the new tower

[Bizman]

Feel free to explore the bios to see and learn the adjustments you can do there. There's no risk as long as you don't save the unintentional changes you may make and even then it's easy to reset to factory defaults. Most often the default settings work best unless you're overclocking. Making fans raise their speed at lower than default temperatures sounds like a good idea, though. - I'm not so sure about videos, unless they are about the same model. The terminology can vary quite a lot between makers.

Even the MSI LiveUpdate can be junk, they really don't release new drivers very often. Disable it from running automatically, making a manual check and update semi-annually is enough.

[mikev]

here is the video i was talking about  i have all of these apps available  there is some nice features .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI00xUU-Shk

i had to post this 1 for ya as well hehehehe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnyoJtv9Cx0

[Bizman]

Ooh! Beautiful! Water is the ultimate solution to get rid of excess paste! 

[mikev]

  well took the new tower out and ran it threw its paces this weekend. gave it a 48 hour run keeping track of the temps and performance . during game play fps stuck at 60 with no lag or hesitation with the update slider all the way to the left .flew into a eny bomber formation with about 40 planes with not a drop in fps . only problem was i got shot down ALL the time which is normal . but now i have the system and ready to go . a special Thank you to all the people who made this possible. Bizman , Mr ripley, jimmy3d , morfiend , ebfd11 ,and a bunch of others .. and to semp  that blender still makes a great ice cream shake        

[mikev]

temp check , look normal??      thought 120 seemed a bit high

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[BaldEagl]

temp check , look normal??      thought 120 seemed a bit high

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No.  That's not bad.  That's 50 C.  Might be a little high if that's at idle but reasonably low if it's under load.

[mikev]

these were temps after i played.

[BaldEagl]

Well if that was measuring your max temp while gaming it's perfectly fine.

[Meatwad]

I see an old Motorola DVR on the tv

[mikev]

I see an old Motorola DVR on the tv

lol meatwad you are correct had it since my cable was installed back in 2008 . and it still does a fine job recording while i fight airplanes  .

[Meatwad]

How much recording time do you get on it? If that is the same one since your install then you really should get it swapped for a newer one. Usually they been replaced with the Dcx-3501, yours is the DCH-3416 I believe and those have had pretty small HDD's in them

[mikev]

ha meatwad you sound like someone with a lot of experience. lol i never asked if my service provider has an up grade .it can record about 8 full football games plus a bit more  lol . more then enough for my uses . my service provider allows me to program and record from my phone as well so if im running late i can set it up to record simply by pushing an app on my phone and selecting the show or shows from  the tv guide. a handy feature i can use anywhere with a internet connection or the att signal. 

 i must of really been working the new computer today got the temps up to 67 c for the graphic card and mid 50s for the cpu.  the computer has been running now for almost 2 full days non stop. the temps idle at around 30c  so im good there

[Meatwad]

Work as a tech for cable co, I hardly see the 3416 boxes from the warehouse anymore, now mostly the 3501 or the ones Pace has

[mikev]

ha i see you from southern Illinois i have a daughter who lives in Carmi just was down there visiting and my sis lives in Rantoul.