Jurrunio

Did you use DDU to uninstall the AMD video driver before installing the Nvidia video driver?

Of what budget? Or what's the minimum to not be considered "bad"? No one has a spectacularly better value CPU than the rest of the product stack if this is what you're asking about.

Steam hardware survey, Sept 2023

Did you include hidden files?

This Samsung is not the SSD, its your RAM. Maybe your SSD died prematurly? It's a 990 Pro after all https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-990-pro-firmware-update-released-ssd-health

then turn it back I don't think Window even comes with multiple power plans anymore, you'll have to create new ones yourself.

what about power plan in Nvidia control panel, it should be set to default which is something like power save, forgot the actual wording.

The option you can change in game is fps cap though? Unless you're talking about going fullscreen as well, it that case it's down to each display.

is any cable too close to some fan blades? Otherwise it's probably just pump noise, from all the tolerances of making the pump itself. You can't get a pump block to rattle by not securing it to the motherboard tight enough, your CPU temperatures will shoot up before that due to low mounting pressure.

making noise when it's working extra hard seems normal to me? Or is the sound particularly worrying, can't tell without a recording.

Preferably the top. The other slots connect to the chipset which limits bandwidth and increases latency.

If you're not using a PCIe 5 SSD, just use M2_2 LGA 1700 CPUs support up to 16 lanes of PCIe 5 and 4 lanes of PCIe 4, usually the former for a PCIe x16 slot and the latter for an M.2 slot. Therefore to provide a PCIe 5 M.2 slot, it's necessary to split what the PCIe x16 slot gets. PCIe can only split in half, so it has to be x8 + x4 rather than x12 + x4

Just like English effing with foreign speakers

So you pronounce "oscillate" without the c?

The other points do not stand. As I said, the GPU itself is more capable, just strapped with a tiny bit slower memory. Also 6GB does not make it lowest settings only, unless you go over 1080p which isnt the point of the 4050 in the first place.

it's 216GB/s on the 4050 and 224GB/s on the 3050, that little difference wont make a noticeable difference.

I don't get your reasoning. Core count stays the same between RTX 4070 and 3070, yet 4070 is faster. Not by a worth buying amount, but still. Memory bus width got cut, but the modules themselves run at 18Gbps rather than 3050's 14Gbps so the bandwidth is only 4% slower on the 4050, basically negligible. So how could you tell 4050 is going to be way slower than a 3050?

you could suspend zip ties or even metal wires from the top to the CPU cooler if you would like to add some support for it

PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bk7JMV CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 4.5 GHz 16-Core Processor ($598.99 @ Amazon) CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler ($34.90 @ Amazon) Motherboard: Gigabyte B650M AORUS ELITE AX Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard ($189.99 @ Amazon) Memory: Corsair Vengeance 128 GB (4 x 32 GB) DDR5-5600 CL40 Memory ($439.99 @ Amazon) Video Card: Asus TUF Gaming OG OC GeForce RTX 4090 24 GB Video Card ($1799.99 @ B&H) Case: SAMA IM01 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($59.93 @ Amazon) Power Supply: Corsair SF1000L 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular SFX Power Supply ($189.39 @ Amazon) Total: $3313.18 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2023-10-06 00:53 EDT-0400 First thing, I don't trust liquid coolers being moved around all the time, hence the all-air approach which does mean the CPU won't run to its full potential. More likely, just 80% after undervolting. You can get faster RAM by opting for 2 kits of 2x48GB (which also leads to higher capacity), but when you have a lot of memory don't expect them to go fast. I mean, not beyond 6000MHz. The case is cheap and lacking I/O, but it is the smallest Performance per watt? He's talking about absolute performance though which isn't a good call, 64GB DDR5 modules are registered and wouldn't work on consumer CPUs and motherboards. Don't have unregistered options yet.

If it starts then there's no problem. I dont know if your card is a Gigabyte or an Asus but for my Asus card, that LED just means the PCIe cable is charged if it stays lit. It will flash when there's a problem instead.

Use HWinfo64, it has its own start menu, choose to start in sensor mode.

But you're using Afterburner for temperatures right? If there's only 1 CPU temperature value it's not the actual core temperature reported by the CPU. The latter being what the thermal throttling mechanisms follow. What you're reading is typically an averaged out value, but temperature difference between cores can be big especially when the thermal paste is not in good condition. Being a laptop doesnt help either, not all behaviours follow factory settings. Alao note that most GPUs boost a lot less at 90C than say, 80C. It's not thermal throttling since it's still above base clock, but you lose a lot of performance nonetheless.

It's just thermal throttling heavy enough to be noticed. Not fry.

There's not much reason to overclock Zen 4 because they are pretty maxed out from the factory, undervolt instead. Or if you do want more performance, focus on tuning up your memory sticks.

I think you could also bypass vbios certification with commands? Sorry not familiar with bios modding