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    Question I may have damaged my nvidia 1080ti strange whining noise but might not be coil whine

    Hey everyone, I think i did something really bad and it damaged my gpu. I struggled to remove it from the slot and it took awhile before I could actually push the lever on the pci slot. Now I got quite rough with it to the point my whole motherboard was bending(slightly). I then cleaned it with...
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    asrock memory error 1 beep sshd

    So this is still open. Well just thought id answer for anyone with a similar issue in the future. turns out that seagate firecuda sshd's do have error feedback beeps. the beep was from the drive not the motherboard and the drive was completely faulty. i also updated the bios to the latest bios...
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    asrock memory error 1 beep sshd

    Hi, I have an error ive been trying to figur out. I get a single beep continuously. Im told its a memory refresh error but my memory is working fine, unless theres some test i dont know about. asrock gaming k6 firecuda 2tb sshd gskills trident ddr4 32 So at first I was using a windows 8.1 to...
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    asrock z270 gaming k6 errors 4c to A2

    I figured it out, well not me exactly. It turns out that the A2 error can also happen if a boot disk is not detected, rather than only sata connections. As I thought that it had to POST properly and that this meant there should be no error code, I never connected a screen, so I couldnt see that...
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    asrock z270 gaming k6 errors 4c to A2

    Hi I have an asrock z270 gaming k6 board now and its coming up with a bunch of errors and they stop at A2, related to pcie slots. The recommeded fix is to reseat the pcie slots and reset cmos. Done that. Didnt work. Ive tried all combinations of components as well as just the cpu on its own...
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    Intel i7-7700k or AMD ryzen equivalent(5 or 7) for game development and future proofing.

    Hi, Having to return my parts may have been a blessing in disguise as ive come across a youtuber talk about using amd's for content creation. So far id only considered intel processors (in fact only the i7 7700k) but now i wondering that as I am building this rig for game development (ill...
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    1080Ti gigabyte evga fans and other questions

    Hi, Im looking at the 1080ti cards from evga and gigabyte. For some reason i find myself obsessing over the 3 fan models and neglecting the 2 fans. Only now have I just questioned myself, "why do I care?" 1. Apart from an extra fan do 3 fan models have anything else special with them. Would I be...
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    maximus ix hero q code 53 ram imcompatibilty

    After such a nightmare experience with aria.co.uk returning the motherboard and cpu(because it was such a nightmare I returned the ssd and GPU as I lost all trust in them), this just happened with another company Guess what, even better is that I just told the other guys, More from group at...
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    maximus ix hero q code 53 ram imcompatibilty

    Tried the ram sticks again and once i got a CC qcode but thats not listed in the manual