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Hello everyone, I've been having a weird issue for 3 months. Basically, the PC cooler and the GPU fans go into jet turbine mode, and the monitor goes black or has no signal when playing certain games. I can still hear the music playing from the game, but the movement is frozen until I restart the PC. I've tried several suggestions from the web but to no avail. Below are some info for you. System: ASUS Z490 Plus Wifi Intel 10700K + Corsair H100i 240 NVMe SSD (I use it for some games) RTX 3080 10G 64 GB RAM 850 Watt Gold PSU Windows 11 Games not crashing the PC: Alan Wake 2 (1080 medium) SSD Conan Exiles (1440 cinematic) HDD Atlas Fallen (1440 high) HDD GTA 5 (1440 high) HDD Injustice 2 (1440 high) HDD MK 1 (1440 high) HDD Games crashing the PC: ARK Survival Evolved (1080 medium/high) HDD ARK Survival Ascended (1080 low/medium with most features turned off) SSD Note: While playing the ARK series, I noticed the fans speed up and slow down randomly regardless of where I am in the game. The GPU temp goes close to 90 Celsius before the crash happens. Sometimes, the CPU and GPU are at 50-60 Celsius, and the PC crashes. Solutions tried: SFC DDU PC case cleaning Steam integrity check Power plan set to high Turn off Windows game mode XMP turned off CPU OC to default BIOS there's no new update Sent the PC for a check-up, and it came back saying nothing was wrong. I know people are complaining about ARK Ascended's poor optimization, but why is it happening in ARK Evolved as well?

Thanks, Chris. I'll look into it.

That's the thing... I don't know if having more cores will enhance my work experience. I'm often jumping between Photoshop, Illustrator and Blender. I've been told, having more cores doesn't help Photoshop, it's about clock speed. Don't know how much of it is true. People say more cores help using Blender, especially rendering. Between my 10700K and 10600K, I can't tell the difference. Give or take just a few seconds or minutes depending on different scene files. So I thought maybe because it's a difference of only 2 cores, the impact isn't much. Maybe going from 6 cores to 10 will make a big difference?

I'm getting a good upgrade deal to go from 10600K to either 10850K or 10900K (depending on availability). The mobo I use is Asus Prime Z490-M Plus and cooling it with a Lian Li Galahad 240, and yeah, no GPU, at least for now. I've been told by the shop owner that the mobo is good enough to handle the said processors, They will even try to sell you an elephant saying it's a monkey, so not really reliable, hence, turning to you guys' for some advice. The intended use is mostly Blender, and occasional light gaming. Is it a worthy upgrade?

Thank you so much for clearing that up. I've settled for 4.5 Ghz for now. I don't think this motherboard is made for extreme overclocks, also the cooler isn't up for this task in my humble opinion. I'm getting very nice temps now, after fiddling around in the BIOS, I'll stop here.

I set it to level 4, that option is recommended by the BIOS.

i spent almost a day trying to overclock this. Yes, cooling has become an issue at this point. I was able to overclock it to 4.7 ghz all cores at 1.35 volts. Any lower and it crashes during AVX stress testing. Temps are sitting at 45 at idle and up to 77 during stress tests with an occasional spike to 80.

Thank you all for taking the time to reply. Is there a good starting voltage guideline if I wanted to overclock it to 4.8 ghz all core?

Hi, I got a new PC very recently and trying to figure out how overclocking works. I've tried watching some YouTube videos and reading a bunch of articles on the web, but now I'm even more confused. I'm hoping you guys will help me understand this better. The PC is used mostly for graphical work (Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Blender) and some light gaming. It performs really well, but I've been told it's running hotter than usual and that it could do a little better. The build came overclocked (using Asus MCE) from the shop I bought it from. Processor: Intel i5 10600K @ All core 4.5 Ghz Motherboard: Asus Prime Z490M-Plus RAM: Gigabyte Aorus 2x8 GB RAM 3200 Mhz @ 3200 Mhz Cooler: Lian Li Galahad 240mm AIO Storage: 2 M.2 SSD's and a 1 TB HDD The CPU temp sits around 47-50 degrees celsius on idle and jumps to 73-78 degrees on load. As a layman, I assume these are good temps, but I'm told otherwise and that the MCE is terrible at handling voltages and that it may be overvolting the CPU and that's what's producing so much heat. Should I be happy with this result? Should I turn off MCE and resort to manual overclocking? Please, shed more light.

Hello, I got an iGame RTX card that comes with an app to monitor and control the lighting. The issue is, whenever the app is running, my HDD makes a weird noise every 15-30 or so seconds. After some Googling, I found out that it's the header of the HDD being reset, hence the noise. So I tried closing the iGame app and the noise has stopped. However, I can't control the lighting anymore and stuck with the default pink in breathing mode. Is there are way to get around this?

Thank you so much Haro and everyone, your help is much appreciated like the last time.

I'm not replacing my current build. The new one is for home use, the previous one will remain in the office. I just wanted to have an aesthetically good looking PC at home that also performs head to head with my office PC, since I'll be working from both locations.

I live in Bangladesh, currency is Taka (BDT) and budget for board is $350. I understand what you've explained, but like Lord Szechenyi said above, I don't think I will utilize PCIe 4, let alone need it.

Hi guys, I'm building a black and white gaming/work PC and need your help to determined which will best serve my purpose. I've chosen Gigabyte's Vision D B550 for its aesthetics. However, I'm going to pair this with 5900X and 3080, so some people suggested that I go for X570 instead. Nobody mentioned why the Vision D isn't suitable, all they said was the X570 will give me better performance. It didn't make sense to me since they don't know my workflow. Also, I've built a PC just a couple weeks ago (10700K, TUF Z490, RTX 3080), it doesn't have PCIe 4 and I haven't noticed any performance loss or limitation when playing games or working on it. I don't think PCIe 4 will make much of a noticeable difference for me, anyways. People kept saying I should have gone for PCIe 4, don't really know why. What I do know, is that you guys will offer better advice in this regard. I work mainly in Photoshop and After Effects. Sometimes I poke around in Blender and C4D. Here's the list of parts. Ryzen 9 5900X Gigabyte Vision D B550 Lian Li Galahad 240mm (White) Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 3200 MHz 32 GB (White) iGame RTX 3080 Ultra OC* <-- The bastard in the family (will use a backplate) Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500 GB NVMe Samsung 960 EVO 250 GB (Scratch Disk) Adata SU800 2 TB SSD Cooler Master 850 Watt Modular 80+ Gold (White)* Lian Li Lancool 2 Mesh (White) * Only ones available in their category I've already broken the bank here and can't extend my budget any further. What I want to know is... Whether this build has any issues? Whether I should go for TUF X570 and why. Please help me understand.

As the title says, I own a Asus TUF Z490 board that has 2 RGB headers (4 pin 12v each). I also have a regular RGB strip (12v, R, G, B), currently connected to an electrical outlet via a 12v adapter/controller that comes with it. My question is, is it safe to connect this strip to the board directly? If yes, how will the lighting function? Thank you guys.