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  1. The Recchi

    [SOLVED] New Build or Upgrade GPU

    Hey guys. I built my current PC in November 2015 and I use it for gaming. Right now I'm on 1080p|60fps|medium/high since I'm unable to go 1440p with my current specs, but I aim to game in 1440p|60fps|ultra. I recently had to buy a new monitor and I anticipated my upgrade and bought one that...
  2. TheDevil21

    [SOLVED] Gtx 970 big problem

    I have a problem with my gtx 970 . I bought it like 2 years ago . Recently i changed the mobo , cpu and ram. I used the gpu without any problems before update of mobo and cpu. Right now i have an r5 1600x with a320m pro-vd plus and 8gb ram . The problem is with gpu , is not giving signal to...
  3. H

    [SOLVED] GTX 970 for 80€ or GTX 1060 6gb for 130€

    So basically in my country, we have a site similar to Craigslist, basically a second hand. I saw a listing whit a GTX 970 for 80€ (Asus Strix idk if it is OC or not) and a GTX 1060 6gb for 130€ (same as the 970) and I want to pair it whit my A10-7800 but I plan to upgrade it to R5 2600X. But...
  4. P

    [SOLVED] gtx 970 crashing ?

    During games sometimes the screen shuts off i can still hear youtube playing though so not sure if its psu . sometimes after i restart it asks me to shut down and plug in the pcie connectors . I have not yet tried another pci slot but could this be a sign my gpu is just dying or something...
  5. A

    [SOLVED] Used Cards: GTX 970 vs RX 570

    Hi, I'm on a budget of $120 (Not from the US so these are prices here in the PH) I recently broke my generic Korean RX 570 and I want to buy a card that has the same performance but still within my price range (so it's most likely a used card). At the moment I have 3 choices: Buy a used MSI...
  6. Knowwn

    [SOLVED] Can I use gtx 1060 3gb and 2060 at a time on b450 motherboard?

    Can I use gtx 1060 3gb and 2060 at a time on b450 motherboard? I have corsair vs650 power supply i want to use one at a time just don't want to switch again and again
  7. Z

    Question GTX 970 crash

    Ok, so i have a MSI GTX 970 graphic card and one day it started to keep crashing when i booted on my pc. When i turn on my pc the windows logo comes and it load and everthing, but around 2 min. after its on the homescreen it gets a black screen. Ive tried to reinstall drivers in safe mode since...
  8. J

    Question GTX 970 at fault for bad image quality?

    Hello all, I've had this issue with my GTX 970 for a while now. Be it in games or on the desktop, images or really anything always look kind of blurred with jagged edges, even on high graphics settings, especially high AA settings. When I directly compare the Full-HD on my PC with that on my...
  9. I

    [SOLVED] 4+4 pin ATX 12V == 8 pin PCI-E ?

    Recently, I bought a gtx 970 which is powered through an 8 pin PCI-E connection. My power supply only has a double 4 pin 12V connector. As far as I've heard, these are only for the motherboard or CPUs, but it fits into the PCI-E slot. Will it work?
  10. B

    Question Has my GPU died or is my PSU gone bad?

    Hi, Last night my GTX 970 died on me in the middle of a gaming session. The PC shut itself down and wouldn't restart after. After disconnecting the card however, the pc would boot again.I found out that the PC would would boot when only connecting one specific 6 pin connector, but fail to boot...
  11. M

    Question GTX 970 or R9 390?

    Hello guys, im going to buy a used graphics card, its the gtx 970 strix from asus or the R9 390 strix from asus as well, whats your opinion? i most state that the gtx 970 its a little cheaper but i cant decide which one to buy, i have seen benchmarks but still i can get to decide. I wont be...
  12. Altitudess

    Question Is my Power Supply bad for a GTX 970?

    Okay so I have recently rebuilt my PC, here are the specs: Thermaltake 750W PSU (toughpower) GTX 970 4GB (3.5) 16GB DDR3 Ram 1666mhz Intel i5 2500 non k (not a bottleneck for this card) no need to add motherboard or drives. So I have been trying to run GTA 5 (Five M) and have been getting 20...
  13. T

    Question Should I swap out my gaming GPU?

    Hey everyone. My gaming PC build has a lot of personality and every part has history to it. But my GPU's story tops it all. I have a GTX 970 4GB, bought when it was the newest thing on the market. My friend bought it with is i5-4460 build, and used it often throughout high school with us, while...
  14. T

    [SOLVED] Arctic Silver 5 vs Arctic MX-4

    Hello everyone. Recently, I just bought a tube of Arctic MX-4 thermal paste to re-apply on my graphics card. But today I just found out that I already got a tube of Arctic Silver 5 in my house. The AS5 must have been not less than 5 years old now from when I recall buying it. The package has...
  15. J

    Question GTX 970 overheating issue

    Hello, Since a few days, I'm experiencing overheating issue on my GC. Theses are causing temperature to ramp up and then got blackscreen, I have to reboot to recover it, it only happens in games. My configuration : Graphic card : NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970. Cooling fans : Zotac, 2x fans. CPU ...
  16. Linkrocks250

    Question MSI GTX 970 not detected by display

    So I just built a PC for my sister using parts left over from my last upgrade as well as some new parts and a GPU from craigslist. It has an MSI 970 Gaming Motherboard, 16 GB DDR3 Corsair Vengeance RAM, and AMD FX-8320 CPU from my previous build so I'm almost certain they all work (unless...
  17. T

    Question High fan RPM lowers fps - GTX 970

    I discovered something I couldn't quite understand yesterday. I were overclocking my 970, ended up with: VC: +12 Mem: +500 Core: +160 Power TDP: 120% However to maintain a proper tempature of no higher than 70C, I put the fan to run at ~75% around that tempature and ~90% at 71-72C. What I...
  18. N

    Question GTX 970 shuts off monitor when under load (opening any game)

    Specs: Motherboard: AROCK H97M Pr04 GPU: MSI GTX 970 CPU: i5 4690k PSU: EVGA NEX750G Problem: This started occuring about a month ago, specificially with the game Apex Legends, however rather quickly I discovered it started to happen in other games as well. At first this problem would...
  19. Kettenkrad

    Question Strange Fullscreen HDMI Problem

    For years I have been using my monitor with an standard HDMI setup until this morning when it seemingly spontaneously decided to stop working entirely. When I woke up today and turned my monitor on I was greeted by a persistent "No Signal" message that was only remedied by moving my HDMI from...
  20. B

    Question PC flashes on the off when GPU is installed

    Specs CPU: i5 7600k GPU: GTX 970 Mobo: MSI Z270 Pro Gaming Carbon RAM: 2x 8gb G.Skill TridentZ RGB PSU: 650 W NZXT (HALE82 N?) Sorry for this being so long but I’ve tried a lot of solutions to no avail. PC had been running perfectly fine for quite a while, only had the GPU for about 4 years and...
  21. kanishkasandeep

    Question RX 570 4GB, GTX 970 4GB or GTX 1060 3GB

    I want to buy cheaper graphic card for gaming until I upgrade my PC in the next year..I have a confusion on which is the best graphic card for the price..RX 570 4GB is the cheapest among the cards and GTX 970 and GTX 1060 3GB prices are almost same (1060 little bit expensive) I just want to play...
  22. J

    Question Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 windforce 3x overheating

    I have had this issue since day 1 i bought this GPU but i didn't figure it till it's too late and now out of warranty! The problem is the card gets too hot so easily even on low load and light games. It idles around 40c on winter (11~21c room temp) and around 47~52 summer (34~39c room temp) and...
  23. D

    Question Urgent !!! Strange problem with msi GTX 970

    Hi, I have strange problem with my msi gtx 970 4GB OC (white coloured fan cover) ; My GPU is not recognised propertly, when I install drivers it lock resolution on 800x600, device manager show error 43, and GPU-Z show that I have 0GB of RAM... please help me...maybe flashing will help, I dont...
  24. M

    Question Upgrading from gtx 970 to rtx 2070

    Hey, I'm planning to upgrade my GPU from gtx 970 to rtx 2070, and my PSU from 450W to 650W I'm not really sure if my motherboard can take the rtx 2070, and i also have to change my PSU to a bigger one, because what i have now is only 450W. So basically my question is, would the rtx 2070 run on...
  25. Badidrox

    [SOLVED] can i test if a used 970 does work in a 350w? psu

    hello again awsome community . i plan on buying a used 970 soon and i got a cooler master 350w (with 6pins) psu which i plan to change to a 550w but cant rn so just to make sure that the gpu works and not to play games or anything , like as long as windows boots . if no recommend me...
  26. S

    Question Evga GTX 970 not working correctly or is it PSU?

    Gpu: Evga GTX 970 FTW PSU: Corsair Hx1000i Few weeks ago I was watching YouTube and I heard what sounded like spark from my PC and it turned off immediately. I could not figure out where it came from, so I turned the PC back on but the GPU was not turning on. I eventually started turning on for...
  27. UNATCO-PC

    [SOLVED] Looking to upgrade from 970, what's best for me?

    Hi, not around here very often. I'm looking to upgrade my EVGA GTX 970 SC, I've been looking through local classifieds and I've run across some decent deals on GTX 1070's and such. My current specs are: MSI B250 Gaming MB Intel Core i5-7600 8 GB Ram Windows 10 OS 650W PSU By no means am I...
  28. M

    Question PC wont post or boot with a new CPU Installed.

    Hello, I recently bought a Xeon x3450 for my GA H55M UD2H (rev 1,3). But it will not post or boot. If I take out my GTX 970 the pc turns on and all the phase LEDs turn on but that's it. With the GPU, the computer just turns off and on over and over. I was using an I3-540 and that works fine. My...
  29. C

    [SOLVED] Which cpu is better? i5-8400 or Ryzen 2600.

    Which cpu is better for fps in games when paired with a gtx 1070ti.
  30. D

    Question Do i need 16 gb of Ram?

    Currently my build is a ryzen 5 2600, XFX RX 580 GB, 1 tb WD blue hard drive, 120 GB Kingston ssd, 1, 8 GB stick of ddr4 hyperX ram, and some gigabyte motherboard I do not know off the top of my head. I was wondering if I really need 16 GB of RAM? I mainly use my computer for school work and...
  31. 0

    [SOLVED] Need Advice for Office PC Build

    So i want to build for my office pc with use for editing image(PS) , browser(8+ tabs open) , text editor, vcloudpoint(5 client) server. I got 2 build Either Amd Ryzen 5 2400g or I5 8400. If you have other build suggest please share. Thanks Intel Build: Intel Core i5-8400 ASRock B360 Pro4...
  32. M

    [SOLVED] Pc build on a budget

    Im building a gaming pc but i want to overclock my cpu to over than 4.1 or 4.2 and i keep seeing people ocing their i5 6600T but i will get 6600k is it possibe to overclock cpus that dont have a K in their generation? and my second question will the 6600k get me more preformance? By the way my...
  33. U

    Dell Optiplex 3020 MT PSU upgrade?

    Hi, I hope you could help me. I am looking at possibly buying a Dell Optiplex 3020 MT and I would Like to upgrade the PSU. My Question is would a Seasonic S12 ii 620 Watt PSU be compatible with the Dell Optiplex 3020 MT? Thanks
  34. P

    [SOLVED] Problem connecting to the internet

    Hello. I’ve tried to look for answers to this problem but haven’t really come across something similar. I uninstalled Norton since I decided to go with Karpersky for AV. After that I haven’t been able to access multiple sites such as Netflix, Prime Video, Steam or any online shopping site for...
  35. A

    [SOLVED] Moving OS system to ssd without deleting pc content ?

    Hi, i just got my new samsung evo 860 500gb, So i want to clone my windows 10 OS to the SSD for better results but my HDD which is 1tb is allready quite full. My question is how can I clone the OS of my pc without deleting any files that allready exists on my HDD, i want only the OS to move...
  36. B

    PC shuts off randomly for no reason

    Hi so my pc randomly shuts off for no reason when im gaming or just on google. Its definitely not an overheating problem because my pc is cold. I dont know what part i need to replace or what i need to do to fix this. THanks SPECS i7 7700k msi z270 gtx 1050 ti corsair 500w psu
  37. M

    Games keeps crashing

    sometimes they crash with a device removed error sometimes they freeze sometimes i get a bug reporter sometimes i get no error i get the occasional bsod system service exception and irql not less or equal sometimes the monitor loses signal things I've tried resetting windows DISM SFC and...
  38. P

    Few questions about Overclocking the 8700k.

    Hi. I have a new build with an 8700k, Maximus X Code mobo and 16GB 3200RAM and an h115i plat cooler. I have a few questions about my OC please. Currently, I have it at 5GHz synced on all cores and voltage at 1.23V. I've tested it with many programs and it's stable. Should I try to raise the...
  39. J

    13.3 in Laptop for programming student carrying an external 15.6 in monitor

    Hi, I am a computergame development student and I'm out for a new laptop and I'd like some advice. I have found an HP ENVY 13-ah0015 (Intel Core i7-8550U, 13.3 in FHD screen, 512 GB SSD, 8 GB LPDDR3-2133 SDRAM, Intel UHD Graphics 620, very lightweight@1.3kg and good battery life). I'm also...
  40. A

    Mini ITX system (opinions?)

    Here's an mini ITX system I've been thinking about building for a long while... opinions?? https://pcpartpicker.com/list/yw7N9J