Son Nguyen

Thanks for replying so quickly. After some googling, I decided to venture with undervolting, first time doing this so I was a bit afraid there. After tweaking back and forth, I ended up lowering the voltage 0.08V. Just ran Kombustor for 10 minutes without crashing, temp was stable at 70C. Now I can sleep Again, thanks guys

I just move my system from a full ATX case to the Node 202 to make it more portable for traveling. The CPU I have is i7-9700K. Everything worked fine on the old set up as it had a big cooler. After finishing putting everything together, I used afterburner to check the temp, everything still looks normal (CPU and GPU are both around 40 when idling or under trivial tasks), but as soon as it start Kombustor or playing game, the CPU starts to raise to 100 C after 20 minutes. First I thought there was something wrong with the thermal paste, so I took the cooler off and reapplied the paste, but it didn't help. I'm using Noctua NH-L9i, I even replaced the stock fan with a thicker 100 mm Noctua brown fan. The thermal paste that I use is also the one that comes in the box with the cooler. One thing that I noticed with the cooler is that it didntt have the protective plastic on the heatsink surface when I opened the box, the surface also has some sort of concentric texture instead of smooth like the old cooler that I have. Before I applied the paste, I wiped both the CPU and the heatsink with Noctua CPU wipe. When I took off the cooler to repaste, it looked pretty good to me, the compound covered the entire surface of the CPU. An interesting thing is that even though the CPU is running crazily hot, it doesn't seem to throttle too much. The core's clock speed drops from 4.9 to 4.6 and my fps drops about 10-15%. The GPU still runs comfortably at 70C consistently. Please tell me someone knows what the issue is? At this point I'm just too scared to play games again. Thanks

Yes, Chrome. The problem is not DNS since my laptops can talk to the site with ping cmd. The only thing I can think of is that the site actually blocks my laptops' MAC because I keep using Adblock even though the site gives me warnings about adblocking.

An update: my brother's pc can load the page, so it's just my pc and macbook

Hi guys, I'm running into a problem of not being able to load a site on my laptops. I have a pc and a mac, both cannot load this page. I tried opening it with different browsers, disabling my anti-virus, clearing cache and cookies (these are quite obviously not the cause because it happens on 2 machines). Running VPN solves the problem, so I think that my home network is blocking the website. But my phone connected to wifi can load it just fine. I checked my modem settings, none of the two machines' MAC is in any kind of block list. Ping cmd CAN talk to that site. I ask my friend to try open the site on his laptop, he can load just fine, so the problem is not the site itself. At this point, I'm not sure what else can I do. Thanks in advance for any help.

Thanks for the quick response. You guys are awesome!

Any thought on the usb c? I just read this, and it seems like the usb c is 1.2 display port which is even better (144hz supported) https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Gaming-Laptops/y520-144hz-on-external-monitor-possible/m-p/3782235#M9436 . I just want to make sure it can work before buying the monitor: https://www.amazon.com/1080p-Gaming-LED-Lit-Monitor-VG278Q/dp/B074JLD4HZ/ref=sr_1_3?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1526792420&sr=1-3&keywords=120hz%2Bmonitor&th=1

I have a Lenovo y520. I'm playing Overwatch, and I notice that if you lower the settings to medium, I can get over 100 fps. So I want to hook it up with a 144hz monitor. The problem is I'm not sure if the HDMI port is capable of outputting 120Hz at 1080p? I read on Lenovo forum that the HDMI port is 1.4. For the USB C port, I don't have much info about it. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks

OK, so I have a laptop running Windows. It has 2 drives, one with Windows installed; the other is already partitioned. I want to install MacOS onto the second drive and dual boot, formatting everything on this drive is fine. There are a lot of tutorials out there but they are almost all about starting from scratch (installing both at the same time). So I'm kinda lost. I don't want to mess up Windows. Does anyone have a good tutorial for this?