Recent content by mjwaller2

I’ve made the upgrade from a Ryzen 5 1600 to 3600. I have a Tomahawk b350 motherboard. The 1600 is currently OCed (I changed clock speed, voltage, turned precision boost off, etc) in my bios, I want to make sure I prepare the mobo/system for the installation of the new 3600 with clean out of...

Does the NVIDIA in-game overlay, and/or GEFORCE Experience, need to be enabled/opened to experience automatic tuning? NVIDIA just added this “experimental” feature to GeForce experience and I’m curious if now that I’ve done the automatic tuning (+99Mhz) , the GPU will benefit from the boost...

Thanks for the quick reply and the link to the FAQ, it looks very promising. As for the 3600, will I notice much of an improvement compared to my current 1600 with an all core OC @ 3.7GHz? I guess I just want to ensure I’m getting maximum value with the 3060ti. It’s very possible I make the jump...

So here’s the situation, I’m looking to switch from a Ryzen 5 1600 to an Intel i5 9600k to improve gaming performance, and to pair with my new 3060ti. I’ll obviously also need to switch from my b350 motherboard to a z390 or similar. My main concern is that I’ve read when switching motherboards...

So I was lucky enough to grab a 3060ti on release and got another couple upgrades to supplement. I’m hoping to cover those upgrades and make sure everything will work smoothly before unboxing/setting up. Current system: MOBO - Tomahawk B350 CPU - Ryzen 5 1600 @ 3.7Ghz OC RAM - HyperX 4x4GB...

thanks for your reply! I’ve run into a problem formatting because: A) when I try to boot the system with both drives in, it boots windows off the HDD (even with boot prio for the SSD) and then won’t even recognize the SSD drive OR B) when I boot solely off the HDD it won’t let me format the...

I’ve recently purchased a Samsung SSD and cloned my HDD contents to the new drive. The SSD has been reliably booting with Windows (as the only drive plugged in) and all information intact. I’d like to wipe my previous HDD (which has windows installed) to start clean and use as extra storage...

yeah the thinking was to improve cooling and squeeze my cpu OC for all its worth. Don’t know if the r5 1600 @ 3.7GHz will bottleneck that 1440p set up

thanks for the notes! Considering these new parts (RAM, GPU, and PSU) for my next upgrades: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/P2gQb8

Thanks for your reply! Can you elaborate on why the current PSU is unsafe? After a second look, this is the correct part, that I have currently: https://pcpartpicker.com/product/r2TPxr/evga-br-600w-80-bronze-certified-atx-power-supply-100-br-0600-k1 Also, I understand that with faster RAM the...

oh and I’ve got my cpu OC to 3.7GHz and GPU OC a bit as well

Current build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/PnqB3t I mainly use my set up for 1080p gaming and for the most part it gets the job done well. I am considering some upgrades/jump to 1440p gaming. I occasionally stream but 90% of the time my computer is being used for only gaming, YouTube, email...

thanks for your reply but I’m not quite sure I follow. I understand that I should probably add 2 front intake fans

Just looking for that extra boost in performance that comes with overclocking my system. Current build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MXY4k6 Any general tips to overclock my CPU and GPU? Should I be concerned about airflow, as the only 2 fans installed are the exhaust ones that came with the...

I am looking to make upgrades to maximize frames in 1080p on most games (~144fps) and AAA games (~100+fps?). At some point I might make the leap and upgrade my monitor to a 2k display, so some future-proofing wouldn't go amiss. I've read that an RTX 2060 Super and Ryzen 5 3600 may do the trick...