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ZenGraffix
United States96 Posts
Good luck, | ||
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ZenGraffix
United States96 Posts
best wishes, | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
On May 16 2011 14:05 ZenGraffix wrote: Honestly I dont know where you getting your numbers, 260w for the video card under full load, 125w for the Cpu, 70w for the board, we havnt counted ram, usb devices, harddrives, optical drives. A minimum of 600 watts is where you want to be considering the degredation of the transitors can be in excess of 30% in the first year alone.. an issue with how the power button is connected to the motherboard, or a grounding issue. It seems pretty straight forward if you ask me. How do you get 125W power draw (stock) out of a CPU listed by Intel for only needing a TDP of 95W? Also, what kind of LGA 1156 motherboard takes 70W? Here are some system power consumption (AC, so you need to factor in power supply efficiency) figures for a i7-860 system. Note that it includes a HD 5870 at idle, a hard drive, RAM, the motherboard, and everything else. It's 171W AC measured under LinX for all of those components from an 880W 80+ Bronze PSU, so probably around 140-145W DC drawn from the power supply. So 125W from the CPU, 70W from the board, and negative wattage from the RAM, hard drives, optical drives, fans...? http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/power-consumption-overclocking_15.html#sect1 Power supply transistors degrading 30%? Source? It's usually the capacitors (well, the power supply fan really) that have issues before anything else, on a decent power supply. But 30% after a year is ridiculous. | ||
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Zabombafor
Canada17 Posts
going to need a new motherboard probably just pick up another i7-860 to avoid any compatability issues or anything like that so when i get this new motherboard and set it all up will it be ready to play? or will i have to do a bunch of set up to get it to the point that it will work? | ||
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Syben
United States512 Posts
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
Why would you get another CPU? If you were buying another CPU, you should upgrade to a newer one (Core i5-2x00) that's cheaper and has better performance. Are the parts not under warranty? Assuming you can't go that route and that the motherboard is defective, you're looking at something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157190 Note that if you got an OEM copy of Windows, it's tied to the motherboard it was installed on. Different motherboards will have different chips onboard like for audio and for Ethernet. So you would need different drivers. Best practice when switching motherboards is to reinstall the OS, but that's not always necessary. You can try looking up doing repair installs, or just removing/getting drivers. Using a different i7-8xx won't help as the original one would be no problem. Also keep in mind that you would need to remove residual thermal paste from the CPU heatsink and apply a little bit of new thermal paste when installing it onto the new motherboard. If you don't already have thermal paste and would need to buy it as well, it might be worth just getting a $20 cooler to use instead of the stock one (they come with thermal paste). It would be quieter and cool the CPU better anyway: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103064 | ||
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Zabombafor
Canada17 Posts
no beeps no lights no anything so i need to go buy a new motherboard, either some thermal paste or just a new cooler then install drivers and possibly the os? that doens't sound so bad | ||
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Zabombafor
Canada17 Posts
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-MX32728(ME).aspx | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
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Zabombafor
Canada17 Posts
any suggestions? | ||
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Zabombafor
Canada17 Posts
http://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/PID-MX25459(ME).aspx | ||
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