Recent content by onoturtle

Thank you for the details. So my current plan is to get EVGA's cheapest GTX 1080 (or other manufacturer's equivalent) and probably a Corsair CX650M. That PSU cost $60 on Amazon, depending on wattage, so that's doable (cost of a game). Though I will need to double check on the dimensions. The...

Thank you for the lengthy response. Let me clarify some points on what I'm looking for. I'm coming for a console perspective, as noted by the Xbox One, so the desired FPS I will target for is 30 or 60 FPS, depending on the game. I am not aiming for nor willing to spend to work toward higher...

As I mentioned, I'm not too concerned about the PSU as I've used a GTX 680 in the machine for years and that is more power hungry than reference GTX 1080. Indeed my current rig with a RX 480 can run older games at 4K 60fps (e.g. Tomb Raider 2013), but not so with modern games (e.g. Rise of the...

Initially I was thinking of getting an Xbox One X ($500) to get into 4K gaming now that I have a 4K TV, but it sounds like that console leaves a lot to be desired based on early impressions. My current thinking is to get the cheapest GTX 1080 I can find that should run at close to the same...

Resolved. Since it was determined I now have issues downloading app that previously worked as well, I narrowed it down to my network. I had recently moved my desktop, necessitating using WiFi. Unlike services like Steam/Origin/GOG, WS is apparently sensitive to this. So I have temporarily moved...

I just tried redownloading Killer Instinct and got the same error, so it isn't only Gears. Something has changed that resetting Win10 doesn't fix. I ran sfc /scannow and it did repair some files. I'm surprised there are corrupt files when I only just reset half a day ago. It hasn't changed the...

The SMART status of all my drives are fine. Prior to resetting Win 10 (I haven't tried downloading anything but Gears post reset), I never encounter the error on other Windows Store downloads, including other large games (Killer Instinct, Forza Apex).

When I try to download Gears of War Ultimate Edition from the Windows Store I get error code 0x80073cf9 after some random amount of time. Sometimes I'm able to download 1-4GB before failing. It is making process in that I can see the total amount to download is decreasing with each retry...

Something does sound wrong. I recently copied 4TB of content from one external HDD to another and was getting speeds above 100 MB/s (roughly 140 MB/s if I recall correctly) using Win10's stock file copying (just drag and drop) when both drives were on USB 3.0. I initially made the mistake of...

I have resolved my issue. The clicking begins shortly after starting HWiNFO64 for monitoring. The clicking instantly stops when I disable the monitoring of this drive's SMART. I've been monitoring CPU/GPU stats while gaming lately and I've been leaving HWiNFO64 on even while not playing, causing...

So far (about an hour and a half) with the clicking drive being the only HDD plugged in the USB slots on the motherboard IO, the drive has not clicked. It did go to sleep for some time (the light turned off) and I had to wake it up by viewing the contents on Windows. The drive going to sleep...

I fairly recently switched an older Seagate 4TB external HDD with an 8TB one on my Windows 10 desktop's USB 3.0 slots (either on the back or front panel, I notice the same issue). It worked fine for a month or two, but now I hear a clicking sound every second or so that's louder than normal disk...