vanillaice
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hiya, new member here.
1. I bought my x51 back in 2012 - from what I understand its a i7-3770 so Ivy Bridge and is R1 (i think) Weird thing is my PSU is 330 (XM3C3) so is it possible to have R1 power board with 330watt psu?
2. Anyhow past few weeks its been real laggy - takes a while to open windows while web surfing - stutters when scrolling down pages just reading text (like it needs time to load the pages) - stutters when I type fast. Never did this before..does it sound like a video card issue? or a memory issue?
3. Ran dell diagnostics and it said the video card is fine - hard to believe tho.Before problems started the comp would sometimes randomly restart or crash when playing games on high settings - also had a crash with green and purple lines so assuming its the gpu dying? GPU is a GTX660 - temps are 57degrees celcius idle - goes up to 95degrees celcius when playing games and crashes around there - are those temps normal?
4. I use Speedfan to monitor my speeds and the fan that seems to be going "nuts" is "Fan1" idles at 2700rpm and goes up to 5000rpm under heavy load - anyone know which fan this is and which component it relates to on a x51?
5. With all these issues and my fans running like a Boeing jet I thought its time to upgrade / replace a possibly faulty GPU to a...
PNY GeForce GTX 960 XLR8 4GB Graphics Card VCGGTX9604XPB
Is this a correct upgrade for my R1 and 330watt machine? Anything I should be mindful of when using this card? is the 4gb better than the 2gb?
6. Would a better path be to upgrade to a R2 board and run a gtx980 reference design? Anyone running this setup with no issues on a R2 (or R1 if possible?) board?
1. I bought my x51 back in 2012 - from what I understand its a i7-3770 so Ivy Bridge and is R1 (i think) Weird thing is my PSU is 330 (XM3C3) so is it possible to have R1 power board with 330watt psu?
2. Anyhow past few weeks its been real laggy - takes a while to open windows while web surfing - stutters when scrolling down pages just reading text (like it needs time to load the pages) - stutters when I type fast. Never did this before..does it sound like a video card issue? or a memory issue?
3. Ran dell diagnostics and it said the video card is fine - hard to believe tho.Before problems started the comp would sometimes randomly restart or crash when playing games on high settings - also had a crash with green and purple lines so assuming its the gpu dying? GPU is a GTX660 - temps are 57degrees celcius idle - goes up to 95degrees celcius when playing games and crashes around there - are those temps normal?
4. I use Speedfan to monitor my speeds and the fan that seems to be going "nuts" is "Fan1" idles at 2700rpm and goes up to 5000rpm under heavy load - anyone know which fan this is and which component it relates to on a x51?
5. With all these issues and my fans running like a Boeing jet I thought its time to upgrade / replace a possibly faulty GPU to a...
PNY GeForce GTX 960 XLR8 4GB Graphics Card VCGGTX9604XPB
Is this a correct upgrade for my R1 and 330watt machine? Anything I should be mindful of when using this card? is the 4gb better than the 2gb?
6. Would a better path be to upgrade to a R2 board and run a gtx980 reference design? Anyone running this setup with no issues on a R2 (or R1 if possible?) board?
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