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Craton
United States17288 Posts
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Chrono000
Korea (South)358 Posts
I want to know if my friends geforce GTX 560 SE can fit on my ga-ma74gmt-s2 motherboard. ive been out of the loop of hardware for years and dont know of a quick way to check this without physcally doing all the switching. cheers | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
If somehow compatibility is broken on that model (it was on some boards with PCIe 1.x I think), a BIOS update from Gigabyte's site would fix that. | ||
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Chrono000
Korea (South)358 Posts
On May 18 2013 11:53 Myrmidon wrote: Yes, it is. PCI Express is forwards and backwards compatible. For a while now, including years before the motherboard and graphics card were released, they all used PCI Express x16 slots. If somehow compatibility is broken on that model (it was on some boards with PCIe 1.x I think), a BIOS update from Gigabyte's site would fix that. cheers my friend... cheers,.... | ||
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rolfe
United Kingdom1266 Posts
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Rachnar
France1526 Posts
Or if you just don't care about a little boost in performance build it now anyways. | ||
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rolfe
United Kingdom1266 Posts
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Rannasha
Netherlands2398 Posts
On May 18 2013 20:06 rolfe wrote: so its neither going to be a significant improvement nor going to cause a significant reduction in prices? sounds like little point in waiting. thanks Performance improvements will most likely not exceed 10%. Most gains will be had in the area of energy efficiency most likely (it's more of a focus point these days). Intel doesn't reduce prices of previous generation chips when they release a new generation, so don't expect big discounts (individual retailers may still want to clear out stock of the previous generation, so a little bit of money might be saved). | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20334 Posts
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rolfe
United Kingdom1266 Posts
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waffling1
599 Posts
Why is my GFlops so low? i'm getting almost double on my other 3570k rig. i set it to x40 (standard base clock 100MHZ), auto offset voltage on the asrock UEFI (i'm getting around 1.270V when running intel burn test) temps are 70C when running standard, 20 runs. i5-3570k asrock pro4 xigmatek gaia | ||
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Craton
United States17288 Posts
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
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waffling1
599 Posts
i'll test and post back here again that did the trick. up at 95 GF. thanks! | ||
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pRo9aMeR
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Flaiker
Germany235 Posts
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
Edit: I googled and some people have reported that this happens because of overheating. I'll try cleaning out my computer a bit later and seeing if this helps. Any other suggestions? | ||
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Flaiker
Germany235 Posts
On May 20 2013 02:56 Epishade wrote: Recently I started playing SC2 again. The problem is, sometimes when I'm in the game (and by sometimes I mean almost every game), either my monitor turns off and I have to restart the computer or the game freezes. What causes this and what can I do to fix it? thanks. Edit: I googled and some people have reported that this happens because of overheating. I'll try cleaning out my computer a bit later and seeing if this helps. Any other suggestions? Is only the monitor turning black (-> does the sound still work while it is off)? If the game freezes do you get an infinite sound loop? Windows also protocolls every screw up in the "event viewer". There you might be able to find more information regarding which hardware part or software is causing the problem. | ||
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
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Craton
United States17288 Posts
Anyway, one sign of a failing monitor is that it will turn off; however, this would happen unbeknownst to your PC and would not cause a lockup. I haven't heard of overheating causing spontaneous black screening (it should just power off your system). Maybe in the case of a GPU overheating? See if you can monitor the GPU and CPU temperatures during load. TDP for both are usually 100C or so, but really under an SC2 load with low-end coolers I don't think you should be exceeding 70C (if that). Also, run the various hardware tests like Memtest (tests RAM), IntelBurnTest & Prime95 (stresses CPU to test temps/stability), Furmark (stresses GPU to test temps/stability). | ||
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