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Working on moving the light to the right to give that a go. I tried it facing me again directly, but can't get used to the brightness right in front of me. I like the idea of the more side-light though, to get more depth. Is there a suggested "height" for the light?

I'll try and turn the light to me again and play around with that. Also reading the pictures.

Appreciate that! Does make more sense there

Light, camera, action! But how to use the light? Hiya! I work from home full time, and unfortunately spend a lot of time in calls. While the vast majority of the people I have calls with won't expect or care for a "good quality image" - I do! I take pride in simple things like that, and have tried to have a good setup going on for a while now. I just can't seem to get the lighting tuned in right. It looks 'ok' these days, but the recent LTT video of youtuber pc setups made me question my lighting positions/usage (specifically when someone was called out for having a Key light aimed at the wall). I'm hoping that someone might have some good tips for me, as my google-fu has failed me so far. So this is what I'm working with in my office. - Small room / positioned myself in the corner. - Window just to the left of me and just above me. - Elgato lighting strip around desk (mostly for show :D) - Elgato keylight aimed at wall - Logitech C920 camera If I aim the elgato keylight at me I generally find it too bright to comfortably look at my screen/camera, even if the brightness is dropped down, perhaps it's just in the wrong place and should not be in front of me? I know the camera is pretty basic, but it is what I have. I certainly could upgrade if there is something out that that would be sure to fix it all. I'm not a streamer, just like nice things and do my job efficiently (hence the setup/tools). I keep the blinds closed when I am on camera as the non-natural lighting (fixed light form keylight) generally makes a big difference to not make me look like an alien. Picture for reference: Camera at the top of my monitor. Elgato Keylight in the middle at the back, aimed up (as I thought that worked best) Windows to the side and above me. Not relevant but in case people are wondering - I just got into VR with a Quest2 - so have that cable dangling there for the Link cable. I could have unhooked them to tidy them away - but did not. /shrug - Bed in my office? Madness! - Yes it is. Spare bed in case we have visitors, flipped it sideways (used ratchet straps on the mattress to prevent it from falling down) to a bit more space. Am going to build a fold-away bed on the wall there. - Waifu's!?. Yes. WFH perk, they keep my anger at bay and sanity at a reasonable level in my line of work. - 4 monitors? Yeah, I love it. have all 4 connected to work pc, can't imagine having less real estate space for everything. Only the 2 main (curved) monitors are connected to my home pc. 1 set of peripherals, go through a USB hub and USB switch. - That monitor arm there looks a bit tilted... Yes it does! Not a weight thing, a "DOH!!" thing. They are drilled into a frame I made, I derped and did not check if it was level before drilling it. Will fix that at some point, it just looks wrong (but is fine) - Nice chair! Thanks, getting a bit old unfortunately, it's wearing.

Yeah. This is part of the reason why I tried undervolting it a bit, as I figured that might help keep temps down. I might look into "proper" water cooling at some point, but not for now. Not too happy with the AIO I put in there for my CPU. Cooling is fine, but software for it does not work and would like to monitor things a bit more. So an overall "real" water cooling solution might be something I'd look into down the line. Happy with where it is at now though, will see if I get an urge to boost it more down the line.

I've used MPT to give it more power. I tried the manual way first, but could not get it to "stick". Re-reading: I don't think I did this when doing it the manual way first. Likely why.. Oh well. So far I've been getting this on average: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/78634306? This is with the power set to 800 (does not really go above 480 when doing my 3dmark tests), and Min/Max Frequency of the GPU set to 2619 - 2719MHz and undervolting to 1150mV. I've messed around with VRAM Tuning as well, but not been getting much in regards to better scores. I've been able to mess a bit boosting frequencies and such, but with this setup I get easily over 23500. The best score I had was 23751 I think. Happy with that.

I don't know how far I want to try and push the car, as I don't want it to burn out or break it. So far, I've been able to add roughly an extra 1000 points. Currently messing with restricting voltage to the card after giving it access to more power.

I have some work ahead of me, thanks for the resources!

Yeah I'm up for that for sure.

I previously used the "set to default" option in the BIOS, without any success. What you said here made me look into the bios a bit further. Spoiler: Performance is back to what it should be. I loaded the "Optimized default" bios state instead of 'just" setting everything to default (different option). After that I did go through the same settings again as shown in my first post, to enable various settings/PBO etc. - Low and behold, it's fixed! (Just had to go back in again and enable AMD Smart access memory, forgot that one)! CPU is hitting Mhz limits there, but temps (not shown in that one) are staying well below 70. Might try and mess with PBO2 now to try and get over 20k! Update: We did it! Happy with that now, think I'll leave it there. Thanks again so much for the assistance and guidance @RONOTHAN##

I previously used the "set to default" option in the BIOS, without any success. What you said here made me look into the bios a bit further. Spoiler: Performance is back to what it should be. I loaded the "Optimized default" bios state instead of 'just" setting everything to default (different option). After that I did go through the same settings again as shown in my first post, to enable various settings/PBO etc. - Low and behold, it's fixed! (Just had to go back in again and enable AMD Smart access memory, forgot that one)! CPU is hitting Mhz limits there, but temps (not shown in that one) are staying well below 70. Might try and mess with PBO2 now to try and get over 20k!

Ah bugger. Should be public now. I really appreciate you looking into all this.

I was following this guide to make changes in my Bios, as it's the same Bios I use here (albeit mine is a newer version): https://intensewebs.com/index.php/amd/amd-cpu/key-points-ryzen-oc Motherboard I use is a: Asus TUF 570-Plus Gaming That guide states there are 3 PBO settings to adjust. I could only find 1. Ran it again with the HWINFO64 monitoring in the background: Uploaded the Monitor.csv and report.txt here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hlM20la6nIx7K_IQn5O89VRus7eM_7cA?usp=sharing Just for reference, this result: VS result "before I pressed that damn button" All I wanted was to get that score to 20k .

I've now enabled PBO again. Found a video for my BIOS and followed that. I could not find all PBO options they had though, but enabled the ones I could find. Not messing with specific limits or anything, will read up on that before making changes directly. No, that was Time Spy vanilla. Hitting 10k (low 10k range) there. On Extreme I hit 4511. Both tests done after enabling PBO.

I have not even done any gaming yet since I got my new GPU and changed the cooler around. Clogged with work and sunny weather means my wife demands me to paint the house (outside) :P. So I have just been running the benchmarks in the background whilst working away to see what has changed since getting the new hardware. Unfortunately after pressing that Overclock button, the scores have gone down hard on the CPU front. Its possible this is not noticeable at all when gaming, but still worries me.