beardninja

Hey all. I got a little problem here that needs some input from the community. Whenever I'm playing under Boderless Window (any game) it frequently freezes for 1 or 2 seconds. When I switch to Fullscreen the problem goes away. I still cannot understand why it is causing this freeze, it's not a microstutter it's just straight up frozen for around a second or two. I recently upgraded to a FreeSync display and this is when the problem started appearing. I'm running a RX 480 with the Crimson ReLive 16.12.2 driver and when I read the release notes for this driver I discovered that AMD has enabled FreeSync for Borderless Window - but it's not working correctly in my case? is that the cause of the freezing? Well this is what I suspect is the cause because when I reverted the driver back to a version that was released back in November (when FreeSync was not enabled for Borderless), the problem went away it was working just fine without any freezing (obviously FreeSync is disabled because Borderless). Now, running in Fullscreen does fix all my problems but I highly prefer having Borderless because it is much quicker to alt-tab back to Windows (which I do very frequently) and it also allows f.lux to work when gaming (for those who don't know, it's basically a blue light filter). So I was wondering is there anything I can try (besides reverting the driver) to fix this freezing problem. I would also like to ask is there anyone who has encountered a similar problem?

I just fixed it. It was the RAM. I reseated it and now it works just fine. I don't know whether it's the GPU but I read the error code for my motherboard which uses AWARD BIOS. It said continuous beep is for RAM, so I guess it checks out? I'm currently running some benchmarks and tests to see if everything is okay.

Just checked with a speaker. It is beeping continuously, until shut off. Then starts back on, repeats. Checked with both RAM plugged in and off, same result.

Cotton swabs and napkins. Compressed air is expensive where I live. I have done this several other times with no problems in my system, until now.

Hi All. Today I cleaned up my PC. Removed dust and cleared the filters. I didn't remove any components from the motherboard, just some dusting that's all. After I put everything back together and plug the cables there is no signal to the monitor. The PC turns on fine, but after around 10 seconds it shuts itself off. This then keeps on repeating. I don't know what to do now. It was working just fine before I did the dusting. Can anyone give me some advice on what to do to try and get this issue resolved? My specs: Intel i5-4570 CPU, Gigabyte Sniper B5 Motherboard, 8 GB RAM, RX 480 GPU, 1x SSD, 1x HDD

Hi all. The Graphics card I am currently using is the Radeon RX 480. Will there be any noticeable gaming performance moving up from haswell i5 4570 to a Skylake i5 6500 with this GPU? If it does, then is the upgrade worth it? I have heard that the RAM speeds does seem to make quite the difference too. (I currently have dual channel DDR3 running at 1600MHz).

Title. Got my brand new RX 480, so I'm currently looking for a decent but affordable 1440p FreeSync monitor. Any recommendations?