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

[Pecon]

what do u mean?

The crackling is coming from a very loose connection where the electricity has to jump through open air in order to reach the other contact. The reason you have to wiggle the cable around is because the connection is very loose and needs to be pushed into a position where the contacts are actually close enough to conduct. This really isn't a good thing.

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[Nal]

I can't believe we're 100 away to 1000, that's pretty cool

The crackling is coming from a very loose connection where the electricity has to jump through open air in order to reach the other contact. The reason you have to wiggle the cable around is because the connection is very loose and needs to be pushed into a position where the contacts are actually close enough to conduct. This really isn't a good thing.

he said he had a thermaltake tr2, right?
I had one and it was utter stuff, good for budget though.
I never had "crackling" but I had coil whine

[Oasis]

I can't believe we're 100 away to 1000, that's pretty cool

Right? 1000 pages of helping forumers seeking help and helping out. Quite a productive thread.

[hillkill]

what can i do about it? i've only had it for 3 days, it's working fine other than that.

[Steve5451²]

Right? 1000 pages of helping forumers seeking help and helping out. Quite a productive thread.

but we ignore like every other post

[Nal]

what can i do about it? i've only had it for 3 days, it's working fine other than that.

where did you buy it? take it there, maybe you got a defective one

[hillkill]

this is the second one i bought, first one was doa

[matthewbim11]

By the way, the symptoms of your problem regarding your PC instantly restarting after trying to run a game for a certain amount of time is almost certainly related to power draw. I had the exact same thing happen to me when I was overclocking my CPU. If I gave it too much or too little power my PC would do what yours is doing.

Tell me, did this only start happening once you got this graphics card? Does it only happen with this graphics card and does it happen without the drivers installed? If it is only with this card and only when you have the drivers installed you may have received a faulty card or a below-average GPU chip. I have three suggestions for what you can do listed from quickest to most time-consuming;

1) Apply more voltage to your card in Catalyst Control Center, about 5-10% on the slider should be enough. Don't worry about going too high, though; most overclocking utilities will only allow you to modify values within predefined "safe" ranges unless you change a setting which unlocks the sliders.

2) Underclock your graphics card on the same page in CCC, obviously not as ideal as the first.

3) RMA it and ask for a refund.

If I'm honest though I'd forget about #2 altogether and RMA it if the voltage boost doesn't solve the problem. Just remember to return the card to stock settings before you RMA it.

The system is brand new. It restarts frequently, a game running or not. Games trigger the reboot without fail. I only got Minecraft to run for about 2 minutes before I shut it down and launched bf3. The icon didn't even display on the taskbar and it shutdown.

[Tokthree]

The system is brand new. It restarts frequently, a game running or not. Games trigger the reboot without fail. I only got Minecraft to run for about 2 minutes before I shut it down and launched bf3. The icon didn't even display on the taskbar and it shutdown.

I still suggest at least the first suggestion from that list. It's also possible that your CPU is below-average and requires that the voltage be tweaked in the bios, what's your CPU?

[matthewbim11]

Fx 8350

[matthewbim11]

I still suggest at least the first suggestion from that list. It's also possible that your CPU is below-average and requires that the voltage be tweaked in the bios, what's your CPU?

I just did a %5 power boost in the GPU overdrive section. I opened Minecraft, but it was before I hit apply on the boost. I set settings to max and was getting nice frames right until the crash. I also ran FurMark and got this. No crashes on furmark, which is weird because it puts the GPu at 100℅ load.
http://imgur.com/XAIZQJD

[Tokthree]

I just did a %5 power boost in the GPU overdrive section. I opened Minecraft, but it was before I hit apply on the boost. I set settings to max and was getting nice frames right until the crash. I also ran FurMark and got this. No crashes on furmark, which is weird because it puts the GPu at 100℅ load.
http://imgur.com/XAIZQJD

Try giving it a 10% boost, see if that makes any difference. Also, I'd suggest upping your CPU voltage to 1.4v in your bios if upping the voltage on your GPU doesn't work. Beyond those I can't think of anything else you can do right now that would fix the problem. If they don't work then I'm out of ideas I'm afraid.

[matthewbim11]

I'm going to run Prime95 to see if stressing the CPU will cause shutdown.

[Alyx Vance]

Elecro, plug in your PSU.

[AtlasBlue]

Guys, I think the planning phase of my next build is beginning to come to a close. I might go with either A.) a GTX 970 or B.) a GTX 770 for the GPU, haven't managed to update the list yet. I've decided to use the Corsair AIR 540 (black) as my next case, maybe give some of the parts on it a custom paint job.

I went ahead and stepped down the PSU voltage a bit, down to a nice 650W fully-modular PSU from EVGA. I might switch out the HDD as I've heard some pretty negative stuff from Seagate's Barracuda lineup.

I'm OK with the CPU, but I'm unsure about the mobo. It looks nice, but when it comes to motherboards I can't find any performance differences. As for the CPU Cooler, I'm just going to use the H90 I have in my current build and put the old stock cooler in my old rig.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/nrRnFT