Recent content by tsdobbi

I was literally just going to post a similar thread. Evga RTX 2070 S. My situation is weird. When I alt-tab out of a game I get an audible coil whine when I alt tab back into the game, it goes away. If I set the game to windowed or borderless I don't get the whine at all, alt-tabbing or...

Glad to know this. I got the same system for gaming while I travel for work. I've had it on performance mode this whole time and yeah it could heat a room in the winter.

"As I understand it the GPU is the only thing in my way." Not really. Your processor will hold you back. In 2011 I was in your same situation. i7 920 + 9800GT. Picked up a GTX 580 and the performance gains were rather negligible. Looking a benchmarks in games I had for the card on current...

I'm assuming the reason they are still running a gtx660 is due to not being able to afford a new card. So bricking the card is probably not for the best.

I doubt it. I still can't justify upgrading my GTX 980ti. I play in 1080p and so far the thing still plays everything I play on high/ultra. I went from a 580 i got in 2010 to a 980 ti in 2015. I mean look at this comparison, specifically the game performance. Do you want to pay $500 or so...

Everything went fine. And it is a gargantuan difference in temps. OCCT was basically instantly exceeding 90C and stopping the test when I would start it on my old cooler. Now my temps barely break 60C under heavy load. While gaming it hangs around 40C.

I have a corsair Air 540, I shouldn't "need" to pop the mobo out for this, I didn't need to when installing the original cooler (albeit a significantly smaller cooler), this thing has plenty of room to work. (my last build had the carbine air 240 practically the same design). I love these cube...

So I have a new build (and I've built my own PC's since the early 2000's The new one makes 5 total), I've always been satisfied with the original core parts, so I've never actually replaced a cpu cooler, until now. I had a geminiII M4 from another PC build I parted out and sold. and I am not...

I'll update this, so it's been a week of normal use surfing the web, gaming etc. No random power offs or BSOD's I'm thinking my tinkering of the audio drivers was the root cause and the clean install of the audio drivers fixed it.

It may be. Buddies PSU failed (I believe it was 750w). He had a 500W back up psu, He has a GTX 1650. With the back up PSU he was experiencing the same thing as you. When he would game it would freeze and or BSOD. I gave him an old corsair 600w psu I had and his problems went away.

New build (about 3 weeks ago) i79700k 32gb DDR4 T-Force ( I cheaped out on the ram, I know. However from what I looked into it isnt bad ram). Thermaltake ToughPower 1000W 80+ gold Asas ROG Strix z390-e (still using my old GTX 980 Ti) running the base XMP profile. So it was perfectly fine for...

Ended up splurging a bit more and got: OMEN 15-dc1054nr 15.6" Gaming Laptop Computer - Black; Intel Core i7-9750H Processor 2.6GHz; NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR6; 16GB DDR4-2666 RAM; 1TB HDD+256GB SSD; Microsoft Windows 10 Home; Multi-format Digital Media Card Reader; 10/100/1000...

Nice, based on my sleuthing, that GPU seems to perform pretty well even in the higher end games I play.

Im going to be traveling for work every week for up to a year. Looking for something that is serviceable gaming. While I do play graphically demanding games like RDR 2 etc. Id be happy with something that may work better just for paradox strategy games etc. as I do spend most of my gaming...

Update: Memory installed working great.