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Fair enough, didn't realise that! I retract my prior statement lol.

I don't mind fairly long load times, but anything over 2mins is a lot. I have an entire 2Tb drive atm for games though. Plus a 500Gb SSD.

A modern console has an OS and a CPU inside it :P. Couldn't the odyssey only be used to play games? Which would make it the antithesis to a PC

I'd say in terms of defining PC, I'd say anything that wasn't all in one. Something you could pull apart and change bits out on a consumer level.

I'd say that's more an early console lol.

That is possibly the nerdiest, yet coolest, thing I've never thought of...

Well if that's all it is, then can always just ask here. Essentially the 1070 is a little worse than the Vega 56 and that runs perfectly with an AMD 2600X, so I'd say pairing it with that or a 2600 should go smoothly. Seeing as you can pick that and a motherboard up for about the cost of an Intel CPU on its own (at least here), it would help with the budget you have too. All in all, for a budget of $1200 not including the GPU, you could get yourself a beastly PC.

So yeah, as the title, what was your first PC that you remember owning? For me, it was a HP Pavillion 4450 lol. Got it on my 16th birthday as a gift from my parents. Had the following, whopping specs: CPU: 400MHz Intel Celeron RAM: 64MB GPU: ATI Rage Pro Storage: 6.4Gb Take a look at the beautiful beast lol So now that you are clearly all jealous, what systems started all of you off to PC building and what-not?

Ah that's my bad, I called it service lighting lol. I just fired up Destiny 2 again now after buying the forsaken pack. First time I tried it the load screens were unbearable at like 4-5 minutes a time... But that was running on a 5-6 year old regular HDD. Finally bit into the SSD craze for this build and got myself a WD Black NVMe drive... Thing is so fast that I find myself avoiding to even bother using the 2TB BarraCuda I got... Cut the load screens down to like 20 secs too!

I'm on AORUS to, the X470 board. Sometimes it's there, others it isn't which is bizarre and annoying. Normally when a game gives the error, it'll be there to close down for me though. Can't help with that one I'm afraid lol! I have this after buying my 2600X and loaded it up. I enjoyed it enough, but having a kid and only getting to game in intervals when he's asleep, having missions taking more than an hour with no option to save progress inbetween just ain't going to cut it for me. At least you know the fix now if it affects any other games though :).

Np, took me a bit to figure it out. It's always worked fine for me from there. It's apparently an issue with the method used to detect cheat software and apparently affects ASUS Sync as well in some games.

Even AMD chips ain't that fragile. It's not uncommon for people who have bent the pins to bend them back into place. Credit/Bank cards work wonders for this lol. That said, if it were open and dropped pin down, there's a chance a static charge could've done damage, but as it's in the plastic, it'll be fine.

For me it's mostly Realm Grinder and any clicker/tycoon type thing that keeps me occupied going from A to B really. They can also be handy for absent minded playing when watching the kids.

Tbh, a lot of online games on PC have clans and the like anyways, so when you get some games, join one of those for people to play with.

If a review told you your favourite game sucked, would you change your mind on that as well? Let people enjoy things.

Honestly speaking, only ever buy PSU from well known brands. Personally, I stick to Corsair or EVGA.

Just seen this now and that you refunded, but tbh I would have said no go on that. Sounds to me like he messed with it and broke it, then tried to play it off as your fault. In your situation I would have said if you were providing support, he should have contacted you in the first instance to see if a fault could be diagnosed, not to rip it out and try again with another board. Could have done any number of things to it in that space of time, including dropping and breaking the CPU. As for the cooler causing the restart, aye that can definitely happen because it's not doing its job and cooling the CPU. The CPU would get hot within seconds and shut down. If it didn't, it would continue heating up and fry it. Is he returning the CPU and m/b? Might well be he tried overclocking it and basically murdered it or something along those lines.

I am somewhat baffled that you went so far as to get a Ryzen CPU with a Vega 56, but skimped out on only 8GB of RAM. Ryzen CPU's are heavily RAM dependent and there are reports of single channel going as far as halving the performance. That said, this may sound obvious, but are you turning on V-Sync?

Well, firstly, what hardware do you have/what was replaced? What W, brand and is there a bronze/silver/gold rating on the PSU? How old is the PSU? I can't see the power consumption in the rest of the house having any effect whatsoever, because it's not like the mains supply is limited to however many watts you have on the PSU. If it were an issue with your PSU, taking it to a friends wouldn't improve it, this would lead me to believe it's possibly a faulty power socket. Is it plugged into an extension? Is that extension plugged in to more extensions (already a bad idea...)? Is it plugged directly into the wall? Have you tried testing it in a different plug socket, if possible one from a totally different socket, so if it's a double, move it to an entirely different one, not just the one next to it. Further to the issue itself, what are you classing as frame drops and what exactly are you experiencing? Dropping from 60 to 55 is still a frame drop, but may not be outside expectations.

Iirc, dual channel will show half of the speed of the RAM, as it's splitting it across both sticks on the DIMM group. Could be that the laptop is showing full speed as it might well be a single module?

It certainly could indicate that the PSU is almost at a point of failure. Could be the components within it are ok for leaving it idle, but the moment you try and do something it either heats up too much, capacitors are having issues, or it could be damaged and affecting the available wattage.

I believe I recall seeing something about TR CPU's having heating issues. What temps are you getting on the PC? I've had system freezes when it gets too hot to function properly, but not enough to kill it.

Tbh with the specs you have, realistically you'll need pretty much an entirely new PC. The RAM you have won't fit the new board either, so you'll need new RAM, Mobo, CPU & PSU.

It seems common with a few games, Vermintide II is the same. Close a process called ServiceLighting and it'll load fine.

One thing I've heard with Intel chips is that it can (this is likely more a m/board quality thing than anything though) be easy to misalign the CPU and bend/break the pins and permanently mess up the board when you secure the level. Is this true? Or does it take a pretty strong amount of dedication to bent them seeing as they are built in to the board? And further if you 'do' manage to somehow do that, can the pins be fixed with a credit card like with an AMD CPU?