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Question PC 5.1 Audio

BLUF: Wondering what the best solution for 5.1 audio on PC is in today's environment. I see that the vast majority of ADC/DAC stacks are for Headphone/Stereo audio in 2021. I use mid to high end headphones when focusing, or playing a competative game, but I don't always want something on my...
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- Sep 14, 2021
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
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Question Ryzen-Mainboard with good overall fan control (silence)

My ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate specifically has settings for the fans listed as, "silent", and more than enough headers to handle all of your system fan needs. I use Noctua fans, and split headers for pairs (2x front, 2x top, 2x CPU, one rear vent, and one bottom front inlet) and haven't had...
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- Post #2
- May 7, 2020
- Forum: Motherboards
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Question [SOLVED] Somehow eradicated safe mode

I've been troubleshooting random crashes for the last few days, which were ultimately tied back to the bios. However, in my efforts to troubleshoot from within Windows and other sources, I've somehow managed to erradicate Safe Mode within windows. Quite literally. Jamming F8 during windows...
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- May 7, 2020
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Windows
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Question 3950X on ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate - one problem solved, another one nagging

Ah yes... debug whack-a-mole. I remembered that AMD has a cleaner utility apart from DDU. I went to boot to safe mode, only to find that the system refuses. I've tried f8 on boot (no response), shift+shutdown from within windows (the advanced menu shows a boot to UEFI, and no boot to safe...
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- Post #2
- May 6, 2020
- Forum: Motherboards
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Question 3950X on ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimate - one problem solved, another one nagging

All, I've been bug hunting weird behavior after upgrading to a 3950X on my ASRock X470 Taichi Ultimately. Immediately, I noticed some odd behavior with USB on my keyboard. However, that was generally resolved with a solid reboot of windows. I was a solid week in, and loving life when I...
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- May 6, 2020
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Motherboards
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Article "AMD vs. Intel CPU Market Share Q4 2019: EPYC and Ryzen Growth Decelerate, Mobile Ryzen Up" - Tom's

My two cents... Security, and what the market will bare is one of those things that always comes as an utter shock to me. Your average consumer is only willing to pay an average of 15-20 cents (USD) for security. Corporations are somewhere on the 25-30 cents range if I'm recalling the latest...
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- Post #80
- Feb 8, 2020
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Solved! Odd FPS drops in Windows 10 Pro in certain windows/apps

With PIA running and up, but not in the foreground, the frame drop doesn't occur at all. Same with other apps. However, I seem to have stumbled onto a resolution that I swear I had already explored. Trying to fix a G-Sync issue in another game (5 fps when it first starts, going full screen...
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- Post #7
- Feb 8, 2020
- Forum: Windows
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Solved! Odd FPS drops in Windows 10 Pro in certain windows/apps

Shmee, Good suggestion. I hadn't thought to check for bad sectors. Unfortunately, Check Disk found no errors or bad sectors. The install isn't terribly old; I just reinstalled around November of this year. Is there a good tool for catching windows API calls, or the such? I'd almost like...
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- Post #3
- Feb 6, 2020
- Forum: Windows
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Solved! Odd FPS drops in Windows 10 Pro in certain windows/apps

All, I've posted about a similar issue in the past, but am once again experiencing weird FPS drops in certain windows. Specifically, I see my FPS drop from 120fps down to ~30fps (sometimes as low as 5, and sometimes as high as 60) when opening specific apps in Windows. I can consistently...
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- Feb 5, 2020
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Windows
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Question Slower Mouse Movement In Some Applications

Sorry for the slow reply; Yes, I have my refresh rate set to 120Hz in Advanced Display Properties. I've also played with G-Sync on and off, as well as windowed vs. full-screen exclusive on the off change that it could have been a culpret.
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- Post #3
- Dec 1, 2019
- Forum: Windows
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Question Slower Mouse Movement In Some Applications

I'm not sure where to start troubleshooting this issue, or if it is just my perception. Certain apps (or even screens of apps) seem to have less fluid mouse movement than others. It feels like a FPS drop in a game. Specifically, I'm seeing it fairly consistently with the login screen of...
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- Nov 27, 2019
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows
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960 PRO 512GB (PCIE 3.0x4) & 970 EVO 1TB (PCIE 2.0x4) vs. 850 PRO 1TB (SATAIII & RAPID)

Ahhhh that makes so much more sense. So those are indeed falsely inflated numbers. Moving the data from my 1TB SSD should still theoretically see performance gains moving to my 1TB NVMe drive on PCIe 2.0x4, right?
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- Post #4
- Dec 9, 2018
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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960 PRO 512GB (PCIE 3.0x4) & 970 EVO 1TB (PCIE 2.0x4) vs. 850 PRO 1TB (SATAIII & RAPID)

Lengthy title, I know. Can someone please make sense of these CrystalDiskMark results for me? RAPID or no, I find it hard to believe that the results I'm getting from a SATA SSD with RAPID are valid. 960 PRO (PCIe 3.0x4) -----------------------------------------------------------------------...
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- Dec 8, 2018
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Random pause w/ sound hang in games

Wall of text incoming! I'm not sure which forum this question honestly belongs in, so I'll try in the 'computer help' area. I've had issues off and on with what I believe are hard drive accesses since I built the system. However, I'm increasingly wondering if it is a motherboard issue. In a...
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- Apr 28, 2018
- hang pagefile pause swapfile win10 windows 10
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Computer Building
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Samsung 960 PRO m.2 NVMe and CPU spikes

Interesting... I see an improvement moving to 4 threads on the random as well, but still looks like about half of what most of you are seeing. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark 5.2.1 x64 (C) 2007-2017 hiyohiyo...
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- Post #23
- Apr 30, 2017
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Samsung 960 PRO m.2 NVMe and CPU spikes

Deus, getting slightly lower scores on the 960 in CDM as compared to magician. Random IOPS are significantly lower in CDM as compared with magician. I assume that means magician is a bit bias / gimmicky? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CrystalDiskMark...
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- Post #18
- Apr 28, 2017
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Samsung 960 PRO m.2 NVMe and CPU spikes

Deus, I used Samsung Magician to pull the performance test result data. What do you mean by the figure for the app?
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- Post #16
- Apr 25, 2017
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Samsung 960 PRO m.2 NVMe and CPU spikes

So... "problem" ultimately solved. A combination of Task Manager reporting incorrectly, broken MSI gimmicks, and likely a healthy dose of PEBCAK sprinkled in. Out of pure chance, I had HWMonitor open while debugging, and noticed that Maximum reported CPU usage through a smattering of tests...
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- Post #14
- Apr 25, 2017
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Samsung 960 PRO m.2 NVMe and CPU spikes

Deus, Any idea how I'd know if the Turbo was working? I didn't notice anything related in the bios, or the MSI apps installed. I've tried both slots on the board both with and without the armor. I removed the rubber stopper from the shield as well, but at most I'd think that just prevents...
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- Post #12
- Apr 24, 2017
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Samsung 960 PRO m.2 NVMe and CPU spikes

Bonzai, I'm not trying to get RAPID working on the 960 PRO, that is just the Samsung Magician error that pops up to let me know that RAPID will potentially conflict with some of the existing drivers on the system for my 850 PRO in the system. My issue is a CPU utilization spike whenever the...
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- Post #9
- Apr 24, 2017
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Samsung 960 PRO m.2 NVMe and CPU spikes

Bonzai, Sorry for the confusion. I'm not using anything specific to enable caching... simply run of the mill Firefox caching. I set browser.cache.disk.enable to false in about:config, and the CPU spikes from streaming video vanish. I tried disabling the page file in the hopes of minimizing...
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- Post #6
- Apr 23, 2017
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Samsung 960 PRO m.2 NVMe and CPU spikes

Solid suggestion, Jforce. I ran through the Performance Benchmark in Samsung Magician initially, and while the results were significantly lower than should be expected, they weren't abysmal. 100% CPU usage across all cores for the duration of the test as I've come to expect. Sequential Read...
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- Post #5
- Apr 23, 2017
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Samsung 960 PRO m.2 NVMe and CPU spikes

I'm not sure if this is really the right forum or not for this, honestly. Apologies if so. Thus far I've root caused sporadic CPU spikes down to the m.2 drive itself. I recently built a new system using a Ryzen 1800X, and MSI X370 Titanium motherboard. My issue is that when loading an...
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- Apr 23, 2017
- m.2 msi nvme ryzen samsung x370
- Replies: 25
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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Vista Cryptographic services throttles one of my cores.

So far so good after renaming the catroot2 folder, what does that folder contain? Certificate cache or something? Renamed it in safe mode just to be sure. Never mind, I just had to let it idle with Cryptsvc running for a while, and it is back to the usual behavior. How odd. I'll call...
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- Post #8
- Apr 28, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Vista Cryptographic services throttles one of my cores.

Yup, if i stop crypto, both processors go solid idle again. If i start the services again, it pegs near instantly. By trial and error I just mean I went to the services associated with SVCHOST.exe on the PID, and stopped and started them one by one to see where the problem was. CryptSvc was...
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- Post #6
- Apr 27, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Vista Cryptographic services throttles one of my cores.

It's a threaded process, you can simply take task manager, check your svchost.exe file, go to the services associated with the PID of the problem, then examine which of those listed are causing problems. Trial and error basically. You can track the same thing through some dos commands, but...
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- Post #3
- Apr 27, 2007
- Forum: Operating Systems
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Vista Cryptographic services throttles one of my cores.

In the last week or two, I noticed my processor chart always sitting at 50% or so. Upon further investigation, I noticed svchost.exe was the culprit. I tracked the processor ID and through trial and error figured out that cryptographic services was throttling one of my cores fully. It seems...
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- Apr 25, 2007
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Operating Systems
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An interesting issue with Vista&My DVD-RW

So I've been hearing this pulsing and stopping lately, it almost sounded like a case fan revving up then stopping. I messed around with things, finally unplugging my Samsung SATA DVD-RW drive... and it fixed the problem. Thinking back to when the noise had started, I Realized it all began a...
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- Feb 21, 2007
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
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In the market for a new Consumer Grade router.

Current internet service itself, none. However, I do have an extremely high traffic LAN. In the next year or so I expect to run fiber optics to the house for WAN as well. At that point, I'll invest in some more expensive switches, etc. But until it is required, I'd just like to get away with...
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- Post #3
- Feb 4, 2007
- Forum: Networking
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In the market for a new Consumer Grade router.

My old NETGEAR router finally had a TKO the other day when it started dropping massive amounts of packets. It had been a good router, and lasted far longer than I expected... so I tried picking up a new netgear router. I picked up the WNR854T Wireless-N router Gigabit edition, and had nothing...
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- Feb 3, 2007
- Replies: 9
- Forum: Networking
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680i MCP acceptable temperatures

Yeah, it is a little too hot for my liking as well. The ambient temperature inside the case is between 28 and 32*C... the processor sits around 38*C when not overclocked and 44*C if I pump it up to 3GHz from 2.4. The problem is, with the layout of the board... the heatsynch and heatpipe...
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- Post #3
- Jan 26, 2007
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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680i MCP acceptable temperatures

I'm running the EVGA 680i SLI motherboard.(a great board now that they fixed the 680i bugs by the way) My question is this: Overclocking or not, the MCP seems to be the absolute hottest part of my system. It is running at about 52-53*C no matter what. Is this normal, or do I need pull it...
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- Jan 26, 2007
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
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LCDs images delayed compared to CRTs ? Yes !

Moving from CRT to LCD has greatly reduced my eyestrain and therefor headaches while working for long periods of time. I cannot work around a CRT that is running 60Hz or below for any period of time without headache, I can phyically see it flashing. But because of the technology used in LCDs...
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- Post #48
- Jan 14, 2007
- Forum: Displays
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Write Combine...

Because Intel is stubborn and still uses shared bus architecture for the FSB... hmm. Still, trying to figure out why turning it off fixes a lot of jitters, even with synchronized refresh in certain programs.
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- Post #3
- Jan 14, 2007
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Write Combine...

I know what write combining does, but my understanding is that PCI-e doesn't really use it, and it causes more problems than anything. I know in my old system that had an AGP 6800GT OC I had to disable it because it caused some bizzare pauses in games. My question is... does PCIe even use it...
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- Jan 13, 2007
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Ram unstable at 1T

Yeah, that was actually my follow up question is should I even expect all PC2 6400 memory to run at 1T? The more digging I do, the more I find that DDR2 memory tends to not run at 1T, so I should be too bothered by the fact that mine won't run at 2T unless I jump the voltages something fierce.
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- Post #3
- Jan 7, 2007
- Forum: Motherboards
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Ram unstable at 1T

I'm currently using Patriot Extreme Performance ram DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) ram, and I can NOT for the life of me seem to get it completely stable with 1T memory timings. I've creeped the vdimm on my evga 680i motherboard up to 2.4, and it still isn't happy. (Also using an E6600 C2D processor)...
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- Jan 4, 2007
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Motherboards
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Best time to buy?

Another question... they HAD a $30 rebate on the 7900, but I waited too long and that one is no longer valid. However, they have a $20 rebate on the 7950... which has twice the ram. that makes the difference between them about $50. I'm thinking I should just spend the extra cabbage and get...
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- Post #5
- Dec 23, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Best time to buy?

Ahhh they do price adjustments at newegg? wonderful.
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- Post #4
- Dec 21, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
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Best time to buy?

I'm in the process of doing a complete system upgrade, and was all set to buy on Sunday... then decided to wait till a couple of checks cleared to me so I didn't have to withdraw anything from savings to temporarily cover the expense.(Christmas presents all seem to hit at once hehe.) Well, I...
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- Thread
- Dec 21, 2006
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Computer Building

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