probably the mobo. you should get beeps if the cpu was bad
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probably the mobo. you should get beeps if the cpu was bad
I pulled 8 of my 16 GBs of ram from my other PC but if I boot with no memory the mobo should be beeping error codes. I plugged the speaker the board came with up to it. I pulled a known good power supply too. It was a good psu that mobo and the processor breadboarded and it fake boots rests then cuts back on and the CPU fan spins but nothing else happens.
Well then it sounds like a bad mobo. One thing I'd try before taking an hour drive is setting up the mobo outside of the case, just put it on the box it came in with the bare minimums and try to boot. Though rare you could be shorting the board somehow in the case. I usually do this before every build that way I know I'm not installing a dead mobo/cpu in a case and doing wire management and the whole 9 for it.
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That's what I meant when I said I breadboarded it. Sat it on the box and powered it on with just the CPU and its stock fan all powered by the psu. Nothing. Sitting outside Microcenter now waiting for them to open. I wonder if they can test the new ones before I leave. Parking lot is packed like they're giving out free $100s.
Worst build I ever did. its cute looking and it fits in mt TV stand. its about as 3/4s as big as my av receiver but it was hell to put together.
Asrock Z87E-ITX Socket LGA 1150 mini ITX Intel Motherboard $150
Intel Core i7 4770K 3.5GHz Socket LGA 1150 Boxed Processor $280
Corsair CX Series CX750M 750 Watt ATX Modular Power Supply $85
Cooler Master Elite 130 mini-ITX Computer Case $42
Pioneer BDR-208DBK 15x Internal Blu-ray Burner $60
Cooler Master Seidon 120M CPU Water Cooling Kit $70
Sandisk SDSSDP-128G-G25 128GB SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) $93
MSI N780 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Twin Frozr 3072MB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card $440
WD Network Red 3TB IntelliPower SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive $135
$1355 grand total
Now i'm gonna take all the stuff i don't really need like that GTX 670 and sell it piece meal on eBay or Craigslist. i might sell my whole previous HTPC model in its entirety for like $200 if i can get that.
Asrock Z87E-ITX Socket LGA 1150 mini ITX Intel Motherboard $150
Intel Core i7 4770K 3.5GHz Socket LGA 1150 Boxed Processor $280
Corsair CX Series CX750M 750 Watt ATX Modular Power Supply $85
Cooler Master Elite 130 mini-ITX Computer Case $42
Pioneer BDR-208DBK 15x Internal Blu-ray Burner $60
Cooler Master Seidon 120M CPU Water Cooling Kit $70
Sandisk SDSSDP-128G-G25 128GB SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) $93
MSI N780 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Twin Frozr 3072MB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 Video Card $440
WD Network Red 3TB IntelliPower SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive $135
$1355 grand total
Now i'm gonna take all the stuff i don't really need like that GTX 670 and sell it piece meal on eBay or Craigslist. i might sell my whole previous HTPC model in its entirety for like $200 if i can get that.
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Copying my entire Steam apps folder over wireless AC to the new PC. Its like 215GBs and it says it'll take an hour and 25 minutes. at the same time i'm copying like 30GBs at N speed from the old HTPC to the new one. Its nice to be able to transfer files at a decent speed over WiFi. Makes all these external drives i have much less useful.
My god was it a nightmare just now after putting in this Hyper 212 Evo heatsink. After I was done, my PC wouldn't cut on. I got it to cut on but then I got 1 long beep and 2 short beeps. I reseated everything and it gave me 1 long 3 short beeps. I took ram out and tested them individually back and forth and now it works. I'm a clumsy tech i stay breaking something lol. I broke the tip of my Spdif adapter that goes into the sound card and I broke the tip of my hdmi card. Booted up Windows and the motherfukker is still doing the black screen after login. HWmonitor shows 21c idle and this is at 4.2ghz. I'm gonna stress test this bytch later.
you did a new build or just a new cooler? that's the same one I got on my 3570K. I lost my overclock when I pulled 8GBs of memory for the new build but I ran my PC at 4.2 Ghz for several months and it was as stable as it was at stock.
New cooler. So far the difference is staggering. Prime 95 blend test at stock speeds caused my cpu to hit 70c + in minutes and now at 4.2ghz with the cooler I haven't hit 35c yet in minutes. I'm gonna let it run for a couple of hours.
I got like 4 stock Intel coolers sitting around right now. They all look the same since the Core 2 Duo days back when I did a dual core build. I wonder are they still using the same ones. Bout to go look on eBay and see if they sell for anything.You could have probably placed a stack of quarters on your cpu with a fan blowing over them and it would have cooled better than the stock shyt..
I usually like keeping them for when I sell my cpu's. You get more potential customers if you have the original box/heatsink. The only stock heatsink I've had that was worth a damn came with my I7-970 a few years ago. Even then though I ain't use it since I watercooled.
