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i suppose the fans cant spin at such consistent low rpm to keep the 1-10% fan speed so they need to pulsate, but if it is not damaging i guess thats allright. tried to run them at come low rpm mode, but it keeps fluctuating anyway, only somewhere around 32-34% they stay on ~940 RPM on constantly, going lower it just flucuiates less often

yeah that makes sense, but i'm more concerned that when its under light load ~55 C, my fan tachometers keeps jumping from 0 to 1000 RPM or somehwere in between, does that not harm it ? the % graph is smooth, but the tachometer line is like a mountain view

so i bough a card recently and noiticed that when the temps are low the fans dont spin, so no big deali thought. what i notiiced though that fan tachometer reports that when the load is small and the fan runs at 2+% according to MSI afterburner, it keeps jumping from 0 to 800 to 0 too 930 to 0 to whatver. that is only however under a small load. if i put some real load like furmark, when gpu gets hotter it seems to stop doing that. the question would be is that expected behaviour or is something not right ? i'm using GALAX GeForce® RTX 2070 Super EX (1-Click OC), not new so i'm guessing if i got sold a defective one or not

so in my excitement over getting a new gpu, and it fitting in my case (just barely took a while ) i forgot to DDU my old GPU drivers. from what iv seen there shouldnt be any problems when booting up the system and doing it with a new gpu, but the generation gap in this case is quite extreme since i went from GT9500 to RTX 2070 super. can this cause any issues if i boot up windows with im guessing almost decade old drivers for gt9500 with my rtx 2070 super. all i want to do without reinstalling the gpu is to download latest drivers from nvidia and boot into safe mode for ddu to cleanse old drivers.

Hi, im looking into budget options for 144Hz 27' 1080p displays that are somewhat decent. i know by wanting 27' im severly limiting my options but having bigger physical size is one of the reasons i want to upgrade, i dont want 1440p monitors(unless they are at the same price of 1080p ones whitch is unlikely). is there any tried and true monitors within 200-250 euro budget that fit this description?

just looking for a short term replacement, saw an offering for a 970 FTW for a 100 Eur, and wondering if thats a bad deal or not ?

never liked this option, wont even try it since its an old blower style gpu that is basically all plastic except one side and id rather not have also burning plastic smell guess i'll look around if anything pops up, but been looking at the listings for a while now and nothing nice from where i'm from unfortunately

where i'm located prices dont seem to get the memo that prices should not be peak mining/covid scarcity high. i dont tink doing driver install would work since pc cant seem to identify that an gpu is installed in any way, my guess that my intel hd graphics were giving me an output signal trough the cables connected to the 760. and for monitors i kinda will need to, since i use old tv/monitor combo that does not officially support HDMI PC input, and acts all wonkey, and other monitor is also a TV that i just use for watching movies. as far as iv seen most newer cards have only DP or HDMI ports. guess i'll see whats out there, was planning on upgrading to RTX 3070/ti, when 4000 series come out if prices come down, but there is still quite some time i will need to wait, perhaps i i will find something that i can fit in my old 520W psu

so yesterday booting up a game, my screen got covered in purple artifacts, everything else kept running fine, could hear the netflix playing on my other screen without any problems. so i restarted my pc it did update or something. after that booting into windows i got stuck at 800x600 or 640x320 or whatever resolution you get booted in, with green artifacts all over the screen (windows loading logo worked fine) checked MSI afterburner, it was showing no GPU. what i find weird is that i get an video out when connected to the gpu, the fans are spinning etc etc i took out the card cleaned it, put it back in but same issue persisted. right now i installed GT 9500 i had laying around and it seems to be working. is my other GPU toasted permanently, is it fixable somehow, should i take it to a repair shop or i shouldn't bother ( GTX 760 old gpu also but it was doing the work) because if i need to get new gpu, that would mean i would need to get new powert supply and probably new monitors, so i'm looking for options

no clue, case in the prebuilt was a case PSU combo (whitch died literaly 3 days after ita warranty period). its havana something that had no real info on its product page, and now i cant even find that anymore.

my temps are getting worse over time, and thermal paste is the only thing i can think of that i haven't kinda changed. used to be that i would just dust my pc once a year maybe even less, but with the years going dusting seems to be helping less and less and they becoming more frequent. case didn't had a case fan when i bought it, installing one helped for a bit but its not that effective again. for a while now i artificially limited my cpu performance using windows power plan, setting my CPU at 80% 75% (in summer) to reduce heat, learned to do that when i noticed when random spikes to turbo boost when browsing so that 99% limiter to disable boost slowly turned into 80%. well for my use cases it has no affect so i dont really care that much (gpu is the biggest drawback in the system anyway) still for now i think re-pasting is all that i will stick with since case is small and cant fit 212 or sytche coolers that i was eyeballing for new build. oh and temps are hitting 70's if push it, while it might be "within spec" i dont like it getting there, 65 is what i aim for since that's what i used to hit with new system with turbo enabled.

ever since i got my pc (prebuilt) i never bothered to change thermal paste, and it seems i cant really avoid it anymore. watched a few videos and it seems pretty straight forward how to remove the cpu heat-sink (intel stock) on my i5-4690 unless anyone has any tips from experience that could be useful and are not shown in the videos ? but cant just figure out what thermal paste i should go for. Since i watch gamersnexus i kinda got engraved thermal grizzly thermal pastes in my mind (from some quick googling they seem to be delivering), and was wondering if the 1g tube of it is worth it, or is there a decent alternative for it, like i saw mentions of Arctic MX-4, while the price diffrence is like few euros (though 4g vs 1g packages). And i'm hoping for one time replacement untill i get my new setup (god i wonder how many years that will take because of the crazy prices), meaning how is longevity of the thermal grizzly pastes (anyone from experience of 3-5 years in use)? aeronaut is the only one with "long lasting" marketing on its page, while hydro and kryo seem to perfrom better

So recently i have been playing a lot of warframe and noticed that sometimes when i go into their "open worlds" after entering and leaving them a few times my PC starts to hard stutter, as in my fps is fine but everything freezes for a second goes fine for two or four and then stutters again, until i restart the game. thought maybe i had accidentally installed my game on my HDD instead of SSD, but nope its on SSD, reinstalled it to be use but the issue remained. When i close the games like warframe and path of exile i noticed that my computer was slow for a while while my Disk usage was high while some windows app was running, and i had no idea why that was as googling the app name just showed that its a windows program. well forward to today when i got sick of this and decided to buy another SSD where i would put windows on, because its time. so i'm doing my research on the wear of ssd's yada yada yada, and accidentally find a post about pagefile and how windows has one for when it runs out of RAM (VRAM too ? dont quite understand if it works for it only if its a APU or not) and how it can murder your performance. i only have 8GB of ram (ddr3), and when warframe or PoE runs i see my ram sitting at like 90%+ . so i'm guessing that is what murdering my enjoyment for it. still my mind is set and i want to get new SSD and i see a lot of talk about pagefile and ssd and how it should be on hdd to prevent wear of ssd and stuff like that, while others say it should be on ssd. so my question is how much of ssd wear i can expect when i know for a fact my pagefile will be used a lot, and i mean a lot since i cant upgrade my computer for a while (more ram) also the added wear of having windows installed on it. currently i'm looking at Samsung 870 evo 1TB for that since my thought process is that when i get new PC i will be able to just wipe the drive and add another one to the new one, if i infact wont murder it with constant bombardment of pagefile and general windows bullshitery. EDIT: also cant find it anywhere if windows create pagefile once, or everytime windows start up it will write X amount of data (the minimum ? ) and then change size as needed up untill maximum allowed

so today i added another monitor to my setup, basically reusing old monitors/tv's i find. currently i'm using 1920x1080/59Hz TV/monitor over DVI-D 1920x1200/60Hz TV over HDMI 1920x1080/60Hz monitor over DVI-I (using VGA cable with adapter) and all of this is running on GTX 760. when i was using two displays (DVI-D/HDMI) my gpu idle temp was 42-50c, but now that i added third one its hitting 53-57 pretty much all the time. Its an blower style card, so it does get a bit toasty when i put it under load, and since its an older one it hits that 82c where it loses its turbo when playing intensive games (i have set it up that it would lose the turbo at 70c using MSI afterburner) i did noiticed that my gpu clock speed does not drop below 810mhz anymore, while it used to drop down to 125mhz/320mhz when idling. (also tried to turn off wallpaper engine, no diffrence) when pc goes into power saving mode (no display) it does go down to 42c. so my question would be, is this normal that my gpu temps went up such significant amount after adding another monitor, and running gpu at these idle temps could have any affect on lifetime of the gpu ? (been looking to replace it for a while now but prices are nuts so i'm just waiting) tl;dr , added another 1080p/60Hz monitor to the 1080p/59Hz and 1200p/60Hz monitors i had, idle temps went from 42-50(on heatwave days) to 53-57. thats not that high but is that how it suppose to go ?

i guess better expression would be, that it does not fully go black and stay that gray-ish color since it does not clearly dim the whole screen, and i would give an arm and a leg so other displays could have that as an option you could choose. this whole dimming thing sounds great on paper and probably is good when watching things at night, but in the daylight its just annoying