Recent content by Kurtisdede

Did you do any BIOS updates? BTW, those are some poor timings.

Did you forget to apply thermal paste, or is your cooler malfunctional?

It's completely fine for your CPU to occosionally jump to 75C. Even running processors at 90C these days for long periods of time isn't a problem, you don't have anything to worry about.

It isn't illogical AS FAR AS there are no temp and power limits.

Sorry, I didn't see heaven, I only saw BF1 as a benchmark.

This is a misconseption, if you aren't increasing voltages / getting dangerous temps, you won't shorten its lifespan. Even for these laptops, if you increase from 0.9V to 1V that's absolutely no problem because the desktop chips(Same arch - which is whats important) run at like 1.25V.

First you should download msi afterburner. and then run something like Unigine Heaven to get the GPU hot. After around 10 minutes, check the temperature of your gpu(With MSI Afterburner) and let me know what it is

If you don't have a processor with integrated graphics, this is to be expected. What CPU do you have?

I think that #echo was directed at me. What does it even mean?

If it doesn't even offer you a 1x8 at 500W, that PSU is absolute garbage. Get a new one. Also I'd advise against the Elite V3, it's really bad. Check this PSU tier list out: https://www.gamingscan.com/psu-hierarchy/

Yeah, seems good. Although you'll still probably want to do the rendering on the GPU(1660ti with its NVENC is great), a good CPU still helps

It depends on what program you're using, but I'd say around 2.5 times again, although probably a bit less than that.

A i7 with a 1060 seems overkill for gaming, but maybe you're doing something different. Decent 450-550W is enough. and like another person recommended, I'd go with the CX450

In games, I'd say around 2.5 times, probably more than that though.

That is not a good way to benchmark anything. Games can vary in avg framerate depending on where you're looking at and stuff like that. You got less frames on your overclocked BF1 bench because you were doing something intensive. You should test your cpu with something like Cinebench R15. First...