Recent content by Seb.F

False alarm, on closer inspection it was actually some residue (didn't seem like thermal compound it was incredibly tough and the ArctiClean didn't remove it) on the GPU cover that makes it looks cracked. I carefully pushed at it with a plastic prying tool and some of it has come off. Think I'm...

So, I went to do as you mentioned and opened up the machine. To find this: That to me looks like an overtighted CPU bracket screw which has sheared the head off. The other 3 were EXTREMELY tight as well, 2 of them I've removed, the fourth (pictured as number 6) is proving to be an issue...

Weird thing is I can still hear some game sounds and Afterburner has recorded RAM/CPU stats perfectly every second after that, just not GPU! I'll see if I can re-paste.

So that's about 2 minutes of being in game. Where the GPU levels all drop is where it's stopping recording any GPU information and the screen goes black. Up until then GPU peak was 76. CPU at that point was around 88, then when it black screens it seems the CPU spikes right up to 99...

Sorry I meant I hadn't before it started black screening. I have done so now and am on the latest drivers. I'm running both MSI Afterburner for GPU temps and CoreTemp for CPU temps. At idle they are: CPU ~55 GPU ~45 When I restart from the black screen, the CPU is sitting at around 85 though...

Chassis & Display Octane Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 120Hz IPS LED Widescreen (1920x1080) Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-7700k (4.2GHz) 8MB Cache Memory (RAM) 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE 2400MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB) Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1070 - 8.0GB GDDR5...

Hi friends, just trying to get a feel as to whether this can be improved for this price point, trying to stay as close to £2.5k as possible (I've been given this as a target). I'm a big builder/enthusiast so I'm pretty familiar with the most recent technology, but do you think these are the...

So, I've had this machine since around May or June 2013, it's had around 3 installations since then and it STILL has problems. I'm not posting on it right now as it's in the middle of another windows wipe and install, but ever since I've owned it, it has had a most bizarre 'stuttering' problem...

Chassis & Display Vortex Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080) Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3630QM (2.40GHz) 6MB Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (2 x 4GB) Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 680M - 4.0GB DDR5 Video RAM...