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SoulsOfBlack

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  1. Thanks! I can get that gpu a lot cheaper than the rx 590
  2. Hi everyone. recently i got a ryzen 3 1200 system, which i want to upgrade to play Code vein at 1080p highest 60 fps. It has an rx 480 4gb, 12gb of ddr4 3000mhz ram, an asrock x370m hdv r4.0, and the aforementioned ryzen 3 1200. Which upgrade would improve my gaminh performance? I was seeing 99%usage gpu wise and up to 80% on the cpu. I had thought about getting an rx 590 8gb because they are cheap, and i have a good deal for a new ryzen 5 1400 for 60 bucks. Any help and recommendations would he deeply appreciated.
  3. Hello everyone! I recently had to upgrade Ryzen on a whim because my old i7 2600 based system died, and i had to finish a project for my uni. So, the only parts they had on stock locally were a Ryzen 3 1200, 12 GB (8+4 GB) of Team T-Force Vulcan Z 3000 MHz memory, and an Asrock X370M-HDV R4.0. So far, i'm impressed on what this machine can now achieve (i plan to upgrade later this year). So, i want to use Ryzen DRAM Calculator (XMP worked out of the box, but i really like to fiddle with my PCs), but i don't know what memory chips this RAM uses, the page states they are Hynix C-Die, but HWinfo said they are Samsung (it does not say if they are B-Die or such). How can i know, without removing the RAM heatspreaders? Any help would be really appreciated!
  4. Yeah, the thermal paste was like really dried up. At the moment is working pretty well, i'll give AOT 2 a try again and see what happens. Im surprised that the thermal pads are still good and with no dust on them after all this time. EDIT: Your current motherboard used to be my motherboard until this year that i got this Asus P8P67, that gigabyte mobo was replacement for my dead Asus Maximus IV Extreme (AIO leak in 2017).
  5. Yeah, the card was really clean when i received it, i mean, the thermal pads are the factory ones (compared them with my card) and there was not a single bit of dust on them (i live on a pretty dusty area) so i don't know if i could say that the card wasn't used for mining. BIOS was the stock one too. The thing is, the card runs really well on stock settings, and i never had troubles with the undervolt until now, the same undervolt runs all of passmark tests, furmark, and unigine valley. Guess i went down a little too much, because at 1070mV 1266MHz seems to be the best and most stable setting. The card never went more than 74~76c on normal conditions (it went up to 86c but the fans werent spinning, i narrowed it down to an MSI afterburner problem with the driver). Thanks for your help!
  6. Yes, the fans work pretty much everytime, save for that one time i described here, but they make a little noise, like they need oiling. If i turn the clocks down to the original RX 480 (1266mhz with a 1070mV, the cards works really well). What troubles me the most is the operating temperature of the GPU. at 1266MHz @1070mV it would peak at 74~76 degrees celsius, with the case open and 3 front intake fans and 1 exhaust fan.
  7. Computer Type: Custom made Desktop GPU: RX 480 4GB Sapphire Nitro (the one with the 8pin on the side) CPU: Intel Core i7 2600 @ 3.9 GHz Motherboard: Asus P8P67 EVo RAM: Kingston 2x4 GB DDR3 1600 MHz PSU: Deepcool DA600 600W 80 plus Bronze Operating System & Version: Windows 10 Pro 1903 x64 GPU Drivers: 19.5.2 Chipset Drivers: N/A Background Applications: Steam, CPUCores, OverdriveNTool Description of Original Problem: The GPU (another RX 480 i got for free) is undervolted and underclocked (currently running 1265 MHz @ 1070 mV with 1850 MHz memory clock, going lower than that voltage causes unstability). After roughly 30 minutes the GPU driver crashes and the temperature is as high as 79c (that was using the original 1326MHz clock on a 1072 mV profile). Yesterday, the GPU was going up to 86c and the fans wont turn on (Afterburner was on the background so i had to force the fans to turn on). Temperatures go down really fast if you close the game (thermal paste was changed about 1 month ago, using a 1 year old MX4 tube). Not all the games have this problem (God Eater 3 maxed out peaks at 60c) and it wont happen always, but i'm afraid that the card is possibly dying. I was trying to play Attack on Titan 2, the game worked great until some fight, where after i finished the fight the driver crashed (major FPS drops were ocurring when dust appeared). Also ,i had an old gtx 970 with an arctic accelero twin turbo ii (he changed it because the 970 started malfunctioning) and the performance isn't quite as expected (compared to what i've seen on comparative videos). Sometimes after waking the PC from sleep and trying to apply any undervolt, the GPU would show square artifacts, the driver crashes and is all back to normal. Troubleshooting: Repasted the GPU, turned the undervolt off (works like a charm but temperatures are really high, like 80c). I'm a newbie on all of this undervolt, and i'm worried since i've read that people have gone far lower on voltage and they are running their cards flawlessly.
  8. Yes, but it seems after installing some visual c++ redistributables and disabling vsync on Radeon Settings, the low performance is gone. More testing needs to be done, but seems pretty ok so far! I'll try the stable drivers and see whats going on
  9. Hi everyone, i recently had to "upgrade" to an RX 480 4GB, from a GTX 970 that died after a power outage. The thing is, i noticed that the performance is somewhat bad, compared to my old gtx 970 (stock clocks, no OC) on games, like stuttering and low fps (in somes games, if i alt+tab, the fps go back to normal). Temps are on the 66c range for all the GPU components. No Radeon Chill, no power saving features on. Synthetic benchmark scores are what is expected from the RX 480 (getting close to 8400 passmark points). Core clock is at 1276 MHz and Memory clock is at 1800MHz. No thermal throttling or such. Drivers are the latest beta, CPU is a Core i7 2600k @ 4.2GHz, with 2x4 1600mhz ddr3 ram, on Windows 10 LTSC.
  10. Thanks! I'll put more attention tomorrow when i install those case fans.
  11. Hello everyone, i got a pack of five fans for my case (aerocool cylon) and i was wondering something. I currently have 2 fans mounted in the front, and i noticed when installing them that they have two arrows, one indicating the airflow, and one indicating the rotation direction. Is that something to be aware of when mounting the fans?
  12. Hi everyone! I bought an used Asus p8p67 evo b3 for my brother's pc, with faulty internal (the usb case connectors) and external usb2.0 ports (the 3.0 ones work) for 20 usd. The error i receive is this "The last USB device you connected to this computer has malfunctioned and windows doesn't recognize it" The thing is, every other thing works, overclocks are stable (over 24hs of prime with small ffts), temperatures in the mobo and VRMs are normal, BIOS works as intended, there are no bent pins, and so forth. The seller said to me that he thinks that the "chip that controlls the usb 2.0 ports is faulty, as the 3.0 ports work as intended". He said to me that i could disable those ports and get away with a cheap PCI USB 2.0/3.0 card. I really don't know where the problem can be, but any help would be appreciated.
  13. I got this liquid cooler for free, i had a contac silent 12 from Thermaltake, but i couldn't refuse a free WC. I think ill wait a little more and make the jump to ryzen.
  14. Good idea, i've heard you set the multiplier up to 42 for the 2600 non-k with a Z or P series motherboard. Is that true?
  15. Thanks, i'll save a little more and maybe wait for Zen2 so the prices go down.
  16. Hi everyone! I had my gaming PC from like 2012, it has an Intel Core i7 2600 (non k, wasn't interested in oc back in the day) a Gigabyte H61M-S2V-B3 (my asus p8p67 died after my liquid cooler leaked), 8 GB of DDR3 1600MHz in dual channel RAM, an Nvidia GTX 970,a 600W EVGA Gold PSU, and an 240GB sata 3 SSD in a PCIe SATA 3 card+2TB HDD for games (all working great and brand new) After all this spectre/meltdown patches, i've started to notice my i7 2600 is showing some aging signs, stutter, freezing constantly, usage spikes in one or two threads, even after disabling them. GPU works at 20~25~% while CPU is pegged at 40~50% combined load (high usage on 1 or 2 threads) and such. I mostly play high IPC/CPU reliant games, and i run VMs to study sysadmin (no more than two at the same time). Right now i have two good deals for the money i currently have (student with some savings) a Ryzen 5 1600, Asrock x370 killer SLI, and 12 GB of DDR4 2666MHz RAM in dual channel for 370 USD. Problem is, i don't have all the money now, and the price tends to go up (screw inflation rofl). I tried to bring the price down putting a A320 chipset board, but the price change was negligible, and i lose the ability to OC. B350 and B450 boards have a 2~4 USD price difference (yes, my country is really weird with pricing) and 12 GB is the least i want to buy, as the price difference between 8 and 12 GB makes going for 8 GB not worth at all. On the other hand, i can get a Z68 motherboard, 8 GB of DDR3 and an i7 2600k for 254 USD, i can OC it to 4.3 GHz (i currently have a 120mm AIO), and i can get some extra cash selling my H61+i7 2600 combo. If i were to sell this actual mobo+cpu+ram combo, i could probably buy the ryzen platform (i am not interested in Zen+ or Zen2 atm), but, will it be worth? Will it make a difference in gaming performance? Any help would be appreciated, as im stuck on a dead end. EDIT: Added storage
  17. Hello everyone, i got this 1st gen ps3 with ylod, i used a reflow station and reflowed the chip with flux (this is because i got a spare RSX in new condition from another ps3 of mine that was used as a media center, but met her demise when she fell to the floor, luckily the chip is working) delidded and re applied new thermal paste and re-glued both chips ihs's. It works flawlessly, except that bluetooth and wifi don't work. I tried to update via usb, and at 99% i got the 8002F1F9 error code, and now my ps3 is stuck on firmware update loop. I can't even now if the ethernet works. Any help/ideas? I replace the antenna and the wifi/bt board, but that didn't do anything.
  18. Yes, will try that, the thing is, i tried to monitor usage on boot, but Windows 10 takes so much to load task manager after i put my password that i've gave up
  19. Hello everyone, i recently did a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro 1809 x64, because, after upgrading, i was having very weird problems (MSI afterburner not giving me the option to monitor my cpu temps/speed, really sluggish, really high boot time, etc) I have a Seagate Barracuda 1 TB 7200RPM HDD (bought in October 2018 new), with a 77,5 GB partition with Windows and my programs (50,6 GB free), and a 853 GB partition for my games (629 GB free). I have a WD Blue 1TB 7200 RPM (bought in February 2018 new) which i use to store my movies, VMs and other files. The thing is, after the fresh install, the computer was really fast, like, 1 second to open the file explorer, really snappy to boot, etc. But, when i downloaded the updates, all of that went to hell. The PC is awfully slow again, icons appear blank when booting to desktop until 40 seconds after boot, file explorer is sluggish, the HDD does grinding noises. I know is a HDD, but, my brother's WD Black works faster than mine, and he has really heavy programs (Autocad Suite). I tried: -Disabling Windows Search and Superfetch service (that helped a bit) -Disabling programas on boot, except for Windows Defender, Nvidia control panel and Realtek control panel) -Cleaning junk and defragging with windows defrag utiliy -Checked S.M.A.R.T (no errors) -Partitioned the disk in two during Windows installation -Disabled Spectre and Meltdown (more on that later) -Ran antivirus, antispyware, antimalware, adwcleaner, with no positives -Uninstalled Windows crapware I really don't know what more can i do, buying an SSD is on the to-do list, but it won't be happening right now, as im saving for an entire new pc. My current specs are: OS: Windows 10 Pro 1809 x64 CPU: Intel Core i7 2600 (disabled spectre/meltdown, gained a little boost all-around) Motherboard: Gigabyte GA H61m s2v b3 1.1 RAM: 8 GB DDR3 1333MHz in dual channel (they run at 1600MHz, but, chipset only supports 1333MHz) GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 970 HDD: 1TB Seagate Barracuda 64 MB cache (OS+Games partition)+1TB WD Blue 64 MB cache (no partitions).
  20. Thanks! I'll put then fans a tad faster then.
  21. Thanks! I was really concerned, i'll enjoy the gpu then!
  22. Hello everyone, i have a gtx 970, a zotac dual fan model. I recently chnaged the stock cooler for an arctic accelero twin turbo II, i saw a 20c degree drop on full load temps. One thing that worries me, is that te cooler fans don't blow aire over the VRMs, because of their placement on the board. This GPU doesn't have a sensor on the VRMs, but i touched the heatsinks that you glue onto them, and they were hot, not to the point that i had to remove the finger instinctively, but hot. I can't measure the exact temperature, but my main concern is, should i worry? We are in summer here, so ambient temps are like 30 to 42 degrees celsius.
  23. There you have an amd build that will last you a good amount of time, surely, you can add an ssd, i didnt add peripherals and monitor because that is a personal decision, but as-is, is a pretty solid build. Hope it helps giving you and idea. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor $165.99 @ Amazon CPU Cooler be quiet! - PURE ROCK 51.7 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler $36.35 @ OutletPC Motherboard MSI - B450-A PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard $69.99 @ B&H Memory Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory $144.99 @ Newegg Business Storage Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive $44.89 @ OutletPC Video Card EVGA - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB SC GAMING ACX 3.0 Black Edition Video Card $379.99 @ Amazon Case Phanteks - Eclipse P300 Tempered Glass (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case $59.99 @ Amazon Power Supply EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $66.54 @ B&H Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $998.73 Mail-in rebates -$30.00 Total $968.73 Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-10-05 12:19 EDT-0400
  24. In case of liquid metal, of the heatsink baseplate is made of aluminum, the gallium present in the LM will destroy it. Regarding the other pastes, thanks for your answer, if i were to order new paste, it'll take 1 week, and i am nor very pacient lol. Have a nice day sir
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