Noirgheos

Yeah I'll likely get the 9600. It's also $110 so it's the cheapest of the bunch.

Not in Canada. They go for well over $200 normally here, and according to price history it's not common to see them go below $150 CAD. Guessing the three I mentioned aren't too good?

SHP9500 is available for $125, and for what it's worth, I did enjoy them, so rebuying them isn't a terrible thing imo. SHP9600 is $110, and the HD559 is also $125. Mostly going to use these for competitive gaming. Recommendations?

I only have the chipset software and Ryzen Master installed (set to check for updates every 365 days). I delete the file and it appears at least once a day. Any ideas? Got a 5700x in my system, only AMD component.

Yeah I was using Open Hardware Monitor and HWINFO64 but Ryzen Master showed it it going to around 500MHz with just Chrome open. Guess I'll just order a better cooler in the future to cut down on noise. Arctic LF 240mm looks good.

Just built a new PC with: 5700x | MSI X570S Edge Max Wifi | 2x8GB DDR4-3600 C16 I've tried using the balanced power plan (and manually editing it to make sure that the minimum state is 5%) to no avail. It can only boost up when needed like while I'm playing games. Normally I wouldn't care, but I'm worried about longevity in this case. Using an NH-U12S and it can get up to 78C seemingly randomly but generally stays below 75C when playing CPU-intensive games like Valorant or RDR2. Not sure if that matters too much but the fan on the cooler is incredibly loud because of this, it's constantly at 50% speed according to fancontrol but it can go higher when needed. I tried maximum performance plan too and same thing, constantly 3.6GHz until it needs to boost. For reference I'm in UEFI mode and my BIOS is from May 2022, latest on MSI's site is from September, should I bother updating? In benchmarks I've noticed my multi-core scores (Cinebench R23 and Geekbench) are a little lower than usual but my single-core appears fine.

Ah ok, fair enough. Also, if I only care about getting gaming performance as seen in benchmarks from the likes of HWUnboxed and Gamer's Nexus, should I bother with PBO? Heard there were bug with it in the latest BIOS versions.

For reference, is it only necessary for the higher-power CPUs like the 5900x? Or is it useful if I want to overclock my 5800x? I don't mind getting a new PSU, this one's fully refundable.

Here is the board in question: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MAG-X570S-TOMAHAWK-MAX-WIFI For CPU power, there's an 8-pin plus an extra 4-pin. Should I plug both in? My PSU is a Seasonic 850W PX Prime, and it looks like the CPU power cables only allow them to be plugged in as 8 pins. Doesn't seem like one of them can be split to make a 4-pin. Should I just leave it unplugged? Or should I find a PSU with cables that let me plug in that 4-pin?

So if I'm truly worried about that my best bet would be to get 4K, so everything scales perfectly?

So for a game that presumably has UI assets designed around 1080p (and aren't vectors), would they look aliased or blurry playing at 1440p?

Shouldn't scaling to an odd factor of 25% or 75% create blurry text?

I have an LG 27UK650 right now but I was looking to get an upgrade to 144Hz, and I've gone through two XG27AQs before giving up on them, a Gigabyte G27Q, and an LG 27GN850-B, and they all look absolutely horrid compared to my old 4K60 monitor. Do they just bin the panels super low for so-called "gaming" monitors? I do take take into account that they are different resolutions, and even then. They just look bad overall.

I got one used and it came with the stand detached and no screws, seller said to use 13.4mm Phillips #1 screws, which brings up no results. What exactly am I looking for? Some results say M4 but I see different types of M4 screws available.

Got them, tried them out, and honestly I think I might be doing something wrong. The G3 sounds just as low as my line-in.