I haven't spent much time messing around with HDD Regenerator myself. Why don't you grab CrystalDiskInfo instead? If you want, just drop a screenshot here—we can take a look together and see what's going on with the drive. Honestly, it isn't rocket science; there are really just three main scenarios:
A blue status means everything is looking good—your drive is healthy and running smoothly. Yellow means things are starting to get a little dicey—it'll actually tell you exactly what the issues are. Red means your drive is basically on its last legs. If you see that, please—for the love of everything—back up all your important files immediately and start browsing for a replacement.
If it’s been quite a while since you last did a clean install of macOS, you should probably just wipe the drive and start fresh with a brand-new version of macOS.
Yeah, you're right about that, but honestly, the game feels way more fluid now 😁 if they could just dial back the GPU usage, though—that would be a total dream.
There could be a few different culprits here—for instance, dust buildup can really mess with your temps. It doesn't matter if you've got 65 fans running in your case; the dust is going to find its way in eventually. You might want to download a little utility called HWMonitor and take a look at what those temperatures are actually doing.
Also, there's always the possibility that the power supply is acting up...
Just so you know, the warranty covers individual components—so each part has its own separate coverage.
An SSD should be plenty for your needs since you aren't exactly running a hundred different programs on an office workstation, right? If you really feel like 60GB isn't going to cut it, then just go ahead and grab the 120GB version—you've got enough in the budget for that upgrade anyway.
David Sanders4 said:Is yours a 16:10 monitor too? And do you happen to have Dying Light? I was just looking over my memory usage earlier—and noticed that my GPU usage tends to hover right around 50% quite often.😲
I just wrapped up Dying Light and ended up uninstalling it once I hit the credits—nothing against it, just moving on to the next thing. By the way, I’ve been hearing from a few people that the gameplay feels incredibly smooth and polished now that they've installed the latest 1.4.0 patch. If you haven't grabbed that update yet, you really should give it a shot and see if you notice the difference.
EDIT: My monitor resolution is 1680x1050—so, honestly, I think I’ll just go ahead and redownload the game and run that update again to see what happens. I was actually just watching some YouTube videos featuring the latest patch, and apparently, the game isn't even hitting 3300MB? It looks like the update really did its job quite well.
I turned on DSR and set it to 4.00x 😬 I fired up Tomb Raider and bumped the resolution up to 3360x2100—keeping everything else on Ultra—and ended up getting about 40 to 43 FPS. Honestly, I’m pretty impressed; I didn't realize this card had this much kick in it. GPU usage sat right around 2.2 to 3 GB, which is actually quite 👍
I don't actually have any games installed right now—well, except for Tomb Raider, which is pretty much locked at 60fps on Ultra settings, and I've got Dirt 3 sitting there too. 😁 Maybe I'll give those settings a shot just to see how that 4K resolution looks on my 1680x1050 monitor. 😛
I mean, seriously, who put this together? It feels like it was slapped together by someone who barely knows their way around a motherboard 👎—everything is technically compatible, sure, but we're looking at a Z97 chipset paired with an i3 processor, 16GB of RAM, and a graphics card that isn't even built for gaming... why even go that route?
Does it swallow up more than 3.5GB of RAM? I'm curious how the GPU handles things—specifically once you toggle DSR on. I've got an Asus board myself, but I haven't really messed around with those settings yet. Thanks a ton! 👍