Recent content by Draconian Frost

Another interesting thing, no idea how to explain this: After booting and updating bios and everything else you do, I went into task manager and saw that I only had 8gb of memory, with 8gb "hardware reserved" and running at 2400mhz no matter what I checked with, despite xmp being turned on. I...

Ok, system is up and running! Everything so far looks normal, and I definitely learned my lesson with conductive thermal compounds. Thank you for the link to the thread and your help Kashimi! I'll post some pics on prntscrn of the finished build, it looKS pretty epic :D

Ah, dang, that sucks. It was just pictures of the CPU pins and the mobo socket. Also, exchanged the mobo this morning at frys and it posts! Detect's RAM and VGA, and would probably output to a display, but I don't have a cooler hooked up so didn't leave it on that long. Will put it all together...

Pulled everything apart for tomorrow morning, pins looks good, so does the socket, can't find thermal compound anywhere. https://imgur.com/a/YJRWSOp

It's still under warranty, but it's also under the 30 day return policy, so exchanging one in-store would get me a functioning rig sooner. I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow. Thank you!

Frys ended up not having the mobo, despite being listed as in stock. Tried the $25.99 each sleeved cables from them, same exact issue. Guess I'll be buying a new motherboard to test with tomorrow :shrug:

Update: Pulled everything out of the case, set the motherboard on a cardboard box, only things plugged in are mobo and cpu power cables, cpu fan, and mobo speaker. Still getting the same issue, and speaker isn't making any beeps (system shuts down almost instantly)

Update: Cleared the CMOS and now the system turns on, but shuts off within 1-2 seconds

Built a brand new system about a week ago. It worked perfectly fine with the stock cooler, however I decided to install an AIO liquid cooler, and now the system doesn't post or boot. I have tried removing and replacing the CPU, as well as throughly cleaning everything that could possibly have...

I cannot thank you enough for your time and patience! I will be ordering the parts as soon as payday comes, and hopefully playing games within a couple weeks. Again, thanks a ton!

Thank you so much man! I'll change the MB to something that supports CF. Do you think the 7850 will support 3 19200x1080 (or perhaps smaller) monitors in eyefinity and still be able to run those games? if not, would it make sense to buy 2 much less powerful GPUs and put them in CF? maybe go with...

Raidmax isn't trustworthy? That's good to know haha almost bought it. Why forget the cooler? won't it make my cpu work better, and isn't it necessary? all computers have fans... Why won't I be OCing, and what does OCing do exactly? what is cf and how does the motherboard not support it? as for...

So I am going to be building a super cheep gaming computer, and it should pretty much do anything that I want (feedback on build also appreciated). Anyways the question is: what is the cheapest eyefinity setup possible? what resolution screens should I be buying? Led vs Lcd? brands to stay away...