Recent content by satyamdubey

Hi Guys, I am looking for suggestions on good thermal pads to use on my GPU VRMs. I have an old R9 270 and just wanted to do some maintenance. Will be using NT-H1 for the GPU. I am not sure what is the standard Thermal Pad spec used? I am getting options for both 6 W/mk and 12.8 W/mk. Regards...

very good temps nothing to worry about for the CPU. You can have a look at your case air flow and improve the gpu temps. making sure the airflow is unidirectional...say infrom the sides and front and out the back. the overall air displacement from the front to back should be constant....eg with...

if what I wrote is the case then nothing is wrong...it is just a set of rules you should follow...its like the roads and cars and driving skills are okay but we don't stop at the traffic signal

most motherboards have a ram population rule...meaning that they require you to populate some slots before others... the rule becomes most apparent with single dimms...usually with Intel Sandy and Ivy Bridge cpus (series 2xxx and 3xxx) you have to put the single dimm in Slot A0 and A1 (second...

and you have a single ram?

Hi, your's is a balanced enough system and the mobo wont bottleneck the cpu because it can't. Motherboards are bridges between you components and CPU bottleneck would appear in cases where another component - usually the gpu has to wait while cpu is still computing data. In your case, the GPU...

You'd experiencing thermal throttling when you reach unsafe operating temperatures...these would appear as artifacts. So, building up on The Paladin's answer, are experiencing these? Tj. Max...the junction temp should be your real reference in this case. Download Core Temp and it will show you...

have you tweaked the bclk?

absolutely do not use a hair blow drier unless you can run it cold. Hot air blowing on the components will damage them beyond repair and you won't be eligible for an rma either . driver_irql can come from a hardware issue related to the gpu as well. If your temps are looking acceptable then...

So have you cleaned off the extra thermal compound and done a fresh heat-sink mount? Now for Driver IRQL stop, it is ocuring only when you are online... could be generating from a network/ram issue. To rule it all out, try with just one stick of ram. Your mobo may require you to install a single...

No need to go for an i5 cpu. Your current cpu can handle more powerful cards than a 660 and yoou will not notice any bottleneck issue. In fact, if you are interested in spending the extra money (new cpu+new mobo), you should instead invest it in an aftermarket cooler and upgrade to a better card...

I honestly feel for your loss but you did the right thing in going for a 4th gen i3. You won't miss two actual cores and turbo speeds that much and HT would bring some reprieve. i3's don't need high end cooling unless you decide to play around with bclk tweaks which is a waste of time and energy...

Erman, are many people having this issue? I have not checked if this is some code optimization issue with these software but now i am beginning to incline towards that as the reason none of these readings are corroborating each other. Have you come across anything informative on this?

AISuite is reporting good values and they all are conforming to expected range. Ironically, AISuite is not my favorite monitoring tool.