I decided to do a bit of an upgrade so bought myself a brand spanking new r5 1600 with 16gb of 3200 ram and a gigabyte k7 motherboard.
All were delivered at around 10:30 this morning by a lovely DPD driver. However stupid me forgot to order a noctua AM4 kit with my main order so I placed it yesterday for a royal mail delivery.... Our mail doesn't turn up till 1pm
so 1pm I have everything I need and so I start building. Here comes user error number 1. I go to put my noctua cooler on the board and it doesn't fit. Cursing and looking around the internet for a solution I decided to read the manual.... Turns out I put the brackets the wrong way :\.
So with the brackets the right way I put my shiny new tub of thermal grizzly onto the cpu die put the cooler on top, go to screw in the screws to secure it and..... they wont reach. Cue more cursing and looking through the internet. I took a look at the manual and realised I had the giant grey washers on the top instead of on the bottom.
Two mistakes didn't put me off though. I was determined to get my 6 core goodness. So I plug everything make the case nice and tidy and.... one of the case fans isnt working. I plugged the splitter into every fan port on the motherboard (which is tricky once everything is installed) and I come to the conclusion the fan is dead. It just so happens that its the one at the front top which I need to remove the other two to take out.
I replace it and the new ones dead as well. So I rip everything out plugging it all back into different places. Turns out its the splitter that has a dead connection. (would have saved me 30 minutes of plugging everything into different ports if I had used my head and checked the splitter. Didn't think to do that as the other two fans were working)
With all the fans now working and the case put back together I boot it up setup my raid 0 and start to install windows. no drives detected. Try them in different Sata ports still the same issue. I try two regular hdds and again the same issue. individually they work but I paid for Raid and I want Raid Dang it....... So of to the internet I go. Turns out all I had to do was download the Raid drivers from gigabyte and load them.
So with windows installed and setup I decided to start testing. I fired up 3d mark and noticed my gpu temps shoot up to 80 pretty much instantly. I quickly turned off the PC and started investigating.
I have recently put on a alphacool eisenwolf with a 360 rad and before today temps never went about 45 with the fans on their lowest speeds. I disconnected the quick disconnect fittings just encase I didn't put them on properly when I reinstalled the card.... same thing again. I took off the GPU block redid all the thermal paste and pads...... same thing again. I put msi afterburner remote on my phone to keep an eye as im plugging and unplugging the fans and quick disconnects and idle temps are in their 40s.
By this point i am so frustrated I could scream so in a fit of rage I shock the PC screaming why arnt you working. Suddenly I hear lots of water and for a moment I thought it was leaking but checked my idle temps and they shot down to 27c. Must have been some air trapped in the rad and it needed a good shake.
And then I get to my final mistake of the night (I had been at this 8 hours by this point) I put a quick dirty overclock on my CPU of 3.9 at 1.35v and set XMP on the memory. I check CPUZ and its showing 3.9 but the memory is only showing 1600mhz. Somethings not right. SO I decided to upgrade the bios (which too 30 minutes turns out I had accidentally pulled out the internet connection from my router sitting next to my pc) Set up my overclock again and..... still 1600mhz in cpuz on the memory.
I was ready to RMA the memory or the motherboard but then I realised its DDR as in Double date Rate. !600mhz x 2 is 3200mhz :\
So all in all a lot of dumb mistakes on my part.
On the brightside though my cpu temps at 3.9 never go above 55 even with my noctua and case fans the lowest I can get.
I havent tested any game out yet but I do love the RBG on the motherboard and the millions of fan headers.
I do have to say that the gigabyte UEFI bios is a load of rubbish. There mouse lag, its slow to save anything and it feels like half the options are missing.
I have also noticed how over dramatic this system is. On my old 4770k when I tried to push the overclock if it failed it would blue screen then a quick dip in the bios and I could change things in 30 seconds.
With this though no blue screen just a black screen and a shutdown. Then it seems to cower in a corner screaming dont touch me for 10 minutes before you can switch it back on and get back into the bios to sort things out.
All were delivered at around 10:30 this morning by a lovely DPD driver. However stupid me forgot to order a noctua AM4 kit with my main order so I placed it yesterday for a royal mail delivery.... Our mail doesn't turn up till 1pm
so 1pm I have everything I need and so I start building. Here comes user error number 1. I go to put my noctua cooler on the board and it doesn't fit. Cursing and looking around the internet for a solution I decided to read the manual.... Turns out I put the brackets the wrong way :\.
So with the brackets the right way I put my shiny new tub of thermal grizzly onto the cpu die put the cooler on top, go to screw in the screws to secure it and..... they wont reach. Cue more cursing and looking through the internet. I took a look at the manual and realised I had the giant grey washers on the top instead of on the bottom
.Two mistakes didn't put me off though. I was determined to get my 6 core goodness. So I plug everything make the case nice and tidy and.... one of the case fans isnt working
. I plugged the splitter into every fan port on the motherboard (which is tricky once everything is installed) and I come to the conclusion the fan is dead. It just so happens that its the one at the front top which I need to remove the other two to take out. I replace it and the new ones dead as well
. So I rip everything out plugging it all back into different places. Turns out its the splitter that has a dead connection. (would have saved me 30 minutes of plugging everything into different ports if I had used my head and checked the splitter. Didn't think to do that as the other two fans were working) With all the fans now working and the case put back together I boot it up setup my raid 0 and start to install windows. no drives detected
. Try them in different Sata ports still the same issue. I try two regular hdds and again the same issue. individually they work but I paid for Raid and I want Raid Dang it....... So of to the internet I go. Turns out all I had to do was download the Raid drivers from gigabyte and load them. So with windows installed and setup I decided to start testing. I fired up 3d mark and noticed my gpu temps shoot up to 80 pretty much instantly.
I quickly turned off the PC and started investigating. I have recently put on a alphacool eisenwolf with a 360 rad and before today temps never went about 45 with the fans on their lowest speeds. I disconnected the quick disconnect fittings just encase I didn't put them on properly when I reinstalled the card.... same thing again. I took off the GPU block redid all the thermal paste and pads...... same thing again. I put msi afterburner remote on my phone to keep an eye as im plugging and unplugging the fans and quick disconnects and idle temps are in their 40s.
By this point i am so frustrated I could scream so in a fit of rage I shock the PC screaming why arnt you working. Suddenly I hear lots of water and for a moment I thought it was leaking but checked my idle temps and they shot down to 27c. Must have been some air trapped in the rad and it needed a good shake.
And then I get to my final mistake of the night (I had been at this 8 hours by this point) I put a quick dirty overclock on my CPU of 3.9 at 1.35v and set XMP on the memory. I check CPUZ and its showing 3.9 but the memory is only showing 1600mhz. Somethings not right. SO I decided to upgrade the bios (which too 30 minutes turns out I had accidentally pulled out the internet connection from my router sitting next to my pc) Set up my overclock again and..... still 1600mhz in cpuz on the memory.
I was ready to RMA the memory or the motherboard but then I realised its DDR as in Double date Rate. !600mhz x 2 is 3200mhz :\
So all in all a lot of dumb mistakes on my part.
On the brightside though my cpu temps at 3.9 never go above 55 even with my noctua and case fans the lowest I can get.
I havent tested any game out yet but I do love the RBG on the motherboard and the millions of fan headers.
I do have to say that the gigabyte UEFI bios is a load of rubbish. There mouse lag, its slow to save anything and it feels like half the options are missing.
I have also noticed how over dramatic this system is. On my old 4770k when I tried to push the overclock if it failed it would blue screen then a quick dip in the bios and I could change things in 30 seconds.
With this though no blue screen just a black screen and a shutdown. Then it seems to cower in a corner screaming dont touch me for 10 minutes before you can switch it back on and get back into the bios to sort things out.
