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Just now, Castdeath97 said:

Does it happen when you revert back to stock clocks?

First time switching back in a few months so I'll find out

So I'm using a GTX 660 and I've been overclocking it for about half a year, I would notice sometimes the screen would go black for a second or two and come back just fine, usually when the temp was around 80. Just now it started going crazy as I was using VLC player watching a video. gpu load started jumping from 1% to 99% back and fourth, being loud, and switching between programs made no difference. Loaded up afterburner and switched the settings back to factory default and the gpu load dropped back below 10%, is this an effect from overclocking the graphics card?

So I installed a new motherboard and cpu awhile back, 2 or 3 months ago. I didn't know you need standoffs and I just screwed the board right onto the case. Everything works fine, is this something I need to worry about?

I am using phantom full tower 001 and the case has fan control on the top that I use. They all work perfectly except for the 2 on the side, they keep dropping to lowest speed for a second then going back up to full speed for like 30 seconds, both fans use a separate cord that connects back to the same control switch, is there any easy fix to this?

Just now, Ethereal said:

Lol nice.

Wish I took the Intel rig back in 2013  RIP Me.

Hope to upgrade soon. Though I plan to upgrade some other components first such as my Monitors/Keyboard/Mouse etc...

 

If you are planning on going all out on your setup, rgb lighting and everything, make sure you have methods in place to keep everything clean first lol, I learned the hard way what living in a desert does to a good setup, constantly cleaning, going to maybe try getting positive airflow in my entire room to keep dust out or something idk yet

Just now, Dofyy said:

Would you not recommend the 8350 then?

A lot of people just don't like AMD cpu's in general, I'm not sure if it's just a bias or if there is good reason. I have not seen any good reasons myself, yet. For the low end price range, to me at-least, AMD seems like the far better choice. My FX 6350 worked really well for me for a long time, I'm using an i7 6700k now, though

1 minute ago, Dofyy said:

My friend said he already had this https://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/M5A78LMUSB3/ and was wondering if it would be any good to use it

ayyyy that's the old mobo I was using on my old build! Worked really well with the AMD FX 6350

2 minutes ago, Dofyy said:

Not a whole selection for a gaming rig. Infact I think he might just be able to use his old product key of his current pc right?

As long as the old system and new system are both 64x bit then yes, old key will work perfectly. I've reused my same windows key I bought from a shady website for half price many times now lol, I've even had it running on two computers at the same time

16 minutes ago, Dofyy said:

I bought my one of Tweed for like 15 pounds and I recommended that to him aswell

linux is free

Personally, for the price range, I would go with an AMD build, but that's just me

You're fine, don't worry.

11 hours ago, rattacko123 said:

I think so, if you can find a vst plugin that turns the left channel into mono, then output to your left monitor (save as a preset) and run another vsthost window (probably a different install location as well so the presets dont collide with each other) with the audio from the right and output to your right monitor that should work. You would use voicemeeter as your input in the vst windows and use the hdmi outputs as well.

 

thanks for the help! I'll set this up later and let you know how it turns out

9 hours ago, ItsTheDuckAgain said:

no offense but: seriously - buy some speakers :-)

chances that even the crappiest speakers are gonna sound 10 times better than the built in ones are actually pretty good, as in 101% chance :-)

 

please don't flame me, I'm sensible :-)

 

Actually the speakers are really, really good in the Asus monitors. The bass is amazing. And a setup is a lot cleaner without speakers. Last time I had speakers, I had surround sound and my cats kept destroying the cords, not really trying to deal with that again lol

3 minutes ago, rattacko123 said:

you could probably use VSThost in combination with virtual audio cable to split the audio between the two monitors, but that will add latency. I have personally used VSThost, and it works, but when combined with virtual audio cable there is just too much latency imo

 

this would allow me to have only left sound come from left speaker and only right sound come from right speaker to give a dual speaker feel to my dual monitor setup? voicemeeter works great for just giving the same sound out of both

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

How are you sending audio?

 

If you using trs 3.5mm cables you can make a little adapter very easy.

 

two hdmi cables

I have two monitors with built-in speakers. I want right sound to come out of the right monitor and left sound to come out of the left monitor. Is this possible or is this an impossible challenge? Right now I'm using voicemeeter to have monosound come out of both so I know the sound works fine on both, i just need to set them to right and left speaker somehow

Isn't that what they're made for? I have a wacom tablet and it does anything a mouse can do, very precisely I might add. I use it for all my photoshop edits and the few times I need to make an esignature

3 minutes ago, Cereal5 said:

Unless you forgot to put thermal compound under the cooler, you'll be fine

being that you are using a friends old cooler, you will definitely need to reapply the thermal paste, new closed loop water coolers usually come with preapplied paste, made the installation of my h100i v2 very easy

2 minutes ago, dobo2001 said:

Just now, Glenwing said:

No, it would probably look worse. 

So youtube automatically downsamples? If I watch with 1080p resolution will I be getting a better picture if I am playing the video at 1440 or 4k?

1 minute ago, Glenwing said:

Reduced performance, the graphics card renders images at the higher resolution so your framerates in games will drop as if you were using that resolution. And it's not good for use on the desktop because it makes text blurry and difficult to read. It's really only for use in games, it's a form of anti-aliasing called Supersampling (SSAA). You're still seeing a 1080p image, it's just a more accurate 1080p image because it's constructed using data from a higher resolution image internally.

 

Would 1440p videos look better than if you are using it as your windows resolution? Or are 1440p videos already being downsampled when you watch them? through youtube for example, if I watch a 1440p video on youtube will it look better if I am using the 2715x1527 as my windows resolution?

Just now, dobo2001 said:

Yeah I wasn't sure on that one. There might be a limitation within DSR where it can only support one monitor upscaled, not too sure on this either.

 

If it isn't running now, it probably won't. I find DSR to be not useful, it usually just makes the picture look worse with worse performance. I would always stick with the monitors native resolution. 2715x1527 is such an odd resolution, it won't look very good.

 

it sure gives a lot more workspace, though! Might be something worth using when someone is schoolwork or any task that requires viewing many different windows at the same time. I'm back at 1080p but whenever I need more space for more windows I'll use the higher resolution

2 minutes ago, Glenwing said:

When using DSR the video image is downscaled to 1080p before it is sent to the monitor. As far as the monitor is concerned it is receiving a 1080p image through the DVI connector, so the bandwidth of DVI isn't an issue here.

 

what's the downside to doing this?

so if i used dual dvi to hdmi in my 2nd monitor could i run both monitors at 2715x1527?

1 minute ago, Glenwing said:

Sounds like you have NVIDIA DSR enabled at 2.0x.

I haven't changed any settings. Why would only 1 monitor give me the option? Maybe the cables? One monitor is using HDMI to HDMI while the other is using HDMI to DVI

So I have 2 MX279h monitors, exactly identical and 1080p. In windows screen resolution one of the monitors has an option for 2715x1527, the other one only goes up to 1080p which would be expected. What's going on here? Will using 2715x1527 damage my monitor?