Recent content by Maning

Is sanding with fine sandpaper risky?

The ports of the GPU are working, the rust/corrosion is on the surrounding framework as well as within. The previous owner kept it somewhere humid. :/

What products can I use to clean/get rid of corrosion/rusts from the ports?

After doing the benchmarks and switching back to i7-9700K the overall performance has improved! I still don't know what "fixed" it since I pretty much just swapped out the parts.

Here are the results https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/49596799 Ryzen 5 3600 https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/49597262 i7-9700K

I'll go ahead and do that. Thanks!

I did those too. Based on HWInfo, all cores were running at 4.9ghz while playing the game.

I did a fresh install of Windows after I swapped the CPU and mobo.

Here's my original setup CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 GPU: GTX 1060 3GB Mobo: ASUS ROG B450-F GAMING II RAM: Corsair Vengeance PRO SL 3200mhz 2x8 Storage: Crucial P5 NVMe m.2 1TB I was given a GIGABYTE AORUS Z390 PRO WIFI and an i7-9700k which was delid and has a copper IHS. I swapped the mobo and CPU...

Got it working! What I did was re-enable CSM and changed the Boot Device control to UEFI and Legacy, I also changed Boot from PCIe/PCI Expansion Devices to UEFI First and that's it.

Fast boost is indeed enabled, do I have to disable that in order to enable secure boot? The reason why I'm trying to enable it is because a certain game requires TPM 2.0 and secure boot enabled.

Hello, I'm trying to enable Secure Boot on my PC which is currently Windows 11 but it's greyed out in my BIOS. I already disabled CSM but the Secure Boot option is still greyed out. I also made sure that BIOS Mode is UEFI by checking my System Information.

I have both cards, I just don't know which performs better. I don't see any benchmarks where these two particular cards are being compared.

Serious question: What could possibly go wrong?

Should I ditch this? :(