Just a mention on the power consumption. I have 4 PCs on 24/7. A Intel 4790K + GTX 2080 + Creatives SB Z + 2 SSD's and 4 HDDs and Bluray Drive and at idle it's only pulling 70W. The 4690K w/OC 4.2GHZ + GTX 1080 + Creative SB X-Fi + 1 SSD and 5 HDDs and BR drive is pulling 68W ish. The other 2 PC's are both around 10 years old not worth mentioning. but from where I stand that really isn't much power being consumed and you shouldn't have to worry about that EVGA card at idle. Plus the 10 series has a fan off when not rendering. The fan will kick on at 60c when under load.
Yeah I need to pick up one of those Kill-A-Watt devices because my electric bill is way out of hand (mostly air conditioning Im sure living in the southern U.S.). I may make a video out of testing some of my stuff when I get one because I am pretty curious about the power consumption of my pro audio system.
@@woofervision673 I actually don't have a Kill-a-watt. I use a UPS on 2 of my PCs and they both have a display I can cycle threw to see the status of how much power is being used and how much time I have if the power goes out (witch happens to often) what kind of voltage the wall socket has and a few other nifty read outs. If your curious, I'm using the Cyberpower 1500VA and the other PC has a 1325VA. When under load (Gaming) I have about 40 minutes but at idle I have about 4+ hours. It comes in handy when I'm at work and the power goes out.
On the first PC, why does the memory look like its in single channel mode. When you boot your system and look at the boot page does it say duel channel mode (edit: no it doesn't, try running CPUZ and take a look or just go into the bois if your not sure) Free performance is free so take advantage of it if you can. I looked up the motherboard and saw that is how the manual says to set it up but almost every mobo out there says to match the colors of the slots and here, this mobo has it set up the way you have it. I'm so confused by this MoBo.
I never noticed before but unlike every other MOBO ive used, this one does not tell you anything about number of memory channels in the BIOS (at least not on any of the main screens, if this info is in there it is buried, every other manufacturer has it right there on the first screen). The motherboard manual did not actually identify which slots to use either for dual or single channel. CPU-G was equally unhelpful, not sure about CPU-Z; at this point I was pretty irritated at the difficulty procuring this seemingly basic and essential information and just ran Memtest86. Well it turns out that I was running in single channel, because when I switched to like colored dimm slots my bandwidth went from 13.2 GB/s to 19.96 GB/s.
Just a mention on the power consumption. I have 4 PCs on 24/7. A Intel 4790K + GTX 2080 + Creatives SB Z + 2 SSD's and 4 HDDs and Bluray Drive and at idle it's only pulling 70W. The 4690K w/OC 4.2GHZ + GTX 1080 + Creative SB X-Fi + 1 SSD and 5 HDDs and BR drive is pulling 68W ish. The other 2 PC's are both around 10 years old not worth mentioning. but from where I stand that really isn't much power being consumed and you shouldn't have to worry about that EVGA card at idle. Plus the 10 series has a fan off when not rendering. The fan will kick on at 60c when under load.
Yeah I need to pick up one of those Kill-A-Watt devices because my electric bill is way out of hand (mostly air conditioning Im sure living in the southern U.S.). I may make a video out of testing some of my stuff when I get one because I am pretty curious about the power consumption of my pro audio system.
@@woofervision673 I actually don't have a Kill-a-watt. I use a UPS on 2 of my PCs and they both have a display I can cycle threw to see the status of how much power is being used and how much time I have if the power goes out (witch happens to often) what kind of voltage the wall socket has and a few other nifty read outs. If your curious, I'm using the Cyberpower 1500VA and the other PC has a 1325VA. When under load (Gaming) I have about 40 minutes but at idle I have about 4+ hours. It comes in handy when I'm at work and the power goes out.
On the first PC, why does the memory look like its in single channel mode. When you boot your system and look at the boot page does it say duel channel mode (edit: no it doesn't, try running CPUZ and take a look or just go into the bois if your not sure) Free performance is free so take advantage of it if you can. I looked up the motherboard and saw that is how the manual says to set it up but almost every mobo out there says to match the colors of the slots and here, this mobo has it set up the way you have it. I'm so confused by this MoBo.
I never noticed before but unlike every other MOBO ive used, this one does not tell you anything about number of memory channels in the BIOS (at least not on any of the main screens, if this info is in there it is buried, every other manufacturer has it right there on the first screen). The motherboard manual did not actually identify which slots to use either for dual or single channel. CPU-G was equally unhelpful, not sure about CPU-Z; at this point I was pretty irritated at the difficulty procuring this seemingly basic and essential information and just ran Memtest86. Well it turns out that I was running in single channel, because when I switched to like colored dimm slots my bandwidth went from 13.2 GB/s to 19.96 GB/s.
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