The PSU will have a ~24 pin and also an ~8 pin which both have to go into the motherboard, at least for all of the ones i have used recently (lga1336, lga1055, lga1050). Which motherboard exactly do you have?

OsaX Nymloth

Poland3244 Posts

February 16 2015 06:00 GMT

#10462

Asus M2N-X and M2N-X plus

I just don't understand how the old mobo doesn't work anymore on the same damn CPU/PSU. It worked previously, altho was freezing at random times. Will need to sleep with this and tomorrow (well, today) will try to get around that with fresh mind.
And no, don't ask - I live in the night, sleep during the day

Cyro

United Kingdom20310 Posts

February 16 2015 06:23 GMT

#10463

That thing is OLD

You can see a 4 pin power connector (2x2 square) near the CPU socket

Kupon3ss

時の回廊10066 Posts

February 16 2015 06:55 GMT

#10464

Lots of -1 and -5 intel chipsets are still using 4pins, its only the 7s on which its almost always 8 pin nowadays

OsaX Nymloth

Poland3244 Posts

February 16 2015 17:32 GMT

#10465

@Cyro - never said it's new

And obviously I connect the CPU power too, I'm not that braindead :D
Will look at this thing again tonight. Might break it or break me.

About the old age tho... few weeks ago I had a PC to fix that was so old, the mobo never ever heard about USB 2.0 or SATA. People are still using such old hardware, that one was about 10 years old. And it still worked - mostly.

Cyro

United Kingdom20310 Posts

February 16 2015 20:21 GMT

#10466

Just making sure, it's one of the more common mistakes with symptoms like that

Craton

United States17253 Posts

February 16 2015 22:16 GMT

#10467

I guess it's possible you could've gotten a defective new part. The only other thing I could think of is the CPU not being compatible with the bios revision of your motherboard, but when I had that happen it didn't shutdown (rather it was just "on" indefinitely without actually ever reaching POST - fans on, hdds on, but no video / mobo beeps / etc) - in other words, not exactly the symptoms you're describing.

OsaX Nymloth

Poland3244 Posts

February 17 2015 00:14 GMT

#10468

I thought about that, but so far I have two of each: CPU, GPU, PSU. From with a whole set was bought online. Hard to believe all of them are faulty now.

Well, thanks anyway for trying to help.

AGzee

1 Post

February 17 2015 09:01 GMT

#10469

Does anyone of you face high ping issues or lag spikes during online gaming? Especially, in LoL, DotA2 and SC2.
What is your average in-game ping?

Myles

United States5162 Posts

February 17 2015 16:09 GMT

#10470

My GPU died(Radeon HD 7750) and I'm looking to slightly upgrade. I was thinking about a Radeon HD7790 or GTX 650 Ti Boost, but then saw this Radeon HD 6970 for $100 after rebate. From research it seems like it's as good or better than the other two, but it seems really cheap so I feel like there's something I'm missing. Is there anything I need to worry about here?

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

February 17 2015 16:45 GMT

#10471

If you don't mind it using a lot of power, it's great at $100. Also keep in mind that it requires a 6pin and a 8pin PCIe connector so you may need to use PCIe to molex adapters as we ll.

Kupon3ss

時の回廊10066 Posts

February 17 2015 17:18 GMT

#10472

It's a 4 year old card that sucks up a lot of power and dissipates a lot of heat. It at 100 bucks is kind of unsurprising since the R9 270 is like $140 and 750 Ti is 120

I believe its modern real-world performance would be somewhere between those two cards - if possible I'd definitely spend the extra 40-50 bucks for the 270 since you'll get a much newer card with better performance without having to deal with a space heater

OsaX Nymloth

Poland3244 Posts

February 17 2015 20:05 GMT

#10473

New weird thing I discovered in my case.

When I plug just the 24pin mobo power cable, the pc boots. No beep or anything, but it "works" and doesn't turn down.
If I also plug the CPU power cable, it shuts down after those 5 seconds.

Confirmed on both PSU/CPU/motherboards.

Can someone explain this magic? The CPU is at fault?

Cyro

United Kingdom20310 Posts

February 17 2015 21:34 GMT

#10474

On February 17 2015 18:01 AGzee wrote:
Does anyone of you face high ping issues or lag spikes during online gaming? Especially, in LoL, DotA2 and SC2.
What is your average in-game ping?

A normal in-game ping is about 40-50, with some people being sub-20ms and others approaching 100ms. I consider ~50ms to be annoying to play with in some games, but 100 to be really bad (if it's real-time, like an FPS game or even a MOBA)

i have ~25-30ms ping usually, constant, varying a bit depending on server location

the only thing more annoying than high ping is inconsistent ping and packet loss

Dingodile

4135 Posts

February 20 2015 13:47 GMT

#10475

I have DSL 6000 (6mbit/s) and I use DLAN.
1) Do I see speed difference if I buy a powerline network adapter 14mbit/s or 500mbit/s for my Internet?
2) My network adapter is 10yrs old. Are the new adapters better at everything (technology) or they only can offer higher speed (mbit/s)?

felisconcolori

United States6168 Posts

February 21 2015 01:36 GMT

#10476

On February 20 2015 22:47 Dingodile wrote:
I have DSL 6000 (6mbit/s) and I use DLAN.
1) Do I see speed difference if I buy a powerline network adapter 14mbit/s or 500mbit/s for my Internet?
2) My network adapter is 10yrs old. Are the new adapters better at everything (technology) or they only can offer higher speed (mbit/s)?

Depends on what you're connecting to - if you have an in-home network (for example, I have a wired 1 Gbps ethernet setup) and a lot of traffic is going on between your computers, you might see a speed increase.

However, your network speeds from inside your network to the internet in general probably won't change all that much. I mean, driver differences, better hardware, etc, might improve things slightly - but you're never going to see speeds to the internet greater than what your pipe to the world can carry. (And with DSL, that's probably going to be less than your 6mbps connection because of DSL overhead - I have 3mpbs DSL (insert rant on crappy US ISPs here) and my best speed is 2.56mbps download. My upload speed I won't even mention.)

I can copy files across my internal network and stream to my internal devices pretty damn well. Streaming from the internet and file transfers outside of my network is hampered primarily by two things - DSL speed (I can never go faster than 2.56mbps) and rage-inducing data cap.

Packet loss could be an issue in failing hardware, but if you don't see that I'm not sure what the benefit of upgrading would be.

geokilla

Canada8244 Posts

February 23 2015 04:32 GMT

#10477

I have a CM Storm Quick Fire Ultimate. How do I change to N key Rollover and 1MS response time? I thought I can do it by pressing FN + DEL and FN + - on the number pad, but that doesn't seem to be the case? When I press that, it just deletes adds a "-" so I assume it's not on N key rollover mode either.

WombaT

Northern Ireland25727 Posts

February 24 2015 21:53 GMT

#10478

Does anybody know how to elegantly disable mouse acceleration and bring mouse sens to avoid pixel skipping on Mac OSX Yosemite?

I've found a variety of unsatisfactory solutions thus far. One required re-inputting of a script every time I logged, one worked but it removed it on the trackpad (which I used whenever not playing SC) and made it difficult to use, and one kept on putting acceleration back on if I ever tried to alter sensitivity.

fruity.

England1711 Posts

February 26 2015 19:24 GMT

#10479

On February 23 2015 13:32 geokilla wrote:
I have a CM Storm Quick Fire Ultimate. How do I change to N key Rollover and 1MS response time? I thought I can do it by pressing FN + DEL and FN + - on the number pad, but that doesn't seem to be the case? When I press that, it just deletes adds a "-" so I assume it's not on N key rollover mode either.

I recall from a cm storm board I had that nkro only worked over PS/2, even though it had both usb & PS/2. I believe you cant use the usb if you use PS/2 too. Perhaps your board is similar, you may want to check to see if this is the case.