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Thinking about replacing my 5 year old monitors which are Acer XB271HU 27" 1440p 144hz gsync IPS. Are modern versions of 27" 1440p 144hz monitors any better then my 5 year old ones? Or alternatively do I look for 27" 1440 240hz as an upgrade? Not interested in 4k or ultrawide.

I have a 144hz gsync monitor. So would like to be towards that mark rather then the 60fps mark. To 4k? I'm not super interested in 4k at the moment.

I'm thinking of upgrading from a GTX 1070 but no idea what direction I should go with to play on ultra/max settings in 1440p, 27 inch monitor. At first I was just going to YOLO it and buy a RTX 2080 Ti, but the more I thought about, the price isn't justifiable for myself. $2000 AUD ($1400 US) Then I started looking at the 2080 Super for $1300 AUD ($800 US) BUT then I started looking at a 2070 Super which I can get for $800 AUD ($550 US) I'm leaning towards a 2070 Super as I don't feel the 2080 Super is worth $250 US more for what 10-15% performance? The 2070 Super alone is like 30-40% better then my current GTX 1070. If I sell me GTX 1070 for $200-250 US then my change over would only be $300 US for a brand new card "with RTX' warranty and better performance. The other thing is, because this is first gen ray tracing I'd assume the next gen would make noticeable advancements and hopefully AMD/Intel have something to offer making it a somewhat competitive market (hopefully) as well as more games actually utilising it. So then maybe that is the time to go xx80 Ti model... Lastly it is also kind of possible to get a RTX 2080 for the same price as a RTX 2070 Super, so in this case I don't know which to pick. Does a 2070 Super make sense as an upgrade?

All the RAM is exactly the same model so speed etc is the same. I can try running at a lower speed, but whats the point if I can't run at 3200? Will give memtest a go.

So I recently purchased an additional 2x8GB RAM sticks to bring my Ryzen 2700X build to 32GB total. The RAM in question is G.Skill Trident Z RGB 3200 (https://www.gskill.com/en/product/f4-3200c16d-16gtzr) Ever since adding these extra two sticks I've had the following numerous events occur; - Google Chrome goes completely black. Unable to close,minimise, restore as the whole program is a black screen a part from the Windows task bar. - Random crashes/closes of programs primarily that are primarily using Java. - Chrome Tabs crash and go to error page - I have also had three separate BSOD errors as well. * DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL * PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA * MEMORY_MANAGEMENT - Other thing that has only happened once so far was my monitor flickering for like 20 seconds All these errors have links to RAM, so I'm assuming the new RAM is somewhat faulty? It's just weird because I can go on for a couple of hours nothing happens, then I get hit with either BSOD or more often is the weird Chrome issue going completely black. I cant recreate the issue it just happens randomly. I'm a little bit tempted to do a fresh install of Windows but if the BSOD errors all relate to RAM in a way I don't think this will achieve anything? Any help or insight is greatly apprecaited, only purchased these new RAM sticks a week ago.

So for the past 2-4 weeks I can not go 24 hours without having 1 or 2 periods of disconnections that last 5-10 minutes throughout the day. During this period of time the internet is slow and constantly disconnects and reconnects. My PC WiFi icon remains the same, it never says it has disconnected/no internet connection there (red cross/yellow exclamation mark). Any wirelss devices all do the same thing. I have a modem to router setup and all the lights remain green through this time on modem and the router. My ISP says they see no faults or drop outs with the line. How can I pinpoint what my issue may be? Testing via Ethernet isn't really an option, if this is maybe the only real option I'll have to go buy a cable long enough lol and hope the other half is happy having a cable running through the house.

rtx 2080 ti... but seriously whats the budget?

How do most people pick a particular model brand of a GPU. Not choosing between a RTX 2070 or a RTX 2080 for example but picking a specific RTX 2080 such as Asus ROG card or an EVGA Black Edition etc etc. I've decided on getting an RTX 2080, but then the next step of what actual model I want that's what I'm stuck on deciding. The factors important to me mainly is the looks as this is my second PC build and I did pick a black and white theme (with RGB) My previous cards have been Gigabyte 670 Windforce, current is a Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 pretty sure I just chose these based on the price at the time. Gigabyte has been fine for me, but I'm interested in trying an Asus ROG card this time around, for a) looks b) matches my MoBo. Also for $300 (AUD) more then the Asus ROG model I could have gotten an Inno3D 2080Ti a couple of weeks ago. So it's like should I just stretch for a bottom model 2080Ti??? Is picking a more pricey 2080 really worth it over the cheapest 2080?

Does anyone have any recommendations for a RGB USB powered light strip to place along the back of my desk and connected to computer for power? I've had a little look around and it all seems much the same, but would like some first hand experiences from anyone on here that may power there strip via USB on the computer. Also is there much difference between being powered by a USB connection and wall plug? I want to avoid the wall plug as most have a power brick and it seems like unnecessary extra 'clutter'. Then on the other hand some of the 'USB' types I've seen seem to have a weird dongle on them which has me someone puzzled. Any help appreciated.

Issue just happened then during some random browsing. - Screen lost signal - Sound stopped playing to my headset - Power seemed to stay on because my fans kept RPM and RGB lights didn't go off - Mouse and Keyboard lights remained on. I turned the monitors off for 10 mins and unplugged them. Came back still No Signal and tower buttons not working (Though when I did press the restart button my RGB keyboard lights turned off). Tried plugging in a HDMI cable and changing to this but it still displayed no signal. Plugged in the HDMI cable to the MoBo output, no signal. I did notice when I was looking at the DP cables they are different with one of them having some Amphenol branding on one and the other plain (both the cables used came with the respective monitors). I'm now trying one monitor with HDMI and the other with DP and see if the issue occurs again. If it does occur the next step I'll look at is probably both using HDMI. If that fails change my PSU cables back to stock, if that fails I guess its clean install of windows. Don't know if I can be bothered going back to my 24" monitors and waiting to see if the issue happens with them. Still really frustrated that this seems to be completely random and what puzzles me the most is why my case buttons don't work when this happens.

Still having this issue. Anyone with other ideas? I feel as though its something to do with overheating but I don't know how to judge/test this. Whenever I am paying attention to the CPU temp its around 55-60 degrees.

Recently I have had this weird issue that I'm not sure why it is happening. The issue first started two/three weeks ago where I was just working away with some programs like AutoCAD, Photoshop etc but I don't think that's entirely important as the issue has happened doing other things even nothing. So what happened was both my monitors suddenly lost signal. So both displayed the message "No Signal Detected". I tried to restart the system with the reset button and it did nothing, I held the power button in for a period of time that also did nothing, turned the monitors off and on nothing, switched inputs and nothing. The only thing that worked was turning off the switch on the PSU and turning the system back on. Whilst the monitors had no signal I could still hear my fans running. This has now happened a handful of times again but more often when I'm away from the computer rather then at it. If I leave my computer running overnight with the monitors off, then wake up turn the monitors on they sometimes have no signal and again the power/reset buttons don't do anything and I have to turn the switch on and off on the PSU. Like today I left the computer running, turned the monitors off and came back a few hours later monitors had no signal, but fans still running, buttons did nothing. The PC is only a couple of months old and consists of; CPU: Ryzen 2700X MOBO: Asus X470-F Strix GPU: Gigabyte GTX1070 RAM: 16GB DDR4 G.Skillz PSU: Corsair 850W RMi/x SSD: M.2 & SSD CASE: Fractal Design Meshify-C Monitors: Acer Predator XB271HU x2 OS: Windows 10 64bit When I first finished the build everything was fine and I was running the system with some old dual ASUS monitors along with the stock case fans and stock PSU cables. I then changed over the monitors, changed the PSU cables to some cablemod replacements and finally removed the stock fans on my meshify-c case and replaced them with corsair RGB fans. Since I made these few changes that's when this issue started, though I really have no idea if any of these changes are causing this issue or why/how they would anyway. I was running one Acer and one Asus monitor together for quite sometime without issues (pre-buying a 2nd Acer). My first thought was maybe its an overheating issue, but I've monitored CPU temps and it sits around the 55-60 mark when I'm using the PC. So I really have no idea what is causing this issue. When I check the event manager, all that is there is Kernel 41 error and I'm assuming that is due to turning the PSU switch off and on. I'm thinking of doing a fresh Windows install tomorrow and see if this does anything. Any experience with a similar issue or help/ideas is very appreciated. TLDR: Monitors lose signal, case reset/shutdown buttons do nothing, have to turn PSU switches on/off.

So this is only my second pair of monitors I have ever had and a big upgrade from my old 24" Asus 1920x1080 monitors. I recently bought an Acer Predator XB271HU – 27" 2560 x 1440 IPS its been great loving it, so thought I would get a second monitor of the same model because of my OCD just thinks two of the same looks better then different makes. Anyway I've had this second monitor for about a week now and only now when I was working on some predominantly white backed programs/application I've noticed that this monitor is very yellow compared to the first monitor which I would say is white. Example – https://gyazo.com/0a2e27ed9e3f7626eeb9904443e6fdb0 I've looked at the settings on the monitors they are the same, Nvidia says the display settings are the same so I'm not sure if this is just a case of bad luck its what happens if you buy monitors from different stores at different times. The monitor could be faulty? Or is there something I can do to calibrate them (clueless though as to how calibrating woks) Or could it even be my graphics card itself that has something wrong? Any tips/advice as to how I can get the monitors to match white colour would be great.

I have a Fractal Design Meshify C case that came with 2 fans, 1 as intake and 1 as exhaust and using my stock wraith prism CPU cooler. My temperatures are fine though I want to add some RGB fans such as 3 in the front (and keep current standard fan as 1 exhaust) as intakes to match with the RGB already on my motherboard, RAM, and the stock cooler. At the moment they are static white and that's how I like it, not to concerned about syncing up the RGB for fancy effects. I am looking at getting the 3 pack of corsair LL120s (or any other recommendations) which have the RGB as a ring around the fan. My question is how does the 3 pack of corsair fans (if that's what I go for) all connect and link up? Do the fans have 1 cable for RGB and another for Power? So I would plug the RGB cable into the lighting node pro and power cable into motherboard? The lighting node then plugs into the commander pro, which then connects to USB on motherboard and sata power? I'm just confused at the moment as to how the whole RGB fan set up goes, so any guidance is very appreciated and making sure I have enough motherboard connections for the fans. Motherboard is Asus X470-F RAM is G.Skill Trident Z CPU Cooler is Wraith Prism (connected via internal USB)

This is probably a noob question, but if I uninstall the Asus drivers I can't connect to the internet at all as I have no WiFi icon in the bottom right to click and connect to a network. There is only the Ethernet/LAN icon or w/e it is with a cross as I am unable to connect via Ethernet. Where can I find Windows 10 WiFi drivers?