Orothi

Nope, she returned it as soon as she was done with it

Hey everyone! So, I'm planning to buy a Ryzen 7 3700X really soon and with that I'll have to purchase a motherboard. Since I don't need some of the functionalities that have been added to the X570 chipset like PCIe 4.0, I thought of saving some money by going with an high end X470 board, that appearently should be cheaper than even the most basic X570 board. The thing is, obviously X470 boards don't support Zen 2 out of the box, I'd like to avoid getting the boot kit from AMD, since it takes FOREVER to get here (a friend of mine had to do the same when building an X370 system with an R5 2600 and the boot kit took 2 weeks to get here), so are there any X470 motherboards that support bios updates without a CPU installed?

Hey guys, a friend of mine built an high end pc, appearently he's having a lot of issues with games and in general with the PC being extremely slow and sluggish, so much so that he's using his gaming laptop over the desktop, since the laptop is running everything smoother. He told me he can't even run fortnite at low settings and considering his specs I find that to be very weird. I made sure that he had disabled all the power saving measures inside windows and the NVIDIA control panel, but we haven't gotten yet to checking the BIOS' settings. Do you guys have any idea what the problem might be? Here are his specs Intel Core I7 8700K Asus ROG STRIX Z370F G.Skill Trident Z 16GB 3200MHz Zotac Gaming RTX 2080 AMP Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240R RGB liquid cooler Samsung 860 EVO 1TB M.2 SATA SSD Cooler Master V750 PSU 2X WD Blue 4TB HDDs

Okay, she's about to do a fresh reinstall. She just got these errors as well. Seems like reinstalling Windows is the only way to go, right?

She got this error as well

I'd like to avoid that option if possible

Yup, downloaded from Sony's website

My friends' computer says it has no internet connection, but the PC is connected to the internet. She gets these errors Device PCI\VEN_10EC&DEV_8168&SUBSYS_9095104D&REV_07\4&30200acb&0&00E2 had a problem starting. Device PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_0032&SUBSYS_E044105B&REV_01\4&2aa97ffc&0&00E0 had a problem starting. Lan and Wireless drivers are up to date. She is connected through ethernet and has Windows 10

He sent me these screenshots, he took them while playing Rainbow Six Siege, at around 5 minutes intervals, he said it was running at less than 30 FPS avg. dipping down to even 17FPS.

If I had access to his computer I'd have already sent you that afterburner graph, but he lives 1100KM from here and he's not that tech savvy. It's not going to be easy lol but I'll try to explain him how to do it.

97 was the max utilization percentage of the CPU, those weren't the temps, you can see the temps in the fourth picture, the highest temperature reached by the CPU was 81°C, but while playing it was at around 67-68 as you can see from that pic

These are the photos he sent me. They were taken while playing GTA V for over 20 mins. temps are pretty good, so i don't think it's a thermal throttling issue.

These are the results. Appearently the temps are not what he said before lol but anyway, 78°C after 15 mins of Unigine Heaven maxed out with NO VSync, and 74° during the same test with VSync, right after the aforementioned benchmark. Appearently it's a GTA V related issue.

All drivers are up to date and temps are all under 55°C. I also made sure he disabled power saving settings and that everything was set to """performance mode"""

Hey everyone, a friend of mine just got an ASUS ROG GL502VT and was surprised at how slow it runs games. This laptop is sporting a GTX 1070, an I7 6700HQ, 8GBs of DDR4 ram a 1TB HDD and a 128GB PCIe SSD. According to what he said, this laptop runs GTA V worse than his previous laptop, an ASUS ROG G750JZ which had an 860M, 12GBs of RAM and an I7 4710HQ. Having had experiences with low ram on GTA V myself and seeing how he described the problem it definitely wasn't a ram issue, since FPS didn't suddently dip but just were lower in general. Obviously I told him to get rid of the preinstalled bloatware and to make sure all the drivers were up to date, but it seems they didn't affect the results. Basically, with the same exact settings, both on 1080p monitors the older laptop kept the FPSs at around 60 with (VSync on obvs) but with the new one, he was getting around 45-50FPSs. Same goes for Rainbow Six Siege and Dirt Rally. Any idea why?