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You definitely want a SSD that's 64GB+
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(July 16th, 2013, 21:59)antisocialmunky Wrote: You definitely want a SSD that's 64GB+
It's a cache drive, not a standard ssd.
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Not entirely off topic, but recently my computer has started to...break. Sometimes I'd come back into a room, and both my monitors had turned grey and the PC was completely unresponsive. One time I was watching a stream and both screens just flicked straight to grey as well. Turning the PC off at the back and restarting after leaving it unplugged for 30 seconds "solved" this problem for a time.
Question is: what is causing this to happen? Graphics card issue, or something more sinister?
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The #1 and #1A culprits for such random crashes are the power supply and overheating. Do you have any kind of monitoring that can report on the voltage and temperature levels?
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...I do now.
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Just played a game of LoL, looking at those temps, yeah, not the greatest ever...still would not have thought they were catastrophic.
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http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1514126 says "According to Intel, maximum safe temperature for Q9550 is 71.4C", so yeah, you're pushing the envelope there (look at the max temps column). I'd check the mounting of the CPU heatsink/fan. Maybe reapply a new batch of thermal paste, that can wear out after a few years.
See, this is why I hate computer heat problems so much. You never know if heat is the cause of a problem, and you can't construct controlled reproducible scenarios for problem solving. My good old Wolfdale recently showed an unusual rise of CPU heat activity, up to 75° C when it had hardly ever exceeded 60 before. Turned out the heatsink had come dislodged from its motherboard mounting so was hardly making any contact with the CPU. The Wolfdale survived and performed just fine for several days with functionally no cooling at all. So I rewarded it with that RAM upgrade and SSD I mentioned upthread.
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Yay, time to go google about heat paste, and find out where I can actually buy some...
Cheers T-hawk 
(although part of me does want to buy a new PC...a large part wants to be a skinflint and not pay anything).
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(July 23rd, 2013, 15:59)Krill Wrote: Yay, time to go google about heat paste, and find out where I can actually buy some...
Cheers T-hawk
(although part of me does want to buy a new PC...a large part wants to be a skinflint and not pay anything).
Really cleaning out all your fans and heat sinks often is sufficient to handle overheating problems. Can of compressed air, or even a rag, a straw and strong lungs get most jobs done. If you still have issues, then yeah, start checking if you need to reapply the thermal paste.
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I actually did all that the other week. Admittedly it's not like I do it every month, but the PC is cleaner now than it ever is.
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