that'll probably be running at 4GHz .................




............... Oh, and I'll probably run GPU clients on the GTX295 I bought off the members market today :D
 
Goddamn it, Stan! :p

Glad you are staying :D. I should point out that A3 WU + Gaming = :(

Looking at the stats I have lost something like 1-2K PPD from a few hours of gaming an evening the last 2-3 days :eek:

Though I have a little surprise soon ;)
 
I don't do an awful lot of gaming anyway so I'll just be switching the clients off for a short time when I do. When I'm away, they can run all the time - unless, of course, it all goes breasts up :rolleyes:

It'll probably be the weekend before I get it set up. Should get the bits and pieces tomorrow and Thursday and spend Thursday and Friday setting it all up and testing.
 
Biffa said:
Maybe we should all switch to Macs :D
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Blasphemer!:eek:

Gigabyte always reliable when I've used them in the past.

All this talk of i7's gives me this sinking feeling, in the rankings:(

I hope you both resolve your problems & look forward to the outcomes that will no doubt be posted here.
 
I'm a massive fan of Gigabyte motherboards. Nice to work with, efficient and easy bios to OC with.

The Foxconn Bloodrage in my gaming rig is beautiful to look at but a real pain to OC - especially since it was my first i7 rig. The Gigabyte UD3 I bought for my second i7 rig is an absolute dream to work with. I just set all the voltages to auto and set the bclk to 200 - it booted straight in at 4.0GHz. A little bit of fiddling later (about an hour) and it was running at 4.3GHz - rock solid. If only they'd make them a bit prettier :p
 
An i7 system doing -bigadv with a 295 in it will do 34k ppd, so there's no big change team output wise. We only had a week of Stan doing a significantly higher output.
 
I agree with your Gigabyte comments Stan. All my voltages were on Auto, I switched on Turbo and rammed the BLK up to 200. Fiddled with the DRAM multi to make sure my RAM was at least stock [1600MHz]. 10 minutes later I had 4.2 GHz stable!

The Giga's almost take all the fun out of it! :p

I remember my first ever OC-capable rig. My trusty AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ :D Spent like two days pushing the OC up and testing and same with RAM. Think I only managed a 400MHz OC in the end after all that effort :o

Ten minutes gets you 1.6GHz these days! :eek:
 
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Don't bank on it :p

I've decided, once I've got the watercooling set up properly, I'm going to run my gaming rig as a single Folding machine as a compromise. It's an i7 that'll probably be running at 4GHz .................

............... Oh, and I'll probably run GPU clients on the GTX295 I bought off the members market today :D
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Hehe.. good to hear you aren't quitting like a whiney loser :p

C'mon you can catch me :)
 
SiriusB said:
Even a factory-built, fully stock and working PC will eventually fall over for no reason. Especially after weeks at a time of being pushed at 100%.
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Especially POS HP's that just aren't designed to run 24/7 at 100% CPU because the cooling in the case just isn't up to it.

Only godsend is that they tend to underclock every CPU they put in their systems so you have a "tiny" bit of leeway.

Still better is the 3 year warranty. :)
 
HP Tech: "So what did you do?"

Biffa: "Nothing! All I did was was OC it a tiny bit and stress tested the CPU and the GPU for 6 weeks straight... *cough*"
 
I have to do that with my Dell laptop. Actually it runs a lot below stock - i.e. 50% - though it's currently 'not on'. :eek:

Big fan of Gigabyte here too. I once had a northbridge heatsink fall off a brand new Abit motherboard (I'm not kidding - only thing holding it was the thermal paste). Asus are somewhat better but Gigabyte isn't broken. :)
 
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My Q6600 system is running on an Asus P5B Deluxe and it is a very good mobo. Nice overclocker too when I ran at my Q6600 at 3.6GHz. All been good experiences with an Asus :)
 
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