Houndz199

I am curious about the performance difference between NVidia's 'Game Ready Driver' and the 'Studio Driver'. Does the studio driver legitimately improve performance in creative applications? Does this gain in performance result in a loss of gaming performance? Can we discover what the difference between the drivers are is? Why can we not have the benefits of both drivers at the same time? Please look into this, I think it would make for an interesting video. NVidia may sponsor it as well to market the lesser known features in GeForce experience.

Ryzen 5800x only supports up to 3200mhz. Any more and your spending extra on something you won't be able to use. https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-7-5800x See "system memory specification"

Today I found out about Canon's VR filming lens. It allows for filming of VR content on a single sensor camera. Pretty nifty! Canon RF5.2mm F2.8 L Dual Fisheye Lens https://www.usa.canon.com/internet/portal/us/home/products/details/lenses/ef/vr/rf5-2mm-f2-8-l-dual-fisheye-lens Could make for a an interesting video!

I recently moved to ultrawide, and its been great. At your budget it could be worth investigating. https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=40776 That was the monitor I got, but it was on sale for 350 at the time, not sure if its worth 500.

the motherboard could have been damaged removing it, transporting it, or during your installation. These components are complex, with 288 individual micro copper traces into each ram slot. If the right one breaks, that could be all it would take for the motherboard to not post.

I've had an ASRock Z370M Pro4 since 2018 with my i7 8700k and its been great.

Is fast boot enabled? total guess, but when turning on "game boost" it may have changed other bios settings. Might just be easiest to restore to default settings on the bios. If you have an overclock, write down those settings before wiping the bios.

sounds like slots one and two don't work, and power is simple, and will almost always work. so i wouldn't take the rgb as a sign that the ram is functional. Test only slot one, and then only slot 2, and lastly both of those slots together. If none of those configurations post, then your slots 1 and 2 are more than likely bad on your motherboard. If it works for any of those, then your problem gets more complicated. I find broken ram slots likely if this is a brand new component. In my experience, motherboards tend to have the highest failure rate when new.

agreed, could be shotty mounting of the cpu cooler.

Could be throttled in your router settings? I find that unlikely though. Setup a local file transfer using windows from your laptop to the desktop and measure the local file transfer rate. If that's faster, then you know its an issue with the modem. If the problem persists locally, then It could be an issue with your router or Desktop. https://pureinfotech.com/setup-network-file-sharing-windows-10/

This also could be an Nvidia driver issue. Cards are still very new after all.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/call-of-duty-warzone-144-fps-competitive-gaming-guide/

Nice on that! thermal throttle is an easy test, run a benchmark for 15ish minutes and see if your boost speed has to slow down when the temps equalizes. Apparently max temp on Ryzen chip is 95C, hard 'programmed' into the chip. If its getting that hot, then then its thermal throttling to protect itself.

I find it most like your render resolutions are set to different values in the settings. Or some other different game setting. Your cpu is reaching the correct boost speed and your system utilization is low. Others say thermal throttling, but you wouldn't be at boost speed of 4.5Ghz if it was throttling. Also Does it even matter? Is your monitor faster than 144hz? Your fps limit should be set to your monitor refresh rate regardless.

YouTube premium is defiantly worth the money nowadays IMO. Its also great if you have a chromecast, because when watching with friends, if even one person casting videos to the TV has premium, than no matter who cues a video, they are always ad free. Also downloading videos offline is kinda nice. And its great for music you cant find on spotify/applemusic because you can leave the app and lock your phone and the audio will keep playing if you want. I am pretty sure they have student pricing too.