Primary System Specifications

Affiliate disclosure CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 Chromax LTT edition GPU: AsRock Radeon 5700 XT (reference blower design) MB: Gigabyte Aorus Ultra x570 Case: Corsair Carbide Series 275R (Glass side panel) PSU: Corsair 860W AX860i 80+ Platinum RAM: G.Skill 32GB (2×16) RipJaws V 3200Mhz C16 NVMe 1: Sabrent 1TB Rocket PCIe 4.0… Continue reading Primary System Specifications

Razer Death Adder Essential

One of my favorite mice thus far, it looks sharp in white or black and it tracks exceptionally well. Holds up to use and abuse even gaming hard for hundreds of hours. Comes in black or white models.

AMD Radeon DRIVER GLITCH

AMD Radeon Driver 20.4.1 This is one of the bugs that exist in the recent AMD drivers for the 5700 XT. It may also exist for other AMD cards with this driver or for this card on the 20.4.2 or 20.5.1 driver. This one was very difficult to isolate. I enabled the “Video Replay” feature… Continue reading AMD Radeon DRIVER GLITCH

Userbench fails Sphere graphics test. Possible solution.

If you are experiencing an error running the userbench suite of tests, and the error indicates “ERROR: Sphere GPU benchmark failed, aborting further tests on this GPU” then this MAY solve your issue. I isolated this error on my system to the Nahimic service that is a part of the Realtek Audio driver package. To… Continue reading Userbench fails Sphere graphics test. Possible solution.

Another AMD RADEON Driver Update that mostly fails

AMD released 20.1.2 Version of the AMD RADEON drivers on January 15th of 2020. This new driver is supposed to enhance the features of online streaming. I still have to revert to the 19.11.3 version to get basic functionality for all of the games I play on a regular basis. HELLO AMD are you listening… Continue reading Another AMD RADEON Driver Update that mostly fails