Recent content by aranel72

Thanks y'all for some great advice. I think I'll go for the 3060Ti once available, but will keep an eye out for good deals on the others. Happy New Year!

Tom's Hardware mentioned to not pay more than about $279 for the 5600XT... https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-gpus,4380.html ...but did qualify that statement about GPU scarcity (which I overlooked). Indeed, I'm not finding it anywhere at that price. I was aiming to spend around $300...

My current system is quite old now. I built it about 9 years ago so I've been fighting back the itch to replace it for many years now. Over the life of the system I've only had to replace the GPU (GeForce GTX 670) when it died. I used an even older GPU from my previous PC (GeForce GTX 550...

I don't know why I didn't try this sooner. Much to my surprise, no more problems And even with an older GPU (GTX 550 Ti), it plays WoW fairly well. Thanks again all for your help.

Great suggestion. I tried Windows Memory Diagnostic, didn't see any issues. I'll run again with MemTest86 to be sure.

Thanks again for your help here! I hadn't used DDU in awhile, so did so again in safe mode and then installed the latest driver. Unfortunately, I'm still having the issue. I've not had any BSOD or wow.exe crash recently. Rather, it's largely a loss of display (screen goes black, white, or...

I was hoping CPUID would write to a log file in real time so that I could go back to see what happened at the time of the crash. Since most of the time I just lose all video (i.e. screen goes black, monitor shuts off, even though has power and system is on), and my only option at that point is...

I've played around with reliability monitor before, but it's never been too helpful...mostly a cryptic "Desktop Windows Manager (dwm.exe) stopped working." But today I found some interesting things like hardware errors. https://imgur.com/f0lwitc Description A problem with your hardware caused...

LOL, yes, I do occasionally clean with a can of compressed air. But since it's been awhile, I disassembled the whole PC and gave it a thorough cleaning.

Good call. I've used CPUID before. Reinstalled it. Most things appear to be OK (< 40 degC), but TMPIN8 is ridiculously high @102 degC (215 degF). I researched this a bit and most posts say it's a faulty or unused sensor. Any thoughts here? BTW, this is idle...haven't run WoW yet...doing...

Good suggestion to reduce graphics settings and see result. I'll give that a try as soon as servers come back up. I'm a recent returning player to WoW after Bioware saw fit to kill SWTOR last year. I only started playing WoW this past December, and it's always been an issue on this system I...

When I play World of Warcraft on my desktop (built in 2012), I get frequent application crashes and bluescreens. It might run fine for hours before a crash, or it might crash just after logging in. And this only happens when I play WoW (SWTOR runs fine). I've worked through all the steps with...