Dreigo42

As have I. I'm just wondering if people have been spoiled by LED monitors for so long that they've forgotten how to handle a display that can burn in. It used to just be a fact of life. Depending on how you used the screen, it would burn in something. Make sure you use a screensaver, turn off when not in use, and you're fine.

I'm old, having grown up with the old CRTs that were notorious for burn in. My question is to my fellow CRT old timers, do OLEDs burn in faster that CRTs did? It seems everyone is treating OLED with kid gloves when we've had screen savers, auto display off, and whatnot since the 90s. If I treat my OLED like I used to treat my CRT monitors (which never had burn it mind you), I feel like it should be fine. Or am I missing something?

Hey everyone! I need some advice. My office is in my finished attic so my "walls" are only about 3ish feet high in some places and then it follows the roofline up to normal height. My desk sits against one of those walls. My monitor on my desk tucks under the slope nicely but I'd like to mount a second one on the slanted wall above it. Has anyone tried a similar setup and do you have any tips or suggestions for mounts that would handle a 27" display? I can include pics but it will take me a bit.

What case if you don't mind me asking? I'm using a 780T

So just for LOLs, I decided to do a real quick n dirty OC on my Ryzen 7 1700. I punched in a vCore of 1.3 because it's the middle between the defaults and max recommended by AMD. Followed by a multiplier of 37 to run it at it's boost speed across all cores. Booted to Windows 10 without a hitch and fired up Aida 64 and ran the stability test. Never doubted it would be stable based on what others have done but I was curious about temps. See I didn't put a third party cooler on. I'm running the Wraith Spire that came with it until the 3rd party market support improves. Left it running for 6 hours. I come back and temps are reading at 47C with a peak of 51. My jaw hit the floor. So I checked it with HWMonitor. Same temps. Ran Ryzen Master. Same temps. Checked it with AI Suite. Same Temps. Thinking I must have lucked out and not applied the voltage increase, I fire up CPU-Z. Multiplier=37 / Base Clock = 100 / Core Voltage 1.2568 V Fan speed on the cooler was on a basic curve starting at 25% at going linear to 100% at 70C. The stock cooler can't be this good.......Can it?

You're welcome. Honestly, I'm not that familiar with Macs, I've used Windows and Linux for the majority of my life. I'd start with running chkdsk in the Command Prompt to check your disk. I'd also run any Mac utilities that can be used to check hardware. Forgive me but I just don't know what they are. As boot camp is, at least to my knowledge, a virtual enviroment, you may want to check in MacOS that everything is set up properly for Boot Camp. I'm sure there's guides for this online somewhere. That will make sure that the "BIOS" side of things is right. After that, drivers are the trickiest because I'm going to assume that most of your drivers came through Windows Update and I can't vouch for how they will be have in Boot Camp.

Then I would typically point to a driver or BIOS setting. Double check to make sure you are using drivers that are Boot Camp compatible. You may also want to check the health of your drives. Bad sectors can cause a total lockup like that if they have something critical in them.

Those can be tough. Did you make any changes recently?

Are you getting any errors or BOSDs? Or is it just a total lockup?

You can have OBS capture multiple audio sources. Including a seperate mic for the stream and one for say Discord. Just play around with it and see.

Are those your CPU or GPU Temps? It sounds like your GPU is hitting it's thermal limit and clocks are dropping with GPU Boost. In that situation, CPU usage would drop due to the GPU being too slow. Use something like Afterburner to monitor your core clock speeds and see if it starts to drop below the card's base clock.

Honestly, it depends. The only games that I ALWAYS use a controller for are racing games because you need to have analog control and I don't have room for a wheel. But I have my KB/M, an X360 controller and a Steam Controller and I just use whatever works best for the game I'm playing and where I'm playing it. I'm currently playing the first Witcher entirely with my Steam Controller.

Well my wife is in a masters program. Maybe I'll try using hers....

Because I'm using a second machine to actually record the footage. I've tried OBS and other local software recording and it has never looked as good as a hardware solution.

Thanks for all the info guys. I've decided to use their eval copy to tinker around with. This is actually what Microsoft recommended outside of taking one of their formal courses. Since I already have VirtualBox on my machine, I've set up 1 server VM and 4 host vms with windows 7-10 in a host only network to play with. when the eval or one of the clients freak out that they aren't "genuine", I'll just rebuild the VMs. This setup is what a rep from Microsoft and I came up with and he said it was perfectly OK to do. He said as long as I'm just playing around with it and not making a "permanent" setup, I can keep rebuilding these VMs for as long as I like.