I discovered this when I finally got desperate enough to try reseating the GPU, went to unplug the HDMI cable from it, and realized that the HDMI cable was in fact not plugged into the GPU
Anyway, I’m loving my new prebuilt PC
I’ve done this a few times. It happens
Many such cases.
I used to play Fall Guys on my PC I built and I had weird frame drops all over the place no matter what I did. And that game is not very graphically demanding.
Turned out I had placed my GPU into the PCIe 2.0 slot instead of the 3.0
Your computer was working overtime to send all the data via that cups-and-string connection.
It was odd though, 95% of games didn’t have that problem. I am guessing it was partially because that game heavily uses PhysX for physics calcs? The frame drops always happened when a ton of bean people were ragdolling.
Pffft, couldn’t be me.I mean I literally couldn’t do that, because I’ve done it in the past and now have masking tape placed over the output from the mobo.
so you now have two PC towers? please make a paper plane and throw it at one of them as a bit
I like the way you think.
Anyway, I’m loving my new prebuilt PC
May it serve you well!
lol did you really end up buying a prebuilt?
Yeah
It’s an iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07
Someone in a previous thread warned me against iBuyPower based on video reviews of some of their systems, but in my defense I had already bought it by the time I read their comment
In my further defense, this PC has shown none of the problems that plagued the systems reviewed in those videos. Good benchmark scores, no assembly issues or scuffing/damage that I noticed when I was plugging in the GPU/my old HDD, and based on sum of component costs at PC Price Picker I paid a reasonable price for what it included. I’m happy with it so far
I’m glad you got up and running!
I mean… it still shouldn’t go black. There’s no reason why two video cards can’t work at the same time.
There are some CPUs (like the AMD Ryzen I’m currently running) that don’t support on board graphics. So even if your motherboard has a spot for an on board HDMI it won’t actually work. I’m assuming this is the case for OP.
Yeah or it could be configured to disable the igpu if there’s a dgpu installed
Which is probably a good thing to do in prebuilts to prevent people from accidentally using the iGPU and wondering why their performance is so bad
They generally have that port blocked off or a text saying ”Don’t plug your cable here” for that reason.
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Well if I had a million dollars
