Computer building, I am

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Hmm, you talk all this crap about people and this site, yet here you are all over it, and you're one of the largest reasons why this site smells so badly. All you do is weigh this forum down with your garbage. Why don't you do a f*cking audio build and prove you aren't some lazy loser that's just irrelevant and gets attention like a bad child by doing bad stuff because nobody cares about you on here elsewise? This community is what you want it to be, and you're the one who continually makes this place smell like rotten shit, not me.

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[SlugButter]

Lol, not sure why you would think that. I have single digit body fat and an above average pecker. Not everyone is an obese slob with a micro penis like you bro.

Not sure why you’re bragging about 9% body fat and a 6.1 inch pecker. That’s a dad bod with a 12 dollar ***** attached to it.

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Not sure why you’re bragging about 9% body fat and a 6.1 inch pecker. That’s a dad bod with a 12 dollar ***** attached to it.

Hmm, that's interesting. Especially considering I didn't say any of that. Now did I you fat f*ck?

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Just bought a fairly massive external sandisk nvme ssd to image my whole computer, in case it goes down. I didn't know enough back when I built this that an OS on a SSD can't be directly cloned/imaged when the backup is a hard drive disk. SSD's as big as my data capacity are expensive, but I went ahead and bit the bullet and bought it. I just want to be able to be mobile with my computer setup, because I never know when something might happen. It's good to be able to just reinstall a clone of your windows 10 pro onto anything and just continue where I left off, if my computer crashes. I also have some customized games, where I've had to go into raw game files of all sorts and change and write stuff, install majorly invasive mods, stuff like that. I never want to have to redo all of that; it's like a circus trying to get all of that stuff to work together.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

It's weird how USB's work. My corsair case, it hasUSB 2.0's and 3.0's on the front, and like 14 3.0's and usb c and other things on the back IO shield. The front USB's are garbage, the ones that work through the case. I'm not sure if it's the case's fault, made by corsair. All the front USB's all seem to use the same big cable, as in there's a lot of combined wires used for all of the 4 case USB's, it seems. It has 4 USB's in the front, but I can only use 1 2.0 and 1 3.0 at once, I can't use both 2.0's or 3.0's, or I haven't been able to so far. I'm not sure if that's a motherboard issue or not.

My crosshair hero 8's biggest issue is a USB/GPU issue with some sort of hard circuitry, where if you turn on your monitor (GPU) before your mouse, it can make your GPU driver act up, get GPU related glitches, and the mouse will freeze up. It's an order of operations thing; that's literally all it is, but I've noticed horrendous USB problem while trying to use the front USB's. Idk why the data transfer rate for some devices is so garbage. I literally have a 12 foot long USB 3.0 cable hooked up to the back of my PC that's ran all the way to my monitor, and it's faster than the computer case USB's, which are like 1 foot away from the motherboard. Wtf is up with that? My case USB's + my MB problems make non-board mounted USB's almost unusable. I feel like it's more of a MB problem than a case issue.

I always immediately wipe any new data drive I get, whether it's an SSD or a HDD or just a tiny SSD flashdrive. I have a pro partition assistant for drives, and I hard wipe all factory garbage they put on there, then completely reformat the sector sizes and formatting to be most compatible with both my relatively higher end windows 10 pc and my 12 year old windows 7 laptop. Trying to use the front case USB 3.0's, I was wiping my new large SSD at only 8 mb/s. That's absolute garbage, yo. I hook my SSD up my 12 foot long USB 3.0 cable hooked up to the IO shield, I'm wiping data off this huge SSD at over 1 GB/s, instead of 8 mb/s. Wtf is up with that? My 4tb HDD works well from the front USB's, it'll read and write anywhere from 700 mb/s to 1 GB+/s, but my SSD only gets f*cking 8 mb/s? What in tarnation is going on 'round here?

 

[Firewalker]

Check and see if there is firmware updates to the motherboard. On newer models they upgrade the firmware several times over a 2-3 year period before stopping. But follow the instructions carefully or you will have to reset the motherboard back to stock firmware.

Also when it comes to cases with usb 2.0 and 3.0 the 3.0/3.1/3.2 cables are always separate or should be as the 3.0/3.1/3.2 is a much bigger cable then the standard small square 2.0 cables or connectors.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Check and see if there is firmware updates to the motherboard. On newer models they upgrade the firmware several times over a 2-3 year period before stopping. But follow the instructions carefully or you will have to reset the motherboard back to stock firmware.

Also when it comes to cases with usb 2.0 and 3.0 the 3.0/3.1/3.2 cables are always separate or should be as the 3.0/3.1/3.2 is a much bigger cable then the standard small square 2.0 cables or connectors.

I think you're right on the cable size. I think one set of the USB's plugs into the main plug with the rest of the case electronics, then one set of them has plugs into it's own USB plug on the board. It's still funky; they act like their tied together in a weird way, but that's why I think it's a MB problem. Literally not turning my wireless mouse on before I turn on my monitor can crash my GPU or cause issues while using. If I turn on my PC and forget about my mouse, I immediately just restart to avoid the problems. It's so weird.

I have plenty of USB's on board, high quality USB connections, it's just that it would be super nice if the front ones weren't so janky... It's all working now, but it bugs me. It's hard to accept this a real issue, and it's easy to forget about in the moment.

I will tell people, big SSD's get hot. Don't expect to do big jobs on an external SSD in a hot environment. This SSD gets hot just like the ones in your computer do, and it doesn't have any fans cooling it. I run my big external drives on top of my computer, where my top fans blow air on them all of the time. I bet so many people get screwed by overheating these big SSD's and not knowing how to avoid that.

 

[Firewalker]

SSD's as long as they have a heatsink on them they are fine. I run big SSD's both in the M2 version and the 2.5" version with no issues. No heatsink on the 2.5' version of course but I also upgraded the PS5 with a 1tb SSD with a heatsink and no heat issues. Main thing is if you don't have a heatsink on the SSD or that it doesn't come with it then go to newegg.com they have a ton of heatsinks that you can put on any m2 SSD and for under 20 bucks.

 

[Firewalker]

Also check the motherboard site under support and firmware. Then when you reboot hit delete and in the bios someplace should be a bios version see if they are different most likely they are. Corsair should tell you how to upgrade firmware really easy so nothing is screwed up. I'm betting a firmware upgrade would help things out. Over time they fix things with those.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

SSD's as long as they have a heatsink on them they are fine. I run big SSD's both in the M2 version and the 2.5" version with no issues. No heatsink on the 2.5' version of course but I also upgraded the PS5 with a 1tb SSD with a heatsink and no heat issues. Main thing is if you don't have a heatsink on the SSD or that it doesn't come with it then go to newegg.com they have a ton of heatsinks that you can put on any m2 SSD and for under 20 bucks.

I mean my external SSD, not an internal one. That's what I'm saying is an external SSD that's getting heavy usage can easily overheat in a hot environment. I have 3x 140mm fans on the top of my case with very low restriction to flow, so I sit my external drives directly on the top grate above the fans when they're plugging in and being used, so that the top fans cool the external drives.

My m2 ssd's stay fairly cool. The hottest the lower one gets (literally right under the GPU junction) is about 49C when environment is 80F, under normal operating load. The m2 slots have covers with a heatsink cover built into the MB design. I did add the bigger finned heatsinks on top of the really low-profile ones from the MB. I have fans curves based around both of my m2 SSD's, so they stay cool. My f'n monster GPU heat is always the problem, anyways, lol. My lower SSD heat mainly comes from my GPU.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

My internal SSD's have a max thermal rating of 60C, so it's pretty low compared to a CPU or my supposed 110 degree rated GPU

I wonder the the max operation temps are of an external hard drive? Doing close to 1 GB/s speeds + no cooling factor = a lot of heat.

 

[Cannonshane]

Nice, I build them fairly often for family and friends. This is my current rig.

 

[Firewalker]

Been building since '85 or so. I quit building systems for friends and only do them for me & my parents now. Too many people would bother me at midnight asking for help so now it is only us and a couple friends like Buck who I will help anymore. Otherwise people started to expect me to help any hour of the day and travel to Illinois when I wouldn't diagnose issues over the phone or chat. Finally got to the point I started to ask for something in return like a dinner or some cash then they said fine be that way we'll take it to Best Buy,lol. Sure go for it!

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Nice, I build them fairly often for family and friends. This is my current rig. View attachment 35606

Looks awesome!

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

My GPU wouldn't control Half-Life 2 fps due to the way the whole game functions and loads, and part of it is relative to steam. I bought all the Half-Life 1 and 2 games and all expansions for like $12 on Steam. Half-Life 2 still holds up today, graphically.

But it was running at like 300 fps constantly, and I couldn't get my GPU to control the game's fps, so I wrote my first ever autoexec.cfg file in notepad and limited my frame rate to 144 fps, and it worked. It's super easy lol. I can run the game's highest graphics settings at 144 fps on that game and stay around 50C junction temps, which is nothing, really.

Turning on supersampling with the GPU with 8x AA builds some heat up. I actually don't like super sampling, it makes everything look too warm or fuzzy. Also makes your GPU really warm and fuzzy, too, lol.