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3 minutes ago, scighera2 said:

Also, remember that Ryzen boards are more expensive, and you need to buy more expensive RAM

have you even looked at prices of mobos dude, you can get a b350 board for less than 100 and you cant even find a z-170 under 120

looking at getting a reliable boom arm for my mic. the edge of my desk only has about 3/4" clearance because there are support boards/ steel rods on the edge of the desk. was wondering if that would be enough space to use a clamp mount or would i be better off just standing it on my desk with a mount in front of my face.

Personally ive have a Herman Miller Aeron and an Embody as well. Currently have a dxr tank. honestly like most people are saying just get one that comfortable. (If you can afford an Aeron i would highly recommend it)

What is this float plane thing that's I've been hearing about and how do I sign up/ watch the float plane videos

currently have the logitech g910 keyboard and i looking at either getting the black widow chroma v2 or the k95 plat. To anyone who has owned or own either the specific keyboards or ones similar what are the pros and cons and what wouldyou guys recommend. I do general programming, gaming, editing, etc. usually at my desk for about 8- 12 hours a day. Looking for something comfortable and a little clackier than the g switches on the g910. Thanks for any help

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

No, furmark is free but it's a SUPER powerful powervirus, it has been known to actually blow VRMs up and cause thermal throttling on shit cards. 

I mean, I don't stress test, but I'm more of an extreme OCer, if it doesn't crash within a few minutes with me, chances are it won't at all, and this usually rings true until the sillicon gets degraded, (I usually use high clocks and high voltage, right now my i7 7700K is on a 24/7 OC at 1.5v lol usually it's on;y 1.44, but I got it stable on the lower 1.5 rather than 1.55 for 5GHz cache 5.3GHz core)

okay. ill probably buy the 3d mark ones. What do you mean blow vrms? like actually destroys the card? ill probably start my oc this Saturday night and ill post back my results. Thanks so much!

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Valley, 3DMark has some free ones (mostly time spy and firestrike) heaven, furmark if you wanna make it pay.

Yes, max the power limit, I removed mine on my card lol

Usually most 1080ti's hit around +400MHz on memory and +100 or so on core

also how long should i run tests to make sure its a 24/7 oc? should i run it for a day or so?

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

Valley, 3DMark has some free ones (mostly time spy and firestrike) heaven, furmark if you wanna make it pay.

Yes, max the power limit, I removed mine on my card lol

Usually most 1080ti's hit around +400MHz on memory and +100 or so on core

okay. so heaven, fire strike and time spy are free and furmark is paid for?

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

Pascal is pretty simple, move the sliders until it isn't stable then back off a bit. 

what are some good free benchmarks?

do i want the power target all the way up?

how much should i move the memory offset compared to the gpu clock?

personally have a 750d airflow. have 1 120mm rad and a 280mm rad (both aios) and still plenty of room. also there are pre determined spots for reses and pumps. Would be an awesome case to do a loop in.

4 minutes ago, JDE said:

Huawei has been good with me

iPhone beta here. only got it cause i had the note 7 and returned it due to the battery issues. it was in between phone cycles and i had no phone to use 

this is what my card is currently at (its idling if it matters) i want to know much more i can get out of the card before i start seeing problems. I have never really had a problem running any games but if i could run them better thatd be nice. basically i want to know if there is really a need to oc and if so where do i begin on doing it and also how do i know how far i can get it (not looking to max the card just looking to get more performance). any help is appreciated. Thanks all. 

6 minutes ago, NvidiaIntelAMDLoveTriangle said:

Pointless video is pointless.

gets cucked by admin because point made is pointless

1 hour ago, Bigbootyjudy said:

I would get the 1080 unless you do crazy thinks that would warrant the need for the ti

personally have the 1080ti hybrid card from evga. Games wont utilize it to the max. I left it at base speed and still have 200+ frames in most games on ultra and less optimized games like pubg i play at 1440p at 110-120fps. But i mainly bought it for 3d rendering and auto cad for school and im the lead designer for my robotics team. for strait up gaming the 1080 is a perfect card.

7 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

If the board is SLI capable it should have a 16x or 2/8x if SLI. What board do you have ? 

Also with what board wouldn't the cpu he has matter as well? because many of the pcie lanes come from the cpu so in that regards it could be an sli compatible mobo but just not enough pcie lanes off the cpu to run a sli config.

Found out it was the ram thank you everyone who responded!! it was at 3066 but then i dropped it to 2886 and everything boots perfect now! thank you everyone! <3

This is my full build

X370 taichi mobo

1700x 

kraken x62

16gb (2x8gb) corsair vengeance 3200 at 2933

1080ti hybrid

once in a while my computer will go through a phase of Abbott loop where the computer will boot and run through post codes until it his f9 then it will restart. Can't find anything on google anout this error code so was wondering if anyone could give some troubleshooting or insight on what to do?

3 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Correct.

alright i will be looking for some monitors tonight and will probably be picking one up tomorrow. Thanks all for the responses it has been a huge help!

3 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

That's not the refresh rate, but the frame rate. FRAPS is commonly used for this, but any game you run with the Steam Overlay can also do this now.

 

Either on the driver control panel or the monitor's on-screen settings display .

 

Also just to clear up, the issue I described does not change the refresh rate of the monitors. It just caps the maximum frame rate the game can run. Unless you're confusing refresh rate with frame rate, which are two separate things.

So just to be clear. As long as i dont use a gpu bounded task on the second display, it SHOULDNT cap it but if it does just check and see what the fps is at on my main gaming monitor.

8 minutes ago, Max_Settings said:

It shouldn't. When I got duel monitors my 144hz I ran on DP and my 60hz I ran on HDMI and it capped my 144hz to 60hz. But if I ran them both on DP it works fine

so run both on DP. Alright. Im gonna start looking at some monitors.

9 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

If it doesn't exhibit this problem, sure. But I don't know if it will or not since I've only noticed it in that one case.

how do you check what refresh rate the monitor is running at. how will i know what my main is running at when i plug in the other monitor.

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

If it doesn't exhibit this problem, sure. But I don't know if it will or not since I've only noticed it in that one case.

okay. also since we are on the topic of refresh rate. Ive noticed and some recent youtube videos that they(bitwit, jayztwocents) can display the current refresh rate of a monitor in the upper right hand corner. Do you know how to do this?

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

You don't do the thing on the other monitor.

so basically keep it to just the web based programs and obs?

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

Note that if you run a GPU accelerated task on the other monitor, it may force any games you're running to the monitor's refresh rate. I've noticed when I watch a YouTube video on the side while playing a game, the game's capped at 60FPS.

how would i stop this from happening?

Just now, TheGlenlivet said:

You're good to go.

okay sweet. any good recommendations for sub $200? Preferably from bestbuy (there is one just down the road from me.

Just now, That_PC_Kid said:

Are you planning to use them side by side for gaming?

no i want to use the other one for productivity tasks such as programming, running background scripts and have obs and such open for when i stream.