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Thanks for the advices, guys. I'll use a separate one just to avoid any possible problems.

Hi, forum. I have a GTX 1070ti and a Srix soar sound card. I wanted to ask can I use a single cable from my PSU to power them both or do I need to connect a separate one? The GPU is 8pin and the sound card is 6pin. The cable has such an option, but will it affect the performance of my GPU? Is this essentially a good practice? I have limited space in my H510 compact and I don't want to get messy with lots of cables. My PSU is a Seasonic Focus GX-750.

Thanks, I think probably because I flipped the controller and plugged the 3 coolers from the other side it doesn't get a read. I'll try to connect in the way you suggested. Thanks again, it worked!

I have a GigaByte X570 AORUS Elite s-AM4 X570 mobo and bequiet! Silent Base 801 case. The case has a fan controller, the manual says that for mobo control I have to connect the PWM cable from it to the mobo. The cable itself was too short, yet I managed to flip the controller inside the case and connected it to SYS_FAN1 on my mobo. The issue is that in BIOS Smart Fan control gives no info on case fans at all (those connected through the fan controller by PWM cable to SYS_FAN1). It just says N/A. Am I doing something wrong or maybe I misunderstood something? Is there a way for Smart Fan control to automatically control case fan speeds through the controller? The case has a speed switch, and I assume that in AUTO mode the mobo should take care of it?

I'm leaning towards 3700x but I'm still not quite sure now is the best time. I'll give it more thought and probably some time.

Thanks for the feedback, I guess I'll keep the mobo. I wanted to wait more for the prices to drop, but it might take a long time since I often check the prices and it really takes time for our retailers to react, they are not very eager to sell more by cutting some. I also wanted to ask if I really should buy 3800x or I can go with 3700x since performance-wise based on benchmarks it doesn't seem like there is a big difference?

Greeting, community II was planning to upgade my CPU to Ryzen 7 3800x cause I often do video editing/rendering besides my everyday work. I helped to build my friend's editing PC with 3800x and it's a beast. I have an ASRock b450m Steel Legend mATX motherboard (with latest bios installed) and I wanted ask if someone can give me some advice on should I use it with my existing MB or invest some additional cash into an x470 MB? I've searched the web and it seems like for basic everyday use my MB can handle 3800X ok. I might limit my CPU in terms of some features, but the performance should be fine for now. Should I stick to my MB or save some cash and eventually buy a newer x470 board? If there will be no strong limitations to CPU performance I can always upgrade the MB later. Also, I'm now using Gammaxx 400 to cool my Ryzen 7 1700, but my overclocking attempts with 1700 were quite painful. Also, the MB seems to have some problems when trying to OC the memory in 1 and 3 slots (which is mentioned in MB manual as well). Will my Gammaxx 400 be able to handle 3800x? Is my MB sufficient enough so I can stick with only CPU upgrade for now?

Chrome and multiple work applications eat up a lot, sucks that there is no workaround. Guess I'll still wait for the warranty to expire cause I'm not sure the store I bought it from will tolerate any such changes to the internals of the laptop (and it does not have quick access to RAM. Thanks for the help anyway.

Greetings, community, I have a small but rather serious problem that I have not been able to deal with myself. I have HP Envy x360 15-ds0000ur (6PS65EA) laptop, it is quite slow, heavy, the display quality is horrible and I feel like I massively overpayed for it, but that's only my fault. The worst thing about it is that it has 2 slots of 4Gb RAM (total of 8, which is not that good in 2020) and because Radeon RX Vega 6 Graphics uses 2 Gb or RAM (as much as I really don't need, mostly gaming on this hardware is not an option) I have performance problems. My available RAM is only 5,9 now, which strikes the performance hard. I've searched the web for a way to decrease Vega RAM usage to at least 512 Mb to free some RAM, but even HP support forum has no solution to this. The only thing I've found was to adjust the value in BIOS, but my BIOS version has no such options available, it only shows the memory, but will not allow me to change the value. HP forum staff commented that if there is no such option in BIOS - there is not way to fix this. Does anyone has any ideas or other solutions to this problem? I'm not sure that my laptop RAM is upgradable and since the warranty is still valid, I don't want to resort to this possible fix before it runs out to avoid voiding the warranty (also, it won't probably be cheap and I don't trust the quality of work of service providers in my city). I have updated the bios to the latest revision from the official site but there is still no option available.

I have a basic issue when my 5.1 system will work perfectly fine when watching 5.1 surround sound films in VLC for example (connected with 3 separate 3.5 mm), but when trying to listen to any other video or audio in Chrome or foobar2000 in stereo the sub will never work, thus cutting all the low freq. I tried two different sound cards (mb built-in Realtek and pcie Xonar SE), tried the swap LFE/center options in drivers of both of these cards but sub still refuses to play anything and is completely silent. It works in Windows if I connect it through toslink but then my system loses true 5.1 since it has no 5.1 decoder on it's own. I can theoretically use two connections separately, one for films and one for other audio (just constantly swapping), but I just wanted to ask maybe someone had this problem and has already found a workaround. I searched the forum and found a similar one, but I've already used the bass swap driver option suggested there and it didn't work.

Yea, I checked and it doesn't look good. Seems like AeroCool is selling these in bundles of 3 + a hub and a remote. I was unable to find this hub being sold separately anywhere yet.

I got my hands on two 140mm AeroCool Edge 14 ARGB coolers. They have 6-pin connectors (but also an adapter with basic PWM connector, and two specific MB connectors I don't recognize). It looks like my MB (ASrock B450M Steel Legend mATX) is not quite compatible with 6-pin but I can still connect these fans through basic PWM and they will work I guess? I just won't be able to play around with RGB? I have an AeroCool case and I wanted to get AeroCool P7-H1 fan hub for it, but it seems like it doesn't really do much when using the fans I've mentioned since it has a bunch of 4-pins anyway? Should I even bother with the hub or should I just connect these fans through PWM connectors (via the adapter) and they will work (but with no RGB control)? I can't really test this now since I'm at work, just wondering if someone can clarify.

I have Gammaxx 400 with an additional fan sitting on Arctic MX-4, two 140 front intakes and one back 120 exhaust. I also think (based on my OC shenanigans) that I can't really squeeze too much from my 7 1700 anyway. Thanks for the advice

Meaning that I can boost CPU frequency and voltage even more and have a more reliable and cool system overall?

I have an MSI B350 PC Mate ATX at home for my Ryzen 7 1700 (slight OC, 16 gb (4x4) 3000MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX Black and a Gigabyte 1070ti). I also have 1 PCIe m.2, one SATA SSD (EVO 860) and a WD Black 1 tb. I bought ASRock B450M Steel Legend mATX for my work Ryzen 3 2200G (got it pretty cheap new from a tech reviewer on an online marketplace). I was wondering if I could achieve better performance for my Ryzen 7 1700 if I switch the boards? Or there won't be any noticeable difference? The ASRock mb has 2 m.2 slots but PCIe Gen3 one is kinda picky when it comes to SSD manufacturers and the other one is SATA (and it also disables one of the SATA ports to be operational). I have only one GPU and no other devices so I don't need the extra PCIe slots. So is it worth the hassle?