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It is still an IPS screen. Reviews don't ever mention color accuracy. Is your laptop an IPS?

It seems very common these days for high performance gaming laptops to have 300hz, or even 360hz monitors. Many of these laptops are fairly affordable, ranging from $1200 up to $2250, which doesn't seem all that bad considering that an equivalent monitor (albeit larger) will cost $450+. And the weirdest thing is that... there are only two models of 300hz+ desktop monitors, the Asus ROG Swift PG259QN and the Alienware AW2521H, which are both 360hz 24.5 inch 1080p IPS monitors. And they each cost $450. So... why? Why is it suddenly possible to get relatively affordable laptops, such as this https://www.newegg.com/black-asus-rog-strix-scar-15-g533qs-ds96-gaming-entertainment/p/N82E16834235896?quicklink=true asus one, that has a 300hz ips panel, a 3080, a 5900hx, and 16gb of ram for only $2,249, or, on the lower end, this https://www.newegg.com/eclipse-gray-asus-rog-strix-g15-g513qe-es76-gaming-entertainment/p/N82E16834235880?quicklink=true asus one for $1,249 that has a 300hz ips panel, a 3050ti, a 5800h, and 16gb of ram? As a high refresh rate desktop gamer, it just doesn't make sense to not move to a laptop... Why would I spend so much money on a 24 inch 1080p monitor, when I could just get a better screen coupled with a 3080 for 2 thousand dollars?

Alright, I'll lose the sata SSD for a larger NVME SSD. Unfortunately the ITX world is a shitshow as far as affordable motherboards go for 5000 series ryzen and 12th gen intel. There's actually only two ITX 12th gen intel boards, one being 300 dollars (the one I have selected in the parts list) and one being 500 ish dollars. And then on the ryzen side of things you can't really get a decent board under ~250 ish, so it sucks on both sides of things. The sad truth is that ITX is expensive. I'm a college student though, so I need portability. Such is life... Updated parts list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gZDHYg (I also added another fan to go on the bottom)

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/nvYGsX So this is an upcoming build I'm hoping to buy around late December. I'm pretty sure that I can manage to fit both the 280 and keep the 2.5in drive space for a large SSD. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this. Some of the decisions I made in this build were based off of this completed build: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/M94nTW I am pretty sure that the EK 280 is smaller than the NZXT 280 that he used. Edit: updated parts list https://pcpartpicker.com/list/gZDHYg

After a few too many hours of troubleshooting I decided to just rebuild it, and oddly enough it ended up working. I'm still not sure what the issue was, as I checked every connection before rebuilding and tried to clear CMOS, but it works now, so I guess I can't complain. Solved. CONTROVERSY! ACTUALLY! It wasn't all fine! After I thought it was fixed, I got a random BSOD on Valorant, and then a couple more BSOD's! I decided to test each memory stick and now I know that one of my sticks of RAM is faulty! Must have been the vibrations from the car or something, coupled with the fact that this stick is 7 years old

Okay I actually did find the Cmos battery, but it was wrapped in plastic/rubber and isn't removeable. I did find the clear cmos jumper pins, and cleared the cmos that way, but it still doesn't work. Still no luck getting it to boot or recognize any peripherals at all.

I actually just started going by whether or not the lights on my keyboard turned on, and left video output unplugged for the time being. The computer won't even stay on on its own without video plugged in. Does the CMOS battery have a cover on it? I can't seem to find it.

So I'm a college student, and I just drove home for Thanksgiving break. I have a mini itx gaming computer, which has a ryzen 2400g, a 1050ti, an Asrock b450 Fatality ITX motherboard, 16gb of ram, and a 450w corsair PSU. All of this is in a silverstone SG13 case. I play a decent amount of games in college, and this computer was working this morning. I then put the computer and its peripherals in a large box, (I do this all the time, seems like pretty safe packaging) and drove home with it. There weren't any hard bumps in the car and I never dropped the box it was in. Anyways, after coming home and setting everything up, I discovered that the PC wasn't booting. Here's what happens: when I press the power button, the lights on the case light up and the fans spin for about 15-30 seconds, before shutting off and restarting. It gets stuck in a constant boot loop. When this happens, the peripherals do not light up (keyboard, mouse), and there is no video signal to the monitors. While troubleshooting for a little bit, I did a few things. Wondering if it was the GPU, I reseated it and restarted to no avail, then I just took it out and tried to turn on the computer, still no dice. After this (still with the gpu out), I reseated the RAM and checked all the power supply connections. I also did the whole power discharge thing where you unplug the computer and hold down the power button for 15 seconds. Nothing changed. Nothing changed at all, still the same bootloop with no peripheral recognition. The computer is in the same outlet as it's always been when I'm at home... so I'm really at a loss. In the morning I will take it apart completely, try to rebuild it, and hope that it works. Unfortunately, I don't have any spare parts to troubleshoot with and the computer just isn't worth enough to bother paying some schmuck to look at it... In the event that the computer or one of its parts is likely dead, I'll probably have to start a new build from scratch which... isn't ideal, but at least I acquired a 3080 so I could finally get to use that I guess... If anyone has some magic ideas, I'd be happy to try them out! P.S. I also tried to reset the Cmos battery, but... I couldn't find it on the motherboard. Unsure about where exactly it is, manual wasn't much help... I'm also pretty sure everything I have is now out of warranty as the computer is a couple years old now.

My guess is it will start with the trucking industry and then we will get a dedicated lane on every highway for those vehicles. Eventually it will make its way into the consumer market but yeah my bet is it starts with the trucking industry.

500 million dollars per mile of high speed rail. 1 billion dollars would get you 2 miles. I hope you use that 2 miles wisely! Also obligatory why are you shilling china...?

High speed rail is tremendously, incalculably expensive to build. In-ground bridges must be built to assure stability. You're effectively talking about building a railroad, on top of a bridge, across tens of thousands of miles of mountainous, curvy landscape. That just isn't feasible. It won't work in most of the US. Amtrak quoted a cost of 500 million dollars per mile of rail to turn its Northeast Corridor route into a true high-speed system. At these prices, it would cost at least $1 trillion to build a national HSR system. If it actually would work, private companies would build them. It isn't the government's fault. It also isn't just the car companies, although they didn't help matters.

ah... well for 200 dollars getting 16gb of ram with a competent processor is rather difficult. I would look for older office prebuilts in your area.

buy a 3600x on ebay and call it a day. You can grab one for 150-200 dollars.

Budget $150

I've never tried linear. I think right now I have razer Greens which are supposed to be clicky and tactile? I'll be in a dorm so a silent keyboard that's still mechanical would be nice.