Recent content by Dustin Jacocks

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    Question Is my gpu defective?

    Hello, I've had this issue with my asus strix 6800xt lc for quite some time. It's pretty annoying and frustrating and I'm beginning to think it's defective in some way. Anyway, when I govto restart my pc there's a 50/50 chance it'll get stuck on vga led on my motherboard. So I go to restart it...
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    Question Why is my cpu thermal throttling so easy

    Well the computer is trying to be sold. How is the overclocking on the xeon 1280v3?
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    Question Why is my cpu thermal throttling so easy

    I'm kinda thinking the same thing. It is a 2nd hand chip.
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    Question Why is my cpu thermal throttling so easy

    The voltages were set at stock I believe 1.25. And yes it was throttling down a bit. I had it set to 4.4ghz and it throttled down to 4.1. I set the voltages to 1.125 and it ran about 92 on core 1, 83 on core 2, 78 core 3 and 65 on core 4. It also stayed on 4.2 ghz (changed it to 4.2) and it...
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    Question Why is my cpu thermal throttling so easy

    Hi, I've got an i7 4790k, asrock z97 extreme 4 board, with a cooler master hyper evo 212 black edition cpu cooler and I'm experiencing some nasty thermal throttling and its beyond me on why. My settings are all set to stock. When I try and go run a test in cinebench the 1st core reaches to 100c...
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    Question Why wont my new harddrive show in my new system?

    I have two other systems with thermaltake smart power 750 (nonvmodular) that I tested this with. Still nothing. When tested with my modular thermaltake gold psu, all the cables used came with that psu. I did no switcheroos. I just cant believe I this is happening with two harddrive though. Just...
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    Question Why wont my new harddrive show in my new system?

    Also I my sata ports ate enabled and switched to ahci
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    Question Why wont my new harddrive show in my new system?

    Hi, I'm having the worse pc installing experience of my life right now. I have a brand new system with a brand new internal wd blue 1tb harddrive. When I go to boot up into windows installation, my pc doesnt recognize the hdd in my system. Even in bios, the pc wont recognize It. I've tried using...
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    [SOLVED] HDDs won’t work! Please Help!

    Man I have this same problem. Bought a new seagate 2tb hdd fpr my fresh AMD build. My ssd will show up but not my HDD. Tried different sata power and data cables and still nothing.
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    Question Why isn't my motherboard recognizing my NEW HDD

    I did say it wont get recognized in windows. I have already tried doing a partition in windows and even seeing if it would pop up in Command prompt. Still no success.
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    Question Why isn't my motherboard recognizing my NEW HDD

    Hello, I just did a fresh new build and I cant seem to get my Seagate 2TB 7200rpm barracuda drive to be recognized by windows or bios. Its a brand new HDD and sata cable. I only have one other storage device which is my nvme 500gb. I plugging the HDD into all of my SATA ports and still nothing...
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    [SOLVED] Whats wrong with my rgb fans or hub?

    Hello, I recently put together a build with 5 corsair sp120vpro rgb fans and the core rgb hub. Hub is connected via data and usb to motherboard. All 5 fans are connect 1 2 3 4 5 order. The thing is. Only my 1 fan works. All components are brand new btw. In corsair icue I put it to 5 sp pro...
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    Build Advice Motherboards io shroud too big

    So I'm an idiot. I believe the white pegs from the case are "pre-installed" standoffs. And so I just installed those black stand offs ontop and that's why I'm having the issue I'm having.
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    Build Advice Motherboards io shroud too big

    View: http://imgur.com/gallery/K3ixYBO View: http://imgur.com/gallery/eYsqpuM http://imgur.com/gallery/xK4DQo7Hello, I'm trying to finish a build to. I've got a big issue though and it's very frustrating. I have a corsair crystal 460x and corsair sp120 fan I'm trying to install for exhaust. My...
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    Question DOA Hard drives?

    AHCI