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My PC is the best PC in the house, except the motherboard. It's not even that great, either. Ryzen 3600 64gb DDR4-3200 MSI B350M Bazooka MSI RTX 2080 Seahawk 1tb ADATA Legend 800 NVME 1tb PNY SSD 2x3tb HDD(6tb Windows storage space, recorded game videos storage) 3tb HDD Game storage drive 2x 32" LG 1080p 75hz FreeSync and 24" Acer 1080p 75hz My GF's PC 8700k 16gb DDR4-3200 Asus ROG STRIX Z370 MSI GTX 1080Ti Windforce Samsung 256gb NVME 2tb HDD storage drive AOC 26" 1080p It wouldn't bother me if her PC was better than mind, and I'd happily build her a better one if she wanted it. The one she has now though goes to waste, because she all she plays is Sims 4.
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Why do people cool down mostly the CPU?
raduque replied to Ergroilnin's topic in Custom Loop and Exotic Cooling
Many of the GPUs available are what's called "Partner AIB" or "partner add-in boards", I.E.: MSI, Asus, XFX, etc graphics cards. These are usually made with custom PCBs and non-reference cooling solutions, which means you need to source a waterblock specifically to fit your particular model of card. For example, a block that will fit an MSI RX580 may not fit an Asus RX580, and definitely will not fit an RTX2070. This is mainly due to mounting hole spacing and component layout. Motherboard CPU cooler mounting is generally a standard, however, so a CPU cooler is generally interchangeable between a Gigabyte or Asrock motherboard, including parts to fit AMD's or Intel's various socket sizes. Therefore a company can produce one product that can reasonably expected to fit your CPU and motherboard combination regardless. -
I just put a Corsair H60 in my Eclipse P400. I picked it for a couple reasons. 1) I got it locally (NO aircoolers available within a 45 minute drive) 2) Paid around $55 (had gift cards to Best Buy) 3) Clearance issues around my Corsair RGB ram 4) Wanted to go watercooling That being said, it's kind of a tight fit in the P400, and I couldn't put it where I wanted (upper rear intake) due to the CPU power connector on my motherboard. I had to put it on the back as an intake, and the hoses kinda curve in an awkward (to me) way. But, compared to the stock cooler on my AMD Ryzen 5 3600, I topped out at around 75c running Cinebench20 compared to 96c. "Idle" temp is 38-40c.
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OP is talking about the RGB connector, not the fan power connector.
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Yeah, it's a great car. Soft comfy seats, smooth ride, V6 engine and gets 30mpg on the highway.
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I prefer cats, but I have had both. My cat companion of 22 years passed away in 2017, so I only have my dog right now, as I'm not ready to get another cat.
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My daily driver is a 2000 Buick LeSabre, light blue with a towing package (lol) and a cheap Pioneer with bluetooth. Oh wait, you meant tech stuff: Galaxy S10e + Gear S3 Frontier Galaxy Tab S4 Acer Ultrabook with a crappy low-res touchscreen, i5-4200u, 8gb, 240gb SSD R5 3600, 16gb Corsair Vengeance RGB @ 3200mhz, MSI RX580, MSI B350 Bazooka, PNY XLR8 480gb SSD, Toshiba 2.5" 1tb HDD, WD Blue 1tb HDD, Phanteks Eclipse p400 tempered glass RGB, 2x matched 24" 1080p displays, Logitech G610 keyboard, Corsair Scimitar Pro RGB
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any idea why my gpu has 4gb vram but only uses 3500mhz of it?
raduque replied to nelska's topic in Graphics Cards
I think having matched monitors is best. I have a pair of 24" 1080p 60hz monitors that I bought the time. I had been using an old Dell 20" 1680x1050 and a 22" 1080p display along with my old laptop's 17" 1080p display and moving windows around the monitors was a jarring and unpleasant experience. You'll have to check in your BIOS to see if you can enable the IGP. -
any idea why my gpu has 4gb vram but only uses 3500mhz of it?
raduque replied to nelska's topic in Graphics Cards
In the first 4 tests (no YouTube videos playing) the poster ran, those are called "Margin of Error results". Meaning that the difference is the margin of error due to test conditions not being 100% exactly the same during each benchmark. If you run a benchmark and get 100fps, then you immediately run it again and get 101fps, statistically, that means nothing. -
any idea why my gpu has 4gb vram but only uses 3500mhz of it?
raduque replied to nelska's topic in Graphics Cards
If you can even enable the IGP on your system, you will lose overall system ram. That section of memory will be permanently locked off from access by the rest of the system by the Intel video drivers. You won't hurt anything by running two monitors off your GPU, trust me. -
any idea why my gpu has 4gb vram but only uses 3500mhz of it?
raduque replied to nelska's topic in Graphics Cards
Multimonitor doesn't lower the performance of any GPU unless you are using both monitors to display the game, because your screen resolution goes up. For example, I have dual 1080p monitors. I can run my game at 1920x1080 and get normal performance, or run it at 3840x1080 and use both monitors and suffer reduced performance. -
any idea why my gpu has 4gb vram but only uses 3500mhz of it?
raduque replied to nelska's topic in Graphics Cards
When you have a dedicated, or discrete GPU, in most cases your integrated GPU, or IGP, is disabled by the system bios. If you want to use dual monitors, your dedicated GPU should have multiple outputs for monitors. As for the GPU memory/VRAM issue: 1) 3500MHZ is the speed your ram runs at. It's actually more like 1750mhz, because the data rate is clock-quadroupled, for a total speed of 7,000mhz. 2) Your GPU board has 4gb of ram physically attached to it for what's called the framebuffer. the frame buffer is where the GPU stores the picture you see on the screen (resolution, geometry, textures and effects) 3) It shows 12gb in that windows dialog because the GPU driver extends the framebuffer into system memory when needed. Such as when the resolution, geometry, textures and effects of the game exceed the physical VRAM on the card. You do not want this to happen, because when you do, you incur a massive performance hit because system ram is much slower than GPU RAM. The GPU ram is "closer" and runs at a much higher speed. 4)Unless you are having performance issues, you don't actually need to concern yourself with any of this. Simply keep the GPU driver up to date and keep the fan clean of dust, and you'll be fine! Edit: 5) If your CPU's integrated GPU is disabled by the system BIOS, then it is NOT using your system ram.