Recent content by theateam794

I have had my existing PSU since my first gen i7 at a guess I estimate maybe 15+ years ? (yikes) It's the "Cooler Master Silent Pro 700W" Recently I don't know if it always did this or if it's developed a quirk over time but when moving house I noticed It does not like a "cold boot", if its...

one thing I am wondering, would the Wraith Spire LED which I have sitting around doing nothing outperform the NH-L9a-AM4 ? enough to be worth installing ? it outranks the default stock cooler and has a chunky copper base contact point.

not overlocking, also found an amd post stating that the stock cooler and itx coolers can expect to see 95C temps under max load but the cpu will throttle to prevent it going higher

two cpus consuming the same power but with different cooling setups at different temps only means that one of them is dumping the same heat into the room more efficiently right ?

old build few rebuilds later .... initially I decided having an ITX build would be different / fun so I pared my ryzen1700 with an Fatal1ty B450 but the stock cooler (spire) was ever so slightly tall that the lid would not close, so I ran without the lid for a while and ordered a NH-L9a-AM4...

thanks for the response, I decided to keep the monitor since I hooked up my old screen back and realized it also had pretty bad ghosting its just the badlow picture quality on my old screen was masking the ghosting, you are correct about the MS response time, I have it set to the second fastest...

I picked up a Samsung Odyssey AG320 on offer at half price so I jumped at the chance. I like almost everything about this screen except for a few things that are gnawing at me firstly I can't tell when the screen is running higher than 60fps, there is a smoothness feeling going from 30 to 60...

a few people mentioned Anker to me now, I might give them a try but I haven't been able to find the Q20 that cheap yet!

I ordered myself a budget Bluetooth headset, I was initially reluctant but was presently surprised by the quality all round the audio was crisp, it was comfortable, the cables were all the flexy silicone kind, the padding was super smooth and soft, but fast forward several months the cheap...

I didn't want to drop $20 to $40 on a laptop that may only fetch $50 but also it only takes low profile m.2 drives which makes it even harder ? to find cheaper drives. also I did google this and came here for a second opinion, people saying there are usb stick drives that plug directly into...

getting rid of my old laptop, it mostly ran ubuntu linux but I was using it some on windows 10 via usb ssd, despite having bare minimum ram and being run over usb it was a reasonable experience. Thinking maybe linux might not be ideal os for most buyers ? also having less than a 20gb internal...

stay below 80C is what I heard too but aren't there specs on what kind of thermals the chips can comfortably run on? bit of a follow up quesiton but isn't it possible to set a power curve too, where the power into the card is lowered at cost of performance to keep the card cooler ?

shor version I have a 1660 that I figure is kind of noisy and I want to adjust the fan curves, in very demanding games the fans rocket over 60% to try keep the gpu always around/under 40c I guess it would have some kind of protection built in to stop any serious damage but i want to know how...

kanewolf I read that the performance between 1 or 2 sticks should be negliable but I don't think that was taking into consideration running integrated graphics! but since I was doing this out of pocket I figured I would just get a single 8gb so a future 16 gb upgrade was possible. update! I...

My mom was previously using an older xeon workstation I believe was a socket771 xseon e5400 type things with 8 cores .. it had been crashing so I decided to build her a new pc out of my own pocket and checked a few benchmark sites, they say the 4 core Ryzen 3 is supposed to be way faster than...