Recent content by grasmaaier

So luckily my cpu isn't damaged, after replugging every power cable and resetting the cmos with the power plugged in I somehow managed to get it working. Thanks for your time though, I'm gonna go to a hardware store tomorrow to see if the new motherboard is faulty or if they can update the bios...

Ok, this is going to be a long story but I'm gonna give all of the context: I'm building a pc for somebody else. It has the asrock b450m-hdv r4.0 which I have used before. His build has an r3 3100 so I decided to use my own r5 1600 to update the bios. I booted it outside of the case via...

Making a pc for my buddy, he has an acer aspire m3920 lying around with an i7 2600. He wants a nice little rgb case so I was thinking about the phanteks p350x. But will this motherboard fit the case? Picture for reference...

So I want to buy a used rx 570. The guy says he has used it for mining (I think about 7 months because that's how long ago he bought it) but he regularly cleaned it and he always ran it at a low temperature and fanspeed, because he didn't want to overload the card (and I'm guessing for...

I can get the 8gb model for around 20 euros more but I'm on quite a tight budget so that's already quite a price uplift. I don't care about overclocking since the reason I'm getting this gpu in the first place over an rx 570 4gb (which I can get for the same price as rx 470 8gb) is because I...

New NVidia cards are very expensive ($340/€300 for a 1660 ti) and these cards are to new to find a good used deal. The gtx 1060 is used more expensive than a used rx 580 while the 580 offers better performance and more vram, so that choice is a no brainer. My cpu is a stock ryzen 5 1600 I'm...

I'm thinking about getting either an r9 fury or rx 580. The fury is used €130,-/$147 and the rx 580 is €140,-/$158 in my country (going for a new RX 580 is unreasonable because it's €210,-/$240) The r9 fury does perform better, but it's also a hotter and older card (though I heard undervolting...

No, they weren't on there to begin with. Looks like the overheating issue isn't caused by this. Thanks!

My gpu is overheating a lot so a while back I decided to open it up and change the thermal paste. There were no thermal pads on the vram, but I didn't think much of it then. Fast forward to now, I just saw a video of a guy opening a gpu, and there were thermal pads on the vram. After a google...

I'd say wait for navi. If it disapoints then you'll probably have saved up enough money for a 2060/1660 ti. If not, then you can get an rx 570 by that time. Rx 570s going for sale isn't very rare (well, it depends on the country) and I can't imagine a €150/6500 pesos card to have that big of a sale.

The guy said he got it from a friend and then he found out that it was malfunctioning, so this guy not being very knowledgeable about overclocking is a big possibility. I'm thinking about buying it, are there any questions I should ask to be more confident in the purchase? Oh and I'm usually not...

I came across a used R9 Fury with artifacts that I could pick up for €25,- (The guy says the card is fine until you install drivers, then there are artifacts in games.) I'm on a pretty strict budget and hardware is really expensive in my country (New €210/$240 for an RX 580, €300/$340 for a 1660...