from what ive seen, evga and corsair are your best bets. I was going to go with nzxt but I heard a lot of shit about their software, so I went with an enermax liqfusion instead which has worked nice so far, and I love the flow reader, but the rgb isn't working (which is a personal thing, I have to go in there and see if a cable is loose) and installing the bracket was a pain.
Well I just got a Ryzen 2600, 16GB 3000mhz RAM, B450 Mobo, RX580 8GB, The Division 2 and Resident Evil 2, for $450. Happy birthday me
I had an R9 380 too. Those things are total bitches to keep cool. A 580 is a substantial upgrade, I'm happy for you!
Mine never ran too hot, I think it hit 76-78 in the summer, and it has stayed at 72c and under since I put my own thermal paste on. It does have an issue though where the fans just flat won't work on it correctly, so I have to use MSI Afterburner and manually set a fan profile. It hit 100c several times and throttled itself before I figured out Hey, my PC sure sounds quiet. But it sits at 72c under load at about 70% RPM. All good since
I had a decent Sapphire card, but the thermal paste completely dried out and cracked in half. It runs pretty good in my mom's PC after repasting it.
Just as an FYI as an owner of one from MSI, they're good cards but the recent drivers may give you issues like they've given me. I've been stuck on driver version 18.9.3 because when I try to update to the latest drivers, it fails to load windows saying "Inaccessable boot drive", which can be fixed by popping in your Windows CD and system restoring back to when you had said old drivers.
Also, if you wanted to, the card is compatible with NZXT's G12 AIO GPU bracket, I have a Corsair H75 V1 on my 580 and I fucking love it. I barely every get past 60C on my GPU.
can someone recommend me a good USB DAC in the ~$50 range? Motherboard audio on our b450 boards is pretty meh.
https://www.amazon.com/GIGABYTE-Alpine-Thunderbolt-Components-GC-Alpine/dp/B07GBZL93X
Will this take up a sata slot or anything on my mobo? I have the THB_C connector I just don't want to have to lose any functionality.
I've recently picked up a M.2 PCI-e SSD (Samsung EVO 960) and I have been getting BSOD. I've been trying man methods of fixing from forums. From reinstalling windows to installing firmware but for the life of me I cannot fiqure this out. My (z170) motherboard doesn't have 2 x M.2 slots just the one. Just wondering if anyone else ran into an issue like this
I got that same error after just a regular windows update (Which I didn't ask for). It beyond wrecked the system. Couldn't even use the troubleshooter because the mouse and keyboard, even PS2 mouse/keyboard, are disabled during it. Tried for hours a shit ton of different methods to repair to no avail. Ended up using a flash drive with windows image on it and just formatting the drive
What's a decent modern mid/full sized case that has more than 4 3.5" bays and decent airflow?
I'm coming up mostly blank on it outside of a few things.
For a mid tower, probably the Fractal Define R6, the airflow is sufficient for most things, and it has more drive bays than you can shake a stick at. It's got 6 dedicated 3.5" bays.
Take a look at Be Quiet!'s lineup too, they've got some of the best full towers right now.
So with the processor and ram I replaced in my current PC, I was planning on building a computer for my dad to use, I was thinking mini-itx.
Thermaltake CA
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Does anyone have any recommendations for cheapish fan hubs? I got some RGB Case fans and I found out that my mobo only has 2 ports for fans.
https://smile.amazon.com/Electop-Chassis-Cooling-Port-Controller/dp/B07416KLWJ/ref=pd_sbs_147_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07416KLWJ&pd_rd_r=8d76b390-09c3-11e9-9168-57fd22f7428f&pd_rd_w=QcRIk&pd_rd_wg=urhag&pf_rd_p=7d5d9c3c-5e01-44ac-97fd-261afd40b865&pf_rd_r=0E1XRA54816BMKB8SFCM&psc=1&refRID=0E1XRA54816BMKB8SFCM
any garbage fan hub works fine. Just make sure it's using SATA or some other type of external power and isn't just splitting the fan header power, that shit never works the way you want it to.
Are the modular PSU cables proprietary? I wanted some sleeved cables but I ain't paying $85 for the EVGA pack
https://www.amazon.com/EVGA-100-CK-1300-B9-Supply-Individually-Sleeved/dp/B00KVLCUUQ/ref=sr_1_15?ie=UTF8&qid=1545946730&sr=8-15&keywords=Sata%2Bcable%2Bsleeved&th=1
https://www.amazon.com/Swiftech-8W-PWM-SPL-ST-Way-PWM-Splitter-Sata/dp/B00IF6R4C8
I found this hub, it didn't look like it was just a rebrand of the chinese ones you pick up on ebay, just be aware you need some decent space in your back panel. I stuck it against my 5.25" drive bays on my 450D and it fit perfect.
The cables that plug directly into your PSU are almost always proprietary, however you can also get universal sleeved cables. That way you keep using the original cables from the PSU and use sleeved extension cables on them.
Is Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB 3200Mhz going to be compatible with Asus Prime B450 Plus? (With R5 2400G) My first mobo came in faulty and I'm wondering if I should send back RAM as well...
So I just stuck a Ryzen 5 2600 in my PC and I get weird temperature readings. It's idling at 33c, but if I launch chrome or load a heavy webpage, it insta spikes to 43c and cools back down to 33c within 4 seconds. It's this just weird offset garbage from AMD or something? I get the same readings in HWMonitor and Ryzen Master
Alright, thanks. It's just weird. I used a phenom 955, and then an FX8350, for years and years, and never seen this behavior before
It's a Ryzen thing, has to do with all the sensor locations they packed into the die, and how those get reported to the OS.
Yeah it's not the fan, the fan reacts to the temperatures, but it's not dramatic, it's idling at 31c at 1170rpm or so (Dead quiet, too) and then when it hits the 45c~ spike the rpms jump to just 1450 or so, still very quiet
It's a fairly common Zen thing, you can find tons of posts on r/amd with people having similar issues.
Sometimes it's a fan curve issue, but if it's around a ~15°c sawtooth pattern, it's Ryzen being Ryzen.
I completely fixed the sawtooth issue by raising my minimum RPM to about 50% in the CPU fan curve. Your mileage may vary. Especially since my cooler is near silent even at max RPM.
I've had the same thing happen with my old and new H75's from Corsair, so it happens with AIO water coolers as well. As long as the highest temps are within a certain range for me, then I'm fine with it. Like now, it saw tooths but it doesn't go past 60-65C. And this was with my I5 7500 and my new I7 7700K.
Thermal cycling is less of an issue for AIOs. The water block doesn't stress the mounting as much as an air cooler does and so it's probably less likely to crack dried thermal paste.
Well, one thing I'm not a fan of is how high the 2600's clock speeds boost whenever it feels like
It's 3.6ghz and boosts to 3.9ghz, but mine boosts to 4.5ghz for seconds at a time sometimes, and it really spikes the temperatures
It'll boost up to a thermal limit (generally 68°c) and stop there, you can also disable XFR, and just use PBO2, that'll keep it within specsheet speeds.
Ryzen 2ng gen can hit 4.1-4.2 single core with XFR.
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