Recent content by dontmesswithjohan

Are you talking about the OS drive or storage? If it's the first, you will need to swipe the SSD and reinstall everything from scratch. If you are just using it for storage, it should work plug-and-play.

Normally I'd say cable issue, but since you mention that it only happens during heavy graphics load, there's a chance that the GPU is faulty. It's probably going to end up being that if switching cables doesn't help.

Are you sure that nothing, such as graphics utility software, is forcing non-native resolution on the monitor? It might only happen in some instances but not in others.

As I just told someone in another thread, most people go into CS:GO thinking it's gonna fly. After all, it's basically 1.6 with a slight-ish graphics upgrade. The official requirements certainly fuel this. In reality, CS:GO is similar to PUBG in that a lot of people experience performance...

I am almost sure this is an issue with the connector between the monitor and the GPU (busted cable or something). Try a different port and replace the cable. If this doesn't help, and it should, it's still unlikely to be anything other than a monitor malfunction from my experience.

Monitor quality and resolution should always match PC specs, as having a strong PC on a shabby monitor is too big of a waste. 1378x768 is miniscule for a desktop monitor. Out of curiosity, why is your school giving away monitors for free? ;)

How many different programs are you running while gaming? Sounds like something in the background could be taking away computing power. And how's the FPS in other titles? CS:GO is quite poorly optimized. Not PUBG level, but still.

Go for the 2600 and spend the extra money on the GPU. With the 2700 series out the 2600x isn't looking so flashy anymore, so not worth it IMO. And regardless of whether you're on a budget or not, AMD will serve you just fine over Intel.

I'd recommend defragmentation with a specialized program if your issue was less severe, but I doubt it'll help here. It definitely doesn't sound like a mismatch between the hardware, more like the RAM breaking down or something.

From the looks of it someone is mining coins with your CPU.

You really shouldn't be using anything below the monitor's native resolution, not in games and certainly not for desktop activities. There are plenty of ways to change the size and appearance of fonts, icons and the like, both in Windows options and through external programs.

The slowness you are referring to almost certainly comes from not having your OS and programs on an SSD, so that should be your first upgrade (SSD for OS and programs and regular HDD for other files). The CPU is not shabby and I don't imagine it's causing streaming issues. Also consider going...

The 1080 is noticeably, if not far better than the 1070ti, so given the choice, you shouldn't have qualms about going for the 1080. With that rig you should have 144 FPS in Fortnite easily, but PUBG is another story as you may well know. Not familiar with the newest CoD. The PSU looks a little...

In my experience general data corruption from "improper shutdown" (you mention power outage) is exceedingly rare on either an HDD or SSD going back a decade. I've never even heard of drives being physically damaged from power loss so I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you are worried about...

Two things come to mind: either broken fans or your PC using the integrated graphics instead of the card. But since you said under load, I'll go with the fans on the card being broken. Happened once on an ATI I owned.