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1gnoirents posted:There is no way a hairdryer is going to damage your video card. I sneezed next to the box my video card came in and now it has a cold.
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1gnoirents posted:There is no way a hairdryer is going to damage your video card. Look man my hairdryer puts out at least 150c
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Oct 1, 2014 16:09
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KakerMix posted:Look man my hairdryer puts out at least 150c Big difference between a heat gun and a hair dryer.
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Oct 1, 2014 16:10
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Lol, yeah lets not confuse a 850*C heat gun for a hairdryer edit: side note open to tips for overclocking my hairdryer 1gnoirents fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Oct 1, 2014 |
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Oct 1, 2014 16:20
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I meant it as a joke but on the other hand who would have thought that a sticker could be so destructive.
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Oct 1, 2014 16:29
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Senjuro posted:I meant it as a joke but on the other hand who would have thought that a sticker could be so destructive. I had the Superclocked sticker on my GTX460 come off the fan and get sucked in to the heatsink. It didn't damage anything, but it made a lot of noise.
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Oct 1, 2014 16:50
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Kinda regretting not getting the Asus now...
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Oct 1, 2014 17:01
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I bought the blue MSI and it had no sticker. Score 1 for the little guy. The card runs like a dream and did not go above 75 after 4+ hours of Bioshock.
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Oct 1, 2014 17:07
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EVGA has famously easy-to-remove stickers, just letting you guys know, they really use some primo sheets of plastic with a light adhesive let me tell you
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Oct 1, 2014 17:07
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Anything that spins has potential to be fragile if it moves in a direction that it isn't meant to go in. It's just a matter of how fragile, and obviously these were too fragile or shouldn't have had stickers on them that basically guarantees it will be pulled on in the exact opposite way they are meant to move.
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Oct 1, 2014 17:12
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Without any prior knowledge of the problem and no prompting from anyone I just peeled the drat sticker off carefully in the first place. Little common sense here maybe? Sure the glue is a bit much and they maybe should have thought of that but who is hamfistedly tearing that poo poo off in the first place?
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Oct 1, 2014 17:18
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GreatGreen posted:This is going to sound stupid, but with stubborn stickers like that, I've always found that using a hair dryer to heat up the adhesive for a little while before and then during the peeling-off process really helps. I don't own a hairdryer. Would the microwave be a good alternative? 
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Oct 1, 2014 17:19
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AirRaid posted:Without any prior knowledge of the problem and no prompting from anyone I just peeled the drat sticker off carefully in the first place. Little common sense here maybe? Sure the glue is a bit much and they maybe should have thought of that but who is hamfistedly tearing that poo poo off in the first place? I was careful, I remember being worried about it. Little quick to judge here maybe?
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Oct 1, 2014 17:21
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Deuce posted:I don't own a hairdryer. Would the microwave be a good alternative? Not joking, an oven would work just as well. But I'm not going actually suggest that
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Oct 1, 2014 17:21
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AirRaid posted:Without any prior knowledge of the problem and no prompting from anyone I just peeled the drat sticker off carefully in the first place. Little common sense here maybe? Sure the glue is a bit much and they maybe should have thought of that but who is hamfistedly tearing that poo poo off in the first place? probably doesn't matter even if you're careful. It still requires quite a bit of force to get it off, and just that can be enough to misalign them. They're people who yanked it off without problems, and people who carefully peeled it with.
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Oct 1, 2014 17:53
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1gnoirents posted:Lol, yeah lets not confuse a 850*C heat gun for a hairdryer Seriously, modern BGA components are attached to boards using ovens and hot air guns that heat the whole thing up enough to melt the solder balls between the chips and the board and the lead-free solder in use now needs temperatures upwards of 220 degrees C to melt. You aren't going to do anything by blowing a hair dryer onto a video card.
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Oct 1, 2014 17:53
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Wasn't there an old intel cpu or something, maybe a motherboard where people put it in the oven to fix some fault?
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Fajita Fiesta posted:Wasn't there an old intel cpu or something, maybe a motherboard where people put it in the oven to fix some fault? The xbox 360
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Oct 1, 2014 21:12
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Original PS3's too
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Oct 1, 2014 22:02
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8800GT's. Also a ton of other videocards.
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Oct 1, 2014 22:06
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Yeah but with modern game engines you don't need prebaked light maps any more really
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Oct 1, 2014 22:10
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eggyolk posted:How long did it take for the 760 to arrive after the 770 and 780 were released? It seems like a 960 would be the perfect companion for a budget 1080P mITX computer based around the Pentium G3258. I'm hoping to upgrade to one around the release of GTAV. It took a month.
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Oct 2, 2014 01:20
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Holy cow, got the Asus 970 in and my computer is almost silent now at the desktop. Replacing that 580 was a good idea...
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Oct 2, 2014 02:51
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What is up with the goofy rear end zotac card
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Oct 2, 2014 03:07
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Don Lapre posted:What is up with the goofy rear end zotac card Johnny Five is Alive! 
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Panty Saluter posted:That's a good read. Seems like DSR is a pretty decent option if you're on a "low-res" display. I just tried DSR set to 1.5x in Borderlands 2. I have a 2560x1440 monitor and all the other settings are at max. I get good frame rates and it looks amazingly smooth. The picture quality is something else.
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Oct 2, 2014 03:14
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Don Lapre posted:What is up with the goofy rear end zotac card Yeah, what's the deal with that extra width part? Maybe it's meant to promote airflow somehow? Seems very dubious to me.
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Oct 2, 2014 05:50
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The bigger question concerning the Zotac is 'why is it smaller than all other cards,' and 'why does it have 8+8 power connectors?'
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Don Lapre posted:What is up with the goofy rear end zotac card don't mess with the zotac
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The bigger question concerning the Zotac is 'why is it smaller than all other cards,' and 'why does it have 8+8 power connectors?' It's actually probably a three-slot beast*, and having 375 W available means either it'll never be lack of power keeping you from maximum overclocks, or that it won't be thermal cable failure that damages your system (unless your power supply is a total POS), or both. *Yeah it takes up only your typical 2 ATX expansion brackets, but good luck fitting anything in the third slot.
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Oct 2, 2014 08:11
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MSI 980 Gaming hits 1600MHz core and 2200MHz memory clock in Ocaholics bench, on the stock BIOS voltages and air cooling The most mind blowing thing about this to me is the 2200 memory, that's what, 8.8GHz effective up from 7?
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Oct 2, 2014 11:50
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So me worrying I might break it by adding a couple hundred mhz is probably just paranoia then. I dunno why I'm so worried about this crap now, I used to OC all the things.
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Oct 2, 2014 12:26
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AirRaid posted:Without any prior knowledge of the problem and no prompting from anyone I just peeled the drat sticker off carefully in the first place. Little common sense here maybe? Sure the glue is a bit much and they maybe should have thought of that but who is hamfistedly tearing that poo poo off in the first place?
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Oct 2, 2014 12:30
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Heh I know. I just struggle to comprehend the mentality that goes "I just spent nearly £300 on this thing. RIP AND TEAR!  "
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Oct 2, 2014 14:01
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"I'm not having any issues, clearly there is no problem." Never mind that there many more factors at work than just the force used to remove the sticker.
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BurritoJustice posted:MSI 980 Gaming hits 1600MHz core and 2200MHz memory clock in Ocaholics bench, on the stock BIOS voltages and air cooling God drat, that's sorta nuts.
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Haha nice, that's the highest I've ever seen. I've gotten to 8.2 8.3 on hynix ram before, but MSI always dicked me on that (max 7.5 or so on my msi examples, usually lower) 8.8?  edit: yeah im getting a 980... sorry Dollar per Performance God but I want something solidly better than what I had if i dont get ebola anyways 1gnoirents fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Oct 2, 2014 |
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Got my brother a new 750ti and the PC shuts down when launching a game and won't power up unless you pull the CMOS battery. Works fine otherwise and the 6770 he had previously doesn't do this, so the PSU is probably alright. Anything else I should check besides flashing the motherboard?
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Could it be a power issue? Does his PSU supply enough juice to the system now that there's a 780ti in there?
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GreatGreen posted:Could it be a power issue? Does his PSU supply enough juice to the system now that there's a 780ti in there? A 750ti consumes very little power.
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