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[k31th]

who is this build for? or are you just doing a 2nd one for yourself?

[Puffwagon]

On 08/02/2017 at 0:28 AM, bloodycrashboy said:

This is a build for a drafting friend of mine.

I built him a system about 18 months ago and he is very pleased with it.

He's moving up in the world and is going to employ another draft person so he needs another work station.

This has similar specks to the first one except graphics card is not a Quadro (he wanted to save some coin)

So I don,t know how well the 1050 will cope with 3D rendering.

I will run a few benchmarks before I hand it over though.

Xeon CPU @ 3.4 GHz,  32 GB  DDR 4 RAM @ 2133 MHz and an Asus E3 Pro Gaming V5 mobo should make it interesting.

It was a bundle from PC Case Gear, I added another 16 GB of RAM to the bundle though 

[bloodycrashboy]

this is for a friend of mine.

needs a new workstation for new employee 

 

thanxs Puff

Edited 10/02/17 12:20 PM by bloodycrashboy

[k31th]

cheers, puffster... that info got lost in my mind with the talk about the screens haha

[bloodycrashboy]

any way guys, that's enough excitement for one night, I'm off to bed  

[Puffwagon]

Haha all good fellas.

 

That white smoke is a bit concerning though innit?

 

What do you think it was bcb?

 

Edit: lemme know tomorrow if you're off to bed. 

Edited 10/02/17 12:25 PM by Puffwagon

[masda74]

I agree, the white smoke is a concern. It could be a capacitor that popped.

it could also be dust on the fan, but I highly doubt it.

if a capacitor popped, the card can still operate. Do some benchmarks and do a burnin run for 24 hours.

Cant remember what program I use to use for 24 hour burn/run in for gpu, cpu and psu.

 

Keep in mind that there is always a 7 day DOA warranty for any computer item, once the 7 days are over, then you have to do an RMA and wait for a replacement.

Edited 11/02/17 05:03 AM by masda74

[bossmang]

I mounted my cpu cooler the same way after I moved it from the top mount to rear with push pull fans. 

 

pics soon

[bloodycrashboy]

23 hours ago, Puffwagon said:

Haha all good fellas.

 

That white smoke is a bit concerning though innit?

 

What do you think it was bcb?

 

Edit: lemme know tomorrow if you're off to bed. 

It was a dead short to a case fan, took out the fan header mosfet

no big deal in the great scheme of things, just means there is one less functioning fan header on the motherboard

the front cover panel on the case had pinched one of the fan cables and earthed it out on the steel chassis

the fan header was directly underneath the video card, when the mosfet fried the video card fans blew the smoke straight down 

so it looked like it was coming out of the video card!

because I had a heart attack panic, I switched the power supply off and proceeded to do a strange hopping and dancing manoeuvre  around my shed and I never got a good sniff of the smoke 

I may have even dropped the F bomb

so when I gathered my wits and started checking the video card, it just smelt like a new piece of hardware

Later on I saw that one of the 140mm front fans was not running, pulled it out and voilà

[Puffwagon]

I've done the same thing with pinching wires though I didn't have smoke, I had only cut them!

 

At least mobos are cheap so it won't be a big deal if you choose to replace it.

 

Haha you are probably better off not sniffing smoke my friend