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I had the XB270HU (the older version of the XB271HU) for 3 years and was extremely happy with it. Colors looked great, and while mine was capped at 144hz rather than the 165hz the new ones have, I would absolutely recommend it to anyone. I would have kept it, but I upgraded to an X27 which has been a nightmare thanks to it breaking twice with repair times taking over a month in both instances. I cant speak for the other monitors, but the Acer gets a big thumbs up from me

I greatly prefer high refresh rate screens and currently own a 240hz gaming display for my gaming desktop. I only use my laptop for gaming when I’m on business trips, which is at most a month out of the year. Ill spare you anymore details, but my question is this: Can you overclock a 4K laptop display, or are you bandwidth limited by the connection to the display? I’ve done a bunch of research into this, and couldnt find a single example of someone attempting it. The closest I’ve found is there are a few threads of people online claming to have OC’d the Surface Book 2s 3240 x 2160 display to anywhere from 67hz to 75hz, however that is a lower resolution than 3840 x 2160. I’d prefer to have the faster modern 144hz screens in the Aero 15 and Razer Blade, but need the higher DPI for work and dont want to carry two laptops. I’d be more than happy with a 15hz OC, I’ve been spoiled as of late and now 60hz looks incredibly slow to me. Has anyone here with a 4k laptop tried it? Could the upcoming OLED displays potentially have higher overclocking potential? Thanks!

Could I potentially buy the missing antenna and attemp to place it in an area less obstructed by the aluminum body, like the rear exhaust? That m.2 to usb idea is great too, ill do research to see if that’ll fit in that area.

Forgive my ignorance if this is a far more complex problem than I’m making it out to be, but dont most laptops already have antennas stuck to the m.2 cards that usually come with them? I pulled apart a 2016 mbp a few months ago and distinctly remember pulling those off. Could it be that LTE antennas are somehow different?

I’m gearing up to purchase a new Razer Blade once they get refreshed with the 20 series GPUs and had a crazy thought. I travel a lot for work and find that teathering my computer to my cellphone can frequently be a better option than whatever cheap internet my hotel or Airbnb has. I was wondering, is it possible to replace a m.2 wifi/bluetooth adapter with something thats LTE enabled? Is there a reason why people dont do this? I’ve scoured the internet and cant find any instances of anyone trying this mod, possibly because I’m not sure if I know the correct search terms.

I *think* what O9B0 was trying to say was that games at 1080p are already maxing out the 3gb vram buffer and exceeding it. For example, this benchmark here done by the Youtube user Wolfgang shows that PUBG already exceeds 3.7gb of vram. PUBG is well renown for being horribly unoptimized but a 30% to 40% decrease in 1% lows on the 3gb version for a game that came out almost a year ago isnt a great sign of whats to come for the future of gaming with the 3gb card. If you really cant swing the extra $$ then maybe wait until the 11 series comes out to future-proof your rig. The 1080 came out in May of 2016 and the 1060 6gb and 3gb came out 2 and 3 months after that, so logic dictates that we should probably see some newer gpus in the price range youre looking for coming by November at the latest. Again, you can recoup a significant amount of your investment by purchasing a used GPU and selling it for a near financial net-zero when the new cards come out, but I completely understand the want for a warranty. A lot of 1060s on ebay are still under said warranty, however, so check with the sellers.

Here are some good options I found, EVGA 1060 3gb EVGA 1060 6gb Personally owned this exact card. Gets a little loud if you OC it much, but otherwise great. Only a $40 price difference between the two after rebate, but the value of $40 is different from one person to the next so no judgments here. Good luck!

Supposedly Nvidia has metric tons of stock still that they will likely flash sale right before the 11 series comes out. Prices are good now, however, so if you don't want to wait, there are currently great deals on low to mid-range cards. Check PC Parts Picker and organize by price to get an idea about what is decent right now brand new One thing to know is that the 1060 3gb actually has some disabled SM and halved vram compared to the 6gb. Performance wise, it's actually some amount less capable than the 1060 6gb. If you are just gaming at 1080p 60hz it should definitely last a few more years, however in 2-3 years after the next gen of consoles come out, you might find yourself wishing you got the 6gb due to increasing performance requirements. If I were you I'd get a used 1060 6gb on Ebay. While most of the cards there are recycled mining cards, Gamers Nexus did a big analysis on Bits Be Trippins mining cards and found that there were no negative impacts on the longevity of the gpus when used for mining.

Hey, I know I'm super late for this thread, but I'm working on a similar build that has an M.2 heat spreader. My motherboard doesn't come with an M.2 tall screw like the one you used to mount the small fan up top, where would I find it if I were to buy one? All my google searches for tall M.2 standoff are giving me these relatively short spacers.

This looks absolutely incredible, definitely my next build. I have a crazy question. I see there may be enough space behind the GPU and above to theoretically put another pcie slot. I'm thinking that I could probably run an M.2 extension to the slot and get more lanes/slots out of it. Would it be possible to run something like a capture card or anything else around that bandwidth behind a 2 slot GPU? Wondering if I could mod this could also house my Elgato 4k60 which would be absolutely insane EDIT: Clarification, I’m aware that there will be some modding involved to get the card in there, curious if there is enough room between the PCIE rear panel and the PSU as it looks like the PSU extrudes out a bit. The HD60 Pro needs 122mm and the 4k60 Pro needs 178mm. I’d be 100% willing to downgrade my capture card if it’d work!

That was the case however the 1080 is the first GPU to utilize displayport 1.4. Even the dell 5K is essentially two single-panel monitors stuck together due to 1.3 not having the bandwidth needed.

It might be, however according to this Tweaktown article, few games will actually need the full 8gb of vram provided by the 1080 to run. According to that benchmark, even Battlefield 4 used less than 8gb vram running at a ludicrous 8K.

I've been a voyeur lurking over the forums for a while, but decided to break down and finally make an account just so I could pose this inquiry relating a recent benchmark. Guru3d recently posted some impressive 5K results. With a single 1080, they were able to get Shadow of Mordor to reach 42 FPS average without any sort of overclock. While it is a slightly less taxing game compared to games like The Witcher and Far Cry Primal, do you think it could be possible to finally see 5k 60 fps gaming becoming a reality in this generation? It seems like we could potentially see a sort of resolution singularity very soon, where pixel density is no longer an issue. This could eliminate the need for Anti Aliasing, giving us even further fps gains comparatively. I'd be interested in your opinions on the issue.