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RickH

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  1. As in doing the "LTT FOLDING TEAM" event stuff that is currently going on. (Emergency response to COVID-19) It's a way to set up your computer to "donate" cpu and gpu work to work on molecular calculations, to use our own computers to aid in solving this bug, from our homes... If you loaded the folding@home software once, it will load everytime you start your computer and leave it running. That can keep your GPU busy enough to be unresponsive...
  2. I'm guessing this is occurring while you are "folding"? I have a 1070 TI that the same thing is happening with. It seems to be occurring when the GPU is being used to fold.
  3. I was really late in starting this. Missed the actual sign up... Right now, I have 5 upper mid end computers all blissfully doing their thing. About 500,000 points in the last 8 hours...
  4. The I7 8700K and one of these: - ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-F- MSI Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon Ac- ASUS ROG STRIX Z370-E The difference between them involves how they are configured, how many slots, etc. It's all up to you.
  5. Once that Geforce 2080 or whatever they call it is released (next week?) the 1080s may lower, the problem is people using them for bitcoin... That's what has been keeping the costs up...
  6. That GPU isn't bad, MOBO, RAM and motherboard will have trouble keeping up with most stuff released in the last 2 years... Linus has a ton of tech tip vids on your alternatives... Once every few years you need to take a plunge and upgrade to another series. Leap as far as you can afford. That will keep you satisfied with your system performance longer...
  7. I've been using Corsair LPX 3000MHZ on a Ryzen 7 1800X since January 2018. The Ram runs at 3000mhz, no faster. I've never had any issues with the RAM. If I was to get ram over, I'd probably get the 3600mhz corsair ram. https://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-3600MHz-PC4-28800-Black/dp/B01AKWSUOU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1534552367&sr=1-1&keywords=Corsair+Vengeance+LPX+3600
  8. Power supplies are one thing it doesn't pay to go cheap on, in my experience... They have to work ALL the time and never deviate, even when the power is potentially unstable...
  9. It could be a driver problem. It could be something as trivial as the CPU not totally being seated completely. Try pulling and reseating the RAM and all the installed cards on the MOBO. 3 years is enough time for dust/corrosion to do their work.... And time is ticking.... tick... tock...
  10. You're referring to the alternative being a laptop, so I'm guessing the PC you are specifically referring to is a desktop? There are a LOT of variables here... Power supply... Loose power connection... Exposed power wire causing power supply to short out... infected computer software... On and on... You have a fixed deadline before it has to work reliably. There is a time to take a computer in. You have reached that time...
  11. Sounds like thermal throttling. Is your CPU getting hot? Make sure the vents are completely clear, etc... No fuzzy desk pad, no papers over it, etc...
  12. AIOs have up to 6 year warranties, so yes, they can run 24x7. I have an NZXT Kraken x62 and I never shut that computer off... Been working since January 2018 now...
  13. Do you know specifically WHEN it started these BSODs? IF you can figure that out, did you install or upgrade something about that time? This issue is almost always driver related. Drivers being updated is not the same thing as drivers installed correctly. If you know what drivers caused the issue, uninstall or remove them and install them over again, preferably from an original driver source...
  14. Have you tried booting in safe mode and trying chrome then? Remember Chrome is an add-on app. You can always use control panel to uninstall it, then reinstall it. You should also check what extensions are installed on your instance of Chrome... Extensions can sometimes cause instabilities
  15. Anyway you go about it, you'll need a top end graphics card regardless of what CPU you put in it. The cost-effective solution would be to try that FIRST and then re-evaluate.
  16. What are you trying to do? What OS? If you are trying to remove addblocker, then do it without chrome. What OS? If you are talking Windows, go in to settings>apps or control panel>Programs and features and uninstall adblocker there. If Chrome works without it, then you probably needed to reinstall adblocker anyway. One more thing, there are a lot of websites that do not work well with ad blocker and do crash a lot... If it still happens with adblocker uninstalled, then I suggest reinstalling chrome.
  17. Agreed the S12A fan is really good when it's installed correctly.
  18. If you haven't run a computer with SSD as the boot drive, you are surely missing out! Set up your SSD for the OS and core utility apps. Use a regular hard drive for where you install your games and other large software. If you want max performance for gaming, you could even install a separate SSD or better yet a striped SSD RAID array to radically improve your game load times. You won't believe the performance difference an SSD as your primary boot/OS drive will make! Seriously, it IS that much of a difference! There are some SSD optimization tweaks for various operating systems, things that will make them more stable and more reliable over time. They're worth an evening's research...
  19. CPU cooling typically opens up a gigantic topic. The single best piece of advice is to go look at reliable sites like newegg and check the various reviews for applicable coolers for your specific CPU. That said, you can't go wrong with Noctua, but some of their coolers are HUGE. Make sure they will fit your computer box! Don't forget to put new heat sink compound on...
  20. You never said what temp your SSD was in the first place. SSDs have a very wide temp range. Sandisk says up to 70c is doable... https://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/16376/
  21. There has been a lot of speculation regarding Spectre and Meltdown, specifically how it will affect overall system, performance. Most sources seem to indicate Intel CPUs are taking more of a performance hit than AMD. This raises a question. Linus, when you do your performance testing, are you doing your testing with systems that have the Spectre Meltdown fixes in place or not? I ask because it seems like the test results WITHOUT those fixes in place would not be a good representation of what most people are dealing with... So do your test systems have Spectre and Meltdown patches in place?
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