Recent content by Rodney Heatsink

I had to do the "reset windows" option that thankfully is in W 10. I took a while and I had to reinstall a load of stuff, but it fixed whatever was wrong. I highly doubt it's anything hardware related. I just played Rise of the Tomb Raider for a half hour and GPU temps are low, or do not exceed...

Thanks for the replies, I bought this Dell "refurbished" from New Egg and it's barely a year old. The GPU is only a year old with 98% of it's time just serving as a media server/web surfing. It runs cool and has never given trouble new, this issue has only happened when I started my machine...

I have a Dell T3500 with a GTX 750ti. The last two days after starting my PC cold, just as Windows 10 boots the screen flickers, lines appear, it lags, unusable because everything is distorted, only choice is to re start. It's like what I have heard described as what a failing video card "looks"...

I don't use Speedfan anymore it just crashes too much. I googled and found a rather complicated fix that was too much to even read tbh. My AMD rig is my gaming rig at present and this T3500 just does everything else.Torrents,streaming, I'm currently playing Infestation : NewZ and Witcher III...

"which was 90$ on ebay" Right now the cheapest used option for an X5690 is $128.00 on ebay, that's the 6c/12t option, whereas the X5687 is about $50 bucks now. I'll probably grab one at some point for the Hell of it. Regarding Dell T3500 Precisions and the older/lower TDP rated heatsink that's...

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the knowledge and feedback.

Ok thanks, but fill me in on what you said about the swap file. *should* it go somewhere else? I hear the constant rewriting that windows does is not good on an ssd. If this is something I should do, I would like to know. I certainly intend to write as little to it as possible, forgive my lack...

I just got a SanDisk 3DNand 240gig SSD, it has a fresh install of Windows 7. Meanwhile on my other PC I upgraded to Windows 10 and to my surprise I really like it, especially since the rumors of it not letting you use "pirated" software were false. I need my unregistered copy of Winrar. Anyway...

I currently have an X5660 which in fact did raise my ram speeds from 1066 to 1333mhz when I switched from the W3565. "The Xeon I have my eye on if I ever were to dedicate this machine to gaming is the X5687 or X5690, they get close to 4.0 ghz ( There is a 4c/8t and 6c/12t variant)" I was just...

Thanks, I knew that it came off, or that I could remove the "arm" but I was not sure where to mount the drives. One problem I have noticed with the two Dell T3500's that I have owned is that while mounted on the arm the HDD's run a little hot for my liking. Right now C: is running right at 35C /...

No overclocking allowed on a Dell workstation. I have considered getting a good lga 1156 mobo, but a new Ryzen mobo build costs about as much as lga1156 motherboards for whatever reason.. that is unless I got something used. I would love to OC a Xeon. I will keep this in mind. Thanks for the...

It seems the urge to upgrade never really ceases. This is kinda what I was thinking but it never hurts to ask. You sort of guessed my thoughts, my hearing/reading the lower IPC that FX is reported to have made me doubt it's strength. Is upgrading to an FX 8 core worth it given my current config...

I currently game on a PC with these specs. It was donated to me because I was having trouble with my Dell T3500 that I had re purposed for gaming. Amd Fx 6300 OC'd very stable and cool @4.6ghz , Noctua 212 evo cooler 16gigs 1600mhz ddr3 RAM GTX 780 Corsair 700 watt PSU Gigabyte GA990FXaUD3 rev...