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I see that it is now expected on the 5th of August. I am increasingly wondering whether I might as well just wait for the 3950x.

I note that the 3900x is still unavailable in the U. K. Does anyone have any idea when it might reach here?

Thank you for your thoughts. I realise that I omitted to mention the type of case that I (provisionally) intend to use: the be quiet! Dark Base 900 Pro rev. 2. This has 2 140mm fans at the front and one at the rear. How would I calculate whether a single fan or a dual fan CPU cooler is...

Interesting. How would one judge, for any given case, whether the D15 or a twin fan arrangement is superior overall?

That is very helpful, thank you. I notice that the MSI board that I am considering seems to have the same VRMs as the Gigabyte Aorus boards and is rated as being "fine" even with the upcoming 16 core CPU. As to the fans - I think that the Dark Rock Pro 4 will be better with two fans than the...

Thank you both for your replies, that is most helpful. I will deal briefly in turn with each of the various subjects. Case I had researched be quiet! cases, and one of these did indeed look to be just the thing: the Dark Base PRO 900 rev. 2 black (although it is a pity that it does not come...

I am currently putting together a build specification for a new desktop to replace my existing 2010 era Core i7 950 build of yore, which I perhaps ought to have replaced some time ago on account of it having become very dated and unreliable. In any event, by way of background, my main use cases...

Introduction My main computer, on which I am typing this message, I first built at the end of 2010, and now needs replacing: it has become unreliable over the last year or two, with random blue screens not fixed by upgrading the PSU to a high-end 1.2kW unit and with no errors showing on...

Thank you for your replies - I will have to perform the visual inspection of motherboard capacitors as suggested when I have a moment - this is a good idea. As to the storage devices, the main system drive is a newish (2017) SSD, so failure of this is unlikely; also, the symptoms are not...

Thank you for your thoughts. As to overheating, I tried experimentally running Two Point Hospital with Open Hardware Monitor running: it recorded a peak CPU temperature in core no. 1 of 79C (averaging circa 69C), and motherboard peak temperatures of between 47C and 65C. Presumably, however, the...

I have a self-built PC from late 2010 which has been upgraded over the years: it is an overclocked first generation i7 with Windows 7, 12GB of RAM, 2x 980Ti in SLI and various peripherals. Over the last year or so, there have been increasing problems with the computer, mainly in the form of...

I suspect that my problem is not software related because of the times when it hard resets during restarting before loading Windows as described in the original post, but it is certainly possible for there to be multiple sleep/wake related problems. The trouble that I am having with deciding...

Thank you for your response. By way of update, I am finding that hibernate mode seems to have exactly the same issues as sleep mode: the computer will fail (hard reset) after waking from hibernate mode, but, after having reset (sometimes more than once), will then run many hours without issue...

Interesting - I was not aware of any issues with sleep/overclocking. As noted, it used to work waking from sleep until a week or two ago, although there was a time when it would be unresponsive for a very long time - but only sometimes; however, I thought that that was related to problems with...

Thank you both for your help. After resetting itself a number of times when starting before even getting to the Windows boot screen this morning, the motherboard reset itself to stock speeds, and I have left it as such for the time being to see whether that helps. Having tried hibernation, I...

My computer (a desktop that I built myself in 2010) has recently started behaving erratically and shutting down and/or crashing with a blue screen error after waking from sleep. The pattern is a very odd one that I have not seen before. After waking from sleep mode, it will sometimes operate...

After some research, I find that Antec's parts department sells the side cover with fan of the Antec P193 case: I have e-mailed them to ask whether the side cover with the fan would fit my P183 case, and to order one if it does. This would be a much better solution than cutting a hole in my...

Thank you - that is helpful.

Thank you for your input. I have been running some more tests. Firstly, a thermal test: to see whether the temperatures would be maintained as well by cutting a hole in the side of the case and having a low noise fan blowing inwards onto the tops of the cards, but without actually damaging my...

Thank you for your suggestion. The trouble is that, most of the time, I do want to prioritise being silent over performance. It is only the occasions when I play games that the performance matters. When doing most things, a nice quiet case is just perfect. I had not anticipated when planning the...

Thank you for that. I did attempt puting a fan to blow onto the card (from the end rather than the side so that the air would not be blowing into where it needs to escape from), but this was not as good for temperatures/clock speeds as the fan sucking from the side. After playing The Division...

Thank you again for your input. I have done a little more testing. Firstly, I suspect that much of the problem is that the hot air from the top card has nowhere to go because it is so close to the bottom card. To try to improve this, I removed the backplate from the bottom card, which increased...

Thank you for your replies. Can you recommend a suitable game for SLI testing? I realise that The Division is not fully optimised for SLI, but it does at least work with it to some extent. It is a shame that Skylines does not use SLI at all. As to the EVGA cooler, will that be compatible with...

Thank you both - the Open Hardware Monitor program is very useful. Results of further testing: in SLI mode, with the case side open, there is a slight improvement on my previous experience with SLI mode with the case side closed, but not much. Initial results appeared promising (especially when...

Napoleon - thank you for your reply. The pictures are as Pendragon suggested. I have just been experimenting, playing The Division with one card. With a single card and the case closed, I was getting decent framerates (30s), but it was still thermal throttling slightly. The system was also...

Thank you for all your feedback. I really do not want to do anything too disruptive or extreme - putting the computer in a special air-conditioned room, for example, is beyond what is sensible for my setup. Playing games is not the highest priority for my system, but it would be good to have a...

What fans would you recommend for exhausting out of the case? Do those need to have a high CFM?

From my understanding, it rather depends on the application/game as to whether it is more CPU intensive or GPU intensive. Cities:Skylines tends to be more CPU intensive, whereas The Division tends to be more GPU intensive. No doubt, I could get better framerates in The Division with a well...

Thank you all very much for your responses: it is much appreciated. As to the details, I thought that the best way of providing those would be in photographic form. I have uploaded various photographs of the case to here. I cannot now find the model number of the case, but hopefully the...

I am not quite sure what to do about this. I recently bought a new 4k monitor (see here for discussion), and I thought that I had better get two 980Ti cards to put in SLI to ensure that performance in 3d applications/games was serviceable given what I had read. I initially installed just the...

After much consideration, I have come up with a provisional set of ideas, and I should be grateful for any feedback. For the monitor, the Acer Predator XB321HK would seem to be the better choice: it has 100% sRGB coverage, and a size that would mean that text (etc.) is not too small at 100%...

I have looked at a number of other threads on this and other forums, but am still unsure of how best to proceed. The trouble is that the issues are too complicated to be reduced to a single question. Are there any particular threads that you can recommend?

Thank you for your reply. The trouble is that the monitors that are good for colour tend not to have Gsync and vice versa. Having only one colour accurate monitor is not ideal, as I like to use Lightroom with two monitors.

Introduction My current computer monitors predate my current computer by several years: they were bought in 2007 and 2003 respectively, my computer being a self-build from late 2010 (Core i7 950 overclocked, ATI Radeon HD 5850, 12Gb system RAM, Windows 7 Professional). They are an Eizo FlexScan...