Recent content by Siyko

Who was 'they'? An electrician, or the power company? I guess it's a difference of who pays for the repair, but I'm a bit afraid of calling the power company, having them say 'it's a problem in the house' and charging me a service fee or whatever

I'll do that, thanks

BruceB, I did have two electricians over recently - one to fix an issue with an overloaded circuit, and another to install a central air AC unit. I'm not an expert in this, so my paraphrasing might be wrong. But they said I have a XX amp breaker, and that is more than enough, so that's not an...

Paperdoc - thanks for the detailed answer. I assumed a UPS would typically run off battery power while it's charging, because I didn't think it could ever switch over in time, but I guess not. Is there a term for the ones that DO provide this 'normalized' output from the battery? I tried...

Hello. I have been troubleshooting odd problems with my PC that until recently, I haven't thought were related. I've lost two power supplies in the past three years. Just one day they stopped working, and I had to replace them. I chalked it up to bad luck. When I built my current computer, I...

FurMark v1.17.0.0 running at 4K/UHD preset Furmark at 1080 preset GPU-Z log (I think this is only capturing one of my GPUs - the r295x2 has two. I captured a log of just the second, but I can't figure out how to capture both at the same time) Throttlestop Log I also played around a bit and...

Thank you all so much for the fast responses. It means a lot to me. I'm using Catalyst 15.11 Beta. Just yesterday I ran the Guru3d DDU to clean out the drivers and installed this beta driver. Before that, I've been staying up to date on the general release of Catalyst drivers. Answers to...

I put together this system a couple months ago: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/6bGBYJ I haven't had any technical issues jump out at me, but I've had fairly crummy performance in a lot of games. Cities in Motion, Skyrim, Borderlands 2, most recently Fallout 4, and a few others have just run...

Interesting. I didn't expect that at all - thanks for the information. However, the problems I'm referring to with ATI vs Nvidia are not power issues - they are driver/software issues. With crossfire enabled, some games don't render some objects, or don't load some textures, or don't work, or...

The thread on here is: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2293721 The thread on MSI where I spent most of hte time is here: http://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=165057.0

Alright, I think I'm going to just get a new video card now, and look at another upgrade in about 6 months or so. It sounds like the video card will relieve my PC of a lot of the stress I'm seeing right now. Thanks for all the info everybody. I'm going to read some more on Haswell.

Ah, I didn't know you could add them like that. Thanks

One concerning thing about getting a new video card is the power supply I currently have. It's a Rosewill BRONZE RBR750-M at 750W http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817182186 The concerning thing is the amperage - it has +12V at only 18A. While I was troubleshooting my 660 TI...

My issues aren't large though, and are mostly related to video card. Maybe I should get a new video card right now, and in six months or so, upgrade the rest of my PC. I just read about Haswell, I hadn't heard about it until now.

I'm using dual Radeon HD 5770s. The power is ok, but not great. I have so many issues with games that require me to disable crossfire, or ATI drivers giving me problems between multiple monitors though. I used my friend's GTX470 for a couple weeks and I didn't have any of those issues, so I want...