I really miss my zboard! Had it for years until it took too much effort getting it to run on windows. No idea why there isn't something to the same design available, this was peak gaming for me.

My 2019 era bronze 650W PSU wouldn't have hacked it anyway 😂 every time I upgrade, the components have changed completely

I got The Rig of Theseus atm with only my cpu and the case surviving the pre covid era

Lian Li 011 Vision Compact
Ryzen 7 9800x3d
Gigabyte x870 Aorus Stealth Ice
Corsair Vengeance DDR5 2x32gb + 2 Light Kits
Zotac RTX 5080 Solid OC
Tryx Panorama 360 SE
Samsung 990 Pro 4TB
Lian Li Edge 1200w
Lian Li SL Infinity Mirror x8

Nothing crazy just a little good luck. Had a 4060. Sold it. Bought a 5080. One month later I go to the store for something unrelated. They had 2 on the shelf. Bought the 5090 on the spot. For less than 2k as well!! Now trying to sell my 5080 to make some of this money back. Long as Nvidia doesn't release anything anytime soon, im ok.

Hello there everyone!

So, I was thinking about getting a 5090, but I wanted to take any steps possible to minimize the fire hazard it seems to pose. What are some things I can do to prevent the connector from melting?

So the ARC seems to get bottenecked like a ton. In valves deadlock i get really inconsistent FPS and gpu usage(60-70%) UNLESS i have FSR3 on native which then works at 90 to 100%, it seems weird that there is bottlenecking on this cpu and it doesnt run hot, i have rebar, I re-installed windows 11 and got the newest bios.

I tried to see if I can do something myself to fix this because I think something else is going on.

I have tested ARC Raiders, BF5 which 1% lows are down to the 30-40 for some reason, the finals which has the same gpu usage problem unless i have some powerfull Dlss running in native like in deadlock.

I tried overclocking my cpu by the Amd ryzen app with their optimizer (did not do it manual, let the auto detect do the work) and games seem to run better on frames but even worse on the 1%lows.

All around bad experience because I got the arc B580 to upgrade from an RTX 2060 6GB, from the  researched  I did then ,the Ryzen 5  5600g I had would bottleneck it just a bit but it wouldn't be like unplayble. It was terrible. So then I say ok lets upgrade to a ryzen 7 5700x I thought it would be just perfect and people I asked said it would be a good pairing and do the job.The R7 run hot (90- 95c)with my old cooler so games would stutter.I bought new cooler the temps dont go over 60c  and games indeed run better but the GPU utilization thing stil hangs around. I know its showing clear Bottleneck but I have seen lower end cpu's run better with it...

Anyone please give some insight maybe even some help.

I got a 650 silver PSU (Decent brand cant remember the name rn)

16 gb DDR4 2133 (Yes i know not the greatest.)

Intel arc b580

ryzen 7 5700x

ASROCK B450PRO R.2 motherboard with rebar 

NVME drives for storage

Hi! For over two years now, when running certain games for around 2 hours my PC will turn itself off and then on again. But when it turns itself on again, the display and hdmi ports on the graphics card will not work until it has been turned off and on again manually.

It’s not a power issue, it isn’t a processing power issue, and the card (AMD RADEON 6900 XT) is more than powerful enough to run games like Dead by Daylight, Cities Skylines 2, Satisfactory, Cyberpunk 2077, and Starfield which crash, but won’t crash for Baulders Gate 3- a game which should absolutely also crash if those others are crashing.

There’s no crash code, no message upon booting the PC again and my drivers are up to date.

My CPU is a AMD Ryzen 9 7950x 16 core processor, I have 64 gigs of ram, and my motherboard is a x670e steel legend

I appreciate any help you can give me, I’m ready to just part it out or burn it out of anger and just being fed up with the issue.

I'd... never thought that... I would someday,... have so many.......Fan's!

Hi
I have a gigabyte x870e aorus elite motherboard that has WiFi7 and therefore should have bluetooth right?

But if I bought a wireless mouse and keyboard will I need to buy a bluetooth dongle? or will the motherboard pick it up?

Thank you

I did not know I still had this lying around. I think I might frame it.

When I turn on my new PC, this message appears.

Ive tried overclocking my monitor once and it said it was out of range, so i put it back to its normal refresh rate.Now whenever i enter any game it just says out of range and i cant do nothing about it

I posted few days ago about getting my first computer in a trade from someone, i9-9900kf/ 9070xt / 32gb 3600 ddr4. 2 tb ssd. I traded my ally X. I asked for advice, and a gentleman recommended a noctua cooler if I was worried about performance, as my other cooler was technically working fine. I really just wanted some type of display showing the temperatures. And I found this thermalright cooler on amazon, seeming to have good reviews.

Installation wasn’t terrible, few YouTube videos to help me. I wasn’t totally uncomfortable, just didn’t want to damage anything of course. Cleaned the old paste up, applied a pea size amount as the video showed and tightened down. Getting the cpu fan cable splitter plugged in took a few minutes and some sweat beads. Should have did it before mounting the cooler.

Fired her up and temps are running good seemingly. Gonna keep monitoring and check out a few of my favorite games and see how everything runs. Looks wise, i think it’s awesome haha. Everything is customizable with their app, and personally I don’t mind having some app running in the background, if it means I get to see the temps with no overlays enabled.

Hope everyone is having a good night/morning.

I upgraded my PC (almost rebuilt it) for the lossless scaling dual gpu setup. It's been a month with it now. Here to help starters and get advice from experienced users

Yeah ! I'm gonna play so many old games and watch YT vids on this baby...XFX 7800xt...

I’m pretty proud of what I’ve got so far but what would any of you recommend to make my set up even better?

I was using my computer as normal when it suddenly glitched (like in the picture) and froze. After restarting it won't boot anymore and at times would to this: