What could be causing this noise?

[steaky360]

I didn't even know you could view temps using nvidia experience. Its likely going to be accurate enough. But as others have said 80 degrees isn't really hot for the 780Ti. I would add however that it shouldn't get that hot playing 'lower end' games.

There shouldn't be any high pitched whine's or similar coming from the PC so I'd get in touch with PCS about that, point them to this thread as it'll help them go through what you've already discussed and tried with us. Might help you get at least some kind of resolution.

 

[Boozad]

I didn't even know you could view temps using nvidia experience. Its likely going to be accurate enough. But as others have said 80 degrees isn't really hot for the 780Ti. I would add however that it shouldn't get that hot playing 'lower end' games.

I haen't seen anywhere in Experience where you can check temps, although admittedly I haven't looked for it. I was playing GRID 2 yesterday with MSI Afterburner running and noticed that, even with adaptive Vsync enabled, it was lamping out 174fps and running at 80°C. I can only presume the OP's card is wailing out much more fps than is needed so is still running at the top end.

 

[specialistyo]

I'll get in touch sith PCS sometime this week and try to arrange an RMA, thanks for the repies.

The temperature monitoring on Geforce Experience is placed under the LED Visualizer if I'm not mistaken, a weird place to put it however.

 

[specialistyo]

Hello again, I decided to attempt to put my PC back to factory settings before sending it off for RMA and have seemed to reinstalled windows sucessfully, however upon booting, it seems to be nothing like it was when I first recieved the PC.

I remember booting and having a PCS desktop background with such programs like Geforce Experience preinstalled and was wondering why it is not here now? I reinstalled windows using the PCS windows 7 disc found in my welcome pack however I see the default windows 7 background in a very low resolution with no software preinstalled.

I have a 120GB SSD I use for my OS and a 2GB HDD for storage and deleted the partition on the SSD sucessfully and reinstalled windows on that. I did notice a recovery partition and did not delete it, however I am wondering (assuming the PCS factory image is on that partition) how to access this?

Thanks for reading.

 

[mantadog]

PCS don't ship with a recover image, what you have done is a clean installation of the OS.

To get everything back to normal you will need to install everything from the other CD's you got with the rig. You can also download them from your account.

You need to start with chipset drivers and then do everything else. The resolution is low because your GPU is not running from its own drivers yet. You need to install everything again to get full functionality.

 

[specialistyo]

I attempted to insert the "asus chipset disc" but was greeted with a menu which made me even more clueless than I was before (total novice at these procedures, hence why I bought from the company in the first place). If I ask PCS to reinstall the factory image originally provided, do you believe they'll comply? If not, I suppose I'm left with an even more useless paperweight than before.

 

[mantadog]

I guess they could do it for you, I don't see any reason why not. However your 90% the way through the reinstallation process already. I see it could be a bit intimidating if you've never done it before but its really simple, what does the menu ask you to select?