skylake

Forum discussion tagged with skylake.
  1. O

    Question I'm looking for a LGA 1151 desktop motherboard that will take a Xeon E3-1220 v5 (Skylake) CPU.

    Hello all, I'm looking for a LGA 1151 desktop motherboard that supports Xeon E3-1220 v5 (Skylake) CPUs. Any suggestions or advice on how to know if a motherboard will support this CPU. Thank you.
  2. Yanitwei

    [SOLVED] "old" Corsair dominator platinum overclocking potential ?

    Hi all 👋 When I built my last rig five years ago, along with 170 chipset and Skylake CPU I bought Corsair Dominator Platinum 2x8 CL15 2666MHz ram sticks (CMD16GX4M2A2666C15) just before "nand crisis" happened and RAMs sticks prices started to go skyrocket. Now I'm planning to build a new rig...
  3. nazar21015

    [SOLVED] Several problems that no one can give me an answer to.Artifacts, random rebooting, mouse click may not register, PSU troubles

    Hello, I hope you can help me answer these questions. Thank you in advance.P.S. sorry for my bad english. I hope you undertend me Problems that have haunted me since buying a computer(old): 1)When my mouse has backlight turned on, sometimes the click may not register(Everything is fine on the...
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    Question ASUS M32CD CPU HELP (i7-6700 to i7-7700K)

    Hello everybody! ~This is my first time making a thread on here, so bear with me For almost 4 years now, I have been using an ASUS VivoPC M32CD-B09 with an i7-6700 for everything (Gaming/Streaming/Editing/Homework) Over the years I have upgraded it with a new GPU, PSU, Ram, installed some...
  5. chuzuk

    [SOLVED] Help-USB devices not starting until after Windows boots (can't access BIOS or boot list)

    So today, I was trying to wipe a hard drive for a friend, when I ran into issues getting into the boot list to boot into DBAN, where my keyboard was completely powered off and unresponsive, preventing me from getting into the bios or the boot list. I have reset the bios twice with no results...
  6. sedrado

    [SOLVED] Is my OC good for i7 6700k Skylake

    Hello I'm completely new to overclocking, I searched at this forum today and overclocked my cpu. Am I okey with these results ? Thanks :)
  7. M

    [SOLVED] Will a Z270H and an i5-6600k work with Windows 7 w/o USB issues?

    As stated in the title, will an ASUS Strixz Z270H motherboard work with Windows 7 (with an i5-6600k CPU) without any USB issues (and if so, is it mere USB 3.0 driver issues)? Don't bother telling me to upgrade, etc etc, atm Windows 7 is the only OS in question.
  8. R

    Question How does Adapative Mode + Offset work?

    Today I read several articles regarding overclocking and think I'm ready to give it a spin. I OC'd the CPU (i7 6700k) to 4.5Ghz @ 1.250v (seems to be running fine for now). But I see that the 1.250 volts are constantly pushing even when idle, so I thought about trying something else. I want the...
  9. S

    [SOLVED] Will an i3 6100 with ddr3 ram bottleneck an RX580

    Yep you heard me. DDR3 on Skylake. I wanted to keep my ram during my upgrade around 4 years ago, I'm cheap <Mod Edit>. I've seen videos on youtube on how well it runs on skylake but this is with ddr4 ram. Which to my understanding is almost twice as fast as ddr3. Here's my setup: i3 6100 Asus...
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    Question Can I run a 2666MHz RAM stick and downclock it on a motherboard that supports 2400MHz ram?

    Hey guys I have the Gigabyte GA-H110M-S2PT motherboard with a Intel Core i7 6700. Can I run a 2666MHz ram stick on the motherboard that supports 2400MHz max. since I couldn't find a 2400MHz stick on the market (I'm in a 3rd world country so latest parts are quite limited here). The 2400MHz ones...
  11. M

    [SOLVED] msi z170a and i7 7700

    So I bought a MSI z170a Pro Carbon in haste, and it hasn’t yet got the BIOS version I need (my mistake!). I know I need a Skylake CPU to do the update but none of my local shops has one, and buying one just for the job is more money than I wanted to spend! Anyone got any ideas on what I could do?
  12. K

    [SOLVED] i5 6600k right VCore

    Hey guys, so, recently I decided to overclock my i5 6600k, with some reading I was able to reach 4.7GHz with 1.3V, with max temps around 70 degrees celsius while stressing with prime95 for around 10 hours. Although for my personal needs 4.5GHz is more than fine. So my question is: should I set...
  13. AMDynamic

    [SOLVED] G-Skill DDR4 overclocked to 3060MHZ

    hi, im trying to find some answers but not having much luck. ive overclocked my ram from the base 2400MHZ to 3060MHZ before the highest it let me was 2933MHZ but checking the "use odd ratio" option let it goto 3060MHZ using 1.3v the orig timings are 15-15-15-35 can i adjust these timing to...
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    Is this memory compatible with this motherboard?

    Recently i bought a new motherboard and ram (Memory) The motherboard i got is the asrock z270 taichi (latest bios) and the ram (memory) i got is the: Corsair Vengeance LPX 4x2 - CMK8GX4M2A2400C14 And also a hyperx Fury 1x8 - HX424C15FB2/8 I think it is the ram being incompatible because when i...
  15. M

    [SOLVED] I7 8700k OC air cooling

    So i don t have much experience when it comes to overclocking...i know it isn t that big a deal especially for experinced people but i have a high end processor and i d like to know a few things. So i read that this guy(I7 8700k) turbos up to 4.7 GHz....whatever that means...i did some research...
  16. G

    Random fps drops when temps are fine.

    Posting this for my mate. Yesterday his i5 4690k went MAD with the stock cooler and got up to temps of 95 so we decided to turn off the pc. Today he's gotten new thermal pasta and a liquid h60 cooler. Everything installed. 20 idle temps, 40 in FULL LOAD. After playing fortnite for a while he...
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    Pricing my old PC

    Hi I'm planning on getting rid of my Desktop comouter and was wondering how much I could ask for it? It is a Cybertron PC Gaming Desktop - AMD FX 4100 3.60GHz Quad-Core Processor, 8GB DDR3 Memory, Radeon HD 6670 Graphics AM3+ Motherboard but there is no cd/dvd drive anymore and I had to replace...
  18. idefvx

    Phanteks P350x cables missing

    Hello there commmunity! so a couple of days ago I built togeather my first computer, works flawlessly, however while I was building I came across two problems: 1. it seems as if it is missing the HDD activity led strip, DRGB color switch and DRGB mode switch. the DRGB cable itself is there. And...
  19. R

    Dual Xeon E5645 Overheat

    I have a Dell T5500 with dual E5645 hexacore chips, 20g RAM split between chips, GPU: 1050TI XLR8. Using CoreTemp, I'm showing a single core on the second chip shut down on OH. I run WoW and PC stuff... I have the TI OC at a safe temp and it runs fine. Thermal paste?? Ultimately, if I just...
  20. J

    Brand new GTX 1070 Ti or Used GTX 1080?

    Hello, Looking to upgrade my GTX 970, and I'm having a hard time deciding on what to do. I have been offered this Palit GTX 1080 Dual OC for £330 including postage...
  21. zarksy

    Buying a new motherboard GA-F2A68HM-DS2 v1.0

    Hi all I have ordered a GA-F2A68HM-DS2 v1.0 motherboard, is the v1.0 gonna be fine? Cuz I saw a v1.1 of this same mb. But I picked the v1.0 cuz of the slightly lower price and the delivery is quite cheaper, so I save like 7$. Links: v1.0...
  22. C

    Recommended power supply for i5 8600k and gtx 1060 6gb asus strix

    I’ve thought about getting this power supply for my build, I have the parts above and also 8gbs of ram, looking to overclock as well, this is the psu I was talking about https://www.pcgarage.ro/surse/evga/bq-80-plus-bronze-650w/ thank you in advance
  23. M

    NEED HELP!!! Transfering data from ssd to hdd

    I have one hdd of 2TB and a ssd of 256gb i did not see that i installed everything on my ssd and my ssd was almost full in no time. So i wanted to transfer my data to hdd and i left only windows on my ssd but I made big mistake and just drag the folders to my hdd and to make things worse i...
  24. H

    Need to move windows to a new drive.

    I currently have 3 drives. 1TB HDD with windows and other stuff on it (has 640GB free), 1TB SSD with all my games on it (has 234GB free) and a 500GB M.2 SSD with nothing on it. I would like to move windows onto the M.2 drive. What is the best way to go about doing this?
  25. R

    Hopefully someone knows.

    I recently put together a pc and wanted to make sure the mother board was working correctly so I powerd it on without ram and a graphics card I noticed the dbug light for my cpu and ram were on and a solid white led.. would not having ram installed make a cpu light come on ?
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    Speed switches worth it?

    Hi guys. I know for switches it's mostly preference but are the speed of the switches really that noticeable? I am used to the G910 and I just got a k95 with the mx brown on a good deal for 150. It's a beautiful board but I feel like it's less responsible than my Logitech board. Also a lot...
  27. Z

    Bios won't boot from dvd drive

    PSU: Fatality 550w GPU: MSI TWIN FROZR N660Ti PE 2GD5/OC MB: MSI MS - 7673 VER 2.0 RAM: 2x 8gb G.SKILL DDR3 Just got a new hard drive and I'm trying to install Windows 10 via a dvd. However I can't get the bios to boot from the dvd. Ive made it first priority to boot from then CD/DVD drive...
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    What graphics is this laptop?

    I'm trying to update the graphics manually because I think they are out of date, but I am unable to identify which version of intel hd graphics this so i would appreciate for someone to identify it for me, and give me a link to download if possible DxDiag: http://
  29. C

    I tried every thing but my laptop wont turn on

    Hi i have asus fx553vd dm1031t i tried every thing but my laptop wont turned on the power buttons led lighed up but my laptop's screen still blank what should i do
  30. venetskiiviko12

    My PSU doesn't have a 6-pin cable

    i could buy one of those cables with molex adapters, but my psu doesn't seem to have a cable that isn't taken to which i would connect the adapters. i found this 1 cable but it doesn't look like it can be connected to adapters. image here: https://ibb.co/dEy47T is there any way i can connect...
  31. E

    How can i connect an xbox one s controller via bluetooth to PC

    as the title says i heard that i can connect my xbox one s controller to PC via bluetooth but i want to know what kind of a bluetooth stick or something do i need to get,how much do they cost and what are some good ones i also want to note that i will be using the bluetooth playing from my couch...
  32. M

    Keyboard typing same character

    Please help. My laptop's name is Dell latitude E6320,its problem is auto pressing keys.when I turn on my Pc, Cpas lock falching and typing same character Like this (YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY ]Y$) Then all keys don't work.and select programs automatically and all that happe when caps lock start flaching...
  33. R

    Displayport to HDMI TV

    I have an HP PC with Nvidia Graphics Card and inbuilt card. On the Nvidia I have 2 monitors running via VGA. I also have a displayport socket which is on the onboard card. I am trying to run this to my PC using DP to HDMI adaptor, but I get no signal on the TV and the PC does not seem to...
  34. R

    best sub $300 cpu to upgrade to from my pentium g4400?

    looking for a good sub $300 cpu for gaming. I usually run Fortnite:Battle Royale, CS:GO, all different kinds of call of duty's, H1Z1, pub G, and possibly some Destiny 2/battlefield. Also, if you ghave any other suggestions on what is should upgrade or change, please let me know. Specs right now...
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    Both PC's not working- identical symptoms ?

    I have just moved to a new house. I hooked up my main PC it worked fine. I went into the kitchen to unpack appliances and hooked up a new Microwave and when I came back my PC was cycling on and off and all the fans and fan lighting was off except one fan. Thinking something got damaged in...
  36. C

    Used PC Price?

    Long story short: I want to sell my PC because I'm an IT student and I'm addicted to gaming. My Question is: How much is it still worth in Europe? Components: i7 3770 3.4GHz Ivy-Bridge Asus P8B-75MLX GTX 660 2GB OC Zotac dualfan 8GB Ram DDR3 1333 BeQuite SU-7 450W Cooltex MIDI (nothing special)...
  37. PaulAlcorn

    Nvidia Will Detail Its Next-Gen Mainstream GPU At Hot Chips 30

    Nvidia will be presenting its "Next Generation Mainstream GPU" at Hot Chips 30 on August 20. Nvidia Will Detail Its Next-Gen Mainstream GPU At Hot Chips 30 : Read more
  38. H

    Which combo should i go for guys? Im new to building a pc

    Ryzen 3 2200g 8gb ram or gtx 1050 4gb ram?
  39. S

    Electric in pc case

    I dont know how to describe this situation but when i touch metal on my pc case i can feel the electric. i hate it. Do i have a problem with my psu? Or something else?
  40. mdforlifehon

    Largest capacity DVD for my TS-H493 (ATA) optical drive.

    Can anyone tell me what the optimal, maximum capacity DVD I can use with my TSSTCorp TS-H493 (ATA Device)Drive?