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    Computer Scientist; Helping develop new products through PLM. 20+ years workforce experience

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  1. coldwash
    Or you could simply offload your streaming onto a dedicated streaming card like Elgato instead of the cpu and do a minor upgrade to your cpu like an i5 7500. https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Game-Capture-HD60-Pro/dp/B014MQIVPS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1540944119&sr=8-2&keywords=el+gato+card
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    As far as drivers, ddu would work without windows reinstall, amd has their own radeon removal tool too. You could plug your pc into something like a "kill a watt" to see your real power draw at the wall, but the reality is at nearly 100% utilization psu don't neccesarily put out clean power. 1070ti is going to draw at least 90w more than what you had before in best case scenario. If you don't believe that you need more than 450 bronze, I would say check out the videos of Linus OC'ing his 2080ti and needing dedicated ridiculous power for cpu and gpu separately, not to mention jayz 2 cents and gamers nexus. Those guys are showing extreme cases, but you can easily see how gpu really need some clean power to run stable and that they can eat much more than they are even rated. The reason you run more than you need is psus don't give clean power if you max them, and nothing will run stable. Plus you will fry your motherboard and other things which are attached when the psu goes belly up.
  3. coldwash
    Your old RX 460 drew about 90-100 watts OC'd on a furmark torture test, you are doubling or tripling your GPU power draw.
  4. coldwash
    Just checked, that card has recommended 500w psu and power demand is from 180w to 290w according to testing by toms. 450 should work but its borderline and depending on the card to throttle itself potentially. You could be dealing with some extreme power or even thermal throttling. I try to run in the ideal range of around 50-60% demand on my psu, you are really pushing it to the limit. That windforce card may be slightly factory OC'd too which would draw even more along with the aftermarket fans and such. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1070-ti/
  5. coldwash
    Another thought, although you should still get on that rma before its too late. You have likely cranked your visual settings much higher than ever before due to a significantly more gpu power. You may actually be stressing hdd, cpu, psu and ram now due to filling a much larger framebuffer and running into bottlenecks. Could have exposed some other bottlenecks or instabilities, all the way from your HDD to your cpu / ram / mobo. Also you are running a 450 psu, I haven't done the math on the demand there yet but my gut feeling is pretty bad on that as you have more than tripled your gpu compute
  6. coldwash
    Resource monitor is built into windows and can handle graphing over time. You can find it under task manager. As far as buying another stick that would never fix a timing or stability issue only increase performance by utilizing both memory channels. I don't think ram stability is your issue as you have tested with another card (but you still may be paging and need more ram). As an aside you can almost certainly get quite a bit more out of your system by populating both channels. I would purchase a new matched pair of memory that is listed in your motherboards qvl list or that you know is a quality stick for that amd board which runs at 2667 or higher and has good timings. Going as high as 3200 may be reasonable but as Linus has shown, there is a point of diminishing returns.
  7. coldwash
    That's a good piece of information. Being that it was an amd driver on your system and now you are using an nvidia card there could potentially be driver issues and a amd clean uninstall might be worth a shot but I would start acting on getting that card replaced asap just in case since it is ebay.
  8. coldwash
    Well I would have to wholeheartedly disagree with you there. Depending on the motherboard and processor, silicon lottery and auto selected settings most likely the timings, frequency and possibly even voltage could have been set to a combination that simply doesn't jive. It is also a novice mistake to chose a ram that is not rated for at least your processors memory specification although it will likely overclock easily but we don't know that it has been run through memtest or any stability testing. Also by not populating both memory channels it leaves a lot of performance on the table for absolutely no reason.
  9. coldwash
    There is potential ram problems with your build as well. Were you using another video card that performed well before this one? While it may be fine, ram issues can cause a lot of instability. Your ram is 2400 and the system memory specification is 2667. You are also using a single stick on a dual channel system.
  10. coldwash
    Dude, you look young and able, it's summer, go use that energy and mow about 3 yards and you will have the cash you need to do something worthwhile.
  11. coldwash
    Did you watch the video? He whiteboards it simply enough for kindergarten.
  12. coldwash
    You also end up with crippled windows updates and other nuisances. I think some Microsoft software like office 365 will complain at you if your in that state as well. Try scdkey or kinguin for keys, Paul's Hardware uses it so its gotta be legit right. Ive tried both myself and you do end up with a legit key. OEM key means doesn't work for upgrade of course only new install. scdkey seems to be much cheaper, ive got for like 14$ on there.
  13. coldwash
    Or with a 400 series mobo he could use the new AMD StoreMI and in that case 256 SSD is all it supports.
  14. coldwash
    If you have vegas 14, it is not sony its Magix, sony's last version was 13. I have both sony and magix version of 13 and am able to use gpu. I think its probably just a setting you are missing, or a driver compatibility issue, but it may be worth opening a support ticket if you are still under support, 14 had little to no change from 13 on acceleration or pretty much anything else. Here's the facts on it in the link below, if you are getting acceleration but want better acceleration, an upgrade to vegas 15 will help. https://www.vegascreativesoftware.info/us/forum/faq-graphics-cards-gpu-acceleration-for-vegas-pro--104614/ Notice in my screenshot below I had to select my Nvidia GPU, otherwise it would default to Intel or GPU acceleration off.
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