Recent content by PaddyMcpadington

I personally couldn't justify the jump from a 7800XT to the 7900XT. You're paying 40-50% more for 25% better performance, and it's not as good value. But it also depends on your gaming or productivity requirements.

I ended up going for AMD with the RX 7800XT. It is a Beautiful Card; I'm not missing any of the NVIDIA Features. I think it was one of those situations where I thought because I had an Nvidia card and switched away, I could be missing out. But I wasn't! It's still a massive jump in performance...

Yeah, benchmarks always seem to be these hugely graphical games. I'll try to have a look for benchmarks on the games I suggested. Someone's probably done them. But I would disagree with the 4070s pricing matching where it sits performance-wise: nearly £700 for an AIB Partner card, depending on...

Hello, I’m split between graphics card models and justifying the price increase. Will pricing come down? It’s not Particularly looking like it at the moment. Despite having an RTX 2070 Super. Im not user of RT. Never used it before. DLSS is not a setting I’m familiar with noticing. I play...

Ah okay, I’ll give Intel a miss then until it matures. I do find it fascinating though and look forward to how good it gets if they stay in the field. I don’t particularly play games with RT, and if I’m honest I don’t really care about DLSS. Never personally looked for those settings which...

Do you think rtx 5000 series will be released this year? Especially with the super refresh just happening. I’m semi invested in Intel, I like the idea of a 3rd gpu player I’ve got a Be Quiet, straight power 1000W power supply, got that at the end of 2022, so relatively new and got plenty...

Hey everyone, Just an easy discussion, and would like some food for thought. I've currently got the RTX 2070 Super, I game on a 1440p Monitor and I just find its lacking now and not providing what I want. I would have bought a 40 series card when they first launched but never had the...

So I tried a different port and with the key bind to restart the graphics driver and it seemed to have worked :ROFLMAO: I've now switched it between the multiple output ports on my GPU and they all work fine too! So strange how these systems just throw up problems for the sake of it

Well, on the assumption that my old cable still works fine in the same port on the monitor and GPU. I would rule out those being faulty. The new cable could potentially be faulty but sadly I don't have a separate monitor to test. I will try with different GPU Display port

Hi Everyone, I've been recently getting black screens and loss of screen output whenever my PC case was physically bumped or moved. I isolated this to the cable; whenever I touched the cable, it momentarily disconnected. It's an Unbranded display port, Not even sure what version. So I've...

Hello everyone, My brothers current pc has given up which is a i5 4460 & r9 380. He only plays World of tanks, and the pc will be used for light uni work and Google. Need to build on a small budget, but also wants it to last as long as it can going into the future. He claims 8 years but I...

So another thing to note is that after my pc has been idling for a couple hours and locked with no use. I come on and check HWmonitor and min temperature for any cpu core 37c and max 40c. The package min is 40c and max 54c. Ambient room temp is probably around 20c.

So I ran the CPU-Z Bench, Very small test, And it gave me a score of 504 not overclocked obviously. And this is not long after the PC being turned on, so its not hot. I will check the gaming tests later and compare with HW Monitor to see if its thermal throttling. I have not managed to mount...

Sorry I've been away for a few days and now Im back. So to answer quite a few of the questions, 1. HWMonitor doesnt display the Pump RPM in my system, However Corsair Icue software does, and I can change the pump RPM between Quiet, Balanced and Extreme, which in my system is 1980rpm, 2450rpm...

That does look quite nice that case, I'll have a look into it. Its a shame as I bought the Lian Li q58 only beginning of this year lol. I have so many empty cases including a Define R6 and a corsair 680x, But they're both too big.