Recent content by Henry577

I imagine decibel levels are somehow related to the distance from the source of the sound. Because earbuds are closer to your ears, it doesn’t need as much energy to produce the same decibel level as there is less distance for the sound or energy to dissipate. For example if you was to hold a...

The numbers next to volume sliders tend to refer to percentage of maximum volume, not decibels. This is because different speakers and headphones all produce sound at different amplitudes. For example a speaker that draws mains power will be able to play sound a lot louder than a pair of...

This happens when there is a problem with the storage device your pc is trying to boot from. There are a few things that could be going on here. Worst case scenario your hard drive passed away in its 14 day sleep. Best case scenario some dust settled where it shouldn’t have or a cable has come...

I normally set up my PCs to be air in at the front and air out at the top and back. Since the less dense hot air naturally rises it just makes sense to me.

From what I’ve read you have nothing to worry about. First of all this memory degradation issue first happened two years ago when the RTX 20 series cards were first launched and you are right, 2070s did also fall victim to the issue. This was an issue with Micron, the manufacturers of the VRAM...

I’m glad to hear you worked out how to access your boot menu :) What is really confusing is that it’s completely muddling up the capacity and clock speed of the ram. Where did you buy the RAM from?

A CPU running at 100% is a struggling CPU. It’s common when doing things like rendering but not gaming. Your CPU is being asked to do more than it has the capacity for. I can’t explain why it was running fine at first but it is definitely struggling now. You said your graphics card isn’t getting...

No worries :)

And to think daily I’m dragging and dropping CAD files to share them in seconds with lecturers and teammates without giving it a second thought. :D

I don’t know a lot about amd processors but I’m going to assume by the fact you’ve written ddr3 ram that your processor/ram is probably bottlenecking your system. Most likely graphics are running fine then you’re seeing frame drop any time your system is relying on your processor or ram for...

That sounds terrible, I’m never gonna complain about my internet speeds again! Best part about living on campus at uni is the insane 12MB download speeds. Installed COD Black Ops: Cold War in just over an hour. Can’t go back to Wi-fi after them kind of Ethernet speeds. Shame I can’t move back...

Couldn’t think of anything worse than watching a stream on a laptop. Not to mention trying to run a stream on a laptop with one monitor. I highly recommend getting a tower with something along the lines of a 1660 and maybe an i5-9400F or better. That kind of build should only come in at around...

Most likely just shorted positive to ground. Your power supply should automatically shut off when that happens to protect any other components from damage. If anything you just accidentally proved an important safety mechanism in your system works lol. Don’t stress.

Quick HDD horror story: When GTA V was finally released on pc I left it installing overnight and throughout the day. I had preordered it when it was first available and it got delayed like twice or three times. I also had shockingly bad internet. Anyway, couldn’t wait to play it, got home from...

How can you be sure it isn’t thermal? Have you been monitoring temps? Make sure your drivers are up to date, just general advice when anything isn’t working how it should be. My friend had an issue like this. Only seemed to happen playing fairly new AAA games. Task manager was reading his RAM...