Recent content by CompuNerd2K

Yeah Windows Memory Diagnostic says everything is fine, but Memtest86 blackscreens the minute I start the actual test. This could also be a bug so I will talk to Passmark about this, but what's concerning is the fact that when that happens my fan ramps up so maybe something is wrong with my RAM...

So about a week ago when I started using my laptop regularly again (can't exactly carry my desktop to Europe when visiting family for Christmas break), I noticed that it had started crashing every 2 hours even after I had seemingly perfected my undervolting. Basically freezing, screen blacking...

I have an Inspiron 15 7590 2in1. Was annoyed that Dell messed up the performance on a freaking $1500 laptop. Had to get rid of the undervolting last we but it still performs quite decent. Thing got unstable as all hell with undervolting and I couldn't fix it. I'm still usually hitting 36W max in...

@unclewebb is right about this... definitely not a conspiracy theory. Intel basically manufactures a bunch of chips, and the ones that come out the best have all their cores and features enabled and are sold as the higher end ones, while the worse binned ones that are not stable with everything...

Thanks for the info. I will try the driver update as I put old drivers when re-installing Windows in hopes of fixing some performance issues I had (kind worked), but hopefully the update fixes it. Had newer drivers before the re-install and that also had issue to say the least. Will try getting...

My laptop (listed in my profile's system specs) has been having on and off some weird behavior when trying to connect to WiFi. Sometimes it takes multiple attempts to get it to connect to my campus WiFi network, other times the WiFi card (Intel 9560) flat out disappears and re-appears (the...

No wasn't even aware that was a thing. I'd expect any decent SSD to have STANDARD health reporting. At the time I was still using CrystalDiskInfo (nowadays I use HDSentinel on my newer machines). The secondary SSD (A400 480GB) started having issues after a year where Windows would refuse to copy...

To add to @unclewebb and his suggestion to go through task manager, also use Microsoft Sysinternals Autoruns to deal with any hidden background junk that starts up with your system and then runs in the background putting unnecessary load on your CPU. This yields some sweet performance...

I once RMA-ed a radeon 240GB SSD that decided to start going bad exactly 2 years (right up to the DAY) after I got it. In the mean time I had purchased a new separate one as I needed a working computer. Put the warrantly replacement in a case and now a few month shy of 2 yeas since replacement...

I've had this laptop (i7-8565U + MX250 + 4K IPS variant) since August 2019. For the first several months it was absolutely great, working just fine even for games and all that jazz. Then a BIOS update hit in March which first caused my fans and thermals to go completely out of whack, and then it...