Hello.
I recently got few scrap branded desktops from my company for a very low price. they were not functional as they were, but I was able to run one of them one time and see that the CPU seems to be good which is an i7 2600, and I got this one for less then USD 50. So it was a good deal. the others were similar, one i7 2600 and the other a sff of i5 750, good for htpc.
I recently had a friend travel to the US and he got me a refurbished MSI Z77A-GD65. I knew earlier about some memory error code of 55 that these motherboards were giving but took my chances for 99USD. the one that I received had the latest bios flashed.
I got a cooler master evo 212 and assembled the following PC:
- Thermaltake v4 case
- Thermaltake toughpower older generation power supply 600 watts
- motherboard Z77A-GD65
- Kingston savage 2400 MHz CL11 (recently bought)
- Gigabyte 560 TI
-Seagate 1TB 7200 rpm (boot drive until I get a 256 corsair SSD soon: windows 7 ultimate 64 bit)
-WD green 2TB
-WD green 3 TB
-WD green 4TB.
-cooler master evo
-SSD to be acquired soon. (this is one of my computers, I like to collect them
)
-arctic silver 5 (used old tube of 6 years maybe)
The first time I assembled the PC, I had problems with the network card, ended up removing some of the motherboards "raisers" that were still there because I had a micro atx earlier. and I am still 10% skeptical of the CPU cooler plastic insulation for the cpu holder mechanism, they seemed not to cover the metallic parts 100% but they were there (green stickers).
Things worked, the motherboard booted fine. I played with overclocking as well by using x42 for the turbo multiplier so I get 38-39 full for all cores, and 42 if one core at turbo.
Temperatures when using prime 95 for few minutes do not exceed 59 degrees Celsius. and at idle it is like 35 degrees Celsius almost. ambient maybe is around 19.
My current problem is that sometimes, when I cold start, the system runs for few seconds and stop (before posting), then if I restart it works, this is more apparent ( I think !!!) if overclock is there but nevertheless even without overclock, it happens randomly but mainly at cold boots when the system has rested for a while.
what could be the problem?
could it be that there is still a mild short or something but that seems improbable.
does the power supply do this?
could it be a power switch of the case (also doesn't seem right)
any ideas you can suggest? should I change the rams?
I recently got few scrap branded desktops from my company for a very low price. they were not functional as they were, but I was able to run one of them one time and see that the CPU seems to be good which is an i7 2600, and I got this one for less then USD 50. So it was a good deal. the others were similar, one i7 2600 and the other a sff of i5 750, good for htpc.
I recently had a friend travel to the US and he got me a refurbished MSI Z77A-GD65. I knew earlier about some memory error code of 55 that these motherboards were giving but took my chances for 99USD. the one that I received had the latest bios flashed.
I got a cooler master evo 212 and assembled the following PC:
- Thermaltake v4 case
- Thermaltake toughpower older generation power supply 600 watts
- motherboard Z77A-GD65
- Kingston savage 2400 MHz CL11 (recently bought)
- Gigabyte 560 TI
-Seagate 1TB 7200 rpm (boot drive until I get a 256 corsair SSD soon: windows 7 ultimate 64 bit)
-WD green 2TB
-WD green 3 TB
-WD green 4TB.
-cooler master evo
-SSD to be acquired soon. (this is one of my computers, I like to collect them
)-arctic silver 5 (used old tube of 6 years maybe)
The first time I assembled the PC, I had problems with the network card, ended up removing some of the motherboards "raisers" that were still there because I had a micro atx earlier. and I am still 10% skeptical of the CPU cooler plastic insulation for the cpu holder mechanism, they seemed not to cover the metallic parts 100% but they were there (green stickers).
Things worked, the motherboard booted fine. I played with overclocking as well by using x42 for the turbo multiplier so I get 38-39 full for all cores, and 42 if one core at turbo.
Temperatures when using prime 95 for few minutes do not exceed 59 degrees Celsius. and at idle it is like 35 degrees Celsius almost. ambient maybe is around 19.
My current problem is that sometimes, when I cold start, the system runs for few seconds and stop (before posting), then if I restart it works, this is more apparent ( I think !!!) if overclock is there but nevertheless even without overclock, it happens randomly but mainly at cold boots when the system has rested for a while.
what could be the problem?
could it be that there is still a mild short or something but that seems improbable.
does the power supply do this?
could it be a power switch of the case (also doesn't seem right)
any ideas you can suggest? should I change the rams?
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