Graphics & Displays

Forum discussion tagged with Graphics & Displays.
  1. ikea(s)

    Question 980TI won’t work in a Dell T5810?

    Hello, recently acquired a used Dell T5810 from eBay for super cheap. I think around 100 dollars. Been using it for around 2 weeks and all works well with the ancient NVS 510’s it comes with. Considering this is a pretty old station, when selecting a new GPU I didn’t want to go too new, so I...
  2. brandon_bless98

    Question GPU compatible with Dell Workstation 3620

    Hi guys. I’m just trying to find a 4GB GPU that’s compatible with my Dell OptiPlex, one that’s relatively cheap (under $200). I know I was able to find this information before but now I can’t. So hopefully this community can help point me in the right direction. Thanks everyone!!
  3. codelode

    Question Black Screen During Gaming Or Shortly After Finishing - But Can Still Hear Discord/Desktop

    Hello, I'm encountering a perplexing black screen issue that primarily occurs during or shortly after gaming sessions. While I've run numerous diagnostics and tests, I'm still without a solution and am seeking your expertise. System Specifications: - GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 - CPU: AMD...
  4. B

    Build Advice Help regarding new build ?

    I am in need of an upgrade. Primarely I use my computer for video editing (full time job) and for gaming here and there. I came up with this: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BjLXyg I was looking for something between $1k-$2k so this one seems good. Can you guys look it over and give me some...
  5. K

    Question Dual Nvidia GTX-970s no longer working after 6 years, no display when both installed.

    Hello, I have been running dual 970s since about 2016. I had my motherboard and CPU burn out and replaced it in 2021. Relevant specs are as follows: Motherboard: P8Z68-V Pro Gen 3 CPU: Intel i7-3770 @ 3.40 Ghz Graphics Cards: Nvidia GTX 970 x2 Since the motherboard replacement I have had no...
  6. Brotherhood_of_steel

    Question GPU cable Issues

    I’ve just purchased a Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB EAGLE OC D6X power and swapped out my old 1050ti, however my 10 50ti used a single 6 pin port whilst my new card uses a 2x 8 pin port and my current gpu power cable is a 2 x 6/2 pigtail cable and I’m unsure how to correctly connect the cable...
  7. JacksonRD

    Question Graphics Driver issues

    Hi all, I have a Nitro 5 RTX 3060 Laptop with Intel i5 11th Gen. It was pretty fine last year. Recently It seems like my graphics driver has been crashing frequently. Now I get 30 fps max even on Valorant. And if I clean reinstall the driver it works fine. and after a few days, it starts giving...
  8. tommyreii

    Question GPU dead?

    Recently had a thunderstorm the previous night and upon turning on my computer today only 1 of my 3 monitors would turn on. The orange LED light showing that the monitor is off isn't on either making me believe my monitors are dead. After troubleshooting with them and the rest of my PC for...
  9. adityaanand430

    Question What's a good GPU for my System?

    I am a college student and I use my PC for coding, video editing and gaming. Based on the below hardware configuration, what will be a good GPU to upgrade for? PC Specs:- CPU- Intel Core i5 12400 Mobo- MSI B660M-P DDR4 RAM- Corsair Vengeance 16GB 3200mhz DDR4 Single Stick PSU- Deepcool...
  10. brandon_bless98

    Question Dell Precision Tower 3620 and AMD Radeon HD 7600 series

    Hello, I recently got a new Dell Precision Tower 3620 (1TB + DDR4 32GB RAM) and an AMD Radeon HD 7600 Series graphics card (4GB). I can get VGA and DVI-D to work, but only in duplicate and not extended. Also, I’ve tried installing a few different drivers but none seem to be working, even the CD...
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    Question Trying to connect a CRT monitor to a modern PC

    I have no idea if this even possible, I may completely wasting my time but I am trying to connect a CRT Monitor to my modern PC for some retro emulation. This is my current build: Asrock B450m pro4 AM4 Motherboard Ryzen 5 3600x CPU RTX 3060 12gb GPU Corsair CX-M 650W 16GB RAM The CRT monitor I...
  12. CoDrift

    Question HEVC streaming with an RX 570 ?

    I'm using OBS and I can't seem to get the option to stream using the HEVC encoder: I know my card has HEVC as it does show up in the recording section: Is this a limitation I am unfamiliar of or is it a bug? Oh and while at it, may I ask which one is better for streaming; constant or...
  13. C

    [SOLVED] Trouble getting GPU to work on an old motherboard

    Okay so, I have a bit of an odd situation here and I'm looking for some help. I am trying to get a 4GB ASUS Mining RX 470 (never used for mining) to work on an ECS H55H-M V1.1 motherboard for... scientific reasons. The system has a Cooler Master PSU (RS-500-PCAR-A3). When I try to turn it on...
  14. C

    Question Strange issue with either my RTX 4080 or display, regarding perceived drop in resolution and display turning off/on ?

    So I seem to be having an isolated issue with my new rtx 4080...randomly while playing games the display would turn off and back on as though there is a display port cable issue(loops continuously until restart of pc) ive also noticed at time when the display returns for a few seconds it is as...
  15. LandgrisTV

    [SOLVED] My display randomly goes blank white or black but the background is still running

    Hi Guys! I'm currently having a weird issue with my Display lately and still trying to figure out what's causing this My display randomly goes blank white or black but the background is still running (video, audio etc.) Turning Off the Monitor and unplugging its power cable and holding power...
  16. Filippinsk

    Question Igpu working but not gpu

    I was playing games when my screen turned black and i couldnt restart it, i assumed it was the gpu that had died but im not sure. But now l have gotten another gpu(rx6600) and when i try starting the computer with the new gpu the screen is still black but the fans are running specs is : i7 -...
  17. D

    Question 3060 Ti is artifacting. Is it the PSU?

    Hello everybody. I've been having a bit of PC trouble and I was hoping someone here could point me in the correct direction. Last November I purchased this pre-built from Newegg. A couple weeks ago I started noticing some graphical glitches in certain games. I figured it was just buggy games...
  18. A

    [SOLVED] Good gpu for i5 4570s

    So I can't really afford to build a new PC right now but what would be a good upgrade from a GTX 1060 3gb that is pairable for i5 4570s without bottlenecks? in some of my games, I'm experiencing gpu bottlenecks and I don't know which is a good GPU to upgrade from PSU is 550w
  19. Homeless1

    Question VGA Status LED sometimes lights up on motherboard, but there's no frontend issues.

    The VGA LED on my motherboard lights up often on start-up, but I can't see any real problems after it boots into Windows. The PC speaker gives 1 long, 2 short beeps (AMI BIOS Beep Codes) indicating a video card memory issue, but my PC works perfectly fine and there's no issues with my display or...
  20. A

    Question 2 FHD and 1 WQHD monitor on HD4400

    I have a desktop PC with Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz with 12 GB RAM and currently supporting 3 monitors in below configuration: HDMI - FHD monitor VGA - FHD monitor USB (v3) display driver - FHD monitor I would like to have a WQHD (2560X1440) monitor on HDMI with other 2 (VGA &...
  21. R

    Question PC monitor turns green and freezes/restarts when I start a game with high system requirements ?

    This has been happening for last few weeks. Whenever I start a game, specially a game with high requirement, the PC turns green (or red or some other color or simply goes blank) if I haven't played any game for a while, whereas games with low requirements take more time than average to start...
  22. S

    Question GTX 1650 won't turn on.

    I got a new graphics card a GTX1650, but when i installed it, the fans didn't spin and it had no display, i connected the 6 pin connector like i should for additional power, didn't do anything. I then thought it had something to do with the Igpu, so i went ahead and disabled that, but it already...
  23. mossi

    Question Is it worth replacing my RTX 3060 12GB with a Radeon 6700XT? DLSS vs FSR?

    Is it worth replacing my MSI GAMING X TRIO RTX 3060 12GB with a Radeon 6700XT? Probably another MSI GAMING X because they're silent and I love that. I've been thinking about this because my card is still selling quite well in price on ebay and I can buy a 6700XT that is better in overall...
  24. RL Leagues

    Question EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti XC HYBRID suddenly black screening

    I've had this graphics card for nearly 3 years now and it has worked flawlessly up until this week. When I turn my PC on with this card in, it does not display (black screen), though the fans on it still spin. Moreover, this card has LED lit writing on it which does not light up either when it...
  25. hicar128

    Question Screens going black while gaming with 980 Ti ?

    I have an evga 980ti that's served me well over the years, but I'm afraid it may be dying. I just deep cleaned my pc to try and fix the issue (and thought it may have worked yesterday), but it crashed again today. It's happened on a couple different games, but essentially my two monitors go...
  26. krys42

    Question VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE (atikmpag.sys)

    Hi I just got an old broken laptop from my dad (he doesn't know what is wrong). So I wanted to fix it, the laptop monitor doesn't work so I connected it with VGA to an old monitor. I tried Windows 10, 8.1, 7 but every time I tried to install graphics drivers or updated graphics with Windows...
  27. S

    Question Graphics Shorting on Dark Colors

    I'm having this strange problem with my ASUS TUF VG27VQ where, after about a year of owning it with no damages, my display glitches on the bottom screen, constantly repeating the image and not displaying anything that goes on near my taskbar. I attempted to solve the issue by switching to HDMI...
  28. rounakr94

    Question GPU driver crash while gaming, is this a cause of concern ?

    Hi, Was playing Apex Legends and right after a game starts and I drop on ground the game froze and I get a black screen. The GPU driver recovers and says a driver crash occurred. GPU driver crash happened first time for me. Is this a cause of concern? As my card is hardly 1 year old and never...
  29. Maill_

    Question Want to update drivers, but get a black screen when my gpu is plugged in

    When i remove my GPU, and just plug my hdmi cable into the motherboard, my pc works fine, however, as soon as the gpu is plugged in, even without plugging any cables into the back of it, the VGA light on my motherboard turns on and I get no signal to my monitor. I think its an issue with...
  30. I

    Question Main Display No Longer Receives Signal From PC

    I updated my home PC to work as a dual purpose Gaming/ Home PC as well as a Work PC by picking up a third monitor a few months back. Previously I was working with a pair of twin Acer monitors (model: XFA240) hooked up via DP. The third monitor (Samsung C49J890DKN) has worked just fine via HDMI...
  31. C

    Question Assembled PC keeps crashing randomly (lossing graphics output)

    So as the title says, I'll go directly to the root of what happens as I'm tired of posting this all over the internet without any solution (yet since 6 months). I've this computer 2-3 years since first assembled (ofc swapping the GPU + PSU, I had the first Titan X with it until the RTX 3090 got...
  32. rounakr94

    Question Bios 5 beeps but PC works

    Hi, I was cleaning my PC and I forgot to plug in the Display port cable to my GPU. When I turned on PC it gave 5 beeps followed by a small post successful beep. I then hurriedly plugged in the DP cable and I was greeted with the Windows login screen. So why the 5beeps, GPU was already...
  33. A

    [SOLVED] Windows TDR Failure (PC wont boot unless in safe mode) ?

    Hi! I just opened up my PC This afternoon to have an error, WINDOWS TDR Error, it says something about nvid.sys It wont me boot up unless i was in safe mode so, (My pc booted while i got into safe mode, so what I did inside safe mode was do DDU or Display Driver Uninstaller) and i was able to...
  34. E

    Question My computer freezes and has some weird lines on the screen

    Hi, this is what happens to my pc after a few minutes after the pc start-up. I don't know what's the problem, but the system is following: i5 3470 Integrated Graphics 8 Ram I don't have a GPU installed, the wire is connected straight to the mobo. I also noticed that my lan ports stopped...
  35. TerritorialPissing

    Question Hdmi and dvi-d dead on graphics card, will DP work ???

    Hello ! So I wanted to connect my pc to my TV by using a multi hdmi connector but in the process it seemed to have burnt out the hdmi port and the dvi-d port on my 1070, my question is, will the display ports work or are all the ports linked and rekked because the hdmi and dvi got fried ? I am...
  36. D

    Question Computer Shutting down while playing games?

    Hello! I recently bought a pre-built PC back in January and never had any problems until recently. As the title reads my PC shuts down when playing specific games. It isn't due to overheating (I've kept HWMonitor up while playing games and haven't noticed any temps over 70 celsius) It also takes...
  37. JoeVarro

    [SOLVED] Graphics card restarts on Windows boot ?

    So I recently decided to build a new pc and I did. I then booted into my old ssd (windows 11) to see if everything can work without a clean windows installation, But as expected it didn’t. My pc started restarting when i logged in or if I managed to login, it restarts when i try to do something...
  38. R

    [SOLVED] Games on 2nd monitor are shifted to the right ?

    I have a 2nd monitor and when I adjust the resolution in a game it shifts to the right. My main monitor is a 1920 x 1080 144hz monitor and my 2nd monitor is a 4k 3840 x 2160 that I adjusted to 2560 x 1440. My GPU is a GTX 1050. Wondering if there's any programs or ways to solve this problem ...
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    Question White screen on game startup ?

    I have read multiple other threads on this and gathered that my gpu is not overheating, it never gets over 50c nor does my CPU. I completely wiped gpu drivers and reinstalled in safe mode, and it still happens, when I open games they are fine until i play for about 30 seconds my pc white...
  40. O

    [SOLVED] Is my system still relevant?

    Hello All, I built my own PC years ago and have fell out of the scene. I know at the time it was pretty damn good but I'm wondering if it is still relevant for the newest games coming out. Here is what I have: (I don't recall specific brands - sorry). Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.5 GHZ 16 GB RAM...