Recent content by hftvhftv

The 4060 Ti 16GB is effectively a marketing tool to get people to splurge on extra VRAM instead of saving for the next tier of graphics card. You have to look at benchmarks for the games you play that have numbers for the cards you're shopping for in your price range. Extra VRAM is going to...

Have you tried making sure the connectors for power on the graphics card are seated properly?

Fans won't spin below a certain GPU temperature on most cards. I suspect even the performance mode doesn't run the fans until they hit a certain temp but it's probably a lot lower than the quiet mode. You can test this by watching the fans with a temperature monitor onscreen and then boot a game...

Based on your comments about funding and whatnot, get 64GB of DDR5. It just makes sense, and you don’t have to bother with upgrading later, which ultimately most people don’t do. Futureproofing is stupid, get what you need now.

Yes it is okay to use only the 4 pin connector. I’m not condoning or praising AMDs choices, but I used my 1.5v FX 8350 chip on only a 8 pin CPU connector. That chip was likely pulling over 250 watts from a connector frankly not designed for it. Looking back was it a good idea, no; but it worked...

Nope, graphics cards for some reason in the past few years have increasingly suffered from coil whine.

Need to know what game. I’m going to assume it’s Forza, and if it is, you can ignore.

I’ll play electrical engineer for the sake of your question but it’s a cost saving measure. Small PCB = cheaper, large heat sink means that consumers will drool over the size of their card, and it’s necessary to cool it like others have said.

Go into your Nvidia settings and turn on dynamic super resolution and check off the 4x box. Boot into a graphically demanding AAA title released in the past two years and set it to that resolution and crank the settings to the max with v sync and g sync off. Download GPU-Z and tell me what the...

Is v sync on?

Get the 3080 if money isn't an issue. Extra 2GB of memory.

How is your network speed? YouTube at 4K will stutter heavily on a poor connection. Also, are you trying to do anything else on your PC while watching videos?

Exactly, the last game I played that worked nearly perfectly was GTA V with my old SLI GTX 770 setup.

Have gotten a noise bylaw ticket with my Z623, beat it in court though.

Most if not all bearings for GPU fans are going to be dry. It's likely the fan motor is broken.