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Redek

Redek

Redek

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Objective; New / overhauled rig for gaming. VR ready. Looking to maximise performance on the budget and to facilitate good times. Also wish to 'future proof' as far as is practical.
Timescale; hopefully not that long.
Budget; £400 now. £300 / month thereafter.
Current rig:
Intel i5 2500k @3.3Ghz
A corsair CPU cooler
Asus Pz68 pro gen 3 motherboard
AMD Radeon HD 7950, 'twn frozr' 3GB
8 GB ram, i think it's DDR3
850 watt PSU
SSD 250GB Crucial


I'm running two monitors currently. One of them 1080p, 23 inch.

Current issues; when running certain games with both monitors running, the 1080p monitor will eventually, most of the time, get scrambled graphics. I can see, on the other monitor before this happens, the picture quality getting weaker.

Naturally, I'm looking to improve performance as much as possible in the short term, and wish to have a more or less new rig within 6 months. I built this one in 2012/13, I think.

I'm looking at 500GB SSD as the first investment. And I'm tempted to pick up a high end keyboard at the same time.

Advice or input very welcome.
 
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picture of cpuid inc. trying to get a handle on the cpu settings

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Prior to the above, 'By all cores' in Asus bios was set to 44



Right side pic of AB was what I was using to o/c the gpu for a while. The 1080p monitor is unstable when under heavy load.

Going to download a benchmark programme for the gpu and also try out prime 95. These screenshots are not very good.

ALXAndy said:
/came in expecting to see a picture of a log.
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After thinking about some advice, I'm considering more in depth about how to improve current performance with what the hardware I already own.

When I have the time and energy to focus this weekend I hope to comprehensively benchmark the cpu and gpu, as well as overclock.

I really want to get a decent keyboard though, the one I've got is poor.

After bench marking it's possible I'll be in the market for a 1070 gpu, cos that's where I'll get the most performance boost for the gaming I want to do.
 
Graphics issue mentioned in first post has been resolved; ram was inserted incorrectly.

Have taken several parts out and air dusted. Also added an additional fan.

Have tried to overlcock the cpu from asus bios, but the measurements are not what I expected to see in cpu - z.

On benchamrking cpu in cpu-z -

CPU single thread : 1404
Multi : 5414
Multi thread ratio : 3.86
 
While running some demanding software (not a game) graphics problem happened again. So got around to running some tests. CPU first, GPU after. Whilst fiddling with the fan speeds the graphics problem happened again.

Have just realised the pics are not how I expected them, but im not doing them again.
 
CPU1 by Ed Rowan, on Flickr

CPO by Ed Rowan, on Flickr

CPO3 by Ed Rowan, on Flickr

CPU - test1 by Ed Rowan, on Flickr

GPU1 by Ed Rowan, on Flickr

GPU2 before bench by Ed Rowan, on Flickr

GPU test1 by Ed Rowan, on Flickr

I cranked up the fans to 100% at first. I'm wondering if power supply issues come into it. Running 800W corsair

I did get some error messages about power supply previously. Most recently when plugging in a mech keypad.

Cables are untidy and I wonder if this comes into it too.


So I'm concluding for now, the graphics problem is coming from the gpu, but it might not be happenening for one simple reason. Some of the parts might be very tired and might need better optimising if I want to rely on this setup for the future
 
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I'm running a 800 Watt corsair PGU, which I've had for five years now.

I've concerns about power supply to my PC, and if there is damage being caused.

What might be the simplest tool / method to check power consumption?



After I plugged in a mech keypad a few weeks back it seemed to start to go faulty after a few weeks of being fine, and then shut off completely. Also when I did plug iot in via USB after that it would immediately shut of my PC completely cold, which of course was very worrying. It was doing this to another PC, so from then on there was definately a fault with the keypad

I now have an expensive new keyboard and don't want to run into the same issues.

After putting the PC insto 'sleep' for a couple of hours today, the keyboard was not detected when I woke it up and from then on it wouldn't connect to the keyboard or the mouse, until I did a full restart. The keyboard keys were lighting up tho.

I've removed a lamp from the electricty extender socket (but I did this morning before above issues) - which now has 3 plugs - 2 powering monitors (one a 1080p, and the other one a lower res).


Is ther any way cabling from the PSU could be an issues?

The power extender to my PC comes from a double wall socket, and I keep the other one free.

Any input appreciated.
 
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Also to document is I'm getting an error message on shutdown again today, which I thought was related to an issue Id resolved by reinserting the ram into the correct sockets. It's something like 'memory could not be written' and then a bunch of random numebrs digits - it only comes up for a couple of seconds before shut down. I've seen it once today, and then one other time post re inserting the 2 x 4 GB DDR5 ram
 
Possibly motherboard is failing.

Tricky situation given that it connects the rest of it up. Though if it is the mobo, at least that can't cause power surges.
 
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