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  1. Oh ya... I dust it quite regularly. J
  2. I was using my PC and it abruptly shut off. Not a reboot but more like someone pulled the power cable. I pulled the power cable, waited 30 seconds, put it back and hit the On button.. I can see LED lights light up on on of the PCI cards and an external drive I have connected also has a LED light on and I can hear a click sound when I push the power button but nothing. No fans, nothing posts.. Nada. This PC is about 4+ years old.. My guess, and this is why I am coming here, is that the mobo is dead. What do you think ? Thanks J
  3. You might be right.. But I think it's dead as opposed to stuck.. Off to RMA land !
  4. Sure. Right above the cursor. Only shows ups when the background is white.. And if I move a window around, you can see the frame of the window "floating" over the spec of dirt.. J
  5. Hi I have a small piece of dirt or dust stuck under the glass of my LG monitor.. Any tricks for getting it dislodged ? Thanks J
  6. Those are some really nice shots. Well done ! The first two are really spectacular. Thanks again for your help. I think I am going to buy that CPU and Mobo.. It's been a LONG time since built a PC. So this should be interesting. All the best to you J
  7. I am veering off topic here but the issue Have with the D810 and I suspect more so with the D850 is my glass isn't good enough! I like shooting wide and I often use a 17-35 F2.8 and the corners on my D810 look horrible ! I bought that lens when the F5 was THE camera to own.. (to give you an idea of how old I am ) But I noticed that here locally, the 14-24mm is going more then half price new. I can't help but wonder if the DSLR market and photography in general is dying with how good smartphones are getting. I mean a perfectly working 14-24 F2.8 for more than half price ? That was unheard of 10 years ago. Glass rarely lost too much of its value. I shot professionally with lots of strobes for several years.. Now that's a job that pays bollocks.. Then two of my Nikons a D4s and a D800 got totally water logged during an outdoor sports shoot.. Luckily my insurance covered it.. I took the money didn't replace the bodies and never went back to shooting for money. I have a buddy that shoots astro photography. Man you gotta be patient to shoot that. Really impressive what you can do though. If you can send some link of your work, I'd love to see it. Whoa, I really got off track there.. Thanks again for all your help !
  8. Thanks for that. I appreciate it. I have a D810 and I mostly use Lr and Ps as well. I find Lr to be a little sluggish at times. I might take a stab at this. I got this box in 2016 and have only spent money on a new GPU in those years. I have friends who got iMacs a year before I got my Hackintosh and their iMacs are not longer supported on Big Sur. Which led me to believe that going Hackintosh, even for only another 5 years is better for the environment and my pocketbook.. As for the mobo, I have a GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS PRO WiFi in my Amazon basket.. Thanks again.
  9. Thanks for the reply. I've found the CPU and a mobo to go with it.. Anyone have any idea if this is worth the upgrade given that I currently have ? I have this costed out at $1000 Canadian dollars.. Thanks!
  10. Just to make sure, I am looking for the i7 9900k ? Thanks! J
  11. Ok. Thanks everyone. I've learned something today. I appreciate it. J
  12. Ah thanks.. I thought since they were both 1151.. So I guess there's more to it then that ? J
  13. Hi I currently have an i7 6700K that I mostly run on a Hackintosh. I am thinking of upgrading to a i7 9700 as this looks like it's the fastest CPU I can run without changing my motherboard. I have looked at the various benchmarks and while the 9700 does better, those benchmarks don't mean much to me.. I do a lot of coding, mostly Java and iOS.. I also do some Ps work. Will I really notice a difference ? Thanks J
  14. Thanks for the input.. And to everyone else as well. I am not a huge gamer either. I bought this box back in September 2016. The idea was to make it into a dual boot gaming pc / hackintosh It worked out very well for me. If I look at my Steam stats, I am a little over 500 hours since the time I got the PC. So roughly 165 hours a year. That PC is now mostly a gaming rig. Originally though it was used more as a hackintosh then a gaming rig. When you do the math, a new GPU/CPU/Monitor becomes rather expensive on a cost per hour basis.. I don't think I play enough. If a new big open world AAA title isn't out, I don't play. I do something else.. And I never go back and replay old games. Interesting.. That 5700xt would work on a Hackintosh too.. I am actually tempted to just wait to see what the next gen consoles are like. I have never owned a console. I have even been toying with trying Stadia. Again, for me it comes down to a cost per hour basis.. Unless you play a lot, it gets hard to justify those costs.. If it wasn't for using that PC as a hackintosh 90% of the time, it would have been a mistake from a cost per usage standpoint. I have an employer supplied MBP that I use mostly now. So the hackintosh is now just a gaming machine. Thanks again everyone for the replies. I really appreciate it.
  15. Hi I have a gaming PC that I built up a while ago (got it from NCIX to give you an idea).. It has an i7 6700 with a GTX 980ti. I am using a 1920x1200 monitor. I like to play AAA open world titles (Witcher, Fallout, Fry Cry etc). I am thinking of upgrading.. My thinking is the best part to upgrade would the the GPU. Is this a fair assumption ? If so, would going to a 2070 make a noticeable difference ? Thanks J
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