Thoughts people...

[GiT]

OK, mate bought a PC a while back - £3100. Madness.

So, a few years in and the X99-A MoBo has shat itself.

Here's are the specs... (Roughly)

Corsair Obsidian 750D Case (Fecking huge)

RES X3 Water/Coolant cooling System (CPU / GPU's)

i7 6800 CPU

2 X 6GB EVGA GeForce GTX980 Ti SC GPU's

Corsair Vengeance DDR4 4 x 8GB XMP 3000Mhz Ram

Corsair 1000W RMx Series PSU (Modular 80 Plus GOLD)

2 radiators for the cooling system. A f**k load of fans.


Now, we believe the MoBo to be dead (CPU LED on, 00 on Q-Code no matter what).

Do I:

Get another X99 MoBo (2011-V3)

Get a MoBo and CPU on 1151 / AMD System?

I paid £500 for this little lot.

 

[Craig]

Can't help you I'm afraid. But £3100 ? the guy needs help lol.

 

[youngarthur]

When Computer equipment goes wrong, quite often, its not worth repairing, particularly when its a few years old. The specs you are showing, shows you know what you are doing. Personally, I would start again, there ia plenty out there to choose from.

 

[GiT]

Can't help you I'm afraid. But £3100 ? the guy needs help lol.

I know! Mega-mental Gaming PC... I could split it up and flog it all off - but I fancy doing something with it.

 

[Daz...]

Have you got another psu you can try?

 

[Krarl]

What steps have you taken to deduce that it's deffo the mobo?

 

[GiT]

Tried 2 other PSUs, he's had it in to a specialist too who has said it's the MoBo (famous for it apparently).

 

[Daz...]

Are these the mobos that fry the cpu when they go?

 

[Krarl]

Yeah that's something that's needed to watch out for ^^

Did he have it clocked to umpteen degrees too?

 

[GiT]

Yeah that's something that's needed to watch out for ^^

Did he have it clocked to umpteen degrees too?

No idea, but wouldn't surprise me lol.

I need to find a service to send the CPU for a test, really.

 

[R3k1355]

X99 motherboards ain't cheap tho, lot of money to spend on a system thats abit old.

 

[GiT]

X99 motherboards ain't cheap tho, lot of money to spend on a system thats abit old.

Yip - that's my current thinking. Instead go for a new MoBo and Chip (either AMD or Intel)

 

[Darren S]

I have one question for this - what monitor are you running on?

At standard 1080 res, just one 980Ti will piss it. They can happily run many games at 1440 and a select few at 4K.

The big word of caution from the SLi perspective - is that it doesn't work well. Trust me, I have flogged my guts out to try and get this technology running right - over three generations of card, ultimately ending with quad-SLi using two GTX690s (each card having two GPUs onboard).

Basically, you're at the mercy of the game developers. Forget the drivers, forget the nVidia Control Panel - if the game itself is not made aware of the greater goodness of multiple GPUs, you're going to hammer GPU0 and that's your lot. Some games like Warframe are very well optimised and I could record all GPUs being used to support the game. Others didn't and some blatantly lied - as in selecting an SLi option with the graphics options and yet still GPU0 was the only one being used.

It's a great technical thing to have, but just a shame that the majority of stuff out there doesn't utilise it.

 

[GiT]

I have one question for this - what monitor are you running on?

At standard 1080 res, just one 980Ti will piss it. They can happily run many games at 1440 and a select few at 4K.

The big word of caution from the SLi perspective - is that it doesn't work well. Trust me, I have flogged my guts out to try and get this technology running right - over three generations of card, ultimately ending with quad-SLi using two GTX690s (each card having two GPUs onboard).

Basically, you're at the mercy of the game developers. Forget the drivers, forget the nVidia Control Panel - if the game itself is not made aware of the greater goodness of multiple GPUs, you're going to hammer GPU0 and that's your lot. Some games like Warframe are very well optimised and I could record all GPUs being used to support the game. Others didn't and some blatantly lied - as in selecting an SLi option with the graphics options and yet still GPU0 was the only one being used.

It's a great technical thing to have, but just a shame that the majority of stuff out there doesn't utilise it.

3 X 24" Acer Jobbies. G246HL.

The single 1070 I have now is fine with them.

 

[SharkyUK]

I have one question for this - what monitor are you running on?

At standard 1080 res, just one 980Ti will piss it. They can happily run many games at 1440 and a select few at 4K.

The big word of caution from the SLi perspective - is that it doesn't work well. Trust me, I have flogged my guts out to try and get this technology running right - over three generations of card, ultimately ending with quad-SLi using two GTX690s (each card having two GPUs onboard).

Basically, you're at the mercy of the game developers. Forget the drivers, forget the nVidia Control Panel - if the game itself is not made aware of the greater goodness of multiple GPUs, you're going to hammer GPU0 and that's your lot. Some games like Warframe are very well optimised and I could record all GPUs being used to support the game. Others didn't and some blatantly lied - as in selecting an SLi option with the graphics options and yet still GPU0 was the only one being used.

It's a great technical thing to have, but just a shame that the majority of stuff out there doesn't utilise it.

SLI is pretty much dead for gaming (in my opinion). I can't think of a single game developer I know whom are going the extra to support SLI. It had so much potential and promise but, ultimately, has proven to be an absolute pain in the ass to implement well. The advice I tend to give now is simply to buy the best single (discrete) GPU you can afford at the time.