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Problem Found
Motherboard was the most likely suspect (swapped everything else out one by one and at the end was still crashing). I have returned and am looking for some other mini-itx board with a different layout.
Problem Found
Begin Update2
Ok, at first I thought it was the Power Draw was exceeding or something, so I set about undervolting, I have managed to reach as low as 0.980 Vcore with Prime95 Stable, still happened, so I raised the vcore upto 1.000 and now, I am Prime95 stable with 94 Watts Max draw (according to the Kill-A-Watt at the wall) and it still happened once. I have no idea what could be wrong.
I do not this it is the temps. Coretemp reports a Max (in the last 12 hours that it has been under Prime95 as 75C, now its at 68C.
End Update 2
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Begin Update1
OK, I seem to be having a weird issue. The apparent light flicker is the autofocus trying to keep up with the screen flashing. So no worries there. This just happens all of a sudden. This happened at all stock settings. Nothing was changed. I rebooted in the bios anyway and loaded safe defaults. This seems to happen very randomly. I have windows updated with latest drivers and no programs. This is a bare windows install while I play around with vcore (trying to lower it). No error messages, no response whatsoever. The only thing that works is a full power-off power-on cycle. Any ideas? Please check out the vid I made of the screen going schizophrenic.
I don't know how to embed video into the post.
Edit: When I go close to the Kill-A-Watt near the end of the video, I am trying to show Watts while this is happening. It reads 38 watts (my cellphone is pants at taking video)
End Update 1
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I am preparing a mini-itx system and I now have only the case to decide on. I am most likely going to get the ISK 310-150 for my build. The component list is as follows:
Gigabyte H67N-USB3-B3 mini-itx motherboard (might upgrade later to a Z** mini-itx later)
Core i5 2500k
2x4GB Ripjaws (if they fit, if not then I'll stick with my current 2x2GB XMS3)
1x 64GB SSD (looking to buy the newer 6gbps ones, currently have a 64GB Microcenter rebranded A-Data S599 SSD)
1x 500GB 2.5" platter based
1x 5.25" DVD-RW Notebook drive
Onboard graphic.
Win 7 Pro 64
A home computer mostly for browsing, document work and mp3's, with some HULU and Netflix videos thrown in.
The case I want comes with 150 watt PSU.
I do not know how to read that and was looking around for reviews, but they are very scarce and hardly anything on the PSU. Will this be OK? Is this a proprietary size PSU? Can I look for other ATX Flex PSU's? Is this good enough for my usage and components?
Motherboard was the most likely suspect (swapped everything else out one by one and at the end was still crashing). I have returned and am looking for some other mini-itx board with a different layout.
Problem Found
Begin Update2
Ok, at first I thought it was the Power Draw was exceeding or something, so I set about undervolting, I have managed to reach as low as 0.980 Vcore with Prime95 Stable, still happened, so I raised the vcore upto 1.000 and now, I am Prime95 stable with 94 Watts Max draw (according to the Kill-A-Watt at the wall) and it still happened once. I have no idea what could be wrong.
I do not this it is the temps. Coretemp reports a Max (in the last 12 hours that it has been under Prime95 as 75C, now its at 68C.
End Update 2
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Begin Update1
OK, I seem to be having a weird issue. The apparent light flicker is the autofocus trying to keep up with the screen flashing. So no worries there. This just happens all of a sudden. This happened at all stock settings. Nothing was changed. I rebooted in the bios anyway and loaded safe defaults. This seems to happen very randomly. I have windows updated with latest drivers and no programs. This is a bare windows install while I play around with vcore (trying to lower it). No error messages, no response whatsoever. The only thing that works is a full power-off power-on cycle. Any ideas? Please check out the vid I made of the screen going schizophrenic.
I don't know how to embed video into the post.
Edit: When I go close to the Kill-A-Watt near the end of the video, I am trying to show Watts while this is happening. It reads 38 watts (my cellphone is pants at taking video)
End Update 1
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I am preparing a mini-itx system and I now have only the case to decide on. I am most likely going to get the ISK 310-150 for my build. The component list is as follows:
Gigabyte H67N-USB3-B3 mini-itx motherboard (might upgrade later to a Z** mini-itx later)
Core i5 2500k
2x4GB Ripjaws (if they fit, if not then I'll stick with my current 2x2GB XMS3)
1x 64GB SSD (looking to buy the newer 6gbps ones, currently have a 64GB Microcenter rebranded A-Data S599 SSD)
1x 500GB 2.5" platter based
1x 5.25" DVD-RW Notebook drive
Onboard graphic.
Win 7 Pro 64
A home computer mostly for browsing, document work and mp3's, with some HULU and Netflix videos thrown in.
The case I want comes with 150 watt PSU.
I do not know how to read that and was looking around for reviews, but they are very scarce and hardly anything on the PSU. Will this be OK? Is this a proprietary size PSU? Can I look for other ATX Flex PSU's? Is this good enough for my usage and components?
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