Recent content by melenie

Last week my system died. PC turned on but motherboard wouldn't post. After painfaully draining my loop and dismantling the pc, I did a basic breadboard with the mobo with basic components to verify what was causing the issue. The motherboard was dead. Seemed to be bricked. RMA, got a...

Have switched from hdmi cable to display port. Also, turned on V-sync and screen tearing has been fixed. Now I'm wondering if having V-sync off could be the reason as to the red dot artifacts? Didn't even realize it was off. Still not sure what is going on with the massive lag and frame drop...

Grounding wasn't worn during the installation of the block. I ran evga oc scanner with the artifact scanner and after 30mins 0 artefacts were detected. I've been able to play witcher atm with no artifacts with the mem clock slightly underclocked which doesn't seem to have too much of an...

Everything is up to date. All drivers, windows updates, gpu. Mobo was flashed with a bios update which seemed to be irrelevant but i flashed it nevertheless. In regards to any physically damage being dealt to the vram during the installation process of the water block, I do believe this is...

Been away on holidays. Got back last week. Purchased a brand new pci-e extension cable as I did some searching around and found people having issues with the included thermaltake cable with the core p5 cases. Of course this meant have to drain my entire loop, rip apart all the blocks and clean...

So now the problem is worse. My driver keeps completely crashing. I've even reverted settings to low. What the hell is going on? is this a faulty gpu?

It's quite frustrating to know that only those living in the US can receive the $30 from nvidia in regards to the gtx 970. I owned 2 in sli. I'm entitled to $60 but I live in Australia :'( lol

Okay so I've done a fresh install. Windows 10 is running. Formatted my SSD where the OS is installed. Did a disk defrag of my HDD and also a optimization of my other SSD. I no longer get in game crashes. I've been playing 1hr without a single crash. However I still get weird things appearing on...

So I've managed to push my msi 1080 gamin x beyond that 2Ghz clock sweet spot. Just overclocking the old fashioned way. Not messing with GPU boost 3.0. Currently running 2.125Ghz clock with 5.39Ghz ( 10.78Ghz effective) mem clock. Doing all this whilst sitting at a very very cool 36degrees...

CPU: Intel Core i7 6700K @ 4.90GHz RAM:16GB DDR4 Dual-Channel Gskil trident Z @ 3600MHz (17-18-18-38) Motherboard: ASUS MAXIMUS VIII HERO (LGA1151) GPU: MSI Gaming X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 Gold 750W Storage: 2.0TB Seagate Barracuda 120GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB Samsung...

I'm experiencing some rather strange behavior whilst trying to play the witcher 3 on my new PC. There are random black artifacts and screen tears which are appearing. The game crashes every 10mins or so. Things I have tried (in order) .Removed in game mods .Set GPU to run back at stock .Set...

So I've completed my build guys and here it is. That card you see there with its fancy block is a msi gtx 1080 gaming x with a beastly EK water-block. Anyway, I need some quick assistance. I'm attempting to overclock the gpu with msi afterurner but the "core voltage" slider up top which is...