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STRMfrmXMN

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About STRMfrmXMN

  • Title
    Trying to make peace with the world ✌
  • Birthday April 5

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    STRMfrmXMN
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    STRMfrmXMN#1405

Profile Information

  • Location
    Portland, Oregon. My rent is too damn high.
  • Gender
    Male
  • Interests
    Plaid, Cars and Computers.

System

  • CPU
    Intel Core i5 8600K @ 4.8 GHz 1.3V
  • Motherboard
    Gigabyte Z390 UD
  • RAM
    G.Skill Trident Z 3200 MHz CAS 14
  • GPU
    EVGA GTX 970 + 150 MHz core, + 300 mem
  • Case
    NZXT S340 Black
  • Storage
    Samsung 850 EVO 250GB (Windows) + OCZ Arc 100 120GB (Storage) + Sandisk SSD PLUS 240 GB (moar storage)
  • PSU
    EVGA 550GS
  • Display(s)
    Asus VG248QE 144hz + Dell U2515H 1440P IPS 60Hz
  • Cooling
    Noctua D15S + color explosion of Noctua fans
  • Keyboard
    CM Rapid Quickfire TKless w/all blue keycaps and a big ol mouse mat with a Vette on it
  • Mouse
    Logitech G403 + special carpal tunnel mouse for those with weak ass wrist muscles like me
  • Sound
    Mayflower O2/ODAC->JBL LSR305 + Sennheiser HD 600 + Audio Technica SR50BT + Sennheiser CX 2.00i
  • Operating System
    Windows 10
  • PCPartPicker URL
    https://pcpartpicker.com/user/austinp/saved/vk2LrH

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  1. STRMfrmXMN
    STRMfrmXMN

    Should I make checking in here every two months a regular thing? 😅

  2. STRMfrmXMN
    STRMfrmXMN

    Just got back from not having power for the last three days or so. How you all been doing?

    1.   Show previous replies  3 more
    2. dizmo

      dizmo

      7 hours ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

      power banks don't last three days unless you invest serious amounts of money. 

      sorry to hear that, fellow portlander, I was lucky enough to avoid the power losses. 

      For a phone? They sure do.

    3. STRMfrmXMN

      STRMfrmXMN

      I had one power bank that I hadn't charged in about 6 months, so that wasn't super useful in the end. I ended up just reading Harry Potter and sledding with friends, which is a rare thing to do given how seldom Portland gets real snow like we did. I ended up driving to work to get power and internet to do homework. That was interesting since, as it's a car dealership, we need internet for submitting credit apps and whatnot and... guess what? Comcast was down in the area, so we decided to beam wireless from a new Chevy Bolt. 

       

      Twas a weird time here. I'm very used to being able to just walk into a room and flick on a switch for light.

       

      @LetgomyleghoeWhere are you in Portland? I thought just about everywhere got hit pretty bad.

    4. Letgomyleghoe

      Letgomyleghoe

      8 hours ago, STRMfrmXMN said:

      I had one power bank that I hadn't charged in about 6 months, so that wasn't super useful in the end. I ended up just reading Harry Potter and sledding with friends, which is a rare thing to do given how seldom Portland gets real snow like we did. I ended up driving to work to get power and internet to do homework. That was interesting since, as it's a car dealership, we need internet for submitting credit apps and whatnot and... guess what? Comcast was down in the area, so we decided to beam wireless from a new Chevy Bolt. 

       

      Twas a weird time here. I'm very used to being able to just walk into a room and flick on a switch for light.

       

      @LetgomyleghoeWhere are you in Portland? I thought just about everywhere got hit pretty bad.

      very far south almost in milwaukie, we got hit pretty hard and our tree dropped 5 branches the size of small trees, but our power was fine. 

  3. STRMfrmXMN
    STRMfrmXMN

    Really bummed to hear what happened with Bitwit Kyle. Hope everything goes well with him. 

  4. STRMfrmXMN
    Hard drives have moving parts so, by design, they don't last as long. However, if you're the type to do sustained writes on a drive day in, day out, it'll probably be no more reliable for you to get a cheap DRAMless SSD over a hard drive. The cheapest DRAM cache SSD is the Crucial MX500, and can be had pretty cheap for 1 TB being about $85.
  5. STRMfrmXMN
    It would be best to use the new cables that come with your PSU. Not all pinouts are identical on all ATX PSUs. Would be nice if they were, but you don't want to fry anything finding out they don't work interchangably.
  6. STRMfrmXMN
    STRMfrmXMN

    What's up, my technically-inclined summer children?

    1. CircleTech

      CircleTech

      It's 2am here. 

       

      I shoud be asleep.

    2. DoctorNick

      DoctorNick

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    3. STRMfrmXMN

      STRMfrmXMN

      Go to bed Circle

       

      And Doctor, I'm not feeling well. I think I got a bad case of the bloatware.

  7. STRMfrmXMN
    A lot of new RTX cards are triggering OCP in decent PSUs (I believe the transient spikes in power demands from the GPU are what are triggering this issue for thousands of others). You might need a different PSU to make it work, even if your old PSU otherwise works fine.
  8. STRMfrmXMN
    You don't need a 650W PSU, you just need a higher-quality unit. Make a post on this subforum again when you're planning to buy so you don't end up with a crappy 650W. Heck, you could easily run that system off a 450W PSU. You just want something that's a bit more modern and better-made.
  9. STRMfrmXMN
    Then I'd recommend a higher-quality unit. But yes, 500W is plenty for that setup.
  10. STRMfrmXMN
    What power supply is it?
  11. STRMfrmXMN
    What voltage are you running on the vCore and what are your LLC settings?
  12. STRMfrmXMN
    Those temps seem pretty normal. Leave voltage settings alone on a laptop. The engineers who designed your GPU BIOS will know what's up and what it's doing and undervolting will result in issues like you ended up finding. Unless you bring the clockspeeds of your GPU down, your undervolting will pretty much guarantee issues on any GPU, especially one that's designed to run on battery power.
  13. STRMfrmXMN
    I thought it couldn't possibly be that bad until I checked out the Glassdoor ratings. So many of them dislike the CEO. Never a good sign. I'll sit with my Mayflower O2/ODAC.
  14. STRMfrmXMN
    That's an exciting rumor, but we'll see what they end up doing with a lack of supply of GDDR6. I'd be curious to see if they use GDDR5X for lower-end cards. Supply is such an issue right now that many would just take anything
  15. STRMfrmXMN
    I'm not sure what you mean. That opens the File Explorer for me. Type cmd in the Windows start and right click and select run as administrator, then use the command I suggested.
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