nateo200

I love my 21:9 1080p monitor! It is a cheap LG 60Hz that overclocks to 72Hz+ easy with no color shift (very similar models are marketed as 75Hz and my model doesnt show frame skipping at 80Hz!). I prefer 21:9 to 16:9 any day. I like to monitor my system and browse or game and monitor my system or have multiple windows up at once and I can do that easy on one display. I plan on doing 3 of these displays when I get space.

Yes MSI is not ASUS or Asrock even but it is what I have. It got some decent reviews and was white which is the theme I am going for. For the record, I will probably buy an ASUS board. I'm not entirely sure why a 1700X would catch fire on this board so long as I am not doing anything insane, Zen isn't a space heater like the old AMD's or Intel's "wonderful" 79xx series. Yes X370 makes sense and my second build will probably get the current board and R5 1600. Not like I am putting an 7980XE @ 4.7GHz on the cheapest X299 board inside of an H500P lol.

I have the mATX B350M Arctic Mortar. I was on the stock BIOS yesterday but every told me to update to the latest! I could manual overclock to 3.91GHz at 1.335volts easy. Now I can barely get the computer to load the BIOS menu and I can't do a manual V-core overclock. I don't want to put in the ratio, I want to put in the frequency, set the V-core voltage and be done because I know it is stable. BIOS version is 9/20/17. Spent all night removing the CPU, RAM, video card, etc. and it is still unreliable as hell. How do I manual overclock on the latest BIOS without the ratio? The V-core rolls around and is adaptive or dynamic and I can't reach 3.9GHz at all. It is a Ryzen 1600. Rest of the specs are in my sig. I got CPU, VGA, DRAM, etc. errors all night I am so incredibly frustrated. I had the system perfectly tuned. No issues, but several TechTubers suggested always being on newer BIOS and I was on April 2017. I just want my 3.9GHz @ 1.335volt's back so I can run the system stable.

He isn't worried about features or even SLI. In fact, the 40 PCIe lanes of the 4930K are overkill for him but like I said the price was pretty great and I wanted to get him a processor that could game and stream whereas the 4670K or even 4770K (or 4790K if I wanted to roll the dice on BIOS) wouldn't be as good.

I am honestly considering just getting a nice 1080p monitor for when I game/stream and using the 21:9 as my productivity monitor since I pretty much need two monitors anyways!

Really appreciate the replies guys! Thanks.

Thanks for the prompt replies guys! I notice that on all these 2011 boards they just say Intel. I want to triple check and put specific model numbers into PC Part Picker to check compatibility. As you might understand, I trust you are giving good information but I don't want to screw him again. Does Intel make Motherboards? I thought they just made the chipset and handed it off to MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte, Asrock, etc. If this build was for me, 90% sure would cut it but being for a friend that is new to the PC gaming world and really just using a PC (he wants to play and eventually stream so I figure a 4930K is pretty good for that as my R5 1600 can do that easily at 3.9GHz).

I am very curious about this as well. I am a 2.39:1 / 21:9 nutjob. I think it is the way content should be viewed, that said, it isn't friendly for an audience. I know GTA V sometimes has this issue too and I play PUBG. OBS isn't helping.

I screwed up a friends build please help! He bought a computer with a Motherboard, 16GB's of DDR3 RAM (Corsair Vengence I believe), a GTX 950 (which he is going to replace with a GTX 1070) and a Seasonic 750watt power supply for under $200. The motherboard is an LGA115x type and I found a 4930K for $170 and I TOTALLY blanked that the 4930K is I believe FCLGA2011 until after he purchased and he can't cancel. I feel like a TOTAL dick but I saw that 4930K and he's the type of person that knows nothing about PC's and I wanted him to have a PC that was equal to or better than my Ryzen 1600 + GTX 1060 6GB rig so that we could play games together and he would have NO issues now and into the future. Original plan was a 4670K but I saw them going for $130-$160 and the 4930K just seemed like the better deal. Idk why I thought it was LGA115x. I really only have experience with the latest 2011-3 sockets and older stuff like the 2600K. I want to get him a cheap 2011 motherboard that won't require BIOS updates to function out of the box. I would have gone Xeon route but I don't want him to have to buy ECC memory when he has DDR3 already. Even though it is a K chip, he likely won't be overclocking at all to start with and if he does, it will be minimal. He'll be using an air cooler. I figure VRM's don't have to be amazing quality since he won't be overclocking really that much if at all and 2011 boards are probably built solid across the board (no pun intended) for power delivery. I REALLY would appreciate ANY help, I do NOT like screwing over my friends, he is a bit impatient but part of that is my fault so I want to get him a board ASAP as he is coming up to visit with the case (supports full size ATX) and I want to get the 4930K running with his steam library. He is currently a console peasant lol but is really interesting in PC gaming. I am really looking for a proven board that WILL work with the 4930K. Unfortunately, I don't live on the tech coast so I can't just test the CPU in someones board. I was hoping to get a used board for $100-160 and I am willing to ship in $20-30 because he's helped me in the past and he's a Veteran with A LOT going on. tl;dr - I accidently got my friend to purchase a 4930K instead of a 4670K for an LGA115x board because I thought it would work. My buddy is a veteran with a lot going on and I am looking for a decent quality 2011 board that will work out of the box with a 4930K. It is important to me. Any help is appreciated.