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  1. didn't seem to be either... updated op.
  2. no weird noises, fans still run, no flames. They stopped displaying an image, but they do display on startup with artifacting but go black before windows can start up fully. If I completely uninstall all nvidia drivers it will display enough to get into windows with heavy artifacting.
  3. The worry is that perhaps another component is causing the issue that is causing GPU's to fail.
  4. My kids computer has had two GPU's fail on her in the last year. They were very old cards that used to be mine, a GTX 580 and a GTX 780. She wants to spend her money on a new GPU (RTX 2060) but I'm a little worried that maybe it isn't the age of the cards that caused them to fail? How can I make sure she isn't going to fry a new card if she puts it in there? Her other parts currently are: Asus Maximus IV Gene-z i5-2500k 32gb dominator platinum DDR3 EVGA supernova 750W PSU Update: She went ahead and got the rtx 2060. I bought her a rm750x just to be on the safe side. less than a month and the 2060 stops displaying after bios splash screen. I'm just gonna build her out a new system to be safe and it was less than a month so sending the 2060 back to amazon for a replacement... I'm really curious what could be causing this at this point though.
  5. Okay... I Should have followed the golden rule... I just simply restarted the computer in the test room and it is getting proper speeds now. I will write out my 100 "did you try turning it off and on again" lines as punishment.
  6. I don't know much about networking but google says a switch shouldn't interfere as long as it is up to spec. But it for sure is. I upgraded from DSL to fiber recently. I have a network box in my apartment but the rooms I want wired didn't have ports in them so I never bothered wiring my whole apartment. The installer informed me while he was here that these apartments tend to have the network outlet hidden behind the coaxial outlet plates... he pulled one open and it was fully wired inside there. I'm hyped to get my whole house wired up but I don't really want to move my modem to where the network box is (will be bad for wireless connectivity) so I had him rig up a phone line in the room with the router to run data instead and then ran a cord from the router to the previously hidden ethernet so I can then run it from the network box to a switch and run the whole house from the switch. Sorry if this is hard to follow... I was doing testing and it ran perfect with just a jumper from one room to the next in the networking box but as soon as I hooked a switch up and tested the same room with only that change, that room is getting half the speed as it was and half the speed as the direct line that isn't going through the switch. The only thing introduced was the switch. All the cables are cat6, fully capable of my 200mbs and the switch is rated for 1gbs. I'm at a loss. halp
  7. That's actually my newest drive... By at least a couple years. EDIT: Nope, that's not right. My SSD is only a couple months older than it. Does that count though?
  8. Yeah, I was afraid of that. It's just games on there though. I started moving over the game I'm currently playing before making this thread. I'll just download the others when they are needed.
  9. Not sure what to do with this info... Doesn't look good though.
  10. It's a 7 year old WD black 1TB. Halfway through the day it suddenly got incredibly slow. It's my game drive, it's struggling to load up even a launcher right now and seems to be at a constant %100 usage.
  11. My office closet is full of old computer stuff I will never use...
  12. MUD03

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    I have my pc on one of those metal pole/wire shelves. They can accept wheels if that's what you want. If you only want wheels on one end the feet that come with it are adjustable so just get two wheels on one side and extend the feet out on the other.
  13. If you're paying for them I personally don't see a problem. But they are you're parents, not me. It doesn't matter what we think, your parents believe something and are trying to keep you from doing something they think is foolish. Whether they're right or not is subjective. The best you can do is try and calmly explain everything you can (and as simply as you can if they don't understand tech) and hope that they either see things your way or decide to let you make your own decisions whether they agree with them or not.
  14. My parents gave me a car that my grandparents gave to them several years earlier. Only thing was that I had to get it running again. I thought for sure it was the distributor, but my dad told me he had it and all plugs and wires changed just over a year ago. So I changed out the cam position sensor being the next most likely cause and the cheapest fix, nope. Then I moved on the the fuel pump, I didn't think it was the problem but it needed it anyways, still nope. And finally I decided it has to be the distributor and changed it with my father still insisting it couldn't be that, it was that. As soon as I had it running I went down the street to see how it was doing and stopped to fill her up after all seemed good. Turns out I had fucked up putting the fuel filter back in the tank not threading it properly and ended up with a big puddle of gas under the car. Had to drop the tank again just to unscrew and screw back on a cap... luckily the threading wasn't screwed up and it was finally working. About a year later the car dies again, same symptoms. This car is the biggest pain in the ass I have ever worked on so I take it to a mechanic because I really didn't want to change the distributor again. The guy tries to tell me the computer is fried... no, you're either an idiot or a rip off artist. This is why I don't trust mechanics. Replace the distributor myself. Find that the head gasket is leaking onto the distributor and frying the coil. So then replace all the gaskets, plugs and wires on one half of the engine (just to get to the other head gasket you have to jack the engine off it's mounts (whoever engineered this vehicle is an asshole) and all has been fine for the last 3 years. EDIT: somehow I forgot my first car... I was being an idiot and flooring a car that had no business being pushed and my transmission just cracked.
  15. I chose my mouse based on size, shape and where the extra buttons were placed. It's a Logitech G700, one from before they branded it as a gaming mouse and put stupid designs all over it. I paid 75 USD for it over 5 years ago and have been happy with it.
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