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Arc A770. I'm into 8-9 months now running dual screens - ultrawide 1440 @100hz plus 1080 @60hz. Used daily, gaming, web browsing, light video editing and general usage. For about the past 6 months i've had zero issues, nada, everything is great. Admittedly I don't play Starfield and I know...

I tried that, the efficiency of the fans is severely impacted when in contact with the bottom of the case, and that's without the filter. They need to run faster to maintain the same temps and the noise is much worse. It's like the stack effect cooling these fans were built for just doesn't...

It's now been a couple of months since I experienced any issues related to performance or general functionality, every game and application I use works fine, I'm extremely happy and it has proved to be a good upgrade from the 1660S for my particular needs. The only problem I have is the Acer...

Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. I decided on two in the end. Model O - Because cheap and seems like it might be an excellent mouse primarily for gaming Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 1000 - Because I found a boxed 2008 example for a great price, and it looks much more like the no...

The mouses I've been using for during the past few years were all great, priced around £50-£85, so not top of the range but certainly not cheap and clearly built to be excellent for a very specific and limited period of time, usually a year or two. This time I'd really like to buy a mouse that...

Thank you for the reply! Just MSI Game boost OC, I thought about under volting but have no experience with doing that. To be honest I'm just happy with the performance as it is, and like you say as long as the temps remain where they are there's little to fear, so why tinker further? Credit...

Hope you don't mind me adding to the thread, rather than start a new one I have some related 5700X OC questions. Currently I'm just running the standard MSI Game boost OC settings on mine, I notice that wattage to the package often exceeds 120w and the Core 100w+. I get good clocks (4.9) and...

I got 5.4GHz out of my 5700x today...

They have targeted specific games (popular and newer titles) as well as trying to backfill compatibility issues with older API's like DX11 and earlier. It's absolutely down to them being new to the scene, where Nvidia and AMD can base new drivers on foundations decades in the making, Intel is...

I don't have Stalker, but I'll run RDR2 and let you know how it performs. True, but for some reason I cannot get BeamNG to run with Vulcan, the card smashes the game with Ultra presets in defaullt mode.

It's very much geared up to tackle the latest software, although they have done a lot of work with the drivers increasing compatibility with older games. If I get time I'll try a few older titles over the weekend and report back. If you can list some games you're particularly interested in I'll...

I miss Windows 7 so much bro's.

Just to reiterate, there has been another driver update (4887) which adds significant improvements to Starfield and other titles. It's now been more than 3 weeks since I experienced a crash, that includes playing various games, video recording, editing and rendering, general web browsing and...

Late, but still a fascinating entry, bodes well for the future, 580 is already proving itself as a serious contender at that price point. The progress made with drivers so far is impressive, at the very least they are showing that they are fully committed to competing in the market. Arc is a...

Since the last driver update (4885) I've had no issues, and with Starfield devs finally giving Arc some love in the last patch I'm even able to play that game crash free.

Am I alone in preferring the aesthetic of these simple box design shrouds? Modern GPU's look so tacky and try hard, in the way early 2000's gamer PC cases did. I guess that's what the market desires, but for me clean simplicity of design wins.

Added 1660S and slashed PSU price bump

Added Z87 combo bump.

Second vote for the A770 16GB Been using mine for a couple of weeks now and the only issues I've experienced are intermittent crashes with Starfield, every other game and application it runs perfectly, a proper budget option with impressive bang for buck performance.

4790K is a great CPU and they go for decent bucks, so you may need to wait a while to get one of those donated. There are a couple of alternatives going cheap on fleabay if you're in the UK... i5 4690 i7-4770K

I tried it today, it works!

Can't find the article, it was related to TPMs inside of the CPU and remote attestation. For example a website could refuse to allow you to access it unless you can cryptographically prove certain things about your hardware/software configuration, and since this is generated internally on the...

Z87 COMBO (Sorry not splitting) Asus ROG Maximus VI Gene LGA1150 motherboard i7-4790K + original box G.Skill Trident X 16 GB (2 x 8) DDR3-2400 RAM Perfect working order, CPU less than 4 years of use. £80 shipped Zotac GTX 1660 Super Perfect working order, well looked after, taken from...

I believe that VPN's are soon to be made obsolete thanks to backdoors built into modern hardware that give each machine a unique ID. I'm not an expert on this but I did read an article a while ago that mentioned this. The implications are profound and suggest that no matter how many superficial...

Sometimes it seems like bios settings are overriding FC settings, can I do something in the bios to prevent that? The CPU cooler fans seem to have a life of their own, often spinning at max RPM despite the CPU being nowhere near the danger zone, and once there they stay at full throttle for...

Tweaked the curves and ran Cinebench. Decent score, good thermals and very quiet fan profile.

edit - Fan Control is amazing! I just sent a small donation to the creator. I had no idea it could be this easy to manage the fans, it's surprising to me that a tool like this doesn't come preinstalled with every OS. I just set up a simple profile and ran a 3D Mark CPU test... Except for a...

Next level! I have fan control but haven't yet had a chance to play with it. I'd like to look at getting some kind of tool for measuring noise levels too, I don't have a smart phone and don't want to spend a fortune, but the idea of getting it as quiet as possible does appeal, but I need a way...

Ryzen 7 5700X @4.7GHz Intel Arc A770 16 GB 48 GB 3200 RAM MSI B550 Tomahawk Silverstone FT02 case Noctua NH-D15 Seasonic Fanless 520w PSU *Whispers* This is the first time I've been able to directly control fan speeds, my previous Z87 set up didn't give me that option, which meant I had the...

Have you tried the arc Control fan tool?

Nice touch with the card logo becoming redder the hotter it gets, I have the Acer Predator, be interesting to see how they compare on clocks and temps.

More games to add to the problem free list... Football Manager 2023 - More CPU intensive game but it plays with graphics maxed out no issues. Total War: Rome Remastered - Everything maxed out including 'experimental' Huge units, no issues after several hours FPS between 60 and 80 in big...

Plug your connector into the wrong hole and they blow a fuse!

Still on my starter ship.

48gb - 2 x 16 and 2 x 8. I bought the motherboard, CPU and RAM as a combo from a lad at work, I was dubious about it but it runs fine.

The beating heart of the system, PSU's rarely get any praise or attention. I salute your battle worn stalwart.

Surely if there are no reliability or performance issues it's fine to let it soldier on, especially if you have it operating well within its limitations. Keeping it clean and well maintained is the key, there's no reason why it won't give you at least another couple of years, the Corsair RM650...

Iit can run for up to around an hour without issue, combat, in the city, spaceflight, various menus etc, and then it'll just crash to desktop out of the blue, usually when transitioning from one game type to another or in and out of menus. My current last save won't even let me load in, it...

I disabled vsync and it still happened.

Been about a week with the A770 and I am pretty pleased. Crashing in Starfield is a definite problem, it seems to happen when transitioning between the game and the screen where you access map/inventory etc, it can be mitigated by regular quick saves but personally I'm going to wait for further...