I once had a PC explode form doing that, nah your fine dude, if your happy with the FPS at high settings in the games you play then Saul's Goodman

as long as temps are not over 95c and its not throttling its fine

It will throttle itself if it gets too hot. Might lower the lifespan if it's constantly throttling, but catastrophic failure is unlikely.

there can always be tweaks done to make things better.....

case in point....i ran my 3080 at stock settings for the first 2 years because its a EVGA hybrid water cooled card with a 240mm radiator on it.....but after tweaking and really digging in to things i found out i could get my memory junction temps down from 94C to 72C with a undervolt on my GPU core not only giving me better temps but better FRAME RATES AT LOWER TEMPS


so for YOU.....if you listed you hardware we could say under volt the GPU and CPU or make sure your memory speeds are set right.....but we cant until we know what hardware YOU have.....

also a good idea to set up HARDWARE INFO and run it when gaming to see whats really going on....it even has a frame rate counter....google "HWiNFO"

Your first mistake was paying attention to Can You Run It, it's a notoriously inaccurate website.

What are your specs?

Operating System: Windows 11
Processor: 13th Gen Intel(R) core(TM) i5-13400F
Ram: 16 GB
Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
Sound Card: NVIDIA High Definition Audio

Originally posted by smokerob79:

there can always be tweaks done to make things better.....

case in point....i ran my 3080 at stock settings for the first 2 years because its a EVGA hybrid water cooled card with a 240mm radiator on it.....but after tweaking and really digging in to things i found out i could get my memory junction temps down from 94C to 72C with a undervolt on my GPU core not only giving me better temps but better FRAME RATES AT LOWER TEMPS


so for YOU.....if you listed you hardware we could say under volt the GPU and CPU or make sure your memory speeds are set right.....but we cant until we know what hardware YOU have.....

also a good idea to set up HARDWARE INFO and run it when gaming to see whats really going on....it even has a frame rate counter....google "HWiNFO"

was it a factory waterblock?
if not, you probably removed the cooling from the gpus memory, which would be why it was overheating and throttling

Originally posted by _I_:

Originally posted by smokerob79:

there can always be tweaks done to make things better.....

case in point....i ran my 3080 at stock settings for the first 2 years because its a EVGA hybrid water cooled card with a 240mm radiator on it.....but after tweaking and really digging in to things i found out i could get my memory junction temps down from 94C to 72C with a undervolt on my GPU core not only giving me better temps but better FRAME RATES AT LOWER TEMPS


so for YOU.....if you listed you hardware we could say under volt the GPU and CPU or make sure your memory speeds are set right.....but we cant until we know what hardware YOU have.....

also a good idea to set up HARDWARE INFO and run it when gaming to see whats really going on....it even has a frame rate counter....google "HWiNFO"

was it a factory waterblock?
if not, you probably removed the cooling from the gpus memory, which would be why it was overheating and throttling

wow.....all 3000 series cards have crazy high temps on memory as out of the box founder editions would often hit 92C in a 72F environment....again OUT OF THE BOX as in new......

and yes its a factory hybrid card

https://www.evga.com/products/specs/gpu.aspx?pn=4f6a726e-36ff-4a21-a182-639afd63013c

Originally posted by ZadeHD:

Operating System: Windows 11
Processor: 13th Gen Intel(R) core(TM) i5-13400F
Ram: 16 GB
Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
Sound Card: NVIDIA High Definition Audio

OK this is something to work with.....since you have a 13 series you really need to under volt the CPU and make sure the bios is up to date so you dont fry the CPU as a ton of board makers really over volted on this gen!!! its not just about temps its about getting the CPU to last.....
watch a bunch of youtube videos....its not hard to undervolt

as for the GPU there is a ton of things you can do to get better frame rates but its going to come back to how you want the games to look....first person shooter run lowest settings on EVERYTHING and single player stuff like cyber punk watch a couple of videos on settings and play with them.....

if you can do anything to get out of that 3050 you would be better off.....your CPU can support so much more.....

Originally posted by smokerob79:

Originally posted by ZadeHD:

Operating System: Windows 11
Processor: 13th Gen Intel(R) core(TM) i5-13400F
Ram: 16 GB
Graphic Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
Sound Card: NVIDIA High Definition Audio

OK this is something to work with.....since you have a 13 series you really need to under volt the CPU and make sure the bios is up to date so you dont fry the CPU as a ton of board makers really over volted on this gen!!! its not just about temps its about getting the CPU to last.....
watch a bunch of youtube videos....its not hard to undervolt

as for the GPU there is a ton of things you can do to get better frame rates but its going to come back to how you want the games to look....first person shooter run lowest settings on EVERYTHING and single player stuff like cyber punk watch a couple of videos on settings and play with them.....

if you can do anything to get out of that 3050 you would be better off.....your CPU can support so much more.....

my motherboard is a Acer Nitro N50-650 is that one that fries CPUs? according to the Acer web site i have the latest bios update which is R01-B1

like i said in my original post i'm new to PC gaming so i do not know much about computer parts which graphic card would you recommend for my CPU?

Originally posted by ZadeHD:

my motherboard is a Acer Nitro N50-650

So just a pre built Acer PC, if you did want a faster GPU for that build you would probably need a new PSU also, they don't tend to leave much upgrade headroom, could have a funny custom motherboard too you would have to check.

https://us.v-cdn.net/6029997/uploads/TVZCR36NTYW2/image.png

this mobo, will not be able to kill any cpu
the board will die before anything else

its 4+1 or 3+1+1, no vrm cooling
60-80w to the cpu cores max

13400f = 65-165w
with that board, it will never be able to hit turbo clocks or even hold base clocks for an extended period

You'll be fine as is, some minor tweaking could help, but running stuff at high ir ultra settings on your hardware won't hurt the components, the game will Judy run at low fps, but, if you are happy with it, that's, all that matters.

I ran a 3950 8GB on a 13400 fir a couple of years and found by using dlss quality, at 1440p or 1080p and a mix of medium and high settings I could get most games to run at 60fps or more on average.

There is no need to run everything on low the 3050 8GB model is capable of more than people give it credit for, though, you'd get a more enjoyable experience by most people's standards if you tweaked the settings a but, especially if you are on the 6GB model not the 8GB one.

Originally posted by ZadeHD:

before i start i was a console gamer till recently

i have been playing games either ultra, very high or high setting and i didn't think that much about it. but i went onto System Requirements Lab to check if i could play cyberpunk 2077 and then decided to check the other game i have.

i found out that most of the games i was playing my computer only met the minimum requirement, so i checked online and every post i found said that minimum meant you can only play on lowest setting without problems, but the games i checked i have been playing for a good chunk of time at the highest setting and there has been no issues.

am i slowly cooking my computer

You need to know your temperatures. That said, modern hardware have safeties in place to throttle or shutdown if they get too hot.