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peanuts104

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  1. https://www.microcenter.com/product/638594/evga-supernova-850-gm-850-watt-80-plus-gold-sfx-fully-modular-power-supply The EVGA Supernova 850 SFX. I am considering going to an even smaller case in the future (currently have the Lian Li Mid-Tower Chassis Micro ATX) so I wanted to go ahead and get an SFX PSU.
  2. Last update unless something goes wrong, but my old PSU seems to have been the issue. Not sure if it is dying or if it just couldn't handle the power spikes from the card as Blackjack said, however, since replacing, a ticking noise that only appeared under load with my old PSU has gone away so I'm assuming it was dying.
  3. Update. System had same power crash with the 1 VGA out to 2 ports on GPU. It was about 3 hours so no change there. Got the extensions for my new PSU. We'll see if that is the difference. At this point hard to tell if it is a failing PSU or a deficient GPU that I need to RMA. But those questions will be resolved. Maybe not until the weekend though. Got a work deadline in the middle.
  4. I'm not saying that is wrong, but after I just switched to the splitter from one VGA out on the PSU, the system seems to be more stable. Clock speed hasn't changed really, but FPS is definitely a little better and a little more consistent. Not sure what that means honestly. Waiting on extensions to see how it performs with new PSU at this point (noted, only need extension for PSU and CPU power. GPU cables long enough, so extensions shouldn't affect GPU performance).
  5. ...so, I recently read somewhere that if you have a graphics card with two vga ports, best practice is to plug a cable to each vga port. Example, my new RTX 3060ti has an 8 pin and a 6 pin. Even though each individual cable from my PSU can accommodate that (because there is a splitter), best practice would be to plug in with VGA 1 out from PSU to the 8 pin and VGA 2 out to the 6 pin. Is that wrong? I've never done that before, my 2060 only had one 8 pin. The card I had before that was an RX 580 and it also had an 8 pin and a 6 pin and I just ran it with one cable... I think I'm just going to try running it on one cable. Got the new PSU, but because I'm thinking about a much smaller ITX system anyway, got an SFX form factor thinking I could use it...but I need some cable extensions and those arrive tomorrow. Anyway, going to try just using one cable with the splitter and see what happens. Been monitoring the card clock speed in games so I should know if it makes a difference by that.
  6. Well, I live within a few miles of a microcenter. Guess I'll head there in the morning and get a new psu and return in a few days if that wasn't it. Didn't happen yesterday after a fairly lengthy gaming session. Happened about 3 hours into a gaming session just now. Took out the NVMe drive but if it doesn't crash after this that just means I took enough power load off the system to not crash.
  7. Thought about that too. Will probably try that at somepoint, but in addition to the pc I only have two monitors and some very cost effective desktop speakers and a sub plugged in to my power strip, and the power strip is rated for like 1800w. Think I'll change plugs. Also, now that I think about it, the PSU is actually more like 8 years old so...definitely could be at the end of its life.
  8. Is there a way to test? 650W should be more than enough for what I'm running. I'd also hate to buy a new PSU and it turns out that's not the issue. Might buy new gpu cables first and see if one of my cables is bad.
  9. PC Specs Ryzen 3700x Asrock B550m-ITX (latest bios) Corsair LP Vengeance 16gb ram using xmp profile at 3200 (never had stability issues before) 650W EVGA gold semi-modular PSU (purchased like 6 8 years ago) I have 3 sata SSDs, 1 HDD plugged in. Windows 10 64 bit Got this card NIB from newegg (really good deal relative to current prices), Gigabyte RTX 3060ti Gaming OC Pro rev 3. Previous card was an RTX 2060. I also installed a samsung 980 NVMe M.2 in the slot on the mobo when I swapped cards. Problem: The system has been 100% stable doing normal tasks. I do normal word processing and excel stuff for my day job on this computer. Haven't had any issues on non-intensive tasks. However, when I play graphic intensive games, sometimes after 30 min, sometimes after 2 hours, the system crashes. It doesn't BSOD, it just acts like it ran out of power and immediately powers up afterward. No error screens or anything. It has been very difficult to replicate. It's happened about 5 or 6 times over the past few days. List of tested troubleshoots already. 1) installed using DDU, reinstalled drivers with the previous version again using DDU to take off the previous drivers, no change 2) unplugged and replugged all modular PSU cables (note this is the first card I've had where I have used the second VGA out on the PSU in addition to the first one) 3) forced PCIe Gen 4 in bios incase it was defaulting to Gen 3, no change 4) tested without the xmp profile and couldn't get the crash to initiate, but not sure this is the issue because it's never been unstable before and wanted input from the forum on why xmp would be unstable with the new card 5) I run thermal monitoring for cpu and gpu as well as clock speed for both through rivatuner and temps are fine and clock speed is as advertised, nothing to suggest the card isn't getting enough power 6) crashed when using DLSS and not using DLSS I'm assuming it will happen again, about to start a game that I know it crashed in last night. Any ideas would be great. The next thing I think I'm going to do is pulls the NVMe I just installed if/when it crashes again. I'm really hoping its not the card and this crash is really difficult to replicate. The only other two things I thought, maybe I need to reinstall windows and maybe my PSU is getting a little old and isn't as efficient as it was. Thank you for reading, any help/ideas are greatly appreciated. Been wanting to upgrade for 2 years and this **** happens.
  10. If it gets kicked over and destroyed, they just destroyed $60k of government property which would almost certainly be a felony. If they had video evidence of the perpetrators via the robut, it would be very useful in court as well.
  11. I'm not going to read the whole thread to see if someone's already mentioned this, so if this is a repeat forgive me, but my issue with this is it does nothing to curtail violent or extremist ideology. They'll just make a new forum and go somewhere else that's even more obscure, further radicalizing them in their own echo chamber. I think this is a strong factor in why we're seeing so many mass killings globally, not just in the US (whether is guns, cars, bombs, etc).
  12. I found something interesting on a bluetooth sound bar I bought for my computer. When I went into the sound settings on Microsoft it showed up as a microphone under the recording section as well as the speaker section. As far as I remember, it wasn't an advertised feature, but it was there picking up everything I was saying.
  13. I think there would be a few rich people in the pharmaceutical field that could qualify.
  14. They do the same thing. The credit score and credit history checks are in addition to checking your job history, income, etc.
  15. Check your credit score and see what they think of you. But generally it's not that they necessarily view you as suspect, but they have no credit history to base your score on. Depending on the type of debt, it isn't bad or irresponsible and making on time payments on debt positively impacts your credit score. A mortgage isn't bad as long as you can afford it. Your credit goes bad when you get a mortgage you can't actually afford and then default on the loan. That's the bad kind of debt. A good way for young people to build some credit is to get a credit card and use it responsibly by carefully tracking your purchases and paying it off every month. When I got my first credit card I only used it for certain things like gas or groceries, things that were essential that I would be paying for anyway. I'm not talking about putting $1,000s a month on your card, but using it and paying it off each month will help to start to build good credit.
  16. One can only hope. An example of something bad that could happen with this is say the algorithm overwhelmingly determines based on a variety of factors that aren't race related that a vast majority of any given race or ethnicity (just using this as an example) are not trustworthy, there would be hell to pay. You could sit there and go through all the information that went into the algorithm and that they don't include racial or ethnic parameters until you are blue in the face, it's still going to look bad if the algorithm determines 80% of a race or ethnicity is untrustworthy.
  17. I don't mind someone selling "adult" toys next to my produce aisle. It's my store dammit!
  18. That's the problem, it's not just social media. Companies could sell your data to credit agencies to feed their algorithms and determine your "trustworthiness". Things like religious beliefs, frequent google searches, weapon ownership, and a multitude of personal data could be used in their algorithm. Even if you don't have social media, there is personal data out there about you that credit agencies would love to purchase and many of the services you use online would love to sell. Further, even if it was just based on social media, not having one would be seen in a negative light, kinda like having no debt (no credit cards, loans, etc) are seen as suspect to credit agencies.
  19. If they gave me a cut and it didn't interfere with my business, yes.
  20. This surely isn't a way for the British government to spy on people. No, it won't be used for that at all. /s
  21. And the ones that don't directly benefited from the program.
  22. It doesn't help that many countries in Europe only have you vote for a party and not a candidate, though I don't know the specifics for election to the EU parliament. Do EU citizens even have any say who sits on the EU parliament?
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