Recent content by Karadjgne

Drivers by themselves are actually very rarely ever the issue nowadays, with more modern versions of Windows. Because Windows itself generally contains multiple drivers from multiple different brands, as well as it's own generic drivers, for just about every standard component there is. That...

Depending on the fan. Some fans like Noctua F series have a directed flow to start with, so the flow is almost all perpendicular to the fan. Some fans, like the Noctua S series are high angle broadcast, so would see a large directional benefit from that shroud.

We kinda are. The 'experts' have said that voltages etc should be within specific ranges to be considered 'safe' from degradation, decay, electrical bleed etc. But that's only an educated guess, in order to maintain the opportunity to retain the full possible lifespan. Even with your starting...

Nobody has yet reliably determined the physical lifespan of a cpu. There are 45yr old cpus that are still fully functional and working. Just as there are cpus that simply gave up the third time they saw power. Cpus lifespan is essentially determined by 2 things, that being your personal opinion...

Time-line is the single most important variable in cpu degrading (imho). My daughter has my old i7-3770K that's sitting at 4.6GHz like a champ, but can easily hit 4.9GHz and less than 1.4v. It prolly helps it's a Golden batch, it can do 5.1GHz but at rediculous vcore. Now ask how long I...

Try the gpu/psu first. Physically there's not all that much difference between a 3600 and 5600, a few more fps isn't going to make nearly the visible difference like the gpu will. I guess it's hard for me to recommend upgrading to what's essentially the same dead end platform. AM5, a 7600 would...

You are talking about a bunch of SSDs. Honestly as long as they are subject to any kind of air flow or movement they can be mounted anywhere, even as far as using velcro or Command strips to the top of the psu. The HDD is the only drive that requires solid isolation mounting for vibration...

3v vccin would fry a cpu in seconds. Vccin is the voltage that hits the voltage regulator which gets cut down for vcore and is usually @ 1.8v which is generally enough to cover vcore, vdroop and still allow the cpu to remain stable. Vcore is showing as 1.7v, and thats well into stupid voltages...

Other than a few specific components like memory and chipsets etc a motherboard doesn't really require heatsinking because it is a heatsink. That's the primary purpose behind the design of the ground plane, the motherboard doesn't require such a large plane when simple traces connected to a...

Numbers are funky. Ram is 1067MHz? That's running at 2133MHz, which is seriously slow for that gen cpu. It should be 3200MHz-4400MHz range. Considering you have mixed ram, I'd be concerned you are having memory conflicts which will enable any/all of the Op issues. Core clocks are abyssmal...

2200w! Oh, so it'll barely have enough to power a 5090ti and a 15thgen i9

All pc's are not created equal, and that applies to manufacturers too. You have a Lenovo. Unless specifically specified, there is No OC of any of the 3rd party manufacturers like Dell, Lenovo, HP etc. They specifically do not want end-users blowing up a pc, bricking the bios or any of a hundred...

Anything more than a 2070Super is classifyable as a 1440p card, because in general it'll do @ 60fps at 1440p. That's in general. There's Always going to be specific games where that doesn't apply, and in general they are user defined, not hardware defined, because it'll be the user that defines...

5.1GHz would be the multi-core/turbo default, 5.5GHz would be the single-core/turbo default. So however you OC'd it in the past involved locking the cores at single turbo or providing enough cooling and limited power to allow all the cores to hit 5.5GHz. I would assume the former since you don't...

The wrist strap provides a conductive connection between the case and you. This balances out any charge you or what you have the pc on may accumulate. This doesn't remove any charge, that's still there, it's just the same for all components so there's no actual power flow, no static discharge...