Recent content by dave.rara66

Fair enough, good sir. I was a few cocktails deep when I posted. :grimacing:

Not sure that four products constitute a "roundup". The Arctic Liquid Freezer line has consistently trounced the competition for many years, at really competitive prices... Full disclosure: yes, I do own an Arctic cooler, but spent many hours reading reviews. That's why I went with their product.

Looks like a nice rig. My only suggestion would be to bump up the wattage on the psu. The RX 7800 XT suggests a minimum of 750W - but it's always good to have some spare headroom for overclocking, etc. Plus, PSUs are much more efficient when they are not near their upper limits. I have a...

Wow - nice rig!!

I use hwinfo and GPU-Z as well. It has a more streamlined sensors tab that shows the gpu hotspot. I still believe that another program is overriding afterburner. The gpu fans should adhere to whatever the curve is set to, regardless of temps - unless the bios has a built-in override feature...

Well the post shows that they are already monitoring their temps, hence the specific temps listed at which the fans ramp up. This is a fan curve issue, not a high temp issue. Must be a software conflict if the afterburner fan curve is not working.

Could you please add all you system specs either here or better yet to your profile, including monitor, cpu, motherboard, ram (DDR? and speed), power supply and basically anything else in your rig? This will greatly improve your chances of getting good answers to your questions. Thanks

So do you have any msi software installed for your mobo? I have a gigabyte mobo and their software, if improperly configured (ie not disabled for fan speed control) will override afterburner, etc. I would look through your programs and task manager to see if it's there and running in the...

Have you gone into device manager to see if it shows up there? If it does, right-click on it and select update driver. Choose "Search automatically", NOT "Browse my computer". Also - sorry bud but you should be on Windows 10 at this point. Win 7 support is long dead. I believe a free upgrade is...

When you say you "turned off the computer", do you mean simply powering down, or properly disconnecting the power cord and hitting the power button several times after unplugging from a/c source to discharge all the capacitors? If you didn't do this, you may have fried something in your 980.

He already stated that a different GPU works fine with the new RAM

What software are you using, and what brand is your mobo?

Nice! Also, maybe a Best Gamer Dad award to you!🏆

I can't say for sure. But has he gone into Big picture mode/settings/keyboard and dug around? Also, if he doesn't use a controller he could look in Big picture mode/settings/controller and make sure Steam isn't switching over to controller mode. Sorry I can't help more, but the solution has to...