i replaced my 8 year old pc thermal paste & switched on my Antec 900 jet turbines
cpu temps under load dropped by 30C (even when OC'd)
I need to do this asap, I have been meaning to do this for a couple of years.
>have to periodically take apart your PC to clean it and reapply expensive lubes so you don't catch your house on fire
>you pay extra for this privilege
Truly the masterrace of gaming.
You don't understand heat, I think my motherboard came to me dead because of the heat from sitting in the shipping truck.
>Just built my computer 2 months ago
>1080 came out
Got myself a 390 which will last me a few years with my 1440 monitor but I always fucking hate when that happens.
>>342693609
>You have to do basic maintenance very sparsely
>Bad thing
I bet you don't even change your own oil.
>>342693609
>thermal paste is expensive
Is it fun to post about things you know nothing about?
>>342692796
I've had my PC for about six years now, only opened it up once to switch to a new gfx card (had a Crossfire card and it was complete rubbish).
Watercooling has kept it at great temperatures all that time, the CPU has been overclocked for all that time as well. A duckload of fans keep the rest in check, never cleaned any of it.
Never had any heat issues or anything.
>>342693609
It's easy maintenance and well worth it. You don't start wearing diapers because going to the bathroom is a chore, do you?
>>342693609
Do you not think consoles are the same?
>>342693965
>never cleaned any of it.
Don't be a fucking faggot and clean that shit.
What is the best program to look at temp while playing games. Just want to know everything is working is it should.
>>342693609
(You)
You earned it, pal.
I have a 100GB SSD to run Windows 7 on. Over the past year, it magically went from 40GB used, to being full. I will be spending the weekend trying to figure wtf happened to that space.
>>342694081
msi afterburner
>>342694081
I don't know if there are any, but you can leave whatever you use now running in the background and alt+tab out to check periodically. It's what I did a few months ago when I was troubleshooting a problem my PC was having.
>>342694081
MSI afterburner
It will tell you everything about your system, and allow you to overclock your gpu
>>342693746
>living in a literal hellhole
Well, at least it's not Death Valley
>>342694175
Windirstat to see what's on it
Make sure TRIM is on and you aren't keeping a bunch of temorary junk files
>>342694175
Tranny porn
You know I've been starting to think that maybe my computer is running so hot because it doesn't have proper airflow. I have a hand me down case that had all the drives ripped out when I got it so there's just this gaping hole in the front. Is there any place online that sells just the covers for those slots or do I just get 3 of the least expensive CD drives I can find?
>>342693746
that's what you get for building cities in the desert genius
>>342694423
Just get a new case, you can get decent ones for like $30
>>342693791
Only buy when something is released or a price drop. 1080 has been rumored for a while. No one to blame but yourself.
>>342694472
It's not my fault I was born here. It's my home now and I don't want to move somewhere else, I've tried living in colder climates.
What do you anons play during the summer hole?
I also need to clear out the dust and replace the fans on my rig, but
>traveling
>whip out the old ass toaster laptop
>check the temp out of curiosity
>it has been running like this for years before I became a bit less retarded and built a PC
How
>>342694398
>TRIM
Wait, what? I am not familiar with this.
>>342694756
Fuck I love speccy - everytime I see one of its little stat screenshots I boner
>>342694890
http://www.buildcomputers.net/trim-support.html
>>342694756
believe it or not an i7-920 can operate at 120C. if you play games at 95C and above expect stuttering tho. op here.
>liquid cooled
>live in basement in a house with central air
Sometimes gets cold enough down there that I have to put on a hoodie
>>342694962
Oh, yes. It is activated. Windirstat is showing a huge portion of the SSD is "unkown" so I'll have to run some disk checks. Fuck
>>342695437
Make sure your pagefile isn't on there, put it on a general hdd, no reason to have it on an ssd
>>342695628
ahh the pagefile meme. I disabled that
12gb ram here
Just got a 1080 - runs smooth and cold as ice. Now looking for price drops in 1440p monitors
I'm building my own custom room fan with copper piping and a pump hooked up to a cooler filled with ice water and letting that shit cool me down. Seems far more energy efficient and effective than a window AC unit which I can't even run anyway since I don't have normal sliding windows.
>>342696035
you fell real hard for a meme. google rx480 fool
>>342693609
>8 years
>periodically
Is possible to run the witcher 3 on a toaster with a GT 440 + g1820?
I found a video of a guy playing on youtube, but it doesn't seem believable.
>>342696271
>>342696271
>Is possible to run the witcher 3 on a toaster with a GT 440 + g1820?
Is it*
>>342696127
No thanks. 1080 should last me longer
cpu 40-42%
gpu 50%
mobo 40%
HDD 41%
but it's hot as fuck right now where I live
normally/chill:
cpu 32-35%
gpu 45%
mobo 40%
HDD 28%
>inb4 SSD meme
:^)
>>342693989
Of course not.
That's what piss bottles are for.
>>342696480
you know nothing about gfx cards. Nvidia decides how long your meme lasts. All it takes is for them to release shit drivers . the 9 series will all end together when Nvidia decides to release shit drivers for it. same shit happened to 6 series....your foolishness knows no limits. you paid 3 times as much as a rx480 for 9fps more. you probably dont even have a 4k screen. (who the fuck does?)
>recently bought a few new parts and haphazardly slapped them into my rig
>temps skyrocket to >45C when idling across the board
>freak out
>waste a whole day looking up cooling solutions until I realized the gpu fan was hard set to 5% rather than auto
>>342696127
1080 outperforms rx 480 by around 80%
>>342694175
win7 is using up 40% of it by itself
>>342696920
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hH8jb_510w
I got bad news for you anon
>>342695730
You want the pagefile enabled on a hdd, otherwise you'll cause a huge amount of unnecessary wear and tear on your ssd.
>>342696967
i dont fall for memes like that
look at this fool with a 100gb SSD
>>342694175
Install sizes of Doom alone is 44gb. gta5 is 50gb+
>>342695628
Thanks for the advice!
>>342696967
literally nothing he'll notice unless he uses the same drive for over a decade, possibly two or three decades
You're like 6 years behind on SSD reliability and endurance bro, try to keep up
I was going to install water cooling and a new gpu but I'm too autistic to get a job to afford it.
So I built my first rig last September but haven't opened it up yet to clean from dust or change thermopaste
When's the best time to do it?
I'm also afraid of screwing something up because my hands grow out of my arse, should I just ask a professional technician to do that for me?
>>342696480
>believing the future proofing meme
Ask anyone who spent $600 on a GPU 2-3 years ago how future proof that was.
The only way to futureproof is to buy midrange and upgrade more regularly.
>>342692796
>preparing for summer gaming
all my case fans are controlled and rev up and down as needed. my cpu has yet to go over 55c and my 970 has yet to break 70c in the year and a half i've had them.
only thing i do for summer is check filters more often.
>>342697220
op here. remove side paned and get a hairdryer and blast it on each part. dont worry about heat (its nothing really)
change paste only when temps start getting crazy under load
>>342693609
Anything worth having requires maintenance.
>>342694906
Here you go, my aroused friend.
>>342697340
Thanks, bud.
Is 80 degrees C considered crazy when I'm playing The Bitcher 3 maxed out?
I think my CPU bottlenecks my GPU
i54690k 3.9 GHz here with memecard
>>342696920
actual benchmarks put it at about 60-65% more power. for 3 times the price.
>>342696959
Just wait for a few days and it'll be confirmed. The majority of the leaked 3dmark benches show 1080 about 80% ahead. Even AMD's own AotS benchmark showed 2 480s only slightly outperform a single 1080. Considering the CF scaling in that thing is around 80%, that puts 1080 roughly 70% ahead.
I can't imagine the disappointment of amd drones when they realize that 480 is not even close to being competitive with a 1070, let alone a 1080. Half of them truly expect an overclocked 480 to be on par with a 1070.
>>342697220
you dont need to change the tim, it will last for years.
just open your case up and blow it out with a compressor on medium low psi. clean your filters (if you have any, which you should) and then wipe down the outside with a dry cloth. if you want tape a piece of paper over your un used case ports (usb, mic, etc.) to keep those dust free or you can buy some rubber caps.
>>342697438
Thanks but now I have no clean pants for work tomorrow!
>>342697498
>80 degrees C considered crazy
for a cpu, yes.
for a gpu, not really especially if its oc'ed
>>342696967
I've had this Kingston 3k for about 3 years as OS drive and with a full Battlefield 3 install for the time I played that. Still shows good health in defraggle.
>>342695628
>>342695730
that meme is dead, ssds will become obsolete before they die senpai
fast pagefile = best pagefile
>>342697761
You have a lot of space, you fucking retard.
>>342696967
This is fucking retarded advice. Page file is completely useless on an HDD. They're not equipped to deal with the disk operations that page file requires (lots of random reads /writes). Because the access times are a thousand times faster on SSDs, you want to keep your page file there.
Write endurance shit is complete FUD, and has always been for consumer usage.
>>342697594
the customers have spoken. card developers got the message that the general price of gfx cards is outrageous. also thats what happens when a niche hobby goes viral
in my mind NO gfx card on earth should cost more than a console. max price should be $300.
otherwise just buy a ps4. now thanks to Denuvo PC is obsolete
of course you can get ANY Denuvo games bypass against a 2-$5 fee....but normies dont know about that
>>342696959
Oh man, you're going to be let down so bad
>>342697761
>Spanish shitter
>>342697570
>actual benchmarks
None exist, twat
>>342697061
>>342696967
So SSD is truly a meme?
Glad I didn't fell for it
>>342694175
>start button
>type in %temp%
>delete everything
>skip in use files
That's probably your issue.
>>342697834
Page file is in there and a full BF3 installation is like 50GB so it was pretty much full for a year and a half or so.
I had BF4 in there for a while which is also about 50GB until they added a timer for the HDD shitters to load into the game.
>>342697987
>worthless sizes
>overpriced just for being new (tech is actually cheaper to make)
>no games need that fast hdd speed
booting windows will be faster....but to get that you could always install Baidu Pc Faster and keep it on to monitor startup programs and unnecessary cache / temp files
>>342696672
Get back to me when the majority of game visual bugs don't correspond with ATi hardware and drivers.
Nobody optimizes around the minority marketshare unless they're paid off anyway.
The only time ATi was ever relevant was during the R300 era. Those cards are the sole reason they have any sort of reputation today.
>>342697856
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/graphics/40947-geforce-gtx-1080-sold-out-selling-excellent
>>342697594
Actual game benchmarks showed up on youtube. RX 480 is between 390x and Fury. If you check out other benchmarks that makes the difference between a 480 and a 1070 only 30% and about 60% to the 1080.
>>342697907
http://wccftech.com/amd-rx-480-gaming-benchmarks-leaked/
keep up with the news
>>342698182
your problem is that now the only gfx cards that will sell will be rx480.
only the most Blacked of cuckolds will buy any other card now
it just makes no sense. especially since no one has a 4k display
>>342698371
>no one
>>342693965
>watercooling
>never maintaining or cleaning
>>342698371
1440/144 monitors also exist if they're not going for 4k
>>342694305
get afterburner newfag
>>342697438
is that a broken sensor or do you need a fire extinguisher?
>>342698783
1440 is a painful middle child. You can DSR higher resolutions on a 1080 monitor with perfect scaling but going lower or higher on a 1440 looks like shit. and 4K is too hard to run 60+ right now
>>342698324
Quickly checked, didn't see a comparison to other cards in the videos. Making comparisons to benchmarks from other sources when the rest of the hardware, settings, part of the game you're testing, etc probably are different is stupid as hell. Wait a few days and you'll see RX 480 at 100%, and 1080 at roughly 170-175% on the TPU relative chart
>>342698245
>Nvidia makes 15,000x 1080's
>This isn't enough to meet demand, shortages all over the place
>Scalpers buy up as many of the 1080's as they can and then markup the price 1.5x-4x for a profit
>No new stock coming in for at least another month
>Nvidiabots gloat that the 1080 is selling out and selling excellently
>They can't even buy it
>AMD releases 480
>2x 480's in crossfire score better than a single 1080 while running cooler and quieter and at less than half the MSRP, and 1/4th to 1/8th compared to actual market prices
>Single 480 is 10% the price of a 1080 on the market with 60-70% of the performance
>Can easily overclock to 80-90% of the performance
>This is just AMD's mid-range card, and it's almost matching Nvidia's high-end card with launch-drivers
>The manufacturing process has very high yields so it's not going to be out of supply at launch
>aftermarket cards already in good stock
>all future games both on console and PC are being developed with dx12/vulkan API's in mind, which AMD developed and which their cards excel at, and Nvidia's don't
>nvidiots think AMD is the one being BTFO
>>342698967
Holy fucking shit you are retarded. Go learn how downsampling works
>>342699028
Oh man wtf is this bait
>>342699028
As someone who had SLI and CF builds fuck that shit, just not worth the annoyance.
Only someone who wants 4k 60fps should have to deal with that bullshit.
>>342693609
i know how hard you were laughing while writing this
what are we doign with our lives
>>342699028
>The manufacturing process has very high yields so it's not going to be out of supply at launch
Anon.. I know you're baiting but do you lack common sense and logic or what? of course AMD will have better yields, their chipset is a cutdown version while Nvidia's is bigger 20SM out of 60SM.
>inb4 some strawman arguments about performance
The 480 is placed to be around GTX980/390X performance while the 1080 is the strongest single GPU in the world.
>>342700290
>1080 is the strongest single GPU in the world.
Yeah, it's 1.4x the performance of a 480 for only $1999
You're not a poorfag are you?
Buy nvidia
>>342700427
Anon.. no matter how much you whine the 1080 is still the strongest single GPU in the world.
>>342700427
>it's expensive
>therefore it's shit and not strong at all
Upgraded i5 3570k to i7 3770k. Changed ram from 8gb 1333Mhz to 16gb 2133Mhz.
Most likely gonna upgrade gtx 970 to 1070.
Feels gud
>>342700470
>>342700680
what are you talking about, I'm shilling nvidia my fellow nvidia shills : )
>>342700743
Why are AMDdrones so insufferable?
>>342698765
>dust is 90% human dead skin
>>342692796
play less vidya
is there anything more frightening than a CPU upgrade?
>the crunching noise means it's working
>>342701213
i crunch the pins with a hammer before installation (just to make sure)
>>342692796
A and C
Oh cool it's the technological ignorance thread.
>>342693746
we get these temps in Russia of all places, imagine that
-25C winter
+35-40C summer
So, how is 3200mghz+ DDR4 for gaming?
I see new corsair units go for $200 for 32gb, it's decent enough price. Worth it or just get normal 2400?
>>342701213
do new cpu's even do the wierd pin things now? the cpus I've had were just flat
>>342702061
AMD has pins dummy.
>Finally scrape up enough money for a 970
>Realise I'll also have to get a new PSU
Looks like I'll be living in mom's basement for a bit longer.
who 390 master race here
>>342702414
Were you also surprised to discover how good it is?
>>342702360
How do I know if I need a new PSU?
>>342701213
>is there anything more frightening than a CPU upgrade?
no. cpu installs have been idiot proof since the advent of the zif socket.
>>342702721
Google is your friend.
>there are obsessive compulsive disorder autists who change their processor thermal paste weekly
>>342692796
My PC is doing fine
I am not tho
