Recent content by stravencroft

there's no way to bring the programs with pc mover or a similar program? I'd clone the OEM disk again if doing so wouldn't just invalidate my retail key,

Like the title says I went ahead and got a retail copy of windows after a comedy of errors. When I first brought over my hard drive from my old motherboard my version of windows which I thought was retail showed up as OEM_DM and then deactivated. I then purchased what I thought was a retail key...

What settings would you recommend for OC and where do I find the timings? I don't have a preset profile. Putting the frequency to 6000 mhz I notice causes a massive voltage spike which I suppose makes sense although being new to manually OCing confuses me a bit. Given I have CL/CAS 30 Ram I...

Given I've had temperatures bouncing from 45C to 96C at one point I figure I should I get a decent fan curve set up. I had one in Fan Xpert in AI Suite which I went through many hoops to get working after the update failed in armory crate. Then the update worked in Armory Crate and it no longer...

I'm going to have to try that. I tried enabling AI overclocking at just Expo 1 and I'm getting CPU temps of max at 95.5C in CPUID HWMonitor. To be fair it jumped to that when I was adjusting the fan settings in Armory Crate. OC temps averaging about 58C. Which is close to the high end on my non...

So I updated my BIOS and tried enabling Expo mode for the first time today. This would be Expo 1 I'm not sure if Expo 2 would be gentler. While in expo my cpu soc values or vsoc were in the ranges of 1.2500 to 1.289 volts. While not in expo it was around 0.977 volts. But my other readings...

I bought my board open box off of eBay though. No idea if I'd be covered.

So I'm a bit lost here. As of last night I only just found out about the issue with Asus and the voltage/instability issues with the 3d chips like the 7800x3D and so on as highlighted by GN and JayZ. As I thought I bought a decent board with the Asus ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI I'm a bit...

Went with a mid tower! At least for the moment. Corsair 5000D Airflow should work just fine.

If I go with 1 140mm or 1 120mm fan on the top as exhaust on which fan mount slot should I put it? In the middle? close to the front of the case? the rear of the case? I'm thinking about maybe going with a ryzen 7 7800x3d CPU right from the beginning rather than sticking with the 7700x CPU. Not...

Would you recommend 1x140mm on top as exhaust and running one or two side 120mm fans as intake or just one on the side as intake then? Also, would you recommend a second CPU fan over the cooler and will a 120mm fan like the NH-A12 or the NH-F12 be sufficient as the second fan? Would a second...

So I finally have both the system board and case for my build. Time to plan out the fan design. I wanted to give some background as to what I'm working with but I do tend to ramble. The gist of what I'm going with is below towards the very end in bold. The case is the Corsair 5000D AIRFLOW and...

I've been going back and forth about what I want for my next build. Can't start my build until I start buying components and the very first thing is case choice. Up until my last build I always had a mid-tower case and I always had issues having enough room to work on cabling, setting up the...

I'm guessing that's part of how the FAN-tastic tuning works. Doesn't always seem to give me the best values to run my fans though usually always set them all to performance or 70 percent except the cpu which I leave on standard or 62. I had thought about putting them all on full speed but that...

Many thanks! It's good to know there's finally a part I don't need to purchase to make the leap to my next build! It is worth stating that while I've successfully overclocked the i7 7700k once(for the first time last night since I've owned it in the past 2.5 years), I have also stress tested...