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  1. Well i guess i could exchange it if i really wanted to but i live in south america. in my country there are no local official re-sellers or anything like that. I have to buy all my hard to find stuff online and then have it shipped into my country using package forwarding services. so for me to exchange it i would have to pay out of pocket to have it shipped out the country to amazon or evga and then pay again to ship back a replacement one and pay customs fee, import tax, etc. i already had to pay all that once to get it here. it's not financially worth it.
  2. That's the thing i don't understand. I'm not even gaming or anything. All i want to do is watch some netflix without having to wear headphone to mash the loud fan noise. Simple task like using outlook to read and reply to emails and the fan will kick in after about a half and hour to an hour of simple use.
  3. Ok so i recently bought a brand new EVGA Supernova G3 850W PSU to replace my Seasonic 520W. The PSU works just fine but my god is it loud. The older Seasonic was so quiet at full load that i never even noticed it. I completely forgot it even had a fan how quiet it was. Now to be clear by loud i don't mean coil whine or buzzing noise. I mean loud as in it spins like it's trying to lift my PC off the desk and the noise is from the air flow. BTW it's in ECO mode and at PC startup the fan is off as it should be and doesn't spin or make any sound but during light load and i mean crazy light load like streaming on Netflix and basic web browsing the fan would kick on and not kick on at a low rpm. i mean kick on like its going full blast. It's louder than my 4 case fans and 1 cpu fan combine. It sounds like its going from 0 to full and no in-between. I understand that the fan is suppose to spin up under load or when the temps reach a certain limit which i think for this PSU is 40C but there is no load just simple web browsing and the room temps are well below 40C. Plus if it is spinning up due to temps and not load, shouldn't it then spin down or turn back off after the temps drop? It NEVER spin down or turn off once it spins up. IDK what to do anymore, Its so loud that i'm considering ripping the fan out. I can't afford to buy a new PSU and i can't get it exchanged. Is this normal? do i have any options to make it quieter?
  4. well i would have to get a new motherboard anyway because the current one doesn't support overclocking. at the time it didn't seem worth it to pay the extra for a motherboard that supports overclocking when i didn't have a K cpu. Also the money isn't a huge deal. while i'm not going to go as far as to say budget doesn't matter so i'll buy the most expensive parts and build a high end pc. i've been saving up for quite a while to upgrade my pc so a have a bit of cash to put towards a upgrade. As far as i can tell there is no immediate plans for intel's 8th gen cpu until later this year so i can't think of a compelling reason to not upgrade to the current latest cpu from either amd or intel. Also to be honest i started off this post leaning more to Ryzen due to lower advertised TDP but now after hearing everyone's opinions i'm now leaning to the I7-770k
  5. I see. thank you for pointing this out. i will definitely give that article a read and do some of my own search on this. this is something i did not know. that they were measuring TDP in different ways
  6. thank you all for you opinions. I get that i don't really NEED a cpu upgrade but i kinda just want an overclock-able cpu so i can have that satisfaction of pushing it as far as it can. i feel like i enjoy overclocking more than i enjoy playing the games. i think the last two person to comment misread cuz i don't have the I7-4790K but i have the non K so i'm stuck at 3.6GHz and 4GHz boost on one core only. I know that this CPU isn't a slouch at all but i kinda just want to upgrade to something i can overclock and instead of just getting the K version of my current cpu it makes more sense to me (i think) to just go to the newest cpu. Also i've noticed that while playing Crysis 3 (currently the only game i have installed right now since i did a full windows install last evening) that with all graphic setting maxed out, GPU usage while playing averages at 65 - 70% while cpu usage average at 99% (basically 100%) which might be an indication that the CPU is holding back the gpu. However this is only a single test case in Crysis 3. i haven't had the chance to reinstall all my other games and see how they run
  7. I understand that this quest has probably been asked before and i have did a few browsing in this forum for this topic already and while there are quite a few, no seem to directly cover my question in general. I recently build my very first gaming pc on a budget so i'm still quite new and while i like to think i have a basic understanding of how to go about picking parts and setting up a pc i know there is lots i don't know and would really appreciate the input of others. I'm current system has a I7-4790 NON K at 3.6GHz to 4GHz turbo and i just added a Asus RX 480 to the system (had a EVGA GTX 960 SSC) and i'm currently looking to do a CPU update. I know i will also have to update the motherboard and ram to DDR4 but the biggest upgrade is the CPU. Currently i'm stuck between the R7 1700 or the I7-7700K. All i do is gaming and basic use case. NO video editing or content creation so i figured the I7-7700k would be better for this use case with its faster single core and better overclocking at the moment. However the biggest draw for me to the AMD R7 1700 is its much lower TDP at only 65 Watts compare to the I7-7700k 91 Watts. Would this difference amount to a noticeable difference in power draw and in turn power bill price going up? I'm not sure how to weight the pros and cons for this decision since both performance and power usage is importation to me. What do you guys think? I would love to hear your opinions
  8. any chance of testing the 1060 in a different pc to at least rule out issue with the card itself?
  9. nope. that's what i'm trying to do in evga precision x. no matter how much overvolt i add even the max +100 overvoltage it will still drop to 1.200 volts when running heaven as a stress. it will not go any higher than 1.200 volts no matter how much i increase the overvoltage. i know 1.2v isn't the limit. i've seem benchmarks on this card (the exact EVGA SSC) go above the 1.200 volt and stay there stable
  10. But it can't be 1.200 volts can it? Especially when I've seen sites compare these cards over clock and stated that they have been able to get higher clock than mine at higher voltage like 1.218 - 1.245 etc
  11. The power limit is at its max 110% and I've never seen the power usage while under heave list go into the 80% it's always in the 75% - 79% range
  12. I have a EVGA GTX 960 SSC (which i know is very old by today's standard) that i'm trying to overclock to as far as it can go. its currently overclocked 1505MHz stable but i'm trying to push it some more and hitting a brick wall. EVGA precision x shows it hitting voltage limit and no matter how much i increase the overvoltage in precision x it always drop backs down to 1.200 GPU voltage. i know the care as go more only if i can get it to go above the 1.200 voltage limit. i would notice it overclock itself to 1523 - 1528MHz on its own for a few seconds but then the voltage limit hits and it drops down. is there anyway to increase the voltage limit from 1.200??
  13. currently rocking a HP keyboard and mouse combo that was included in the HP Prodesk PC i got a few years back. Oh and a steelseries mouse pad i bought
  14. thanks your all the advice guys. i was really just looking for some opinions on what route to take and it seems that you all suggest going the air cooling route and you guys did make some good point. i think i get a decent cpu air cooler and two of the best 140mm intake case fans i can get and run that at a high-ish rpm to increase air flow in the case. once again thanks your all the advice guys
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