Recent content by sonow

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    Question Gigabyte Z170 Dynamic VCore

    Nevermind. Still no idea why this happened, but I reset the BIOS twice and now things seem to be working as expected. Hopefully it stays that way.
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    Question Gigabyte Z170 Dynamic VCore

    Hi all, I have a 6700k a Gigabyte Z170 Gaming 7 and having a lot of issues with the dynamic VCore. On a modest 4.4 Ghz OC, I am stable at 1.28 set manually for the VCore. When I put VCore into "normal" - which it says is 1.30V, and set an offset of even -0.010V, I get boot error every time...
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    HDD often not responding

    I actually was going to post about my very similar issue. Have a WD Blue 1TB for my games and movies, a couple of days ago it started lagging severely. DSKCHK showed nothing. On task manager, it says 100% usage but no significant read or write. Ran Kaspersky without finding anything. Running the...
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    Burning smell plus loud popping sound - ?PSU

    Yeah, makes sense. I just swapped out power supplies, will RMA tomorrow. The irony is I went years with a questionable no-name PSU without any issues. Got this thermaltake partly because of good reviews and ratings. Oh well, luck of the draw I guess. As a side note, I'm kind of curious to open...
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    Burning smell plus loud popping sound - ?PSU

    Hi guys, first post here. So I just built a new system, i5-6600k, Gigabyte z170x gaming 7, Gskill ripjaws 5, Thermaltake toughpower 850 gold (PS-TPD-0850MPCGUS-1). Using my 7970 from my previous setup. I've been testing out the system. I have the i5 running at 4.4 GHz at stock voltage, the ram...