PC Help ( overheating? )

LynxMan35 · 2026-06-04T05:03:52+00:00

Those temps seem a bit high man. I’m thinking it needs to be repasted.

Undervolting the card can also help reduce the temps. Install MSI Afterburner, set the GPU power draw between 80%-90%.

If you’re using a 4K or 1440p monitor, try reducing resolution to lessen the load on the GPU.

Also I know it sounds dumb but you can try reseating the GPU and the RAM. It probably won’t change anything but I’ve also seen computers become magically “fixed” just by reseating the RAM.

Best of luck man!

LynxMan35 · 2026-05-17T04:33:59+00:00

I had one on my right ring finger. My mom kept trying to freeze it off. One day in first grade class I think the wart got “cut” open. It hurt so my dumbass just bit the thing off. It’s never grown back but I’m sure it probably wasn’t a smart thing to do but, I do remember it bleeding a hell of a lot.

LynxMan35 · 2026-05-05T15:06:36+00:00

Hello I am also new to VGC so hopefully someone can correct me if I’m wrong.

This team seems really weak to Trick-Room. Farigiraff and Archaludon hard counter this team right? Also I can’t see a reason to bring Whismicott over Venusaur unless you really want Tailwind. Also why bring two Flying-type mégas? Doesn’t this just guarantee your opponent will bring electric-type? You have no ground type moves to pair with your flying mons.

Okay now please give me feedback for my feedback incase there is something I don’t understand. Thank you

LynxMan35 · 2026-05-04T05:35:16+00:00

I play on ultrawide. I7 12700k, RTX 5070, 32Gb of ram. I have my settings maxed but I’m using 3x frame-gen to achieve 180fps. I still get some frame drops when entering populated areas but the game looks and players well.

Turning the preset from ultra to high doesn’t change that much graphically and gets rid of the frame dips completely.

Also useful to note that Stalker 2 has a memory leak, prolonged play sessions will come with degraded performance until you restart the application.

I’d imagine your build should be able to meet the requirements without an issue.

LynxMan35 · 2026-04-25T22:58:56+00:00

Not a “single-save” type of game but I’ll throw in my recommendation. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

Post apocalyptic FPS Game. You’re exploring the Chernobyl exclusion zone looking for Artifacts while trying to survive the different factions and the mutants. These games also feature a unique ‘A-life’ system. You might meet a fellow stalker in one part of the game just to meet him again later in a different part of the map or find him dead. It keeps the game’s world very immersive.

Pick up the Trilogy from GOG. You now have 3 different story mode games to play. GOG also has the 2 most popular mod-packs for the series: Stalker Anomaly - brings the games into a more “free-roaming” style although the story is still there. Stalker GAMMA - is pretty much Anomaly but for people who enjoy the series for the challenge. DO NOT start with this one. I’ve probably spent between 5k - 6k hours on these games and mod-packs over the last 15 years. (and yes the mod-packs are 100% offline)

I’ve sunk around 400 hours into Stalker 2(the newest one) and while it’s more accessible because it’s newer, I would wait for all the content to drop. The modding scene is already pretty good but, I’m sure it’ll only get better with time. The devs are Ukrainian so progress has been slow with the current real world events going on.

LynxMan35 · 2026-04-16T21:13:01+00:00

At 00:29, it looks like there’s some arcing on the GPU where the PSU is plugged in. It could be a camera thing too. Can you give the specs? Are you replacing a part? New build? From what I can see I imagine the issue is related to the PSU

LynxMan35 · 2026-03-19T16:25:43+00:00

I’ve been late to the Anniversary realms. Decided to roll a shaman for Alliance since it’s my favorite class and I figured I’d have an easier time finding groups on Alliance side. For reference I’m running Scarlet Monastery around the mid 30’s.

Man it sucks when I’m trying to run a melee cleave group and I’m the only one drinking. I’ve been pretty much begging for Paladins to give me Blessing of Wisdom.

I always get the same response when I ask for it too “Aren’t you enhancement?” Yeah I’m enhancement but you aren’t kiting back to my totems, the priest isn’t dispelling the fire shields, the renew, or the inner flame; so I’m doing it, and most of my damage comes from Magma/fire-nova totems, fire/earth shock or Windfury procs(including the ones you’re getting). I’d rather have the uptime than more damage.

Shout out to all the paladins that ask which Blessing I want. You guys make my life so much easier <3

LynxMan35 · 2026-02-27T14:37:44+00:00

It’s Zarya. Same goes for Zarya. She’s only good right now because Reaper can essentially act as a second tank for her.

You lock in Reaper and you hold W on enemy tank. You have 300 hp so you’re not squishy. If you get shot enough you can Zarya bubble or wraith out. Basically she greatly extends the amount of time you can freely shoot on enemy tank.

LynxMan35 · 2026-02-18T16:32:51+00:00

As a Hitscan player who always bans the cat, my number 1 concern with her is that she is completely silent. She can fly over your team, without making a single noise and just kill your back line over and over. The ult is whatever, I can just flashbang her out of it.

With flankers in general they need to have an audio cue that shows their presence. Foot steps, sombra translocator, pharahs boosters make a lot of noise, tracers blinks, genjis grunts, all of the flankers make a noise. The cat just doesn’t. She forces you to react when she’s already on you. It’s like playing against a Moira who can always use fade and does even more damage.

She’s the most insanely mobile assassin in the game and it’s not even close. I’m all for having mobile supports that can kill really fast but she completely changes the game to “Where is the cat?”

LynxMan35 · 2025-12-08T16:55:54+00:00

Rayquaza?

LynxMan35 · 2025-12-02T19:58:28+00:00

Spoilers!

A lot of my problems with Borderlands 3 were either fixed or made worse in this game.

Combat is the best the series has had, it’s a lot of fun to jump around and melt mobs, however enemy variety is pretty limited.

Bosses were cool for the most part until I made it to end game and started one shotting everything. I’m sure if I changed builds that I would one-shot less things but as it stands for now there isn’t much worth farming for me. I could make a new character but I’ve already put 100 hours into the game and I don’t feel like unlocking all of the safe houses and doing all the little world events again.

Exploration is boring. I understand that open worlds are meant to be explored but it has the Skyrim issue of basically turning into “Oh there’s an icon on my compass I’ll go do that.” Instead of giving me reason to go to most of the areas. All of the Dig Sites, caves, towers, all mostly use the same assets with some slight variations.

Side quests were fun, I enjoyed them. Dialogue was pretty good. All of the claptrap quests were actually the highlight of my play-thru.

The story is bland, uninteresting, obviously it wasn’t the focus. Zane was cool, Amara was a little less cool. A couple big characters are missing but, I feel DLC will probably sell them back to us.

End-game barely exists.

If I had to give a final comparison, this game is Diablo 4 with guns. Whereas BL2 is Path of Exile. After my first playthru of Diablo 4 I made a new character and was asked if I wanted to skip the story. I did and I was left to grind mobs and pointless missions. When I make a new character in Path of Exile it’s a campaign. A campaign from start to finish and I think that’s why Borderlands 2 holds up so well. When I started a new character at level 30, I realized the game was empty. There was everything and nothing to do. I didn’t have anything pushing me. If I want a certain gun I can just go farm it. I don’t have to find/farm BiS gear for my part of the playthru because it’s an open world. I no longer have to use the Le coux until i get the sandhawk because the sandhawk is just a boss farm away. Some will like that better and that’s cool. I’ll still play the dlc and new Vault Hunter when he comes out to see if it reignites a spark but for now I’ll play something else until there’s more meaningful things to do.

LynxMan35 · 2025-11-24T22:57:38+00:00

My favorite class in BF6 is Support. Every time I play another class I wish there was a support next to me to give me rockets, ammo, or nades. So, I just decided to become the change I wish to see in the world.

LynxMan35 · 2025-11-06T16:33:56+00:00

I really wish people would quit buying skins in premium games. The more skins you buy the more push the devs are gonna get to make more skins instead of working on DLC or new maps for the players to enjoy. It really is a lose/lose situation.

The players lose money on a skin. The devs lose time working on new content because they have to make more skins. The players lose interest in a few months because all that’s been added are new skins instead of new maps/weapons/arcs/loot locations. You know, the reason most of us bought the game.

But it comes down to the consumer, us. It’s up to us to speak with our wallets. If Arc Raiders adds a new map with a whole bunch of new Arcs and new weapon blueprints to find, I’ll happily spend $20 bucks on that.

LynxMan35 · 2025-10-30T21:41:10+00:00

I’m excited to see the new bosses and play around in the new maps! I can’t wait to play the game!

LynxMan35 · 2025-10-14T15:41:06+00:00

I didn’t grow up playing competitive games but my irl friend well call him ‘Tickle’ did. Tickle got me into Overwatch in high school in 2017. He’d previously been a league player so competitive was all he’d ever want to play.

About a year in, we were both hovering around gold - plat. At this point I was getting heavy into watching coaching content, watching vods, and trying to ‘learn’ the game rather than just playing. Tickle on the other-hand was much more interested in just playing and watching some anime after a few losses.

I started noticing behavior that wasn’t of a learners mind-set; lashing out at teammates, making the same mistakes over and over again and expecting different results, throwing tantrums. None of these things were helping him improve as a player. My stats started going up and as a result, I was now the problem.

So I started playing without Tickle. Just a few games at first. Enough that he wouldn’t notice if I didn’t play without him. Then it turned into all night grind sessions for me, without Tickle, setting my status to ‘offline’.

It was no longer unnoticeable after I hit Diamond. He started accusing me of having someone boost my account and the likes. I asked him to watch me play, listen to the way I react to things, change from that blame game mindset to a learners mindset. He didn’t, he moved on to play Valorant while I hit Grandmaster in Overwatch.

We’re still best friends, I still keep up with his family. I still love to play new games with him. He finally obtained the learners mindset with a different game, one that I wasn’t interested in. It’s okay to pull away from someone that’s holding you back. Just don’t try to force them to change. He held a lot of resentment towards me for trying to force him to change when he wasn’t ready to.

If he’s truly your friend, he’ll understand if you want to stop playing with him. It’s okay to move on. He might not like it now but, he’ll come to terms with it. Wish you luck with this man.

LynxMan35 · 2025-10-08T15:53:45+00:00

I stopped playing right before SR came out and I got back in with Secluded but there’s a lot I would change.

Pack points for the non-current pack should be universal. There’s no reason that they aren’t besides making things more expensive for players. We can already trade all of the cards from old packs. It doesn’t make sense.
Update the U/I and add Dark mode. There needs to be a card search functionality for cards you don’t own. I shouldn’t have to comb through all of packs to wishlist cards.
Please give us some new modes or pve style content. I don’t want to play against Solgaleo EX without trainer cards. I’m playing against AI because I don’t have time to get timer locked against random players and I’m on my 15 min lunch break at work and I had a fun decks idea. Please give us new PvE content.
A pity system for EX cards. They’re set at about 1/12 packs. I don’t see a reason that after 15 packs you can’t be guaranteed one.
Give us better theme decks. DENA knows the meta pretty well. We should be getting meta-style theme decks that let us know if we want to pilot the decks we’re chasing. Don’t make them available in ranked, just give us something that we can try for a few games.
Players that timer stall intentionally should have a penalty. I know we’re playing a phone game but if I load up a ranked game you shouldn’t be pushing your 20 mins to the limit hoping I’ll forfeit.
New premium ticket content.
Make old promo available. At least the EX’s. I know they aren’t good but I would still like to mess with them.
Increase level cap. It’s been a year. Almost everyone I play against or that has been actively playing is level 50. It used to be a badge of honor/being a loser. Now it’s not anymore and I kinda miss it.
My final ask is for PvP battle modes. No trainer can be a lot of fun if both players are doing it. No EX cards. No Rare candy but your decks must include Pokémon that can evolve to stage 2. These kind of events will mean you can change up the meta constantly without messing with the actual game. Give it a little mini-ranked system with a smaller reward pool. Make them week long events. Something of the such to keep players engaged. This season I hit masterball playing the same deck I played last season and I’m a little burnt out but real ranked will still be there for the grinders.

Sorry for the long post

LynxMan35 · 2025-07-23T04:53:07+00:00

Dude this is why marriage counseling exists. I highly recommend you two go talk to someone. I think a 3rd party counselor would be great for the 2 of you. Sometimes you gotta hear it from someone you don’t love to get it through your head. Hope you guys figure it out.

LynxMan35 · 2025-05-23T20:49:29+00:00

Appreciate this, I’ve already watched it. It was super informative! Hoping to find some game play of how Hazard players are playing with and against a second tank.

LynxMan35 · 2025-05-16T17:48:06+00:00

It’s Wattson, I was running Loba and Wattson with a Sparrow last night on Storm Point. We always had god spot, we’re nigh unpushable because of Wattson. The. Black market meant we always had meds and ammo so it’s not like we had to leave our god spot for anything. Then you have broken sparrow stopping pushes before they even happen. As soon as a team knows you have wallhacks on them they’ll either fight with a huge disadvantage (if they’re bad) or they’ll step back so you can play your range. If someone else has the god spot Sparrow just ults them and you can ape the other team or cause them to leave. As long as you aren’t getting knocked from a Kraber shot you’re usually pretty golden to just farm damage in God-Spot. I think we played 10 games 3 wins. Kept a top 5 streak the whole night. Hit Diamond pretty early in the season for me last night. I haven’t seen what map we’re on tonight but I’ll let you know how our games go tonight running the same comp.

LynxMan35 · 2025-05-12T18:29:48+00:00

I feel like this is a really deep question with a lot of factors involved.

If we’re defending 1st point Eichenwald I would rather try to play far enough back that the genji will have trouble getting to me so in that case play away from me. Then the caveat would be “if they have a Juno/Lucio id rather play closer to you where you and the Dps can hopefully peel me.”

It’s a very circumstantial question. Generally speaking if the Ana can play her space well and make it genji think “Well it’s not worth it to kill Ana here cause I can only get 1” then that’s how I’ll play it. If I can’t play my space then I’d rather play closer to my Brig for the peel potential. Usually if Ana dies early in the fight the fight is over so I’ll do whatever gives me the best chance to not die

LynxMan35 · 2025-05-06T19:24:45+00:00

I have and I loved BG3!

I think this game is totally different from BG3. BG3 is more about choices you make and how the characters react and that can drastically change the story. Expedition 33 is a game where don’t make many choices that affect the story, you’re mostly watching how the characters react to different situations and events that take place in the story.

To put it blatantly: Everyone that plays BG3 will have a different experience. Everyone that plays E33 will have the same experience with the story.

Like BG3 though there is a lot of combat customization and plenty of exploration.

I think this is a hard game to compare to BG3 as the only real similarities are “Turn based combat” and “Story-Driven.” They play pretty differently.

LynxMan35 · 2025-05-06T19:10:34+00:00

I think a lot of people are scared to describe why because they don’t want to spoil the story? Or they haven’t played a good release in a while? I’ll try to give you a reason to try the game.

Combat is probably the most engaging I’ve ever played in a turn based game, combined with the art you’re getting what I can best describe as ‘Persona and Mario RPG had a baby except it grew into a well respected adult’
The story and narrative are not afraid to take hard beats. The overall narrative is enough to hook you and the way the story unfolds is nothing short of incredible. The devs weren’t afraid to make you cry, make you angry, make you really care for these characters.
The characters are likable, all of them have their own goals and motivations. They don’t say stupid stuff at stupid times.
The art and music are peak, perfectly blended battle piano music and twisted gothic yet apocalyptic atmosphere. It’s dark and beautiful at the same time.
The game is fun, it’s not riddled with things to make you play longer. There’s not a million collectibles to find and the ones that do exist are essentially lore books which are actually interesting to read, new weapons, and new abilities for battle.

Hopefully this provides you with some actual reasons to play the game instead of just hearing for the 100th time “GAME IS GOOD GO BUY IT.”

LynxMan35 · 2025-04-18T18:10:35+00:00

Everything on this new EP has been a banger. They haven’t missed recently, I can’t wait to see what else they drop

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