Recent content by vanGenne

I'm looking at the RX 5700 XT Nitro+, it's probably the best I can afford and my monitor has FreeSynch anyway :) I'm looking into ways to test my PSU, but for some reason OCCT won't install.. I would really like to make sure my PSU won't fry my pretty new card... edit: running OCCT as we speak...

Update: I took the GPU apart, one of the "R33 capacitors" was blackened and clearly at fault. Anyone know what that means/does? As in, do I need to invest 100 euro+ in a new PSU?

Hi, I'll keep it short: my PC suddenly turned off mid-game and I could smell something burning. I figured out that it was my GPU, and the system is now running on integrated graphics. The GPU was 5.5 years old (EVGA GTX780), so it was time for a replacement anyway. However, I'm not happy about...

Decided to wait a couple days for the 3rd party RX 5700 XT cards come out and grab one of those :) Thanks for the info! I will upgrade the rest of the system later, maybe next year. And I'll also look at an NVMe SSD dedicated to holding my games ;)

Hey, Recently I upgraded my monitor from a 1080p 21inch model, to a 34inch 1440p ultrawide. The screen is excellent, but it does have a couple more pixels that need powering by my poor 5year-old system. It's used for video games, I primarily play either strategic/management type games (Total...

Hey everyone, I was browsing for a new monitor, which made me question whether my GPU could handle it. Which led me to doubt pretty much my entire system, even though it seems to run everything I throw at it perfectly fine. It's 5 years old exactly today, I obviously marked the date of my first...

Oh I was just noticing some small lags when gaming, saw that CPU load was at 100 :) nothing substantial though. I've already checked some benchmarks since posting and saw that upgrading to skylake is really only about 5-10% faster. So I'll be keeping my CPU for a while after all :)

Interesting to read your comments, thanks for the replies! I'm from the Netherlands, so I can't rule our Brexit completely. However, since Intel produces their stuff in the U.S. the fact that the English have left the EU should not have to affect U.S. > NL trade relations. The site I got the...

Hello all, I was looking around to see if I could improve my specs, when I saw that my current CPU (I5-4670K) is now more expensive than when I first bought it. In January 2014 I paid exactly €192,20 for it, while if I want to purchase it now it is €264,00. Same store, same processor, about a...

Hey, sorry for the slow answer, I was travelling. chkdsk came up clean, and I tried the Seagate Tools. Yesterday the short drive self test completed without errors, so I decided to try the short generic today. Short generic failed today, and the DST failed as well! Which is strange since the...

Hey guys, I have a very puzzling problem. I recently bought an external hard drive, a seagate expansion of 1TB with USB 3.0, to use as a backup drive. However, windows backup will just not work on it. Every time i try to backup, I get an error message stating that the backup could not be...