Show Us Your WEI [4]

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Did a clean install from USB and looks better

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You realize you are giving us Win 7 holdouts WEI envy?

 

[essenbe]

Nice job, Dude

 

[Britton30]

Did a clean install from USB and looks better

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You realize you are giving us Win 7 holdouts WEI envy?

LOL!
Maybe the Haswell-E, DDR4 RAM, X99 chipset, and SATAIV SSDs will bring Win 8 scores to the max.

 

[Dude]

That should score a lot higher Gary. I did a clean install and got a bump on the graphics portion

 

[ThrashZone]

Dang Dude what model of Surface is that

 

[Dude]

:roflmao:

 

[AddRAM]

With a 4.2 OC

 

[Dude]

Brian, are you back to the I5

 

[AddRAM]

Thought I told you My Sabertooth blew up, it took the i7 with it and 1 stick of Corsair 8GB.

The new i7 will be here Monday, Asus got the board on Thursday and I`m mailing out the 16 GB ram kit to Corsair tomorrow. Corsair did the RMA approval in less then a half hour.

 

[essenbe]

Thought I told you My Sabertooth blew up, it took the i7 with it and 1 stick of Corsair 8GB.

The new i7 will be here Monday, Asus got the board on Thursday and I`m mailing out the 16 GB ram kit to Corsair tomorrow. Corsair did the RMA approval in less then a half hour.

I apparently missed that. Sorry you had the problem. Do you have any idea what caused it? If I can help (I do have experience, you know) please let me know.

 

[AddRAM]

There was some brown liquid in 1 of the ram slots and 1 of the traces was burned up, brown liquid between the 2 sets of ram sticks.

It seems to have happened after installing the 2nd 770, then running Heaven and 3DMark11, the timings were lowered to 9-9-9-24 on the ram, but it was running fine on those timings for a few weeks so...

The monitor went off and no come back, so I started troubleshooting. It would only post with 2 ram sticks, so I looked closer and saw the damage.

I might buy this anyway. To replace my G45

http://compu-america.com/msi-z77a-g...ga-1155.html?gclid=CNGEm_nSpr0CFaN9OgodFTQAZQ

 

[Dude]

Yeah I was curious what happened too. I'm glad you got the new parts coming.
Updated wei, having a hard drive issue

HD problem

 

[essenbe]

Dude, I don't know about Windows 8. I had trouble with it when I had it. I have 8.1 in a VM right now, but WEI in a VM is useless anyway, so I've never even tried it. (last time I tried a WEI in a VM was Win 7. My 780 got a 1.0 score.) But, Crucials (I have about 2 or 3 of them) have much lower write speeds than most. It could be taking that into account. But, it really does not matter running an OS, you would never notice it. I also have 2 Samsung 840 256GB Pros I'm thinking about putting in Raid 0, and they seem to be a little faster than the Crucials. But, you will only notice it if you own both and are watching to see which is faster.

@AddRam, Do you think the brown liquid came from the GPU or from your CPU cooler. That sounds strange to me. Just my 2 cents, but if you get it replaced, I would stay with the Sabertooth. They are great boards. I have one in my backup rig with a 3770K and it does as good as you can do with almost any board.

 

[A Guy]

Actual brown liquid, or perhaps electrolytic from a bad cap? A Guy

 

[Britton30]

Brown liquid can also be coffee, tea, or Soda.
If it was a light brown, like the color of coffee with cream, it's likely electrolytic as Bill said.

 

[PaulGo]

My computer:

 

[A Guy]

Great numbers Paul

A Guy

 

[AddRAM]

It looked like a trace heated up and burned a little bit of the brown motherboard, it wasn`t a cap. And there was something melted down at the bottom of 1 of the dimm slots.

 

[paulpicks21]

It looked like a trace heated up and burned a little bit of the brown motherboard, it wasn`t a cap. And there was something melted down at the bottom of 1 of the dimm slots.

Gremlins I tell the!

 

[AddRAM]

I pulled out too many control rods and the core overheated causing the aforementioned meltdown. releasing a 15 mile high mushroom cloud of radioactive isotopes