performance

Title says it all, is it worth it to pay extra for m.2 drives that come with a heatsink model? Is the integrated heatsink far better than just the m.2 heatsink included in some motherboards? And is there a big temperature improvement overall? Especially in the real world....

Good day, I'm currently looking for a 1TB M.2 NVME that has excellent REAL WORLD performance, I don't really give much emphasis if a lot of the NVME drives today have very fast speeds when it comes to synthetic benchmarks since these are SYNTHETIC BENCHMARKS. I'm looking for a drive that can...

Let's say I had 100 apps that were only 1mb each, versus a SINGLE app that takes up 100mb. This means they take up the same amount of disk space. They are not apps that run in the background or anything, they just exist. Is the only reason why having a lot of apps leads to a slower computer is...

Good day, As the title says, what is a RAID setup when it comes to storage configuration, I have been reading a lot of about this online but I just can't seem to understand the techy gobbledygook, can someone please provide an answer in "English"? An answer that can be easily understood and at...

Hey guys. Wanted to get some insight into how much faster I've made my 9700K, if at all possible. I managed to find a stabile clock of 5050 MHz with 1.352 volts. After running a Cinebench R23 multi thread benchmark, the temps were stabile at 73-76 C. I tried a Single Core bench, which I scored...

Good day, This question just popped out of my head, if PBO (the automatic overclocking feature of AMD) is enabled on Ryzen processors, does it mean that the overclock frequency that PBO can provide the CPU apply to all cores? For example, if the PBO feature enables the 5900x to reach 4.5ghz, is...

Good day, I would just like to know if Ryzen 9 CPUs take advantage of RAM speeds out of the box, like when you first plug the CPU into the system, does it utilizes the RAM speed right away? Like what they told about the previous 3000 series Ryzens, wherein they said those take advantage of high...

Is it ever useful to use programs like "Advanced System Optimizer" or "Razer Cortex" to clean memory? Will cortex actually slow down programs rather than do nothing sometimes? I noticed for the first time I had a sort of memory leak that occurred from opening too many tabs and a game, and even...

Good day, I am currently looking for a motherboard with a type c header. My case is the O11 Dynamic from Lian Li, and it has a type c port on the front panel. I wanna be able to utilize that feature so I'm looking for a motherboard with a type c header. The motherboard should be black, or it...

Hello, I have no idea what to do or what could be happening. I have an EVGA GTX 1060 and all of a sudden it began to underperform, getting 13-20 fps less at most games from what it should get at 1080p. Also, it is random. Sometimes it could perform ok and just by rebooting the system...

I'm looking to upgrade my very old PC to a 4th or 6th gen computer, and I've been looking at benchmarks between CPUs from what I've seen offered at my local store. What caught me out was these two specific models; the 4590 has 4x3.30 GHz cores while the 6400 has 4x2.70 GHz cores, which in my...

Hi. This question is a follow-up to this other thread I created. https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/my-pc-is-underperforming-and-i-cannot-understand-why.3726503/ I have an RTX 3070 TI, Ryzen 7 5800X, 16GB 3000mhz RAM, 750W power supply. I noticed that since I have upgraded to the 3070ti a...

I'm troubleshooting my performance with Overwatch, where if the fps is high enough sometimes the screen stutters for ~0.3s. I suspect it's simply my PC not being able to keep up with 240 fps, so I tried benchmarking. I'm rather surprised. Why are there crazy spikes in CPU temperatures? Since my...

PC specs: Ryzen 5 2600 32GB RAM DDR4 RTX 2060 PSU: Corsair CX750M I did a test in Userbenchmark and I got this results: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/45699603 I think it is a pretty bad result for the computer which is. CPU, GPU and RAM have very bad performance. How can I improve the...

Hello lovely hardware comm, im currently using a Ryzen 5 1600 and a MSI B350M VDH PRO together with CL 16-18-18-38 2666Mhz Ram(not fast for ryzen i know, but years a go ram prices were insane). I mainly play CS and Valorant. Lately i got some performance issues and i believe its time for OC to...

If I have a 144hz refresh rate monitor, does it mean that I need to output 144 FPS in all of the games that I play in order to fully utilize and take advantage of the 144hz refresh rate? If the FPS I'm getting in all of my games are below 144 FPS does that mean that I am not able to take...

Hello, My graphics card is not drawing enough power, and it is hurting graphics performance. Does anyone know of possible causes? So my system is as follows: MSI Z170 Gaming M7 ATX board Intel i7-6700K CPU (running at stock speed) NVIDIA GTX 1070 GPU Corsair 750W Gold Ranked PSU Corsair RAM...

One friend of mine wants to know will it be good to get another 2x4gb stick of 3200mhz, however working along side with the 2x4gbs 2133MHz sticks. We all have the answers as mixing all four RAM speeds all separately, but my question is, is it good to combine these speeds into dual channel...

So, last year i upgraded my pc a little bit and bought myself a new ram stick (kingston hyperx fury (1x8gb), DDR4, 2666MHZ, CAS 16) and mixed it with my previous Ram sticks ( G.skill Ripjaws V series (2x4gb) ,DDR4, 2400MHZ, CAS 15). 16gb total. I didnt thought about it at the time but now i was...

So, whatever. Bought this used gigabyte gtx 970 3x windforce super oc from some guy on fb. Anyway, could use it just fine, apart frome some stuttering. Thing is that whenever i activated the optimize for compute performance feature from the nvidia control panel. Low and behold, the setting...

I just purchased a build from NZXT and racked up their most expensive parts that they had to offer. Here is a list of what I purchased. NZXT Kraken Z63 with LCD display Standard Service (US) Microsoft Windows 10_Home NZXT H510 Elite (Black) MSI Z590 ACE Intel Core i9-10900K 10-Core 3.7 GHz...

hey so my little brother wants to play valorant on my old pc. i want to know whether i can run valorant without any lags on low graphics on my old pc? My pc specs are Core i3 2nd gen GT 1030 2gb GPU 8gb ddr3 1tb hard disk ECS HARRISON2 motherboard antec 550w power supply thanks.

Dumb question I know....Is GPU usage still going to be at 100% if the VRAM isn't being fully utilized. Let's say I'm playing a game that is quite demanding but there is still a huge headroom for the VRAM usage even if I set the graphic settings at the very max, is the graphics card still going...

Is my Crucial MX500 SSD ok? I've highlighted some values on crystal disk info and crucial disk exclusive. The drive is brand new but I don't know if these values are problematic or not. View: https://i.imgur.com/mmUzcBN.jpeg View: https://i.imgur.com/35LzJez.jpeg *My main concern is the...

Hey people , I just upgraded from win 7 to win 10 ( Clean install on new Disk ) some bothering problems I'm facing which one of them is lagging of windows explorer that occurs randomly most of the time on system idle ( Looks like being under load make it less likely to happen ) Doesn't matter...

Greetings, I am currently making a system build in PCPartPicker and I have finally finished making a decision on what parts to buy and upgrade to, but there is one thing bugging me, a system compatibility issue that says "The Asus ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard has an additional...

Hi i will be asking about a Software i want to make sure it's okey for use for disable windows defender and not a hack tool and safe if anyone can check that for me will be good guys : The Program Interface is this : ( Before Turning Off Defender ) ( After Turning Off Defender ) This is...

Greetings! Is there a serious bottleneck when you pair an RX 480 with a 5000 series Ryzen? I know for sure there will be a bottleneck, but how big will it be? And how much performance am I gonna be losing? I am going to be buying the 5900x, I really can't afford to buy a GPU right now given the...

Greetings, I currently have the Corsair H115i 280mm AIO liquid cooler which I have been using for 4 years. Now I did my research and based from the numerous forums I have read and studied about when to replace AIO coolers, they said to replace it if it has been used for 4-5 years. Now I don't...

Greetings, I know it seems like a very dumb question, but I just had to ask to surely know and to quench my curiosity. Whenever someone is talking about bottlenecking it's always more on the gaming performance part, well that is because of the obvious fact that a lot of people game than do...

Hello, i have noticed a few issues related to the performance of my gpu and some random system crashes that dont even drop a blue screen error, as well as the cpu frequency going down to 0,38ghz after opening a mid-high resources consuming game My windows is updated and i have the latest...

I wanna undervolt my GPU but the only thing that is hindering me from doing it is because of the different looking fan curve editor in my MSI Afterburner software. My Voltage Curve editor looks like this: https://ibb.co/4VStQvN While the numerous videos I have watched from Youtube concerning...

My first post here... I tried to spec out and build a fast, affordable system (this was 4-5 months ago), but there is much more lag in general use and web use that I had with my older system. Here are the specs: MOBO - Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Ultra BIOS - American Megatrends F8 CPU - Intel Core...

Making a post about this issue was my last resort. I built this near the end of December 2020. Here are the specs: PSU: DeepCool DQ 850W CPU: Intel i9-10850K GPU: Asus TUF Gaming GeForce RTX™ 3070 MOBO: Asus Prime Z490P RAM: T-Force Delta 2x16GB DDR4 3200MHz SSD: Crucical 1TB P2 NVMe M.2...

So I posted a forum before this about system underperforming but after some guy told me it was my PSU because it was off brand and my question is could it actually cause performance issues and if yes what PSU could you recommend. SPECS: MOTHERBOARD- prime h310m-k r2.0 CPU - Intel Core i3-9100F...

Hello everyone, Not sure if this is the right forum, but here it goes. I've recently bought a 1440p 144hz AOC 27G2U monitor. I've got it connected to my laptop via HDMI 1.4, which means I can't utilize the 144hz capabilities, due to the laptop port not being HDMI 2.0+, but that's fine with me...

I need help. I bought a rx 6900 xt as its said in the title, and im getting so low fps in games like RUST. i was seeing some benchmarcks and this videocard have to be capable of getting more than 200+ fps on this game. my setup: -i9 9900k -16gb ram 4000mhz -gigabyte z390 aorus pro wifi -asus...

I tell you that I bought a second-hand gpu that seems to be faulty, I have been looking for thousands of solutions in this and other forums, I have seen that many people have run into this problem but none find the solution. The problem is that the core clock remains capped at 139mhz and the...

I am looking at these two NVME SSD: Kingston DC1000B 480GB PCI Express 3.0 x4 M.2 2280 part: SEDC1000BM8/480G and Gigabyte AORUS 500GB, NVMe Gen4 part: GP-ASM2NE6500GTTD Which one would be more reliable in terms of keeping it's performance after many writes ? I want to use them in computers...

ok so thats what i have rtx 3060 12gb ryzen 7 2700x 16 gb 3200mhz i thought buyng a 3060 i could get insane performance in a game like valorant but nothing, cant get even 200 fps. i tried everything; i even tryed the auto oc with afterburner,upgrading all the drivers all the nvidia panel...