Mcneck

Hello everyone, System specs: Windows 10 64Bit AsRock Z790 pg lightning i7 14700k RTX 3090 Alphacool Eiswolf 2 AIO I recently purchased one Alphacool Eiswolf 2 GPU AIO (I bought some parts used, some new). My issue currently is getting the fans on the radiator properly tuned. I have configured fan curves in my mainboard utility (Phantom Gaming Tuning) but somehow they get messed up completely all the time and I don't know why. I tried setting the fan curves directly in the BIOS, but I cannot choose the GPU as the temperature input for the fans to orient their speed to, so thats super annoying. Basically what would help me immensly, is some reliable software for fan tuning, that keeps its configuration and does not crash. There is a slightly newer BIOS Version available for the mainboard, but I did update it a couple months ago, and I would like to explore other options before updating further. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Hey there, I just received my order from the LTT Store and I have a question regarding the LTT Bomber Jacket. I was wondering if the LTT Bomber Jacket was intended to come with a hanger loop and mine just got messed up, or if this is by design: Maybe someone can tell me if I can just rip this of, or if this is a defect. Thanks in advance!

Man are you a ray of sunshine, absolutely unhelpful comment after comment. This seems to have happened here, is there any way to prevent this? Or do I really have to do this regularly?

I switched the GPU to my other PCIE Slot and it did work for about a minute until my screens went black again… . Wtf is this? Beyond the cooling issue I had never any problem with this GPU. **EDIT** GPU is running now, no Idea why I had to reseat it couple times before it decided to work again. The repasting did improve the temperatures greatly! The difference between gpu and hotspot temp is now around 15°C and the hot spot temperature did not even exceeded 90°C in a quick Benchmark. Also the fans are spinning at 1500rpm where they had to go up to 3000 before. Lucky me, no expensive Watercooling necessary... just a annual renewel of thermal paste

did you read my post? The picture is from before I repasted it

Finally got around to open up my 3090 and repasted it. pictures from before repasting are attached. And well… somewhere along the way I seem to have fucked up. I no longer get an output from the GPU. Onboard graphics are working but the GPU does not want to show me a picture. It lights up, fans are spinning but it seems dead. Fuck me. I double checked if I ripped off any of the caps around the GPU (I didnt) Any suggestions what else I could do?

Yeah, I thought so too, but they have listed every Zotac 3080 TI model that is compatible trinity and trinity OC. But for the Zotac 3090 they have only listed the trinity model... that made me think there might me an issue with the OC Model. I will ask Alphacool directly about it. Yay... guess what brand of thermal paste I used

Hey everyone, last year I got a very cheap Zotac 3090 trinity OC from a dissolved mining rig. I had a lot of issues with it at the beginning, but after some fiddling around with it, I finally got around to replace the crusty thermal paste and after that it did run fine. Now after about 10 months the temperatures of the GPU are getting worse again, also the fans are running crazy while playing basically anything. I suspect the thermal paste withered again, or the contact between gpu and heatsink got skewed somehow. Currently the difference between the GPU temp and the hotspot temp is about 35°C I think thats a little bit much of a gap, what do you think? Basically what I am looking for here are some suggestions for price/performance effective measures to get rid of these problems permanently. I thought about going custom watercooling again, but some past experiences with leaky loops have made me weary of custom watercooling to be honest. I found the Alphacool Eiswolf 2 AIO, but according to their compatibility chart its only compatible with a zotac 3090 trinity, NOT the trinity OC model... . I also thought about trying the "ghetto Mod" with some Noctua fans strapped directly to the heatsink, but the results here also seem to be mixed. I attached a 3D Mark run and the corresponding GPU-Z Log-file, I am not sure if the card is already throttling, but I do think so when looking at the clock frequency. GPU-Z Sensor Log.txt result.3dmark-result

Hello everyone, I am considering to upgrade from a ASUS GTX 1070 to a KFA2 RTX 2080 EX. I found a listing for a gaming PC with an KFA2 RTX 2080 EX in it in my area and the price in general is quite good for a 2080. What concerns me somwehat is, that I could not find much on the performance of the KFA2 card compared to other 2080s from other manufacturers. The reviews I found on youtube are not really in depths maybe someone here has some knowledge to share about this specific model? Thanks for sharing in advance! Mcneck

had another Bluescreen just now, it seems to be caused by the GPU driver, but I installed just a few days ago the newest version... . I dont understand whats causing this issue -.-

This is from the Be quiet Wattage calculator: even with 4 Ram sticks, 4 Fans, 4 SATA-Devices and even a small overclock on the GPU, your PSU should handle it without a problem. 370 Watts from 550 are roughly 70%. So your setup is also efficiency wise pretty good looking.

to your first question: most definitely, yes! (I think what you meant is, will there be a bottleneck between the two components? and I think not...) to your second question: probably, but I would upgrade to be safe. Also depends kinda on what other Hardware you are planning to put into your rig. I recommend using one of those: https://seasonic.com/wattage-calculator

Hi everyone, For a few weeks now my Pc crashes every few days for no apparent reason, often when I am not even sitting infront of it and even more often while it is posting. Here are a few of the minidumps and also a report generated with perfmon: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Q_qi04tR9DWArQcLcOnujg2nSFLHyNoV?usp=sharing Since the bluescreen dumps indicated that something is wrong with my GPU I installed the latest driver on the first of February, but a few days later it crashed again. Also my Pc often freezes when starting up, to me it seems to "crash" while still posting. As to the specs of my System: Windows 10 Pro x64 Built 1909 which I installed myself a few years ago. The whole System is about to be 6 years old. the Windows installation itself should be around 3-4 years old since I upgraded to an M.2 SSD a while back. CPU: i7 5820k RAM: 32GB 3200MHz GPU: GTX 1070 Mobo: X99s Power Supply: 600Watt 80 plus Gold and needless to say, its a Desktop PC. I had an overclock on my CPU up to 4,2Ghz running for a few years which caused no problems whatsoever. However I dialed every overclock back to stock settings once the crashes started, unfortunately it did not help. Any advice is appreciated. *EDIT: added RAM

This morning I had to restart my PC 3 times until I got into Windows. Has anyone any Idea what I could do to fix this issue?

Hello everyone, I have noticed some problems with my Computer recently. Basically my PC sometimes freezes when starting up. For me it looks like the PC "crashes" before it even starts to boot into Windows, when it happens only the MSI Logo of my Mainboard is visible, I can provide a picture but I dont think it will help in any way... . When my PC is up and running I can't notice any issues, I removed any overclocks on my GPU and CPU which made the freezes less frequently but it still happens a lot, like every every other start up. My Pc consists of the following components: MSI X99S SLI Mainboard i7 5820k ASUS GTX 1070 32GB Corsair 3200mHz Memory and the Bootdrive is a Samsung EVO 960 M2 SSD. (If I recall correctly, in any case a Samsung M2 SSD) Additionally there are some more drives but I think they don't matter in this context. I had my CPU running on 4,2 GHz for about two years for now, but as I already wrote I dialed every overclock back to default. I had an overclock applied on my GPU via the ASUS Tweak software which apparently were the biggest issue. When the "freezes" started, I had to restart my PC for about 10 to 15 times until I got into windows and could reset the overclock on the GPU... after that it was better. At the moment I have the newest non-Beta BIOS Version installed on my Mainboard (7885v1E) There is a newer one but MSI states: "- Fixed that CPU can not overclock when system update to Widows10 (1903) with old micro code. Note: MSI do not recommend updating the BIOS unless it is necessary" I am running the Windows Built 1909 for over 6 Months now without problems until now. Do I update my Bios or not? Any suggestions on what to try are appreciated! Thank you very much in advance. Best regards Mcneck