Recent content by Neur0nauT

4K with a 1070 would not get you consistent 60FPS, but you could lower the res to 2K in games and get 60FPS, although with the loss of some pixel clarity since it is not the native resolution, and the down scaling would produce some interpolation blurring albeit very mild. By going 4K you would...

You'd only need an upgrade if you plan to get the high FPS for 144Hz @ 1080p, or else if you were planning on moving your resolution up to a 2K+ monitor. If you plan on upgrading to a 2K monitor, then you could test AMD VSR and upscale your monitor res to 2560x1440 and see how your FPS is. If...

Have you tried using Windows Disk Management to see if the USB stick is showing up there? Also is it under warranty?

Recently I have seen a bunch of people with 290X's and different "Southern Island" cards end up re-pasting their heat sinks with positive results. Have you considered doing this? It may improve the temps on the card overall and give you that required headroom for OCing. Since you've nothing to...

You should try testing the system using a different PSU.

Try reconnecting the hard drive using a different SATA cable, and also try it in a different SATA port.

My guess is that your GPU's VRMs are overheating. I had a 280X and it's core regularly ran at about 90c full load! My 390X has been known to hit 94C under load...These cards are designed to run hot, so 75 is nominal to be honest. You should not be artefacting at 75C. Now when I did notice...

Have you tired bread-boarding the platform? i.e. Removing the motherboard and components out of the case and testing it? See this guide for some pointers....http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-2176482/breadboarding-stripping-basics-troubleshooting.html

I agree that it sounds like overheating VRAM/VRMs on your GPU. In my past experience, if you ignore these artefacts, you run the risk of killing your graphics card....so be wary if you are deciding to overclock. AIDA 64 has an on screen display functionality that you can set multiple...

If you check just before this Critical message, it may elude to what cause the crash. Obviously the errors/messages just before the loss of power are what you want to focus on. Tell me what you find there.

If there is a faulty pin within the cards DVI port, then you cannot do much about that without getting a magnifying glass to the ports solder joints on the PCB and if you find anything wrong, resoldering it. That is if you are sure that it's definitely not the DVI adapter or cable causing it...

Press WIN + R and type eventvwr.exe (press enter) Once in the event viewer, navigate on the left pane to... Windows Logs > System Then on the right pane, click Filter Current Log... Tick the boxes for "critical", Warning", and "Error" followed by OK Back in the main log window.....look down...