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Let's start from the beginning, I purchased this chair on sale from Overclockers back in May 2018 for £230, not an insignificant sum of money for a university student (at the time). It arrived the next day, and straight out of the box, it looked great, and it was relatively easy and painless to...

There was an early batch of 4790k's that ran at a higher voltage from the factory, these are the ones to avoid as they don't overclock as high, it is one of these chips that I ended up with unfortunately.

I've tried before on this chip, sadly, it's not one of the good ones. The best I could manage was 4.8Ghz just about stable, but at ludicrously high voltage, so keeping it cool, even on water was a challenge. Dialed it back to 4.7 for a while, but experienced issues when doing tasks in adobe...

The G3258 or the 4790K?

Solved it :) For those with the same issue in the future: Had to go back onto windows 7 64Bit chipset drivers for the z87-PRO motherboard, install the oldest version of MEI (Intel Management Engine Interface) Version V9.0.0.1287. This then allows the windows bios update tool (found in the most...

The Asus bios updater tool that comes in the .Zip reports that the latest Intel Management Interface Driver is not installed, and greys out the button to continue. Checked in the device manager, it's on the most up to date driver that windows update can find. Looked for the driver on intel's...

So, a few days ago, I bought a asus Z87-pro(V Edition) bundle from ebay (the motherboard, A celeron CPU, and 2x4gb DDR3). I've set it all up, tested it, and with the celeron G1820TE inserted, it works fine. However, when I try to boot with a pentium g3240, Pentium g3258, or an i7-4790k, it wont...

After remounting the cooler, and obviously applying fresh thermal paste, the temps have improved massively. It must just have been a bad mount before, but I still believe that it is a poor mounting system.

After speaking to Corsair about this, it appears as though this is how it is meant to be, it then tightens up when the cooler is fixed in place. Not sure what the issue is with the temps now then. They seemed weirdly high when I had this cooler on, to the extent that i'm currently getting lower...

Using the washers that are intended for the fan screws does fix the issue of it being able to move, but i'm not sure if this makes the cooler sit away from the cpu. i'll have to test it.

Tested it on a different motherboard I had spare, also 1150 socket, and has the same issue.

The standoffs i'm using, as per the instructions. [/URL][/IMG]

I have everything in the pictures on the accessories page

Motherboard is an Asus z97 Pro Gamer

Just wondering if anyone can help me out with this, because i'm sure there's something blindingly obvious that i'm not seeing. The issue is that when i'm screwing the backplate down to the motherboard using the standoffs, it isn't tight. It seems as though it would require a spacer or washers...

I already had a cooler master 400w PSU laying around so I used this for the build, additionally, I had a 4GB stick of DDR3 from another build so I borrowed that as well.

First place I wanted to start was the case. I've had my eye on a case for a while, but never got round to planning a build. I found the Corsair Obsidian 240d going on ebay 2nd hand for a really low price. So I picked it up for around £30 inc. shipping, an absolute bargain to me. Following this...

This is my second PC, my first being a huge build. This will be the opposite, a very compact PC to fit on my desk.

Nice choice of case, haven't seen too many of those around.