Recent content by BooTheFearless

I see; well, to answer that question, then as I said before it depends. On the gold pins, it depends on how deep the scratches are. The top of the chip itself should be fine so long as it's not a huge gouge on the top of it. Scratches on the PCB itself should be fine, again depending on the...

It's possible depending on where the scratches are and if they're deep enough to interfere/interrupt the traces of the module itself. Same with the pins; depending on how deep those scratches are, it may not have any affect at all. The picture you attached is kinda blurry, so I can't make out...

Hey Dave! Just kinda spitballing on my part, but has anything on your computer broken? It sounds like when OCing your GPU, it somehow drew too much power and shorted out the ethernet port on your motherboard. Weird, but I don't think it's impossible. Do you have a loopback plug or something to...

I'm not 100% certain. Out of curiosity, I plugged my phone in again to see if the message would come up and it did this time? Next time you plug the phone in, keep your eye on the right side of your taskbar where notifications pop-up, I noticed that it comes and goes extremely quickly. And...

Have you noticed any significant difference in your connection quality depending on the distance from your Router/WAP? With you being connected to a 5GHz band, that particular signal is weaker at a distance and doesn't do as well with travelling through walls etc. However, this may not be the...

Like the others have said, do a full reinstall of windows. Though, I think you're getting a new device from the sounds of this post (correct me if I'm wrong). It is possible that you have a restore point that hasn't been infected by this particular piece of malware, but I would only go that...

Thanks again for your input @RodroX ! I've already contacted Gigabyte and re-initiated the RMA process. I did get confirmation that they would issue me a refund for the price of the GPU if they're unable to repair, but considering how difficult GPUs are to get, I'm willing to risk their RMA...

You need to go into the security tab, like you are now, and click "change" next to owner. From there, input the name of your user account (assuming your account is the local administrator). If the account you're currently logged into isn't an admin account, it won't work for you. Once in the...

If you delete files from any "hidden" directory like something from WindowsApps etc. that's not tied to a specific funtion of Windows, you should be fine. For example, I recently uninstalled Solasta from my computer, but it's AppData entries were still on my device. I opened explorer, navigated...

Without opening the case itself, it's unlikely that you'd be able to find anything. However, it's just as unlikely that someone could do that unless your laptop was temporarily stolen and the thief opened your device and installed some kind of hardware that could take your data. While possible...

And, here it is boosted to 1200MHz via Aorus Engine OC tool.

And here it is under load; both GPU Shark and GPU Z. Will post 1070's results for posterity's sake later. Hopefully with this information in hand, you all can get a better idea as to what's going on with this video card. As you can see, the clock stays consistent at a whopping 240MHz.

These are my GPU-Z and GPU Shark specs of the card while idling; does anything here look out of the ordinary to anyone? @RodroX & @Phaaze88? Currently downloading Superposition benchmark as recommended by GIGABYTE technical support; I called them and actually got in touch with someone. I was...

I see your predicament @anitricks. This is postulation on my part, but perhaps it could get your somewhere. While scouring forums for my GPU's issue, I saw mention that it's possible the RAM could be interfering with the card? I removed each RMA pairing that I had in my system but it came to...

I believe it has something to do with that. I encountered a similar issue when trying to transfer data from my phone to laptop; normally I ignore that popup as well but I noticed it wasn't actually mounting the phone properly until after I had chosen "view in explorer" rather than going straight...