RainingTacco

Nah you've just experienced the wonders of 5700 xt! You've said that the GPU artifacts, does it artifact in normal non OC mode? Are temps and especially VRAM temps under normal? I don't know if RMA card will do much on the driver/crashing/black screen issue, i would switch to 2070 super if you can.

Get some used dirt cheap GTX 660/670/750ti they are better than GT 710.

Windows 10 has really good driver search algorithm, if it cant find drivers then something is up most likely.Did you check if the sound was working after clean windows install? Or does the problem occured after installing realtek suite? If latter i would therefore uninstall realtek audio drivers, and any other audio driver and just leave it to windows.

Im not an electrician but if you have multimeter/voltage meter you could possibly check if there's any voltage in the aforementioned audio connectors. Don't know if that will work though.

This might sound silly, but you've chosen the right playback device using the speaker icon on the bottom right corner right?

https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-next-xbox-console-project-scarlett-what-we-know-2019-6?IR=T

Still its one year until new consoles hit the market, that's a lot of time for someone who want to play now, or even have a backlog of games, though if you have rtx 2070 i doubt you have any backlog of AAA titles. It's your money ultimately, titanum cards were never good buy in terms of frame/price ratio.

Month ago i've read a news that they were ready to release it at the end of 2019/beginning of 2020. There's absolutely no news about upcoming release. Have AMD ditched the B550 idea alltogether? I mean there's basically no point of these mobos, what they could possibly offer over B450? PCIE 4.0 support? What's the point though? A budget mobo that has a feature that might come handy in the next 5-6 years and only if you buy something like four times the power of RTX 2080ti which is unlikely to come in such timeframe for a reasonable price.

Get yourself a MAX board, that spare room in the BIOS EPROM might come handy if the next ryzen come out and you want to switch the cpu in the future.

Hi, why leadex III is is in dangerous category? It's because of EMI?

Strange i had western digital and seagate drives, and the WD failed more often. That's pretty anecdotal evidence, especially since there are different HDD in the companies offering varying in quality. Enterprise/server grade vs normal hdd are pretty much like comparing ferrari to a KIA.

Do you move your PC a lot with these problematic HDDs? Any shakes are detrimental to life of HDD.

Check these drives on other PC. I find it hard that your psu would brick hard drives just on the startup. I mean its possible, but well while under crossload if your psu is bad quality. And last question: Have you changed the cables when you've changed the psu? I mean you probably did that, right?

Every ATX PSU has EPS cable[CPU], 24 pin connector[MOBO power],and every 550W PSU has 2xPCIE connectors. Just pick a psu you like and you are fine.

Every case will get hot if you are using GPUs that draw 250W+, especially the side panel/glass. The heat isn't transfered instantly and some of it is also radiated.

Triple fans cards tend to be actually noisier than two fan cards with bigger fans. Every additional fan adds more noise to the system[three same fans are noisier then two same fans], and considering that they run at higher RPM it adds even more. RTX 2060 will be quieter than RX 5700, there are two factors: -RX 5700 is slightly more power hungry -RX 5700 have smaller die, thus its harder to transfer heat from the die, and hence i either needs elaborate passive cooling solution or more fans/higher rpm I would go for RTX 2060 if you play at 1080p[and you should as these cards are not for 1440p triple AAA gaming]. 6GB of vram is enough for 1080p, and you rarely need to switch to high textures with this resolution, because its in the end pointless. If you don't mind noise and temperature then i would go for RX 5700, but you've said its most important for you.

Obviously i use it, or at least i wanted to use it. Settled for HDD on the bottom, and removed the cage.

If you don't mind a quite tight space for cables when using HDD and being unable to use GPUs that are over 315mm, then go for meshify C. I have it and its quite nice case, albeit i would chose a different one given a chance[corsair RMx stiff cables and HDD tray really don't mix well].

Thanks.Ive just read the Phanteks AMP review, and looks like they've removed all issues. The 3,3V OCP works as expected, and the ripple at 110% load is excellent, given the lack of incable caps.

Do you still have the PSU? Can you send it to jonnyGURU for test?

Here's the card idle temp Here are other cards https://www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-5700-xt-nitro-special-edition/32.html Yes 50-55 degree celcius is not uncommon. And that's for open bench, in pc case the temps will be a little higher. As i said reference cards have lower idle temp just because they have fan turned on. Other than that, reference model sucks big time. EOT.

As i said, what's your memory clock at idle? Im not talking about any modding, or external controllers, any downvolting and nonstock interference. There are many people reporting 50-60 degrees at idle with 144hz monitors and memory running at full speed in idle.

Reference coolers dont have "0 rpm" mode, while many AIB have, and it raises the temps significantly-the cooler engages only when gpu hit 60 on idle, thats first. Second, you might not have 144hz monitor, because on 144hz the GPU runs memory on full speed even on idle,thus raising the temp.

Do you have "enable unified gpu monitoring" checked? Why im asking? Well because you have the same core clock and vastly different GPU utilization which tells me it is incorrectly reading the utilization from GPUs that can boost in a matter of microseconds. When using newer cards[that can boost] you should always enable that option.

2560x1440 is not recommended, 1920x1080 is fine since the advent of integer scaling.