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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

he inadvertantly picked the 770 4gb at £230 so we have now changed to the r290 for £3 less. Means we are slightly imbalanced, but gives us some grunt for a 1440p screen in a few more months

Arggh, I started the build with a i5 4460 in the mix, but couldn't get it in for under £700. Friend then uppedit by £100 for next day pickup of parts and went fx8350 instead, alonsdie a 770gtx for cuda and physics support, and we've just picked it all up. As for the case, agreed. Were...

I've put together the following spec from Novatech.co.uk Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit £66.98 GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) Motherboard £49.99 Novatech Cougar ATX Case with PWM Fan £24.98 Samsung 224DB 24x DVD Re-Writer - SATA...

Quick bump on this for current thoughts please. Currently looking at an i5 4460, 750gt and 16gb ram for this build, buying tomorrow direct from novatech, alongside a case, mobo, psu etc Comparing it to this as a guideline, but aware the 750 is behind the 7850...

OK, autocorrect got me on this... Indeed a 'baking' session does need to be celebrated, but not as much as a gaming session!

Thanks for the borderlands pointers, I'll take a look. I've done portal 2 and army of two on the ps3, but didn't enjoy them a huge amount. I'll grab bordlerlands in the supermarket alongside the slab or beer.

Hi. I'm off around a mates tonight who has just bought a new house, but it's not got internet yet so looking for some thing that will keep us entertained in co-op blood shedding after an evening of unboxing and shelve building. We used to play the halo/graw/cod series and dungeon siege 3/...

Novatech.co.uk is just around the corner from me so store pickup/support there is good, if the prices match. Otherwise, Scan / Ebuyer / Dabs/Amazon are companies i know and have had good dealings with, but it's not limited to these companies only.

Yep, sorry. Case: Full ATX or Micro-atx compatible : Coolermaster Centurion 5 (http://www.coolermaster.com/case/mid-tower/centurion-5/) USB keyboard and mouse

Hi. A friend of mine wants to get into game dev, and is looking at a machine capable of running the Unreal 4 engine. He' not a hardware bod, so asked me for some help, but i'm not a dev... So: 1) What will you be doing with this PC? Gaming? Photoshop? Web browsing? etc Unreal 4 Engine...

Yes, it something i was concerned about, hence this question. Looking around on the net, TR: http://www.techspot.com/review/645-tomb-raider-performance/page5.html shows some CPU bound at lower speed and cores, but i'm at the upper end of the Phenom X4's normally, so not CPU bound in my...

Yep. TombRaider is the same - 35% CPU bound, with GPU at 100%. That confirms it - Picking it up tomorrow.

Just run Star-Conflict with that, CPU (in x3 state at 2.8Ghz) averages 50%, while gfx card hits 98% at 1080p. So definately GPU bound.

NVM... http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDSystemMonitor.aspx

How on earth does one monitor GPU usage? It's something i've been wanting to do.

They both play at 1080p but at lowish settings, so looking for something with a little more grunt. I don't appear to be CPU bound, both games sit at about 45% load under the x3, and when running the 4th core about 40%. I was running it at 3.6 with 4 cores alnost since the day I got it, but...

Hi. I'm trying to find a suitable mini-upgrade from my extant ATI 4830 that will support playing star-conflict and Tomb Raider at 1080p resolutions on a single display ( i have a second 19" monitor that i don't use when playing games) My current desktop is an AMD x3 720 BE running at 3.2 Ghz...

I'm not running esxi... I'm was running oi as the host. I understand that to run exsi you need an alternative raid card which I've not done.

I have no idea if the zpool is shot, I haven't rebuilt the flash drive yet. I think the flash is dead because it no longer boots to the flash drive, throwing a kernel panic, but the machine boots from a live usb quite happily; I haven't tried to remount the zpool from that yet. I've not played...

Ps, i've kinda looked at ESXI, but lots of people tell me it's not reliable enough on this HW for passthrough for ZFS - i'm not sure if that's still the case.

Hi. I've got an HP N40L Microserver that for a while has been running OI+NAppit off a USB Flash drive to test it all out, and has been awesome for approx almost a year with a few VM's running on it (Windows HS, Ubuntu, windows 7) (16GB ECC Ram + 4x 3TB WD Red Drives in raidz + an intel NIC)...

Yep, 8GB is too small, but i broke my 16GB so didn't have anything floating around spare bigger, and i wanted to try it all out. For me it's a question of loosing 1 of my spare 2 remaining SATA connections for SSD ( which i am hoping to use for 2x 1TB Drives shortly) or using a specifically...

USB stick. Yes, it's slow, but felt it was reasonable for a low write machine. (and noatime, nodiratime is set on it)

Thanks for the input all. It looks like for some reason the access to Gnome from VNC was stable, but the local gnome terminal was fully screwed, dumping itself approx every 10 minutes. Took 4 reboots to clear it, but disappeared now. I had just changed the screen res for the VNC display, might...

Hi. I'm having difficulty with an N40L with OI/Napp-it/Servio with 16GB of ECC ram/4x WD30EFRX drives with CPU utilization - Anybody able to help me diagnose the issue?