The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

get some u-channel on there

http://www.mnpctech.com/UChannel.html

 

Good idea shaff. While I'm aware of such materials, the idea didn't occur to me Frankly, I could care less about it(though I will fix it). It just sits there and encodes bluray files. With the occasional burn. Running VERY good now. Check out my new temps with the new 140mm fan. Excellent. And it would probably be better with a different heatsink. I'm currently using the 125W 965's heatsink, with the 140W 940 Phenom. This is after 4hrs of strenuous encoding.
Temp3 seems to be the cpu. It's at least 3C cooler at high load. And the HDD's are WAYY cooler! That's what I wanted. Now I can rest easy for a while. Should still replace the heatsink/fan...

And most importantly, the Rpms on the Cpu fan are much slower. They were upwards of 4500-5,000 to cool the Poor phenom at high load before. MUCH nicer as I'm sure you can imagine. I can hear myself think

 

so you care then , even a bit.

 

so you care then , even a bit.

 

Yes, I care LOL! Otherwise what's the point LOL!

Now I can concentrate on my primary. I have a sneaking suspicion there may be something seriously wrong with the mainboard. I've had the printer dropout now too. In the middle of the print job, it just stopped. Like it stopped receiving data from the pc. It seems like i've had that happen ONCE before on the other board. But I suspected that was simply a bad epson/windows 7 driver. Not a connection issue. I really hope I'm wrong. I don't like thinking about my primary being down. Not good...

But it reminds me exactly how my hard drives act at times. Loading files will hang. I suppose every function that I've had hiccup runs through the Main OS drive. The velociraptor! I truly hope I don't have a bad HDD. That will totally upset me. And given how the s.m.a.r.t. reports act, or Speedfan with its error detection, it makes me wonder. I guess I can see what a Western Digital Utility comes up with

 

Sam,
We have a mutual friend, Dean Damos, who thinks his email has been hijacked. I got a message from him the other day with a virus in it, and when I let him know about it. He said that he hadn't sent me any emails. His mailbox was full of spam too. Does this sound to you like someone has gotten control of his email?

TIA,
Russ

 

I find it interesting that speedfan only reads one core temperature for AMDs, and not the temperature of each core, like it does for Intels. Strange...
4000-5000rpm? Ouch! It's been a while since I had a 5000rpm CPU fan, and that was blissfully only 60mm. Still pretty damn loud. The stock cooler for my E4300 likes to get up to 2700rpm at idle because the TIM is old and needs changing, that is annoying enough!
Just something I want to put out there, I'm pretty sure the 940 is only 125W, not 140 (before overclocking of course), the only 140W chip I remember is the original 965.
For me, Temp3 is the CPU also, Temp1 is my PCH. Temp2 doesn't seem to do very much, I believe it's an ambient temperature reading.
As for your loading issue, I stress how important it is that you check, double check and triple check your S-ATA cables (data ones). You wouldn't believe the strange things that happen if one goes bad - earlier this month I too thought my motherboard was bad when my PC would instantly crash if I opened any game with two graphics cards installed. With one, it was fine! Turns out replacing the main S-ATA cable fixed the problem. It makes no sense, but it's true!

Russ: Either someone has got hold of his email, or perhaps more likely, there's a virus on his PC that's doing it for him, and the virus you received may well have been that virus, or its offspring. If he uses a web-client like hotmail or gmail it's a little less likely (though stil very possible) but if he uses a proper program like Outlook or Thunderbird, it's a very likely possibility.

 

The most i've seen the rpms hit on that stock phenom fan was 5600. VERY obnoxious LOL! So you can see how this exhaust fan has helped a great deal!

I'll check the data cable here shortly. And obviously, I'll start with the OS drives sata cable. If it has an effect, I'll likely buy all new cables, and start over...

Aren't the yellow gigabyte ones the most trusted ones? That's what I'm currently using...

 

OM7

What kind of 140mm fan are you using?

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835233037

 

ok thanks OM7

 

I trust yellow Gigabyte cables over stock red ones, but both have caused me issues in the past.

 

A new yellow is in. Curious. My speedfan report has changed. I now wonder if it was the cable that affected it, or simply screwing with the port itself(sata 6Gb/s port). Where there were only 2 attributes before, there are now multiple. I wonder if it's the Sata 3.0 port, or the NEC/Gigabyte driver. Or perhaps even a better bios revision is in need? I realize that this test is not a perfect test, but this is the first harddrive or sata 3.0 configuration, that I've had show such an odd result. It makes me very nervous LOL!

 

This is what you had before, or what you have now? It suggests that SMART isn't working properly at all.

 

What I had before was a mere TWO reports. NOW there are multiple as seen.

Yes, it shows that its not working properly at all LOL! I don't exactly fear the drive failing, since I can't trust that smart statistic. If it were that bad, It more than likely wouldn't boot!

Basically, the drive isn't communicating well with the OS. And yet, I perform tasks day in and day out, with minimal trouble. So I suppose its possible, that speefan is simply the problem, when it comes to the error reporting. It probably doesn't know how to acknowledge the Sata Rev 3.0 port.

Something tells me that sata 3.0 is still WAYY in its infancy LOL!

LOL!!! No wonder there are only 2 ports on the board!!!!!

 

What if you use S-ATA 2? I've not tried using SMART on S-ATA 3 yet. There should be far more attributes than 6, let alone 2, and they should almost all be labelled.

 

You don't think it will screw with the MBR by putting it on a different port do you? Cause at this point, I would rather have storage drives on those ports. Maybe even Burners. Though I don't know. I think I'd rather have the burners on the trustworthy 2.0 ports LOL!

 

I'm not sure, I don't think so, but anything's possible, really.

 

Ok. I have a process running right now. when thats finished, i'll make the switch and know right away