[MEGATHREAD] Personal Computer - Updated builds thanks to Logical Increments

[Foxscotch]

my computer idles at 1.1 gb of ram what can i do to combat this

mine idles at around 3
probably the easiest solution would be to just buy more RAM

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[Plexious]

my computer idles at 1.1 gb of ram what can i do to combat this

Downgrade to Windows XP or Linux

[Blockzillahead]

my computer idles at 1.1 gb of ram what can i do to combat this

sounds normal to me...
mine idles at 3gb

[Georges]

I tested my new motherboard with my brothers Celeron he bought to update his BIOS. I updated my BIOS with it as well.

Now to start saving for that i5... ;-;

[Oasis]

Alright, a small problem. The case's audio/microphone jack connector for the motherboard wasn't going on the pins all the way, which I thought wasn't that big of a deal until I put some headphones on and sound is missing certain db or something. Like it sounds like people's voices are missing and such.

Re-posting 'cause of page-loss.

Edit: forget it's going to take 5 hours to transfer my steam folder to my new drive... Guess computer's staying on for the night.

[Oasis]

Ok seriously, when I plug headphones into either audio jack on my computer, voices are just gone. All other sound is alright. It's not the headphones.

Just had to adjust the balance. When it was equal things weren't working.

[Ninja Decoy]

Im debating on if i want to spend the money on a Corsair K70 RGB keyboard or go with the older K95.

I heard the old series had LED burnout issues. Not sure if the RGB ones have LED issues.

[Oasis]

What program would you guys recommend as a benchmark?

[Oasis]

Bumping the thread for my last question, but also is there any way of for sure knowing your gpu fans are functioning correctly? ASUS's gtx 970 apparently doesn't run them till the card is at a certain temp, but I've never seen them run...

[Bisjac]

a gpu would overheat very easily if there was no cooling at all. you would blue screen within 10 seconds of launching a game.
so something must be working lol

[Oasis]

a gpu would overheat very easily if there was no cooling at all. you would blue screen within 10 seconds of launching a game.
so something must be working lol

It was reading over 60C while I was playing Space Engineers on the highest settings, and I was starting to worry about long term heat like that on the card. I was always going to adjust the fan curve, but then it hit me that I've never seen them on.

Alright, just tried to up the fan speed to a 100% or whatever in Afterburner, they didn't turn on...

Starting to freak me out.

[Bisjac]

install like precision or something, and crank gpu fans up to 100 to check. if you havnt adjusted them at all they would be about 50 i think. and thats not loud enough to hear em (or cool well)

[Bisjac]

this is the 970?

[Oasis]

this is the 970?

Yeah, the ASUS overclocked one.

[Bisjac]

i think all the 900s turn fans off completely at below 60c
let em run long and hard and see what they can get up to. the fans should pop on lol