Anyway, grab some monitoring software and see what the hell your voltages are doing. Throw a load onto your CPU and see what the 3.3 and 12 volt lines do. IIRC, the line tolerance on the 12v is something like +/- .4.
Use it as an excuse (actually, legit reason) to buy new shit
The most likely outcome of investigating voltages and whatnot is you fail to find the root cause. Very hard to diagnose an intermittent issue like this, and if the defective part is your motherboard, you pretty much need a new computer anyway
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Monoprice has a 28" 4k/60 monitor on sale today for $295 shipped. It’s a TN panel and the stand sucks but I’m really tempted.
Should I do it?? Even with my new video card there’s no way I could play modern games at full res. But… so many pixels!
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1440p/144hz is way better for a desktop monitor imo. Windows’ DPI scaling is still kind of horrible so committing to that pixel density on hardware that’s prohibitively high end to not run Windows isn’t a great idea.
Also with high end monitors bottom dollar isn’t always a great idea since the input latency and color range can vary a whole hell of a lot.
Counterpoint: I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how decent Windows’ DPI scaling is and it’s been well worth it for improved font rendering; it’s very noticeable even on a 15" laptop screen.
If I was buying a desktop monitor I’d probably do what Felix says, though, unless you’re going to be 75%+ work.
Hmm yeah a 1440p free-/g-sync monitor might ultimately be a better (but more expensive) choice
I recently got a 1440/144hz monitor for FAST DOOM and it’s pretty nice. It’s contingent upon having the graphics muscle or stomach to disable settings to get there, though.
Space games benefit a lot, too – anything with lots of smoooooth movement.
I’d put the difference below most other performance options, though. It’s neat and nice but hard to quantify.
the higher DPI is way more worth it on a laptop, no argument there
Ah, I can see that – if it’s smaller to begin with you need a better source image as you might lose detail with your eyes depending on your level of nearsightedness. On a big screen, text tends to run slightly larger and you can more clearly see the blurry text. Ok, yeah, got it.
uh, looks like it might have just been a bitcoin miner keeping my gpu on a treadmill at bombpoint like carl in family matters.
a bit coin miner that came from a pirated gog version of the longest journey, of course. beware unproven uploaders bearing gifts
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What the hell. “pirated gog version”. That’s just looking for trouble.
This makes me worried about my system. Anyone know how to keep a clean box besides never go to sketchy websites and/or download EXEs and shit? I have Avira, but that’s all.
if you’re worried about miners on a Windows box just eyeball your CPU and GPU usage when the machine should be idle…
or use some weird-ass linux distro, booting from a USB-stick or SD-card that wipes everything after a reboot. I think this is what @Bug was doing?
(alternatively: do shady shit with a live distro, move acquired content onto a storage device, boot weird-ass paranoido linux distro, check acquired content for whatever threat's known
Can it get even more complex?
hell yes, use obscure file systems. regularly check md5sums of all executables, all the time, fully automated w/ cron jobs! be paranoid with encryption! regularly inspect files’ content with a hex editor. Find fancy strings like “goootttt” in those files! Do MAC-address spoofing, wipe clean all your thumbdrives after using them once, on a separate, thumbdrive wiping device only. disable all ports on your physical devices by filling them with glue. never leave a handheld device to be accessed by anybody. Why not even having a PC separated from the web, and you can only move content to it after hopping through those loops I’ve described earlier … you can have as much trouble fun as you want to!)
or … you can just use ubuntu and browse the web w/ holy trinity of ad, script, flashblockers and be sensible about on what you click … that’s served me well since switching to linux ~10 years ago. it sounds less h4ck3r pr0w355 tho.
……… or just go w/ @felix’es recommendation.
I would think they would be less trouble than a version that depends on some crack. I downloaded it again this time from a “verified” or “vip” uploader or whatever on piratebay and it’s fine now.
I had to download and use something called malwarebytes to detect it, then windows defender woke up from being passed out I guess and acted like it was on the case all long and there to save the day.
Anyway it doesn’t seem to have been causing my problems anyway, I was still getting constant crashes in games afterwards. I turned off my cpu overclocking and it seems to have quit though, which seems worrisome. It wasn’t even setup with anything crazy, I followed some step by step instructions, supposed to be some standard overclocking procedure for this cpu you could do with a stock fan and it’s got a corsair h100i on it. and it worked fine for years til now
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My Nvidia GTX 660 is starting to get a bit long in the tooth.
I thought my next big tech purchase would be a PS4, but since the Pro doesn’t come out until November I guess I can upgrade my video card in the meantime.
I haven’t been following video card development in awhile so I’m pretty lost. SB, please help.
New cards are pretty expensive. Is it worth it to go for a card in the 1000 family, or will a 900 be sufficient for current-gen games?
The nvidia website only lists the 950 as desktop card, but there are 970 and 980 listed under “notebook”? Are they weaker despite having a higher number?
Oh, and I’m going with an nVidia so please don’t suggest AMD
prices are still Not Great and they’re especially Not Great if you’re outside the US. the 6GB 1060 is probably the best buy right now if you can find it for the equivalent of 250 USD. the 1070 is not really worth it between the 1060 and 1080 (unlike last gen when the 970 was obviously the best purchase), and once you go above that you’re in “figure out how to get something through work for free because this is way too expensive otherwise” territory.
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Quickly checking it seems the cheapest 6gb I can get is ~$345 from a company called Palit, which I’ve never heard about before
Maybe I can wait a bit…
palit are a known company, i can remember seeing their gfx cards at least 15 years ago. i think they tend to make cheaper cards?
some good nvidia news recently: apparently apple is going back to using them for high-end graphics (about time) and there’s going to be a 75w 1050Ti to replace the 750Ti finally, which should come in around 290 performance levels