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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.

So basically I had an rx 570 but it went bust and soon I am gonna buy a laptop for college work so i bought a gtx 730 for time being but thisss stupid drivers just won't update or installllllll. It say it's not compatible with you os... Bullshit I have already tried most methods like doing shit on registory.. Reinstalling the drivers with ddu... I even went as far as reinstalling win 11 but it still say hardware not compatible with your os version Found out it's a pretty common so if anyone has a solution pls let me know thanks

Specs: Mobo: MSI MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI ATX MOTHERBOARD (BIOS ver. 1.F0, 12-Oct-23) RAM: G.SKILL Sniper X Series 16GB (2x8GB) 3600MHz DDR4 Memory [upgraded to] Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB (2 x 32GB) DDR4 DRAM 3600MHz C18 Memory Kit Storage: Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Internal SSD (Boot Drive) + Seagate BarraCuda ST1000DM010 1TB HDD (Data Drive) Cooling: Noctua NH-U12S Chromax Pure Black CPU Cooler Case: Cooler Master Masterbox K501L RGB (ATX) Mid Tower Black Cabinet With Tempered Side Panel PSU: Antec Earthwatts Gold Pro Series EA750G Pro 750W Monitors: 2x BenQ 27 inch QHD Designer Monitor PD2700Q GPU: GALAX GeForce RTX 3070 SG (1-Click OC) 8GB GDDR6 Graphic Card CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Desktop Processor (8 Cores/16 Threads/3.8GHz) Windows 10 Home (64-bit) I was playing Valorant with my friends when I saw a notification for a new GameReady Driver (551.86). I installed it and continued gaming. I also stream on YouTube so I'll link one of my streams for a reference of the GPUs performance. I then proceeded to shut down my PC and upgrade my RAM (mentioned above). After clearing CMOS and booting up again, I logged in to Windows. And that's when Windows became extremely slow. I'm talking sluggish mouse movement, Start menu taking 5-10 seconds to load, any UAC window for launching Admin stuff taking 5-10 secs to load. My whole computer was extremely slow. I restarted into Safe Mode, DDU'ed the driver and booted back into Normal Windows. Everything ran smoothly again. Then Windows automatically installed an older Nvidia driver. Still ran smoothly. However when I launched Valorant, it ran at 25-30 fps. That was no good. I installed the latest Nvidia Driver again. Same problem. Extremely slow Windows performance. 10-15 fps on Valorant and Heaven Benchmark. I stumbled upon this troubleshooting video that JayzTwoCents had put out a while ago wherein he talks about disabling Windows automatically installing drivers so that it's a truly clean install. So I redid the entire DDU process again - this time checking the option to prevent Windows from doing that - installed the latest driver and... same problem. So then I thought maybe it's just a bug in the latest driver and Nvidia would release a hotfix for this driver eventually. In the meantime, I would roll back to an earlier driver. (All driver installations henceforth are done after DDU in Safe Mode.) I went through 4 or 5 different versions. Starting from one just before the latest driver (551.76), dating back to the version that I first had when I played Cyberpunk 2077 in December 2020 (546.33). All of them caused the same issue - smooth performance before the driver, sluggish performance after. I tried using 1 stick of RAM and clearing CMOS. Same issue. I tried my old stick of RAM. Same issue. I replaced the CMOS battery. I reseated the GPU and RAM. Same issue. Tried the Studio Driver. No differenece. Same issue. I eventually took my PC to my local vendor from who I had originally bought the parts (Prime ABGB, Mumbai). They swapped my drives for one of their SSD boot drives and it ran smoothly. Installed the latest Nvidia GR driver and was able to recreate the same problem. Slow performance. Then they swapped the 3070 for a 2080 Super from their test bench. And it worked smoothly. With latest Nvidia Driver, it hit 250+ fps on Heaven. Unfortunately, they do not undertake GPU repairs and it's out of warranty so I can't get a replacement either. I am aware that I'll have to shell out some serious cash and pick up a new one. But given that I have nothing to lose, I'd like to try and repair this one. Also, given the fact that it runs smoothly without a driver, I'm wondering if there is a plausible solution? Again, I'm at my wit's end. So any help would be greatly appreciated. Note: I am typing this thread out on that same machine and it's currently running super stuttery. Attaching a video of current Valorant gameplay shot on my OnePlus for reference: https://youtu.be/EJBztSxhK50?si=g8b1L1HQB77oh0Xo

There is a previous post on this forum where I was trying to find the cause of the problem where my graphics was showing no signal when I launched some games. I have since taken the card out and found that on one of the pins there was half of the pin missing. Apparently, the pin was used for power so I think when I tried to launch a game the card couldn't get enough power and then stopped providing a video out but if you have any other theories then let me know. The card is an RTX 3070 MSI Gaming Trio X Does anyone know how one would go about fixing this card, whether it is fixable and who I should send the card to?

Which Gpu is best to go for? They is only £30 between them, I know the rx 6750 XT is older and the rx 7600 xt has 16gbs of vram vs the 12gbs on the rx 6750 xt both are XFX cards. My motherboard has only pcie 3 slots.

Hi all, I decided to change my GPU cooler for an aftermarket alphacool eiswolf. The GPU is rtx 3080ti palit Gamerock. https://shop.alphacool.com/shop/cpu-gpu-aios/gpu-aio/11931-alphacool-eiswolf-2-aio-360mm-rtx-3090/3080-mit-backplate-reference They say that it fit GamePro version, but I didn't find anything about Gamerock. Will it fit ? Or there is no way to install that aio on mine GPU. Thanks In advance

Hello everyone, I just finished to build my new gaming PC. Here are my specs : CPU : 7 7800X3D MB : X670E RAM : 6000 mhz / cl30 watercooler : 360 case : ATX format Power supply : 1300i msi pci 5.0 (had a very good deal) Monitor : Asus VG27A - 1440p - 144hz (I will upgrade to 4K in the future, during the end of 2024 or during 2025) And for GPU, I still have my 3060 12gb aorus because I haven't decided yet what to do ... between buying a 4080 super which is in france between 1109 to 1200 euros (the model I want is 1200 euros) or invest for long term and buy a 4090 for 600 euros more (4090 costs 1769 euros now the FE model on NVIDIA website). Or do I wait for 5000 series BUT the 5090 will cost and will be too much ... and the 5080 will come in like 1 year from now and will cost I guess arround 1300 dollars (so in france it will be 1400 euros almost as a 4090 now !!) and in terms of performance be almost equal to a 4090 (lose maybe a bit in raster power and win in Ray tracing, as leaks say). My aim is to play on ultra settings in all games with RT ON if possible. What would you suggest ? Thank you for your reply. Roman

I was just wondering if anyone has had to replace a Zotac card's thermal paste due to terrible temps. It's been 3 years and 4 for me, all preforming 20 to even 30c cooler with Artic Silver applied instead. I knew Zotac was a cheap brand but jesus christ do they have planned obsolescence down. I'm thinking about buying a 3060 card from them, mistake or coincidence?

Currently I have a Radeon RX 6700XT, It's treated me well over the past 3 years, but since then one of the bios' on it has been corrupted, and I fear that either the new 24.3.1 driver update may have either corrupted it again (Given I did a driver roll back and it keeps crashing contently) or just doesn't like the second bios on the card. Even before it worked it didn't seem to like my games very much hovering around 90-100 fps(Mostly HZD and HFW) in 1440p gaming. It wouldn't be too big of a deal for me, but my boyfriends computer sits right next to mine and I just bought him a 7800XT and gaming looks amazing for him. (Even if that's because he plays 4k 60locked) Would upgrading to a 7900 GRE be worth it? The last upgrade I did was moving from the RX 580 to the 6700XT.

I have a RTX 2060 and I was wondering if mounting it vertically vs horizontal is better for performance. I know that the traditional way is horizontal but if vertical is better and gives better performance then that's an easy and cost effective fix

Is a rtx 3080 10gb good for ai ml and deep learning purpose or rtx 3060 12gb a better one Apart form price point

Which one of these gpu would be best? Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT GAMING OC 16GB GDDR6 Graphics Card https://www.scan.co.uk/products/gigabyte-radeon-rx-7600-xt-gaming-oc-16gb-gddr6-ray-tracing-graphics-card-rdna3-2048-streams-2810mhz XFX AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Speedster SWFT 210 16GB GDDR6 Graphics Card https://www.scan.co.uk/products/xfx-radeon-rx-7600-xt-speedster-swft-210-16gb-gddr6-ray-tracing-graphics-card-rdna3-2048-streams-275 Would both of them work with my motherboard which is a Asrock b450 steel legend atx am4 motherboard which is pcie 3 though.

Hi guys, I need some help here! In Japan, GPUs are usually 5-10% more expensive than in the state. I have an opportunity to travel to US very soon, so I'm considering using the chance to upgrade my GPU. Now, I have two opinions. One is that I found an all-new PowerColor Liquid Devil AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT, which is going for around $680 in Japan. My PC is already an open-loop, so this could be a nice fit. Another option is to buy an RTX 4070TI after I arrive in the US, which is also in the $650-$700 range (according to Newegg). Or I could go for an RTX 4070TI SUPER while I can buy it cheaper. My main display is 1440p 144hz with a 1080p secondary, and I'm staying at 2K for the foreseeable future, but I may upgrade to a 240hz display. I play e-sport games like Seige and AAA games 50/50 of the time. The question is 1) Which GPU should I go for? 2) How much difference is the performance between 6950 XT, 4070TI, and 4070TI SUPER? 3) If I choose RX 6950 XT, is it necessary to use 3 6-pin PCI-E power to run it, or is it optional? Any suggestions are welcome, and please correct me if I'm wrong about the GPU price in the state.

Hello, I am just wondering if my gpu is at a safe temp while gaming. It normally averages around 85 - 89 degrees when gaming. Now I have repasted the gpu however it has just not gotten any cooler. Now it is an asus rx 580 8gb and a dual card so I'm not so overly worried but I need this card to last me an extra 5 months and it has been with me for a while nearly everyday so it's been through what I say 'discomfort'. So my question is, is is this a safe temperature and last me a little longer. I've had it about 4 years and apparently gpu's only last 3-5 years so I'm worried is 85-89 degrees celsuis safe? (185-192 Fahrenheit)

Have a question, what would the best price to performance gpu be for a ryzen 5 5600x, I'm currently running a Asus 1660ti oc edition and looking for a upgrade

Hey there I have the following issue: When I boot up my PC and start playing a game or run a benchmark my results/FPS are lower than the average for the hardware. When I restart the PC and try the same things everything runs as expected. If I put the PC to sleep and then wake it up and try again my performance is worse just like in the first scenario. Some concrete numbers: 3D Mark TimeSpy for GPU score specifically runs at about 24-25k when performance is lower and at 28k when everything works fine (after a restart) Red Dead Redemption 2 - in the bad scenarios I get about 100-110 FPS average, in the good scenario I get about 160-170 FPS Specs: Ryzen 7 7800X3D, 32GB 6000Mhz RAM, RTX 4080 SUPER The issue is GPU only, my CPU score when running TimeSpy stays the same in all 3 scenarios while the GPU runs well only after a restart. I've tried both DDU and fresh windows install, fast boot is off in both windows and bios. I've attached two images of a bad scenario after an initial bootup and a good scenario after I restart the PC.