Recent content by Samuel_1

Scroll Down to the bottom for my uncommon, but reasonable solution to the problem, and a quick question. Intro Well it's not common, to have 8 sticks of RAM (Just for the joy of overkill in my case). However, a few days ago I stumbled upon something that it rarely checked, and I'd just like to...

Hey guys, Recently, I received a 5930k as a gift, and so I decided to join the overclockers community. I bought the X99A godlike Gaming from MSi, since i really liked its features, and I'm doing a full custom hardline water cooling solution with it. I am not a pro overclocker, and I haven't...

While i was buildng my computer, I touched the case and was shocked very lightly. I know theres a lot of other posts involving this, but all the other posts have the PSU installed and plugged in. In my case, only the motherboard and ram was installed, no cpu/gpu. Is it fine? I read a lot about...

5 Beeps is a processor error, I think. You'll have to check that, but if it's new, and dead on arrival (DOA), then you just have to send it back.

they look fine to me. pretty much no chance of shorting out a CPU unless your socket pins have seen hell. reseat your graphics card, or use onboard graphics to test. 1 stick of ram, if you have a buzzer speaker, plug it in so you know if it gives you x amount of beeps. Video cards are known to...

Chances are it's shorting itself out against something you're putting it on. put some of those hexagonal raise-up stilts under the screw holes and screw a screw into em, one set of those for each motherboard screw hole to lift the hole platform up, and then try it. While building my dad's...

Upon inspecting a new motherboard I bought for a friend, I touched the plastic CPU socket protection cover, and found it to be quite loose and wiggled it about lightly. Did I damage anything? Now I know that chances are it's fine, but IF, just IF, the plastic cover does touch the pins, and i've...

Are you going to upgrade it often? Or is your the budget short for the time being and you'd like something he can use for a few years? First: 6700K will be better, because when he gets older, and his stuff gets older too, he can learn to overclock it and use it for longer (What you hope, since...

The most likely problem from my experience would be a bad hard drive. When it gets problems attempting to read bad sectors, then it slows down significantly. Other problems you could check into include: 1. Not enough power? maybe a degraded PSU no longer gives enough power during high power...

yep, will. graphics cards almost never have compatibility issues with the CPU and MoBo, at a glance, I see no problems.