u/Interesting_Speech41

Hey all, I have a 5070 dual fan MSI Ventus in my SFF. It's nice and I get totally fine performance for what I paid IMO. However it seems to run pretty hot. In games like Oblivion remastered and Alan Wake 2 and Forza it gets to like 80+ degrees and then the fans start going insane and it's so loud I can't even hear the game. Fan Control app has helped a lot with the curves in some games, I have a fairly exponential setting where it the fan speed stays pretty low up til about 70/75 and then ramps up to 100% at 90c.

In oblivion capping the frame rate at 60 definitely helps but AW2 even with 'performance' upscaling mode, and DLSS (should I be using this?) and other sensible settings it will still just go balls to the walls and quickly gets up to 85%.

I really don't mind capping at 60fps for any triple A type game, but the fan speed is driving me nuts

I tried after burner following a youtube video where I find the mhz @ voltage when AW2 is stable, but those values dont really match the curve in afterburner. Beyond that I tried raising the curve, but when I re-entered the game the voltage stayed the same, but my clock was a lot higher, and fan speed was almost worse. So more of an OC type effect. Not sure what I'm doing wrong

Should I try the 'temp limit' or 'power limit' modes instead, or maybe I need to retry the undervolting again..

At any rate just looking to get the temps down a bit without nuking my FPS. Happy to answer any followup or join discord w/e. Thanks

Hey guys, forgive a possibly stupid question.

I’m getting set up on a new PC and started testing recording tonight, but I ran into something unexpected.

I have a Cordoba Stage electric nylon running DI into a Zoom AMS-22 in Ableton. I’m reasonably familiar with recording/monitoring setup, using a sensible buffer size, monitoring through Adam D3Vs, etc.

What I’m hearing is a really loud low-end “thump” or almost kick drum-like transient on the attack of every note. The actual note sounds comparatively quiet. It’s extremely noticeable even when fingerpicking very softly (no pick), and it seems mostly pitch-independent.

Important part: I do NOT notice this when playing the guitar through a 1W Marshall amp — it sounds beautiful there.

So far I’ve tried:

Zoom AMS-22
Motu M4
Ableton + Audacity
different buffer/settings
new battery in the guitar

Same result every time.

I also tested a different guitar (Gibson CS-336). It sounds better overall, but I still hear a much more pronounced transient than I’d expect from a clean DI recording.

Definitely not clipping. Input levels are conservative and the transient is audible even at super low playing volume.

I’ve read that piezo DI recordings can sound pretty harsh/quacky, but this feels unusually extreme. Is this:

normal piezo behavior?
something about my monitoring/setup?
possibly an issue with the Cordoba electronics?
or just the reality of recording DI acoustic/piezo instruments?

I’ll include a Drive folder with:

recordings
waveform screenshots
example with EQ
example using Pulse 2 + acoustic IRs
example with EQ + Pulse 2 + compression

The most telling examples are:

the second half of “thump_cordoba_stage.wav”
“thump_cordoba_1.png”

High-passing / rolling off lows below ~150hz definitely helps. The IR loader also seems to help somewhat.

I’m not against buying something like the VoicePrint or ToneDexter if it truly solves this, but I’m skeptical whether it’s actually a night-and-day improvement versus just EQ/IR processing in the DAW.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be hugely appreciated. Also any advice for recording DI, or other methods.