Recent content by paultmullerjr

It appears that I did in fact have two broken M22s

Okay I de-mounted, re-mounted the knucklehead unit using a very conservative amount of thermal paste, and sadly this did not result in any improvement. Here's where we're at: So at this point does it seem most likely that I just have two broken cooling units? Do I just need to go read some...

current setup with knucklehead unit for reference (note the chip on corner of fan lol ><)

I built my PC back towards the end of 2018, beginning of 2019. Was an idiot when I was first mounting the cooler to my CPU and ended up letting the radiator fall out of the case onto a hard surface, chipping off a small portion of plastic on the corner of the radiator fan. I believe I may have...

Spoke with Amazon customer service who, after providing the same information pretty quickly deemed it to be defective. I will try the ROG STRIX board Monday. So obviously the other component in question could be the CPU itself, which I got through newegg. I see that the same processor through...

Per their recommendation, anything under 10% is acceptable. Since the hardware works in tandem & is made incrementally by different manufacturers as it is upgraded over time, naturally there will be some inefficiencies. The lower the bottleneck the better. I would say just take note of what it...

Hi, don't know how sanctioned this is but during the early stages of my build I used this site: https://thebottlenecker.com/ which gives a pretty good idea, granted didn't have my 9600k updated on the options yet.

I made my first custom PC which seems like it might be a bit unstable and now will not display video. I fell asleep to a twitch stream coming from the PC last night & once I woke up, the computer wasn't functional. I had encountered another problem several days back when I was fiddling with...