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PC troubles
Jun. 4th, 2016 02:59 pmNo wonder PC sales are going down for 8 years in a row (I hope VR would change this trend, if not in units but in revenue)
But in my experience today high end PCs are less robust than in 90s and 2000s.
First, a motherboard of my new PC broke down after 1 week of operations. There were no apparent burns, and if I manually short PC_ON it starts CPU fan, but nothing else. Anyway, the board I got from US, it was cheap and it was not practical to return it.
So I went to south of Hauptbahnhof to buy a new MB: this time, MSI with Z170 chipset. I assembled it, and POST failed because of DRAM. OK, then I successfully booted with single DRAM module. Then with two DRAM modules. Then with all four modules, but I had to manually switch DRAM frequency from 2.6Ghz to 2.1Ghz. So now it works, but I am bitter as I paid premium for faster DRAM and can't use it at the marked speed.
But in my experience today high end PCs are less robust than in 90s and 2000s.
First, a motherboard of my new PC broke down after 1 week of operations. There were no apparent burns, and if I manually short PC_ON it starts CPU fan, but nothing else. Anyway, the board I got from US, it was cheap and it was not practical to return it.
So I went to south of Hauptbahnhof to buy a new MB: this time, MSI with Z170 chipset. I assembled it, and POST failed because of DRAM. OK, then I successfully booted with single DRAM module. Then with two DRAM modules. Then with all four modules, but I had to manually switch DRAM frequency from 2.6Ghz to 2.1Ghz. So now it works, but I am bitter as I paid premium for faster DRAM and can't use it at the marked speed.
