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Business Goose

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  • Gender
    Male

System

  • CPU
    i7-6700k
  • Motherboard
    Asus Z170-P
  • RAM
    Kingston HyperX Fury 16gb 2666Mhz CL 15
  • GPU
    Gigabyte RX 6700 XT Gaming OC
  • Case

    Corsair Carbide Spec-Alpha Black/Silver
  • Storage
    Kingston A2000 1TB, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, WD Blue 1TB
  • PSU
    Seasonic Focus PX-750
  • Display(s)

    AOC G2590PX, AG Neovo L-W24
  • Cooling
    2x intake, 1x out take, Cooler Master TX3 i Processor cooler
  • Keyboard
    Corsair Gaming K70 LUX RGB
  • Mouse

    Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum
  • Sound

    Logitech G935
  • Operating System
    W10
  • Laptop
    HP Omen 15-ax025nd
  • Phone
    OnePlus 5T

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  1. Thanks for the reply. So your advise would be to wait till the new CPU generation launches and see from there what to upgrade? Also, as I don't think DDR5 will be hitting the consumer market any time soon, would the performance increase be noteworthy going from 16GB 2666Mhz to 3600Mhz?
  2. Hi everyone! My main question is "Am I missing out on performance somewhere with the recent upgrade to the 6700xt?" So I initially bought my pc parts in July 2016 and upgraded my GPU from a 1070 to a 5700xt to a 6700xt in the last year or so, and got a new PSU, but everything else is still the same. I feel like I'm not getting that much of an performance upgrade from it as I would have thought. My build is: GPU: Gigabyte RX 6700XT Gaming OC CPU: Intel Core i7-6700k MB: Asus Z170-P RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 16GB DDR4 @2.666 CL15 PSU: Seasonic Focus PX-750 SSD1: Kingston A2000 1TB m.2 SSD2: Samsung Evo 850 250GB HDD1: WD Blue 1TB CPU cooler: Cooler Master TX3 i Case: Corsair Carbide Spec-Alpha (2 front intake, 1 back outtake) (Had the CPU clocked @4.3, but became unstable at some point so had to revert it.) I'm not sure if my RAM or CPU is bottlenecking my rig. I mainly use it for gaming and occasionally streaming (which I have running the decoder on my CPU since it looks somehow better and smoother than on my GPU). Any initial thoughts?
  3. Thanks for the reply. I've tried 2 sets of settings for the MSI Kombustor, but both seem to crash the program. In the first one I'm running the Benchmark Preset 1080p. When it's about 77% completed, the program freezes and weird (round, not square) artifacts show up as in the image below. Temperatures seem fine (64 degrees). In the second test I'm running the options, Fullscreen, Display OSI, Display GPU monitor graph and Artifact scanner with the "RUN stress test" mode. About 19 seconds in the screen goes all black without the program having detected any artifacts (as it said "scanning... 0/0"). Only the mouse pointer is responding to movement and no key-stroke combinations seem to do anything. So I guess I'm beyond screwed since it isn't even able to finish.
  4. Crosspost to a different forum topic for anyone that is looking for more things to try when facing this problem:
  5. So I reverted any changes I made to the GPU and set all the values back to default. After a reboot there were no white and black cubes to be seen! I could finally open stuff like Google Chrome and open the control panel without the graphics going all crazy! I decided to run Heaven Benchmark to stress test the GPU. The temperatures hovered around 40 degrees with a max of 60 degrees and the load on the GPU went up to about 60-70%. But halfway through it started showing issues, as in the whole PC froze up. Nothing responded anymore, not even the capslock and numlock lights on my KB. I left it running for about 20 minutes in the hope it unfreezes and eventually it did. But then the graphics were all fucked up again, even worse than before... I'm afraid that this is it for my GPU, unless anyone else has some clever ideas. (Linus did bake his GPU once and it worked again after, but it seems like a bit of a crazy option)
  6. I've used third party software like Gigabyte Xtreme and later on replaced it with the EVGA Precision software (since I didn't like the Gigabyte one). I only applied a custom fan profile to optimize cooling and applied a default profile that boosted the performance of the card by something like 3%. I've never played around with custom values. It is a Gigabyte card tho (the Gaming G1 variant). The card is about 4 years old, so unfortunately no more warranty. I'll try to put it back to stock values once I'm at home, thanks for the help!
  7. I've cleaned out the system (with compressed air (gently applied from an appropriate distance)) last weekend in the hope it would solve the problem, but it didn't. It's impossible to do anything on the system, because once I open something (e.g. Google Chrome) the screen starts kind of flashing and after one or two seconds both screens go black and I have to force shutdown the PC. The PC does work properly when I pull out the GPU and boot on the on-board Intel HD Graphics. I'm a bit clueless at this point...
  8. No the dots tend to pop up on different spots, as in the video/gif. Yes it also happens when only using one monitor The PC has been off for the whole day and on booting up it immediately shows those squares (but not when i'm in the BIOS settings which i thought was weird), so it couldn't be the heat, right? Or did you mean that it was too hot before and it may have damaged the components? I always download and install the latest drivers on from the Nvidia GeForce Experience application as soon as they are available.
  9. Hello, I'm trying to find out what's causing this and how to fix it, but I've yet to find a similar case on any forum. IMG: Video: Does anyone know what this is and what's causing it? Many thanks!
  10. Thanks for the reply! The PSU is about the same age as the GPU, about 4 years old. I do have a minor profile for my GPU, mostly fan optimization and a default slight OC profile in the software. Don't remember what software I use for the profile (could be EVGA Precision), but I'm sure it's not the Gigabyte one since I didn't like it. I always upgrade to the latest firmware once available through Nvidia Geforce Experience.
  11. Anyone else got some bright idea's on how to save this card or how I could test it in a different way? Or is this card confirmed dead?
  12. So I made the bootable USB with ubuntu desktop, but on running Ubuntu I'm not getting any display. Just a black screen with a round cursor. When choosing the (Safe Graphics) option instead of the normal one I DO get a normal and clear image without any black and white cubes etc. Does anyone know why that is? Is my video card still able being saved? (img of the options)
  13. Cleaned the system out with compressed air, but no luck. Still shows the black and white cubes and goes to black screen when I do something (e.g. opening chrome) and getting worse. I'm now making a bootable USB with Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop to check if it's an OS related issue, but I don't have high hopes...
  14. Hello everyone, First time posting here on the LTT forum. Quick overview of my system: My specs are: Intel Core i7-6700K (4.2GHz Base clock oc) CPU Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO CPU Cooler Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming GPU 2x 8GB HyperX Fury DDR4 2600Mhz RAM Asus Z170-K motherboard Corsair VS650 PSU Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD WD Blue 7200RPM 1TB HDD Corsair Carbide Spec-Alpha Tower The build is about 4 years old. Software: Running Windows 10 Education I Believe the Nvidia Geforce drivers were 445.87 but im not 100% sure. The situation: The PC was shut off all day and in the evening I decide to do a little bit of gaming. So I was playing Mount&Blade: Bannerlord for about 15 minutes on one screen and youtube on my 2nd, and suddenly both screens froze but the audio continued for about 10 seconds. Then everything froze, even the indicator lights on my keyboard didn't respond (e.g. capslock, numlock). The only option left was to force quit the pc by holding the power button and restarting it. The restart took longer than normally and once on the login screen there were all kinds of black and white squares accross the screen. They were all the same size in case you were wondering. I've never came accross anything like this. After logging in, the displays go black after 5 - 10 seconds and stay black. Photo and video for clarification: (https://imgur.com/a/Quy7oEh) (https://media.giphy.com/media/PmFMgTiZP4ercmxkew/giphy.gif) Things I tried: I restarted it twice, but both times with the same result. I've pulled out the video card and booted it up on the Intel HD Graphics and that ran without a problem and without the black and white squares. Things I haven't tried: Opening the GPU to check for "any bulging capacitors, brown bits, or what look like fly specks." since I don't have any spare cooling paste to replace it once I've opened it up (and scared to destroy it further). Putting it into a different system since I don't have any other system. Cleaning the system since I don't have a compressor on hand (will probably have this weekend). Things I investigated: I've looked the issue up online and it doesn't seem to be artifacts. No Blue Screens, so can't investigate any dump. It couldn't really have been too hot since I was just 15 minutes in and I believe I have decent airflow (2 air inhale at the front and 1 exhale + PSU fan exhale in the back). It was quite dusty inside the case, but the GPU was the least dusty of them all. (still maybe too much?) TLDR; I'm fairly sure it has something to do with my GPU, since the black and white squares are randomly appearing all over the screen and are absent when I pulled the GPU out and booted on the Intel HD Graphics. I don't know if it is hardware or software related. Anyone has suggestions or know what this issue is? Many thanks in advance!
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