Are you overclocking/overvolting the cpu?
What's your case?

Thank you for such detailed explanation, but I don't fully understand it :) By reducing the power limit, I reduced maxiumum voltage, so frequency the card is able to reach? So I reduced maximum fps my card can provide. Is it right? Somewhere during the gpu chip's test, or the gfx card's test, or bo...

A couple of things to consider. 1) Power curve: - Power consumption is proportional to voltage ^2 x frequency. - CPUs and GPUs follow a programmed stepping: want freq x? Set the voltage to y. This happens on a dynamic basis as the workload changes. - Card mfgrs may opt to tune the cards to always me...

Also, be aware that Intel changes the CPU package thickness every few years. Sometimes requiring a really thin plastic spacer so you can't over tighten and crack it. Just be careful and you should be ok.

Bitcoin mining is a great way to heat up your PC, make it much louder, use MUCH more electricity and add to global warming (electrical plant CO2 emissions) all in one go.

No problem. BTW, (if you aren't already familiar with them) Rtings.com is pretty decent for quality and feature comparisons. You can add Multiple Input Display and # of USB-C, etc to the column listings.

Oh, there is one minefield you'd have to transverse with a TV: HDR without a Displayport input. I went though this 2 years ago, so here's the gist of it as I remember. - If the TV has HDMI 2.1 (rare on lower sized, lower priced TVs), and you have HDMI 2.1 on your PCs, you're set. - If the TV has HDM...

Does anyone else have any knowledge of KVM monitors? Nope. :) Have you considered getting a 40" class TV to use as a monitor instead? Downside is having to switch the TV input and also a KVM for the mouse and keyboard. Upsides are potential for lower cost and similar or better display quality and l...

My bad - I meant to say:

The Asus motherboard can control 5 fans. All are 4-pin PWM type.

The caffeine hadn't kicked in, yet.

Welcome back. My PC updates have certainly slowed down as my computing needs have nearly plateaued...it's just the occasional gfx card update for gaming..and moving to a 42" 2160p TV for a monitor. I don't think I could stand having a laptop for my primary display..or deal with it's noise. Congrats ...

A couple of additional points.. Noctua is awesome when it comes to keeping their coolers compatible with current CPUs. If the shop's cooler is of older stock and doesn't have the AM4 mount, they can contact Noctua and Noctua will send the AM4 mount free of charge. PWM = Pulse Width Modulation, where...

You can use Nvidia's driver manual lookup tool to see if a gfx card is supported by a recent Windows driver. Good news is the old GT 710 is supported, will support Direct X 12 and uses less power than your 6670. The bad news is it's 3D performance is less than the 6670. Here's a comparison tool . Wh...

I might sound like a skipping record..but you could always just replace the dying HDD for now and then gather the components you want at your leisure. There are a lot of moving parts with uncertain availability and outrageous pricing at the moment. I can't imagine your PC shop would take long or cha...

If your current system is Win 10 and your current s/w works with the gfx card, then all you have to do is remember to load the legacy driver with the new install. If your current system is Win 7 or 8 and you plan to update to Win 10 with the legacy driver, that's when the s/w app uncertainty might c...

Note his test system has a noise floor of 30dB. So, we really don't know what is happening noise-wise below 120W CPU load.

Your 6670 is a PCIe 2.0 x 16 based card. Hardware-wise, it should be compatible with any of your mobo's PCIe x16 slots as PCIe is backward compatible. The bigger problem is whether or not AMD's drivers will support the card under Windows 10. AMD stopped active support for the card. You can use it, b...

Spinning down the unused drives: I'm hoping Windows + all your apps + your working data will be on the SSD with all of the HDDs used for longer term storage. In any case, you can set the HDDs to spin down when not needed by going into: Windows Settings/Power and Sleep/Additional power settings/chang...

Or, if the shop owner can't get the cooler and fans you want, ask him if you can bring your own for him to install. I didn't see any Portugal online store availability via pcpartpicker, but Amazon.es has the Fuma 2.

My top 3 picks for SSDs are Intel, Samsung and Crucial, i own from the three brands for a decade and none have gone bad, i still use my Sata II Intel X25m. Crucial MX500 500gb has been around for a more than 3 years now, their firmware is very mature and proven in the market. I do think that 500gb ...

Or, build a system around an R5 3600 and then when higher core 5xxx parts become more available and at std pricing, upgrade and sell the 3600 on ebay. The R5 3600 will run circles around your Core 2 Duo 8400 :) The R5's CPU mark score is about 15x that of the e8400. Or, get a Ryzen 3 3200G now and r...

Welcome back. I'm not really sure when component prices and availability will get back to normal. Could be 3-6 months. Could be longer, depending on the fab backlogs. Rather than trying to build based on what's available right now, what about sending the PC to the shop and getting your drive replace...

Science experiments are always fun. A couple of comments: - passive convective cooling (hot air rises) gets overpowered by a slight amount of airflow through a case. Then, it's hot air goes in the direction of airflow. - I can't point to specific models, but I'm pretty sure many current mobos have f...

Just curious - what gpu are you looking at?

Also, remember that PWM fan header is expecting sensor feedback from only 1 fan. So, if your splitter isn't a specific PWM one where one side acts as the master and the other is the slave, then you'd need to clip off the sensor pin on one of the fans or the splitter sides.

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I always look at worse possible scenarios (most CPU demanding games, unoptimized, taxing all GPUs games), because these exceptions show standard of near future. And this near future is one, two years.

If that were true, we'd all be building to meet the demands of Star Citizen.

Gaming CPU needs really aren't that dire. For most, there's an insignificant difference in fps and frame times between an R5/i5 and an R7/i7. There is a significant difference in price though. If the OP isn't going to play any CPU-crazy intensive games, there's no need for more than the i5/R5. Also ...

Welcome to SPCR. Most of your tasks don't require much cpu horsepower at all (unless the DAW work is using lots of channels, audio doesn't use much). Video editing can and will use as much CPU as you can throw at it. For $500, you are looking at maybe an Intel i3 based solution. Asus has some mini P...

Welcome to SPCR. AMD Ryzen 5 5600X: It's going to be a while before AMD builds up enough inventory to cause prices to get back to MSRP level...maybe March to June. If AMD releases the non-X version, you might consider that. I'd expect a slight clock rate drop (100-200Mhz?), but it'll use less power ...

PSU: 5% efficiency bump = 5 to 10W less heat. I like it. Cost savings <shrug>. Better design, better fan profile.

Overall, with the current parts shortages and price inflation, it's a sad time to build a PC. Probably won't improve until March - June time frame.

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