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To be honest, some of the things you talked about are way above my head. My headphones are just plogged directly into my sound card. I tried the onboard audio, still no change,if anything it seems louder with the onboard audio. It's most noticeble in loading screens, when everything is quiet and the CPU is working hard, kind of reminds me of the noises HDD use to make when seeking for data. My PSU has started to have what I percieve to be coil whine for a few months now and it's gotten louder and louder. I think I will have to replace it anyway. I am trying to avoid spending a lot of money on new sound card / external DAC/AMP and on a new PSU...

- I have not tried the onboard audio, I will try - I am plugged directly in the soundcard, I am not using the front panel audio. - I don't know about the grounding on the socket but as far as I know all the plugs in my country are grounded by law and I recently moved to a new apartment and nothing changed, the same buzzing noise.

Hello everybody, I am having very strange whinning / static sound in my headphones, the behaviour is the following: - When on the desktop, with the headphones plugged in, no noise at all. As soon as I do something, especially something CPU / GPU intensive, a lot of static starts to be heard, and it varies up and down as the load on the CPU / GPU gose up and down. - In games, if there are quiet segments, it even louder, I assume it is because of high load on both CPU and GPU. I know it sounds strange but I feel that the whine is corelated ot the activity LED in my case, when it starts to blink, the whine seems to follow the same pattern. I have the following setup: - An Asus Phoebus Solo sound card (the model that requires a 6pin PIC-e power connector) - Sennheiser HD 598, HD 380PRO and Fioo FD1 earbuds, same behaviour with all of them so I don't think it is a headphones issue. - A Corsair RM650x power supply - I think that currently my setup is pushing the limits of this power supply (i5 11600K and RTX 3060Ti) because both my CPU and GPU are overclocked and watercooled in a custom loop. In heavy loads, the PSU has a very heavy and audible whine. Could the PSU whine corelate to the static / whine I hear I hear in my headphones? The dedicated sound card should have filters to block this kind of thing, as far as I am aware. Basically, I don't know if I should buy a new and more powerful PSU or I should get an external DAC/AMP. I don't have that much money and I am afraid to spend it and then find out the problem has not been fixed. Could somebody please help me with this ? Thanks!

It's stupid question time! Anybody here have a picture of the PCB layout of the Gainward RTX 3060 Ti Ghost OC? Or maybe somebody took one apart and has some pictures of the PCB... As far as I can tell the card is identical to the Palit RTX 3060Ti. I am asking because I am looking for a waterblock for it, and nobody seems to make one but I am hoping that the PCB is the same as another card or maybe the same to the founder RTX 3060Ti. Unfortunately I can't take mine apart since I'll lose the warranty and I only want to do that if I know I have a waterblock for it. I was unable to find any disassembly of this particular model.

I think I got it. 2 final questions: - About cabling everything up: after I get the access point, I should connect it to my existing main router, using one of the available ports I currently use to connect my PCs, correct? My router has 4, I only use 2 right now. - Regarding the hardware, I was looking at something like the Dlink DAP 2610 dual band, this costs about 100 EURO where I live, and that would be as much as I would spend. Got any other suggestions? I would prefer new. Amazon is an option but local vendors are faster and usually have good stock.

Thanks for the explanation. If I find a way to run an extra cable, and get a second router, is there a way to "merge" the 2 wifi networks. The idea is that If I invest extra effort and money into the problem, I don't want to have 2 wifi networks like now, I want just one network for my entire apartment. I don't know if this is possible, to my understanding this is how mesh networks work. If you could offer me a solution for this, I would be grateful.

Thaks for the reply. 1. You are correct, It's a Dlink 1600 series. 2. I've attached several results. You'll notice a high access time for one site, like a stutter, exactly what I am getting in regular use. Also, mine is the only 5GHZ network available. 3. Attached, my robot cleaner map helped :) 4. I do not, unfortunetly.

Hello all, 2 things I want to say before I start this post: - I have 0 knowledge about networking stuff although I know a bit about other PC related aspects. - This post will be a bit long The current problem: I have a "long" apartment, my wifi router(Dlink DIR 878)is near my PC, in one corner of the apartment, the signal dose not reach the other corner of the apartment (1 bar of signal or less). I got a range extender from Dlink but the results are quite poor. I am facing several problems with this setup: - I have 2 wireless networks: Main Wifi and Extended Wifi and I have to manually switch between them, quite annoying - The Extended wifi seems to have this strange lag, sometimes is seems I am connected to the Internet but no data in getting through, a Youtube video, for example is stuck in an infinite loading loop. If I turn wifi off and on on the mobile devices, it works great. - My wireless devices are getting "stuck" on the range extended even when I am near the main wifi router, which has a stronger signal, so again I have to switch between them manually - Since I installed the Range Extender, the main router has a strange error, sometimes all mobile devices report "Network access denied" on the main wifi router. Sometimes waiting 1-2 mins fixes this, other times I have to restart it. The cable connection is working great, no lag, no drops. Speed I have: - Cable connection: 1 Gigabit down, 750 Mbps up, tested and working fine - 2 PCs connected by cable - Main wifi: 550 Mbps down, 550 Mbps up, which I think is also fine - 4/5 wireless devices at any one time - Extended wifi: 130 Mbps down, 110 Mbps up - 3/4 wireless devices at any one time, this seems a bit low to me, download speed on the mobile devices suffers a bit. I don't know if my problems are hardware related, I am willing to buy new router/extender but the current setup is not working at all. I was thinking of betting a wired only router for my 2 PCs and a mesh setup for the rest of the house. 2 problems here: - no idea what router / mesh hardware to go for - no idea how to set up a mesh or even is if a mesh would be the solution for me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Please, I need help finding a case for my watercooling build, has to meet the following requirements: - must fit a 360 rad (45-50mm) + standard fans in the top (or side). It will be used as an exhaust. - must fit a 240 rad (45-50mm) + standard fans in the front / bottom, - must fit a 30cm long GPU and not come in conflict with the front rad. - would be really nice if I could fit a rad between above mentioned long GPU and front rad. The new Fractal Design 7 XL fits these requirements (and I love it) but it is kind of expensive, so I need to find one that meets the above requirements but also is a bit cheaper than the Fractal 7 XL. Thanks!

Obviously the D15 was on the CPU. Unfortunetly I don't know how to check my flow, I don't have a flow meter in my loop yet. I don't see any bubbles, no matter how long or hard I use the computer. Was afraid people would say deliding the CPU...

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Hello everybody, This will be a very long post but I am facing some very strange results from my watercooling loop. This is my first watercooling loop so I am just going to show you the data I gathered and please tell me if you see anything wrong. My main issue is that I am seeing very underwhelming cooling performance for my CPU while my GPU has quite good results. My Setup: CPU: Intel i5 8600K Mobo: MSI Z370 Krait Gaming RAM: 16 GB DDR4 3000 MHZ G.Skill Dual Channel GPU: Asus RX Vega 56 Strix Gaming OC Sound card: Asus Xonar Strix Soar SSD: Samsung 960 PRO, Intel 545s, Intel 660p (all M.2) Case: Cooler Master Mastercase Pro 5 Fans: 6X Noctua NF-F12 chromax PSU: Corsair RM650X Watercooling components: - CPU Block: EK Supremacy MX, used with Noctua thermal paste (new tube) - GPU Block: EK-FC Radeon Vega Strix – Nickel, used with Noctua thermal paste and Thermal Grizzly pads - Rads: EK-Coolstream SE 240 & EK-Coolstream Classic PE 360 - Pump combo: EK-XRES 100 Revo D5 PWM - Tubes: EK-Duraclear 9.5/12.7 - Coolant: EK-Cryofuel Clear - Fittings: various EK-ACF 10/13mm Please see below the temps I recorded (all after 15 mins full stress test on CPU & GPU, in 25C ambient): Stock CPU + Stock GPU: - Fans @ 40% & Pump @ 40%: CPU - 75; GPU - 50 - Fans @ 100% & Pump @ 40%: CPU - 66; GPU - 41 - Fans @ 100% & Pump @ 100%: CPU - 66; GPU - 38 5Ghz OC CPU + Stock GPU: - Fans @ 40% & Pump @ 40%: CPU - 80; GPU - 52 - Fans @ 100% & Pump @ 40%: CPU - 75; GPU - 38 - Fans @ 100% & Pump @ 100%: CPU - 75; GPU - 38 For reference, while I was using air cooling, the 5 Ghz OC CPU temp was 80C using Noctua NH-D15 with 3X 140mm fans. Also, for my Strix GPU, max air cooled temp was 81C. Idle temps are 33C for the CPU and 28C for the GPU. 2 thing I find really strange: - The difference between the OC temps on the Noctua NH-D14 and the watercooling loop is very small, was really expecting a big difference. Is is even stranger since the GPU lost 35-40 degrees going from air to watercooling. - In the same loop, I observe a 25C difference between CPU & GPU, this dose not seem normal to me I’ve done the classic troubleshooting steps: - Removing the CPU block and making sure I have good contact and good spreading of the thermal paste - Only using a pee size ball of thermal paste in the middle of the CPU - Removing all air pockets from the loop - I even changed coolant, thinking I had a bad batch I don't have a temperature sensor for the cooling liquid but I can confirm that the tubes are hot to the touch under full stress tests, no idea if it is normal and the 3 exhaust fans are absolutely vomiting hot air thought the top and back! Please tell me if I am doing something wrong or if I am interpreting the data incorrectly. I know the GPU is in a X8 slot but from my testing and the results I found online, I can find no difference in performance for my GPU (same FPS in games, same results in benchmarks). Thanks! P.S.: sorry for the shit photos, literally took them at night with the phone under the desk.

Thanks everybody for the input. I've made up my mind about the hardware. Just one question remains: the monitornin my initial post looks great for gaming but will is be enough for photo editing? I saw that is has a 72% RGB coverage. I am not a pro photographer, just a enthusiast.

Well Ryzen would require a Mobo change and I really can't fit that in to my budget right now.

Hello everybody, this is my first post in the forum and I really need some opinions. I have the system below: Mobo: Asrock Z170 Extreme 6+ CPU: Intel i5 6600K @ 4.2 Ghz GPU: Gainward GTX 970 Phantom Ram: 16 GB 2400Mhz DDR4 Storage: 1 HyperX 240Gb SATA 3 SSD + 1 WD Black 500GB Cooling: NH-D14 ( I keep the fans on 500Rpm, silence is top priority for me. Temps are ok, with that moderate OC. If I push to 4.4, I have to spin up the fans and I don't want more noise) Case: Cooler Master Mastercase 5 pro PUS: Corsair RM 650X Sound Card: Asus Phoebus Monitors: Benq GL2450 (primary) and Samsung SyncMaster 2243 (secondary) I use my PC for the following: 50% Games 30% Photo editing 10% Video editing 10% Music - only through decent headphones I want to upgrade next month and I was thinking of the following: - Monitor: really need to change the main one or both of them. They are terrible for photo work. Was thinking of replacing both with a LG Gaming 34UC79G 144hz Freesync (2560/1080) or replace just the main one with a Asus Gaming MG279Q 144hz Freesync (2560/1440) - GPU: Another hard decisions, I am split between getting a GTX 1070 or a couple of GTX 1060 for some SLI fun. Would a 3GB card be enough for the higher resolutions of those monitors? - Storage: I don't need huge GB of storage so for me speed is important and I want to get rid of all those sata data/power cables. So for the OS: a Plextor M8Pe 256 GB PCI-E (addin card) and for storage a WD Blue 1TB M.2 SSD. That is about it. All those upgrades will be a big effort and I want to get as much as I can since for the next 2 years, I won't be upgrading. Thank you!