Recent content by antishill

Is that a single stick of 8GB or 2x4GB. You are losing half of your memory bandwidth if you only have a single stick forcing the system to operate at single channel memory instead of dual channel. If all you got is a HDD for storage, your load times is not going to be fast. Loading on the...

Low setting or high settings for games will not matter very much for your loading times. Load for over "a" as in 1 minute on a HDD is pretty much par for the course. We need to see more detailed specs of you build. For starters we need to know the storage devices as well as your memory timings...

How hard did you yank on your cables when you were doing you "cable management"? Did you put the zip ties on some of them way too tight? The highest probability is that you have unintentionally damaged you cables, and that would explain the vertical lines and such.

There is in all likelihood 99.99999% chance that there is no damage. But proving a negative is probably impossible. But for all effective purposes, tldr, NO damage. Now having said that, because you did you OS install in an unstable ram state, what got written to disk/ssd/storage may have...

How did you decide that you "NEED" to "pay" Fortnite at 1440p @ 60hz?

$100 with mobo included might still be too expensive. Because you still need to buy memory for a dead end platform.

First of all why are you transferring files from the C: drive to desktop? This doesn't speed up anything for you. Your desktop is likely already on the C: drive too. And what sort of transfer is it? It is a file copy or a file move? I would advise against unnecessary copying of files on your...

That is the beauty of AMD processors. Nothing you can do about it.

What makes you think a coffeelake CPU will work in a z270 board?

Try these: https://www.amazon.com/Cougar-Vortex-Cooling-CF-V12H-Orange/dp/B0065L9FN6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520576129&sr=8-1&keywords=cougar+fans+120mm 60 CFM at less than 20db. Only $12 on Amazon. Or these...

If you want to believe that level of performance is good enough for you, more power to ya. The bottleneck is severe, but there will be no hardware damage, the GPU will probably actually run cooler because it is idling more. The FX4300 is arguably on par with a core 2 duo Q9650. And back in 2011...

Why would you wait? If they did not do satisfactory work, you need to get them to replace it immediately before their responsibility shirking customer service pretend to have forgotten, lost, or invalidate any claims you can have on it. I would send it back ASAP and yell at them some more and...