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So I bought a Dell Optiplex 3060 with a i5 8400. I need to add a GPU and I have 200$ budget, but I also want a ram upgrade. I was thinking of a GTX 1600 or rtx 3060. Maybe one from Radeon. I am new to this and extremly unsure what to buy.

was gaming ,temps were fine as i keep software running in the background to watch temps 2 diff software HWIDIFO an HWID monitor ,at no point did temps say it was overheating ,i was gaming like normal nothing open out of the ordinary an screen randomly went black an said no signal as if the gpu turned off but yet i saw it on through the glass panel on my case and i unplugged the hdmi cable an plugged it back in but that didnt work i managed to get signal back by just completely restarting my pc , this has only happened once an that was like a year ago an it hasnt happened again till now the gpu im using is a Geforce RTX 3060 ti

Im wondering which gpu is actually a better buy for 1440p gaming and video editing. Which is a better/more worth of the money? rx 7700 xt at 435 euros or rtx 4060 ti 16 gb 455 euros

Budget (including currency): ~$300 Country: USA, Alaska, Anchorage (Bonus points for buying local to avoid shipping delays) Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: BeamNG, Cyberpunk, RimWorld Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Hello all, I have an old Alienware Aurora R4 that I want to last a little longer before I build a new PC. Specs are Intel i7-3820, 16gigs DDR3, a GTX 660, and lastly an Intel SATA SSD Right now it runs BeamNG at about 30fps on lowest. I'm not expecting a miracle to happen like 4k at 300fps, but a more realistic 1080p at 60fps (120 would be nice). My budget being ~$300 may be weird to some, but I plan on repurposing the GPU later for a home server. All recommendations welcome Update: Threw an RX 6650 XT in it and got it to run Cyberpunk 2077 at 60 FPS avg. (Even though the CPU is pegged at 100% the whole benchmark) I'm happy, bought myself a little more time before I have to start with a fresh build.

so i am looking to buy a new gpu im not very educated on them so i don't know what im looking for my budget is around 600-750 euro's what gpu will be a good fit with my cpu?

a few days ago , while playing a game, my computer lagged really bad, exited out of the game and rebooted computer. did a test to see if the problem was resolved by watching a youtube video. after a few seconds of the video , my computer got very laggy/slow and the sound through my speakers sounded like it was going to blue screen but froze. powered off. reseated everything on the mobo except cpu. But this morning ı push the power button and this time no Output on monitor but the cpu fan was still spinning and the gpu fans would spin on boot then stop few seconds later, spin again , and stop. Then ı saw gpu led solid red. What may İt be ? my build : https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cz7kKX

1-Yesterday between 10pm and 12am I had about 120 distributedcom errors. They seem to come 2 per second when I get them. They don't seem to correlate with any particular activity. 2-When I first built my pc, my gpu fans would shut off when they weren't needed. I've done a format and win10 reinstall and a number of things are dif this time around despite using the same win disk. One of which and the one that bothers me the most are my gpu fans. If I reinstall the driver, they will shut off after windows restart. Once they come on for whatever reason, they won't stop again without a reinstall. The velocity app is crap. Others don't seem to have an effect on the fans either. It used to be just fine with just nvidia installed alone. It's pulling too much dust in that rear vent near the gpu. 3-Everytime I start my pc or bring it back from sleep, I need to unplug the hdmi and then plug it back in. This is something that happened for a while before the start over but a clean install fixed it that time. Not this time. So if anyone has had these issues before, I'd greatly appr knowing how you fixed them. I have a gigabyte x670e aorus master, r-9 7950x, 64gb 6400mhz gskill, pny 4080oc.

PSU: Corsair rm650x (2018) GPU Old : GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 3G GPU New: Fighter AMD Radeon™ RX 6600 8GB GDDR6 Case: Fractal Pop Air TLDR: New 132W GPU go bzzzzz desperate to get one that doesn't bzzzzz since old 1060 3gb 120W doesn't bzzzzz I've been trying to upgrade my PC into a silent one for a while now, I didn't get rid of my HDD yet but Im almost there. In order to get to get the pc to be as silent as possible I got a fractal design pop Air because I've read that even thought Air cases leak more noise outside, there's not going to be noise in the first place if you can run the fans on the PC at slower speeds while still getting good temps. Recently I got a RX 6600 PowerColor Fighter since it's got a TDP of 132w which is only slightly higher than my previous GPU, a GTX 1060 Mini ITX OC 3G with a TDP of 120w. One of the reasons that pushed me to do it (aside from the price and that 8GB of VRAM are better than 3) is that I read that GPU coil whine is very common (even on high end cards) so I thought that a low TDP card would have lower chances to whine, specially considering that the 1060 is dead silent an runs cool unless pushed to its limit, in which case the temps are still really good and it's also relatively quiet even inside the pop air case (and it doesn't whine either). I've also read that single fan GPUs are the noisiest and hottest out here, and since my 1060 is silent while being a single fan GPU, I thought the 6600 could only be better due to it having two fans and only a slightly higher TDP. Well... The card whines when being pushed to the limit, but at least not in the form of a high pitch but rather a constant buzzing that I assume is generated by the electricity circulating through the GPU or something, it somehow remembers me of a fountain. It is still very noticeable tho because I have sensitive hearing, it's specially noticeable at night. I know it's due to it's usage because as soon as I alt f4 of the demanding game the noise stops instantly so it's not a fan or hardrive (I also tested this with the HDDs disconnected). I placed my ear around the case with the side panel open and I'm pretty sure the wining comes form the GPU itself, not the PSU. I tried undervolting the card through the AMD drivers but the noise persists (I can't go any lower than 1090 mV or games crash). The only way for the card not to whine is to not use it at 100%, which is the whole point, I mean, I paid for the whole GPU I'm going to use the whole GPU, the headache that comes with it is not on the spec sheet tho. Another problem this card has is the zero RPM, the card goes from dead silent to moving the fans at 1300 RPM, turns out that's the minimum speed that can be adjusted in the fan curve, which is 35%. So I downloaded MorePowerTool to try to make it run slower and now the card can run to a minimum of 600-800 RPM which is really good, or would be if it wasn't because then the fans make some high pitched squeaky noise. I think it's due to the bearings because I tried gently stopping the fans with my fingers and as soon as the fan stops the noise is gone. Letting them spin again makes the noise reappear. I don't know if this noise means the fans are bad or if it's just the bearings being cheap, but I haven't heard it from any other fan inside a pc. I can hear them from my desk at night (the pc itself is at floor level elevated with a wood platform). Also, I don't know if it makes any difference but the 1060 uses 6 psu cable pins while the 6600 uses 8. My question is: If a single fan GPU from 2016 can be quiet and coil free, why are modern GPUs full of coil whine? Isn't there any model that just doesn't whine? At this rate I feel like Im going to end up returning half of the world's GPU stock to get a decent one. Can't some organization create coil whine certification standards or something? Maybe I should forget about getting an air mesh case... AND WHY WON'T ANY REVIEWERS WARN ABOUT THIS? :'/ Lots of people say this is normal that it's just physics or something. That's a really bad argument. Components catching fire is just physics too but engineers are capable to build components that don't catch fire. So why won't they build components that don't whine? I can only assume that's because doing so would make them more expensive, and since most people not only swallow up coil whine but also tell others to put up with it without considering their hearing might work differently... they don't bother. Please correct me if Im wrong.

Hello everyone, So i recently bought a Gigabyte Gaming OC 4070 SUPER gpu and until a couple days ago everything was running like a dream... Then after i for some reason decided to install Gigabyte Control Centre and updated the firmware to F1.1 from gigabytes site, after which everything especially games look weird... Its super grainy and makes my eyes tired fast which is weird and has never happened before... Please suggest a solution ( i am on Windows 10 if that helps )

Hello I've changed my pc case and after replacing my case i saw the case's power button doesn't work so i swapped it with reset button. And i also upgraded my gpu . But now a new problem emerged , if i keep my system under sleep mode for longer , it doesn't turn on / doesn't wake up from sleep mode. Mouse keyboard light doesn't come up and blue power Led lights up but cpu gpu fan doesn't spin until i long press the reset button or cut the power and start it again. how to fix it kindly help.

Hey! I am looking forward to upgrading my pc a bit in the next few months. First a want to upgrade my CPU. I have had it for quite a while now and in certain situations I can feel its age. Later I am looking forward to upgrading my GPU to something like a 4070. So what CPU would you suggest buying right now? (not too expensive) Ryzen 5 3600 Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super Gaming OC MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus Corsair RM850 As far as I know my mainboard shouldn't be a problem right? A BIOS Update should make it possible to pair it with newer ryzen CPUs (AM4)? Thanks!

hey everyone, i am having some issues with my 7900XTX with very weird GPU utilization varying from day to day running the same tasks. lately i have been playing alot of Path of Exile and i have noticed my GPU utilization varies from day to day by a significant amount. i have done some testing both with OCCT & AMD Adrenalin open to check utilization %, one day the card will sit at around 40-45% idle ingame, next day it can be using 60% at login screen & idle ingame. the card have a 0 RPM fan configuration, but the days the card is acting up the fans will run constantly, despite the temperature being below the threshold, untill i close the game agian. before posting this i tried running the game with directX 11 & 12 idle both at login screen and ingame, the card would stay at around 60% and sometimes jumping to 80-100% or even to around 40% randomly. the only "fix" i seem to have found is restart the game and pray, sometimes i even turn off the power supply and unplug the entire PC for a sort amount of time to "fix" this. the attached picture is from standing ingame doing nothing, like mentioned earlier in this post when the card is running like it should the game only uses between 40-50% depending on what is happening ingame. i have the same background applications running as any other day, Discord (hardware acceleration off), iCue & steam to run the game. EDIT: i forgot to mention that i can easily notice this without having any monitoring software open, because at around 60% there is a slight noticable coilwhine, therefor it is easy for me to know when it is not running like it should. my system specs are: CPU - 7800X3D GPU - Powercolor 7900XTX Hellhound Spectral White MOBO - Asus Rog Strix x670e-a RAM - 64gb Corsair Vengeance 6000mhz (EXPO2 profile) PSU - Corsair HX1000i 80+ PLAT my GPU is undervolted to 1080 & clock speed is limited to 2525 due to coilwhine, i am positive the card is running stable at these settings because i can run Horizon Forbidden West for 3+ hours with the GPU running around 90-100% both Utilization & D3D usage.

I got a chance to change a gpu from a 4060 to either a Ti or a 4070 Super for 310 euros and 450 euros respectively. Both can fit into my budget however I do not know which would work better and be more useful with a Ryzen 5 7600. Which should i pick? Or should i stay with a 4060 and save up?

PC specs: CPU: Intel I5-10400 GPU: GTX 1660 Super PSU: Corsair CV750 (750w) RAM: 16GB Motherboard: Asrock B460M I'm looking to upgrade to a better GPU as my current GPU is deteriorating (Game stutters and such). I play on 1440p (3440x1440 monitor resolution). Could anyone recommend some bang-for-buck GPUs to buy?

I have a pre built computer with an RTX 3080. Not mater what display or cable I use, it won’t display an image. Weirdly enough if I plug the cable into the motherboard, the integrated graphics will work fine. This issue goes for both BIOS and Windows 11. The 3080 is not detected by Windows in device manager. Tried reinstalling drivers with DDU. I tried a different GPU that only needed PCIE power, and that worked fine. I tried an older 1080Ti. That worked fine for a little while, but then the fans spun loudly and the screen went black. I plugged into the motherboard again after that happened, and it displayed through the integrated graphics. But seemed to be acting as a second display because none of the desktop icons were there. It can’t be Windows because this problem occurs with the BIOS as well. Could it be the PSU power cables or PSU itself?

My PC Specs: CPU: Ryzen 3 4350G (bottleneck with RX 6600 acceptable) RAM: 16GB DDR4 Dual Channel Storage: 1TB WD HDD Motherboard: B450 DS3H PSU: Antec VP450P Plus (White) 450W Cooling: 3 fans total (1 RGB) Case: Has LED strip (usually off)

Hello to whoever may see this I've just finished building a budget PC for a friend. It's got an RTX 2060 and I5 10400f. To power it up, I repurposed an M RED 700w 80+ bronze PSU that I used in my own rig before upgrading. It used to power a 2070 super and Oc'd I5 10600K so I thought it would handle the new components just fine (and it does). The problem is that I lost or used all GPU cables from this specific PSU and I discovered that PSU cables are non standard ! (Thanks for that manufacturers). After checking the web for a while I couldn't find any cables that would fit into this PSU, so I resorted to using a double molex to 8 pin PCIE adapter. I read online that it is very much not advised, so I tried to do due diligence. I bought an decent quality adapter and checked the markings of the cables to ensure it, then I plugged the GPU into it. After stressing the card and checking the cable I found that it felt uncomfortably warm on the PSU side (The adapter's side stayed cool). Not wanting to give my friend a potential fire hasard I resolved to using two different molex's from two different 6 pin connectors on the PSU in an attempt of separating the power (and therefore heat) output on the cables. After stressing the card for a while again I felt the cables and they all stayed cool to the touch. I didn't notice any stutters, artifacts or performance drops and even undervolted the card for ecological reasons since it didn't seem to lose me any performance. I guess my question is, am I good ? Was I diligent enough or is it still a big risk ? I personally think it should be fine but I would like the input of more experienced builders on the matter since it's my first time using such an adapter. Thank you for reading and for any answer you may provide

Hey everyone! I'm a bit stuck (and frustrated) at the moment trying to install drivers for my GPU on my newly built PC. My configuration is as follows: - CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D - CPU Cooler: Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM - Motherboard: Asus PRIME X670-P ATX AM5 - RAM: 4x Corsair Vengeance 32 GB DDR5-6600 CL32 - Storage: Samsung 980 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME - Secondary Storage: Crucial MX500 1 TB SSD - GPU: ASRock Phantom Gaming OC Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB - Case: Fractal Pop Air RGB ATX - Power Supply: Corsair RM750e (2023) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified (Fully Modular) Every time I am trying to update the drivers for the GPU, my system crashes, and restarts (the keyboard starts lighting up and turns off again at least 3 times every time this happens). I use AMD Adrenaline for the drivers, but I also tried it in the Device Manager. Then, sometimes, it boots back into Windows, but sometimes it goes into Automatic Repair, and then I have to reinstall Windows. I installed Windows 11 at first (several clean installs, but they didn't help). Now I've installed Windows 10 but the issue persists. When I looked in the device manager, the only missing drivers were the ones for my GPU (Radeon 7700 XT) and the Display Adapter driver. Those are the ones that my system crashes on. In the device manager I got error code 31. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you

Hello, I'm running a Ryzen 5 3600 (6 Core), 16 GB RAM and an ancient 760 GTX (long story on that one). I'm planning some upgrades that include a 4070 RTX, increasing to 64 GB RAM (will be developing personal projects), and a new case My overclocking days are over for now and my main priority is keeping my PC as quiet as possible. I'm planning on the 4070 TUF Super (link) as it is among the quieter GPUs according to the interwebs. I had an Antec P series case for long time that I loved that was ultra quiet and well built. Currently I have a Nanoxia case that I've been less than thrilled with. It's decently quiet but feels poorly built hence why I'm looking for a new case. I'm willing to spend money on a good case due to the longevity across multiple builds. For the case I'm sold on the Corsair 2500D (link). I've never had a flashy case like this before and I quite like the style and am interested in getting some RGB going for the first time. I'd likely get the Air Flow edition. So this brings me to the AIO. I've never used one before. What I'd like to know is: How are they in use and do they require much maintenance? Considering my CPU (but also thinking about a future CPU upgrade in a couple years) am I going to get a quieter system vs. air cooling? Right now I have a Noctua D-15 (link) with one fan and it remains off until I hit a certain CPU temp threshold. I've seen some kits (I saw Corsair has them) that look like you can add liquid cooling to the GPU. That would be awesome and could make getting an AIO worth it I think. Would this bring a meaningful drop in my system noise by adding liquid cooling to my GPU? Another thing I suppose is, if I go with an AIO, what should I plan for my case fans? Do I even need an intake fan since the AIO has them? I assume I wouldn't need any exhaust fans and probably add a fan at the bottom to blow onto the GPU.

Hello, I'm looking to buy a 4070S but I'm not sure which brand to go for, currently in my place the Asus GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB GDDR6X OC Edition is at 665€ and the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB GDDR6X Gaming OC is at 688€. Is there any major difference in quality that I should choose one over the other?

So here's what's up, A little bit over a year ago I decided to build my own PC and to make it short I did. I watched a lot of yt videos on how to build it, followed every step by step and even took an inspiration from a build I saw online and followed their steps, everything was brand new except the graphics card which was my fathers colleague's which as he states was barely used and even had a warranty (still does). Upon installing windows and all the drivers and software's needed everything looked fine until I got that first "black screen of death" Im not sure whet it first happened or how but I thought it was nothing more than just some freeze or a bug. I clean installed the drivers it somewhat went away but as time passed the issue returned. At first I noticed how sometimes while watching youtube the video's would start to stutter (sound as well) for a duration of about a 1.5 sec. and by the time I could react or see what is happening it would be over, and sometimes I could see weird graphical glitches such as white boxes for no longer than 0.5 sec on the web and other apps such as Office Word. It got really bad at some point that it was almost impossible to play game's and after that I started poking around. I went into bios (even though I already beforehand enabled xmp etc.) and completely reset it to default did all the drivers again with a clean install and I even installed a bunch of software such as HWmonitor and other to check my gpu bios. No issue was found everything worked fine (on paper), no overheating etc. until I downloaded a free benchmark test (I'm not sure but I think it was UserBenchmark). And as a normal person I started doing all the tests including cpu and gpu and found an interesting problem. The test ran from dx9 all the way to dx11 and as soon as it got to the dx11 (space jellyfish test) 9 out of 10 times at the exact same point it went to the black screen of death with max fan spin and display not found and after every time i had to restart the PC since there was no way out of it (I tried unplugging the DP and plugging it back in etc.), nothing worked except restart. So to get to the point of it someone please help me as i really don't want to spent another 1000+$ on a new gpu im not sure if its software related or is the gpu just bad. I'm gonna list the pc specs below. -Also I have a 850W gold plus Psu and nothing was overclocked and the cables going to the gpu are two separate cables (as it should be 2x8pin connector) and even though I considered the psu to be a possible issue the benchmark test persuaded me otherwise. -MBO q-code shows no errors except one time the pc didn't properly boot which was a code 40 from returning from sleep (I now have disabled the sleep option and the issue is still there). Here's the full list of my pc specs: MBO- ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING WIFI II CPU- AMD Ryzen 9 5900X RAM- 2x G.SKILL 16GB Trident Z Neo DDR4 3600MHz CL16 GPU- TUF Gaming GeForce RTX™ 3080 V2 OC Edition 10GB GDDR6X (supported by a bracket so no gpu sag) PSU- Cooler Master V850 SFX GOLD (SFX because the case is Lian li O11 dynamic mini) STORAGE- Samsung 980 Pro 1TB Cooling- 9x Lian li sl120 Uni fans (connected to a Lian li Hub) CPU Cooling - Nzxt Kraken Z53 240 mm (The Lian li fans are mounted on the cpu cooler and the hub is connected to a cpu pin connector which via PWM controls the spin rate) DISCLAIMER: The GPU does have a warranty, However It was bought in Germany (by the colleague whilst he was staying there) and was afterwards brought to Croatia where I live so there's no possible way of me going to the retail store and getting a refund otherwise I would have already done so. The files attached are my DxDiag and HwMonitor (the temp are a bit higher than usual as the pc need a spring dust clean). Anyways Please if you can somehow help me or you had a similar issue and know what to do please reach out Thank you in advance. DxDiag.txt HWMonitor.txt .dmp.rar

I've been having a problem with my 4070 ti for some time and I don't know what to do, games that are more graphically demanding like cyberpunk 2077, read dead 2, it has always done well, delivers similar performance to the benchmarks I see, always using 90 -100% gpu usage, but the problem is in games that don't demand much like CS2 and now in sons of the forest (the forest should stress the card a little, I thought I wouldn't have the same problem, but I'm having it too) CS2 with this config I expected 400-500 fps playing with competitive settings, but I play with 200-250fps and the gpu is using much less than normal. Now I'm playing Sons of the forest and I expected 120fps, but I'm playing at 70-80 fps, gpu usage is very low, tests I saw, gpu usage 80-85% while in my case 50-60%, any settings I place always has the same performance. Making it clear that I play at 1080p (I know this gpu is for qhd/4k, in the future I'm thinking about getting a qhd monitor) and all the tests I saw were in 1080p with settings similar to mine, I don't think it's a bottleneck, my cpu is in the worst case at 70% usage. Settings: CPU: i7-10700K GPU: Zotac NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Amp Extreme Airo 12GB RAM: 16GB 2933MHz Motherboard: TUF Gaming B460-PLUS Power Supply: Corsair HX750 PS: English is not my native language, forgive any mistakes.

i did a clean reinstall of my drivers updated windows etc and yet it keeps peaking too the max on task manager

Hi, Since I upgraded my graphics card from a 2060 to 4070 recently I have been getting very low FPS in Minecraft due to low GPU usage. My Minecraft performance is worse than with my 2060. I do not think any system bottleneck is causing the issue so I am not sure why. My GPU usage is fine in any other game. When I start loading new chunks in Minecraft my FPS goes up because my GPU usage goes up. I am playing Minecraft JAVA edition version 1.20.4. My PC specs: RTX 4070 Core i5 13600KF 16GB DDR4 3200mHz 750W PSU 2TB NVME SSD Anyone know what is causing this issue and how to solve it? Thanks!

I have a 6 year-old Dell desktop with a 1070 GPU. I have noticed frequent screen tearing for the last few months. There were also a few times that the system could not detect the GPU after booting up (using igpu instead) and sudden blue screens (something about "video", but do not remember the exact error code). I checked on the error code briefly and I remember the online information pointed toward the problem with the 1070. Also, there is no tearing problem when the monitors are connected to the onboard video output, even with the 1070 installed. After all, I ended up replacing the 1070 with a 4060 last week. However, there is still the same problem with the tearing from the 4060 video output. The only difference is that the height of where the tearing usually appears on the screen seems to be different. I tried some suggestions from the internet by changing the setting in the Nvidia control panel (both before and after replacing the 1070), but nothing has worked so far. Does anyone have a clue about which part of my PC might be causing the issue? 1070? Motherboard? Faulty 4060? PCIE socket? Or could this be the result of some setting that was changed for some reason? Really appreciate it if you could provide some advice on what to do.