re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

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, literally nothing else happens no matter what buttons I press

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OH, so the lights are from the PSU being simply switched on.

Have you tried the white power button on the motherboard itself? Have you tried shorting your power switch connections? You simply take a piece of metal, like the tip of a screwdriver, and make it touch both of the power switch pins on the mobo.

Have you also verified that the power switch cable is plugged into the right header?

EDIT: And I have to ask... did you use standoffs to mount the motherboard?

OK, obviously the motherboard is playing the biggest role here, but it's not necessarily defective. It just isn't getting the signal or isn't able to deliver power to other components. This can be caused by a bad PSU, improperly seated CPU, a short in the motherboard, or one or more loose power connections.. or a defective motherboard. It's always easier to have spare parts to swap out, but the next best thing is to remove all components and reassemble outside of the case.

I just sit the motherboard on top of its own anti-static bag, on top of the box it came in. I remove everything from the board, reseat the CPU, and then try to run it barebones. Just the CPU, cooler, and one stick of RAM, monitor connected to onboard video. Have you tried this? Running it barebones outside the case can often solve common problems in first-time builds.


If you don't have any luck with that method, I can stop by this week. All I have is a PSU to swap out, though. I don't have any DDR4 or Socket 1151 stuff. Where do you live?

Probably would've been more ideal to add the cooler last. The CPU power connections might be loose if you had to do it blind.

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I also may have not seated the cpu correctly, but am I fricked if that's the case?

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I don't know. There's generally only one way to seat them and not immediately notice something is wrong. If you had to force it and mash it down with the CPU retention bracket, I imagine the pins would be bent.

If you'd rather someone else do it, let me know your availability and where in BR you live.

Is your motherboard sitting on the metal in the case? If it is, it needs to be on these small risers if your case didn't have them already attached.

You have any thoughts on M.2 SSDs?

I was watching a YouTube video of barnacules where he goes through a PC that was made for him. He has 2 of them in an Asus Z10-D8 mobo with dual xeon e5 CPUs.

Of course that is not practical for me, I think those 5 parts are like $4000.

I just thought it was funny and these newer z170 boards are supporting M.2. I figure if the prices for them get down to what SSDs are today I might be interested but $320 for a 512gb M.2 drive is a little ridiculous.


Amazon shipped my package today, it has been sitting in holding for almost a week now. Nothing too big yet, just one BenQ monitor, a key board and my headsets. All I have left to get is the guts, ie most expensive parts. I will most likely do that next week if I see a deal on the 4790k

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You have any thoughts on M.2 SSDs?

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I looked specifically at the Intel 750 as an NVMe solution, but the principles are generally going to be the same for most current and upcoming M.2 (or U.2, as some are called) drives - and this one looks to be a hybrid of consumer and commercial grade technology (although still a little pricey) - and it really shines over regular SATA 6gb/s with large files - with such a saturated memory bandwith, the drive is no longer the chokepoint for large file transfers through the bus.

Here is anandtech's review of the Intel 750 back in April that covers some of these issues.

LINK

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There's seldom a scenario where I'd really notice the performance of the 750 at its best.

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That's my analysis, too. I was back to (Samsung) 850 (probably Pro over Evo at this point) just on price to performance basis.

As a Windows drive, you wouldn't notice a bit of difference between the Pro and Evo.