Recent content by mistachicken

Thanks team. The temps seemed ok to me, I think it's my airflow through the case that I have planned that's helps. I was toying with idea as it would look lovely but the "don't rock the boat" is exactly on my line of thinking. I'll stick with what I have. All the best.

hi, other nerd here but sometimes i overthink things!.. My i9 9900k sits at approx 50-60 degrees on my most taxing game..(a plagues tale requiem) Does anybody think i should upgrade to water cooling from my arctic air cooler? I have researched a bit and most people seem to get temps of...

My dude, i had an issue just like yours. It took ages to find out what it was but it was simple in the end. I was using good thermal paste but it was a couple of years old. I thought this would NOT be the issue but reseated with new thermal paste and it dropped from 80 degrees on BF2042 to 55-60...

Hi team, i just bought a new PSU and the vga (gpu) cables only come with a 4 pin and a 3 pin plug. my gpu has 2 x 4 slots. (vega 56) my old psu had 2 x 4 pins. I have read a few forums and they are very contradictory, My psu has 3 sets of vga leads so i could use 2 seperate ones but id rather...

It has done me pretty well for at least 5 years so can't complain and i could not justify changing it if i di'nt have to bearing in mind there is a small chance i might need a new cpu or motherboard as well. I aints made of money...! but ive done it now and gone for a cheapie Evga 750b...

Evenin all, Just a quickee. My mobo lights up when switched on but does not boot (cpu lamp flashes twice). AFter tearing my hair out i have done the jump test for my psu with a ppaper clip and no spinny fans/power. Does anyone agree that the psu is faulty but has enough juice to light up the...

dimwitted fool of a man!! i have (had) an evga 600b not a corsair 550b , where DO i get my memory from!

I would test your pc's psu, you can do it by using a paper clip as a jumper to see if it powers up the fans. (check the fuse in the plug first) . If you google "how to test your psu" you'll get loads of guides.

I had the same issue a couple of years ago and it was an old contact in the wall socket overheating with too much load and would trip my pc. I t took me ages to diagnose it as i could not beleive this would be the issue!

In case anybody looks at this. I have diagnosed a faulty psu by doinf the paper clip test, no fans from my psu so there is enough juice to light up the mobo but looks like no more power to do anything else. I'll update tomorrow when the new one comes.

Good morning team, specs: cpu: i9 9900k ram: 32gb crucial ddr 4 3200 gpu: radeon vega 56 psu: corsair 550b bronze mobo: Gigabyte Z390 Gaming X os: windows 11 I have the dreaded cpu diagnostic lamp on my mobo flashing twice and no boot at all. This happened for no reason while booting BF2042. My...