Recent content by Bazmanian

old byt 1000s of peeps have problems with 5700XT, hours/days of troubleshooting. lucky was able to return to amazon. got a 2070s and works perfect from day 1. AMD dont give a pooh about the 5700xt, driver issues since mid 2019. was sad as always had amd/radeon cards but AMD gpus are a big...

Stay away from 5700XT, it is still plagued with driver isssues. luckly bought from amazon and was able to return. got a 2070s instead. works perfect out the box, first install. you could try a 5700xt,but be prepared for hours of troubleshooting, DDUS and windows installs. for me it was not...

I just swapped my 5700XT for a 2070S, 5700xt is plagued still by driver issues. you need to do a lot of troubleshooting to make it work FACT!! its not worth the hassle IMHO, hours trying to make it work. a big combi of drivers, software and hardware issues with the AMD GPU products since mid...

Seasonic Focus GX 750, its working great with the gigabyte 2070super.

so a whole month of faffing about with Sapphire 5700xt GPU with screen freezes black screens etc etc tec.. AMD just outright issued a RMA, 2 other colleagues same issue, How dare AMD think its ok for customers to mess about, try so many settings only to know their drivers are just pants and...

Next question, which 2070 super?

challenge is finding a new LGA 1150 borad in the UK. not even available. So now need to consider a new full system refresh keeping psu and SSD

what is the spec for rest of your system? I am forced to upgrade. MSI z97 mobo died, looking at 5700 gpu. ok to re-use psu Corsair CP-9020073 Platinum Series HX850i ? help from any appreciated.

I was using 2x 4gb 4 years ago, upgraded and added another 2x 4gb of same ram so 4x 4gb in total. everything was running ok for 2 years , last 1 month restarts. taking ram back to 2x 4gb did not resolve, tried neighbors RAM still got restarts. happy to change ram for new MOBO, but which mobo?

a good replacement mobo? I have MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Intel LGA1150 Z97 Intel Core i5 i5-4690K CPU RAM: Corsair CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 Vengeance 16gb GB (4 x 4 GB) PSU: Corsair CP-9020073-UK Professional Platinum Series HX850i restart issue with a click from PSU, had same issue 2 years ago and and a...

Did you find a good replacement mobo? I have MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Intel LGA1150 Z97 Intel Core i5 i5-4690K CPU same restart issue with a click from PSU, had same issue 2 years ago and and a replacement mobo solved it. Same issue from replacement. not sure if MSI z97 had a known issue with this...

what would be the next step up GPU wise and is there a lot to gain?

Hi and thank you for your reply, budget would be $250ish for gpu,

Hi Super geniuses and Gods of PC hardware I need some GPU upgrade advise. I have the below setup from 2015. All is ok, but the GPU needs an upgrade. Please advise best vs cost effective GPU upgrade. Nvidia or AMD Also, what bottlenecks I may face. Anything I should consider upgrading? Will...