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    GTX 1050 Under performing

    Ok, finished running VB. It stuck at 99% usage and never dipped below 51% FPS and that was during the heavy rain/screen flare. It did dip a bit in transitions but I assumed that was normal. Also, interesting thing. I turned on vsync and the GPU usage would not go above 80% and the frames...
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    GTX 1050 Under performing

    Win 10 AMD 8350 Black 16G 500GB SSD GTX Asus 1050 CM 550 PSU Win 10 AMD 8350 Black 16G 500GB SSD GTX Asus 1050 CM 550 PSU Before it fried itself, I had an RX 460 and it did a great job. Played most of the game I wanted at medium to high settings. Played WOW, Hearthstone, Fallout 4 and Doom...
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    Possibly infected HDD?

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    Possibly infected HDD?

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    Possibly infected HDD?

    Windows 10, 1 TB seagate hdd. Built the system myself from scratch about a year ago. A few days ago my comp began to reset itself. Only once on the first day, but no big deal. Checked for errors and it was a bugfix crash pointing to a bad for the GPU. I updated and tried to locate all weird...
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    8350 Running at 56c with a CM 212X and 55-61 in Fallout 4

    8350, rx 460, CM 590 case, asrock 970 ext.4 mobo, 16g, windows 10. Ambient temps where I live are around 29-32 with no AC here as it is summer. I don't know what to do. This freaking CPU will not cool down. I have my fans running at full-on all the time and I am still getting high 50's in...
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    How to flash an ASrock 970 extreme4

    I am getting a lot of both sides on this and nothing concrete. Can I flash this BIOS from windows? If so, How? The windows utility tool says it is only good for up to windows vista and I have windows 10. That is why I am flashing the BIOS to begin with. If I cannot use windows, do I just...
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    8350 overheating in games that it used to run fine

    amd 8350 on Asrock 970 extreme 4, with rx 460 I have been playing fallout 4 just fine for about a week after my first pc build. I updated the gpu drivers and now it seems my cpu is overheating. It reaches 68c. The thing is, it runs fine in Doom and other hard hitting games, and it ran fallout...