Recent content by darksable

Just a small suggestion for the next revision: what if the paper slip were labeled a "quick start guide" and said "for full manual, follow this link:" That way there's no way for someone to think they were holding the whole manual.

Not terribly uncommon, no. Plus I've always found Gigabyte boards to be a little fussy.

That entirely depends on what it is you're playing, mate. Personally, I bought an i3-7350k and couldn't be happier. Why? Because it's running at 4.7 GHz without any fine tuning, and is half the price and half the wattage of an i7. Sure, a six core ryzen is an awesome chip, and I'd love to play...

The name of this thing just kills me. I think (well, at least I hope) that it wasn't done intentionally and DNK is an acronym that means something to you, but... I can't help but see it as "Dank Prime" every single time I read it.

I believe there will be a six core i7. I believe there will be a 65w i7. Do I believe there will be a 6 core, 65w core i7 that boosts up to 4.5 GHz? Oh helllllllll no. If intel had technology like that (which, mind you, we're talking about something along the lines of a 40% increase in...

... I spent a couple hours this morning writing up a full report on the mods I had done, and then trying to fix a weird issue that it had with spoilers. One of the things I tried was reporting it, thinking that would get a mod to look at it and figure out what went wrong. My entire post was...

Fair enough. I can certainly understand the frustration, and I'm sorry to hear about it. Hopefully the cargo ship has a fair tailwind on its way to you. :)

Hmmmm. I know that the 1080 and 1070 have the same reference PCB, and I wouldn't be surprised if the 1060 did as well... However, I do know that the FTW+ series, as good as they are, don't use a reference PCB, so I'm afraid you're probably SOL.

Check if the fan spins. There have been a couple reports of that particular card coming with the fan somehow not plugged in, but the card still reporting fan speed to the system, which is mind-boggling. If that's not the case, then yes, replacing the cooler with a FE cooler should be both...

Gotcha, missed that you were both sealing AND adding 40mm fans. Personally, I'd just go for a FE cooler and not worry about adding a bunch of extra noise to my computer to use a cooler that doesn't work as well for my case and only ekes out a few hundred more MHz anyways.

It might help the temperature of the CPU be cooler, but why would it help the gpu be cooler when the issue is that it's recirculating its own exhaust?

Ok. First tip I have for you: pcpartpicker.com That'll give you a good idea about compatibility and budget. Second tip: There's a stickied forum post specifically talking about asking advice for a new build. In particular, it has a list of questions. If you'd kindly answer them, it would go a...

Did you get the noctua l9i, which you listed, or the l9a, which is the one you need with ryzen?

I'm sorry to hear that you hate it, mate. I hope you haven't returned it yet, though, because there's an easier, faster solution! The MSI Aero OC used a reference PCB. That means that fixing the thermals is as easy as finding a founders' edition cooler (and just the cooler) to put on your...

Hi Berk, Unfortunately you've got kind of awkward timing at the moment. The fundraising campaign is now over, which means that it was successfully funded and Sentry cases are being shipped out in waves to backers. However, it also means there's no way to purchase a case directly at this...