Recent content by hopsteriam

No. All brands make good and bad gear. I read and watch reviews and take each product as it comes. No name brands are held to more scrutiny, but for example Ali Express twin tower 4 and 6 heat pipe cpu coolers are great value. No good attaching emotions to hardware, you are setting yourself up...

Update: Ramdrive is an option for AMD users who want Optane like advantages. It is FASTER than Optane but sacrifices some of your ram. Yes you would need to buy a lot of ram to cover a 16 or 32g optane add on, but far less would still help and again, it is FASTER than optane as it is ram not an SSD.

I would sway towards the PSU as stated by Lutfij. Corsair are good but they do wear out in time and a 550 is a bit weak for a dedicated gpu like yours. I will not go below 750 watts after my Thermaltake 600 w died after 5 years. It gave me similar issues before it sparked, let out a loud boom...

Sounds like the bearing has collapsed to me. Happened to my system fan.

Rufus is not the only choice. I have uses the windows tool for a usb drive for windows 10 and 7. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool

Remember when you have your operating system running off an SSD and your programmes (English spelling) running off a separate HDD, the HDD has less to deal with so it DOES load your programmes faster (also Sata less bottlenecked by transferring 1 lot of data instead of 2 at the same time RE...

I would hard line the house regardless of whether it fixes the issue. If it is your house and you hardline from end to end you enjoy it for many years OR add a few hundred to the house cost on sale to have put in that infrastructure. Just think you are already ahead of Malcolm Turnbull former...

Who knows if the new windoze 10 version update adds extra features that may use pins previously unused in this cpu? Anyone think of that considering it was fine before the new version update but but now dirties it's pants like a great grandparent in a "waiting to die" care facility? No idea...

8g of ram? With a modern system? Alarm bells went off STRAIGHT AWAY! If you game at all or use complex programs like video editing even a bit etc like I do. MORE RAM! If you like to have 20 tabs open on a browser at one time so you do not forget to go back to it later like I do, MORE RAM! If you...

Sounds like ram is not compatible with that board or the board need a bios update to take your cpu. Thinking ram incompatibility but hard to really say with no system specs to go on.

It's cactus, Been there and tested one after a big pop with a spark appearing in mid air near it, no go. Admittedly I didn't turn it from 240 to 110 volts like it seems you did. I turned it from common rail to dual rail but I would not trust it.

You should be able to up the shutdown temp in the bios but that is only if you want to. No clue what is causing the problem from me but upping the shutdown temp could keep you powered up longer. Suggest borrowing another power supply as suggested above if a mate will help you out. Maybe you are...

Had same issue with a mates old AMD last week. I will be trying to twist the cooler off in future while the cpu is still firm in the socket and can not spin with the cooler.

Windows 10 has trouble with some of my games as well. Try compatibility mode as Windows 7 and running as Administrator. Or Reinstall windows 7 to another SSD and dual boot depending on whether you are gaming or not. Not sure what else it could be apart from memory errors. Try running Ram at...

Grab Coretemp to see temperatures here https://www.alcpu.com/CoreTemp/ Or better yet a more in depth readout with CPUZ and HWMONITOR PRO found here https://cpuid.com/