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jsho98

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  • Birthday Dec 30, 1998

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    Canada

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    Ryzen 2600x
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    Asus ROG STRIX X470-I GAMING
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    2x16 G.SKILL TridentZ RGB 3200
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    evga gtx 1080 sc
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    NZXT H200i

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  1. I am currently trying to decide between the 58x and 6xx and have spent a lot of time today looking at reviews trying to decided. This video is one of the best comparisons between the two that I have found. I have come across a couple of reviews (sorry i couldn't find them to include links) that specifically mentioned the 6xx being good for hearing guitar because of the added clarity over the 58x. For your use, based off of the reviews I have seen, I would say go with the 6xx since you already have a dac (which is needed for the 6xx) and you do get a slight improvement in audio. However if price is a major concern the 58x are pretty similar and most reviews did mention that if you are not listening to them side by side and take a break in between listening to them it is very difficult to tell a difference. For myself, I think I will be getting the 58x because I don't currently have a dac so I will be able to at least get away with not having one for now and I think the slight difference in sound will probably be lost on me since I will be using them for gaming, youtube, and streaming music. The most important part for me was the price, with the $60 price difference it was hard to justify for a slight improvement + then having to buy a dac. At the end of the day the best thing to do is look up reviews, see what people say and then see which set describes you the best.
  2. If you have the money (maybe see if you can sell your current stick), I would go with at least a 3000 mhz kit on ryzen. I have a ryzen 5 2600x with a 2x8 3000mhz kit with a and it does make a difference over 2133, the bit of testing I did showed a 24 point score improvement in cinebench when I enabled xmp, which might not sound like a big improvement but to put it in perspective I was only able to get a 100 point improvement by overclocking the cpu from the 3.95 ghz at stock to 4.3 ghz. So just a ram speed upgrade should give you some decent improvements. I did try to overclock my ram to 3333mhz (the system was nowhere close to stable) and I managed to get through a cinibench run but my score only went up by one point, I'm not sure if this was due to diminishing return or because it was so close to crashing, but to me it makes me hesitant to spend the extra money for faster ram because my workload does have anything that specifically needs faster ram and it doesn't seem like there was much overall improvement
  3. I would not expect them to drop much more, if you look at the historical pricing on pc part picker most kits are currently at their lowest price in 2 years so i don't expect to see any significant drop anytime soon. Right now I am expecting prices to go up slightly if anything because with 3rd gen ryzen coming soon and if intel figures out their production issues these could increase the demand and raise prices
  4. I hope the CPU is ok Since it is out now here are two different methods for removing the CPU that a lot of people seem to have success with The first vid looks more promising for your situation imho
  5. First I would try to run the stress test again and try the twisting method again. If that doesn't work the only other thing I can think of (and this is risky) is again make sure the CPU is hot and then just pulling straight up on the cooler. If you are lucky the CPU will stay in the board if the CPU does come out hopefully no damage was done to the pins and you can just follow some of the advice that was given here to get the CPU off. Good luck
  6. Since the 9700k and 8700k are almost the as others have said I would just go with whatever is cheeper at the time you build your system. For an SSD I have both an Inland Professional SSD and a WD blue SSD in my system, they are both pretty low cost and work great.
  7. You have a lot of requirements and questions here so I am going to do my best to cover all of them. I personally have a acer ed7 series which is a curved 1440p ultra wide and I absolutely love it for both gaming and productivity. I'm no professional but I found that moving from a 32 inch 16:9 display to a 21:9 curved screen majorly improved back and neck pain because with my setup I am pretty close to the display and I was having to move my head around a lot to see certain parts of the screen but the curved display helped to make it so I didn't have to move my head around as much Now to directly answer your questions As you said this is tricky, having a smaller monitor above or below the ultra wide is an option however the way I'm reading your post I am going to assume you would prefer to just use the one ultra wide if possible. I have never used GoToMeeting but it looks like if you want to share more than one window you have to share the whole desktop and can't specify only share this part of the screen so you could keep the notes off to the side on the display or something. So this leaves picture in picture/ picture by picture and unfortunately my monitor does not support either so I have no way to know how window/ nividia will react to 2 outputs going to the same display but in theory it should work. Unless you are able to verify this is possible before you buy a new monitor I would say buy the monitor from a store that has a good return policy so if it doesn't work out you can just return it. The Dell P3418HW (34 inch 1080p curved ultra wide) is the only 1080p ultra wide that supports PIP that I could find. After that it looks like you have to go up to 1440p to get more options, I think both dell and samsung support PIP on all their ultra wide monitors but you did say you didn't want to go above 1080p It will come down to personal preference like I said I prefer curved but I know some people hate it, maybe a store near you has some on display that you could check out (I know microcenter always does) Again this is preference, for me 34 inch is perfect because I can easily have windows set up in quadrants and each window will be about the size of 13 inch laptop screen which is big enough for me Once again preference, it depends on how sensitive you are to resolution some people don't notice a significant difference between 1080p and 4k where others can find 1080p at larger display sizes causes eye strain (I have this problem) so I would go with 1440p but there are plenty of people who are perfectly happy with 1080p ultra wides TL:DR Assuming it is possible to use picture in picture to have windows see one display as two for only sharing one in GoToMeeting and the display needs to be 1080p the only display I could find is the Dell P3418HW. If it is not possible to use picture in picture for this a second display above or below is probably your best bet. I know this is a very long winded response but I hope it helps.
  8. Unfortunately prime only gives you 5GB free for your videos. Thanks for that PCMag link, iDrive looks like it could be promising
  9. It might be worth trying it in windows 7 but that solution I only saw mentioned with windows 10. For windows 7 the only solution I found was to disable aero, instructions on how to do aero can be found here https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/disable-windows-aero-windows-7.html
  10. I am unable to verify if this works but I found a post on toms hardware that says turning off hardware acceleration in your browser could help fix this. It seems to be a problem with the way windows 10 handles monitors with different refresh rates.
  11. I have a WD my cloud EX2 and I was wondering if there are any good cloud backup solutions I could back it up to. I don't have much money that I can spend on this (hopefully less than $3 per month) and don't really care how fast the cloud solution is as the NAS is already set up in raid 1 and this backup is just for peace of mind as there is almost 20 years of family photos/ videos on it. The server has about 500GB of data on it currently. Thanks.
  12. I have no idea if this would work for you situation but I have had good luck with recuva in the past.
  13. I am looking to get a 34" 1440p ultra wide like the Acer XR342CK and was wondering I my mid 2013 MacBook Air (Intel HD Graphics 5000) will be able to drive the monitor. I will be using it primarily for programming so I am more concerned about the resolution over the refresh rate being supported. I plan to eventually use this monitor for a gaming pc but with GPU and RAM prices being what they are I just want to make sure that if I get the monitor now I will be able to use it with my current system.
  14. The quality looks pretty amazing considering its size, I would love to have this as part of my gaming setup.
  15. I guess that the MacBook air is not quite there yet.
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