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animehero said:
I've decided to get the following instead.

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Contacted woot for them to test the AsRock board and Ram though.

If they give the all clear that nothing is wrong with the asrock board, I'll probably sell it here or on carb
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Got the new board, everything installed as it should be. Loaded XMP profile doing nothing else and not even an hour in, got the dreaded black screen.
Event viewer says Level : Critical, Event ID 41.
There's no mini dumps in the windows folder either even though I specified the save point

So definitely not the motherboard then. I'm leaning towards weird ram or faulty CPU. Unfortunately can't test CPU anywhere else, but woot can test the ram for me.

Let's see how that goes, and will update when I get more info
 
animehero said:
Got the new board, everything installed as it should be. Loaded XMP profile doing nothing else and not even an hour in, got the dreaded black screen.
Event viewer says Level : Critical, Event ID 41.
There's no mini dumps in the windows folder either even though I specified the save point

So definitely not the motherboard then. I'm leaning towards weird ram or faulty CPU. Unfortunately can't test CPU anywhere else, but woot can test the ram for me.

Let's see how that goes, and will update when I get more info
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Any WHEA errors? What are your thermals like?
 
The Voice said:
Any WHEA errors? What are your thermals like?
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With XMP enabled on the B450, OCCT gave WHEA errors while running the test. I didn't check in event log for this though.

Using a Noctua NH-U12A with a Thermal Grizzly Carbonaut Thermal Pad , CPU goes to about 67 max during stress tests, 60deg during normal operating. GPU gets to about 72deg. I didn't check VRAM on MB though, so something funky might have been happening there. I have a fan blowing there though so I don't think it's that.

Woot has MB and RAM at the moment.
If it's not either of those, I think the CPU came from them as well, but I bought that off carb so just have to confirm with the original owner first
 
Big ups to wootware. Great comms throughout, delivered as stated, very neat cabling job, all the extra bits and boxes shipped as well. Lol - didn't really care for the glass panel when ordering, now I'm trying to find a way to orient the box so it's on display. I like everything black like this. Nice & spacious inside there.

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What does the setup below look like for R17k secondhand, any obvious red flags?

Power Supply: Antec VP650 80+ High Performance Power Supply
Processor: Ryzen 7 3700X (3.6GHz, 36MB GameCache, 8x Cores, 4.4GHz+ Turbo)
Heatsink & CPU Fan: Standard Heatsink & CPU Fan
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming RYZEN Motherboard
Memory (RAM): Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB 3200MHz 16GB Gaming RAM
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 1660 Super OC Edition. 6GB GDDR6 Card
Primary Hard Drive: [NVMe] HP EX920 512GB M.2 SSD Read Upto 3200MB/s
 
airborne said:
What does the setup below look like for R17k secondhand, any obvious red flags?

Power Supply: Antec VP650 80+ High Performance Power Supply
Processor: Ryzen 7 3700X (3.6GHz, 36MB GameCache, 8x Cores, 4.4GHz+ Turbo)
Heatsink & CPU Fan: Standard Heatsink & CPU Fan
Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming RYZEN Motherboard
Memory (RAM): Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB 3200MHz 16GB Gaming RAM
Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 1660 Super OC Edition. 6GB GDDR6 Card
Primary Hard Drive: [NVMe] HP EX920 512GB M.2 SSD Read Upto 3200MB/s
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From what I can see the only thing that's a bit sketchy is the mbb is only 4 ram slots and is a bit old, also not many USB-3 ports. The price is also a bit high, from my claculations R15k is closer to being fair.

Below is the new pricing I could find, does it look about right?
R2000 PC Case: [RGB] EVETECH TRIO Tempered Glass RGB Gaming Case
R1000 Power Supply: Antec VP650 80+ High Performance Power Supply
R5200(For a 5600x which is newer and faster single core) Processor: Ryzen 7 3700X (3.6GHz, 36MB GameCache, 8x Cores, 4.4GHz+ Turbo)
R2600 Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming RYZEN Motherboard
R2000 Memory (RAM): Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB 3200MHz 16GB Gaming RAM
R6000 Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 1660 Super OC Edition. 6GB GDDR6 Card
R1500 Primary Hard Drive: [NVMe] HP EX920 512GB M.2 SSD Read Upto 3200MB/s
Total R20,300
 
Gtx Gaming said:
Looks like you trying to buy from evetech, save yourself the trouble lol
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No it's a 2hnd machine that was originally bought from Evetech.
Looking at a similar build brand new on wootware it's not such a great deal, it's only really the gfx card that's bumping things up, damn inflated gfx card prices are killing things :(
 
airborne said:
From what I can see the only thing that's a bit sketchy is the mbb is only 4 ram slots and is a bit old, also not many USB-3 ports. The price is also a bit high, from my claculations R15k is closer to being fair.

Below is the new pricing I could find, does it look about right?
R2000 PC Case: [RGB] EVETECH TRIO Tempered Glass RGB Gaming Case
R1000 Power Supply: Antec VP650 80+ High Performance Power Supply
R5200(For a 5600x which is newer and faster single core) Processor: Ryzen 7 3700X (3.6GHz, 36MB GameCache, 8x Cores, 4.4GHz+ Turbo)
R2600 Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming RYZEN Motherboard
R2000 Memory (RAM): Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB 3200MHz 16GB Gaming RAM
R6000 Graphics Card: GeForce GTX 1660 Super OC Edition. 6GB GDDR6 Card
R1500 Primary Hard Drive: [NVMe] HP EX920 512GB M.2 SSD Read Upto 3200MB/s
Total R20,300
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I don't think you ever get more than 4 RAM slots on a consumer desktop motherboard. Maybe for threadrippers.

That board doesn't have any USB 3.2 ports, if you see yourself saturating the 10gbps of 3.1.
And of course no PCIe 4.0 if that matters to you.

I agree with the 5600X
 
saor said:
Big ups to wootware. Great comms throughout, delivered as stated, very neat cabling job, all the extra bits and boxes shipped as well. Lol - didn't really care for the glass panel when ordering, now I'm trying to find a way to orient the box so it's on display. I like everything black like this. Nice & spacious inside there.

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Out of interest sake when not gaming, just using editing software or similar, around how much power will Soar's system use?
 
Can someone explain Nvidia grfx card hierarchy?
I would have thought higher number equals better specs but it seems a 1080TI 6GB smokes a 1660TI 6GB and sells for R8-9k 2hnd whereas the 1660TI is R7500 brand new.
 
airborne said:
Can someone explain Nvidia grfx card hierarchy?
I would have thought higher number equals better specs but it seems a 1080TI 6GB smokes a 1660TI 6GB and sells for R8-9k 2hnd whereas the 1660TI is R7500 brand new.
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The last numbers are the ones to look for in hierarchy.
So you get 30,50,60,70,80. But on top of that you get normal, Super and TI.
The 16 series came out as a change to the budget range, so you get a 1650,1660 which replaced the 1050 and 1060.
From the 20 series there is no 30 or 50. But in the 30 series there is a 50.
So a 1660 is a suped up 1060 hence a 1080 beats the 1660
 
airborne said:
Can someone explain Nvidia grfx card hierarchy?
I would have thought higher number equals better specs but it seems a 1080TI 6GB smokes a 1660TI 6GB and sells for R8-9k 2hnd whereas the 1660TI is R7500 brand new.
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Not sure if typo, but the 1080ti has 11GB DDR, not 6GB. It was the flagship card of the 10x0 range.
 
The Voice said:
Not sure if typo, but the 1080ti has 11GB DDR, not 6GB. It was the flagship card of the 10x0 range.
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You could definitely be right there, I looked at so many deals and the 80TI + 11GB would explain the price.
 
airborne said:
Out of interest sake when not gaming, just using editing software or similar, around how much power will Soar's system use?
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Probably idles at 30-40W, rendering or exporting depends on whether the GPU is maxed out. Could be as low as 120W (CPU maxed out) or as high as 350W if the software uses resources super-efficiently. Somewhere in between when scrubbing through timelines or doing low-res previews. I only hobby-render so take that with a grain of salt.

Usage, not wall power.
 
Lupus said:
The last numbers are the ones to look for in hierarchy.
So you get 30,50,60,70,80. But on top of that you get normal, Super and TI.
The 16 series came out as a change to the budget range, so you get a 1650,1660 which replaced the 1050 and 1060.
From the 20 series there is no 30 or 50. But in the 30 series there is a 50.
So a 1660 is a suped up 1060 hence a 1080 beats the 1660
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Thanks, so the first 2 numbers signify the generation and the last 2 are what type the card is and higher is better.
That explains why a 3080TI is a beast and also the reason it sells for R30k new.
 
airborne said:
Thanks, so the first 2 numbers signify the generation and the last 2 are what type the card is and higher is better.
That explains why a 3080TI is a beast and also the reason it sells for R30k new.
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Yup basically, it goes all the way back to the GTX280, before that it was then the 9000 series, but it was like 9600,9800 :).
Like the 16 series is actually a 20 series but cut back a bit too be more like 10 series.
 
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anyone know where I can find a Corsair RM1000x power supply, every shop I look at is "out of stock"
only thing left on Wootware is the Rog-strix 1000G. Would prefer the Corsair from the reviews.

Also I forgot to order those R5 motherboard self adhesive standoffs. Anyone know of a shop in Durbs I can get them from? Otherwise its spend R30 for them and R100 delivery! lol
 
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