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I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with the Galaxy Book Pro 360? I'm looking to get the 15" version and it looks like an absolutely gorgeous laptop but I can't find it in any retail stores to actually see in person. I'm wondering if anyone has any positive/negative things to say about it if you have owned/used it before because I can only find it online and none of the big YouTubers I watch really did a video on it. Thanks!

All the surface models just seem so expensive with pretty low specs... I might be reading it wrong but $800 CAD for an i3 and 4gb of ram seems a little ridiculous. The Surface Laptop looks pretty nice though...

I'm currently looking for a new laptop for university and I was curious if anyone has used the Tab S7+ for this purpose? (I know, its a tablet). I really love the screen on it and the design overall but I'm just worried there will be too many limitations with it running android and now a PC OS. I DO have a desktop PC that's more than capable of any hard workload and my degree doesn't require anything like blender or rendering or anything like that. I'll mostly be typing documents, checking emails, taking tests. I have also been curious about owning a tablet for some time so it's kind of a 2-in-1 if it'll work for my use. Thank you to anyone in advance :)

I'm not sure if this is the right part of the forums to ask this, so I apologize if it isn't but here's my issue. Streaming on Twitch using Streamlabs, I average maybe 1.5%-2.5% dropped frames over the course of a full stream. As soon as I turn on any part of NVIDIA Broadcast in OBS (mic noise removal, camera effects OR audio noise removal) and I try to stream this spikes up immediately to ~25% dropped frames or higher. My internet is pretty decent (a little inconsistent at times) but overall I don't have very many issues with my connection. I was wondering if this is something anyone else has experienced, or if anyone has any ideas as to what could help me out because I would really like to use the noise removal for my streams. Specs listed below: Ryzen 7 3800X ASUS TUF X570 MOBO 16GB (2x8) Corsair Vengeance @3200mHZ ASUS TUF RTX 3080 OC Logitech C920 Webcam HyperX Quadcast USB Mic Thanks in advance!

So I am in the market to buy a 1440p 144hz display but I really don't want to break the bank (as I am buying a 3080 once stock comes back) so I'm looking for a more budget-friendly option. I have kind of narrowed it down to the Acer XV272U (Amazon) and the Pixio PX278 (Newegg). Both have pretty much the same specs (1440p, 144hz, 1ms, 400nit) and after shipping on Newegg the Pixio is only about $20 cheaper. I have heard great things about the Pixio (haven't really been able to find many videos on the Acer) but the one thing is, I trust Acer as a brand more. Obviously just because I haven't heard of Pixio doesn't automatically make them bad but reliability & support is a big thing for me. Is it worth the extra $20? Or if there are any other monitors out there around a similar price that you could whole heartedly recommend that'd be appreciated as well. (AOC CQ27G1 too dim for me). TL;DR Acer XV272U vs Pixio PX278 or any other recommendations? Thanks in advance guys

Theres also the Gigabyte B550 AORUS Pro & Elite, the MAG B550 Tomahawk and the more budget Prime X570-P and then most of the rest are out of my budget. I'm also most comfortable with Asus' software but I'm sure other boards I can pick up pretty easily

So I'm planning to get the 3080 when it comes out in a couple weeks and I was wondering if there was a major reason to go with an aftermarket AIB. The cooler on these cards actually seems decent (especially compared to the 10 series blowers) so I was just curious if I should order a FE or go with something else.

Not necessarily limited to those two, those are just the most popular and most accessible where I live

I'm not looking for anything too fancy, only minor OC for GPU/CPU as well as the PCIE 4.0. I have a 3800x and planning to get a 3080 when they release.

Hello everyone. I am in the market for a new MOBO (my current ones CPU fan header died and I'm wanting PCIE 4.0). I don't want to spend a ridiculous amount but I also don't necessarily want a super budget one either. So far I've narrowed it down to the ASUS ROG Strix B550-F for $249 CAD or the ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus for $239 CAD. I'm not super knowledgeable about MOBOs unfortunately so I was hoping to get the communities opinion. I know that the B550 boards are considered "budget" compared to the X570s so I was wondering if there was a legitimate reason why the ROG was $10 more. As well if there are any other boards for around the same pricepoint or cheaper that you would recommend that would be appreciated as well. Thank you in advance ♥

I would like the aesthetics of an AIO, but my case is also too shallow to house the super beefy Air coolers like the D15 or DRP4. I know there are other decent coolers that are lower profile but in my case I think it would just be easier to slap an AIO in there. I also don't like the sort of torque that the huge towers put on the motherboard

Yeah reliability is what I was most concerned about. I'm considering seeing if the Kraken x62 goes on sale cause atm it's $200 CAD, and I can find some other 280mm for a bit cheaper, but I've heard that the Kraken is one of the best you can get. I'm running a 3800x which seems to run decently toasty from what I've thrown at it so far

So I've been on the hunt for a quality AIO for about a week now, looking on Amazon and Memory Express and one brand that I'm seeing quite often on Amazon in particular is DEEPCOOL. I see their products through sponsored placements on the website so at first glance I kind of ignored them but after looking into them a bit more, they do seem decent. They all average 4-ish stars on Amazon and a lot of their AIOs are really competitively priced when compared to the big brands (Corsair, NZXT, etc.) I was just wondering if anyone here has had any experience with DEEPCOOL's AIOs and could give me some insight into performance, noise, reliability, customer support, really anything you had experience with. From reviews it seems that they perform well, but reliability is the biggest question in my head when I come across smallER brands than what I'm used to. Thanks in advance

So recently my CPU Fan header died so I have it plugged into the CPU_OPT header just until I can get a new board (I can see the fan spinning from where I sit and I just got a new CPU cooler). Currently I have a 3800x on an ASUS ROG Strix B450-F MOBO and I was just curious, which board do you think I should get? After looking at a lot of the X570 prices I became more hesitant to upgrade for the time being. Won't be using SLI and probably won't be overclocking. Will the X570's be worth it to upgrade to or would another B450 be sufficient for my needs? If I were to go with the new gen boards I was thinking the ASUS TUF X570 and I would also like to know some opinions on that as well. When it comes to computer components the MOBO is usually the part I know the least about so any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance

Was originally using the stock paste that comes on the cooler, but have also used Arctic Silver 5 paste (which I think is decent?) and both give me spiking temperatures and high max temps. I'll try reapplying the cooler in a bit here and get back to you