Recent content by RobertSmith

This is my CPU vs GPU usage when playing Skyrim. As you can see, the CPU appears to be bottlenecking the GPU.

What do you mean? Is there anything I can do to stop this?

My specs are: AMD FX4130 3.8GHz MSI Radeon HD7770 8GB RAM CoolerMaster 500W Elite PSU BIOSTAR A960D+ motherboard My friend has the AMD FX4170 4.2GHz, which is infinitesimally better than my processor, with the same graphics card and he doesn't have the issue that I have: When playing games...

Whilst gaming I experience lag spikes. To see what the issue was I monitored a number of things, which turned out to be consistent. When I monitored fan speed, I noticed that my fan speed would drop which then lead to the lag spikes. I have MSI Afterburner and it has a Fan Speed (%) option but...

That's when it gets tricky - I've only had it for a month. But I've used it for 10+ hours a day for all of those days except maybe 2.

See I thought that as it can easily be linked to heat, but I thought to ask as it's not wise to take the chance when it's something that could destroy components.

Basically, my PSU (which for the record is a very cheap, 500W no-brand that came with my PC), upon start up makes an irregular clicking noise on startup, which starts almost immediately after the power button is pressed. This clicking noise continues for a minute or so and then stops. The...