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Ive done that, I stay up to date pretty frequently on the mobo in hopes that some of the weirdness clears up but I went ahead and purchased a new MSI x570 Tomahawk and upgraded to the 3800x. Boots and posts everytime, done with gigabyte boards for a while I think. Thanks for your help, good luck to OP.

Not to hijack the post, but same boat here. I expect new chipsets coming our way in the near future, but the gigabyte aorus ultra gaming x470 I have has been a constant PITA and im pretty sure the main bios is toast and its now always having to boot to the backup (i have to double reset to get post).... so right now Im looking at grabbing an MSI Mag Tomahawk x570 to replace it (and upgrade from my 2700x to a 3800x that was given to me for straightening the pins back) Should i limp on this crappy x470 board some more and wait for the next lineup of AMD boards or just get the x570 and not worry about it for a while.

This was another thought I had, and used CC cleaner to see if there were any registry hiccups around the NVidia architecture or anything GPU related, and some things did come up and were cleared... I cant say for sure performance got better, but I can say I've seen no issues since, So I'd hazard a guess that it helped.

My drivers were completely updated, as far as the "game-ready drivers" The solve for me was switching over to NVidias "Studio Driver" for a while and I think I'm now back on the GR Drivers in a new version... Seeing a LOT less bugs, but certain games like Wolftenstein Young Blood (which is funny because it came with the RTX card) are still running like trash... It may be on my end, going to try wiping the games that arent running right completely and fresh installs of those..

So I recently bought an Alienware R3 which was a refurbished unit. I noticed immediately that it runs pretty toasty... not roasting my nuts level, but pretty damn toasty. I also notice the fans ramp up pretty high and pretty often, and after a very SMALL bit of googling, I see that just about anyone with an alienware laptop who has pulled off the heatsink has discovered atrocious thermal compound applications from factory and often times very little grease even on the chips themselves but squeezed out all over the chipset. That alone has me breaking out my tool kit and a tube of IC Diamonds 7carat, a Thermal Compound I am familiar with, and have had great results with in the past. I have also seen the likes of iUnlock and a lot of other folks going one further and using Conductonaut from Thermal Grizzly and getting simply amazing results with that, but I have my reservations on doing it myself for a couple reasons. 1- I dont have any Conductonaut, so theres 20$ (Not a total cheapskate, but I already have IC Diamonds here, free) 2- Ive never applied Liquid Metal before.... doesnt look insanely hard, Im no novice to system building and cracking open computers, soldering, desoldering, etc... but never having done it before, my first go at it will undoubtedly not be perfect. 3- What is the lifetime on a LM application? Im concerned I will be back in the system and re-applying sooner than I'd be with any other Thermal Grease... but maybe Im wrong, I just havent seen a lot of hard numbers on life-span. 4- Ive read that the nickel plated copper heatsink in the alienware system does allow the LM to leech into the copper, does anyone have experience with this? Am I asking for trouble down the road? I do want to sell this laptop in 3 or 4 years. Basically thats all my questions/concerns, which are plenty.... I just dont know if LM is the avenue for me, but the performance gains are DEFINITELY the X-factor for me as I am an overclocking/low temp enthusiast. Alienware R3 13" 2017 release i7-7700HQ GTX 1060 32gb 2166 DDR4 512gb Toshiba m.2 ssd To elaborate with actual numbers Im running Intel XTU CPU stress test to put the CPU under load and Unigine Heaven 4.0 Benchmark for the GPU and in the time-frame of one benchmark run the temps Im seeing are: Hottest and Second hottest CPU cores reaching 92 and 95 degrees C respectively (my coolest core being 89) and my GPU hitting a max of 91 c

Just upgraded from a GTX1080 FE to an RTX 2070S FE, and hoping for a glitch-free upgrade experience was apparently too much to ask for. Im getting all kinds of small isolated issues with the graphics, including a nasty screen tear at one point on my G-Sync monitor ?!? My cursor disappears, the screen edges get confused, etc... Everything comes back to Jesus after a reset, but I shouldnt have to reset my system so often... wondering if anyone else has had issues with the super series...

I am a lighting designer for concerts/events etc... so I work with a lot of tech savvy people, audio engineers, riggers, etc, all of these guys use CAD software and other virtual design stuff so USUALLY, its not like being IT-Guy for your grandparents... but without fail one of my lighting buddies with no real first hand experience with PCs other than buying them at best-buy will say, "Hey man, I'm thinking of building my own rig like you did...." now I used to get really excited when this would happen, in my mind I immediately start calculating what CPUs and GPUs are out and on sale, what kind of power we could put into a nice rig for the person, and how excited they would be to have a super nice, super fast system that they got to build first hand with me.... I said USED TO. Because this has happened at least 5 times now, and EVERY SINGLE TIME... they buy some OP desktop from Wal-Mart and say to me, "Ahhh man, I bought a pre-built, I got thinking about it and building my own would be too hard" I LITERALLY JUST OFFERED TO SPEC AND BUILD IT FOR YOU!!??!! And SHOW YOU what I'm doing so you can see its NOT HARD and you can DO IT YOURSELF. ... I still have by far the nicest PC of all my Lighting Desginer colleagues ... lol.

Whats up guys, new to the LTT forums... just looking for some use-based recommendations. Heres the deal, Ive always had 17" gaming laptops for my job, always, and finally I've decided my backs had enough traveling with them, so I ordered a 2017 Razer Blade 14" Whats a good bag that will protek, but ultimately will be a nice sleek change from massive 4 zipper bags I was having to shop for my 17" Bonus points for cross body strap options.