The Member's Systems Discussion Thread

[nukemaster]

You can hook it up to anything really. As long as it supplies power at very low amperage.

huh.

Most computer fans will run from 5 volts upto 12. Some will not start at 5. They run slower, but do in fact run. I has been the basis of computer fan speed control for years(voltage control).

New PWM is now preferred by many users(and I would guess board makers as it should be more easy to implement.).

As long as the power source has the required current and starting voltage for a fan it will run, just not at full speed. I used to run some fans off a 10 volt external power supply.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

SO HAPPY THERE IS A NEW PAGE.
who is worried about heartbleed.

 

[PandaButtonFTW]

im not worried about heartbleed, ive got nothing worth stealing 😛

 

[Turb0Yoda]

im not worried about heartbleed, ive got nothing worth stealing 😛

lmao same here

 

[azzazel_99]

Heartbleed?

 

[nukemaster]

A security hole found in openSSL.

http://heartbleed.com/

 

[Turb0Yoda]

Heartbleed?

A bug in OpenSSL than can be used to steal an accounts data on a website. I.E your paypal credit card info.

 

[PandaButtonFTW]

Hey ive got a spare gtx 780 lying around... do you guys think it ill work in my P55 UD3 motherboard? it doesn't have a UEFI support

 

[Mirakledba]

Spare 780 😛 Lol, I can take it! Just kidding, sure better use it than never use it so yeah put it in the P55.

 

[mathieub]

Who the hell has a spare GTX780 lol I barely have a spare GT440

 

[tiny voices]

I have a spare ancient hd4670 and a spare gtx650 from before we upgraded my girlfriend. I wish I had extra nice stuff lying around.

 

[RussK1]

http://www.techpowerup.com/199937/super-flower-leadex-platinum-850w-psu-starts-shipping.html

 

[azzazel_99]

Nice my 1300 came in last night so I will be putting that in soon. Will probably be buying a killowatt meter to measure system draw

 

[Onus]

The HD4670 was a nice card for a long time. It's still probably just enough for a Steam box.

 

[tiny voices]

Yeah it served me very well. I had this one specifically:

Great card.

 

[Rammy]

I have a Radeon 7000 (circa..2002?), a Geforce4 Ti4800, 8800GT, 9600GT... I can't bring myself to toss them but I have no idea why. In their day they were all fairly expensive, especially the Geforce 4.

Did lose my Voodoo 3 at some point though. The QuakeIII nostalgia card.

Wonder if there will ever be a collectors market for obscure components, it seems unlikely but stranger things have happened I guess.

 

[Onus]

Tiny, that's the one I had too. That HIS cooler was outstanding; had it on a couple of their other cards as well. It was almost inaudible, but worked well.
Of the "sweet spot" cards I've owned, that was one of the best. I'd put my HD7870 in that category also, as it can pretty much run anything I'd like, on very agreeable settings.

 

[tiny voices]

I agree. That card was awesome. The cooler was the most silent cooler I've ever experienced on a GPU. My 660ti is pretty quiet but is nothing in comparison to that card. Are the modern HIS Ice-Q coolers any good?

 

[Onus]

The dual-fan ones? I don't know. The last HIS card I owned was a HD6790, and its single fan was definitely not quiet.
I can hear the HD7750 in Gypsy when I'm playing GW1 on it. My HD7870 stays quiet, but I've not stressed it lately.

 

[PandaButtonFTW]

well the 780 worked in my p55 board.. kind of surprising considering it wouldn't work in my z68 UD4 without a BIOS update.

 

[Mirakledba]

Who the hell has a spare graphics card??

 

[Onus]

I usually keep a [low-end] spare or two on hand, but my wife's HD6570 may be failing (her screen is lately divided and very colorful when her machine starts up, but is fine once Windows loads), and I've got another friend with a dead or dying PC I may try to fix. One will likely get the HD6850 that ColGeek so kindly sent me when I was fixing another non-gamer PC lately. It seemed such overkill that I ended up getting a HD6450 for it instead.

 

[tiny voices]

I also have 2 spare cards as well as a spare CPU, 2 motherboards, about 12gb DDR3 RAM, 1 case, and a few HDDs, and a PSU.

 

[Turb0Yoda]

He have some 210-230 GT's in our class. They do the job for programming.

 

[azzazel_99]

Well got the new 1300watt psu in and it works perfect no more shut downs while gaming or benchmarking. I dont think my old psu was bad because i could push the 1 780ti pretty far but when i tried to do both it dropped out. Maybe over amping and/or drawing to many watts for it? I dunno i just know the old worked great for 1 gpu but not for 2 and the new one supports both gpu's clocked at 1456mhz core and 3650mhz on the memory and it handled the benchmarking like a champ.