Trashy

Overall airflow is pretty good, I've been able to improve things a lot with tweaking fan curves around but its still running a little hotter than I would expect

I was thinking a quick fix could be getting a third smaller fan to attach onto the front lol

Hi, so I had to replace my AIO recently because the pump died. I went with a big air cooler, but the issue is I can't fit the fans on blowing air through the fins so I've had to mount them pulling air through instead. There was no other way I could have done it with the ram I have. I've ran benchmarks and the CPU at absolute full steam with GPU at max too pushes it no higher than 87 degrees but it usually sits around 80-85. In games though its around 75 so I'm not worried about overheating but the issue is the fans have to be fairly loud to keep it at that temp and I'm wondering if that's because they're having to work harder pulling air through the fins rather than pushing?

Yeah XMP-II. RAM is running at 3000MHz but that's what it's rated for on the box and I haven't had this problem with the same model of RAM in other machines.

I'll see if a full un-install and re-install of my GPU drivers helps instead of just updating them like I usually do. Also yeah XMP could be the culprit but I doubt it, it's only running at the speed it's rated at and through all it's memory tests it's been perfectly stable, still worth a shot though. Thanks!

I'm using a headphone jack

Oh and yes! I forgot to mention I've updated my drivers many times since this all started and I think I've updated my BIOS once as well not that there's any later versions that have come out since. So I highly doubt that's anything to do with it.

Yeah this is a weird one sorry for all the words but explaining this is important cause it's so odd. So my PC (specs below & on my profile) has pretty much always done this even since it was very new and I just can't put my finger on what could be wrong. Put simply I'll be doing anything from playing a game to browing the internet (even happens when it's idle on desktop) and then my whole PC will just lock up and freeze out of the blue. If there's any audio playing it will start making horrible interference noises and most of the time loops the last second of audio non-stop while the screens start getting artefacts and discolouration more and more until suddenly the audio snaps back to normal and keeps going like nothing was wrong but everything visual stays completely locked up and messed up, and doesn't respond to any inputs of any kind other than holding the power button to just kill it. So yeah I just have to cut power to the PC because otherwise it will stay like that forever but sometimes very rarely it will restart itself when I've waited to see if it will come back in any way other than audio (though after the audio comes back it only plays more a few more second and goes quiet). This is obvioustly different from your typical windows crash cause it's a very hard crash (it doesn't even know its crashed most of the time it's just locked up). My first thought was there's something wrong with my GPU (RTX 2060 Super Mini from ZOTAC) cause only visual stuff was locking up, but then I've tried it in other computers and it's been fine while it's been in there so it's not my GPU on it's own if it's anything to do with it I don't think. Then I thought maybe the RAM is getting corrupted over-time from fast boot but my RAM is coming up always as fine in tests and sometimes it will hard crash like this up to three times a day within the hour or as little as every week or so. My final guess is it could be the power supply dropping power flow for a split second, enough to keep stuff on but really mess things up and require a restart, cause if it was my SSD I'd expect a blue screen and I doubt there's anything wrong with the CPU cause it performs super well in tests and is always very stable. So yeah, final guess after all these years is either the PSU is failing in some way or other, or my Motherboard has something wrong with it, but I want you guy's opinions on this as well cause I'd rather not buy a shiny new PSU and wreck my bank account just to discover that's not the issue etc. Thanks for your time, hope some of you can help! Other helpful info: My PC would seem extremely healthy at a first glance. I've verified the integrity of all my Windows files and it never bluescreens (it's only done that once right after booting when it was super new for some reason but has never done anything like that again and it's been nearly three years). Whenever I've gone into event viewer there's always a Critical Error but it doesn't tell me anything because it just says kernel power failiure which I'd expect anyway if I hold down the power button to kill power to it. HARDWARE: CPU: Intel i7-9700K @ 3.60GHz COOLING: ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360 (Triple Fan AIO) MOTHERBOARD: ASUS TUF GAMING Z390-PLUS RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 4x8GB 3000MHz GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2060 Super Mini ZotacGaming DRIVE: 500GB Seagate SSD (Not sure exact model but it's that one that's everywhere) PSU: Corsair 750W Bronze Certified PSU (Not sure exact model right now)

Thanks!

Hi Guys, I am heavily considering upgrading to an Asus TUF 3080 after all the teething issues with crashes and stock shortages etc subside etc. but I am wondering if my current systems PSU will be up to spec to handle a card that draws so many Watts. I currently have a Corsair CX750 Power Supply in my PC, which has been more than enough for my i7-9700k and RTX 2060 Super, however hearing about all the issues with Power Supplies etc people are having, I am a little worried that getting an RTX 3080 and using that with my current PSU might be a bad idea if it ends up running the power supply at its maximum rated power delivery a lot of the time, and might causes crashes etc. Would you guys be able to let me know if you think it would be alright using that Power Supply, or do you think I should upgrade to a better rated 850w PSU instead, as recommended by NVIDIA? And also as a side question, would an i7-9700k bottleneck a 3080? Link to my PSU: https://www.cnet.com/products/corsair-cx750-power-supply-750-watt/