PC Gaming

[Tom]

Your not a dumbass - I have built many a machine and have bent pins a few times through rookie mistakes.
Mainly cleaning thermal paste and accidentally damaging some pins.

Older AMD are the worse as the pins were on the processor.

Issue was I didn't expect the AM5 mobo pins to be that horribly sensitive. It's insane. Youn literally need to be a surgeon to put those little fuckers back into place.

 

[Placebo]

I feel for you, buddy. It's usually crap like that which fucks me over e-v-e-r-y-t-i-m-e I build new rigs. It's like a curse or something. When I upgraded to my 9800X3D recently, I bent a pin on the motherboard in the process which lead to only half of my memory working. When I noticed the bent pin, I put on microscopic magnifiers and took a needle to gently put it back into its position...only to fuck up 20 more pins with the back of my hand. Fuck that. Had to get another motherboard after.

edit. This post makes me seem like a total dumbass. I'm not, I swear.

I switched from AMD to Intel not so long back and I hadn't realised that the pins were now on the mobo not the CPU as they were on the AMD, I fucked up two motherboards and lost a core on one CPU thanks to that so it's definitely not just you, and I've been building/upgrading PCs for over 20 years It's definitely not just you that's for sure!

 

[bsmaff]

Installed my 9950X3D yesterday and my 5090.
Framerates have improved a lot more than expected - Probably more to do with the 9950X3D than the 5090.

 

[Sany023]

Welp, it happened to me. At night I installed a new SSD. So I disconnected my PC to upgrade. Easy plug and play, right?
Nope, everything ran like crap, 5fps in the few games that ran, sluggish performance. Ran a bunch of tests..

- Maybe it was the power settings I was messing with a day before... nope, couldn't even remember what I changed
- maybe bios.... nope everything looked fine and updated
- maybe I moved a cable.... nope, reconnected and gpu, took out ram and put it back , could the gpu be fried?
- psu cable damaged and not giving enough power? nope, all looked ok, relatively new....
- f' it, Ill reinstall windows. wiped out C: drive and reinstalled programs / windows... Nope, still runs like crap

there I was, defeated after troubleshooting for hours.... and then, in the corner of my eye, I saw a comment "make sure your HDMI cable is plugged to your GPU and not the motherboard".....

In the words of Forrest Gump : I'm not a smart man......

The good in all this story, except of anecdotical situation itself - that, in the end, easy solution was found and nothing is wrong with any of pc electronic components.

 

[Badger Mushroom]

Silly question,.I've been putting off buying a NAS for a while and am finally ready to pull the trigger. I've currently got all my media on a Seagate external HDD, I'm assuming I can shuck these and put them into the NAS?

1. Current plan, buy a Synology DS423+ and 2 x 6tb NAS drives
2. Copy all the media over (around 5Tb).onto the NAS, then shuck the 2 external HDDs (1 is 6tb, I is 7tb and the current backup) I have and put them in the NAS
3. Format the 2 shucked drives and set them up as raid 1

Is that possible, or have I missed something? Current HDDs are Seagate so was just going to get the same brand but NAS versions. Thanks in advance

 

[Carles P.]

Monitor + first parts of a sim rig and mouse & keyboard should delivered to me next week.

God damn such an expansive hobby...

 

[Carles P.]

Nvidia you are no more the same...
With my new PC with an RTX 5080 and up to date & last driver I have sometimes just for a second blackscreens. No matter what I do.

I don't want to change to AMD full.

Plus I scared about the Power cable if it would burn or smelting.
But I ordered this new PC in the mid of february at a time were there aren't any informations about this crap.

 

[bsmaff]

Nvidia you are no more the same...
With my new PC with an RTX 5080 and up to date & last driver I have sometimes just for a second blackscreens. No matter what I do.

I don't want to change to AMD full.

Plus I scared about the Power cable if it would burn or smelting.
But I ordered this new PC in the mid of february at a time were there aren't any informations about this crap.

If you have two monitors - Set the 2nd monitor to 60Hz this fixes the issue.
I have it with the current Nvidia drivers with my 5090.

 

[Carles P.]

If you have two monitors - Set the 2nd monitor to 60Hz this fixes the issue.
I have it with the current Nvidia drivers with my 5090.

Thanks mate for your help. But no, just one monitor 4k 144hz

 

[VierGraustufen]

Nvidia you are no more the same...
With my new PC with an RTX 5080 and up to date & last driver I have sometimes just for a second blackscreens. No matter what I do.

I don't want to change to AMD full.

Plus I scared about the Power cable if it would burn or smelting.
But I ordered this new PC in the mid of february at a time were there aren't any informations about this crap.

I hate technical problems and give support. But because this error is often not known to the masses and you can rule it out. (It's not a joke!)

There is a strange error. If your gaming chair is a modern one and you sit down or stand up that for a very short time this has a bad influence on your HDMI cable and causes this short dropout (black screen).

This has nothing to do with an electrical fault of the hardware or a bad electrical (electricity that conducts) but really from the chair.
The gas or where the chair gently lowers when you sit down or stand up.

It is best to test it with a kitchen chair, not a gamer or office chair.

Sorry for the poor explanation as I am Swiss (swissgerman speaker) and lack a feel for the language and the translator is my friend.

 

[Tom]

As a proud owner of the infamous Ikea Markus chair I can confirm the above. I even invented a special technique when getting up to stop black screens caused by electric discharge from happening. It probably looks like some weird sort of tribal dance but it does the job