PC Pc Gaming/building thread

[dwwaino]

PC has carked it now. It has not been great for months. I haven't been able to game, the thing runs slow, and videos are buffery and stuttering with the sound dropping in and out. It stopped recognising my speakers about 4-5 months ago and now it has stopped recognising my headphones so I have no audio at all. It is telling me no audio device output is installed despite my headphones still showing in device manager. No fixes I can find have fixed the issue.

I was leaning towards the issue being the CPU cooler since it gets quite a bit of a rattle and at times a loud constant whine which forces me to shut down to stop. That hasn't happened nearly as much since I turned the fans down in the BIOS so the longer the issue has gone on the more I have leaned towards the issue being with the motherboard due to audio problems but I am not that knowledgeable when it comes to PC issues so who knows.

I am hoping the issue isn't going to cost a lot to fix since money is tight at the moment.

After checking anything software/OS related my first guess would be motherboard as well. Other hardware has more specific symptoms (drives will freeze, RAM and CPU will often blue screen or fail to post) when they fail but the motherboard controls everything so it can have a wide range of things happening.

 

[HugeJohnson]

RDR launching at $70 on Steam? Gross.

Sickening cash grab.

 

[blackshadow]

PC has carked it now. It has not been great for months. I haven't been able to game, the thing runs slow, and videos are buffery and stuttering with the sound dropping in and out. It stopped recognising my speakers about 4-5 months ago and now it has stopped recognising my headphones so I have no audio at all. It is telling me no audio device output is installed despite my headphones still showing in device manager. No fixes I can find have fixed the issue.

I was leaning towards the issue being the CPU cooler since it gets quite a bit of a rattle and at times a loud constant whine which forces me to shut down to stop. That hasn't happened nearly as much since I turned the fans down in the BIOS so the longer the issue has gone on the more I have leaned towards the issue being with the motherboard due to audio problems but I am not that knowledgeable when it comes to PC issues so who knows.

I am hoping the issue isn't going to cost a lot to fix since money is tight at the moment.

Sounds suspiciously like a motherboard.

What CPU and chipset?

 

[gaskin]

Sounds suspiciously like a motherboard.

What CPU and chipset?

CPU is an i9-10850K. Motherboard is a z590 elite. The Chipset is apparently Intel 500 series.

 

[blackshadow]

CPU is an i9-10850K. Motherboard is a z590 elite. The Chipset is apparently Intel 500 series.

You might be able to pick up a mobo cheaply from ebay/facebook marketplace if you're convinced it's the issue.

 

[gaskin]

So I spoke to one of the tech guys at PLE and he said it sounds like a multitude of issues. He said it definitely sounds like there is an issue with the motherboard. The noise it makes on startup which I forgot to mention he thinks could be the PSU fan ramping right up and then settling down. Then two other noises (the rattle and loud constant whine) he thinks are the CPU cooler. The rattle coming from the fan bearings and the whine being an issue with the pump.

But, I won't know for sure until I bring my PC in to them next week. It looks like it could be costing me a lot more than I want to spend.

 

[dwwaino]

I wouldn't worry too much about the PSU fan noise just yet if that's what it is if it's only on startup. A lot of things run at 100% until post and the motherboard applies settings. It also pulls more juice on startup. Same can be said for things like CPU cooler. If there are gremlins in the motherboard then it could play all sorts of funny buggers with other hardware like sending full current or dirty power. Only problem with motherboards failing is unless they're recent then you're likely up for a new CPU too.