Recent content by Pytheus

At least with a ground plane you have a layer of substraight between the layers. This coating will presumably be right on top of the components. If it's truly grounded then it may not be a problem. Being is such close contact with components I don't think it would not take much to jump the...

I see several problems with this. First being capacitance. Thin sheet of copper hanging closely over soldered components? Second being arcing currents from high voltage sources. Third, if you layer boards on top of this you're not dissipating the heat into the air then. Instead you're...

Fairly soon, we'll have to run an independent supply from our breaker box just for the the PC alone.

Its the ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING (WI-FI)

Noticed my CPU fans just randomly stopped spinning. They try to starting up again but then stopped. Restarting the PC seems to have fixed the problem but this has made me nervous, can't leave the PC on unattended now. I want to know the cause so I can fix any future problems. I have two fans in...

I would expect DLSS to die in the future. Anyone who has been around long enough knows it's not the better technology that wins, it's the one that reaches the most customers. An open source product that can run on anything is more desirable that a proprietary feature on a limited number of GPUs.

I'll have to see the benchmarks first before I can judge if it's worth the upgrade. DDR4 is still fairly new and most people buy the 3200 or 3600 speeds though faster speeds are available. Not sure how much faster one can go before you have diminishing returns on your investment.

Did you try installing one RAM stick at a time? You sure your CPU is installed correctly? CPU power cables plugged in?

I like it. Something I can buy to have my kid learn to build her own PC.

Hello. I moved my 5700xt graphics card from my 5600x computer to my brother's 10600k computer. Windows boots up fine and it plays games with no problems. However when I startup the computer the bios text and background has changed color. The normally black background is green and the letters...

As was stated, you don't take off the cooler to check if you have enough paste. Every time the cooler comes off you need to reapply the paste.

I don't think the motherboard itself could damage the GPU, at least I don't believe it's likely. The power to the PCIe slot is provided by the ATX power connection. I believe the PCIe controller for the GPU is part of the CPU. The motherboard is mostly just a bus for connecting the CPU to the...

How about bringing production back to the US? There are plenty of engineers here who want good paying jobs and less reliance on China.

You don't want the bottom fans to be an out. Heat rises. You'll more likely be sucking the cool air from the front fans down and creating a heat pocket at the top.

Not really. The case has a total of 7 fan placements. 3 front, 3 bottom, and 1 back. Front and bottom fans are always intakes, that leaves one fan as an out. Not at all customizable.