Hello everyone,
I must preface this by saying this site is amazing, and filled with a lot of great info and articles and I appreciate all the help it's given me greatly, now onto the questions I have. I just built a new pc, I will list the parts as following and then state the current issues I am having.
CPU - Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU COOLER - Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler
MOBO - ASRock Z170 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
MEMORY - Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
STORAGE - ADATA SP900 M.2 128GB M.2-2280 Solid State/ Drive Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
GPU - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card
CASE - NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case
PSU - EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
OS - Windows 10 home edition 64 bit
Monitor - Acer GN246HL 24.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor
Let me start off the second part of this post by saying I am quite ignorant to all this so please be aware of that before continuing. I am doing my best to research and learn as much as possible but I have been on a mac for the past 8 years and this is the first time I've ever built my own PC. So the pc went together great, but when we tried to boot it we got nothing. We did a lot of cable checking and etc but nothing was working but the fans. So after a little bit we decided to move the ram sticks around. As the manual suggested I had placed the ram slots in slot A2 and B2 or 2 and 4 if you don't want to make this to confusing. Well once we took one stick of ram out of slot 4 or b2, everything booted up swimmingly. My friend declared the other stick of RAM DOA but I for whatever reason thought that seemed quite weird as the ram sticks were highly rated and by a good company. So I switched the ram stick with the one in slot 2 or A2 and everything worked still. I further went on to test all the ram slots with each individual stick and found 1 and 2 absolutely work, whether one stick in slot one or one stick in slot 2, or both sticks in the first two slots the ram shows up in the bios and works great. Yet if I try to boot with the ram sticks in any combination in the 3 and 4 slots I get nothing. Now I cant rebuild until at least Friday and I have been using the computer as is with the RAM in slots 1 and 2. OF COURSE I am going to return the motherboard and get a new one, because I either bent a pin or the mobo ram slots were defective but the question I have is will I do any danger running my pc with the ram in slots 1 and 2 as opposed to 2 and 4? I have done stress tests, and gamed at 200 fps on ultra (dota 2 vulkun support is amazing) and temperature and cpu usage is all normal. I have all the intel driver programs installed and they say everything is working perfectly as well. I also read that it may have been a manual typo, and they could have meant to say 1 and 2 for the proper ram slots, but that doesn't make any sense because logically the computer should boot with the ram in either of the back slots as well. So basically the first question is it bad to run my computer as aforementioned above or will I be fine until I can replace the mobo? Now my next question comes to the power supply. The reason I got this board, although I am ignorant I was hoping to overclock my i5 6500 using the asrock z170 pro4 to about 4.0 - 4.2 GHZ but not anything more than that. I have read that this psu is horrible for overclocking so I am thinking about replacing the psu when I replace the motherboard. I was thinking about a corsair rmx 650 for the replacement. Now is overclocking in general right now stupid, or can my rig with that PSU handle the an increase? I plan on water cooling eventually with a kraken but that won't come for at least a few months. I don't want to run things super high, but I saw some great videos on my cpu oc'd at 4.5 ghz putting out some crazy results which I think will help a lot with the most recent games in ultra or high setting. I hope I didn't forget anything but if I did I will add on. Any and all help appreciated, thanks!
I must preface this by saying this site is amazing, and filled with a lot of great info and articles and I appreciate all the help it's given me greatly, now onto the questions I have. I just built a new pc, I will list the parts as following and then state the current issues I am having.
CPU - Intel Core i5-6500 3.2GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU COOLER - Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler
MOBO - ASRock Z170 Pro4 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
MEMORY - Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3000 Memory
STORAGE - ADATA SP900 M.2 128GB M.2-2280 Solid State/ Drive Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
GPU - Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB WINDFORCE OC 6G Video Card
CASE - NZXT S340 (White) ATX Mid Tower Case
PSU - EVGA 600B 600W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply
OS - Windows 10 home edition 64 bit
Monitor - Acer GN246HL 24.0" 1920x1080 144Hz Monitor
Let me start off the second part of this post by saying I am quite ignorant to all this so please be aware of that before continuing. I am doing my best to research and learn as much as possible but I have been on a mac for the past 8 years and this is the first time I've ever built my own PC. So the pc went together great, but when we tried to boot it we got nothing. We did a lot of cable checking and etc but nothing was working but the fans. So after a little bit we decided to move the ram sticks around. As the manual suggested I had placed the ram slots in slot A2 and B2 or 2 and 4 if you don't want to make this to confusing. Well once we took one stick of ram out of slot 4 or b2, everything booted up swimmingly. My friend declared the other stick of RAM DOA but I for whatever reason thought that seemed quite weird as the ram sticks were highly rated and by a good company. So I switched the ram stick with the one in slot 2 or A2 and everything worked still. I further went on to test all the ram slots with each individual stick and found 1 and 2 absolutely work, whether one stick in slot one or one stick in slot 2, or both sticks in the first two slots the ram shows up in the bios and works great. Yet if I try to boot with the ram sticks in any combination in the 3 and 4 slots I get nothing. Now I cant rebuild until at least Friday and I have been using the computer as is with the RAM in slots 1 and 2. OF COURSE I am going to return the motherboard and get a new one, because I either bent a pin or the mobo ram slots were defective but the question I have is will I do any danger running my pc with the ram in slots 1 and 2 as opposed to 2 and 4? I have done stress tests, and gamed at 200 fps on ultra (dota 2 vulkun support is amazing) and temperature and cpu usage is all normal. I have all the intel driver programs installed and they say everything is working perfectly as well. I also read that it may have been a manual typo, and they could have meant to say 1 and 2 for the proper ram slots, but that doesn't make any sense because logically the computer should boot with the ram in either of the back slots as well. So basically the first question is it bad to run my computer as aforementioned above or will I be fine until I can replace the mobo? Now my next question comes to the power supply. The reason I got this board, although I am ignorant I was hoping to overclock my i5 6500 using the asrock z170 pro4 to about 4.0 - 4.2 GHZ but not anything more than that. I have read that this psu is horrible for overclocking so I am thinking about replacing the psu when I replace the motherboard. I was thinking about a corsair rmx 650 for the replacement. Now is overclocking in general right now stupid, or can my rig with that PSU handle the an increase? I plan on water cooling eventually with a kraken but that won't come for at least a few months. I don't want to run things super high, but I saw some great videos on my cpu oc'd at 4.5 ghz putting out some crazy results which I think will help a lot with the most recent games in ultra or high setting. I hope I didn't forget anything but if I did I will add on. Any and all help appreciated, thanks!
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