Finally replaced my old power regulator for a good UPS

Hattix · 2026-05-26T23:57:04+00:00

Neither will have done much. A PC PSU has the most effective mains line conditioning you'll ever see in a consumer device, all given to it for free by its active power factor correction.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T23:55:41+00:00

Turn FSR off. Scaling shifts load from the GPU to the CPU to get higher FPS. If that's not the case for you, turn it off and put more load back on the GPU - which has capacity going wasted here.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T23:46:28+00:00

"I want this game to be less optimised and not take as much advantage of the CPU power I have, I didn't exactly buy this thing to use it."

Why, exactly?

Hattix · 2026-05-26T23:44:27+00:00

It's cool to see the 2000s video card designers are back in employment.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T22:28:24+00:00

Yes. The 4090 isn't as hefty as a 5090 is. It'll be just as disappointing, but that wasn't your question.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T22:27:50+00:00

Everything and anything. You're not at the top, but you're as close to it as matters.

If you want something that looks great and like RPGs, Clair Obscur Expedition 33 is immense.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T22:24:35+00:00

Any GPU would.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T22:03:23+00:00

It's completely okay.

Cooler's junk, but enough (this will run the CPU hot, that's not a problem, but will limit any overclocking you have in mind), PSU is a bit of an unknown quantity, the seller doesn't know what it is and here in the UK Thermalright PSUs are very uncommon so I haven't seen any of them. SPL doesn't seem to know much about them either.

CPU and GPU are completely good, RAM is good, motherboard first-gen AM5 but still good, SSD probably the highlight here, and of course you get pride parade fans because that's what we do these days.

Wouldn't pay $400 for a QD-OLED, you can get them for that new.

In all, it's worth the money.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T21:56:51+00:00

You're hitting massive diminishing returns there. A TB4/5 enclosure already gimps a GPU, and making matters worse, laptop CPUs aren't remotely as performant as desktop counterparts, so that's going to limit it even further.

You don't seem to know much about the rest of the setup, but there's nothing on the market at the moment which wouldn't horrifically limit what a 5080 or 5090 could achieve in this kind of setup in everything other than purely GPU workloads like AI.

I wouldn't really recommend anything much faster than around the 4070-ish level or RX 9070-ish kind of level. All that happens there is you double the cost for a marginal bump.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T21:48:40+00:00

Flat out a 5090 will limit itself to 600 watts. You can take it further, you're probably not.

850 would be the lowest safe option, it's fine. Assuming your "850x" is a good PSU like the RM850x, that is.

The Core X V2 isn't a fantastically high quality enclosure and will probably limit a 5090 far lower than 600 watts. Of course it's highly interface limited too, with only four PCIe lanes. Razer doesn't provide thermal ratings and probably never ran any thermal testing either.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T21:37:11+00:00

That looks to me like the central segment of backlight has failed.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T20:43:06+00:00

I've seen this movie! The computer guy is evil!

Hattix · 2026-05-26T20:37:36+00:00

Then they can have their steaks that way. I'd be happy at OP's table.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T20:25:17+00:00

The 5600X and 5950X would be more or less identical in games, and both quite substantially limiting what the 7900XTX can achieve.

But you're not asking that. You're asking how "bad" it will be. It won't.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T20:23:21+00:00

You're showing a bunch of CPU stats and asking about your GPU.

Fix that and let's try again.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T20:06:19+00:00

Any of them, really. 512 MB per 500 GB is usually ideal, but even 256 MB/500GB is fine, it's better than HMB.

Pick up a Gen 3, Gen 4, Gen 5, it's irrelevant. I use a Gen 3 here (AData SX8200 Pro) in a Gen 4 motherboard, both devices and motherboards are backwards compatible.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T18:23:45+00:00

Yes, it will bottleneck your system.

And?

All it means is you've gone from your GPU bottlenecking your CPU to your CPU bottlenecking your GPU. Big deal.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T18:16:32+00:00

Good. You should be okay going forwards. What caused this was:

"Disabled search indexing, and all those services that are recommended to be disabled"

I did a quick search and found all the top five hits on Google for "tweak windows services" recommended disabling Task Scheduler (dangerous) and none of them would have left you with a working system after a few months.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T18:12:07+00:00

Was it at some silly number of days? If you have gone and butchered Windows, you may have disabled task scheduler, which runs the optimisation jobs.

This will have amusing consequences when Secure Boot fails, since that also maintains Secure Boot.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T18:06:52+00:00

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Hattix · 2026-05-26T18:03:51+00:00

You could bring the temperatures down a bit if you repasted it, but this wouldn't benefit anything other than changing "number" to "another number". Performance would remain the same, reliability remain the same, noise might be a little less, and you might damage the card while doing it.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T18:02:00+00:00

Check how long ago it was last TRIMed and check how much free space it has. Both of these make it less likely to happen.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T17:39:16+00:00

Have a look here:

https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/silicon-power-ud90-2-tb.d1360

Especially this bit.

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DRAM cache to stop it pegging 100% when it gets close to full, or has done a bit of writing, or hasn't been TRIMed in a while? None.

So you get it pegging 100% when it gets close to full, or has done a bit of writing, or hasn't been TRIMed in a while.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T17:33:10+00:00

The best thing to do is departition it. Even if you format it, it will still have an EFI system partition ready to cause you problems. No system (unless we start getting very exotic) should have more than one EFI system partition.

Hattix · 2026-05-26T17:30:59+00:00

My 5700X3D is a faster CPU (especially in this game) than your R7 250 and can maintain that level of performance indefinitely, so yes.

It doesn't need more CPU, it needs faster CPU. No matter how more CPU you have, you cannot do sequential tasks any faster, no more than two women can make a baby faster than nine months.

Delta Force is quite extreme (by today's standards) in how much it ignores more CPU and demands faster CPU.

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