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Hmm, might not be memory, it's running fine now but still at 97%. Odd.

I am pretty disgusted at the pricing of the 1070 cards put out so far. It looks like nvidia have used the performance gains of Pascal as an excuse bump their price tiers up over the 900 gen. Reality check; these cards do not actually costs any more to manufacture than the old ones did and the market for them is expanding. This is what happens when one company can dominate without real competition. Nvidia can pretty much price new GPUs at whatever they feel people can afford.

Meep wrote:I am pretty disgusted at the pricing of the 1070 cards put out so far. It looks like nvidia have used the performance gains of Pascal as an excuse bump their price tiers up over the 900 gen. Reality check; these cards do not actually costs any more to manufacture than the old ones did and the market for them is expanding. This is what happens when one company can dominate without real competition. Nvidia can pretty much price new GPUs at whatever they feel people can afford.

I'm sure they say this has to cover R&D costs , but I agree the prices are a bit heavy.

Getting a new PC hopefully delivered this week. My old one was running like a Jet Engine and Witcher 3 ground to a halt on it. Hoping this new one will allow me to play games at 1080 decently and smoothly.

It's currently been built and now in testing at PC Specialist;

Case
CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES™ 200R COMPACT GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache

Motherboard
ASUS® Z170-P: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs

Memory (RAM)
16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2133MHz (2 x 8GB)

Graphics Card
8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1070 - DVI, HDMI, 3 x DP - (Pre-Order Only)

1st Hard Disk
250GB Samsung 850 2.5" EVO SSD, SATA 6Gb/s (upto 540MB/sR | 520MB/sW)

2nd Hard Disk
1TB WD BLACK 3.5" WD1003FZEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W VS SERIES™ VS-550 POWER SUPPLY

Processor Cooling
Super Quiet Titan DragonFly Heatpipe Intel CPU Cooler

Unless you've got an excess of money an i7 is over kill for gaming, but it is worth it for stuff like Maya and rendering.

Already bought now, to be honest I wasn't too sure on parts so got a friend to put it together for me. Basically gave him a budget and he put the specs in for me.

Oh well. Old i7 user here (although only dual core, long story). You can enjoy encoding H.264 videos in about 1:1 duration:encode time.

So PC arrived yesterday, got it set up last night and started downloading games.

It's silent, really quick to boot up and I've got a nice neon green glow coming from the 1070. This is what it's like to have a PC that doesn't sound like a jet engine and run like a cement mixer.

My god do games look beautiful on Ultra settings too :wub:

Bit of a problem.

Went to shutdown my pc and was told an update was beginning. Went out and about 30 mins later it's still stuck on "please do not turn your PC off installing update 1 of 1.

Not sure what to do as the loading cursor is still spinning but it's been a good 35 mins now. Should I just wait, or is it OK to turn off even when updating?

Just hold down the power button until it resets. It'll sort itself out.

you should wait - sometimes these updates take a godawful amount of time for some reason.

Yeah just wait it out.

Surface Pro 3 available in The Trading Post for £350, Surface Pen and Type Cover 3 included.

Hi all,

My PC is repeatedly failing POST. I have disconnected my GPU, memory, storage and all other non-essential stuff but still it is stuck in a cycle, powering on and offf, with nothing on screen. Tried resetting the CMOS but it still will not boot into the UEFI. Does this mean my motherboard/CPU is dead? I would really rather not have to buy a new one right now as it would mean pushing forward my plans to upgrade and having to plash out on DDR4 as the newer Skylake cpus don't accept DDR3. I was hoping to replace the GPU this year and do that next.

The only other thing I think it could be is a power supply issue but I have no others to test it with and it seems to power on okay; it just keeps cycling once the fans come on after about five seconds. I have tried shorting the PSU with a paperclip and it works fine with just a fan attached.

NB. I should also not that prior to this happening the PC would freeze and force me to hard reset it a couple of times.

i would try a PSU replacement first - just to eliminate that as a possibility

Sounds like a duff motherboard. If you had a multimeter, you could test the PSU if you don't have a spare one.

The PSU is only three and bit years old (sadly just out of warranty BTW), of fairly high quality and plugged into a surge protector so I don't think it is the issue. The mobo on the other hand is cheapish and has given me trouble before (having to reset the CMOS, etc) so I am fairly sure that it is the issue. I have ordered a £40 ivybridge mobo from Amazon. If it works it should tide me over until I upgrade next year, if not then I will at least know my PSU at fault. All in all this is a much better option than pushing forward my upgrade schedule.

EDIT: I took the CMOS battery out for an hour and put it back in, then got promted with a message allowing me to load optimised defaults. I got this message once before this all happened. Anyway, it's working for now. I am concerned it might be an ongoing issue though.

I need a new wireless dongle as the Asus one I currently have is apparently incompatible with Windows 10 (Which I have only 8 days left to upgrade), I've had a look for a decent replacement but there's just so many cheap shite ones out there that it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Any recommendations?

i too, am interested in recommendations

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