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I'm planning to make a new build and I'm mixed if I should wait or not. What do you guys think are the pros and cons of waiting or pulling the trigger and going with Intel?

Thank you, I think the viewsonic monitors are a great fit for me. You guys gave me great recommendations here, really appreciate it!

Thanks, the Viewsonic looks like a great option. It's under budget too!

I don't want to bore you with all the details, but trust me when I say every piece of hardware on your pc has a driver and needs a driver. My AOC monitor is about 5 years old so it's pretty modern. It needed a proprietary driver because it didn't work properly with the generic windows driver. The screen was always stuck in 400 x 600 resolution. Anyway I don't want to get stuck with something like that again.

Would like to get some good recommendations for a 240hz e-sports gaming monitor. Budget around $500-$800. I'm looking for something with 1ms response time. I play games like Overwatch and COD mostly. My GPU is an RX 6600 TX and I'm planning to change to the next RTX series when they are released. Maybe an RTX 4070. Thank you for your input. Edit: Also prefer a good brand, my last monitor was an AOC that gave me all kinds of problems because it's driver was never updated correctly.

I have 2 surface tablets that I can't charge. The charger broke and I don't remember which models these are. Would anyone be able to help me figure out which chargers I need to buy for these 2 tablets? would this work for the bottom one and this for the top one?

Budget (including currency): 2-3.5k Country: US. Looking to get a good workhorse laptop for Ubuntu. Would like something like what Lenovo offers with a dock that can connect for multiple monitors setup. Not sure what to get. I currently have Clevo aka System76, but it's too bulky for me to commute with back and forth. I'm not interested in Mac even thought I know it's very good. I don't want to pay the Apple premium. I'm leaning toward ThinkPad X1 Carbon, but is there something better out there?

Let me clarify. I'm looking for a workstation cpu that can handle gaming. That's why I was thinking of threadripper or 5950x. I don't really need all the extra pci stuff that threaderipper comes with or the headache of having to cool that thing. My i7 5960x was a great high end desktop cpu. I was able to overclock it to 4.6Ghz. I'm surprised just how much use I got out of it. I'm hoping the 5950x is similar and the extra core count would help, but I agree for the extra $$$ it's not worth it. Thank you for the input.

I only need new mobo and cpu. my gpu/ram are fine for now.

Completely new upgrade is fine. I'm looking to modernize my system.

I'm looking to replace my i7 5960x. Any ideas what would be a good replacement for it today? I have an i7 8700k right now which sucks in my opinion compared to the 5960x, but I'm too lazy to rebuild the system so whatever... I'm looking to replace my system with something comparable to the i7 5960x. I was thinking Ryzen 9 5950x, but idk. Would a threadripper be better? Is the gaming performance so much worse on a threadripper?

I have an i7-8700k and with black Friday around the corner I'm debating if I should upgrade to an i9-9900k for $300 or save up and switch to Ryzen in a year or so? What do you guys think? I need it mostly for gaming and some light production stuff.

I was wondering if anyone would help me figure out how to overclock my amd rx 570/580 cards on a linux ubuntu 20.04 rig where I'm mining ethereum. I did a bios overclock on the cards a while ago using polaris. It's been such a long time I don't even remember how i did it, but I know that it's done. I use to mine on windows and I could use the graphics overclocking tools to overclock the memory, but on linux it's another story. I recently switched over to linux for the mining setup and I'm using nanominer, but I'm not getting the same hash rate like I was able to get on windows. I appreciate any help with this. Preferably I would like to avoid doing any overclocking that requires altering the bios. If there's a software I can use instead please let me know. For example there's an easy to use software called GreenWithEnvy that lets you do simple overclocking for nvidia cards. Is there something like this for AMD cards in linux? If not, please link me some resources on how to overclock amd cards in linux/ubuntu, thank you guys!

I had nothing but Samsung phones before I switched to Pixel. In my experience the Samsung phones were awful over the long term. They have lots of buggy software that Samsung forces you to have on there. Also, they ran into trouble trying to "make things better" and you can read it here. What I like about the Pixel is that it's entirely designed to give the best Android experience in terms of user experience with software and features. Google assistant is very helpful in so many ways compared to Samsung's Bixby - what a failure that is. I switched to Pixel 3 last year and it's been a world of difference. About battery life on the Pixel I don't know the exact numbers, but I've never had an issue with it especially since all phones are using the fast charging technology anyway. It takes like 30 min to get 75% charge on the phone.

It's possible the bios update changed some of your default settings. I don't remember the exact setting, but there is a bios option that basically makes the cpu run at full even if it's idle. It has to do with intel's P-state and C-state settings. You'll have to search through the bios to find it and change it.