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Loaded the newest Nvidia driver. Here goes! :S

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I am hearing nothing but complaints, but I thought I might give it a chance.

Presently, my computer reboots after over 5 min's of simming. It only started doing this a few months ago (like 3?) and its very disheartening. I have wondered if it was a new driver. It just started doing this out of the blue. I replaced the GTX 660 with a new one and that did nothing.

I might see if I can go back to a driver from perhaps 5 months ago and see if that does it if this doesn't work. So far so good.
 
I allowed my GTX-780 to update to the latest WHQL driver and have had absolutely zero problems with the newest driver.
 
Sounds like an overheating issue perhaps... have you checked your CPU temps?
 
Hey Shaun,

Yes, they get high. GPU and CPU get up to 70C +. I have seen them approach 90C, but not quite there. The 8 core evidently runs very hot from what all I have found online. I just put on a new coat of paste to see if that helped. I tried messing with SpeedFan to get the CPU fan RPM up higher, but its quite confusing to know what each fan is, the various settings for RPM, etc. You can accidentally cook your computer from just experimenting, trying to find out how to program the thing. Its not easy. I wish I had a CPU fan RPM control in the BIOS that I could access, like some computers have.
 
You have an 8 core FX? that's the issue then. Their TJMAX is 62c, they would be throttling/PC restarting. I wouldn't mess with the RPM settings, it will run at maximum when it needs to.

You could well have damaged it. Are you using a stock cooler? They are like 200+watt cpus and require some serious cooling, I stuck with Intel because this and electricity bills! My entire system uses less than one of these chips at max.

I would purchase a very good aftermarket cooler and some decent system fans. I would not turn my PC on if the temps were above TJmax, let alone 20% above....
 
My i7 3770 has a CoolIT ECO II liquid cooler on it. That really keeps the temp down! :twocents:
 
I am running a stock fan with a nice little al-you-minium grille. I am thinking about building a computer (for the first time) and see what happens. I would love to get a top of the line Alienware or something. Asus have some cool gaming rigs. But money is a factor these days. :(
 
Unless they have changed in the last couple of years they are a bit of a rip-off. You're paying as much for their tacky case designs and logo as for the components.

I have built four PCs so far, and they all have been cheaper than and built from much higher quality components than you'd get when buying from any of the leading manufacturers.

They use cheap and generic components, cheap cases with little or no cooling and often ridiculously underpowered PSUs and come chock full of spam software.

I would recommend going with a small time PC builder or look into building it yourself. It's a fun little project, but takes a fair bit of research.
 
Lion,
Go to www.ecollegepc.com, and use their custom builder Intel based feature. The price is un-beatable, service is good..
I'm on my third PC from them, always top performers, never any issues. And the PRICE IS GREAT

Joseph
 
Tiger Direct is a subsidiary company of SystemMax that simply produced some of the best built systems with top of the line parts, and sold them at very low prices under the brand-name SYX.

In fact, I checked the prices of the same hardware in the two systems I've bought, and honestly even at the lowest prices I could find, the total was always more than the pre-assembled units!

I don't know why they quit building and selling them. Oh, now I do. I found a statement about the closure of their Ohio based assembly operation dated 11/06/2012:
"The computer manufacture (sic) Systemax is closing their doors and laying off 120 people who will be needing jobs. The closing will cost about $6 million to $8 million in expenses including severance for the employees. The company based out of New York, announced it’s closing the Ohio computer manufacturing operations located in Fletcher, in Miami County."
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I also read where SystemMax sacked Gilbert Fiorentino, CEO of Systemax's technology products group, the previous year. During his tenure SystemMax bought out Tiger Direct, Circuit City and CompUSA. He was forced to return $11 million in cash, stock and other assets.
 
kevintampa5 said:
I had an syx few years ago. great machine, problem was it had Windows Millennium.
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Both my SYX machines came with Win7 Professional 64bit. The first two listed in my signature are the SYX machines. The first one is my dev machine with the dual Radeon 7770 cards, and 16GiB memory. At $1400 it was a real bargain, IMHO!
 
M first syx was around $2000 back in 1998-2000 range. I was top of the line at the time. Only issue wasthe Millennium OS.
 
n4gix said:
Both my SYX machines came with Win7 Professional 64bit. The first two listed in my signature are the SYX machines. The first one is my dev machine with the dual Radeon 7770 cards, and 16GiB memory. At $1400 it was a real bargain, IMHO!
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Dang... Not a bad price at all. (off to check out SYX computers).
 
Correct. SYX went "out of business" several years ago, although one can still find new ones being sold (old stock though) through various outlets.
 
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