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I'm not completely sure, but there are lots of places where rmas/repairs get rejected due to strict electronics fault policies about not having insurance. We're talking about GPUs though and a certain company that's selling them. They decide.

Not really, everyone makes mistakes. When I was getting into computers too i really did f up quite a lot of things. You're fine

In the long run, yes, that's preferred. But it's really your preference whether or not you want to apply a very light OC or just run stock for longer gpu lifespan. In the end, it's your decision.

You can try to RMA the gpu, (idk exactly if the rma is gonna get accepted because of an overclock fail) but here's my opinion: When mining with expensive rigs, you want your GPUs to survive as long as possible before breaking, and when they do eventually, then moving on to buying new ones. That keeps replacing costs down. Overclocking only shortens the lifespan of a GPU and is only recommended for gamers/overclockers who don't run their card 24/7 under 100% load, so it doesn't affect them too much. Believe me, keeping a card running any amount of time more, rather than trying to increase mining performance with OC but not being sure how much longer it will survive is better. Additionally, you applied a really high overclock that isn't recommended to run on 24/7 under 100% load

Thanks for the suggestion, I guess it's gonna be the first thing im gonna upgrade soon... If I try for a GPU I'm gonna end up starving for a month lol

Hmm, strange. I wonder if there will be a change in performance if i decrease the page file size by just a little and try using more real ram. Maybe upgrading to 16 is the key. Thought about it for a bit.

I guess you're right, but I didn't expect to lose so much fps just through updates and etc. If it's only that, i'm gonna get over it and just try and play at 50 fps avg. and not complain. In the end i'm looking for a solution, but there might not be one, that can specifically be done through settings and software exactly.

Hello, LTT forum community. After returning to GTA V, I get very heavy underutilization on both online and story mode, acheiving only 50 fps in apartment/home, but during 2018 I was playing GTA V on very high settings almost all max on 60 fps+, except for textures and MSAA with these specs: Windows 10 Pro, GTX 1050 2G i5-8400 @ 2.8ghz, 4.0/4.2 boost all 6 cores* 8 GB RAM running at 2133 mhz 450W bronze/silver psu (i think it scored around mid tier on the tier list, idk the brand tho) MB - Asrock Z370 Pro4 I've tried max settings with advanced graphics disabled and enabled, low settings, all 3 screen modes, vsync on and off, comandline.txt "Optimization" and have checked or noticed other things too: My GPU Fan speed can't get recognized by any kind of software in RPM, but hwinfo64 sees it running at around ~50%, with temps being around 70, throttling only 20-30 mhz. I think that if I increase the speed in Afterburner, the fan might break, due to the fact that actually it started making noises during the winter that stopped after 5-10 mins, but eventually it they went away completely and the fan is working perfectly fine besides that now. I was running an OC of +150 mhz core and +350-500 (i don't remember exactly) on mem, power limit on 100%, gpu fan speed on 80% limit, but i stopped using all of this, because I wanted to preserve the life of my GPU a bit more, since it looks like I am not gonna be buying a new GPU for long, just like many of us. Temps never went above 80C with it though. I think the oc gave a 5-6 fps increase in nearly all games i played, but on GTA V i don't know if it'll give me 60 at all. Hwinfo showed that there was a performance limit on power, utilization and reliability voltage. I've suspected it might be ram, but I have a page file of 2x my ram amount (16 gb) and the game uses about 3-5GB max real ram, depending on the size of it, currently using 3GB only. That shouldn't be it, I think, since the problem most likely is that the utilization is abysmal. CPU is at 50-60%, and GPU is at 60-70%, no matter the actual settings. Core 2 is at 70-80%, Core 5 50% and everything else 20-40%. If I could actually force the game to use max available resources, I can get nearly double framerate theoretically. (or at least +20-30 fps.) That being said, more demanding games that can run, like Doom 2016 do it at a mix of medium to high settings (incl. a small amount of low), averaging around 60-100 fps, maxing everything. The last things are the following: One time when i went into the game with my usual settings, I was averaging 65-80 fps, but after a quick minute it went down to 50, as if a switch had flipped. I haven't updated my BIOS since I got my PC, at around March of 2018. The version isn't "Asrock v.XX" or whatever but is actually American Megatrends, Inc. P1.50, supposedly flashed in Novermber of 2017 by manufacturer probably. I have speedstep, turbo boost and XMP enabled with everything set up. If anyone has any idea what can help, please tell me.

I am gonna say Intel. If you are aiming 120/144Hz. Also, because, the 9700K runs hotter than your 2500K you will need to buy a better cooler.

It will work. Everything under 1066Mhz should work.

If you are going to OC the cooler you choose is good. If you don't OC the stock cooler is enough.

The third one.