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Hey fellas, Just picked up a MSI RTX 2060 SUPER VENTUS GP OC for cheap!!! Card is super clean, still had all the rubber output connector plugs, box w/ documentation, anti static, etc... Only paid $130 locally on Fb... From the brief conversation I had with the seller, I'm pretty certain the card was used for mining... **** MAIN ISSUE / QUESTION **** I ran a benchmark using MSI Kombuster in order to verify temps, and that the clock speeds were boosting to where they should be, etc... Its boosting all the way up to 1950mhz and will stay there for quite a while before dropping down to 1800/1750mhz... Which is fair bit higher then the cards factory rating... The spec sheet shows a boost clock of 1665mhz. I then checked the bios version on the card and GPUz shows version: 90.06.4c.00.65 Upon searching on Techpowerup for the card model and that bios version is says that "Warning: You are viewing an unverified BIOS file." Does this mean that, that bios version is not stock and is a modified bios in order to boost the cards specs? ******* Normally I would be thrilled and not mined at all that the card is "Over clocked" and running as fast as possible! But I purchased this card to upgrade my daughters gaming pc I Built her a few years back. So because of that I want the card to be stable as possible without having to monitor it or even think about it at all. In just a few minutes I'm going to clean and replace the thermal compound and run the card though a long stress test and monitor the temps. I'm thinking that as long as the temps stay below 90c and is boosting to at least the stock 1665mhz, then it should be perfectly fine. I'll make sure to set a decent fan curve when I install it in her tower. ***** Sorry for the long elaborate post. Just want to make sure I gave all the details, etc... Thanks for your help!!!

I will give it a shot! Easy fix... I've never had a bad CMOS battery cause a pc not to boot, but now that you mentioned it I have heard that before.

Toshiba Satellite C55 (Quick Overview) Laptop stuck at BIOS splash screen Even when booting from USB Still can get into bios and boot menu In the boot menu it does detect the USB & SSD But weather I select the SSD or USB it just freezes Tried resetting bios defaults While in the BIOS it does show/detect the correct HDD and Memory info (the bios is very limited. Only has very basic settings) (More Details) I've got a older Toshiba Satellite C55 that was working fine until today... I had it in storage and today I put a SSD in it that already had a OS on it. When I first turned it on it said that the CMOS battery was dead so I went into the bios and manually set the time and date and when it rebooted it's now stuck at the bios splash screen. I can still get into the bios and the boot menu. I tried to boot from a USB and it's still just stuck at the splash screen. In the boot menu it does show the USB drive and the SSD, but if I select either of them it just freezes. ANY IDEAS?

1st I completely understand that using 2 Wi-Fi extenders is a bad idea and will severely limit my connection speed. But unfortunately that is the only option I have at the moment... I spent quite a lot of time looking on Google how to correctly set the settings in each extender so they work correctly. I found tons of people asking the same question but no answers to those questions on how to do it, just people's opinions saying not to do it... When I just use one extender everything works just fine but when I daisy chain them and connect one extender to another I can connect to the network but have no internet. I'm fairly certain it has something to do with IP addresses, correct? I'm assuming I need to set a static IP or something similar but I'm not quite sure which settings have to be on which extender... If someone could please advise me on how to properly set this up it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks again! ***I'm looking into ordering a good outdoor range extender and hopefully that will do the job instead of having to do this. But for now this is the only option I have.

hey fella'z i just realized on my laptop with a rather fresh install of windows 11 that task manager shows that the "Desktop Window Manager" process is using any where from 2.2GB - 3GB of ram... This is just sitting on the desktop with no programs running and nothing in the task bar. THIS CANT BE NORMAL... I found online that the "Desktop Window Manager" should only use around 100mb normally. So 3GB is EXTREMELY HIGH. I did a little research and tried the recommended fixes suggested on many different sites. Updated GPU drivers Restart Explorer Check performance Options Tried disabling fast startup (didnt help) Any Ideas?

Hey @Thaldor Thanks for the detailed info. When I checked the refresh rate was set to 30 and I tried to bump it up to 60 but it made no difference so I sent it back to 30. Now when the PC first boots up and displays the MSI gaming splash screen the TV shows that it's displaying at 1080p. Until Windows boots and then it switches to 4K. I'm not home at the moment to see if lowering your resolution will help. I also tried turning off HDR and windows itself and it made no difference but when I turn HDR off in the TV settings the problem still exists but the colors change. So instead of being all red it's all blue or vice versa.... Also in the Nvidia control panel the color output was set to ycbcr420 and would not let me change it. I believe when I lowered the refresh rate back to 30 it then let me select RGB color output. But didn't fix the issue either... I'm at the store now trying to purchase a HDMI 2.1 cable. It seems like there might be a setting on the TV that needs to be changed since the colors are messed up when the PC is booting before it gets the windows.

I just replaced a small tv I've been using as a monitor with a new 4k vizio and now all the colors are strange... First I thought it was an issue with some settings and windows but after trying everything I could think of when I rebooted my PC even my BIOS boot screen is showing the same issue.... WTF? I've been using TVs as a computer monitor for a very long time and I've never had this issue. Any ideas? I don't have a different HDMI cable on me in order to try that but the cable was just working on my other monitor and still does. I've tried going through all the settings on the TV and nothing helps. I've got it set to PC mode also

I've always been frustrated when looking for NVIDIA gpus and Intel CPUs! For that reason alone I am an AMD fanboy! Unfortunately though I use my gpus for everything but gaming so I usually have to stick with Nvidia gpus for Adobe, etc... I was just looking to see what's available on sale and it's totally impossible to just look at a GPU model and know if it's better or worse than any other one! For instance a GTX 1080 scores at least 120% higher in all major categories versus a GTX 1650.... can someone explain how that's supposed to make sense?

Oh that's right I remember reading that you cannot run dual Channel with 1 or 3 sticks

Edited Yeah I think you're right. I don't think in my usage case I would benefit a whole lot from Dual Channel. I think I'm leaning towards having more memory total would be more beneficial. And I was thinking since I'll have so much more memory than I'm used to.... no I'm not exactly sure if I'm correct with what I'm thinking but couldn't I use a bunch of my new memory as a ramdisk somehow for Adobe caching or something like that so while using After Effects it'll be a little faster?

Hey fellaz, Was wondering if i would be better off running less memory in dual channel or more in single channel? I have a Ryzen 3 2200g, Asrock ab350 pro4, GTX 650Ti. I don't play any games. Mainly use it for internet with lots of chrome tabs open, Photoshop, After Effects, and creating animations. I currently have 8gb Installed but just picked up 2 identical sticks of Samsung 8gb... I was just looking at ASRock website for memory slot installation but not exactly sure what I'm looking at. I know all three sticks that I have now are single rank 1Rx8. I also know that the two sticks I just bought are not a set and are not guaranteed to work in dual-channel but since they are identical sticks bought at the same time i think the chances of them working in dual-channel are probably good. I'm kind of an old school PC guy never actually ran memory in dual Channel and not sure in my day-to-day usage if I would be better off with less memory running faster or in dual-channel then more memory in single Channel... Thx guy's

Hey fellaz I'm trying to figure out a way to keep my main system free of any malicious software or viruses. I play a lot of downloaded games and watch a lot of downloaded movies. Am I better off using a virtual machine for my gaming and my movies or installing another operating system on a different hard drive and booting to that drive when I want to watch movies or play games. I don't know if I will have good gaming performance from my graphics card Etc through a virtual machine. And I have also read as so malicious software can tell that it's in a virtual machine and get out of it into the main system. You guys have any ideas on the best solution for my problem? Besides not playing downloaded games and movies

Wow this really started a topic... Lol I have a Asus A68HM-K mobo. Doesn't come with a rear IO cover. I was hoping maybe they made after market ones for atx, matx, itx boards......

He fellas I'm looking to buy a rear IO Shield or cover I just a new pc in a thermaltake P1 case and my motherboard does not have a decorative cover over the rear IO and I'm assuming that they would sell them aftermarket but I could not seem to find any. Any suggestions?

Well just to let you guys know I ended up going with an RX 460. Ended up paying $90 total. It's paired with an AMD 860k with 8 gigabytes of DDR3. I have been able to play all modern games Doom Battlefield 1 Assassin's Creed Call of Duty Crysis 3... all on ultra-high settings and with completely playable frame rates usually in the 60's to 70's. Some games like Need for Speed multiple different titles the frame rates are in the high 100 to 200's. I'm so happy I chose a gigabyte Rx 460 w/ 2gb ram. I am using Sapphire trixx to overclock it to 1300 megahertz and the card never goes above 60 degrees Celsius with stock cooler

Just wanted to give an update on the situation. Find out it was Windows update problem. After a clean install of Windows everything works fine. After each install of Windows I did that day or the next day it didn't automatic update and I've noticed that's as soon as the problems start so I spoke to Microsoft tech support they had took over my computer 4 different times. keep in mind I did this with 4 different guys and everything they did, did not work so finally the last guy I spoke to told me unofficially go in to services and disable Windows updates.. That did the trick. But now my question is do I disable Windows updates forever or do I turn them back on at some point what's your guy's opinion? If I wait a month or two and turn it back on I should be able to install the update without a problem I'm assuming because it will be a different set of updates if that makes sense or a different Windows built #

By the way my operating system is installed on a SSD in case that's important You know I have a spare same brand same size SSD installed in the system maybe I will try to install Windows on that drive and see if the problem persists what do you guys think See the lines of the windows as I try to move it

I just undid overclock and make sure Sapphire trixx does not run startup. I restarted my computer same problem

I will do that now. Thx Any other ideas? Should I be scanning every Drive thoroughly with malwarebytes or with some type of anti virus scan

Hey fellaz, I just upgraded my build into a new case and added a new graphics card and aio cooler. A couple days ago I noticed my PC being very sluggish and also another thing that I've noticed is on the start bar when I click on the show hidden icons button it pops up blank with no icons in it and if I do this 5 or 10 times maybe eventually it'll work like it should. Now by sluggish I mean for instance I go to format a drive when I try to write in the name of the volume, 1 letter will pop up every 10 seconds that I typed. As well as if I try to drag that window around it's just a blurry mess of lines. So yesterday I formatted the hard drive and reinstall Windows 10 I also installed the drivers for my new rx460, also installed Avast and I took some of my games from my other hard drives and put there icons onto desktop. The next day now the PC is still experiencing the same issues as it was before I reinstalled windows! , and if I check CPU usage it's always low. Maybe 10% Any ideas guys it's such a pain in the ass to keep reinstalling Windows to hope that that will fix it Any type of Diagnostics tools or processes I could do to try to narrow it down By the way I used Sapphire trixx to overclock my new rx460 which seems to be running perfectly stable in games and temperature... could this maybe be the problem? AMD 860k Asus mobo 8gb ddr3 Gigabyte rx460 2gb Windows 10 x64

That's exactly what I did. And it works. There is tons of information online about the occluded PCI Riser cables being bad and having to get replacements you would think after a couple years and thermaltake would fix it I mean that's really the whole point behind this case is to Showcase your graphics card it's just odd how the older HD 5850 works with the Riser cable but not the rx460 already got in touch with thermaltake and filled out their application to receive a new one can anyone suggest a decent priced one online

Hey Just built a new system inside of a thermaltake core P3 I am using the pci Riser cable so I can mount my video card vertically I have the new rx460 installed and when I turn on the system my TV says no signal so I swapped it out for my old video card and it works fine I'm thinking it's the video card not to PCi extension cable what do you think it is very difficult to install the graphics card into the motherboard without the Riser cable because of the way this case is built I would have to disassemble a whole bunch of it to get the graphics card into the PCI slot on the motherboard so I was hoping we couldn't narrow it down without doing that By the way the fans spin up on the Rx 460 just my TV says no signal like I like I said it works fine with my old video card but not with the new rx460 I am using HDMI out to my television

My max budget is the cheapest option available. I mean I now I can spend a $100 and get a 460 but I know I do t need that much power.. I just want to be able to run games a medium to low settings

Hey fellaz I have a AMD 860k with 8gb ddr3. Looking to play modern games and playable frame rates. I found a new R7 240 for $49 from Newegg. With this card work for me? Like I said I'm just trying to play games at 30 + fps. Nothing fancy Thanks guys