Recent content by dave.rara66

Why would anyone need to know the liquid's temp when you can accurately monitor the current CPU temp? THAT'S what matters

NO. After I saw the placement of the ports at the BOTTOM of the chassis on the 1st pic I stopped reading. Just silly

I should have clarified that the prices I'm seeing are in the USA

I'm sure it's a nice monitor, but for the same price you can buy the Dell Alienware AW3423DWF. While it's capped at 165Hz (hardly a noticeable decrease) it has great HDR performance and a better warranty. Not better as in longer, but better in that they will never make you send in a monitor for...

Using 15GB or allocating 15GB? A lot of games will allocate as much Vram as they can see, just because. Doesn't mean they are actually using it all.

Good lord, you entirely missed the point. ThomasKinsley is suggesting that Microsoft - who is notorious for mining data - will happily dismantle an HDD... after stripping any data left on it.

Incorrectly stated that the RTX 3080 12GB variant only has a 320 bit bus width. While the 10 GB version is 320 bit, the 12 GB model is 384 bit, like the 3080 Ti

Fans do not last forever, anymore than pumps do. At the reported $39/fan that's nearly $80 to replace both. As ingtar33 stated, the ARCTIC Liquid Freezer III 360mm is only $99 for the whole kit, and it looks a lot nicer than this 1980's throwback brown monstrosity, imo. Why have anxiety over...

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.