HorrorCosmic

I just built a new Ryzen system. Everything is running great but theirs some programs where the cursor is very sluggish. It's not everything, within windows, chrome, any video game, steam, Ryzen master, etc.. it's all perfectly normal. But then if i load up something like OBS then the mouse is very sluggish. I want to clarify this is not during recording, simply having obs open and selected causes the cursor to lag, now if I have obs open and deselect the window it acts normally. It's others too but OBS is the biggest one. Others are like NPTunnel, the cursor will act fine until I drag the window around then it lags for a second and it clears up. Their are others that I can't think of right now. I don't really know what can cause some apps to slow down the cursor while others are perfectly normal. It never happened on my intel rig but I can't think of any reason why the cpu or chipset would do cause this. I'm still a bit new to Ryzen I haven't messed with AMD since the Athlon days. Anyways my specs just in case you need them: R7 3700x, 16GB 3600mhz memory, Asus strix x470-I mobo, asus strix RTX-2080.

@AlexTheGreatish What did you use to connect the 4 usb ports in the front? That mobo only has 1 header so did you use a hub or a usb 3 header to usb 2? I was looking at using this: But I wanted to see what you guys decided on.

I'd love to build in a meshify and looking water custom water cooling done in the case. It's very cramp, but also means I'll have to get new fittings, pump, res, hardliners tubing, a 360mm rad. It's just more cost efficient if I use what I already have or spend it on what matter, the hardware, and keep my case and cooling.

I meant coffee lake. The system is showing its age especially the cpu. it is 4 years old with 3 year old video cards. If I upgrade any of that I might as well upgrade it all. Not saying it isn't running well but at some point but it seems like a good time for an upgrade. That's the thing, I'm literally torn between the 2, I love my matx case, its small and quiet fits the 2 gpus and everything else, it looks good it'll save money on reducing parts. But to upgrade this or do a fresh build... new case, new runs, new cooler, new look... That's where I'm at, to save money or go all out and enjoy a brand new build.

I'm torn between keeping most of my current build in the way of fans, psu, case, cooling and upgrading it to cannon lake. Or do a completely new build. I've been having my eye on the Meshify C. Current build This is modified from the one in my profile: i7-4770k - OC 4.5ghz delid / direct die mount / EK supremacy block. 16GB corsair vengeance pro 2400mhz gigabyte z97 matx (i forgot he name it was red i painted it black) 2x EVGA SC GTX 980 sli - OC / watercooled ek blocks and backplates corsair AX1200 psu (sleeved cables from corsair) 500GB m.2 sata samsung 850 evo 2x EKWB 240mm radiators 4x Noctua IPWM 2000rpm on pwm controller Corsair obsidian 350D Currently I planned on upgrading cpu, mobo, mem, gpu, ssd, fans (thinking of giving maglev a shot), and reusing the rest since i can still use my hardline tubing and my supremacy block. But I kinda feel like doing a brand new build, and the meshify C looks amazing, I can't decide, it's either save money and reuse most of my stuff or go brand new build.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11738/intel-launches-8th-generation-cpus-starting-with-kaby-lake-refresh-for-15w-mobile I found this less confusing. It does seem the Kaby Lake Refresh is for mobile, quad core cpu's at 15watts. And coffee Lake and later cannon lake will be released later this year.

I am completely confused by your question. I'm assuming CFL is Coffee Lake which is the Sky Lake (and inherently kaby lake) refresh, so it's announced, I haven't read anything other than that. And yes it will require a new chipset and new motherboard.

Most unlocked K processors have been 91 watts. It's not a huge difference but whenever you building a mini itx with a low profile cooler you need every advantage possible. Even now I think the cryorig c7 is the only low profile cooler that's rated to support 100 watt tdp which is exactly why I can't just over look the tdp. I have to be mindful of that number to avoid any kind of thermal issues.

I'm still on a 4770K OC and dual GTX 980's OC. not even Ti's. I WAS planning on waiting for Cannon Lake because i wanted to see how intel would react towards AMD given enough time, and the 10 nanometer shrink is very appealing. Usually when there's a die shrink involved you get a nice performance boost as well. But i don't think I can wait till 2018, not even early 2018 it would be around mid year before I see decent motherboards, decent mini ITX motherboards, a new stepping... AND by then i'll have to wait for a new GPU because i'm not going to wait for a cannon lake and use a 1+ year GPU (since nvidia has stated no current plans for volta gpu so probably mid-late 2018) My concern is this, Coffee Lake is still LGA 1151, does this mean that existing coolers and water blocks will still fit? because it does state that it will require a new chipset / mobo, will intel use the same socket layout or change it slightly as well? And I mean the slightest changes to differentiate between z170 / z270 boards and the new one. Something stupid like... make the socket more squared than rectangular... or diamond shape (don't put it passed them). maybe change the spacing of the mounting points... The i7-8700k looks appealing though, i would definitely jump on that for a new gaming system I am not really happy seeing that 95W power.... it's not bad... just means more heat especially during OC.

Ok so they are hard wired (so to speak) to the pcie x16 slots on the board?

So all this talk about pcie lanes got me thinking, i know it's really up to intel and the board manufacturer to dictate what lanes go and the thing that gets me is I know that the chipset has pcie lanes and most of those are for ethernet, sata, nvme, and so on but what really happens to the unused pcie lanes from the cpu? Let's say i purchased one of the new intel Core i9 cpu's with 28 pcie lanes. I know those are mainly for graphics, but I only use 1 video card so that's 16 lanes being used out of 28. Is it possible to use the remaining 12 lanes for non graphics related expansion cards? something like NVME ssd? Is it possible to completely avoid pch and just use the intel pcie lanes? Also same question for amd even though i mentioned intel.

I don't think its any of those other than possibly the tv panel going out, it is an old tv. The xeon isn't overclocked, the gpu only has the power limit increased so it can gpu boost higher than normal however it's still within thermal limits. And if its a faulty gpu then i would suspect i'd have more issues with it such as crashing, driver issues, or games not performing well. Swapping out the hdmi cable seem to have helped alittle, now instead of a consistent line above the screen, it'll at odd frames make this cascade effect, either up or down. The best i can describe it is it looks like the screen is split into 5 horizontal parts and they re-synchronize either going up or down making a series of lines, then it stops and comes back randomly again.

honestly i couldn't tell you, its an insignia cable from best buy, its 6ft. and all it says on the cable is high speed hdmi with ethernet. However now after unplugging and reconnecting it seems...better. instead of the single consitent line i get this sort of scanline effect that happens maybe once an hour.

So, I'm running out of things to try and fix this issue but i'm getting screen tearing in and out of games. even with v-sync forced, even when v-sync if forced in nvidia control panel and is running outside of games. This is what I get. Outside of games I get these horizontal lines that resemble screen tearing. It happens in netflix, both apps and webpages. Youtube. even stored videos. and sometimes just scrolling on webpages with just texts. In-game: I get this same screen tearing but its more consistent. If I were to play...Skyrim for example and did rapid left-to-right camera movements i'll get this horrible tearing above the screen. Cutting about 80% of the screen (if your familiar with the game its about where enemy health bars are at) And it's every game! Display is a TV. This is the home theater system i'm having issues with so i'll provide all the info. TV: 48" Vizio FHD 1080p 60hz. It is set to 60hz in windows and nvidia panel. CPU: Xeon E3-1225 V2 (quad-core 3.6ghz) Ram: 16GB DDR3 1600 (its actually 1866 but the xeon caps at 1600) now oddly enough i had to set the bios to 1866 to even get it to boot but cpu-z is showing 1600 Vid: Gigabyte windforce GTX 1060 6GB

So I just purchased the monitor, i picked up LG 34UM58-P It doesn't use free sync but it still rates the monitor as 75 herts refresh rate. So I don't how they did it on an IPS screen but they did. And the dynamic action sync is nice.