Recent content by kynolin

I agree with anort3. It's highly recommended you understand what you're doing with all those settings. A little reading goes a long way. As far as longevity, my rig runs my 2500K at 4.5GHz 24/7 with an H50. It's never off, as it hosts a Minecraft server, along with other things. It's been...

A good rule of thumb I like to go by: If it shuts off under load without hanging or BSOD, you might not have enough juice from the PSU. A great site for checking PSU estimates. (I prefer to check for 100% peak load with 10% capacitor aging to be ultra, ultra on the safe side when purchasing.)...

A good rule of thumb I like to go by: If it shuts off under load without hanging or BSOD, you might not have enough juice from the PSU. A great site for checking PSU estimates. (I prefer to check for 100% peak load with 10% capacitor aging to be ultra, ultra on the safe side when purchasing.)...

Also, since you say GPU and CPU. Some GPUs do regularly get pretty dang hot like that, I know my Radeon 4870X2 idled at like 90C before they updated the drivers. Still, you could try lowering the speed of the video card too and forcing fans to max to increase cooling. Like the others said, your...

I would definitely check your CPU settings in BIOS to ensure they are at factory specifications and still getting that hot. If they are, you might have a bad seal with the thermal paste or something, and you could try cleaning it and reapplying some thermal paste. Definitely make sure the CPU...

I would recommend cooling the GPU down. That should solve the heat issue.

If by "highest setting" you mean the same as the Tom's Hardware Far Cry 3 benchmark, no 680 can run it. If OP doesn't provide details, nobody can provide reasons. This is what Tom's Hardware considers the "highest" settings. Which I doubt you have three monitors, but still. That's how few...

If they're working at separate times, user accounts should be more than enough. You could just mirror the display to each, and if only one keyboard/mouse is being used at the same time, there aren't any issues there either. If you want to run two separate environments at the same time, I highly...