Recent content by Smarticus

@rickypicky5 I did do a brand new, clean installation of Windows 10 to my SSD with a new license I purchased.

I tried again today at lunch, still no luck. I tried replacing the power cord because I had a spare. Thought maybe that would work, but nope. I have a 750w PSU computer and 3 monitors and some peripherals (speakers, mics, headset, modem, router etc) all plugged into the same outlet. I spoke...

More info: I unplugged everything and brought my tower to another room and just plugged it into another outlet with no inputs (no monitors, keyboard or USBs) and it seemed to boot up and stay on, as far as I could tell (the lights inside the case came on and never went off). I am going to try it...

Sorry I edited into my original post after realizing I forgot possibly the most important thing. It’s a Seasonic Focus 750w platinum (PX-750) Any ideas?

I just put together a new build I and it worked like a dream for about a week. Then, it just turned off. I tried to reboot and it starts booting up. I see the motherboard screen, then the screen goes black just before the OS loads and it turns off. I tried rebooting a few times. Once it made it...

I also tried, cycling through the source input on my monitor. No luck yet. Any other suggestions?

Yep, no prob. Here are the specs: EVGA 3080 FTW3 Ultra GPU Ryzen 5900X CPU x570 Aorus Elite Mobo 3600 Trident Neo Ram (2x16) Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280 Sabrent SSD M.2 It looks like Ryzen 9 doesnt have iGPU from what I searched, so maybe it still is the graphics card. Thanks for your help...

The case model is Lian Li Lancool II. It looks like the have a verical GPU mount but it is expensive and 3.0 rather than 4.0 so not sure if that affects performance. However the situation has evolved as I've tried more things. I am now not sure it is the graphics card that is the problem. I...

I'm a little upset. Finally got my new EVGA 3080 Ultra and it doesnt seem to fully click into the slot because of the protruding fan with the eagle on it on my x570 Aorus Elite. Seen here: View: https://imgur.com/a/hs3tbjd Not sure if anyone else has had this problem? Or if anyone has any...

Oh my - realized why i was so unsure - I thought some RGB connectors were the AIO fans. Think I figured it out.

I have and Aorus x570 Elite (layout). It has 4 fan headers: SYSFAN1, CPUOPT, CPUFAN, SYSFAN2 I have a front-mounted Arctic Liquid Freezer 2 rev.2 (2 FANS) plus 3 FANS that come on the front of case plus 4 FANS that I'm adding inside the case. (9 total fans) The three fans on the front (3 pin)...

I'm planning on trying to OC both, but posted here under memory for info on the RAM, hoping to get it to 3800.

Is the RAM below a good candidate for overclocking? I'm not sure I understand b-die and e-die - just learning: G.SKILL Trident Z Neo (For AMD Ryzen) Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin RGB DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Desktop Memory Model F4-3600C16D-32GTZNC DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800) Timing...

From the benchmarks I've seen in this vid, it looks like 4000 and 3800 are better, of course, but only by like 5 frames or so in most cases, so its not worth the cost difference in my opinion. 3600 looks like it makes sense to me. Thanks for explaining about most 8gb sticks single rank and some...

Not sure I understand. Are you saying, I should assume that RAM is Dual Rank if it's a relatively recent product? Not sure what you mean by 'your good to go with pretty much any RAM' when there seems to be a big performance difference between single rank or dual ranked. Is single rank not a...