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GTX 1060 troubleshooting update (and may help anyone upgrading or doing a fresh install of the GTX 10x0 cards).

Windows Device Manager would recognize the card, or so I thought. The cooling fan would not spin up except during the boot process. Once Windows loaded it shut down.

I did the usual reseat, check the power, put in my old card and verify there were no motherboard or power issues, reinstalled the 1060, deleted the Nvidia drivers, numerous reboots....nothing. Google to the rescue and mad props to EVGA for keeping this out of the owner's manual:

Go into Device Manager and then View -> Hidden Devices. The card showed up. Right-click and update the drivers. Even if they are an older version you can fix this later via Nvidia's website/ GeForce Experience. Your card should now be in business. The fan though? It won't kick in until the card registers 60 degrees Celsius. I confirmed this via HWMonitor. I've never had an Nvidia or EVGA card do these things, but maybe this will help a few of you should you upgrade. The difference between the 6GB 1060 and my 2GB 770 is amazing. I scored mine on sale through Amazon for 215, but it is now 253 with others running from 230 to 280 and higher.
 
AWP said:
The fan though? It won't kick in until the card registers 60 degrees Celsius. I confirmed this via HWMonitor. I've never had an Nvidia or EVGA card do these things, but maybe this will help a few of you should you upgrade.
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Use XOC (from NVidia's site) to change the fan settings to whatever you'd like.

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From 2 days ago, but another opportunity to spend your hard-earned money.

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-humble-store-spring-sale-begins-today/

It's time to check how much money you have in your bank account, because the Humble Store Spring Sale begins today, May 11, and lasts until May 25. A whole range of the big game publishers will have their own bundles on the store during this time, but they all start on different dates, so we'll make sure to keep you updated. Starting from today, we have WB Games, Kalypso, and Bandai Namco.
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Hiya guys. I have a quick question. I'm taking a GIS course and was looking at getting an gaming laptop. Currently looking at an ASUS ROG STRIX or at the ACER Inspire VX 15 laptops. Anyone have any better suggestions for what I should get?

Amazon.com: Acer Aspire VX 15 Gaming Laptop, 7th Gen Intel Core i7, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, 15.6 Full HD, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, VX5-591G-75RM: Electronics

Amazon.com: ASUS ROG Strix GL553VE 15.6" Gaming Laptop GTX 1050Ti 4GB Intel Core i7-7700HQ 16GB DDR4 256GB SSD + 1TB 7200RPM HDD RGB Keyboard: Electronics
 
Bought the wife a Razer Blade Stealth and the Razer Core a few months ago. Tossed a GeForce GTX 1080 in the Core and hooked up dual 24" curved monitors. She better not ask for any computer shit for a very, very long time.
 
Teufel said:
Nerds. I don't understand anything in this thread.
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You bang on things with rocks. We also bang on things with rocks, but the rocks are shinier, and sometimes emit sparks. And they cost as much as a used car.

Edit: the car is made of rocks.
 
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Sorry for the late reply, so don't get the ROG? Or get the ROG? I am a total dum dum when it comes to laptops. I understand that I want to have the newest intel processor, at least 16 gigs of ram , and an Nvidia graphics card. Does anyone have any better suggestions? I'm probably going to spend around 1000.00 maybe more or less. I doubt ill get to use it much as a gaming laptop, but I would like to have a computer that will keep up with updated geographic information software suites, like ArcGIS.
 
R.Caerbannog said:
Sorry for the late reply, so don't get the ROG? Or get the ROG? I am a total dum dum when it comes to laptops. I understand that I want to have the newest intel processor, at least 16 gigs of ram , and an Nvidia graphics card. Does anyone have any better suggestions? I'm probably going to spend around 1000.00 maybe more or less. I doubt ill get to use it much as a gaming laptop, but I would like to have a computer that will keep up with updated geographic information software suites, like ArcGIS.
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The G751 Asus ROG that I am on right now requires an alternative fan control program in order to have some semblance of playing games reliably without a complete system thermal shutdown, and you still have some screen resets (black screen midgame going back to active gameplay, while the system continued to otherwise operate) among other issues. If you try to let the stock fan control software conduct it's thing, it will cook the shit out of the system like it's trying to deep fry onion rings with a side of Intel.

They are relatively notorious for having shoddy internal construction (Bent cooling fins on radiating elements from the factory, poor application and types of thermal compounds) as well as some of the most useless bloatware on the market. The hardware itself also has some stupid features that are basically useless to boot. I have this fantastic Steam button that serves no purpose other than to start and kick Steam into "Big Screen" mode on the computer (which is dumb as a box of rocks imho) and another couple buttons like that... that you cannot reconfigure easily to do anything else, and/or disable them completely so if you DO happen to tag it hunting for ESC, you're not all of a sudden kicked out of whatever you were doing. So, even if you're playing a non-steam game, all of a sudden you hunt for ESC or try to grab a macro key and now you're stuck bounced out of your game waiting for steam to load and go fullscreen before you can even exit out of it.

Honestly, I'm looking at MSI for the next big laptop(s) for the family and offloading this as soon as possible. Pretty much, this system has proven to be the last straw with regards to Asus "Anything" with the family. The only good Asus anything we've had were our Asus Transformer tablets.
 
Ranger Psych said:
The G751 Asus ROG that I am on right now requires an alternative fan control program in order to have some semblance of playing games reliably without a complete system thermal shutdown, and you still have some screen resets (black screen midgame going back to active gameplay, while the system continued to otherwise operate) among other issues. If you try to let the stock fan control software conduct it's thing, it will cook the shit out of the system like it's trying to deep fry onion rings with a side of Intel.

They are relatively notorious for having shoddy internal construction (Bent cooling fins on radiating elements from the factory, poor application and types of thermal compounds) as well as some of the most useless bloatware on the market. The hardware itself also has some stupid features that are basically useless to boot. I have this fantastic Steam button that serves no purpose other than to start and kick Steam into "Big Screen" mode on the computer (which is dumb as a box of rocks imho) and another couple buttons like that... that you cannot reconfigure easily to do anything else, and/or disable them completely so if you DO happen to tag it hunting for ESC, you're not all of a sudden kicked out of whatever you were doing. So, even if you're playing a non-steam game, all of a sudden you hunt for ESC or try to grab a macro key and now you're stuck bounced out of your game waiting for steam to load and go fullscreen before you can even exit out of it.

Honestly, I'm looking at MSI for the next big laptop(s) for the family and offloading this as soon as possible. Pretty much, this system has proven to be the last straw with regards to Asus "Anything" with the family. The only good Asus anything we've had were our Asus Transformer tablets.
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Golly, thank you for the info. Will definitely look at the MSI for a new laptop. I was reading the amazon reviews about the ROG laptops being notorious for overheating issues, but I wasn't sure if it was hoopla. Was a big fan of ASUS, but now I know that there are better options out there. Thank you.
Plus, it helps getting advice from people who actually game on their laptops. Definitely don't want to get stuck with a lemon since I'm kindof computer gaming illiterate.
 
R.Caerbannog said:
Golly, thank you for the info. Will definitely look at the MSI for a new laptop. I was reading the amazon reviews about the ROG laptops being notorious for overheating issues, but I wasn't sure if it was hoopla. Was a big fan of ASUS, but now I know that there are better options out there. Thank you.
Plus, it helps getting advice from people who actually game on their laptops. Definitely don't want to get stuck with a lemon since I'm kindof computer gaming illiterate.
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For $1000, you're gonna have a tough time getting what you want. I'm a big fan of Alienware. I would love a MSI, but I don't have $5000 laying around. You could check out the RAZeR Blade. It's packing a GTX 1060. But it's a 14". Maybe check out demo models on sale at Best Buy. There's good deals there from time to time
 
macNcheese said:
For $1000, you're gonna have a tough time getting what you want. I'm a big fan of Alienware. I would love a MSI, but I don't have $5000 laying around. You could check out the RAZeR Blade. It's packing a GTX 1060. But it's a 14". Maybe check out demo models on sale at Best Buy. There's good deals there from time to time
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You mean overpriced Dell's?
 

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