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My primary display is starting to die. It works fine then randomly flickers, goes blank, etc. Before it dies completely I want to get a new monitor. I'm currently running a dual monitor setup, but I'm looking for some input from those who have used both ultrawide and dual monitors. 1: Can you run an ultrawide like a dual monitor setup? For example: I've got Youtube, Floatplane, Netflix, or w/e else on the second screen while gaming on the main one. Can I split an ultrawide down the middle (or into thirds) so I can still do this? 2: Performance hit or bonus? I'm running a 4080 Super, but I live in California where electricity cost is insane. Has anyone noticed a difference in power draw and/or FPS for dual monitors vs Ultrawide while using it in situations like Question 1? 3: If you've gone from Dual Monitors to Ultrawide what has your personal experience been? Positives and negatives. 4: If you run an Ultrawide setup and have used multiple Ultrawide monitors what is something you've learned to watch out for? Any Surprises? Thanks for anyone who reads and responds!
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Hey guys, I have a really odd situation on my hands. My home is older, with 150A breaker box. My rig in my room uses a 1000W power supply, I also have a few other peripherals (tv, 2 monitors, headphone amp and DAC, speakers). I will say that I don't plug in the TV or speakers very often because I am afraid to. When I do plug in either the speakers or TV in while I have my system on, I hear a very faint, rhythmic hum coming from somewhere. As soon as I turn off my setup, it goes away. I did have the electricians come out and replace a faulty outlet. I did hope that the bad outlet was the culprit of this, but it was not. I'm thinking of parting out my rig and downsizing a bit. Would getting a less powerful system solve my problems? Or could I get away with using a lower rated power supply? Rig specs are below, I've really reached my wits end with this. Specs of Rig: Ryzen 5800X Nvidia GTX 3080 Gigabyte X570 Gaming Pro Wifi 3 Samsung 1tb 2.5 in SSDs 2 Intel 660p 1tb Nvme SSDs 2 WD Green 2tb HDDs EVGA SuperNova 1000W PSU Fractal Design R7 Case Another thing I'm thinking about is replacing the outlet that has most of my peripherals plugged into it, but honestly that is expensive to do and I would like to not have to waste money in order to ultimately just downsize my PC anyway. I think that if I were to get a lower rated PSU that might solve my problems, but I am unsure. I just don't want my house to burn down.
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I have a RTX 3090 that is supposedly drawing in 400w of power AT IDLE, but the GPU temps don't really reflect that(31.8 degrees celcius, fans are not going crazy). Obviously, this is something related to incorrect current draw readings and I was wondering if faulty shunt(s) would be causing this issue? If not, what could it be?
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Hey, I'm wondering if I can get a little bit more use out of my old motherboard with a better CPU. The problem is that my motherboard only has a 4 pin eps connector. Now, I'm wondering, can my motherboard handle the i7-2600? I'm guessing no one can say for sure since there is no supported cpus list for my mobo, but maybe can have some meaningful information? -
ok guys i just bought an rx 570 to put into my i7 4790k computer with a 300 watts psu and i plugged my rx 570 to a dedicated gpu with 300watts on the 12 volt rail wich us plenty for my gpu using 2 molex to 8 pin adapter the pc started and i can play games fine but i can t reach my gpu's full potential and i noticed in afterburner that my gpu power draw never exeded 70 watts where it should draw up to 150 watts so i checked in gpuz and i noticed that the "board power limit" was at 70 watts i tried to increase the power limit through amd adrenalin but when i stress tested it my computer crashed ps: i can t really afford a new psu right now i m kindda broke and i live in morocco where the price of any computer part is double the price of the same part in the us but i will gather enough money to buy a psu in like 5 or 6 months i just want to know if i can do something for it to run at full power
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im doing a new build and as the topic says am a little bit concerned when ive done a deeper dive of what the power draws of the CPU and GPU was under full load if the PSU i have will be sufficient for the task of gaming, streaming and some lighter video editing or if i should go for a more efficient and higher wattage one (specs below), anyone who can lend their knowledge and help me with this? specs of the build: MSI MAG X570 TOMAHAWK WIFI AMD Ryzen 9 5900X / 12 cores / 24 threads / 4.8 GHz Corsair SP120 / iCUE-RGB / 120mm / 3-pack / Startkit Arctic Liquid Freezer II - 360mm Corsair SP120 / iCUE-RGB / PWM / 120mm / 1-pack / Add-on x3 ASUS TUF GeForce RTX 3070 8GB Gaming OC Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic / Tempered Glass - Svart Kingston A2000 M.2 1TB x2 Corsair Vengeance LPX Black 32GB (2x16GB) / 3200MHz / DDR4 / CL16 / CMK32GX4M2B3200C16 Corsair RM850 / 850W / 80+ Gold -
Budget (including currency): Country: Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: 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): Hi All, Ignore the obvious bottleneck.... Will my current Corsair tx550m gold rated psu be enough for an RTX 3080, R5 1600, 2 3.5" hdds and an ssd, The psu pushed out 520w on it's 12 volt rail. The video below suggests that a 3080 with an overclocked r5 3600, the updated 1600 pulls 460w. What do you guys think? Thanks guys! -
Hi, I have Gigabyte Rtx 2080 super gaming OC which should draw around 250 watts but mine only draw around 210 watts although running at 100% usage, 1950mhz core and 8900mhz memory, my PSU is seasonic focus FM 650 watts thanks,
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Been messing with overclocking on and off ever since I got my 3600 (nice cpu by the way), and I recently discovered that it seems "stable" at higher clocks than initial testing suggested, so trying to see if that's actually viable running 4.45ghz instead of the usual plebeian 4.4ghz - doesn't make a real difference, but higher numbers = better. Cinebench was set to high priority in windows 10 task manager - affinity was set to cpu 0. So far CPU 0 seems to be the only one doing this, others report normally. *Edit common trend. So with that in mind I present to you these lovely screen grabs. I wasn't quick enough to screen grab it, but core temp briefly reported a 2401W power draw which honestly seemed a little excessive for a 1 thread workload. Not sure what there's to learn from that. Probably wont matter, but running an ASRock Phantom Gaming 4 570x board, the 3600 and windows 10. Rest of specs shouldn't be relevant for this.
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I cant seem to find anything of the sort. Wherever I look, all I see is bullshit articles saying i should have a 650w PSU for a 3060 and 750w for a 3070. I don't want that. I need a excel spreadsheet of hard data on exactly how much power GPUs draw at load, along with data for spikes, idle, and how much of it comes from the mobo slot vs the PCIE power connector. I know plenty of companies and reviewers measure these power draw stats but I can't watch a 15 minute GN review for every card that dropped in the last decade and a half. If anyone knows of resources that aggregate such data, even if its not every card or not all of those data points, any spread sheet with hard data on power draw would be much appreciated. -
Hello, I want to hack my ps2, I have the hdd attachment for the ps2, the hdd, and the usb interface to use it with my computer, but I need a power cable for it. Can I use a 5 volt 2.1 amp power brick with a modded molex cable?
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I recently built a new PC to replace my 6-year old self-built machine that was starting to show its age in preparation for University. I carried over my storage drives and GPU but I am looking to replace the graphics card for something that would give me better performance in games, and in GPU-driven applications. My specs are as follows: CPU: Intel i5-6600K OC'd to 4.6GHzCPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X62 Water CoolerMotherboard: ASUS Z170 Pro GamingRAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB 2400MhzGPU: MSI R9 270X ITX 2GBPSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650WSSD: Samsung 850 Pro 256GBHDD : Toshiba 2TB 7200RPMCase: Phanteks Eclipse P400S ATX Mid Tower I've had my eye on a couple of AMD cards, but I am concerned with the power draw I would be dealing with under load due to the 650W PSU, as power consumption is a factor I have very little knowledge about. To give an idea of my current options I have looked at the following cards: RX 470 4GB £170~ RX 480 4GB £220~ RX 480 8GB £240~ I'm not looking to pay much more than £250 (including shipping) on a GPU as I'll be paying around the same for some pre-uni payments and Don't want to end up eating into my savings too hard. Thanks in advance for the advice
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Hi All. I am hoping someone else has had this issue and can help. I am stuck! This is going to be long, but I am going to try to be thorough. The Issue: When adding a 2nd MSI Gaming X RX 480 8GB card to my system, I am experiencing crashes. This happens sometimes when trying to start a game, and sometimes (so far) after 1 game of Rocket League, when trying to go to the second game. The freezes are odd, I've never seen them before. It is not a BSOD or a flat shutdown, but a slow blinking screen of boxy, pixelated colors until the computer restarts. When this happens when trying to start a game, the screen just very slowly flashes black and then completely white. It has pointed to a memory, bad card, bad PCI, or power issue to me. As noted below I haven't been able to confirm any of this yet. What I've Tried and Discovered: I have pulled and reseated the cards, I have tested them individually and they both work fine, I've updated my BIOS, I've tested my memory, I've run 3D Mark with cards in crossfire with no issues, I've confirmed Crossfire is on in MSI's software and the logo comes up when I get a working game of Rocket League going. I have a 750 platinum PSU and per some internet research, this should be plenty for my configuration. I have made sure all BIOS settings and clocks to stock. As of now, I only have 1 card in and I'm back to running fine. What I'm working with: EVGA SuperNOVA 750 P2 220-P2-0750-X1 80+ PLATINUM 750W MSI Gaming Z170A GAMING M5 LGA 1151 Intel Core i5-6600K 6M Skylake Quad-Core 3.5 GHz LGA 1151 91W (Attempted 2) MSI GAMING RX 480 GDDR5 8GB Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200 (PC4-25600) I have read all about the power draw issues, but the MSI Gaming X card has an 8 pin and it sounds like 750 watts should be plenty for this setup. FYI, full system and calculated power supply needs from Cooler Master's website are attached in pic form. HELP?!
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I want to build a cheap workstation PC which I'll mainly use for video editing for the next two years and I did some research today and stepped over the Xeon X5650/X5660/X5670 which only cost about 30 - 50€ used where I live. I would have already bought one of them in combination with a X58 mainboard which a friend of mine will be selling but then I saw that the power consumption of these CPUs is pretty high. The reason why this is a problem for me is because I want to use this PC as a server/NAS in two years. Can I reduce the power draw to a point where it is comparable to a somewhat modern Xeon E3 if I lower the clockspeed and voltage and maybe even disable 2 cores or should I go with a Xeon E3 which is way more expensive right away? ^^
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Hello, I’m planing on buying the new 2080 super and I have a question. Will Be Quiet 600 W 80 plus bronze paired with i7 7700k Oc to 4,8 GHz be enough? I have 2 ssds, one optical drive and 4 case fans. Every calculator shows different result and I’m a little confused. Thank you all for the replies
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Hi so basically I live in the UK where the supposed maximum power output is around 3,000 Watts from the wall, surely enough to power a ~450W PC? However I cannot find another explanation as to why my PC worked fine in my old house, (well 'Fine' meaning that I got through setup and started browsing a little) but now it keeps randomly shutting down? I've compiled a potential list of errors that could lead to this 1. Dodgy power cable- most likely I'd say since I have no idea which cable I used to power my computer at my old house, so could be a different one/ one that couldn't output enough power through the fuse. 2. Lack of power from the wall- unlikely, however I have no idea to be honest. 3. I'm using a Chinese motherboard, so could it be a power allocation thing?- Unlikely, since I got it working for a while at my old home, and it's no other components since the PSU and every other component has been used in a past build, ALTHOUGH as a little side note here the PSU has started making a little crackling noise (or at least I think it's the PSU) although it did that at my old home with no problems. 4. Something else entirely? Honestly possible, but after looking back on what I said, I think the PSU may be the problem, so does anyone know of a good cheap 500~ Watt PSU that's preferably modular if that is the issue? Any questions and I'll try to answer accordingly. Thanks, David
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A new build in the Phanteks Eclipse P400S, and when I plug in the power for the front panel, the LED flashes brightly and clicks, then the computer will power cycle. It looks like its drawing too much power. The connector is just a SATA power, so I'm not sure why this would be happening. Though it is the only SATA/MOLEX device drawing power.
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I have a Corsair H100i v2 in my computer. There are already two fans and the pump connected to one header. I was thinking about adding two more pull fans of the exact same model on the other side of my radiator and also have them controlled by the iCUE app by adding 2 splitters to the 2 fan connectors that lead to the pump and then from the pump to the cpu fan header, but I am concerned about the amps drawn. This would bring the total to four fans and the pump on the one fan header. I know that the fan headers on my motherboard are good for up to 1 A and the label on the back of the fans say that they draw 12v DC 0.28 A when at 2,700 rpm. In the Corsair iCUE app, I have a fan curve set so that the fans do not go over 47% of the max rpm. Since I will not have all four fans going at full speed, I was wondering if I could get away with running the pump and the fans off of the one header. -
Hello, Im looking at buying an adaptor for my ssd.. Ive seen 3 kinds, usb 3 with one usb connector, usb 2 with 2 usb connectors and others with an external supply but i dont want that.. I prefer the usb3 one cause it only has one port My question is what happens if there is no usb3 port to plug it? Will connecting to a single usb 2 port cause issues? I know usb2 is capable of 2.5 Watts and usb3 4.5 Watts and ive seen here that my ssd could draw more than 3 watts.. Im mainly concerned for my 840 evo but id like to be able to connect whatever and not have issues..
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Does anybody know what is happening, my PC with Intel celeron N2840 and windows 7 professional doesn't draw more than 1 w I got 76 cb in cinebench wtfff The temps doesn't go more than 50 degrees, previously it was up to 75 degrees, and it drew more power
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Hey Guys, I Just Had A Quick Question. I Have A Dell i3650 It Has: i5-6400 12GB DDR4 1TB HDD 240w Dell PSU My Question Is: With These Specs, Do You Think I Could Run A Lower End Card Like A GTX 1650 (Non-Connector) And It Be In The Power Constraints Of The System? I Turn Off Hyper Threading And Undervolt But I Want To Do Some Basic 1080p Gaming.
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Building a. new rig and need to know amp draw of these fans so i can connect it onto the fan headers(1 amp) and the rog maximus x hero. Someone please tell me theire startup and usage amp draw. Corsair LL140: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/kTvZxr/corsair-ll140-rgb-led-twofans-with-lighting-node-pro-515-cfm-140mm-fans-co-9050074-ww Bitfenix Spectare pro: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/29WfrH/bitfenix-spectre-pro-rgb-140-562-cfm-140mm-fan-bff-srgb-14025n-rp
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Hello guys I am planning a new build for the upcoming Nvidia GPUs. I am planning to get a RTX 2070 and the 9th gen i7 CPU, also i plan on overclocking the CPU and GPU. I am very tight in my budget and i need to cut down on case quality and looks. Can you tell me what wattage PSU will i need? Let's say that the 2070 has the power draw of a 1080 and the CPU has the power draw of 8700k. Is 750W good or do i need more? I am not very familiar with overclocking so that's what i am worried about. Also I would like to not use my PSU more than 70%. Thanks guys
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i just wanted to know if someone could recommend me a good power meter, a budget one would be nice (30$ or lower, or just one thats over but works well)
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So I have a Clevo N150RF laptop with a 62WH battery which can fully charge to about 50WH. With light use my laptop will last about 5 hours. So by my calculations my laptops total power draw is 10W. I've already gotten this number down by limitting cpu speed on battery and undervolting. According to Throttlestop my cpu package draw is around 1W on idle. So I was wondering if there was any other way of getting this 10W figure down. Then I read that a ddr3 ram stick uses about 3W. I have 2 of these (1600Mhz SODIMM DDR3 1.35V 8GB) for a total of 16GB. As i currently have a desktop I have no more need for 16GB of ram as I don't use the laptop for gaming anymore. Also I don't think losing dual channel will have any affect on my ability to browse and watch youtube videos. Does anyone know if taking out one of my ram sticks will improe battery life? Also, does my 965m still draw power even though I am not using it and have nvidia optimus? If so, can I fully disable it? And does a dvd drive use any power? I haven't used this thing for about t year and can replace it with an empty hdd caddy. Last question: Does a m.2 nvme ssd use less power than I 2.5 inch sata. If so I can replace my old 2.5 inch with a 960 evo.
