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13 hours ago, YedZed said:

Cant find this video...

Also, if i get it used, it won't have warranty will it? And should I be worried about the lack of sRGB rating?

That's because it's not a video.

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dell_u2515h.htm

And no, not really.

17 hours ago, fixitnow said:

no thats not what I meant. Find an old HDD and install a copy of windows on to that, that will rule out a hardware issue, thats all. 

Gotcha. 

I'll give it a go.

13 minutes ago, fixitnow said:

Nope. I would try another copy of window. Find an old hdd install onto that and see if you get the same issue.  

Bit extreme!

I'd rather live with it than reinstall windows

1 hour ago, fixitnow said:

Just any past version you can get. 

Just tested with 16.something.

No change, so have reinstalled 17.7.2.

Now games crash to a red screen as soon as I try to get into a game.

Any other ideas?

1 minute ago, Cookybiscuit said:

So tell me why didn't the prices of 200 series drop like a stone when AMD launched the 400 and 500 series?

Because 200 series were almost as good as 400 and 500 series at mining.

Vega is meant to be way better.

Just now, cj09beira said:

i see your point now, in big scale it might be better yes 

I mean, I could be wrong.

I'm making the assumption that it's the mining "farms" that are the problem and not the small time individuals running a couple of cards.

If this isn't the case, then I completely agree with you

Just now, fixitnow said:

The last resort would be reinstalling windows. Try the graphis driver. Make sure that the card isn't under 100% load on the GPU or VRAM

The card(s) is under 100% use when games are running.

At no other point are they being utilised at all.

Just discovered that running a youtube video full screen has the same impact, but obviously doesn't pin the card at 100%.

What driver is recommended?

Currently running 17.7.2.

6 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

why replace them when those can keep generating money, even if at a lower rate, only situation where they would replace them would be if they fail or no longer profitable, and most cards still are

I'm arguing that if the new cards are this good, they'll be far more profitable than the old ones, to the point where it makes more sense to sell all the old ones and replace with the new ones.

Ya know, if the new cards hash rate is 2x better than the old at the same power draw, then it makes more sense to sell all the old cards and use that money to buy new ones.

Why generate $10 a day with a card when you could sell that and replace it with something that makes $20 a day?

If you're doing this on an industrial scale, you either run out of money, space or power headroom to keep all the old cards running, even if you can afford new ones; at which point you're forced to sell.

49 minutes ago, fixitnow said:

Open task manager, and then open the programmes and then wait for the issue and then open task manger again and see what resources are being used. 

Task manager before:

Task manager after:

Nothing changes as far as I can tell.

47 minutes ago, cpuwaiy said:

revert to an older version of your graphics driver

Would like this to be a last resort option if possible.

If nothing else works, I'll try it.

37 minutes ago, Cookybiscuit said:

Just checked my Amazon history, bought mine for 206 in January 2015, sold it two months ago for 200, if I was patient I could have got more and people consistently do on eBay. Inflation and the exchange rate is of course a factor, but to suggest the prices of older GPU's is dropping like a stone is complete nonsense. A 7970 is a six year old card at this point and still fetch decent prices on the used market, they should be worthless by your evaluation. GPU mining has ruined the market.

It launched in 2013 so you bought 2 years after... enough time for a new generation.

The price had halved from launch.

21 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

miners wont upgrade, they will keep the old ones, and add new vega cards to the mix, so the prices of 580's will remain the same

Doesn't make more sense for a miner to sell all the used cards and replace with as many new ones as they can afford?

Especially if the new cards are going to be as good at mining as this thread suggests.

1 minute ago, Cookybiscuit said:

The prices of the used market scale with the prices of the new market. It's the reason the people who bought an R9290 two years ago can sell them used right now in 2017 for a profit.

The launch price of that card was $400.

They now sell for $250... $300 max.

So, one of two things has caused a strange issue with my PC.

Every time I play a game (PUBG and Overwatch primarily), Discord and some other programs will behave weirdly.

It's as if the window isn't there, but they're working.

For example if I have discord open, then play a game, as soon as I'm done with the game (or I alt tab out), I can no longer interact with the window, but I'll still be in chat fine on Discord.

I can't move/resize/minimise or do anything with the window.

If I click, it's as if I'm clicking on the desktop behind it... i.e. if I double click on something in discord, it will actually double click whatever is behind the Discord window.

If I "exit Discord" in the system tray, and re-open it, it's fine until I run a game again (assuming any full screen application would cause this).

I'm using Discord as my primary example, because I can tell if it's working without being able to interact, but it happens with other programs too.

This has only started happening since I upgraded to crossfire AND/OR installed the creators update for Windows.

My graphics drivers are up to date.

I've tried turning on and off AMD relive.

I've also tried changing which graphics card my displays are plugged into, which has made no difference.

Occasionally games will also become completely unresponsive in the same way and I'll have to force quit them in task manager. (This is the reason I really want a solution, because having to quit PUGB or Overwatch comp is heartbreaking).

Any ideas?

Thanks for any help in advance

Let me know if anything's unclear and I'll try to clarify.

System specs:

MSI Z77 Mpower

3570K

2X R9 290X

16GB RAM (8GB vengeance, 8GB Avexir, all running at 1333MHz)

2 SSDs (Corsair Neutron GTX and Sandisk... something) and and 1 HDD (Barracuda)

TX850 PSU

44 minutes ago, Cookybiscuit said:

Miners RMA cards at a higher rate, AMD doesn't want their business and neither do retailers, hence the restrictions from most places on buying a whole bunch of cards at once, and AMD putting out discounts if you buy their card along with a monitor and CPU. You say there are no disadvantages, you seem to have not noticed how inflated GPU prices are right now, and the fact you can't even find most AMD cards on 1060's in stock.

I understand, but like I said, I think the benefits outweigh the negatives.

When Vega drops, the price of used last gen cards will drop like a stone as all the miners upgrade.

There's very few people who buy brand new cards as soon as they're released (as a percentage of market share).

U2515H.

Look no further, I have one and it's beautiful.

Imo, it's the sweet spot for screen size vs. resolution.

Fine for games too.

TFTCentral review if you're still in doubt.

Hope this helps

I disagree with:

Quote

27" is the minimum for 1440p

I think 1440p looks great at 25" and is easy to see stuff at 100% scaling.

2 minutes ago, Versti said:

is the Corsair CMPSU-500CXV2EU CX500 good? i never tried corsair's power supplies, cuz this is my first build

400W will be enough.

CX series aren't great... They've been known to explode under load.

I'd go with a HX or TX instead.

Hope this helps.

Doubt you can do it without voiding the warranty.

You need to be careful of the connector/driver for the panel (disply/screen/panel all ok to say).

You may well find the connectors/drivers for the screen/laptop are propritary, and so you can't just buy any screen and plug it in.

It could even be propritary electrically, i.e. doesn't conform to display port/HDMI standards.

I think you're gonna struggle.

Sorry for the bad news, but hope this helps

38 minutes ago, Agost said:

Miners are not "actual customers", there's no fidelization and they do not increase effective market share in this segment, since they're not gaming. The more AMD cards are sold to people who use it for their intended use, the more developers are going to optimize or even create games on that platform. It's mostly for image and marketing purpose, which is a lot for a company. After mining crazes fade away, the used market gets flooded with cards in poor conditions, thus impacting negatively on the brand's reputation

More sales=more cards in circulation/manufactured=more gamers using them=more optimisations.

Imo, mining is no worse than running a decent overclock all the time for card life/reliability.

I do see your point though, I just think the positives outweigh the negatives.

So I've read about 4 pages of this thread.

Not sure why everyone is so against this.

People buying TONNEs of these cards is great for AMD.

They need the money pretty bad.

It's only a small percentage of us who were actually going to go out and buy one straight away anyway.

Furthermore, if these are amazing for mining, suddenly there's gonna be alot of RX580s cheap af on ebay.

THEN when the cryptocurrencies crash, cheap vegas.

I'm not seeing a downside here.

AMD get money, we get cheap used cards for now and cheap used cards in the future... what is possibly bad about this?

Also, lol at all the people saying "Why are you doing this AMD?"

If I was them I'd be making these cards even more mining oriented.

7 hours ago, beeny said:

im looking for a headphone amp for my DT 990 pro 250 ohm that wont cost me much

Probably don't use a car OR hi-fi amp for headphones.

Get a headphone amp.

Car and hi-fi amps are designed to drive big ass 10W+ speakers.

Headphones are significantly smaller speakers and require <1W (mostly).

Decent headphones amps aren't that cheap.

What's your budget and why do you think you need an amp?

Do they not get loud enough with your audio source?

What is your audio source?

Do you need the amp to be portable (if you need one)?

12 hours ago, PicoMaster said:

That is what I thought about doing, but isn't the signal from the Center/Sub output different from the aux output?

Laptop output will have the full range of sound (about 20Hz to about 20KHz).

You don't need to run the sub and tweeters off of specific outputs.

Tweeters won't be able to produce anything much under 2KHz.

Sub won't be able to produce anything much over 200Hz.

No idea how this sounds good  You have no midrange...

Anyway, what I'm saying is you can just plug the audio output from the laptop into the amps, with your speakers connected.

You can split the output to go to your 2 seperate amps.

However, this is not a good solution if these amps don't have adjustable cut-off/filter.

This will mean your sending the full range to both the tweeters and the subwoofer.

You wouldn't have this issue before because the filtering was done on your PC (i.e. "sub out" will have a low pass filter).

It sounds like you were sending full range to the tweeters anyway.

Some of the output from the laptop will be outside the frequency range of the tweeters and the sub, which could cause some distortion or just sound bad.

To be honest, when you have no midrange anyway, you probably don't care that much about audio quality,

I'd say you should just split the laptop output to your 2 amps with a 3.5mm to RCA splitter, then another RCA splitter.

(Giving you 2 sets of RCA outputs, one for each amp).

This will work just fine, but won't sound great... tbh, doubt it'll sound much different to what you're already doing.

Missing midrange will be way more noticable than sending full range to the sub.

No idea how you're going through life with no midrange, but hope this helps

13 hours ago, Sebastian Kurpiel said:

I was just going to run if off my laptop that has an i7 and 970, that should be fine, right? The laptop has a 4k screen so I feel that it should handle 1080p or 3k gaming. I stopped playing competitive games and moved to RPGs like the Witcher and Nier, Destiny 2 shouldn't be a problem with a tv, right?

If the laptop has a 4k screen, and you run your games at 4k on it, using a 4k TV will work absolutely fine.

Frame rate should be identical on the TV as it was on your laptop display.

12 hours ago, pyrojoe34 said:

Although I agree that it doesn't really matter most of the time, what you're saying isn't always true and it can actually make it look worse depending on how the TV handles it. The one I have can do native 1080p meaning that the TV switches to 1080p (every 2x2 pixel block is treated as a single pixel) and the computer thinks that's the resolution so there is no difference between 1080p on a 4k vs 1080p on a 1080p of the same size. Beyond that, when gaming on a TV it is recommended you turn off all post-processing (that includes upscaling) to reduce latency (my TV ranges from like 50+ms with processing on to 18ms with processing off). Now if the TV handles upscaling poorly (bad interpolation algorithm), trying to run 1080p upscaled to 4k will result in a much more blurry, funny looking image compared to the same sized 1080p TV. Either way, unless I'm 6+ft away from a 40+" TV I'd rather not even bother with 1080p because the PPI is so low that the image looks like crap in games. That's why a 24" 1080p monitor looks much cleaner and higher quality than a 27" 1080p monitor even with the same settings, PPI is a huge factor when it comes to image quality regardless of the other game settings. In same games you can actually scale the resolution in engine. When I played BF1 on the 4k TV I would set the resolution to 4k but set the resolution scale to 50% meaning that I'd get the same fps as playing in 1080p but the image would look much sharper and cleaner than 1080p output at 100% scaling.

Yep...

I wasn't saying anything to the contrary.

Just now, shezow said:

Actually I'm pretty sure my BIOS is out of date, you think that could be it?

Nothing to lose in updating it.

It could but I also think it's highly unlikely.

3 hours ago, valdyrgramr said:

I win, 48 hours of Halo: CE on Xbox.

2 hours ago, valdyrgramr said:

How are you alive?  Also, that was when I was like 12-13.  I've done longer as an adult.  Also,  I use to stay up for 3 days at a time doing 2 week worth of java programming hw.  I hate that language.

No need to turn this into a competition now  

OT: What's the longest you've ever run in a race for?

Just now, shezow said:

There's nothing particularly abnormal about my setup, and it happens in the middle of use.

it still says 8GB installed but 4GB usable, and GTA V is running at 18FPS so it's right.

it just confuses me, why does this happen out of nowhere, as what is using all that RAM?

That's really strange.

I'd run a virus/malware scan first and foremost.

Sounds more like a software thing than hardware.

I don't think anything is using that memory, as it would still say 8GB usable even if a program was using it (I think).

Check BIOS and motherboard drivers are up to date (althought I highly doubt this the cause).

Other than that, can't really think of anything other than a windows re-install.

If you have any other memory you can test with, do it.