Recent content by maxstill

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    Question XMP issues on AsRock A320m HDV 3.0 ?

    Its a CX 650m, the unit is about 2 years old, the Bios version is 7.10. They are part of the same kit, running it at 3000 also crashes the test, as a matter of fact pretty much any enabled XMP profile crashes it. The CPU has been stress tested in full load, using Furmark, and Cinebench, so it...
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    Question XMP issues on AsRock A320m HDV 3.0 ?

    I've just upgraded from a Ryzen 5 2400G to a brand new Ryzen 5 5600X, I have an AsRock A320m HDV 3.0, so I had to flash the latest updated Bios on the motherboard, everything was fine, I normally use XMP , with the previous CPU and bios the ram had no issue running, I was able to keep it stable...
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    Possible GPU death

    Alright, so I will try my best describing this very peculiar incident. Just a while ago I decided to update my motherboard bios, a MSI 970A-G46, so everything went just fine, no issues right after the update. After about one week or so, I was watching a Twitch...
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    Game freezing, pc needs hard reset to start again

    I reapplied the O.C. from the motherboard, now it just bluescreens using Prime95, ran Fallout 4 for about an hour, no issue, cpu temp did not exceed 64 degrees, I will try to see if I can oc it myslef, though I have no experience with cpu oc manually.
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    Game freezing, pc needs hard reset to start again

    I have been having this issue as of lately, some of my games freeze after an hour or so of gameplay, the screen freezes and the pc requires a full restart to get it working again. System description: Motherboard MSI 970-G46 PSU: High Power 650w 80+ bronze CPU: AMD FX 8350 with SMART OC from the...
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    Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 3X Windforce vs Gigabyte GeForce GTX 780 Winforce OC vs Gtx 970 Gigabyte Mini

    Ok well the title pretty much narrows down the whole thread, I would like to know which of these cards do you think would a better job in my current system. I have a : AMD FX 8350 with a slight OC to 4.4 GHz 8 GB of RAM 1600 MHz What I'm looking for is the balance between...
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    Upgrade new graphics card, budget is a little tight

    well according to benchmarks, the 7990 tops it, but I don't know how well it performs since its a dual gpu.
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    Upgrade new graphics card, budget is a little tight

    yes local converted prices
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    Upgrade new graphics card, budget is a little tight

    I'm looking to upgrade from my Asus R9 280x Direct CU II Top to something else right now. At the moment I have 4 choices kind of in the same pricing range, got very good offers: -R9 290 260$ -gtx 970 300$ -gtx 690 260$ -HD 7990 300$ On paper the 7990 destroys all the others, but it's a...
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    Will this power supply handle it?

    I am aiming to build a system that uses crossfire. As such I already have this setup AMD Phenom X4 955 Black Edition AMD Radeon 280x Direct CU II Top in crossfire with AMD Radeon 7950 1 piece of trash Sata HDD that I have never bothered changing 12 gb of Kingston DDR3 Ram Will a PSU of 650W...