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I received a brand new Thermaltake 600W. The paper clip pin test passes with the new PSU so I can safely assume that there is a small chance for the PSU to be DOA. I have my PC breadboarded and more specifically I have only the motherboard, CPU, CPU heatsink and PSU mounted. The only PSU cables...

I have done some research during the last days and I am considering either Ryzen 5 2600X or Ryzen 5 3600X My gtx 1060 could be a bit weak for this CPUs and could bottleneck the system right? Keep into account that this rig is for 1080p gaming only and I would like the CPU to be powerful...

@stonecarver Regarding the x5670, or x5675 which is a bit better, are you sure that it's a better option than the i7 920? i7 920 seems to get better results than x5675 in 3dmark.com i7920: https://www.3dmark.com/cg/3970042 x5675: https://www.3dmark.com/fs/14869264 *edit: just realised...

@stonecarver Identifying whether the psu is the problem is the easy part. The problem is how I find out that the motherboard is OK and that the problems are caused because of the cpu. Then I could replace it with what you suggest.

@stonecarver Thank you for your suggestions. I forgot to mention that I have replaced the thermal paste with brand new one. My plan is to build a high end rig at some point but I was happy with this one so far since I play at 1080p and I use it a lot for development. But I might have to do a...

@R_1 Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately I don't have a spare PSU but I realise that this is the way to go. I have to eliminate that the PSU is the culprit. I will think of sth. But I suppose there is definitely sth wrong with one of the following: CPU, PSU, motherboard

Hi all, My rig is the following atm (an old rig actually with an updated GPU): CPU: i7 920 overclocked @ 3.6 GPU: evga gtx 1060 superclocked Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58-Extreme RAM: 12gb DDR3 triple channel Monitor: 1920 x 1200 PSU: 1200W Thermaltake I have some serious issues the last couple...

@rgd1101 I suppose mid-range? Something that matches gtx1060 with some room to support next-gen gpus for 1080p

Hi all, My rig is the following atm (an old rig actually with an updated GPU): CPU: i7 920 overclocked @ 3.6 GPU: evga gtx 1060 superclocked Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58-Extreme RAM: 12gb DDR3 triple channel Monitor: 1920 x 1200 PSU: 1200W Thermaltake Unfortunately I am under the suspicion...

WildCard999 I have Win10. Thanks for the DSR suggestion. I will try asap. Does it help running it in Win7/8 mode?

WildCard999 Thanks for your reply. Updated my description: "I play at 1920x1200. I have the issues with either very high setting or with some settings (eg shades) at high. I use the latest drivers." But this main thing is that I have lot of power left unused?

I decided to play Crysis once more with my evga gtx 1060 superclocked (I played it first time with a gtx 295) My rig is: CPU: i7 920 overclocked 3.6 GPU: evga gtx 1060 superclocked RAM: 12 gb It plays well but there are frequent frame rate drops which make no sense in my opinion since...

Thank you for your valuable help n0ns3ns3 Unfortunately it seems that I am not very lucky. I decided to buy the rx 480 but I run into a number of issues as you can see here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3333020/faulty-gpu-xfx-480-black-1388-mhz.html Seems like I have to return rx...