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UPDATE Sorry for the long wait, the new mobo took a while in shipping. So here's what I have to report: After uninstalling the ASRock AB350 Pro4 drivers and utilities and installing the MSI X470 Gaming Plus drivers I witnessed nothing fishy. All of my devices worked perfectly fine. I was getting perfectly clear audio (perhaps even a bit louder, I think the sound system on the MSI board is a bit stronger), running games was super smooth, I could capture screen recordings and encode video and I'd describe the experience as identical to when I had the ASRock board in the system. The only issue I faced was Windows Activation. As your license is tied to your motherboard, I had to reinstall Windows with a new license. I am aware that you can attempt to recover the license, but unfortunately I was unsuccessful. But yeah, all in all I'd say that at least with my configuration everything worked really smoothly - swapping motherboards was perfectly fine. Thanks everybody! <3

I'm certainly interested to see what gremlins (if any) appear in my configuration. It would be useful information in a general sense for people performing the same sort of upgrade in the future.

Yeah, at this point I'm thinking I best do a clean install. I still want to try without for a little bit to see if anything acts funny - I'll keep the thread updated if I witness anything funky

Better safe than sorry, that's for sure. But starting from scratch is soooo annoying Best practice though, I'll be sure to do a clean install then.

Guess we'll have to wait and see if Windows craps out from a mobo swap. Wish me luck!

I would imagine. I'll give it a shot without a complete reinstall and see how things go - otherwise we're starting from scratch

I'm going from an ASRock B350 Pro4 to an MSI X470 Gaming Plus. I wanted to know if I need to reinstall windows to get everything functioning properly, or do I just need to uninstall my previous motherboards utilities and drivers and reinstall the new boards utilities and drivers. Thanks!

I've made a number of changes to my configuration and I have resolved the issue. Firstly, I uninstalled Avast antivirus as that was causing numerous other issues - I thought it best to get rid of Avast just to eliminate one potentially massive variable. Above normal process priority with the "faster" encode profile @ 16 000 mbps seems to be very smooth now.

I made this info-graphic to demonstrate my issue a little better.

Hello Forum. So I've been trying to iron out this kink in OBS for the past little while, and I can't come up with any conclusions. Essentially, my OBS recordings are choppy and skip frames for reasons I can't explain. Here are my system specs: CPU: Ryzen 7 1700 (OC - 3.85 GHz @ 1.3625V) MOBO: ASRock AB350 Pro4 (Fan directly over VRM heatsink) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Masterliquid 240 RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 2x8GB DDR4 2400 MHz (OC to 2733 MHz @ 1.45V) GPU: Powercolor Red Devil RX 580 8GB PSU: Cooler Master Elite V2 550W Case: Corsair 270R (3x120mm Intake) SSD: WD Blue 250GB M.2 (SATA Interface) HDD: 1TB WD Black 7200RPM 3.5" I'll leave an example recording included via Google Drive. While OBS displays the capture during a recording as "59.94 fps", if you look at the recordings frame by frame, there are quite a number of skipped frames. I've included my current OBS settings, but if I change the bitrate or the encoder profile it still doesn't aid the issue. I thought maybe my storage was bottle-necking the output, so I tested the output to my SSD but still no change. My system is well cooled, and I don't run into any thermals above 70°C on my GPU or 65°C on the CPU, it never really gets close honestly. I uninstalled OBS and re-installed OBS, and that lead to no changes. I closed every single app other than OBS and Apex Legends, and the behaviour still persists. You can notice frame skips particularly towards the end of the clip. Does anyone have any explanations for this? I'd love to hear some feedback, I am absolutely wracking my brain trying to determine what the hell the issue is here. Thanks a bunch! https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1srND41balbKsiWzjl_na_uHIHzWUU2YE?usp=sharing

My bad, I should have been more specific. Anything below $200 is what I'm considering, but the cheaper the better - ultimately I have other cameras for other purposes and I only need this one to be decent at facecam footage. I don't need audio either, I have everything on a separate interface.

Hey forum. I'm looking for a cheap camcorder with an HDMI out for capture via a capture card for facecam footage. It only really needs to output 720p, and I'm totally down for searching on the used market. I'd love to know if you have any recommendations. Thank you so much!

@Bananasplit_00 @WereCat Could you tell me if I'm out of my depth here? Does this setup suggest that given the theoretically high quality panel, as long as I had a driver board that support high refresh rates, I could run the panel at above 100Hz, so long as the panel had an LVDS interface? I'm looking at one of these at the moment: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/LCD-LED-120hz-controller-board-with_60789228083.html?spm=a2700.7724857.normalList.2.56f96f49JzkvYV

From what I understand, the scaler is a piece of programmable hardware? So the manufacturer would define it's parameters? Again, I'm positing a hypothetical, but if you could modify the scaler to genuinely respond to higher refresh rates would that allow you to push higher monitor refreshes?

Very interesting. For the sake of the argument, let's say that a theoretical 60Hz panel is like super high quality somehow, if you could change the driver circuit to something more capable, and didn't run into display cable limits, could you theoretically achieve an impressive display OC, like in excess of 100Hz?

I've done a little perusing of different forums, and I've noticed that most 60Hz monitors struggle to oc past ≈ 100Hz if that. I'm thinking of getting a high refresh rate display, and I already have two standard 60Hz displays, and I don't have enough space for three displays (nor do I feel the need to run three panels, two is more than enough for me), so I was thinking for fun, I'd try my luck at overclocking one of my spare displays. My question is, what is it exactly that prevents display overclocks to push higher? Is it a power limitation? Could getting a higher rated power brick help in pushing past that 100Hz marker? Is it a display panel quality thing, like will running a 60Hz rated panel at beyond 100Hz degrade the panel? Is it a display driver thing? Cooling? I'd really love to know more about the process and I was hoping to find some choice advice on the forum. Do let me know if you have any idea of how the mechanics of display OCs work, I'm very intrigued!

At any rate, it's cool that it works!

When did they update it to support overlay in UWP games? This hasn't worked for the longest time right up until now (for me at least)

So I was under the impression that the Afterburner overlay (RTSS) wouldn't work with Universal Windows Platform games because Microsoft made it all really screwy compatibility wise, but I was just running Forza 7 with Afterburner and I get the overlay, and it seems to be perfectly functional? I'm running Afterburner v.4.5.0.12819 with RTSS v7.1.0 - RX 580 8GB with Adrenalin 19.4.1 Drivers - Forza 7 Ver. 1.163.2389.2

Good to know! I'll keep this formula in mind.

Yeah, ultimately airflow is the limiting factor. Sticking a fan directly in line with the heatsink should pretty much guarantee good thermals.

It's good that you mention that. Regular thermal pads seem to be around 6.0 w/mk, but the adhesive kind seem to be considerably worse - and thicker at that....

The heatsink on the board looks impressive on first look, but I'd imagine that cross cut sinks would offer more surface area - my thinking is that this would improve thermals. So to your point I guess that it would have to be something I have to test

I'll have to weight the heatsinks If I go through with this then. Thank you!

I'm thinking about picking up a MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon local from a guy who is selling it for $120. In the Tweaktown article I linked, they describe the VRMs on the board as "not that amazing, but the VRM gets the job done.". What I want to know is that THEORETICALLY (ignoring airflow because air is ultimately the dissipative bottleneck), is it more important to value thermal mass of a VRM heatsink or surface area? I'm thinking about experimenting with the VRM thermal solution, to see if mounting aftermarket heatsinks something like this are worth it from a VRM thermals standpoint. Does anyone have any sort of relevant knowledge on the topic? I'd love to hear some thoughts on the concept! Thanks a bunch!