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bl0at3r said:
Hey Andy, How the devil are you?
I’m running GTA5 on the highest settings with my Zotac GTX1660 6Gb AMP Edition - ETS2 looks good on it as well (y)(y)
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Hey fella, Good here. On Furlough and the sun is shining most of the time....sweet!! I have been told that GTA5 should run sweet on the graphics card that I have ordered with my machine. ETS2 can run fine on just the in built graphics on the CPU but will be nice for everything to run smoooooooth! BeamNG Drive used to run just about OK on my last card but won't run on just the CPU.....well it kinds does but takes a long while to load the graphics. I'm not a big gamer at all but it's nice to have a play every now and then. :D:cool:
 
bl0at3r said:
Hey Andy, How the devil are you?
I’m running GTA5 on the highest settings with my Zotac GTX1660 6Gb AMP Edition - ETS2 looks good on it as well (y)(y)
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I have the 1660 and have no trouble playing any games on highest settings. I could tweak some here and there to get higher fps but as I don't play anything competitive online I'm more about how the games look so I just push everything to max, and pull back on a few settings if I find it running a little sluggish. Games that I'm currently running: The Witcher III, Forza Horizon 4, Tekken 7, GTA5 [modded with graphics overhaul and added weather effects] Metro Exodus and the outer worlds. All run nice and smooth with this card, can't imagine many current gen games giving it much hassle. Future titles might though, we might find we have to tone down settings to get games like Cyberpunk or AC: Valhalla to run as smooth. But in general should be good for another few year.

The RX550 should be fine for games like the ones I mentioned at least on medium settings.
 
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The one I have installed is called Quant V, with just a couple add-ons , LA roads and billboards and one that changes some store fronts to replicate real LA, I also added Menyoo which has tonnes of options. I never play online but I do have a back up saved of the game unmodded in case anything goes wrong
 
You got it yet @AndyWest ?
I got bored with trying to mod GTA - typically nothing worked properly and got errors and all sorts. Now I know why I favored console games all these years :)
So I ripped the graphics card out and sold it on fleabay.
Back to Intel HD630 onboard for me - which runs LR, PS and my CCTV software perfectly - who knew!
 
I messed up modding GTAV the first time, ended up uninstalling and having to re-dowload the game. This time I made a back up copy of the original so I could mess about with mods with one copy, and they worked fine. The trick is not to try add too many mods at once, some of them clash - like if you add 2 different visual make over mods or multiple 'trainers' [the mod menus that allow vehicle spawn, weather changes et] - but even vanilla the game looks better on PC, tbh modding is just fun for a little bit - if I'm playing the game proper I'll have them all turned off anyways. But since I finished the game on the 360 already it was just to mess about with.

On the gaming side my PC is set up like a mix of the better consoles, I have steam, XBOX live, Epic games and a couple other game clients, got 2 controllers and my case is that small I can switch it to different rooms without any fuss. I can get games a lot cheaper than I could on console too
 
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bl0at3r said:
You got it yet @AndyWest ?
I got bored with trying to mod GTA - typically nothing worked properly and got errors and all sorts. Now I know why I favored console games all these years :)
So I ripped the graphics card out and sold it on fleabay.
Back to Intel HD630 onboard for me - which runs LR, PS and my CCTV software perfectly - who knew!
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Hi Alan
It's arriving tomorrow (Tuesday, Can't wait.as I ordered it on 12 Apr) and I'm out all morning!!! At least the wife will be in to take delivery. I will report back in a few days when I have had a play!!
 
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Well it's here, the new PC from PC Specialist. It's quite small and very fast! I'm going to replace the case fans at some point as they are a little noisy. I will have a look in the bios and see if I can create a custom profile for them only to come on when the temp is high. Putting everything back onto a PC is so easy these days. It used to be a bit of a mare but everything went smoothly.

I have not taken any pics as there is not much to see but a very tidy build.
 
AndyWest said:
Well it's here, the new PC from PC Specialist. It's quite small and very fast! I'm going to replace the case fans at some point as they are a little noisy. I will have a look in the bios and see if I can create a custom profile for them only to come on when the temp is high. Putting everything back onto a PC is so easy these days. It used to be a bit of a mare but everything went smoothly.

I have not taken any pics as there is not much to see but a very tidy build.
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There should be a silent fan profile In the bios, click it sit back, Job done!
 
Kaolin said:
Having just bought a new PC for working at home (i9 10 core, 64gb ram, fast NVMe drives) I can say Lightroom now runs a little faster but it is not massively faster than my previous machine a 2015 13" MBP. I would not expect massive performance gains when it comes to Lightroom, it is still pretty slow with previews etc, but export is now conderably faster.
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Surely this is dependent on how you use LR. I use standard previews which does take a little time when initially uploading my images and is largely governed by the speed of my disk drive ( a conventional HDD). When reviewing and initially editing speed is fine because it only needs the stored previews. If you used smaller than the standard previews, you would have a delay while it pulled the original file from disk. Of course using a SSD should speed all this up anyway.

Dave
 
Brazo said:
There should be a silent fan profile In the bios, click it sit back, Job done!
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Done that but found that it was the Noctua CPU fan that was making all the noise so may need to replace it with a larger, quieter fan/cooler cor a fan less cooler. I downloaded a cpu temp bit of software which showed the temp going between 42 and 83 degrees quite quickly. I feel that the heat sink is not big enough and the fan is constantly speeding up and slowing down whenever I do anything. I have had to put the PC on the floor under the desk as it was too annoying. I have a real thing about noisy fans. As it happens the case fans are very quiet.

any help welcome
 
The fans on mine were kinda loud until I discovered the Asus fan control software, where I can adjust between 4 different speeds on the fly. I usually just keep them on silent or standard and they are quiet, unless I'm playing a demanding game then I will up them to Turbo, and if I find things are getting very hot there's the 'Tornado' option, pretty much just all fans on full power and that's where things get noisey.
 
AndyWest said:
Done that but found that it was the Noctua CPU fan that was making all the noise so may need to replace it with a larger, quieter fan/cooler cor a fan less cooler. I downloaded a cpu temp bit of software which showed the temp going between 42 and 83 degrees quite quickly. I feel that the heat sink is not big enough and the fan is constantly speeding up and slowing down whenever I do anything. I have had to put the PC on the floor under the desk as it was too annoying. I have a real thing about noisy fans. As it happens the case fans are very quiet.

any help welcome
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The cooler in your specs is designed for htpc and not a six core cpu so yes it’s not suitable. Plus the Ryzen chips do like to bounce and spike temp wise, whilst this isn’t an issue it can cause fan noise, have you downloaded the Ryzen balanced power plan? If not that’s your next step.
 
My 3600x is running a stock cooler and that ramps accordingly with all the other fans under load, create a custom profile. e.g. my processor is running low temps but I set my fans to 100% over something like 70-80 so importing and building previews (CPU intensive usage 100%) is super fast and I know the CPU isnt boiling but the fans are cranked right up anyway. Ryzen runs hot comfortably.
 
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I was running Ryzen balanced but now I run windows high performance and silent custom profile in Asus AI suite. Seems to be a good combo as my fans were ramping every few seconds and it was making me crazy. Just takes a bit of time to configure according to your requirements, theres also a ramping delay you can play with.

... in games GPU ramps right up under load as it should but the rest of the fans are dead silent.
 
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Right. I have re configured the CPU fan and it’s much better, less jumpy. Max temp after playing with lightroom was 79 degrees (spiked) so better than before. Still louder than I would like but will look for a quieter option. One is the Nofan CR-80EH Copper IcePipe 80W Fanless CPU Cooler. It will fit and should keep things nice and quiet.
 
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Right. I have re configured the CPU fan and it’s much better, less jumpy. Max temp after playing with lightroom was 79 degrees (spiked) so better than before. Still louder than I would like but will look for a quieter option. One is the Nofan CR-80EH Copper IcePipe 80W Fanless CPU Cooler. It will fit and should keep things nice and quiet.
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Noctua are known for their quietness, not sure that a fanless cooler is a good idea Tbh. You'd be better off getting a larger nhu12, dark rock or a hyper 212 and some decent paste.
 
twist said:
Noctua are known for their quietness, not sure that a fanless cooler is a good idea Tbh. You'd be better off getting a larger nhu12, dark rock or a hyper 212 and some decent paste.
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Will check those out tomorrow, thanks
 
AndyWest said:
Will check those out tomorrow, thanks
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Hopefully they fit your case, looks like theyd be okay but check case specs, your case only has 1 inlet and 1 exhaust from what I can tell, that's not a lot for your setup so a bigger air cooler as suggested will definitely help, id place it's fan at the front pulling air through, so you have front inlet, cpu inlet, exhaust rear... Could you get 2x 120s at the front on top of each other? Case might not have the screw holes but perhaps you could drill (easy, these things are made from cheese).

Like this, but if required 2x120s modded up front.

https://static.techspot.com/images/products/2016/cases/org/2016-06-30-product.jpg
 
twist said:
Hopefully they fit your case, looks like theyd be okay but check case specs, your case only has 1 inlet and 1 exhaust from what I can tell, that's not a lot for your setup so a bigger air cooler as suggested will definitely help, id place it's fan at the front pulling air through, so you have front inlet, cpu inlet, exhaust rear... Could you get 2x 120s at the front on top of each other? Case might not have the screw holes but perhaps you could drill (easy, these things are made from cheese).

Like this, but if required 2x120s modded up front.

https://static.techspot.com/images/products/2016/cases/org/2016-06-30-product.jpg
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Thank for all your help :)

I will deff look and see if I can get 2 x 120's in the front. A bit of positive pressure helps! The front fan is a 140 and the rear is a 120mm. Next month when I have been paid i'll get this sorted. (y)
 
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AndyWest said:
Thank for all your help :)

I will deff look and see if I can get 2 x 120's in the front. A bit of positive pressure helps! The front fan is a 140 and the rear is a 120mm. Next month when I have been paid i'll get this sorted. (y)
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Good news, from the Fractal site...

Front fan
2x 120/140 mm (included is 1 Fractal Design Dynamic GP14 fan @ 1000 RPM)

I fitted these to mine, quiet enough and very cheap.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/quiet-Pure-Wings-BL046-3-Pin/dp/B016XWZ5MQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=BeQuiet!+120MM+Fan+Pure+Wings+2+PWM&qid=1591259636&quartzVehicle=72-1783&replacementKeywords=bequiet!+120mm+fan+pure+wings+pwm&sr=8-1&th=1

I see you can also add a top and bottom fan so that case provides a lot of cooling.

Make sure your board has enough fan headers, alternatively use a Y splitter on the 2 fronts into 1 board header.
 
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twist said:
Good news, from the Fractal site...

Front fan
2x 120/140 mm (included is 1 Fractal Design Dynamic GP14 fan @ 1000 RPM)

I fitted these to mine, quiet enough and very cheap.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/quiet-Pure-Wings-BL046-3-Pin/dp/B016XWZ5MQ/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=BeQuiet!+120MM+Fan+Pure+Wings+2+PWM&qid=1591259636&quartzVehicle=72-1783&replacementKeywords=bequiet!+120mm+fan+pure+wings+pwm&sr=8-1&th=1

I see you can also add a top and bottom fan so that case provides a lot of cooling.

Make sure your board has enough fan headers, alternatively use a Y splitter on the 2 fronts into 1 board header.
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Thats good news!!! Thanks SO much for all your help :) I have a 500GB SDD to pop in too so will sort it all in one go. I was also thinking of some sound deadenning material on the crappy perspex window. It's very cheap and nasty!!! :D
 
AndyWest said:
Thats good news!!! Thanks SO much for all your help :) I have a 500GB SDD to pop in too so will sort it all in one go. I was also thinking of some sound deadenning material on the crappy perspex window. It's very cheap and nasty!!! :D
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No problem.

If you are changing your cooler...

CPU cooler max height
162 mm

I wonder whether adding a layer of deadening will create the opposite desired effect because it will insulate the heat for longer and in turn generate more heat and increase fan speeds and noise.
 
twist said:
No problem.
I wonder whether adding a layer of deadening will create the opposite desired effect because it will insulate the heat for longer and in turn generate more heat and increase fan speeds and noise.
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Yeah possibly, I would only put it on the clear plastic so shouldn't make much difference in heat. The rest of the case has sound deadening so won't need much.
 
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