just shows you how good a company it is. customer satisfaction put first!! how many companies can say that?
New game / New Graphics card.
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just shows you how good a company it is. customer satisfaction put first!! how many companies can say that?
Really above and beyond!
As an aside, I'll be using this upgrade session as a chance to finally swap my hardware out from my old skanky vanilla PC case into the Sharkoon case I bought for my NAS server. My Freenas server unit has been sat there in the Sharkoon for three or four years.
Here's my Sharkoon Rebel 9 Economy case: http://www.sharkoon.com/?q=en/content/rebel9-pro-economy
I may fit a few case fans on the side to increase air intake near the new display card.
I'll also be completing a fresh install of Windows 7, striped over my two 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache HDD's.
The previous build saw me stripe the OS over two Corsair Extreme Series X32 2.5" Solid State HDD's. Talk about fast ! One of them failed however so I went back to mechanical drives due to cost.
Smiles !
Here's my Sharkoon Rebel 9 Economy case: http://www.sharkoon.com/?q=en/content/rebel9-pro-economy
I may fit a few case fans on the side to increase air intake near the new display card.
I'll also be completing a fresh install of Windows 7, striped over my two 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache HDD's.
The previous build saw me stripe the OS over two Corsair Extreme Series X32 2.5" Solid State HDD's. Talk about fast ! One of them failed however so I went back to mechanical drives due to cost.
Smiles !
Epic read. Nice that you got a new PSU for a fraction of the cost. With a fresh win install in your new case I doubt you'll have many more issues. New case will have better ventilation too and with Bailey sending you a new card you're well set for gaming 
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Ohhh I complete forgetten about the differences with single and multi rails. Boy it been 6 years since I had old Antec TruePower PSU with dual rails failed then bought OCZ Z series 850W modular PSU with 71A single rail but 4 months later I gave it away to my sister after her PC PSU blew up as she was poor single mum with no job and looked after 3 kids. Many people on forums said OCZ Z series 850W PSU was crap but it amazed my sister PC still has OCZZ850M PSU going very strong for 6 years after 5 years warranty expired last year.
SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 750W modular PSU is very nice provide 62.4A single rail, much better than SuperFlower 450W with 37A.
This as been a really good read, Amazing offers from OcUK and will look forward to finding out how Trebz gets on with is new PSU
I've recently had to deal with a couple of faulty PSU units (450w Silverstone out of SG05's) thing is they were both over 3 years old and only really started to fail on demanding games but this got more frequent as time went on. It could be that your PSU is just old and failing, it wasn't a good one to start with!
Having said that I would have thought that a PSU problem would just crash and or shut down your PC. The blue lines could be bad memory on the 7950, worst case scenario you're going to end up with a great PSU and a new GPU (lucky sod)
Shame you didn't have access to members market I reckon you could bag over time a i5 2500K, Motherboard and 8GB Memory for £150. Would give you a very nice rig.
I've recently had to deal with a couple of faulty PSU units (450w Silverstone out of SG05's) thing is they were both over 3 years old and only really started to fail on demanding games but this got more frequent as time went on. It could be that your PSU is just old and failing, it wasn't a good one to start with!
Having said that I would have thought that a PSU problem would just crash and or shut down your PC. The blue lines could be bad memory on the 7950, worst case scenario you're going to end up with a great PSU and a new GPU (lucky sod)
Shame you didn't have access to members market I reckon you could bag over time a i5 2500K, Motherboard and 8GB Memory for £150. Would give you a very nice rig.
Im looking forward to eventually seeing the members market and grabbing my self a few nice bargains
Power supply received.
It smells lovely, I think I'll just sit there smelling it for a while. Seems a shame to plug it in.
It came in a little posh drawstring bag, I'll keep this to safely transport my personal toiletries when travelling abroad.
It was delivered to my work address so expect an update later today when I fit it into the PC.
It smells lovely, I think I'll just sit there smelling it for a while. Seems a shame to plug it in.
It came in a little posh drawstring bag, I'll keep this to safely transport my personal toiletries when travelling abroad.
It was delivered to my work address so expect an update later today when I fit it into the PC.
Hi All
Powers supply fitted perfectly but I have bad news. The display issues persist.
See below before and after pictures for your perusal followed by three video links showing the ongoing issue.
After fitting the powers supply the PC boots flawlessly and runs perfect until I load up a game, in this instance Alien Isolation. After no less than five minutes I see the blue sparkly lines appear on screen, this also appears on the desktop after exiting the game. I than run 3D Mark as I did earlier in this post and the same system crash with black screen and blue lines appears, I have to re boot the PC with the power button.
I think after this I may have to take up Bailey's offer of a brand new display card.
Before:
After:
Video 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb8uWHzRaJM
Video 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3WQ1Q2MBys
Video 3 (Sorry about my big gay cat, Mike):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS5EEk-3JBI
Powers supply fitted perfectly but I have bad news. The display issues persist.
See below before and after pictures for your perusal followed by three video links showing the ongoing issue.
After fitting the powers supply the PC boots flawlessly and runs perfect until I load up a game, in this instance Alien Isolation. After no less than five minutes I see the blue sparkly lines appear on screen, this also appears on the desktop after exiting the game. I than run 3D Mark as I did earlier in this post and the same system crash with black screen and blue lines appears, I have to re boot the PC with the power button.
I think after this I may have to take up Bailey's offer of a brand new display card.
Before:
After:
Video 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb8uWHzRaJM
Video 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3WQ1Q2MBys
Video 3 (Sorry about my big gay cat, Mike):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS5EEk-3JBI
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dam sad to hear this... did you completely remove the nvidia drivers?
long shot I know as to be honest doesnt look like a driver issue to me
p.s
that psu looks really sweet... I might need to save some pennies up..
long shot I know as to be honest doesnt look like a driver issue to me
p.s
that psu looks really sweet... I might need to save some pennies up..
also.. looking at your pictures. the hard drives in your system have really hampered airflow to the gpu
I would consider moving these. even try and place them below the dvd rom.
also fit a fan on the front panel to try and get some cold air in there
I would consider moving these. even try and place them below the dvd rom.
also fit a fan on the front panel to try and get some cold air in there
There's already a fan at the front. The HDD's were separated and the front fan blew over them. The new display card does not allow enough room for the HDD's to be mounted in the same way, no room. I'm swapping the kit over to my Sharkoon case soon, I'll mount them higher when I swap over.
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Ohhh unbelievable!
I knew the graphic card was faulty after saw video 1 since you told me about blue lines. Now found out on google that blue/white/pink lines or textures mean faulty graphic card.
Was surprised to see white lines in video 1. 2 years ago I had EVGA Geforce 670 GTX SC 4GB played Rise of the Triads for hours then noticed white lines and white and blue textures flashed on screen, checked temp and memory on Afterburner OSD seemed fine then I exited game to desktop and waited until GPU cooled down 15 mins but decided to shutdown PC and gone to bed. Next day I played game for hours then saw white lines for a sec but ignored it and continued played game then sometime later I got pink textures and a pink line. Checked Afterburner OSD seemed fine, the GPU memory hit 3.7GB and exit to desktop but the 1 pink line still here so I decided to shutdown to leave it to cool down until next day. But the next day I turned on PC and OMG saw lots of pink lines on screen then I send RMA request email to EVGA explained exactly same above and they asked me to sent pics for proof then received back email from EVGA confirmed it is faulty and provided me RMA number. Then 5 days later I received new replacement worked great played Rise of the Triads for days without white/pink lines/textures.
Sad to see yet another £50 gone down in toilet for lovely brand new PSU. I think you would had graphic card RMAed and get replacement when you provided video 1 to proved it faulty when OCUK cannot find fault.
I always knew it was the GPU since start of this thread, it was refurnished with 90 days warranty. Your graphic card was probably been used years ago found faulty and original owner RMAed to MSI for new replacement while MSI baked your graphic card and found no issues or faults in tests then sell again as refurnished but it has hideous faults.
Hope you get better new graphic card for half price discount, maybe GTX 970 or R9 290.
I knew the graphic card was faulty after saw video 1 since you told me about blue lines. Now found out on google that blue/white/pink lines or textures mean faulty graphic card.
Was surprised to see white lines in video 1. 2 years ago I had EVGA Geforce 670 GTX SC 4GB played Rise of the Triads for hours then noticed white lines and white and blue textures flashed on screen, checked temp and memory on Afterburner OSD seemed fine then I exited game to desktop and waited until GPU cooled down 15 mins but decided to shutdown PC and gone to bed. Next day I played game for hours then saw white lines for a sec but ignored it and continued played game then sometime later I got pink textures and a pink line. Checked Afterburner OSD seemed fine, the GPU memory hit 3.7GB and exit to desktop but the 1 pink line still here so I decided to shutdown to leave it to cool down until next day. But the next day I turned on PC and OMG saw lots of pink lines on screen then I send RMA request email to EVGA explained exactly same above and they asked me to sent pics for proof then received back email from EVGA confirmed it is faulty and provided me RMA number. Then 5 days later I received new replacement worked great played Rise of the Triads for days without white/pink lines/textures.
Sad to see yet another £50 gone down in toilet for lovely brand new PSU. I think you would had graphic card RMAed and get replacement when you provided video 1 to proved it faulty when OCUK cannot find fault.
I always knew it was the GPU since start of this thread, it was refurnished with 90 days warranty. Your graphic card was probably been used years ago found faulty and original owner RMAed to MSI for new replacement while MSI baked your graphic card and found no issues or faults in tests then sell again as refurnished but it has hideous faults.
Hope you get better new graphic card for half price discount, maybe GTX 970 or R9 290.