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

[Bones4]

My station. The speaker on the top left is part of my surround sound system.

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[Foxscotch]

very cramped

[Bones4]

Is bigger than it looks and that's a 27" monitor. I don't have many options since I live in a military dorm.

[Shocklink]

Slight Cross-posting (Sorry), I feel like people here would answer a question I have, the other post got high-jacked regarding the human eye seeing more than 60 fps.

Do you guys think its worth replacing a GTX 660TI with a GTX 960 or would I get a better return with another 660TI and SLI them.

My budget is $200, this is why I am choosing one or the other (I can live with paying another $25-50 for taxes, shipping, whateva)
No, don't suggest me to get AMD
No, don't suggest me a 980

[Badger]

having some trouble here forums

installed a second stick of ram and booted up my computer, it displayed on the screen the desktop then after waiting a tiny bit launched speccy now it refuses to display anything of the screen and my mouse+keyboard aren't lit up but will light up for a brief second when I plug them in.

Anything I should do?

upon removing the stick my computer works

its the identical model to my current stick

[Pie Crust]

Try using one stick of RAM at a time or switch them around. I had a problem once with a 512MB RAM card and a 256MB RAM card. Switching then around fixed the issue. Try one at a time to be sure thay it's not a faulty card and then try both.

[Badger]

already currently trying that

perhaps its the motherboard - it has four slots coloured black grey black grey for ram

[Pie Crust]

Remember, the slots are indexed. You cannot have RAM in slot 2 without there being a card in slot 1. (Atleast to my experience) Doesn't your mobo beep or show a no-ram error?

[Badger]

I know it has to be in the first one

That's where I've been keeping the card


working now must've been colour related

now I have to get 803mhz to 1600mhz like it says on the package ugh

[Ipquarx]

Slight Cross-posting (Sorry), I feel like people here would answer a question I have, the other post got high-jacked regarding the human eye seeing more than 60 fps.

Can't you SLI 2 different cards together? If you could SLI the 960 and 660 ti together that would be better than 2 660 ti's.

[QuadStorm]

now I have to get 803mhz to 1600mhz like it says on the package ugh

iirc dual channel ddr3 ram's effective frequency is double the displayed amount so you should be fine unless it's literally 400 mhz on speccy

[Shocklink]

Can't you SLI 2 different cards together? If you could SLI the 960 and 660 ti together that would be better than 2 660 ti's.

You cant with Nvidias, this would not work, you can however dedicate one to do physics and another for graphics but SLI them together is impossible.

I know it has to be in the first one

That's where I've been keeping the card


working now must've been colour related

now I have to get 803mhz to 1600mhz like it says on the package ugh

I don't fully understand what you did to fix the issue, was it the RAM that doesn't match or the slot you put it in that didn't let it work?

[Oasis]

You cant with Nvidias, this would not work, you can however dedicate one to do physics and another for graphics but SLI them together is impossible.

Might change with DirectX 12.

[AtlasBlue]

Can't you SLI 2 different cards together? If you could SLI the 960 and 660 ti together that would be better than 2 660 ti's.

Might change with DirectX 12.

If this happens, I'm going to die of happiness

[Oasis]

now I have to get 803mhz to 1600mhz like it says on the package ugh

Whoa, whoa don't do that.