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I can maybe get a 9900 and 32gb of 2666 ram right in my neighborhood for $200, or a 9900kf for $180. Ever so slightly better than eBay. Still probably not worth. The "what gets the job done" is the sticking point for me. I'm very unsure what my minimum upgrade to reach 60+fps consistently in Hunt will be. It feels like I'm only barely CPU bottlenecked since I'll get gpu bottlenecked for short periods while playing. Hunt is a notoriously unstable game though with lots of stutters. It's difficult to rely on posted benchmarks as well because nobody ever includes how full the lobby was. The 5600 is a good suggestion (again, if it gets the job done lol). Unfortunately, the used market near me is completely dry so I'd still spend ~$120 on eBay, probably for the 5600x. Same for the 7700/k, $100 on eBay is my only option. Thanks for all the help!

it comfortably turbos to 4.5ghz and stays there. I don't remember right now while I'm away from the system if that's a default turbo or if it's being OC'd through the ASUS bios. I'm not using afterburner or anything right now. If I went for further overcloccking I'd want to invest in more cooling. the 7600k is usually 80-85°c under load. more case fans might be sufficient, I have bare minimum right now. the CPU cooler is a pretty tall cooler master heat sink, it might also be more effective with an extra/replacement fan. potentially a cheap solution. my case just isn't really designed for great airflow though.

that's compelling. I'll look into that. does it still run the 7600k afterwards so I can wait to see if I'm successful before buying a 9x00? My PC fell off my desk in the past and has weird power delivery issues to the I/O ever since, but the the power delivery for the CPU and GPU have been unaffected. would you be comfortable modding it in my shoes, given that potential past damage? Thanks a bunch for the alternative options.

Current build: i5-7600k, Asus z170-a, gtx1070, 16gb ram, I'm getting antsy to make some stopgap upgrades while I save up for a dream build. I'm planning on picking up a used rtx3070/3080 in the near future, but the CPU is the more urgent need. Currently I'm CPU bottlenecked in Hunt: Showdown. If I can upgrade to the point I'm GPU bottlenecked I'll likely be in 60+fps territory, based on the performance difference in an empty game. My only good option for an upgrade within my chipset is the 7700k, which are plentiful on eBay at a tempting $100. Will the increase in clock speed(5% base, ~10% oc) access to hyperthreading for 8 "cores", and increase in cache from 6MB to 8MB justify $100 spent now? Or should I save that for a few more weeks/months to get a real motherboard+cpu upgrade? I don't have another good plan for an intermediate CPU/mobo upgrade. It seems to make sense to go straight to AM5 because the 7800x3d is just a great value. That will be a few months of saving away though.

Budget: ~$500 USD, flexible Country: USA Games: Hunt:Showdown, singleplayer Capcom games, a lot of old games and indies Other details: Currently running an Intel i5-7600K w/ 16GB RAM, GTX 1070 8GB VRAM, Acer G6 G276HL Gbd 27" VA 1080p60Hz (trash $150 monitor from 10 years ago) I've been using the same 2 cheap 27" VA panels for a decade, and I've been feeling the need for an upgrade for a couple years now. I'm looking for best bang for the buck budget upgrade to start with while I save for an OLED that can do it all. The monitors that have stood out to me while watching/reading reviews have been the: AOC Q27G3XMN : Great value 27" VA (like what I'm used to!), 1440p, 120Hz+, HDR and really good mini-LED local dimming. Will still have some ghosting and blur in most scenarios, though probably better than what I use now. LG 27GP850-B/27GP83B-B : 27" nanoIPS that's been going on sale lately. 1440p, 120Hz+, really good response times and motion clarity. Supports HDR but will look terrible for dark games in a dark room. The more expensive model o/c's up to 180Hz and has a passable backlight strobing/BFI feature that I could use while playing some old games, maybe. Koorui 24E3 165Hz : Crazy cheap 24" IPS, denser PPI even with 1080p and able to play at 120Hz+ with minimal ghosting. My question to y'all is which was a more impactful upgrade for you: better color and contrast with HDR or decent motion clarity? Jumping from 1080p to 1440p or, again, decent motion clarity? The biggest factors pushing me from my current display is the lack of VRR and being capped at 60Hz. Beyond that I'm interested in anything that will improve image quality, both for immersive single player gaming and for target acquisition in Hunt: Showdown. If I had to pick I would say the motion blur when tracking or flicking my mouse quickly probably bugs me more than the low PPI, but it's pretty close. The motion blur is painful in every game, but the low PPI is especially noticeable in Hunt (lots of foliage and long-distance shots). I could save a lot of money and just get the Koorui for VRR and high refresh rate, but I know the denser PPI won't matter much since I'll just sit closer. If I splurge a little bit for 1440p and HDR I have a choice between consistently good HDR or consistently good motion clarity. HDR isn't something I'm missing at all right now, except that it would let me edit photos on my PC as well as my phone. However I'm very, very interested in the recent mod that lets you run older games with automatic HDR on an Nvidia RTX GPU. Also, I play plenty of dark games and even if they don't support HDR, such as Hunt, I know the IPS panels without local dimming are going to have worse image quality in that regard. To run the higher refresh rates I'll need to finally replace my beloved 1070 with something that can tide me over until I save up for my 4K120Hz goals. The obvious choice would be Team Red, but then I saw this video on modding Nvidia's RTX HDR Video feature to work for games: https://youtu.be/BditFs3VR9c?si=Dgb9bL7_dLjhrMga. This is pretty compelling, and so is the potential of RTX Remix. I'm mostly targeting singleplayer Capcom games and Hunt: Showdown with my build goals, but I enjoy a lot of older games and lo-fi indie games as well. I especially enjoy playing older games that have had plenty of modding love so it can look and play exactly how I want it to. There's a lot of immediate value there with how many games I could enjoy in HDR. Remix has very little immediate value outside of Morrowind and Quake but it's exciting if it were to become popular in modding and remasters. Has anyone else tried out this HDR mod? Anyone have any thoughts on whether RTX Remix modding will take off or fade away? Is the Nvidia tax worth it, especially when you factor in games that support DLSS or path-tracing and the GeForce Experience ecosystem I've been used to for years? Any specific GPUs from either side you think I should look out for on the used market? It seemed to me a mid-range last-gen GPU is about what I'm looking for.

Edit: solved. I have no clue how, but the issue just fixed itself, seemingly for good, while I was fucking with it some more. I have a Vizio e50x-e1 3840x2160 TV I use as a third display on my battle station for twitch, movies, and couch games. I've had a really weird issue with it since I got it. When I'm plugged from my GPU to HDMI 1 on the TV, the native resolution for the TV in Windows display settings is 4096x2160. This means I get a little bit of squishing/stretching and if I instead set it to 3840x2160, I get letterboxing on the left and right of the display. On other HDMI inputs it behaves normally and the maximum allowed resolution is 3840x2160. HDMI 1 is HDMI 2.0 (ARC), the others are HDMI 1.4. My GPU is an EVGA 1070. My other monitors are 1920x1080 Acer's, using display port to HDMI cables. I've factory reset the TV, checked for firmware updates, dug through the picture and input settings, I would like to use HDMI 1 on my TV since my understanding is 2.0 allows for 4K @ 60hz. I just don't understand this weird resolution issue. Has anyone else run into something like this or have any ideas for what could cause it?

I know :'( I just want to feel like Tony Stark being super productive on big pretty screens, and Windows has to go and be constantly in the way. Here's another one for us multi-monitor users: Task View. I love task view, I have it bound to its own thumb button on my mouse. But why oh why can I not drag windows between displays from task view? I'm able to drag and drop them to different "virtual desktops", but I'm never gonna fucking use those. I have to do the extra steps of bringing the window I want moved into focus and dragging it from one display to another by its header bar, rather than just dragging its thumbnail in task view. I wouldn't be so mad if the hotkeys to move windows between displays actually worked. If I use Start + Shift + Left/Right Arrows to move a window between displays of different resolutions, it resizes it and then straight up makes it disappear if I do it a second time.

Just finished watching this: And I wanted to bring up a new issue for me that wasn't addressed in the video or the comments. I use two 1080p monitors and one 4K TV for my triple display setup. I have the TV set to 300% scaling so my poor eyes can actually make stuff out on it whenever it isn't just video content. It's placed a ways above the monitors and angled down, and I often use it from my couch across the room, so I really need the display scaling. This has always caused the usual issues when moving programs between displays and whatnot, but nothing too bad. However, after updating to Windows 10 1709 16299.192, my sensitivity was higher on that display, and only on that display. I tested turning off display scaling, and it went away. I tested turning on 150% scaling on the monitors, and noticed an increase for those displays. No doubt about it, but any display scaling also multiplies cursor sensitivity equally; 300% scaling means 3x faster cursor, etc. I can't find a good way to get around it without just setting display scaling to 100%. I could turn down my mouse's dpi or the sensitivity in Windows mouse settings, but that's not a good solution. Having different forced sensitivities on the different size displays really screws me, since my current dpi is already as low as it can go while still being able to cover my whole desktop in one stroke across my mousepad, corner to corner, but multiplying that dpi 2x or 3x is enough to make it super unwieldy on the big screen. I don't think there's a fix. I've found one other person on the internet with the same problem who asked about it on the Microsoft support site. The response he got was basically, "Uh, sorry? Sounds pretty weird. Submit a support/feedback ticket I guess!" I submitted a ticket through the feedback app as well. I just wanted to bring it up and see if anyone else here has ran into the problem or can think of any solutions.

Sorry, I clarified a bit further now. I was using myself as an example more than anything else.

Again, not interested in the viability for ME, just how this compares to 2 rigs for someone who doesn't already have 2 rigs.

Fair. The only reason I asked it that way is because I have no idea if stuff like the Magic Mouse with its gesture based use works universally. I don't even know if there's anything third party like it.

My mom came to me with a tech question I've never had to answer before. She's looking for an alternative to the Magic Mouse 2, which I assume came with her fancy new Mac my dad got her for Christmas. I've never looked into ergonomic mice/mice alternatives before, and especially not anything for macs, so I thought I would ask if you guys have any recommendations. I don't even know where to start with this topic, so any products you can think of that could apply would be great, so I can research and narrow it down from there. I think mice alternatives like trackballs could be worth looking into, because if I remember correctly she's very limited on desk space so having something with non-lateral control like the Magic Mouse or a trackball could be useful.

I want some input from the community who understands things like virtualization and unraid a little better than I do. Do you feel like this is actually a good alternative to two separate PCs? How does it stack up price wise? Ergonomically, is sticking with two monitors and maybe a second keyboard/mouse still a good option as opposed to a KVM? Is unraid a necessary part of this, or could you limit it to just the gaming/streaming vm's if you're not recording or just back up any recordings with a simpler solution? Do you feel like this build could be better with Threadripper? Also, in the video Linus mentions that they used an OBS plugin instead of a capture card as a result of a 10Gb network connection. Is that because of their actual 10Gb office network or is he talking about something strictly within the 2-in-1 station? I'm asking the question from the perspective of someone who would be interested in streaming and also thinking about upgrading their system in the near future. If I'm already thinking about upgrading chipsets, could this be a relatively easy transition as opposed to both upgrading my gaming pc and building a whole separate streaming pc at the same time? Leave your advice on starting streaming at the door please, I don't intend to jump into streaming or drop any money on this. I'm just in a position right now where I've been curious about it. Edit: To clarify once again, I'm not asking because I'm interested in actually doing this or getting into streaming myself. I bring my scenario up because I'm trying to illustrate the question from the perspective of someone without any strings attached. I'm solely asking for input from people who know a little more about the cost, time, and ergonomic effectiveness of this kind of thing than I do. This is a cool build, and it also seems more practical than some of the other overkill builds LMG has done, so I'm curious if the "cool" factor outweighs any potential headache or increase in cost that the LMG crew didn't bring up.

I worked as an install tech for Comcast for a while. My job was to run the coaxial line from the tap (pole or pedestal) to your house, make sure it's grounded properly, and get your modem working. Of course, I had plenty of people asking for or even demanding troubleshooting that wasn't my job. This got even worse when I got a little too good at my job and they put me in the pool of techs that do all service calls, not just installs. Some of my favorites: -I loved the ones where they complain about their slow internet speed. I would get there, connect my phone to the 5Ghz wi-fi network, run a speedtest from the Comcast server while I'm standing next to the modem, and show them that they were getting the download they're paying for. Then they would ask, "why don't I get that on my computer?". I would walk to wherever their computer was, connect my phone to whichever wi-fi network their computer was on and run the test again. "Is that what you get on your computer?" "Yeah" "That's how wi-fi works." - HDMI issues. I never realized the sheer magnitude of how many ways a loose cable or fucked up pin can manifest itself. No signal error, pink screen, static, audio digitization, all sorts of bullshit. I had so many calls where the customer wouldn't let me do anything until they explained why they were convinced it was the Comcast box, and then I would just replace the HDMI cable. - Even better were the calls where all I had to do to "fix" their TV was change inputs on the remote. I got more of those than you might think. - I had one old guy who said his internet wasn't working at all. I pulled up google.com in his browser. "Seems to be working. What made you think it wasn't?". He gets all confused because he doesn't have a clue what I just did. Then he logs in to Microsoft Outlook 2003 and explains that his email isn't working. So I send a test email to myself, and it gets a server error. I tell him "Sorry, it looks like either your server settings in Outlook got messed up your actual email server is having issues. I don't know how to fix that, I don't have time to figure it out, and it's not my job anyway. This looks like a work email, so I would ask around at your company if anybody knows who hosts your server and go from there." I spent 30 minutes trying to explain that his Comcast service was working fine and I can't troubleshoot his 20 year old email server that he can't give me any info on. He didn't even know what a browser was, the only thing he had ever used the internet for was Outlook 2003. Looking back, I probably should have just created a gmail account for him, transferred his contacts, and sent out a group email saying that it was his new email address. Would've taken the same time, and I'm pretty sure that his company he'd retired from didn't exist anymore and had just stopped hosting his email.