Recent content by GregoryDude

I tend to be an early adopter, bought the RTX 3090 at MSRP 2 years ago before prices went crazy. I felt like I won the lottery when I was able to get it at retail price. Normally this would be the time where I put energy in obtaining the 4000 series GPUs at retail price but quite honestly...

It means your CPU is trying to draw more power than your system is allowing it (probably when it is boosting), which is usually a BIOS setting limiting such power draw. You should try adjusting your bios PL1 and PL2 to max values. It won't stay there, but it means that when your CPU is...

Wow, we are talking as though the RTX 2080 Ti is a compromise. It is neck and neck with a 3070, on top of that, it is still a high end card. Farming Simulator 2019 will be more than fine with a 2080 ti. With that being said, as others have mentioned, a 750 W PSU is cutting it close if you...

As others have said, your temps are actually decent, especially since high-end Intel chips run hot. If you are worried about temps, there are a couple of things you could do (I personally would leave as is, but for the sake of tweaking, see below). The default optimized settings in ASUS...

It's not your cooler, your temps are fine. A setting could've gotten changed causing you issues, I'm not sure. Have you tried installing and running Intel's CPU utility software? Install that and run the CPU stress test, it only takes 5 minutes and when it's done it will show you what got...

What are your idle CPU temps and CPU temps when under load? You can use HWMonitor or your motherboard manufacturer software to see those. If it's not boosting or sustaining its boost, it could be thermal throttling. Or if your voltages are not properly set, power throttling. Hard to say...

I suspect what was mentioned earlier, the motherboard VRMs may be faltering. However, I would try going into bios and set your case and CPU fans to either "DC" or 100% and see if it still crashes, as another way to troubleshoot. If it fixes the problem, go back to the bios and set a...

Concur on the B550 boards. However, the "best" motherboard may not be the "best" for you. As always it depends on what your needs are. I wanted WiFi 6 and since I am a sucker for "new", I wanted pcie 4.0 so I opted for an X570 motherboard instead. I got the ASUS TUF x570 Pro. It was just...

From my experience, when installing windows 10 while other drives are connected caused issues in my windows 10 environment (similar to yours). Particularly because sometimes windows will put system files on other drives instead of your primary drive which causes instability and even boot...

In the bios, make sure your SSD/HD is set to AHCI. Also, have you tried installing windows on the SSD, making sure that the other hard drive is NOT connected? Before you install windows 10 on the SSD, make sure to delete all the partitions on it. You have the ability to do that through the...

Definitely the 5800X and save that extra money towards a GPU upgrade down the line when they are available. When it comes to 4k gaming it is more about your GPU and less about the CPU. Those extra cores will be bored and probably get depressed ;)

As per the first suggestion, download and use DDU (in safe mode w/internet unplugged) and install the latest NVIDIA drivers (youtube has good tutorials on using DDU, not too complicated). Also, if you don't already have the GPU plugged into the 16x PCIE slot, make sure you do (usually the...

Another thing you can do is go into your motherboard bios, look for the graphics setting in there and ensure it is set to "auto" or "peg". If it is set to "igfx" or integrated graphics, your discrete video card may not work.

Hi, me again - I am still puzzled on this one. I don't think the CPU would hold you that much back, even with the bios update. Your RAM is passing too so that is odd. Not sure if it was mentioned in this thread, but I experienced a low score in one case with a GPU swap out and it turned out...

I agree! The best punishment would be to not purchase from scalpers and then let them get stuck with too much stock and have to sell at a loss. Sadly, human nature for consumers to "have it now" and other tendencies will continue to fuel scalpers.