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You could've overloaded that single RGB out on your mobo and killed it. Try connecting only a single fan and see how it glows.

18 minutes ago, BlackCastle said:

As the title suggests, I want to remove the cooler 3+ years since I built my new PC. I recently bought a Ryzen 7 5700x and Deepcool AK620. Today I fired up AIDA64 and started the stress test for 5 mins. The temperature reached up to 90 degrees Celcius. And it started to go up and down. Since there is a chance of the cooler getting stuck to the CPU, I had the stress test performed beforehand to avoid that. After the test, I shut off my system and pulled the latch up. Then pushed down the cooler and bit to disconnect the latch from the motherboard bracket on both sides of the cooler. Then I tried to wiggle it clockwise and counter clockwise. But it won't budge even a little bit. It felt like the paste was stuck like crazy. In this case, what do I do? Like, do I need to run the stress test for a longer time to soften the paste? I saw YT vids where they got the cooler removed pretty easily with this method. I think I am doing something wrong here. Please point it out. The cooler was hard stuck that I was afraid I might pull out the CPU with it, so in order to avoid damaging it, I put everything back how it was. I haven't changed thermal paste in 3+ years.

 

I don't recommend this, but from my experience of removing box AM4 coolers, removing it with the CPU was easier. In my case CPUs survived each time.

Hi all

So I got myself thinking of an issue I never had before. Currently I'm running on a 5-year-old EVGA 750W GQ 80+ Gold. It has been to hell and back with me, powering multiple systems across ages, everything from Ryzen 1600x + RX480 to my current build with Ryzen 7 7800X3D + 7900XTX. Previously it powered overclocked 9900k and RTX 3090. Basically, it stuck with me from my "poor college bloke" ages to "I can finally afford the real deal PC" time.

So far there are no issues, PC runs flawlessly under heavy loads, but I do have a feeling that it's a good time to retire this unit. Do you have a story of long PSU service life?

Also, what would be a good replacement? EVGA is going through some weird times right now, so I think I would prefer something a little more concrete in terms of warranty. be quiet or Seasonic maybe? Give me your recommendations for 850W units.

Hi all

So I (or my rather my father) came across this problem.

He bought this fancy Netgear Nighthawk router for whatever reason...

Anyway, he is on n 1Gbit internet (Virgin Media, Ireland) and this router throttles their connection like crazy.

I have no experience with such routers, but he asked me to come and try looking at it since my dad also has no idea what to do.

They have 3 PCs connected to with cable + phones and tablets on wifi. With their old router they had normal 100+MB/s down speed. Now with this new one they have less than 20MB/s download AND it throttles the connection so much, nobody can play or watch anything if 1 person is streaming 4k or downloading something at mere 15-20MB/s.

Any ideas/suggestions/tips as to what I should be looking for? Tomorrow I'm going to his house to see what is going on, so might post screenshots of settings. But would be nice to have some heads-up on what I should be looking for. 

1 hour ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Dell's product page says 1080p 240hz

 

https://www.dell.com/il/en/p/dell-s2522hg-monitor/pd

1 hour ago, Andrewtst said:

Always trust spec from official site.

 

This model is 1080p - Dell 25 Gaming Monitor - S2522HG | Dell Malaysia

Now buy from local seller and sue them for false advertisement.

Have you checked FPS limiter / VSync?

MSI Afterburner is pretty much classic of monitoring your hardware during gaming. 

AMD Adrenaline also works nicely to monitor CPU / GPU / RAM loads and temps as well as FPS and other stats. If you don't want to run yet another program in the background, just use Adrenaline.

HWiNFO is used for synthetic benchmarking as its more precise and gives a lot more details.

I would run 3DMark Timespy to stress test the system and see what kind of temperatures you're getting.  Might adjust fan curves if needed.

Do you have m.2 drives plugged in on the board?

I have B650E-E and if I remember correctly from the manual, it said something about PCEx16 being limited to x8 when certain M.2 is occupied. Maybe in case of your motherboard the x1 slot gets disabled if M.2 is plugged in.

33 minutes ago, BigPapaGB said:

yeah whats weird is this didnt become an issue until 2 days ago when i swapped out the motherboard for a new cpu and ram, im assuming it has to be the motheboard cause there were no issues with the gpu or DP before i swapped the MB i have a replacement MB coming in today to see if its possibly the cmos battery but still im confused as to why it would start when i switched from pcie3.0 to 5.0

My issue arose when I upgraded from 3090 to 7900xtx. From what I've been able to gather, it's due to newer DP standard on the AMD 7000 GPUs.

Some things in custom PC building world are wild to think about. 

I've had same issue when I purchased 7900XTX. My PC refused to post with DP cable plugged in and monitor off. I found this reddit post that suggested to cover one of the DP cable pins. Have a read for yourself.  It fixed my issue.

EDIT: I have same problem, monitor backlight would come on but I got no image and no post.

11 minutes ago, JurajD said:

Oh really. Just plug and play? wasn't there an issue with the 7800x3d frying up unless you update the bios? if you don't mind saying which board this is.

I contacted the seller regarding the Bios version of the motherboard (Its Asus ROG Strix B650E-E WiFi by the way) and they said all of their Asus boards have updated Bios that won't fry your chip.

So you might want to contact the seller for clarification.

Other than that it's a high-quality B650 board with all bells and whistles you might need to build a top-tier gaming rig on. Even has the Q-Code screen for easy troubleshooting. A feature I've only seen on top tier overclocking boards, not a high end of mid-range board.

You can find bad reviews about every single motherboard online. Its just how things are. 

A couple of weeks ago I upgraded to Asus B650E-E platform with 7800X3D. No Bios update was required, no problems at all so far. I've even tried some overclocking and it worked fine.

Speaking of Bios update, you can do it without the CPU. All you need is a motherboard, a USB stick and a power supply. Alot of modern boards have Quick Flash allowing you to update the Bios with nothing on the board.

Since 7800X3D is so efficient, you don't need a board with some insane power delivery or overclocking capabilities. It does everything on its own. Overclocks to 5Ghz nad only consumes 60-70W of power.

1 minute ago, HanZie82 said:

Sorry to burst your bubble, but yeah for us Dutch thats really not worth it.
Pricing is about 10%-20% higher and THEN there's also an increase in shipping cost.

Is it some kind of national dispute between countries or am I missing something?

Caseking.de 

I get all of my parts from them after Brexit. They have pretty much everything you would ever need from low end to high end parts to build your next dream setup. 

I'm located in Ireland if that matters. My last order was delivered in just 2 days from Germany.

So after spending a couple of days educating myself on how PBO and Ryzen overclocking works, then finding out my Asus B650 has a special sauce mode that allows you to overclock this puppy to 5.4Ghz, I did eventually play around with it.

To my disappointment and amazement, overclocking didn't produce any meaningful results. This chip is already an efficiency champion. In CPU-heavy games like BF2042 with 128 players on tight maps, this thing sips 55-60W while boosting itself accordingly up to 5Ghz. Compared to my 9900k that chugged over 200W at 5Ghz, this looks like magic.

I could play around more and try doing something naughty to it, but I decided not to. The performance is there and I can't ask any more from it. As for the stability, well it works.  Playing games at 4k 120FPS on max settings while having Edge open with multiple tabs in the background for youtube music, talking in Discord, and recording everything using AMD ReLive with settings cranked. With all that my system quietly cruising along with GPU staying at 70c and CPU 55c and RAM usage +/- 15GB

I also use RAM as a buffer memory for AMD ReLive so that I can save the last X amount of seconds/minutes of my gameplay instead of constantly recording or ruining my NAND SSD by re-writing buffered footage

So from whatever I did with this setup, currently it is working flawlessly.

On 6/14/2023 at 4:43 PM, MaverickPT said:

Cool! Let us know your findings if you don't mind! 

 

So after spending a couple of days educating myself on how PBO and Ryzen overclocking works, then finding out my Asus B650 has a special sauce mode that allows you to overclock this puppy to 5.4Ghz, I did eventually play around with it.

To my disappointment and amazement, overclocking didn't produce any meaningful results. This chip is already an efficiency champion. In CPU-heavy games like BF2042 with 128 players on tight maps, this thing sips 55-60W while boosting itself accordingly up to 5Ghz. Compared to my 9900k that chugged over 200W at 5Ghz, this looks like magic.

I could play around more and try doing something naughty to it, but I decided not to. The performance is there and I can't ask any more from it. As for the stability, well it works.  Playing games at 4k 120FPS on max settings while having Edge open with multiple tabs in the background for youtube music, talking in Discord, and recording everything using AMD ReLive with settings cranked. With all that my system quietly cruising along with GPU staying at 70c and CPU 55c and RAM usage +/- 15GB

I also use RAM as a buffer memory for AMD ReLive so that I can save the last X amount of seconds/minutes of my gameplay instead of constantly recording or ruining my NAND SSD by re-writing buffered footage

So from whatever I did with this setup, currently it is working flawlessly.

On 6/14/2023 at 4:43 PM, MaverickPT said:

Cool! Let us know your findings if you don't mind! 

 

So after spending a couple of days educating myself on how PBO and Ryzen overclocking works, then finding out my Asus B650 has a special sauce mode that allows you to overclock this puppy to 5.4Ghz, I did eventually play around with it.

To my disappointment and amazement, overclocking didn't produce any meaningful results. This chip is already an efficiency champion. In CPU-heavy games like BF2042 with 128 players on tight maps, this thing sips 55-60W while boosting itself accordingly up to 5Ghz. Compared to my 9900k that chugged over 200W at 5Ghz, this looks like magic.

I could play around more and try doing something naughty to it, but I decided not to. The performance is there and I can't ask any more from it. As for the stability, well it works.  Playing games at 4k 120FPS on max settings while having Edge open with multiple tabs in the background for youtube music, talking in Discord, and recording everything using AMD ReLive with settings cranked. With all that my system quietly cruising along with GPU staying at 70c and CPU 55c and RAM usage +/- 15GB

I also use RAM as a buffer memory for AMD ReLive so that I can save the last X amount of seconds/minutes of my gameplay instead of constantly recording or ruining my NAND SSD by re-writing buffered footage

So from whatever I did with this setup, currently it is working flawlessly.

After many different builds with different coolers, I've accumulated large amount of different thermal paste. Cryorig, be quite, thermal grizzly, Corsair etc.

Question is - is it still good after 3-5 years of sitting in my drawer, sealed in it's tube?

I will be doing a build upgrade for a friend next week, and not sure if I can use some of my stuff. Thermal Grizzly Cryonaut I've had for less than 2 years, so that should be good still. 

"Bottleneck" means your components are not balanced. Pairing a powerful GPU with a slow CPU means your GPU will get bottlenecked and won't be able to push itself to 100% because CPU is holding it back.

That said, 5600x should pair nicely with RTX4070

As @Somerandomtechyboi said, you can try fishing for some good deal on a used card. 6900xt / 6950xt can be found for a great price. If you can find a good deal on 3080/3090, even better.

As someone who used Nvidia through the 1000, 2000, and 3000 generations, switching to AMD 7900XTX after RTX3090 was a pleasant experience. Adrenaline extremely similar to Shadowplay. If you want to record gameplay, make screenshots or have instant replay to record last X seconds of your gameplay at whatever resolution/bitrate you want, its all there too.

On top of that it has quite powerful built in OC tool, standard for AMD CPUs and GPUs.

1 minute ago, paquarri said:

its not that because when i open an application the line goes away, its only there when im on the home screen

Have you tried changing the wallpaper?

Looks like a cooked panel to me. Have you tried applying a slight pressure with your finger along to line to see if it would do anything?

I hope smaller forums would pop up and take the place of giant ones. Small communities that are focused on a specific subject are way more enjoyable and helpful. 

Reddit was just an absolute nightmare with dramas, arguments, and an overall poopstorm.

17 minutes ago, Misinthe said:

Hello everyone, I am about to purchase the Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro 80 Ohm and the Schiit Fulla E DAC/AMP. Now I would like to see what are good Microphone recommendations for the Fulla to complete this setup. Thanks in advance!

Don't really know what your budget or preferences.

Personally, I use Maono PM422. I bought it when invested in good quality audio setup with Audio Technica ATH-R70X and Fiio K5 Pro.

It's a solid USB condenser mic for 100 euros. Come with a good desk arm and pop/wind filters. Totally overkill for online gaming, and really high quality if you want to record voiceovers.

PM422 Professional Podcast USB Microphone | MAONO

3 minutes ago, Vishera said:

6950:

I would go for the 6950.

7900: