Recent content by benwinwood6

Would like to express firstly the absolute hell that is the grey area of PC troubleshooting. Never have been able to get a solid answer even from devoted PC specialists for any sort of troubleshooting regarding component damage. Today the shop near me had a large explosion type sound. My PC...

Nobody has any idea?

I recently updated my RAM from a 2400Mhz G-skill Cl15 to a 3200MHz Corsair RGB Pro CL16kit. After (sucessful installation) I noticed large FPS drops but now the old ram is exhibiting them too. I now have WAY worse problems than I had before. A few mistakes were made here. Upon installing I...

MERGED QUESTION Question from benwinwood6 : "Zotac amp extreme 1070 coil whine" I purchased a Zotac 1070 used hand (impeccable condition only used for 3 months). When I First benched it there was no coil whine. It now whines terribly at high fps. I replaced the Mobo to no avail. The only...

I just installed a new motherboard and when re-positioning the PC obviously the sata cable managed to be touching the middle fan of my 1070 Amp extreme. There was a horrible grinding noise. How can I make sure everything is Ok and I didn't damage anything on ths Gpu?

I was messing with some settings recommended by an Nvidia Forum moderator. I moved my Cpu clock up to its maximum (3.6ghz) After saving and exiting the bios, my Pc turned off and wehn booted would do the same thing a few times. It finally came on but it was not pleasant. I also installed an...

I got a used 1070 the other day and bench marked it thoroughly on Uni engine valley. I did the same benchmarks today and noticed a significant coil whine coming from the card, which wasn't there previously. The same thing happened to my old 970 strix AND my gtx 760. Is it possible that my...

While plugged into the back Usb ports of my Mobo, sometimes my keyboard and/or mouse cuts out. They are still lit, but just don't respond, they come back after a minute or two? I have also had fan issues, with cpu fans revving up and down. Am I possibly damaging my other expensive components...