Thread of PC Woes, Troubles, Problems, and Issues

Apollo said:
Installed the 970 and new SSD last night. Its so much better then my 280X. Don't think I've seen it drop below 60fps with everything and everything set on ultra.
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Shot for the help.



And yeah, the 970 is a beast of a card, still best bang for buck in my opinion.
 
Just one thing that bugs me a little bit. Is it normal for the 2nd fan to spin up and then stop when you switch on the pc? I never checked if it runs during a game. I checked the GPU temps and it never went above 50.

Is it worth picking up another one for a SLI setup?
 
Apollo said:
Just one thing that bugs me a little bit. Is it normal for the 2nd fan to spin up and then stop when you switch on the pc? I never checked if it runs during a game. I checked the GPU temps and it never went above 50.

Is it worth picking up another one for a SLI setup?
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Yeah the fans will stop spinning if the card is cool enough, but only some of the brands do it. I don't think I've seen my Galax do it.

SLI on the 970's is really good and you get pretty good scaling, however SLI does come with some problems, especially when trying to play some older games (this is what I've read, haven't had SLI myself).
 
Blazzok said:
Yeah the fans will stop spinning if the card is cool enough, but only some of the brands do it. I don't think I've seen my Galax do it.
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Yeah, don't think my Galax 970 HoF does that, though it does have a "turbo" button which enables the boeing sound effects. :rolleyes:
 
BeoTeK said:
Yeah, don't think my Galax 970 HoF does that, though it does have a "turbo" button which enables the boeing sound effects. :rolleyes:
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The GTX 9xx cards have the ability to switch fans on and off as well as adjusting fan speeds, however the manufacturers are left to decide if they want to implement all the fancy stuff. My 980 just adjusts the fan speed preemptively if the load increases (which will cause the temperature to spike), etc etc etc... You can (if your card has fan speed control) manually override it through the nVidia control panel.
 
PsychoFish said:
The GTX 9xx cards have the ability to switch fans on and off as well as adjusting fan speeds, however the manufacturers are left to decide if they want to implement all the fancy stuff. My 980 just adjusts the fan speed preemptively if the load increases (which will cause the temperature to spike), etc etc etc... You can (if your card has fan speed control) manually override it through the nVidia control panel.
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I use MSI Afterburner and then I set my fan curve to be just a little bit more aggressive.
 
Apollo said:
Just one thing that bugs me a little bit. Is it normal for the 2nd fan to spin up and then stop when you switch on the pc? I never checked if it runs during a game. I checked the GPU temps and it never went above 50.

Is it worth picking up another one for a SLI setup?
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My 970's second fan doesn't spin until i actually start using the card. Noticed it the first day i installed int :D
 
I have a network related question/issue (because I suck with networks).

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This is my setup at the moment. My modem is upstairs where the phone jack is, and then I have a LAN cable running downstairs to my router. Then the 2 PC's and the XBOX are connected to the router.

Both of the PC's are connected to the router with CAT5e cables, the router has gigabit ports and so do our PC's, yet the copy speed between the PC's does not go above 10 MB/s. Should I do more cable swapping to see if it is a cable or can something else cause this?

I think my modem currently has DHCP on and my router's is off (not sure if this is relevant). My modem only has 100Mbps LAN ports.
 
Blazzok said:
I have a network related question/issue (because I suck with networks).

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This is my setup at the moment. My modem is upstairs where the phone jack is, and then I have a LAN cable running downstairs to my router. Then the 2 PC's and the XBOX are connected to the router.

Both of the PC's are connected to the router with CAT5e cables, the router has gigabit ports and so do our PC's, yet the copy speed between the PC's does not go above 10 MB/s. Should I do more cable swapping to see if it is a cable or can something else cause this?

I think my modem currently has DHCP on and my router's is off (not sure if this is relevant). My modem only has 100Mbps LAN ports.
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Question, and I have to ask you to clarify... You say your copy speed is 10 Megabytes per second on a 100 Megabit per second link? That's 80% link utilization right there... 10MB/s = 80Mbps
 
PsychoFish said:
Question, and I have to ask you to clarify... You say your copy speed is 10 Megabytes per second on a 100 Megabit per second link? That's 80% link utilization right there... 10MB/s = 80Mbps
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He said gigabit. The 100mbit is only on the modem, which is fine for (presumably) ADSL.
[MENTION=6280]Blazzok[/MENTION], what protocol are you using for transfers? I find windows shares to be unreasonably slow compared to others...
 
PsychoFish said:
Question, and I have to ask you to clarify... You say your copy speed is 10 Megabytes per second on a 100 Megabit per second link? That's 80% link utilization right there... 10MB/s = 80Mbps
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Yeah as Murfle said. The 100Mbps is on my modem (which only my router connects to). My router has gigabit ports (which the 2 pc's are connected to).
 
murfle said:
He said gigabit. The 100mbit is only on the modem, which is fine for (presumably) ADSL.
[MENTION=6280]Blazzok[/MENTION], what protocol are you using for transfers? I find windows shares to be unreasonably slow compared to others...
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Sorry Murfle, but you'll have to clarify protocol for me. :/
 
Blazzok said:
I copy using Tera Copy; I don't use something like Total commander for file exploring and copying, if that is what you're asking. Even so, purely windows copy shouldn't limit me this much.
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Ok, Teracopy will use the same type of shares as explorer, so ya... sounds like normal windows shares. Still should be faster than that...

How fast does something copy on the local machines? Ie, copying a large file on PC1 from one directory to another. How about on PC2? Doubt its a hard drive limitation, but I don't know the state of your machine, so just throwing out ideas.

I'll have to check that when I get home.
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Go into your network and sharing center, and click 'ethernet' to see the speed. Check both computers. Now even if you get 1.0 Gbps, a bad cable can still limit you. If you have spares, I'd recommend checking swapping them out to check.
 
murfle said:
Ok, Teracopy will use the same type of shares as explorer, so ya... sounds like normal windows shares. Still should be faster than that...

How fast does something copy on the local machines? Ie, copying a large file on PC1 from one directory to another. How about on PC2? Doubt its a hard drive limitation, but I don't know the state of your machine, so just throwing out ideas.



Go into your network and sharing center, and click 'ethernet' to see the speed. Check both computers. Now even if you get 1.0 Gbps, a bad cable can still limit you. If you have spares, I'd recommend checking swapping them out to check.
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Local copy is definitely much faster than that for both machines.

I will check the rest at home, because right now I can't check anything. I'll update a bit later.
 
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