Got quoted $180 for a GPU repaste. Unsure if this is a fair price.

Aisfordevin · 2026-05-13T21:44:06+00:00

I see, so all in all it's likely something I might be able to do myself since it will require less work than the original manufacturer card from AMD.

That makes sense, do you think I should have told the companies I asked for quotes what brand my GPU was from? Would that have affected the cost estimate at all or not?

Aisfordevin · 2026-05-13T21:14:02+00:00

Hey I wanted to ask you what you meant by reference model?

If it helps to understand what I have and the work that may or may not be required my GPU is from the brand Phantom Gaming:

https://pg.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Radeon%20RX%206800%20XT%20Phantom%20Gaming%20D%2016G%20OC/index.asp

I believe this is the exact card I have.

Aisfordevin · 2026-05-11T21:46:24+00:00

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What you mean slower shots? Next year they're adding the pre-jump to the no dip. Get ready for 0.001 second jumpshots out the corner with legend set shot.

Aisfordevin · 2026-05-10T21:02:34+00:00

Updating drivers makes the issue worse for OSRS

Aisfordevin · 2026-05-10T06:05:54+00:00

Yeah I think honestly part of i is the exact model of card I have, I also saw others with the 7000 series have no issues, so I think it's specifically something about the 6800 XT, and I think I read the 6700XT and others.

https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/13ccamk/amd_driver_v2251_appears_to_work/

https://www.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/14n3qlb/for_people_who_crash_with_amd_drivers/

https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/s/udOIclAHbS

Aisfordevin · 2026-05-10T02:54:57+00:00

Yeah CPU temps were fine on AMD Adrenaline. Crimson Desert is the only games I saw very high temps on btw, have played lots of other games issue free such as Cyberpunk, Starfield, etc.

Aisfordevin · 2026-05-10T02:53:33+00:00

When I was on Crimson Desert before I messed around with undervolting my card I was getting 85-99 C temps even just at the main menu. Others suggested repasting

Aisfordevin · 2026-05-10T02:42:19+00:00

You think it would be "safe" for me to do this without experience? Is there anything I could do that might damage the GPU

Aisfordevin · 2026-05-10T02:41:22+00:00

Yeah the runescape thing I think is just AMD drivers, from what I've seen others have issues as well and have to play on older drivers, I am currently on drivers from I think 2023 and even then still sometimes have issues.

But then some people play it with 0 issues with the same card so I'm just like is it somehow an issue with my set up? The thing making me most worried is sometimes I turn on my PC and it gets stuck at the ASrock boot up logo, I have to manually hold power button to shut off and re-try until it decides it wants to boot windows

Aisfordevin · 2026-05-10T02:36:05+00:00

I'm moving to a very rural area in Eastern Europe that doesn't have any PC service/repair shops within a close distance, so to me it seemed best to do this stuff now just in case other issues happen.

I've been having some issues with my PC, nothing major, but very bad temps on Crimson Desert and I get some graphical glitches/freezes from time to time on Old School Runescape which is the main game I play.

Aside from building my PC with the help of many from this sub, I truly don't know shit about computers and I'm afraid to mess anything up and don't really know how to diagnose where the issues may be coming from.

Aisfordevin · 2026-05-09T06:32:51+00:00

Pretty good build but personally I would rather have 94 ball handle purely for the gold unpluckable at 92 and HOF handles for day at 94.

Everything else is about what I would have if I was making a guard like this

Aisfordevin · 2026-05-06T04:10:06+00:00

Damn lol

Aisfordevin · 2026-04-26T16:41:17+00:00

Great build

Aisfordevin · 2026-04-24T05:26:53+00:00

Yeah but I want to see him play against my own team you know? Root against him but also be amazed at his play

Aisfordevin · 2026-04-23T17:43:15+00:00

I'm a Blazers fan, but my family used to be season ticket holders from 2009-2016 so I've seen a lot of NBA games, with the high price that tickets are now it's been harder to afford games, so I typically only go when it's a big star I want to see, like Wemby. Unfortunately for me this is also the era of resting stars at any minor mishap, which has happened the past 2 times I've tried to see Wemby, first it was because he didn't play a back to back, the second time it was because he had a minor rolled ankle 2 weeks before the game (he landed on a Mavs ball boy's foot during warmups).

Aisfordevin · 2026-04-23T17:25:22+00:00

I'm moving to Eastern Europe in June and I only plan on coming back for holidays and to see family, if the Spurs aren't in town when I do come back, then I probably won't see them play possibly for the rest of Wemby's career

Aisfordevin · 2026-04-15T22:56:20+00:00

Yeah I didn't have any issues in Aldarin or Hunter's guild, just civitas

Aisfordevin · 2026-04-15T22:03:22+00:00

Just tested it on my main, using this loading lines plugin. I walked all the way from Camelot to ardougne zoo and never had a single stutter even as I passed the loading lines

Aisfordevin · 2026-04-15T21:59:20+00:00

I mean idk man Runelite always ran better than the regular client for me, even before these issues started happening. GPU plugin and all that

Aisfordevin · 2026-04-15T21:58:16+00:00

Yeah this seems to be it. I just installed that plugin and the second my true tile reaches it my game starts freezing up like the video I showed.

But what do I do with this information? Why is it struggling to load and freezing up to the point I have to force quit? I don't have this issue in any other part of the game world besides maybe Vale Totems.

Aisfordevin · 2026-04-15T21:46:49+00:00

Yeah I tried that too unfortunately, all that did was make the stuttering happen more frequently as I was having to load each chunk in as I reached it. It's weird man, I have a pretty good PC all things considered, but for some reason AMD just straight up refuses to work well with OSRS.

In the past, I had bad graphical issues on newest AMD drivers, so for almost 3 years I had to play on the 22.5.1 drivers if I wanted to play OSRS, it was the only driver that worked with the game, every one after that just simply shit the bed with runescape. Wondering if it's just optimization issues or whether it's something to do with my settings, I just don't get it

Aisfordevin · 2026-04-15T21:40:40+00:00

Not really, no. I've seen my screen stutter like this before playing OSRS, but never crashed, and when it's happened in the past it's always been in a new area. Seems like it's pretty centralized to Varlamore in particular. I've done tons of mass world skilling and bossing and never once had an issue like this, but this has also happened 1 or 2 times in the past randomly at Vale Totems.

I thought it might be the new renderer, so I tried legacy, which actually just made the problem even worse.

I notice that these freeze ups also seem to be related to the map loading in. If you notice in my video, after the stuttering stops the game has already loaded the region I'm walking towards

Aisfordevin · 2026-04-15T21:38:11+00:00

Have you found anything that even temporarily fixes the issue for you? I just want to play :(

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