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Organize your cables, you can get cheap cable ties on Aliexpress (definitely available at Amazon too). You can cut them to desired length. Others also suggested getting the PC off the floor, that is also a good idea - since your desk has variable height, I would look for a console that mounts from the bottom of the desk - that way the PC will move with the desk and you can manage your cables more easily. Something like this: While being on Aliexpress (or Amazon) you can try to look for cheap LED strips to put behind your desk (or back of the monitor) to illuminate your wall - it won't sync with anything, but it's cheap and looks really good. Your desk and area around it looks kind of plain, maybe you could look for some art to put on the wall (or some knick-knacks for the table), characters from your favorite games, or shows - something like that - you know, something that you would enjoy looking at...

That's why I wrote this. Everyone seems to just take NVIDIA's word - as seen in the PCWorld article.

It is not a repost - that topic is about Radeon VII criticism with Huang's statement about Freesync, but I'm trying to establish NVIDIA's stance on Freesync support with data and analysis - that topic is about Huang being a d***watt.

I would like to remind that some people confirmed this behavior on AMD cards, as I'm saying in my original post, the only thing that I'm uncertain of is the scale of these problems that NVIDIA is trying to imply.

With announcement of NVIDIA Adaptive Sync support, NVIDIA had a demo at CES demonstrating G-SYNC Ultimate, G-SYNC Compatible and G-SYNC non-validated monitors, with the last category showing some problems with ghosting and black frames. In a recently published article by PCWorld, NVIDIA said this about G-SYNC uncertified monitors: Before this article was published, I made a comment on Floatplane about this - you don't need to read this, I will sum it up as my personal opinion later, but I wanted to give credit to some people that contributed to the discussion: For those who didn't read the discussion from Floatplane: It seems weird to me, that there are only 12 out of 400 monitors that have good enough VESA Adaptive Sync/Freesync support - this is exactly 3% of monitors that NVIDIA tested. NVIDIA always talks about how G-SYNC is better than Freesync and when they decided to support Adaptive Sync, suddenly there are only 3% spec-compliant monitors that they are going to certify. In the Floatplane discussion, there were people that have seen similar problems with AMD cards and Freesync monitors, but is it really that bad? And if NVIDIA has the engineering power to create a better syncing technology, how comes that they can't (or don't want to) support larger number of displays? There is another interesting point that Linus didn't brought up about the demo: So the ghosting issue apeeared on the Freesync 2 display - even if it was a Freesync display, ghosting is not a fault of the Adaptive Sync standard. Ghosting is a problem of the panel that can't refresh quick enough, so this is entirely the monitor maker's fault (Linus showed us that this was a Samsung monitor). Yes, there definitely will be some monitors that have this behavior, particularly cheaper ones, but I doubt that it's that many... And I have no problem with saying that Freesync is not perfect - but AMD at least gave their customers a choice with how much they spend on their new monitor. NVIDIA decided to let everyone buy overpriced monitors when there were cheaper alternatives that worked well enough. Freesync (introduced at CES, January 2014) was introduced just a couple of months after G-SYNC (introduction video from October 2013), so there is no way that AMD started development of the standard after NVIDIA, they must have developed it simultaneously. Then they pushed for standardisation - whitepaper on Adaptive Sync was written by AMD engineers in March 2014. So up until now (3-4 years), NVIDIA didn't want to support Adaptive Sync because it was inferior in their eyes. This was brought up by Linus on WAN Show and I can't find the source, but here is at least an interview with NVIDIA enginner from January 2015 who said: I would like to see some independent testing of these non-validated monitors, because I don't think that NVIDIA is telling the full story here and tries to trash talk the standard to make more money on their overpriced monitors and GPUs.

That sounds like a great candidate for a Ryzen 3 2200G build. Don't know about others, but to me Intel's graphics drivers are the worst - the problems that I went through with my HD4400 in my laptop - from absolutely corrupted driver after Windows update (it took me month to finally repair it) to 59Hz default refresh rate, control center crashing while attempting to change settings... AMD drivers have their flaws, but they are really getting better at a faster pace than Intel's. Although for AMD iGPUs, the drivers come out quarterly, not after every hotfix as is the case for the standard driver package (for non-iGPU cards). Should be fine, hotfixes typically contain game optimizations. To answer the actual question: Ryzen 3 2200G can definitely run 3 monitors - technically that Vega integrated card supports 6 displays, actual number depends on the motherboard.

Sorry for going off topic, but I would be worried about that EPS cable running right over the socket and VRM area - it's one of the hottest places on the motherboard and I would definitely look for a datasheet (or general info) on those cables just to make sure that they can handle the temperature. Standard PVC insulated cables are usually rated for maximum temperature in 70-105°C range (I doubt that I would find the exact figure, there are so many manufacturers) so I wouldn't put them that close - I don't know about those braided ones, so feel free to educate me.

Don't look for the M.2 screw in the packaging of your new SSD, it comes with a motherboard

It's lmg.gg/folding, not img.gg/folding. LMG as in Linus Media Group...

Or ask NVIDIA for 4 Quadros and Intel for 28 core Xeon

Is it on the CPU support list of your board? Can your PSU handle it? Have you tried resetting BIOS settings? Maybe something in there is just not playing well with the i7...

Where do you live? You can find dirt cheap adapters on Ebay or Aliexpress.

Upon closer inspection of the image - don't know why is there a DC 5V connector, but if it's for power, there are also adapters that don't need external power and some of them have audio output for connecting your audio devices.

Yes, it will. HDMI has no compatibility for VGA, so any adapter that you pick will work - they are all active (they convert the digital signal to analog). You only have to watch out for the sound settings - when you connect the adapter, Windows might think that you had connected something that can also output sound and switch your audio output to HDMI, so you will need to switch it back to your normal sound otput device in Control Panel.

The problem is your GPU, not the adapter. Adapter MUST have DVI-I connector (why would anyone manufacture adapter that wouldn't work?). Look at the connector on the GPU, specs on ASUS's website say it's DVI-D, that's why it doesn't work.

If you're using a passive DVI->VGA adapter, this isn't working because the GPU has only DVI-D output. D stands for digital - for passive adapter to work you need DVI-I (I for integrated - analog+digital) or DVI-A (A for analog) connector as passive adapters interconnect analog pins from DVI-I/A to a VGA connector. More info at Wikipedia. TL; DR: You will need an active adapter to use your second monitor.

I think that best bet for games is Optane+HDD+PrimoCache or SSD+HDD+PrimoCache. There are no board limitations for Optane and from LTT's testing it looks like it can achieve an SSD-like loading times in game. If you can afford a big enough SSD for the same money as HDD+Optane/SSD+PrimoCache license, then obviously go for the SSD.

That is true (and I'm surprised that somebody even noticed, I left it out because often my answers are too detailed), but it will work anyway.

It actually doesn't really matter, T568A and T568B cable color assignments from ANSI/TIA-568 standard defines only the colors for your cable 1. Just note what colors on cable 1 you connected to the colors of cable 2. You could actually do the cabling however you want if you maintain which color is connected to which on both ends, but it's convenient to use one of the T568A and T568B color assignments as you don't have to remember how you've done it for the first time.

Don't forget to include your country, some PSUs might not be available based on your location.

I'm going to suggest something weird. I was having trouble with Windows 10 not wanting to run from my new NVMe SSD very recently and I don't know how it helped, but it helped me to start Windows in Safe Mode. Same problem, Windows 10 was loading and when the login screen was suppoesed to show up, it rebooted itself. Just try it, maybe it will help you too.

This seems like a hardware problem - maybe board or a PSU. Have you looked into Event Viewer? There might be useful troubleshooting info there. You can also produce a log with all the sensor outputs and make it into graphs, that can pinpoint what causes the PC to become unresponsive.

Oh, ok There is also Ebay, I've got my card from there - I have HD7950 and it still runs great. I've got it just after the first wave of mining and a couple of months back, I could've sold it for the price I've bought it If I can look into the future, AMD is rumored to have 7nm cards, but I'm unsure about them being powerful enough to compete in high-end with NVIDIA. And for NVIDIA, the announced RTX cards are the first with ray-tracing and as the infamous Tom's article says, there's a price in being an early-adopter and I think that only the next-gen will prove if ray-tracing is even worth it. Sadly, NVIDIA cards aren't like a fine wine - that's more true for AMD.

DRAM and NAND pricing should fall, but I will belive it when it happens, so you should be able to get a bigger SSD and more RAM. I wouldn't spend that much money on a big NVMe SSD - I would get a smaller NVMe SSD for OS and then a big SATA SSD for games and data. To be honest, I've purchased an NVMe SSD recently and it didn't make a difference in boot times or system speed (or maybe I haven't discovered it yet). It's great that you have a plan, but I think that 8 months is too long for making any plans in this industry. I'm predicting that you will be buying only fans, cooler and PSU from this list.