In reply to a post by Banger:

I just use them as boot drives which soon uses up the TBW counter. Having said that I have a Crucial MX200 500Gb I use as an archive from 2015 which is still showing 51% and has for years - depends on use.

I have a single 1Tb Samsung PRO SSD in my machine and its boot and data. I'm under 15% wear in 5 years. Maybe buy better drives ?

Yes the Pro range have higher TBW but it's still working and my Corsair has 715 TBW lifetime might be an aggressive SMART counter. It also has Samsung Nand chips.

I have two PC's with the OS running on a WD Black SN770 (500GB) and after 3 years of using them everyday they are both still on 98%

For a 7 year old the Corsair isn't doing too bad. Samsung will be my next choice.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

I have a single 1Tb Samsung PRO SSD in my machine and its boot and data. I'm under 15% wear in 5 years. Maybe buy better drives ?

I use corsair drives and never had that problem.
I have a few different ones now, a Crucial P3 NVMe 4TB and a 1tb Maxtor SATA in my Mac dock. I have a 2TB version of the Crucial in my PC and also a old corsair 250GB. All fine.

I also did buy a cheap Integral 1TB to pop into my pi mini nas.,

So GTX 1650 Super is in the PC and working nicely. Also cleaned my Denon amp pots and switches with switch cleaner which has solved the crackling on Volume and source switch.

|I still have a old AMD RX5700, it is getting on, but still works well for what I need. It was made by Sapphire. Before i changed to Mac and was thinking of updating the PC, i did think about getting a newer graphics card,
For what i do with the machine now, the rx5700 is fine. The thought of paying over £200 for a video card me off.
If i updated the board and CPU, the card would be a bit faster anyway as if can use a faster PCIe slot.

But at the moment, got other things on my mind, so spending very little.

The GTX 1650 Super I got has a slight fan rattle at 95% and after 5 minutes under load. Its a Palit variant and is a known problem. Apparently as the GPU heats up the fan blades possibly catch the shroud of the GPU.

Informed the seller and he kindly gave me £10 off refund. Offered full refund for return but will keep as spare or fit in my 2009 PC.

Ordered an Asus Phoenix PH-GTX1650-O4G to try which after some research does not suffer the same problem and has a dual bearing fan. So will give that a test on my main PC.

Grok has helped me stop the rattle! Seems the fan resonates at 95% which is a known problem so Grok has designed a fan speed curve for Gpu Tweak and Lact (Linux) so that the temperature never gets high enough to trigger 95% fan speeds in Furmark (stress testing).

Also limiting the power to 85W instead of 100W keeps temps down/fan speeds down so no noise and it loads at startup.

Have a replacement fan and some bearing oil on the way from China to give the card some more life.

You mean Grok have looked around the net and pinched other peoples designs