Cokomantis

ooh. ok then. so something i couldn't see is busted then. or maybe something else entirely. the pop sound (more like a SNAP really) made me think that.

that's because cp77 has some neat tech like obviously rtx and better lighting, shadow and higher texture res and witcher 3 is a 7 year old game =) if you can utilize your gpu to the max, as others have stated, it means you're getting full available performance from it aka what you paid for.

i'm guessing the black goo like substance should be in the capacitors?

@AbydosOne oh wow. there's a compatibility chart for THAT? huh. thank you. and @RONOTHAN## thank you as well. that really puts my mind at ease. cheers.

title. by which i mean the cable between the psu and the wall (or power strip). i'm asking because, umm. i bought a corsair hx1000. used its own cables for the components. but for some dumb reason i kept using my previous psu's power cable, which was a corsair cs650m. after using the psu like this for a month, a few days ago it went out in a very loud POP. some of the capacitors are busted from what i could see between the fan blades. pics: i'm wondering if that could be the reason, or if it was a really bad spike in voltage. what i was doing at the time and other parts: the cpu, motherboard, ram and gpu are all perfectly fine while the old power cable i was using is dead with (obviously) the psu itself, so that's kind of when it clicked with me, maybe i shouldn't have used the old cable? thoughts? ps: i can't connect my old psu to the current graphics card but thank god for integrated graphics.

Hi everyone, I have a minor question: I'm ditching my 3.5 year old H115i for an air cooler. I didn't apply any extra thermal compound while initially installing it. Will I have to clean the cpu's surface with alcohol? Might seem like trivial, however while there are many guides as to how one can install these, I couldn't find any decent info on how to remove it properly. (I mean that's understandable, taking it down shouldn't be all *that* hard. But I'm not sure what to do before installing the new cooler after taking the aio out.) I really don't like opening up the case and getting in there, so i'd rather do it once (and the right way). Cheers.