Recent content by Kevin Stuart

No way. I recently had a 3080 i got for $1,150 out the door but while waiting for it to ship, I'm staring at the FE price of $700. With everything else rising in price, it's going to have to be no more than 20% over FE price for the better cooler. 4080s had better not release at $1,000 or I am...

It seems to be doing fine now. It's crashed once since then, but it was because I left some game running in 3d and the driver crashed. I was at a loss as well. I do need to take the CPU cooler off and look for any swollen caps. I hear a high-pitch whine that cycles every once in a while. Seems...

anyone? Bueller?

updated topic with more tests I performed. Please help. I'm cleaning the tower out tonight since I see some dust in CPU fan. I'm going to remove one video card and see if that resolves issue.

980ti all the way. Definitely get a non-reference. From a few articles I read, the reference just doesn't OC well. Don't fall for the marketing gimmick of the "Classified" or extreme-clocked cards of other brands. $50-100 more for a minor tweak...??? You can OC yourself. What resolution are you...

Bumping. I played Poker Night at the Inventory for about 90 minutes last night with no issue, but that game's not really much of a strain on the system.

Sounds like you've narrowed it down pretty well. You don't have some cheapo GPU you can put in there to make sure it's not some issue related to that driver? Like an ATI junker low-end something? I know it's a pain to do, but it'd definitely rule out a driver issue. Other games are fine? You...

UPDATE 6/25/15 2AM Read below for symptoms. I think I may have resolved it. I cleaned everything, and put it all back together piece by piece, testing each component. 3 sticks of RAM, swap for other 3, then all 6. One GPU, then 2, then with only 6GB of ram... you get the idea. I used my...