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I'm not a big gamer but when I do game I like to have as smooth of an experience as possible. It's not been the best on my mid range laptop so I'm thinking of getting myself a good workhorse/gaming rig. I'm looking at several monitors, one of which is 144hz, the BenQ XL2411Z. Currently I'm looking at getting the i7 6700k paired with the R9 390 from MSI. That's a powerful system and I'm expecting the fps to be over 60 quite a bit so I'm thinking about getting the XL2411Z so I don't have to deal with either tearing or limit the FPS. I don't watch movies on my computer, I have a dedicated media center for that. So, should I get that monitor? Or would I be better off getting a 60hz monitor with better colours and viewing angles and get slightly less powerful hardware, such as the i6 6600k ?

I disabled the nvidia virtual audio thing and at first I thought it had fixed the issue but no. It just happened again. Guess I can't run 10 on this laptop, which is less than 2 years old

Gaaah...this is driving me nuts! I went back to 8.1 Enterprise for a while but I tried a clean install of 10 Enterprise a few days ago. The issues with sleep and restart are back I suspect there is a setting somewhere in the power options that I'm missing. However the audio problem I discussed in the original post is still there and driving me nuts. It only happens a few times over the course of a day but it really shouldn't be happening at all! First I wondered if it was the Dolby Home Theater thingy that came with the driver but that is currently not installed and the issue remains and it's kinda needed anyway to have better audio. I'm also wondering if the issue could be the Nvidia Virtual Audio thing I have installed with the graphics driver.

I have the volume at 1+ so I can hear it I'm using my headphones right now connected to a stereo receiver which is connected to my computer.

Hi all. I'm running Windows 10 Enterprise which I got from work and I'm having some strange problems that I don't remember ever encountering before. I work in IT so I see all sorts of OS issues. I did a clean install of 10 on my Acer laptop about a month ago and I noticed some problems straight away. For instance the laptop wouldn't wake up properly from sleep (something I see quite often in my work) and more bizarrely whenever I tried to restart the laptop it would shut down and when I wanted to shut down it either restarted or went to sleep :blink: I managed to fix that issue by going back to 8.1 and doing an upgrade to 10. But now I'm faced with another issue, not as frequent but more annoying. Basically, occasionally when I'm listening to music or watching video and I open another window or tab it appears the system stutters for about a second or so and there is kinda of a buzz or static noise for a second coming from the speakers. This is a big deal cause music especially is very important to me so I really need a fix. This never happened with 8.1 only noticed it after the upgrade, so I don't think it's a hardware issue or anything. I have the latest drivers from Acer, I wonder if the sound card driver is faulty. Has anyone ever encountered anything similar on Windows 10, or any other OS for that matter?

The way I see it is that if I'm building a brand new system I might as well get the latest stuff lol

I'm not getting the 390x, I'm looking at the 390 Seems like a good sweet spot

Another reason I'm looking at Skylake over Haswell are the improved integrated graphics. Since I'm probably not buying all the parts at once and from different stores and will probably get the GPU last so at least I'll have a fully functional system with decent enough graphic performance for something minor. And I guess teensy bit of futureproofing....if there is such a thing.......

Thanks guys. This wasn't so complicated in the early 00s when I was playing my games :lol: I did look at getting Haswell based system instead of Skylake but I figured that the price difference isn't that much and I'd rather get the DDR4 now instead of having to upgrade my whole system later just for that.

I was a bit of a gamer back in the day but then gave up on it. But I've been getting back into it quite a bit in recent years, been playing on my Acer laptop, titles such as Tomb Raider (2013), Just Cause 2, FIFA, various CoD and some older shooters. Right now I think it's time I build a proper gaming PC, without breaking the bank though. I'm looking at getting the i5 6600K and the R9 390 graphics card (MSI or Gigabyte) and probably 16gigs of DDR4. What kind of framerates can I expect on high to ultra settings at 1080p? Since I'm coming from a laptop I'll require a monitor and I can only really get a 60hz monitor to stay within my budget so I won't be too disappointed if I won't get frame rates much above 60fps to avoid any terrible screen tearing. I'm looking at playing games such as the ones I mentioned above, plus GTA V and probably some Flight Sim as well.

Sadly, here 1080p is expensive enough thank you very much lol I'm sure on GTA V will run fine on high and 1080p, same goes for most first person shooters.

OK, so it's not really that much of an issue. I looked at getting G-sync.....yeah I'm in Iceland, I'm not spending 1300USD on a monitor! A decent 60hz LED monitor can be over 300 bucks

I've not been a proper gamer for a long time, not since I was a teenager 10-15 years ago :blush: but I've been doing some very casual gaming on my laptop over the last year and a half or so and I've caught the bug again. So I'm looking into building my own system, thinking about getting the 6600K and R9 390 (or GTX 970). So, a pretty decent gaming system with some pretty good fps. However, my budget only really allows for a 60Hz monitor, wouldn't the high fps cause some nasty screen tearing? This wasn't a problem back in my day lol so I don't really know what the solutions are, should V-Sync be on all the time and limit the fps or should I just shell out for a 144hz monitor?

There's some progress being made........I hope. All this has cost me a shocking 100GB of writes in less than 2 days :angry:

Windows runs perfectly on it though. It's just the updating problem. So I don't see why it should be a cache drive with a perfect Windows installation. I *think* the BIOS on this model lets me disable the HDD. I'll try that first Also, kudos for the Chinatown reference

So Hi. First time poster, long time reader (and watcher) of Linus Tech Tips. I work in IT and I'm facing a problem I have never faced nor have my co workers. Earlier this week I installed an mSata SSD (840 EVO) drive in my Acer laptop and did a clean install of Windows 8.1 Enterprise 64bit. Worked awesome and I was really happy with it, until yesterday when I was doing Windows Update. Everything was going along nicely and it went through the restart and installed updates until 90% or so, then it came with an error that said "We couldn't complete the updates. Undoing changes" I waited for a while for it to finish which it never did. So I rebooted, it just returned to that screen. I tried to boot into Safe Mode, same thing. Stuck in a loop. I managed to do a "reset" and returned the computer to a freshly installed state. Decided to try again just to see if it was a one time thing but no, happened again. I'm at work now and the computer is on and running hopefully it just fixes itself and will be OK when I get home. Google told me that this problem was common with the "8.1.1" update from last spring but that update isn't listed in the list of updates I'm trying to install. So it's not that. Since this only happened after I put in the SSD I'm thinking that's the reason. One post on the internet said that it could be one partition being too small, doesn't make sense to me. Could it be because the mSata is listed as "Disk 1" and my data drive is "Disk 0" ? Never had any issues with that before. Any ideas?