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Hey Everyone! I've had something a little weird happen to me this afternoon. I was playing Horizon Zero Dawn on my PC for the first time and all of a sudden the game froze and the audio went nuts as is usual with a game crash but then I've reset my PC with the reset button and now my 2060 Super will not put out a video signal. (This card has NEVER been overclocked and never heats to over 70c while gaming) So my troubleshooting is as follows: - Tried 2060 Super in different PC with same result (no video) - Installed my backup GTX 960 4GB which boots fine (Also, All ram sticks are still working perfectly with XMP enabled @ 3000mhz & all other hardware is functioning fine when the 960 boots to Windows) - Removed all but 1 stick of RAM & tried to boot with 2060 Super with no success (no matter which of the 4 sticks I tried and they all work as mentioned in the step before) At this point I'm starting to think Horizon Zero Dawn has bricked my GPU for some unknown reason which is weird because it's definitely not the most GPU intensive game I play on my PC. Just wondering if anyone else has had a sudden crash in-game resulting in a permanent GPU death before ?

Hey All, I'm currently in the process of building my 2nd gaming PC and would like some advice on what direction I should have the fans on my 240mm AIO (top mounted) blowing. I have heard that it may only change the temps on the CPU up or down 2 - 3 degrees either way. My main gaming PC has an NZXT Z63 front mounted with the fans pulling air in through the mesh front of the case & over the radiator which has worked fantastically for me so far. As i have never top mounted an AIO before i was wondering what everyone's preference was ? To either have the fans blowing hot case air up & out of the case (how i was originally going to do it) or to have it being pulled in and exhausted out the back with 120mm fan. I have also installed 3 x 120mm fans in the front for maximum fresh air flow so it's not like the case air is going to get incredibly hot. Thanks !

I've just DDU'd it just incase it was the drivers so I'll reinstall & check out what config it's running in. Thanks for that.

Hey Everyone... I've got a bit of a weird issue with my 2nd Gaming PC's GPU. I've recently built my 2nd rig (specs follow) purely for "displaying" a very decent looking and somewhat sentimental GPU of mine (believe that if you will haha). Mobo: Asus Prime A320M-K (with latest BIOS) CPU: Ryzen 5 2600 (Cooled by 120mm AIO) RAM: 8GB DDR4 @ 2666mhz GPU: nVidia Geforce GTX 690 Founders Edition PSU: Cooler Master MWE White 750W Now I have just installed the new 750W PSU as I knew this GPU was going to be quiet power hungry and the nvidia "minimum" power requirement was 650W so I was trying to give it more than it needed. Having done that, I now try to run benchmark tools like Unigine Heaven & Valley... 3D Mark Firestrike & Skydiver etc. Almost instantly as soon as the GPU ramps up to around 80 - 99% usage it starts having what you'd call "micro-freezes" that some last longer than others. Until eventually it will kick me back to desktop with no error codes or anything. I've tried keeping an eye on the heat which maxes out at 81 degrees Celsius. I have also checked the "usage" section in HW Monitor which tells me that I've hit the "reliable voltage limit" which is very weird as I thought the PSU would be more than enough for this GPU. Hopefully all that made sense. Let me know if you need to know anything else. Thanks guys!

Wow! So I just thought I would google the issue again and it turns out that it's the MSi Afterburner overlay software... As soon as i closed it Half Life 2 fired right up!. That's insane!

No luck. Does the exact same thing. This is a very odd issue.

Hi Everyone, I am currently having a rather frustrating issue with any game that uses the hl2.exe program (Half Life 2, Portal etc.) The game launches and I get around 2 - 3 seconds of the first audio with NO video at all (Usually it would be the man with a tap on the back of his head) and then the game freezes forcing me to quit through the task manager. I have submitted a ticket with Steam support but they've just listed a bunch of launch command options for me to try. I have so far tried the following things to fix- - All OS & Driver updates have been completed. - I have removed any entry of Half Life 2 from the registry & removed all leftover files from Steam Apps folder, Then clean installed the game again (Please note that I am also having this issue with Portal) - I have tried all of the launch command options within Steam (-windowed & -32bit etc.) - I have tried clicking the "Wait for the program to respond" option when the game freezes - I have tried "optimizing" the game settings from within nVidia Control panel (it said it had optimized as per usual but did nothing to help the game launching) - I have installed Half Life 2 & Portal onto another gaming PC that I have with slightly older specs but with the same Windows 10 build and it works flawlessly. PC Specs: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 AIO: NZXT Kraken Z63 MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus B450 M RAM: 32GB Cosair Vengeance LPX @ 3000mhz GPU: RTX 2060 Super 8GB SSD: Samsung 860 Pro 2TB Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is one of my favourite games and I'm completely unable to play it.

Hey Guys, I really need some help with this one. I know Linus & Many many more do so many videos on which GPU to purchase at which price range it's not even funny but I'm finding it so hard to choose whether or not a CHEAP RTX 2060 is going to perform worse than an EXPENSIVE GTX 1660 Ti (or 1660 Super). My budget is $500 AUD and my current CPU is a Ryzen 5 2600 (stock clock) so I don't think either the 2060 or 1660 Ti should be anywhere near bottlenecking (Will be looking at R5 3600 later this year). But my choices at this price range (on PC Case Gear or Mwave) are the Galax RTX 2060 EX OC 6GB ($499 ex postage) OR The awesome looking MSi GTX 1660 Ti Gaming X 6GB ($479 ex postage). I have no experience with GALAX at all and don't want to buy a dodgy GPU, MSi on the other hand, I have never had an issue with! My main game titles I love to play are Division (1 & 2), NFS Heat & World of Warcraft. I'm hoping to remain at a stable 75 fps in either of these games with this GPU which I think should be doable (I don't mind having to "Optimize" with GeForce experience to get the stable frames but currently my GTX 1070 isn't keeping up with the pressure. Would greatly appreciate a fresh pair of eyes looking at this! Thanks very much. I really appreciate these forums as I live out in a rural country town in QLD, Australia and have nobody to brainstorm these kind of things with.

Hi Everyone, Just wondering if anyone has had any overclocking experience with the Zotac GTX 1070 AMP Core Edition GPU ? I seem to have the only GPU on the market these days that doesn't come with some form of "1-click OC" in the software. I have no OC'ing experience (CPU or GPU) and would like to know how far I can push this thing (safely) until my RTX 2060 arrives ? Would like to get a few more fps in NFS: Heat to stable it out on my 75 Hz monitor (Currently running around 68 - 70ish) Cheers, Gage

Hey Everyone, So I've recently purchased Need For Speed: Heat and during the first run (and every run after) the game has had rather high CPU usage (80% - 100%). Initially I thought that was due to my outdated CPU (i7-3770) paired with the GTX 1070 but I have now upgraded to a Ryzen 5 2600 paired with the same GPU and I'm getting roughly the same amount of CPU usage. I've even tried turning the graphics settings to "Auto" hoping that it will maybe drop some settings to stop the CPU stressing. It might just be a terribly optimized game, I'm not sure... Just wanted to check as I didn't think it should be maxing out the 2600. Thanks, Gage

Hey Everyone, I've recently purchased an Asus TUF Gaming notebook (specs will follow) and have noticed that the Ryzen 5 3550H reaches a max temp of 89c. I haven't had much experience with the Ryzen CPU's yet and i figured obviously the laptop ones are going to vary greatly from the desktop variant. Can anyone tell me what the safe operating temps are for this CPU ? and also, When the CPU thermal throttles ? Haven't been able to spot any performance drops as of yet but would still like to know. SPECS: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3500H RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4 GPU: GTX 1050 3GB SSD: Samsung 970 Pro m.2 NVMe Thanks very much! ?

Thanks ? I'll let him know for when it happens again. Also... Your Corsair Vengeance LPX ram is listed in your signature as 32Ghz not 32GB (thought you'd like to know... Not being a smarta**) Thanks for the help everyone!

Definitely Dual channel for the RAM... Not sure whether 8 or 16 GB though. I completely understand that there would be a bottleneck with that CPU + GPU combo and he’s not trying to OC, Just can’t even get through a complete session of X Flight with crashing or blue screening (IRQL error mostly he says) He’s checked all drivers etc twice over. Have advised that he tries a Gigabyte G1 Sniper H6.

Hey Guys, Didn't really know where else to come with this one. My friend has recently purchased a "refurbished gaming PC" which has the following specs: CPU - i7-4770 (non k) GPU - Gigabyte GTX 1080 Watercooled Xtreme Gaming DDR3 RAM (8GB I think) The problem is that all of this hardware is running on what is showing in HWMonitor as a "Lenovo Shark bay" motherboard and from what i can find is only out of Lenovo Office PC's. I have explaining that the performance issues are due to this motherboard. When contacting the IT store he bought it from they stated that "I know nothing about computers and that the motherboard was fine" I've advised my friend to pickup a cheap 2nd hand 1150 mobo for the i7-4770 and his performance. Am i losing my mind or would this motherboard just completely "lock" all of his CPU features and bottleneck performance ? Any help would be great.

Hey All, I've recently upgraded a few components in my PC and have noticed that I have a "Non-K" option in the bios of my motherboard (ASRock Z77 Fatality Performance). I have just upgraded from an i5-2500 to an i7-3770 (both non-k). Just wondering if anyone would be able to explain simply how this non-k overclock feature works and whether I should be messing around with it at all in the first place. Cheers.

Just ran the benchmark again with Multi-GPU disabled and had the same result only 10 - 15 frames avg slower lol. I have also tried running with & without V-Sync. It's the weirdest thing. I'm running the benchmark now on my other system which has a placeholder RX 550 card to make sure it's not the game.

Hey Everyone, I've just installed & benchmarked Dirt Rally on my system and have been pleasantly surprised with the fps that I'm getting. However, while benchmarking I have experienced a weird "flash" intermittently throughout. I have posted a non-listed youtube video for reference. This also occurs during normal gameplay however, only with this game. I have not had any trouble with this GPU at all (Still runs fantastic and sits comfortably @ 70c while in-game.

It seems to be a RAM issue for sure. Your option here didn't work but I lowered the FSB to 400 (for the original target of 3.2Ghz) and put my RAM to 801Mhz @ 1.80 v and i finally got the windows loading circle however it blue screened and gave me an error "Page_fault_in_nonpaged_area". Frustrating that it was as easy as it was for the guy in the original video... I didn't think you had to change the ram speeds at all. ? It's set back to original 2.40GHz now until i figure out what's going on.

The lowest setting on was either "931Mhz" or AUTO. Fairly certain it's only 800Mhz RAM though. (Attached image of sticker on side of RAM)

Spread Spectrum for CPU is now disabled (Also, This CPU is LGA 775). Load Line Calibration is also disabled (Intel Spec according to mobo) Still not posting. Is this odd ? or am I just not meant to OC stuff? lol

I've attached a few images of my BIOS settings after changing your recommendations. Can you see anything I've done wrong because the system won't post until I do a forced power cycle on it after applying those settings? I thought I had the RAM wrong at 5 - 5 - 5 - 15 and the RAM actually states on it that it's 5-5-5-12 so that should be fine now.

When you say "Use specified" you mean, Specified on the RAM or "AUTO" on the motherboard? The RAM has the timing & voltage on the side but i thought if i just left it to auto it'd be okay. I was wrong apparently.

MB: Asus P5Q-E RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR2 (2 x 2GB)

Hey Everyone, So I've decided to overclock the Q6600 system I have here at home in hopes of pairing it with a GTX 760. The CPU is running at its base clock (2.40 GHz) and I have heard that this particular CPU can be comfortably OC'd to 3.2 GHz which I would like to achieve. I would like to point out at this time that I have NEVER overclocked any piece of hardware I've owned... I've always been too worried about damaging the hardware. I have searched around youtube etc. for videos showing how to do this (see below) and for some reason even if I follow each step I am unsuccessful. The computer shuts off when "saving & exiting bios" as it should but then won't post until i do a 30-sec power cycle on it and then I receive an "overclocking failed" error at which time I restore optimized defaults and try again. Can anyone help me with this? Please, Treat me like an alien when it comes to OC'ing as I do not understand what voltage etc. I need to change and do I need to follow the RAM steps on this video? I do not want to overclock the RAM. It's quite frustrating when everyone else has been able to successfully OC a CPU or GPU and every time I try, I don't even know where to start. How do you know what voltage you need at what clock speed? argh.. lol. Any help would be appreciated. P.S I really did try to source every piece of information before posting this here because the last thing I wanted is to come across as a "noob". This is the only aspect of PC building I have not yet ventured into. Thanks ? )

I've just been trying what you said and for some reason, every now and then the GPU decides to lock its core to 214Mhz at which time I have to DDU the drivers and reinstall... But weirdly I can go directly back to my last OC attempt and be stable until I try again. It's like the software doesn't want me to change the GPU core more than once without DDU'ing the drivers.