Recent content by Sunyata

Thank you, that's good to know, I'll be wary of it. My number one concern was just about poor drivers, as I've read a little bit about the 5700(I think) having driver issues in the past. I've seen some posts saying that it isn't reflective of most AMD GPUs so I was just hoping for an opinion...

I was initially leaning to repairing it out of principle, but there are some good deals on for the RX 6600 and RX 6700 XT. Watching some videos of fan repair on Youtube, it really seems like they make them obtuse and difficult to get at. From looking at some benchmarks, they seem to be...

It's a windforce card lol. Maybe I should just upgrade it, I was looking at an ASRock RTX 6600 on a great deal, and it's showing as an upgrade across the board although I don't really know much about benchmarking cards. What are your thoughts on ASRock? Should also mention that my CPU is a...

Thank you for the quick reply! I was monitoring the fan speeds to try to determine which was the issue, I noticed the GPU wasn't running constantly and the noise always happened when it started spinning up. I set up a manual curve using Fan Control to keep the fans running constantly around 30%...

The fans on my GPU (Gigabyte 1650 Super) have started making noise(sounds like a loose bearing,) and I was initially going to upgrade the card, but I really don't think I need to beyond my concern for the health of the fans. I don't play anything that really seems to stress it that badly. I've...

Thank you guys for the help sorting this out. It was pretty much just HWinfo causing the spikes, it came just from having some graphs open. It seemed like too much of an increase from such minimal activity, and even in between the spikes to 50+ from the graph activity I was seeing regular rises...

I keep seeing the CPU spike to about 50 while sitting idled with the screen off... Is there any way that could derive from the paste? It's intermittent, not a slow climb, so it seems like it's coming from some kind of background activity, but it's also hovering around 46 now, which is about 5...

Arctic, MX-6, I just used a dot in the center. Probably still put too much on, everywhere I look I see people say that spreading can create small pockets of air but I wonder how that compares to having too much on there.

I swapped the thermal paste on my CPU for the first time after several years, and after booting it back up it seems like the average idle temperature rose a few degrees. I had some issues cleaning up the old paste, I had definitely applied too much/too close to the edge of the face when I built...

I just installed a new 6tb WD blue HDD in my desktop, and it’s making more noise on boot/shutdown than I would have expected. The boot up noise just sounds like platters spinning up, but is much louder than the 2tb Seagate I already had installed. What’s worrying me is that the noise it makes on...

I've done the windows tool a couple times and then after I couldn't let it go I made a memtest usb as well, nothing found any errors. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't risking creating some damage in the future by ignoring the error. Thank you both VERY much! I know it's pretty silly but this...

I'm not even sure how I would get the app to create an error dump, the error only happens when the app is automatically closing during sign-out or shutdown. It's pretty specific, and only with this one app. I know very little about software at all. The developers never asked for a dump or...

I'm just trying to get a better understanding of specifically what this error is telling me: My only question is whether the "referenced memory" address it refers to is an address in RAM, or a location on the system drive. I've been assuming that it's referring to RAM, as it says memory, but I...

I didn't think it would matter what the components were because I'm only trying to return it to defaults. It's certainly not a great build or anything. I meant to try and condense the post and add more info after a nap but I've been really sick the past few days and I forgot. In OP now, apologies.

If the technical support board would be the proper place to post this, please go ahead and move it as I'm brand new. I recently built a desktop after years not even owning one, and for some stupid reason I decided I would see what might happen if I tried using my ASUS motherboard's EZ-tune...