VyacheslavKs

Hi! I use two monitors with Gigabyte GTX 1080 and B550 AORUS ELITE. Recently, one of the connectors on my DVI-D cable died. When looking for another cable at home, I found my old GT 640 Asus card. My second monitor has DVI-D and VGA ports, and I didn't have a DVI-D cable but had one VGA. So I decided to use GT 640 card with my 1080. I put it in, and I'm not sure if I'm started being paranoid, but after I put it, strange things started to happen. For example, the default Windows calculator started lagging. When I open it and enter numbers, it lags for a solid 5-15 seconds, stops responding, and then lets me enter numbers. I also had similar issues related to the Explorer. After I put the card out, the issues were still present. Even after using DDU, the calculator and other things were lagging (from time to time)! I had to reinstall Windows (without GT 640 installed), and the issue disappeared. So I'm not sure if it's worth putting it back since that's not what I would expect from two conflicting GPUs. All my other games were fine; I was streaming using my second monitor as a streaming preview for OBS+chat. Do older card can cause issues like this, or it's all just a big coincidence?

Thank you guys, but I wonder why? I'm not trying to reconvince myself, but I saw that 3700X wins 5600X in terms of multi-threading. Aren't multi-threading is needed in modern and future games, along with the programs like Maya or Unreal?

Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-A320M-S2H V2 CPU: Ryzen 5 2600 GPU: GTX 1080 RAM: 16 GB (also planned to buy two sticks, but decided to not to do it for now).

Hey guys! I hope you can help me to decide what to buy. I bought B450 MSI Mortar Max in May, and it's still sealed. Once the new Ryzen CPU was announced, I decided to wait to get a new CPU from AMD. Later it was announced that the new B450 BIOS for 5600X support would be released only in January 2021, which is not quite good, since I want to upgrade my rig before Cyberpunk release (hopefully with no delays this time). Fast forward to today, and I'm struggling to decide between 3700X + B450 or B550 + 5600X builds. Currently, I use Gigabyte's GTX 1080 but plan to buy RTX 3080 (if I'm lucky). I mostly use my PC for gaming, but from time to time, I also use Unreal Engine 4, learn Maya, and rarely use Premiere Pro. On the one hand, I have a 3700X-ready motherboard and can buy this CPU for like $290. On the other hand, I can try to buy a new mobo and 5600X (370$!), but I don't feel that I want to spend a lot of money on a CPU new mobo when I already have one not unpacked if the performance is same (?). Will I lose any performance, and how future-proof is this build? Thanks!

Glueing something that's not meant to be glued isn't what I would expect from a specialist. In Russia, repairing something in a way how it shouldn't be repaired (like using tights instead of failed transmission belt) we call "kolkhoz", translating roughly into English, it's called an "amateur repair". I'm no engineer or a specialist in terms of electrical stuff, since I know only basics, so I wouldn't recommend saying anything to the specialist who's already working with your GPU. I think he knows better what to do than me.

I wouldn't say that it's a lottery, but it depends on where your GPU, for example, was assembled. Not all cards have this issue. None of my friends, including mine GTX 1080 from Gigabyte, have this issue. With the technical progress, manufacturers are trying to get rid of the cheapest components to make their products better, along with earning new clients. I'm not saying for the all manufacturers in the world, of course, but companies like MSI, Asus or event Gigabyte do fight for customers, trying their best on delivering the best products. The cheaper the manufacturer, the worse components your product will get. My advice is to make sure that the product you buy was delivered and sold in your country officially. I don't know what's your GPU or where did you buy it, but, for example, the 780 Ti I purchased back in 2014 I got from eBay. Yes, I had a whine coil when overclocking as hard as I could, and when playing games like Dishonored 2 when looking at the sky (lol), but that's what I got for not paying the full price for a new GPU from a known retailer. Besides, I mostly played with my headphones on and didn't hear this annoying sound.

I had a coil whine issue back when I had GTX 780 Ti Reference. I was freaking out of this sound because I had no experience with it before. I noticed that I had this sound while playing games with the overclocking I tried to do. In short, there's nothing you can do. Try undervolting the GPU like suggested earlier, or try giving it back to the manufacturer for a repair (but I don't think they'll accept it for a fix, referring to that it's normal). In long, you have a coil whine because inside the inductor a coil turns around on the "core" or just floating in the air. It "whines" because of the high-frequency current flow, which makes the core's wire vibrate, and it vibrates with a high speed and frequency: it beats against the air, or another wire inside of it, from there you get a buzzing or a whine. Some people fill the coils with epoxy, but it is not always possible to find out how much of it is required, so some coil will still be whining after such procedure. The whine itself occurs because they - the coils - had to completely fill the box (conductor) so that there was no free space at all. The less space it has, the probability of the whine is lower. Some people also try to fix the coil whine itself, by glueing it or using a piece of a match. Thus, the thermal pads you were referring to perhaps helped some people because they "fixed" the conductor itself to the GPU/motherboard. Still, I do not recommend doing anything related to a self-repair. There are also conductors in which there is no filler at all, causing a natural sound coming from your GPU or MB. But you can find such issues in the cheapest GPUs coming from Alibaba/Aliexpress, etc.

But how? I plan to buy a new CPU and mobo, along with (probably) switching to 2070 S from 1080 Non-ti, and don't want to get damaged anything new, haha You buy new PSUs when you reach the limits with your current one, right? If yes, can I know why? Are there any downsides of buying a "big" PSU (like the one with 950W, etc.)? Except for its current price, of course. Just curious!

Hey guys! A little backstory: In 2011, I (my mom, actually) bought me a PC with parts that I chose. I wasn't very aware of what parts do I need (I was choosing the ones with the highest numbers, lol), and I ended up building a pretty decent for 2011 times PC, with a PSU of... 950W. So, for today I use my Chieftec Nitro BPS-950C, and I use it for almost ten years (January 2021 will be its birthday). Luckily, it's still working pretty well. I also had zero issues with it for all these years. Thus, I wonder – when do I need to replace the PSU? When it'll refuse to start anymore? Or when it's too old, and it's dangerous to use it?

Gotcha, thank you guys! I guess I'll stick to the DualBIOS, but as Drama Lama said, since I'll be able to install a PCIe card with the Type C/Thunderbolt ports, maybe I'll use the external SSD later (since I have enough free space on SSDs for now.)

Hey guys! I've been choosing a decent budget mobo for weeks, and found these two: Gigabyte B450 AORUS M rev. 1.0 and ASRock B450M Pro4 (or ASRock B450M Steel Legend) The Gigabyte has a DualBIOS and XMP support, but it doesn't have the USB C 3.2 gen2 and second M.2 slot, which ASRock has. The price range between these two in my local shop is about $1 USD. Is it worth having the USB C 3.2 gen2? For example, the only device I have that has USB C port is my phone and my power bank. Will this port be useful in the future? Thanks!