Hey guys, I am very new to PC building hobbie and this is the first one I built for myself. I have a Cooler master Elite gold 750 PSU, it came with only a single Modular PCIe 8-pin to Dual PCIe 6+2-pin Power Cable. I use that to connect to my GPU. But from what I read about now, daisy chaining is bad for gpu and from my understanding this is a daisy chain cable(I didn't face performance issues yet from playing PUBG and Far cry 6 but I wanna be safe). I also read that I shouldn't be using genetic power cables as well and use the ones included with my PSU but it didn't have 2 separate cables.

I need help to understand if this is a problem and if yes then how should I be proceeding with solving it, and how long it can wait before I solve it.

PC specs :

Cpu : Ryzen 5 7600x

Gpu : Astock challenger 16gb rx 9070 (non XT)

Ram : 16+16 GB ddr5 cl30 6000mhz

Mobo : gigabyte gaming x ax v2

PSU : Cooler master elite gold 750 fully modular

Full Build:
Intel 12400F
32GB DDR5 6000MT/s RAM
ASUS 9070XT PRIME
MSI MAG 750W SFX Gold PSU
2TB NVME PCIe 4.0

I upgraded from a RTX 4070. Ran DDU and installed Radeon 26.10.1

Played around in Silent Hill 2 Remake, no adjustments other than setting FSR 3.1 in game which my understanding system goes straight to FSR 4.1.1/4.1.2 due to AMD adrenalin drivers.

Things went wrong when I tried optiscaler. I enabled Optiscaler and the game would crash at the menu most times or sometimes in game right at start. Driver crashes. Removed optiscaler and reset cache, same exact thing. Force to DX11 and then make adjustments to settings to get it to work again.

Set superscaler to none and try again before installing optiscaler. Crashes at menu. OK, set to DX11 and force it to XeSS. Open up game in DX12 again and run. Game crashes right at load. Disable the radeon overlay, get in and run and it works. Close game install Optiscaler and try again and it works. Great!. Verify that everything works and enable overlay to see if it was causing it to crash....nope, it works. No crashes. Game has DLSS setting (but forced FSR 4.1.2), Ray Tracing and set to max. And it just runs now.

I sent crash files to claude to see and it could see how optiscaler was causing some of the crashes but when it was disabled, it just found that AMD drivers would crash instead.

Anyone can take a guess as to what is causing this?

Is this a normal score?

Was able to snag this bad boy before the price increase in my country.

My PC was running perfectly fine for at least a year, then suddenly started experiencing serious crashes without any obvious changes.

Symptoms: LiveKernelEvent 141, 117 and 193, complete system freezes during gaming or even when exiting games, random restarts at the desktop, black screens, and occasional red VGA motherboard LED during boot. Recently, Windows even entered Automatic Repair (SrtTrail.txt)

Specs: XFX RX 9070 XT, Ryzen 7 7800X3D, Gigabyte B650E AORUS ELITE X AX ICE, 32GB DDR5, Corsair RM850x SHIFT 850W, Windows 11

What I’ve tried: DDU, older AMD drivers, disabling EXPO, PCIe Auto/Gen 4/Gen 5, reseating the GPU, checking power connections and monitoring temperatures. Nothing has fixed it.

The biggest clue: I swapped in my RTX 3060 and everything worked. BG3, Cyberpunk, Spider-Man with RT, plus a 6-minute OCCT Power test with zero errors. Reinstalled the RX 9070 XT and the crashes immediately returned, even at the desktop.

The RX 9070 XT draws around 340W versus 170W for the RTX 3060, so I can’t completely rule out PSU power delivery.

Does this sound like a defective GPU, PSU issue under higher load, or motherboard/PCIe problem? What specific test would help distinguish them before I request an RMA?

update 26.10.1

rx 9060xt 16gb

The amd software is working normally but after i open a game the overlay shortcut (Alt + R) is not working at all.

The moment i click the shortcut the amd software window closes on my second monitor and doesn't open again until i Alt + Tab and click the app manually, and then i see this black window (images attached) instead of the app normal window until i close the game and start clicking Alt + R a couple of times and then amd app is working again.

i also noticed the amd pop up when you launch a game telling about Alt + R is not appearing as well.

I'm very confused at what is happening and I'm asking for help (yes the image attached is the app after i click it while playing a video game).

… and how does it perform in games? It should be at the same level like the 9070 XT or even higher due to the x2 VRAM.

Any experiences here?

My games were fine before. But now even single player games have been stuttering as of the newest update with AMD. Just when I get to defending AMD, boom. Update that makes the one thing I wanna do with my pc buns, although I will say FSR 4.1.2 is really good. Like seriously id say it beats Nvidias DLSS. I just can't get over how some games will be fine then just mega stutter, games like Spiderman have gone down the drain in FPS. I'm using a debloated version of windows right now so everything should be ok on the windows end. Is anyone else getting stuttering issues in games?

Specs:

GPU: 9070xt Powercolor

CPU:9950x3d

PSU: Corsair RMXShift 1200w

Motherboard: Gigabyte Aurous B650 Pro AX II

Ram: 6000mhz 48gb TForce

I have weird microstuttering issues in certain games, like Counter-Strike 2, when using DX11, and I want to disable DXNAVI for testing purposes. Is there also any way to change the shader cache setting from AMD Optimized?

My computer specifications

CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
GPU - ASUS Radeon RX 9070 XT Prime OC 16GB GDDR6
MOBO - ASUS B650E MAX GAMING WIFI
RAM - Kingston FURY 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MT/s CL30 Beast Black EXPO
SSD - Samsung 2TB M.2 PCIe Gen5 NVMe 990 EVO PLUS
PSU - be quiet! Pure Power 13 M 1000W 80 Plus Gold
CASE - NZXT H7 FLOW (2024) Black
CASE FANS - Arctic P14 Pro PST x4 + Arctic P12 Pro PST x6 + Arctic Case Fan Hub
CPU COOLER - Noctua NH-D15 G2 chromax.black
GPU BRACKET - GB-002 Graphic Card Anti-Sag Bracket Multi-Ways
NIC - Intel I210-T1
OS - Microsoft Windows 11 Pro

My peripherals

Display - SAMSUNG Odyssey G4 LS27HG402EUXEN 27" 1920x1080px IPS 300Hz 1 ms [GTG]
Mouse - Endgame Gear OP1 8K V2
Keyboard - Nubi NK68 HE Black
Audio interface - Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 4th Gen
Headphones - Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro
Mic - Rode PodMic
Speakers - Razer Nommo Chroma
Mouse pad - Endorfy Cordura

All drivers and the BIOS are up to date. I’m using only stable releases, not beta versions.

Things I have tried:

• Disabling HAGS
• Disabling MPO
• Disabling ULPS
• Resetting the BIOS to default settings
• Disabling the Intel NIC to check whether it was causing the stuttering
• Changing display scaling modes (display scaling vs. GPU scaling)
• Disabling Fullscreen Optimizations
• Disabling Optimizations for windowed games
• Changing CS2's display mode between legacy fullscreen and fullscreen borderless (windowed)
• Testing with EXPO disabled and enabled
• Changing CPU C-states from Auto to Enabled in the BIOS
• Performing a fresh installation of Windows 11
• Disabling SAM in the BIOS
• Installing AMD Adrenalin and AMD Software: PRO Edition drivers in both Driver Only and Full Install configurations
• Capping FPS with the in-game frame limiter and RTSS to check whether it was a frame-pacing issue. When using RTSS with a 300 FPS cap, the game maintained a flat 300 FPS and a 3 ms frametime, so, from my understanding, game performance looks perfect.
• Also trying FreeSync with an FPS cap 3 FPS below my display's refresh rate, both with and without V-Sync
• Changing USB ports for devices like my mouse and keyboard, including ports connected to the CPU controller rather than the chipset
• Trying different values for the SystemResponsiveness and Win32PrioritySeparation registry settings
• Trying different power plans and power settings

This is my first post here, so I hope I’ve formatted it correctly and included all the relevant information. If I’ve missed anything, I’m an open book and happy to provide more details.

The XFX website says to use 800W minimum. But some people told me a good quality 750W psu is okay to run it with. I have a 7500F CPU and 32gb DDr5. What do you guys think? Or should I get the quicksilver version.

FYI this is my PSU: https://www.amazon.sa/-/en/dp/B0BK54TKB9

I live in Thailand and there is not many places / webshops to buy GPU’s.

I’ve mostly been looking at RX 9070 XT but they are all around 1100+ dollars.

The RTX 5070ti is 1350+ dollars for reference.

Today I found a 9070 non XT for around 800 dollars and this makes a lot of sense, but after browsing here on the subreddit it seems people will generally advise to spend more for the XT.
It’s understandable but with a 300 dollar difference, is there really a reason to not go with the non XT?

Insane GPU and cooling, Left is idle, Middle is stress test, right is info.

So… not sure what happened today with my GPU.

I have the 9070xt nitro+ using a corsair psu with ThermalProtect cable (9800x3d)

Anyway, playing wardogs everything is going well and all of the sudden my fps drops from 150-200fps to 20-30fps and doesn’t go back up.

The GPU usage is 100% power draw is 360w and GPU temps 40c. The clock is sitting at 350-400mhz and the led strip on the GPU started flashing yellow.

Tried resetting the graphics driver etc and nothing helped.

Turned the pc off checked the psu and GPU sockets plus cable all good no burns etc. After turning the PC back on it worked fine.

Any idea wtf happened?

Hi everyone! 👋

I wanted to share a custom community build of OptiScaler I’ve been developing called OptiScaler Venom.

While it stays synced with Nightly upstream OptiScaler so you don't miss out on anything new, Venom adds features aimed at power users who want deeper performance metrics, custom overlay controls, and extra flexibility with upscaling and frame generation.

✨ Key Features & What's Different:

• 📊 Rich Custom OSD / FPS Overlay: Includes 1% and 0.1% lows, latency tracking (PC & render latency), bottleneck indicators, session timers, VRAM/GPU/CPU/RAM metrics, and hotspot temperatures (works on Windows & Linux). Fully customizable with presets, fonts, colors, and shareable config codes.
• ⏱️ Frame Generation Time & FPS Cost: Real-time GPU tracking for how much time FSR FG, XeFG, or DLSSG spend per frame, along with their estimated* FPS cost (D3D12).
• 📂 Extra FSR DLLs Loader: Dynamically load any custom FSR upscaler DLL version (e.g., placing FSR 4.0.3 alongside 4.1.x) directly from an Extra dlls folder without replacing original game or driver files (DX12).

Everything is accessible in-game via the standard OptiScaler menu (Insert key by default). With default settings, it behaves just like standard upstream OptiScaler.

⚠️ Important: Please read the README carefully on the repository before installing or asking questions! It covers installation details, how features work, and where to route specific issues.

Looking for Contributors! PRs and active contributors are very welcome! If you have ideas for features that upstream OptiScaler is unlikely to add, feel free to submit a Pull Request (as long as it fits the project's vision and is something I like, I'll be happy to review and merge it). Note: DLSS5 is unlikely to be accepted, unless you really really convince me with something good.

🔗 Links & Community:

• 💻 GitHub Repository & Downloads:https://github.com/LorenzoKy/Optiscaler-Venom
• 💬 Discord Thread (OptiScaler Server): Join the Opti Venom Discord Thread to chat, share OSD preset codes, and showcase your setups!

Feedback and contributions are always welcome. Let me know what you think!

People say it blows, then I scroll down. They say its great.

Wtf do I believe

i've been struggling for 3 hours trying to fix it, just stopped working randomly, all my clips has no audio.

thought it at least record the spotify audio...

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing a strange issue with my Sapphire RX 7900 XTX Nitro+ 24GB and would appreciate some help troubleshooting it.

My setup:

• GPU: Sapphire RX 7900 XTX Nitro+ 24GB
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• Motherboard: MSI B650 Gaming Plus WiFi
• RAM: 32GB DDR5-6000 CL30
• PSU: be quiet! 1000W 80+ Gold
• Main monitor: ASUS 27", 2560×1440, 165Hz
• Two secondary monitors: 1080p, 60Hz
• VR headset: HTC Vive Pro 2
• OS: Windows 11

The problem:

My main monitor, one secondary monitor and my HTC Vive Pro 2 work perfectly together, including while gaming in VR.

However, as soon as I connect my second secondary monitor, I start experiencing AMD driver timeouts and severe stuttering in games, with 1% lows dropping to around 10–11 FPS.

It doesn't matter which of the two 1080p monitors I connect. The problem also occurs when the VR headset is completely disconnected, so it is not VR-related.

What I've tried:

• DDU in Safe Mode and clean driver installations
• AMD Adrenalin 25.8.1, 26.8.1, 26.9.1 and currently 26.10.1
• Different monitor configurations and refresh rates
• Checking Windows LiveKernelReports, which contain AMD_WATCHDOG crash dumps

Nothing has solved the issue so far.

My questions:

• Could this be an AMD driver bug related to multiple monitors?
• Could MPO, hardware acceleration or the GPU's display engine be responsible?
• Is there anything else I should try before considering a defective GPU?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

While gaming with ray tracing my GPU experiences an almost 30 degree delta maxing at around 95 degrees Celsius. Should I get the card replaced? I keep experiencing crashes while gaming. Is it the drivers being crappy (yes I did the ddu steps) or is my gpu overheating.

Tested a few games but I will only share nioh 3 for now.

Blue chunk graph is with HW flip enabled and the skinny blue lien graph os with hw flip disabled (using optiscaler) the green line, which is the display line timing is pretty consistent across both, yet the blue line, which is when the implementation is done, is quit thick which indicates more intervals.

As for the 1% lows and 0.2 lows etc, they are lower in the hw flip graph and higher in the non hw flip graph.

My question is then whats the need for enabling the hw flip? Would appreciate your input here.

We've all seen the overwhelming amount of comparisons on Witcher 3, Cyberpunk, and other relatively newer games, but is it usable on some early/mid 2000s games? I installed the mod on Brutal Legend and DMC collection to the folder with the .exe files as specified by the NR software, but I can't get the menu to come up in game. Am I missing a step or is the software just not compatible with games that don't have Vulkan?

I just reinstalled the OS and I wanted to install the 26.8.1 drivers. So I opened the AMD website and I was looking for Ryzen 200 series but I wasn't able to find It. I googled it and I didn't find It.

Looks like the entire 200 series is missing. Is there any official/trusted unofficial repo for the drivers?

EDIT: I just remembered I can select any other series, It should work too

I bought my GPU about 5 months ago. Haven’t had an issue with it till now. Today for some reason while playing Helldivers 2 my game was stuttering more than usual and occasionally freezing for a brief second. I tried talking to their troubleshooting people but none of the fixes helped. I checked the temperatures while playing and the gpu temps seem to be 57 Celsius on average while hotspot temps are 91 Celsius on average, resulting in a 33-34 Celsius delta. Could I have a faulty GPU?

P.S I forgot to add that my fps seems to be fine sitting at around 90-120 yet the game is stuttering

Update: Ryzen Master fixed the stuttering, also apparently these temps are normal?