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I have re-seated the cooler, re-applied the thermal paste and now it works as it should, with proper temps. Thanks everyone for the help

Can't do that atm but wouldn't that ruin air-circulation? As far as I know hot air rises, so I would risk re-introducing hot air into the circulation. I also tried to stop it once with a gigabyte app while stress testing, to see if it's pulling air away from the CPU cooler, but as far as I could see there was no temperature difference. I did only try that once though so i might be wrong. What if I put it as an outtake in the other slot on top, to the left, above the cpu heatsink and near the rear fan?

I checked it, it is blowing towards the heatsink. With the case side off temps have gone down by 5-6 C, but I don't want to have the side off for obvious reasons.

Hey everyone! Last year I put a new pc upgrade together. The new config was: i7-8700 (non-k) with cryorig m9i cooler Gigabyte GTX 1080 Windforce 16GB 3200mhz g-skill ram gigabyte z370 k3 mobo with latest bios Zalman Z11 Plus case Windows 10 Pro 2 HDD-s, one Sata SSD, one M.2 Sata ssd under CPU XFX TS 550W Gold PSU There is a friend of mine who always helps putting PC's together, and per his advice, worrying if the cooler would block ram sticks (it was a new build we wanted to be able to swap them out easily if they're faulty) we turned it facing the back of the case, thus the cooler fan was drawing air from that direction, opposite of what is commonly used. We took out the back fan, and put it on top of the case, right above the ram sticks, in exhaust mode. So basically my case had one factory intake fan at the front, in front of the hard drive bay, one outtake at top of the case. Everything looked fine, GPU was getting a little toasty but it's own cooler kept it within specs. CPU was actually well adjusted as far as temps go, only going to 77-80 C degrees when it was stress tested or on 100% load. A week ago we decided to put things in proper order, turned the cpu cooler around the proper way, put one more fan in as outtake in the back. After all that the GPU was working with temps 6-10 C cooler already, but problem is, at the same time the CPU became that much hotter. It regularly hits 75+ C temps under only 60-70% load, with CPU-Z stress test going into 85-90 C territory, idle temps around 48-52 C, ambient temps in the room in summer 24+ C (living in Europe). I monitor temps with MSI afterburner and HWInfo64. I checked the bios , every fan is configured properly, speeds are fine. I took them out one by one, none of them made the CPU hotter, only cooler. I also checked voltages, but just as before (before turning the CPU cooler around again), it was hitting 1,25 V max, with auto voltages and 4.3 GHZ all core turbo, same as before. One thing I want to note is that we didnt clean/swap the thermal paste (stock cryorig thermal paste) when turning the cooler around, I don't know if this could be the issue. I saw ample amounts both on the cooler's and cpu's surface and figured it should be fine. Or should we have cleaned/dusted the heatsink of the cooler off as well? At this point I'm frankly out of ideas, by all accounts the system should be all around cooler, yet the CPU is really really toasty. Any help or advice is appreciated.

Appreciate the gesture a lot, but sadly I did try stopping them one by one and the sound never went away in my case. In any case, unless I absolutely have to, I don't wanna go through an RMA process. I live in an area of the world, where the store I bought from could also easily keep the swapped card and refund me at the price I bought it(much much lower than current ones), not to mention how long it would take, so I'd be doubly f****d.

They tried it in another computer with a similar PSU but less consuming components. They still had artifacts. So at this point it's 80% that it's the GPU. He will still order a new gold rated PSU just to be sure, but I don't understand how the GPU suddenly malfunctions after a simple PC upgrade. EDIT: New gold, 650W PSU didn't help. Still artifacts, crashes..but an odd thing discovered as well, higher than reasonable VRAM usage. Even during browsing, 4GB VRAM is used out of 8gb.

I'll tell him to thoroughly check that when I get a hold of him. Edit: He checked it, says everything is fast and tight. He will take the GPU to a third friend of ours tomorrow, and put it in his system, see if it acts up.

We didn't install Afterburner yet. May I ask what the importance or function of silent mode is?

Thank you! We tried 3 different AMD drivers , one, a year old and two from recently. Everything remained the same, sadly. We will try to see if he can swap the gpu out for another one, or maybe throw the iGPU in for a test. I really think it's the PSU since the problems only manifested since he installed the new parts a week ago. Before that 0 errors whatsoever, for a year. Though something could've happened to the GPU while installing it into the new mobo/case, but I know they were extremely careful with everything.

Hey everyone, I'm writing on behalf a friend, his english isnt great. His setup: Processor: i7-8700(non-k) Mobo: Gigabyte z370 aorus K3 (bios version F3) Memory: G SKILL 16 GB RIPJAWS V 3200MHZ CL16 Boot/windows SSD: Samsung EVO 850 Psu: EVGA W1 600W(yes , white, not even bronze) Graphics card:. Rx 480 Sapphire Nitro Windows 10 Enterprise 64 bit The CPU/motherboard/ram have recently been swapped, before that he had a 4th generation Intel I3, every component was the same before. Before the new parts he barely, if at all had any issues, other than World of Tanks crashing once or twice(due to probably AMD issues back then). No overclocking, regular usage, mostly gaming on an 1680x1050 screen, connected through a HDMI cable. Fast forward until a week ago, when he got the new parts, assembled it neatly in a new pc case. He called for my help, we started some monitoring programs, HWInfo64, cpu-z, gpu-z etc. Thermals, voltages all looked okay, we ran unigine benchmark and furmark stress testing for a while on the GPU, everything seemed okay. Cpu keeps turbo up at all times comfortably. Ram runs on XMP out of the box, no issues there. Except when he started playing World of Tanks or PUBG, they would relentlessly, and randomly crash. Often sooner than later. In both games, though in PUBG a lot more, artifacts appeared, weird hue outlines, briefly flashing black artifacts, white artifacts over textures. In either game, lowering the graphics settings made most of the artifacts go away, but the crashing persevered. No other application or usage on the PC results in errors or crashes. He tried operating the system with just one ram stick at a time, same errors in each case. XMP on or off, no difference. I started suspecting the PSU, more than the GPU. For kickers he played Crusader Kings II for an hour, a thoroughly not demanding game, and it had no artifacts or crashes at all. He will try to get a better , gold rated 600-650W PSU in a week or two, regardless if the current one is responsible for the errors or not. No BSOD, no system freeze, no system crash. Just games, and simply a crash to desktop besides artifacts. Neither stress test or benchmark programs produced any artifacts though. Any help, advice, insight or help would be appreciated, thank you. Update: After checking, testing everything, getting a new PSU as well, the actual fault lied with the GPU. My friend RMA'd it. Thank you everyone for the help.

Hey everyone! In a few days I'm gonna receive a 50$ coupon to a local retailer. I'm looking at budget, 120~ GB SSD options, but after scouring the internet I still can't choose. My options are (for around 40$): ADATA SP Premier SP580 / Silicon Power S55 / Kingston A400 / Kingston SSDNow UV400 / AMD R3 120GB , all of them 120 or 128 GB. Of these five I would like to choose at least two(in case one of them runs out of stock by the time my coupon arrives) that have the best combination of lifetime or life expectancy, speed, and lowest failure rate. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Thank you everyone for the help, however I still would like to know if creating a custom resolution with a 75hz refresh rate, on an otherwise 75hz-with freesync-capable monitor would be considered an "overclock", and whether it's an overclock or not, would it be safe for the monitor long term?

That is exactly what I'm trying to do too. I'm keenly aware I'm losing out on variable refresh and no extra tear elimination. I can clearly feel the difference between 60-75hz and there's also less amount of motion blur on the panel when it runs at 75hz, whether through Freesync turned on or with custom resolution. I've also narrowed the issue with Overwatch. Apparently it only stutters with freesync on at 75hz, if I watch a live twitch broadcast at the same time, as I forgot to mention I have a multi monitor set up with a 60hz TN panel on the side, where I watch the broadcast or videos, while I'm gaming on the new IPS panel. Any media player, or playing youtube videos, it's all fine.

Thank you for replying. So as far as I understand you're using a custom resolution as well to achieve 75hz? Or do you do that with the freesync function turned on? I'm honestly just worried about shortening the monitor's life expectancy or damaging it somehow.

Hey everyone! Recently I bought an LG 23MP68VQ-P IPS Freesync monitor. My gpu is a Gigabyte GTX 1080. I managed to turn freesync on, and change the resolution/refresh rate in the NVIDIA control panel(only after freesync was turned on) to 1080p 75hz. Some games ran fine, but Overwatch for example started randomly dropping from 75fps to 60 every few seconds, making the game stutter. I then tried to create a custom resolution in the NVIDIA control panel with 75hz refresh rate. It worked fine, even in games, Overwatch wasnt stuttering anymore. However as far as I understand a custom resolution would constitute as monitor overclocking. I was wondering if I'm misinformed about this? Or is doing that safe for the monitor's "health" on a panel that supports 75hz with freesync anyway, as long as I never go above 75hz with the custom resolution? Any reply is appreciated.