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Yes, and it did the same thing again. I could only reinstall since I couldn’t see the screen to repair.

I've had this issue in the past, and am planning another Ryzen build so I'm wondering how you're suppose to go about doing this. Ryzen 2700x, GPU is a 2080 Ti. The issue I had was bios was viewable. Windows installed, but then as soon as I booted into windows, loss of signal occurred to the monitor. Restart, bios viewable, windows starts to boot, loss of signal occurred. I'm assuming this was due to driver issues. Monitor was hooked up to the GPU. With no on board graphics with the 2700X, I have to rely on the GPU to display, but if the drivers need updated before I can get into windows and see my screen, how would I ever get the proper drivers installed? I assume I'm missing something easy, or am doing something wrong.

I could, yes. Could memory do it? I dug an old thread up from years ago, and the owner seemed to think mem was causing it? I'm with you though, my first thought was an issue with the hdd.

Windows 10. Yeah, I might pick up another HDD tomorrow to try. It just seems random, it will do it on random restarts.

Okay, this is the 3rd time this has happened on this new build in about a week. Windows 10 home. The first few times it was on a simple restart, tries to boot, and windows needs repair, cannot repair, needs a fresh install apparently. This last time all seemed okay, was doing some overclocking and again... needs repair.... cannot repair. First two times, no overclocking at all. Is there some issue with the hard drive? Why does this continue to occur? Tried to restore settings this last time, got the following error 0x8007051a. I've never had an issue like this on any of my builds, several have been Windows 10. Help?

Just figured it out. Second monitor was scaling. All good now.

I have two monitors, one a 1440p 144 hz for gaming and another 4k 60 hz for photo editing. 2080 Ti 1440 is set up as my primary display, 4k as secondary. The 1440 displays fine, but when i go to drag a window onto the 4k screen, it displays as 4k for about half the window, but then as I move it further into the screen, the resolution switches over and it jumps up to a lower resolution. What's going on? How do I set this up correctly? Thanks

Leaning heavily towards just keeping my build as planned and enjoying it. Thanks guys. BTW, is there something out there that explains what applications use "x" number of cores, or something general like that? Maybe that's a dumb question, but I'm just curious, I know games in general don't currently use several cores, but what about other common applications? In the near future, who exactly would benefit from something like 12 cores/24 threads?

My current understanding is that the 9900k should be faster than the 3700x, and likely on par with the 3800x depending on how it overclocks, which is going to be about $75 cheaper. So for any real performance gain, I'd need to go to the 3900x for about the same price, for "possibly" better performance in gaming and I'm not sure that i'd use the added multithreaded performance with what I do. All speculative I guess... I suppose I'd like to just get it together and start running it, impatience I suppose, but don't want to totally kick myself in a couple months if it's going to be significant differences.

Build not in use. Just components at this point.

So quickly, here's the situation It was about time for a new build, and I gathered all the parts for a 9900k build. 9900k Gigabyte Aorus Z390 Master 32GB DDR4 3200 EVGA 2080ti FTW3 Ultra H700i 115i Pro Seasonic 750 Running 2 monitors one 1440 144hz and a Benq 4k for photo/video editing. Uses are going to be gaming and editing type work loads. I'm just wondering now, If I'd be better off sending back the 9900k and MoBo and waiting a couple months for Ryzen 3000? Based on what I do, is Ryzen 3000 really going to benefit me? I mean an overclocked 9900k is still awfully capable. Just trying to spend the money wisely. I'd prefer not wait 2 months to finish the build, but if it would really be worth it, I will. I understand that there are no benchmarks yet and we really don't know how 3000 will stack up against the 9900k, just looking for some advice. Thanks

Great, Thanks all!

Thanks DVA. So essentially, overall performance should be quite similar. A 2080 should be a 2080 should be a 2080 basically?

I just picked up an EVGA XC Gaming 2080. They also have the XC Black, XC Ultra and FTW3 cards. I guess my question is what are you really getting for more money? Better cooling? From what I've seen the 20 series cards are more or less voltage limited, not temperature limited. So what does better cooling get you? Longer life potentially? The factory overclocks are different between cards, but a simple overclock should even all of that up right? Am I missing something here? It just seems like it would be better to invest in the lower tiered partner card rather than something like the FTW3 that is a hundred or more dollars more. But maybe I'm wrong?

Yeah, sure does make the 10 series cards all that much more enticing huh?