Recent content by KingOfComputing

I have just run HD Sentinel on it and I got this message: "There are 2 bad sectors on the disk surface. The contents of these sectors were moved to the spare area. At this point, warranty replacement of the disk is not yet possible, only if the health drops further. It is recommended to examine...

"What other drives are in this system? What is the full parts list?" The PC has: AMD Ryzen 7 1800X 16GB DDR4 as 2 x 8GB (Corsair Dominator LPX 3000MHZ) Asrock AB350M AM4 Motherboard ASUS GTX1070 8GB Turbo Be Quiet 530 Watt PSU Full Tower Case Windows 10 Pro Drives: Corsair MP510 480GB M.2 SSD...

" "KingSpec" is a very low quality drive. It may indeed be failing. But as with any storage device, new, old, seemingly perfect or suspect failing...backups are your friend. Yours may die next year, or as you're reading this. Full drive backups, on an automated schedule. " Sure, I know...

80GB free out of 335GB total drive size

I have a SSD that I have owned for about a year that I suspect may be beginning to fail. The SSD in question is a KingSpec 360GB SSD 2.5 Inch SATA3 drive. The symptoms are that sometimes when I am trying to save to the drive e.g. saving a video or image from the web there will be a long pause (5...

I have an android tablet with a large 14-inch display (Virgin Media Telly Tablet) that I would like to re-purpose as a computer display. The thing is I need it to work as seamlessly as possible, ideally just like a TV, as I am intending to use it for a relative who has little computer knowledge...

Full system specs: AMD Ryzen 2600 (Hex Core 12 Thread) 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400MHZ (4x8GB) Gigabyte G1 Gaming 980TI 6GB (the star of this thread) Corsair CX850M 850 Watt PSU Mushkin Scorpion Deluxe 1.92TB PCIE SSD ADATA SU800 256GB SSD M.2 (SATA MODE) Windows 10 Professional...

I have a Gigabyte GTX980TI 6GB G1 Gaming I have owned for a little under 6 months. The card was purchased used on eBay. While I have had it sometime, the first time I got chance to spend some real quality gaming time on it was recently with the release of Trials Rising (massive trials fan)...

After playing a 3D game (Snake Pass) for around an hour and a half I had my PC shut down completely and then power up again and the POST screen displayed the following: “Power supply surges detected during the previous power on. ASUS Anti-Surge was triggered to protect system from unstable...

I realise this is an old thread now, but I had been busy and just gotten back around to further troubleshooting this card. I have ruled out temperature as I went into MSI afterburner and set the fan speed up to a constant 60%, which kept the card under 50C even under load so it can't be...

Sorry but I have to bump this, seriously, no one has any suggestions? ):

I recently purchased a used Palit Super Jetstream GTX980 on eBay. It installs fine and the drivers go on no problem. It runs 3D games and benchmarks without artifacts but I felt the performance was lacking for a still fairly powerful GPU. So, I opened GPU Z while running a benchmark and noticed...