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I have bought a lot of corsair refurbished stuff directly from corsair on the US website and a few things from Newegg in the US. I have a refurbished sfx450 thats been good for about a year. Only thing I ever had trouble with was some LED's on a keyboard and after I filled out the rma form online I had a new one in the mail 5 days later. I hadnt even sent the old one back yet.

go under your network adapter and set it to metered connection and that will stop the update. you may have to completely restart the update after you turn metered off though.

The big ones I remember playing and all of a sudden realizing it was 4am were Overwatch(current obsession), the first kingdom hearts game, Tales of symphonia, and Borderlands.

when you first connect a drive to the router its going to index the files. this will usually take anywhere from 10min to 45min depending on the size and speed of the drive and how full it is. also you can look in your router to see if it has indexing options or also options to let the hdd spin down and sleep after a while. A lot of routers will keep network drives spinning pretty much all the time by default.

literally everything you typed has different combinations of cards and cpu's. which one do you actually want to know.

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Hit f8 during boot and load into safe mode and uninstall afterburner and rivatuner. start hitting f8 after the bios loads but before windows starts to load. if you cant get f8 to work you need to disable fast boot in the bios.

you are trying to play a lower fps source on a high refresh monitor. you will need to set your refresh rate on the monitor to something like 60 or 120 for it to be smooth. most videos end up at either 30 or 60 fps, and unless your videos are encoded at 24 fps then this is going to happen. 144 is not equally divisible by 30 or 60, so somewhere in there you are going to lose some frames. thats why most high refresh rate tv's are either at 120hz or 240hz, because they can play 24fps, 30fps, or 60fps videos without looking like crap. you can also try enabling vsync and see if that helps.

I have a z170 itx board and a pentium g4600 with a 1050ti with 2 ssds and a 2.5" 1TB hdd. it plays most games at 1080p med settings fairly well. its hooked up to my 4k tv, but 4k is never gonna happen on this system. overwatch struggles to get more than 20fps on the lowest possible settings and its not a very demanding game. It pulls under 100W at full load. Usually when gaming its somewhere around 70W at the wall. I have the power limit lowered for the 1050ti and it still boosts fairly high. I also have the cpu undervolted.

the 1050ti in my htpc does a great job. it cant game at 4k, but at 1080 its plenty good enough

what about stuff in the bottom right in the taskbar? When this happened to me none of the stuff in that part of the taskbar would respond, like the people icon, or clicking on the speaker icon to change the sound source between speakers and my wireless headphones. Sometimes even the start menu wouldnt pop up when I clicked on the icon. Also certain apps wouldnt load, mostly the ones from microsoft like skype, calculator, the microsoft store. It was something in the user account that wasnt loading properly. I could log out of the my user account and log back in and usually everything would work. It was the most consistent way to get it to work. A restart did always work. The first time it happened I just made a new user account and everything worked fine until an update broke it again. at that point I I found out that I could log out and back in and did that for several months but eventually I just wiped everything and started over and avoided the update that broke it.

is it fixed voltage or adaptive? I have my 6600k set for 4.6ghz at 1.35v, but I have it set to adaptive voltage so it actually spends most of its life under 1v

In my opinion it depends on the quality of the unit. I would expect a cheap unit to last maybe 3-6 years, a quality unit had better last 8-10 years. I have a power supply still running that I bought in 2005. Its a OCZ PowerStream OCZ520ADJ. Still runs strong. I hope that my evga 850 g2 lasts as long as that one has.

I may have to load up csgo and check it out if they have actually fixed it. But I know for a fact that fortnite, and overwatch both cut off part of the image at the top and bottom. My ultrawide is 2560x1080 and both of those games will fill the width properly, but your field of view vertically is less than it would be on a 16x9, but only with the ingame graphics All of the menu's and HUDs do display properly and fill up the screen. Blizzard has said they will never "fix" it because it would give the players with ultrawide monitors an unfair advantage due to increased fov.

An ultrawide is awesome for any kind of productivity. I also game on my ultrawide, but most games dont properly support 21:9. Pretty much everything I have played either cuts off part of the top and bottom of the image, or messes up the HUD or the menus. I havnt played csgo in a while, but it cut off all the menus for buying guns at the first of the match, and the HUD at the bottom during the game.