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Hello! I'm having trouble deciding what sort of PSU I should get. I would love to overclock my EVGA FTW3 3090, but I'm already living on the edge at around 850w (my current PSU is an EVGA G3 850w) and I don't want to push it. Do I go for the 1300/1200w or will I be completely safe with something like the EVGA GT 1000? All I know for sure is I'd like a modular power supply, and I'm willing to jump from the EVGA ship given a better option. Intel Core i7 12700KF (OC) EVGA FTW3 3090 (stock core and memory clock) 32 GB DDR5 (2x16) 12+ case fans (with RGB) Lots of peripherals controller, mouse, keyboard etc (probably negligable) EVGA Supernova G3 850w Noctua D15 Chromax TLDR: Is 1000w good for an oc'd 3090 + i7 11700kf? If so, which one? If not, what is a good safe size? Thank you!

Solution for this was surprisingly simple. I made a folder in the location it was looking for one. Haven't had an issue with that log file any longer.

Long story short, my computer has been crashing during not just gaming, but even sitting around on Discord. The blue screens have been going on for around 3 or 4 days now, with nothing significant happening to have started it. Perhaps a Windows update? I'm not sure. Here is what the Event Viewer had: From what I read, the folder "TileDataLayer" isn't even used anymore. Has anyone ever had this issue? Is there a nice way of finding out the program responsible and fixing it? Also just in case, I took away all my over-clocks until this is solved. [Build] Windows 10 Pro (stable release) i7 8700k GTX 1070 TI Teamforce Delta 2x8 3000ghz Crucial mx500 m.2 2x 2TB Seagate Barracudas

I'm sure someone else can confirm but my hunches are among these: -ddr3 may be too slow to feed the GPU -processor may be too slow to feed the GPU -psu may be too low to power everything at full load

So my friend finally got a new GPU to replace his ooooold Radeon. He now has a Vega64. It performs supremely well compared to the old card, but the problem is now at the desktop. He currently uses an OLD tv has his monitor which is a 16:10 thinking that is is 1920 x 1080. His desktop always had to use the Radeon "HDMI scaling" to make sure his desktop didn't extend past the screen's boundaries. Upon installing the new card and of course using the driver uninstall, doing windows updates etc, HDMI scaling now makes the desktop lag! What could cause something like this? I have a few thoughts. -The new GPU isn't the default GPU of the system, so the desktop rendering is actually done by the cpu, etc. (can't find default GPU settings) -The resolution needs to be 1920 by 1200 (cannot change, or even add a custom resolution for some reason) -The tv is just horrible anyway, and for 80 bucks he needs to just buy a new one. Any thoughts?

Looks like it's just a silly Windows bug.

Very interesting! Right clicking a folder did make it pop up. I wonder if it's linked to me turning off Windows Search!

So I have a MYSTERY going on in my taskbar. It pops up randomly, and hides itself in the dropdown section. It can also stack, as I saw around 5 of this mysterious icon at once! Once I hover over them, it vanishes. I can't right click for options or anything, and I can't pinpoint the service through the task manager. Any ideas what this thing may be? It's a magnifying glass for sure. But for what?

Thanks for all these awesome answers! I think I'm down to the big question. Duel channel does look pretty awesome, and I feel so silly for not considering this when I built this thing! So this leads me to one FINAL question (I've done a lot of eBay/amazon/etc searching too). Do I... 1. Buy some of the same ram to unlock duel channel mode, and reach 32gb total (I do digital art and that doesn't require that overkill one bit) 2. Find a deal on 2x 8gb sticks of RAM at a higher clock speed (preferably 3200)

So I've been thinking about upgrading my current RAM, which is a 2400Mhz G.SKILL Aegis 16GB. My processor is a i7 8700k that reaches well over 4.4Mhz, and GPU is a 1070TI with 8gb of video memory. So I have a few questions! 1. Am I better off buying another G.Skill 16gb at 2400Mhz and use a duel-channel memory setup? 2. Should I just get 2x 8GB ram sticks at 3200Mhz, which apparently is the sweet spot for performance? (and sell my old RAM) 3. Should I just not care at all? Thank you!

It won't even show up in SeaTools so I can't even check the S.M.A.R.T or anything.

So I'm trying to re-purpose my laptop into a fighting game console for my TV, and my SHDD doesn't seem to exist anymore. The system is running an SSD with a fresh windows 10 install. Here are the problems I've been running into: 1. Within Disk Management, the drive's size is unknown, and not initialized. 2. The drive doesn't want to be initialized upon right clicking. 3. When pressing initialize and choosing a boot type, it says "device which does not exist was specified" I've erased all partitions previously, but I'm not sure why my disk doesn't want to cooperate. It could be dead, but before replacing I'd like to confirm it isn't a software thing.

Thanks! I've seen videos about replacing burnt up thermal paste from bitcoin miner GPUs, so was just wondering. But if the temps are good than no need for me to worry!

Hello friends. So my rig includes a used (from Ebay) GTX 1070 TI, and I've been doing some thinking. The GPU was released a little over a year ago, which doesn't exactly mean much for age... but when would be a good time to re-apply thermal paste? Should I even bother? Game temps run the card from 50c - 70c, but as I understand that is not horrible.

Thank you all for your help! I think the reason why I can't see the integrated is because it was "disabled" by the motherboard automatically. Because windows still showed up before the GPU was even installed. Thanks again!

You guys are awesome! Incredibly helpful. So a couple things. I may as well have integrated graphics, since it won't do anything negative, only help if my gpu decides to *fart sound* As for getting the integrated graphics to begin with, I can't find it anywhere! It wasn't in the driver list, either.

Hello everyone! I recently built a new computer, featuring an i7 8700k, and a GTX 1070 TI. I noticed during driver installation, there wasn't anything about an integrated graphics driver. (the mb: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/TUF-Z390-PRO-GAMING/) I know very well that the 1070TI can handle gaming, however, would having an integrated graphics installed do anything at all? Would it take the strain away from the GPU during gaming, or would it not matter because the processor has to deal with it anyway? Other than that, I have a lot of ports (PCI-E of many types) to use. Would it benefit my computer if I were to have a dedicated (but weak) GPU just for handling Windows 10, and non-gaming things? Or does it really not matter too much in the end? In a nutshell: -Would an integrated graphics driver help take strain away from a single GPU -Would having a dedicated (cheap) gpu to fill a PCI-E slot be a nice alternative to integrated graphics -Does it even matter?