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Microwaves interfere with 2.4Ghz wireless signals. If you move away from the microwave and the issue disappears you have nothing to worry about.

For the glass, maybe try some automotive glass repair resin? I have never used it so I don't know the cons of using it, but that is one option. For the boards/PSU, honestly go over them at a component level like Louis Rossman does and find the skidmark or thing that looks broken. The board isn't magic, it is resistors, capacitors, and controllers. Most of these components can be easily and cheaply replaced if you can find their values.

CPU: Core i7 5820k @ 4.3Ghz GPU: Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 980ti RAM: 16GB G-Skill DDR4 2133Mhz Score: 10.8

I'm not really a camera person, but I really liked the Smart Switch feature. Looks like a really nice way to move from your old phone!

Does the monitor work fine when connecting to a different PC or laptop?

Pretty sure? Does it or doesn't it?

Does the monitor work while connected to the motherboard video outputs?

Have had no issues on Windows 10 gaming yet. I did a clean install though on release day.

Have you tried the motherboard display connectors? Sometimes you need to set the video output to be PCI-E. To set this, you first need to connect using the iGPU(The GPU built into the CPU).

Hiding your IP isn't that hard. Streaming doesn't expose your home IP address, so someone is getting your IP another way. Don't run programs like Skype, they can expose your IP address. A VPN is a pretty unnecessary precaution unless you need to use programs that expose your IP, like Skype.

Yeah this will be my last MSI board...

No

Just got off the phone with both MSI and Gigabyte. Gigabyte support was helpful trying to troubleshoot motherboard settings even though it is a MSI board. We couldn't get it fixed unfortunately. MSI support was helpful this time, the support agent provided me with a beta BIOS that was unreleased hoping for it to fix the issue, but it didn't. I guess I am stuck again. Both support reps said nearly the same thing "well we aren't going to purchase/obtain a competitors product to make sure they are compatible, all of our own branded stuff is guaranteed to work". wtf? Here I am expecting a standardized platform with PCI Express, where any card can work with any mobo/chipset. Am I expected to be locked into a brand for my GPU when I make my motherboard purchase now? I chose the Gigabyte card because from reviews it is a cream of the crop card, reaching over 1500Mhz consistently, and now I can't use it because MSI won't maintain compatibility a couple generations ahead. /endrant

Welp, im out of ideas. I just finished flashing my new card to a beta bios as recommended by MSI, and the card acts the same. Curiously enough, I can use the card on my brothers older AMD system. His motherboard is using the AMD 970 chipset, but when I tried with my cousins H81 board, the card didn't work. I guess my only hope is to get MSI or Gigabyte to fix the incompatibility, and I am not hopeful they care enough to get BIOS engineers to fix the incompatibility of a competitors product. I don't really know who to blame here. My MSI motherboard runs great and gave me a really good OC on my 3570k, and has been rock solid for years. The Gigabyte card works in another PC, so I don't know if I can really fault it here. I guess I will continue to try to get a hold of someone at MSI phone support that doesn't want to just get me off the phone.

Just got my replacement card, and it has the exact same behavior as the old one. Looks like the motherboard might be the problem, some sort of incompatibility. chrisw_de has the same mobo/gpu combo and he is having issues as well. In PM's I have been talking to him about this issue, and he is getting a new motherboard soon so we should be able to answer this finally. I am going to try to contact MSI to see what can be done about the incompatibility. EDIT: MSI support recommended looking for a VGA BIOS update, and it looks like there was one released 5 days ago, but I can't get into windows, or even keep the PC on to update/flash it. Any ideas?