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1000R is needed for VA panel unfortunately. Reviewers tested the G9's vertical colour shift and it was pretty bad but the 1000R curved saved it from having terrible horizontal colour shift which matters a lot.

Are Seagate FireCuda affected by this?

This is basically just the ROG Phone 5

Argh too late, someone bought all the NVMe drives on sale while waiting for the answer.

I use Substance Painter and Unreal Engine 4 which takes forever to save and load files on SATA SSDs while on my NVMe it is much faster. On my SATA SSD it takes 50-60 seconds to save my work in Substance Painter while on the NVMe it only takes 5 seconds (I can see in the task manager every time I save in Substance Painter I see the SATA SSD usage of around 400 MB/s, while on the NVMe it goes up to ~2.5GB/s, so it is clearly hitting the SATA bandwidth), Substance Painter autosaves every 10 minutes so you can imagine how much time is wasted by waiting. FYI: I currently have one of the SATA SSD as my OS drive since it is the first SSD I bought before the other two and haven't bothered cloning it onto the NVMe, but with that said I use the other 2nd SATA SSD and NVMe SSDs as a cache for my projects and yeah that is where these programs benefit a lot from NVMe speed. Now I just wanted another NVMe to replace the 1st SATA SSD as the OS drive. Also there is a sale near I live where NVMe SSDs cost pretty much the same as SATA SSDs at the same capacity, may as well buy the NVMe.

Hi, I have been searching for answers about this particular motherboard and NVMe combo, even checked the manual but I keep seeing conflicting information about this. I tthink I can populate 2 NVMe drive at full speed but I need to make sure. I have an i7 6700K on ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming motherboard. I currently have: 1x RTX 2080 Ti on top PCIe slot 2x SATA SSDs 1x NVMe M.2 SSD installed on the motherboard itself I am asking if I could buy a M.2 to PCIe slot adaptor such as this: https://www.umart.com.au/Startech-X4-PCI-Express-To-M-2-PCIE-SSD-Adapter_38729G.html and still have enough PCIe lanes for another NVMe SSD at full speed? Thanks.

I think there should be a system where if you are making your very first thread in the News section it forces you to read the Posting Guideline and then you have to tick the box "I agree" before it gets posted, like in one of those 'Terms and Conditions' or 'Accept Cookies' popups so it is unmissable.

It does make a good 3D rendering GPU. A RTX 2060 is much faster than a Pascal-based workstation card because it has RT cores.

The gaming industry is quite big last time I heard. I wonder what tools they used to make those games.

Substance Painter, Blender, Unreal Engine / Unity are industry standard tools...

A few 3D modelling software now uses RT cores, for example in Substance Painter on a GTX 1080 it would take 60 seconds to bake an ambient occlusion map. On the RTX 2060 it will only take 1 second. Blender will use RT cores to accelerate Cycle render. Unreal Engine and Unity will soon follow for lightmap baking / realtime. https://www.substance3d.com/blog/substance-painter-summer-2019 https://code.blender.org/2019/07/accelerating-cycles-using-nvidia-rtx/

Battle royale, 1 CPU

There is a deal for the LG 27UL600 for $540 Australian dollars +free shipping right now which is decent value and I am looking forward to replay older games at 4K on my R9 290 (e.g. Mass Effect 2, BioShock 2, Skyrim, etc), so higher refresh rate is not that important to me since many old games are locked/buggy at >60FPS. Are there upcoming industry-changing 4K monitors later this year that I should know about? I heard LG is going to release a 4K Nano cell IPS either in Q2 2019 (already past) or H2 2020, I haven't heard any news since then. LG's Nano 1440p 144hz IPS just released this week but $880 AUD for a 1440p panel is a bit much for me. But if they release the same monitor at 4K then I am willing to wait and pay for it, but never heard any news of it since the, it could be delayed later this year or H2 2020?

I know this is old but to those reading this now - AOC monitors are typically not HDCP compliant.

Lisa Su has said many times in the past that they will stop becoming the budget/value option and be the market leader.

When you compress a game asset the contrast goes down slightly due to DXT compression and/or downscaling (i.e. original 8K texture to 1K). In Unity I use very small amount sharpening filtering when I create my games to bring back some detail.

Low-res textures that is meant to be sharp but couldn't due to optimisation.

Faster storage? Multiple drives in one PCI-E slot?

Just to clarify. Is the 4.5A max limit total is for all my SATA devices or the 4.5A limit for that particular chain/cable only? For instance my other SATA-powered devices are the 2x 2.5" Samsung SSDs which are connected via separate SATA cables (not daisy chained, two separate cables) So if I use this fan controller, I would now have three SATA devices (i.e three SATA cables) plugged to the PSU. Thanks.

I am looking at the Deepcool FH-10 which is a fan hub for 10 fans powered by SATA. While it advertises that it can handle 10 fans, can it handle power hungry ones though? For instance, I have 5x Fractal Design Venturi HP-14 (0.2A each) and 5x Noctua A14 3000RPM (0.55A each). The Fractal Design fans are not an issue but the Noctua ones might be too much? I think it should be fine because a single SATA power cable can handle up to 4.5A...but I am not sure how power supply works. For reference I have the CoolerMaster Vanguard 1000W. Thanks.

I remember when people are recommending the GTX 780 over the R9 290X...

I never ever heard anyone saying the Ryzen 2000 is going to be 5GHz and I was following the rumours closely at the time. We were in the impression that Zen+ was just an incremental upgrade with improved latency and memory compatibility, the official AMD roadmap showed this after Zen launched, there wasn't really any hype for Ryzen 2000, it was like AMD's Skylake -> Kabylake.

It's so efficient that it's downclocking!

Another review that mentioned the panel used in the U2790VQ: https://www.xxrsm.com/h-nd-198.html It's in Chinese so turn Google Translate on. It uses LM270PF1L panel by Panda tech, Chinese company.

Someone made a review of the monitor just recently: https://www.dtfav.com/?p=2230 This is a brand new product, released only just a few weeks ago. The AOC U2790VQ and AOC U2790PQU are the same display but the latter has an upgraded stand and multi-media functions. I am planning to buy the U2790VQ myself. EDIT: The picture quality in the AOC is just as good or better than the Dell U2718Q which is more than twice the price, but no HDR support.