Recent content by Wolfsbane2k

Good points on cooling, thank you. It's meant to be a small workstation class chassis (precision 36 something) with a number of cutouts for fans, including one in the top, and I've got a few extra fans and temp sensors from my defunct 15+ year old case that i can transfer over to assist.

Yep, can fit full size PCIE cards in it... it had 3 in doing other stuff. It's just a "short" but full width/depth desktop case rather than SFF/uSFF. Just found a 580 RX for £50, so watching that... Thanks.

Thanks - that's very interesting. When it's running on the igpu on the 9700k it runs ok at 1080p on low performance mode, but just randomly crashes, occasionaly after 20 seconds, sometimes over 45 minutes... and once in a final solo standoff.. which was not appreciated! It's possible that its'...

The 3500U had a Vega 8 in it. According to passmark ( yes, i know, benchmarks... ) as well as elsewhere (Toms Hardware) indicate that the Ryzen Vega 8, and i7 9700's UHD630 are circa half the 550; so at least it's some upgrade, but doesn't seem good value when a 2nd hand 570 costs the same.

Good call - Micro ATX based precision workstation with 460W PSU, with 2 x 6Pin GPU (and a 8Pin adaptor). Was originally spec'ed to hold a RTX2080 or 2 RTX2060's in SLI, although pretty sure that was meant to come with a 850W PSU!

Hi. Due to Ryzen 3500U based laptop failure, I've been loaned an dell box with a i7-9700 and 16GB ram; It's mine to do with what i want, but may be recalled at any time it's needed. My kids used the old laptop for Fortnite @ 1080p, which mostly did the job; while the iGPU of the 9700 seems...

Thanks both. I realised after a little bit of digging how silly my question was; i'd completely missed that the CPU was soldered in; i was concentrating on the series number and thinking of the 3600G i had on a seperate desktop, and very niavely assumed it was Am4 not FP5 for some bonkers...

Hi. I've just had an old Lenovo V15 Laptop with Ryzen 3500U die on me with what appears to be a completely dead mobo (i've been suffering issues for a few months, like death of onboard keyboard and fans going all the time). A replacement Mobo for the laptop is circa £200, which is more than a...

Yep, in the UK, but thank you very much for the offer! Scrabbling around the skips at the local recycling centre for a bit may be in order ;)

Yeah, the jump to AM4 comes with the cost of DDR4 as well; we're toying with the idea of trying to minimize costs entirely (~£40 for a 2nd hand board) and keep the system going for a few more years, or getting a small loan out for something like that set up.

You know what, I took the CMOS battery out and left it for a while to ensure that the settings hadn't borked, but i'd not thought to actually test the battery when i put it back in (I'd assumed i'd get a Low CMOS battery warning). Will do that this evening. I've been over the front and back of...

Hi All.. Way back in 2014 I spec'd up a machine for a friend (https://hardforum.com/threads/new-build-query-unreal-4-engine-dev-machine.1830024/#post-1041227686) , sadly things have slowly died and we're in a position that the Mobo appears to have died. CPU: AMD FX8350 GPU: Nvidia 1060 GTX...

Well, My N40L/16GB ECC Ram /4x3 TB WD Red with OpenIndiani as host OS is now 4 years old, and I want more grunt in the same box if possible with a Mobo/CPU upgrade - even the 1 year old intel "server" atom's have a huge amount more grunt. Where are people going nowadays?

Nope, went 760 and an extra 8 GB of ram in the end.

I got the specs of the 780 and the 770 mixed up, forgot the 780ti existed. Ah well, we've still got a cracking PC for less than a pre build