Recent content by cusideabelincoln

I think the real problem is the up-to 600W of power the card is pumping into the case. AIB cooling solutions won't really solve that either since they still dump the majority of heat inside the case. Further on you can see they mitigated the CPU temps by increasing all the fans speeds. You...

The memory sticks would be running at 6400 MT/s (3200 MHz real clock) and the memory controller would be running at 1600 MHz in the 2:1 mode - remember the real clock speeds are half of what DDR advertises. Depending on how your BIOS handles EXPO you could have had half the memory bandwidth...

When enabling DDR speeds beyond 6000 motherboards (at least my ASrock board) will put the memory controller in 2:1 mode. You have to change it manually to get the memory controller running in 1:1 with your DRAM sticks. This probably explains why your system has been rock stable. It might also...

Any reviews that have memory scaling or overclocking numbers?

I'm going to guess Source 1 is a Buildzoid video... :/

This guy has the worst takes and contradicts himself so much and I've had him ignored from my feeds for years now. He uses blame and scare tactics, questioning the validity of data from other people while refusing to provide any data himself... unless you pay for it. Don't pay for it; he sneaks...

It's definitely throttling down because of the hotspot. Your paste either dried up or reflowed and left a bare spot. This happened on my 2080 Ti. Worked fine after a repaste, but over time I was getting huge frame drops and the hotspot was out of the control. Took it apart and an entire corner...

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You can get great value out of used. A few months ago I snagged an RX 470 4GB for $62 shipped. Over a year ago I was able to get a couple of GTX 1060 3GB for under ~85 shipped. Both of these cards are good enough for 1080p gaming, producing suitable framerates. I would advise getting a 4GB...

It's quite possible a patch broke the game for the Core 2 lineup, and most of the time developers won't update their minimum requirements for performance. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to find an earlier build of the game. I will note that I recently had a 2015 version of...

26W @ idle, most programs manually closed. 45W @ idle, my normal suite of programs idling (web browser, game launchers, plex, etc) 3700X, PBO enabled DDR4-3600, manually tuned Rev. E. X470-F Asus ROG Strix Ryzen Balanced Windows Power Plan

The stock 3770 will struggle to maintain 60 FPS in GTAV, especially if you are (I'm assuming) running slower than DDR3 1600 RAM. I just booted up GTA V on a 3770k @ 4.5 GHz and it will not keep my GPU @ 100% load and frames will drop to 50 during heavy action sequences. So you will get some...

R9 280x 3GB is going for $150. I checked last year and they were less $100 IIRC. I think it's time to sell it lol.

Any chance of unlocking the cores on R5s?

Pcgamer's test scenario looks to be more GPU-limited.