unpopular windows 10 opinion:
the telemetry isn't even that bad
Honestly, once you remove all the crap like Candy Crush that comes pre-installed on win10, it's a pretty usable system. Sans the updates that frequently brick shit for no good reason, but if you delay installing them for a few weeks they tend to not do that.
Before I installed my SSD, Windows 10 would often become almost unusable because of all the shit that it does in the background eating my I/O. It still happens sometimes on my 10 laptop with a HDD.
Does increasing power limit reduce life span? On a gfx card
It's complicated.
I mean, strictly, if you're putting more power into an IC, then yeah it's going to electromigrate quicker, but really the concern is temperature, and how extreme the thermal cycling is going to be.
Basically hotter = worse, and the more hotter the hot∆cold cycles are, the worse the lifespan of the component.
The fans are the most likely thing to die on a GPU by a country mile. Keep that in mind. Shortening the life of a GPU doesn't really mean much tbh, because you're likely to get a new one way, way before anything will fail. You can feel secure in cranking power limits all the way up.
My temps are under 60 even after a solid OC so I guess I should be fine
You should be fine, AtomicSans is correct, basically fans die first, and then long after that one of the VRAM solder balls might start cracking giving you some artifacting/dead GPU.
The rule of thumb is that even if you're a total idiot, it's almost impossible to kill GPUs via overclocking. They're so locked down.
Yeah, though sometimes EVGA cards will just light themselves on fire randomly.
thats just lighting effects
Nvidia "Fireworks"
Wasn't that just one of the older revisions of the ACX coolers with the awful thermal pads?
It's happened on newer ones too from what I can gather.
EVGA will replace the cards, obviously, their support is top tier (Which even though I think their hardware quality isn't as good as others, it makesup for it), it's still been a problem.
RTX 2070 or GTX 1080? I've found the 2070 for pretty considerably cheaper. Upgrading from an ASUS STRIX GTX 970.
The song of my new build is rapidly becoming waiting and more waiting.
Ordered a Asus ROG Maximum XI Code and 32GB of Kingston HyperX Predator (DDR4-3600 CL17-18-18 @1.35V), which is going to be a few days before it'll be in stock.
Ordered a Phanteks Evolv X, which won't be in stock until at least the end of the month
Ordered a 9900k on launch day, and no stock in sight
Wanting to order a EVGA 2080 Ti Hydro Copper, not even released yet
Had to send back my Cooler Master PSU, it didn't have an EATX12V cable, and one of the GND wires was missing in the EATXPWR cable :v
But the real reason I came in here was to ask if a 650w would be good enough for a Ryzen 5 1500X and RX 580 + 2 extra fans? (I don't plan on overclocking).
That’s very much more than enough. Which PSU exactly are you getting, though?
Yea, my reasoning for 650 was my friend was given a PC with specs not too much lower and it has a 650w.
I'm thinking about getting a modular corsair one now.
Mainly because I'm just going for a "good enough" build as close as possible to £800 and also free delivery which other retailers don't seem to have. If Amazon hadn't literally just bumped down the price of the 1600 today to £135 I probably would have considered it. It was going for £220 the other day and I got the 1500X for £125.
The real question is why in the world ever you buy a first gen Ryzen 1500X new when you can get a Ryzen 5 2600 for $15 more
So my PC is personally fine functionality wise, fairly up to date
i5-6600k
16GB 3000MHz
GTX 970
SSD + HDD
initially I was just looking to upgrade the GPU but almost 10 years of upgrade cycles and now-terrible cable management and it’s just in a bit of a sorry looking state.
Would it be a dumb idea to see if I can sell it on (no idea how much I could get for it, £400 maybe) and just buy a fresh PC?
Its either that or pour some man hours into it with a new case, clean it up, upgrade the GPU (and PSU) etc. Is there ever a point when you guys just say fuck it and start fresh?
I saw a facebook ad of a pc with an i7 2600, 8GB of ram and some odd quadro gpu
If i can buy it, should i go through it? Its on a MG110-W Case, id buy a 1050 Ti, SSD and maybe a new PSU cause it looks like one of the unreliable type
Has anyone ever used a NZXT G-12 Graphics card AIO Liquid cooler sleeve on their cards, and if so what was your impressions? For me, it was because my MSI RX 580 would get to 78-82C gaming and I didn't like this, plus a newer version of my Corsair H-75 cooler came out and was around $90, plus with the sleeve being $30 it roughly came to $130, which I figured was worth the try. I took the old H-75 and put it on my card with the sleeve, at first I didn't tighten it enough so it was getting way too hot, I then tightened it down to the point I nearly shit myself thinking I might break something and now, my graphics card won't go above 60C, even in lengthy gaming sessions.
https://www.nzxt.com/products/kraken-g12-white
It depends entirely of the price on that ad and how prices are where you live for other components. The 2600 is old, and without overclocking capabilities, the newer quad core chips beat it by about 25-33%.
If it'd cost about same or cheaper to grab a recent quad core CPU from either manufacturer, hell no. If that build is actually reasonably priced, sure, the 2600 is still a capable chip.
It's an old workstation PC most likely. I have like, at least 40-50 various model quadro cards floating around here in storage because they're fucking worthless after a point. You can't game on them either really.
Like seriously, if anyone needs like, 17 Quadro 570's let me know because they'll probably be thrown away when my CE goes apeshit about clearing out storage again.
$200 bucks on local currency which is CLP, to dollars its around $300 USD
Meanwhile this:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/solotodo-core/media/budget_screenshots/184394_R1tsO3z.png
costs $600, around $870 USD (i had planned for the R3 1200 instead since the 1050 ti might perform the same)
it might have been a workstation put ina fancy new case
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/365644469636169733/505474224979312654/42558930_2209039819344301_4785174363286536192_n.jpg
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/365644469636169733/505474224744562689/43565385_182267009352293_9039017562175700992_n.jpg
The CPU, RAM, motherboard and case in your list would cost you 335, and the rest you'd have to buy regardless. The difference is probably worth it to avoid the age, and quirks of the OEM board in the ad.
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