draculr

I'm located in Australia, shopping at various local hardware stores. We have a decent selection but probably not as varied as what you would have in the US. It does look like if I went with the D15 I could only use a single fan. I may have to actually consider an AIO water cooler?

It's more a worry about potentially getting in the way of RAM or PCI-e video or just simply making it a bit difficult to build and route cables around. I've never built a PC with such a large heatsink but since I want to go for a 3950x and potentially overclock it I want the cooling to be more than just adequate. I am going to build a new PC with a Asus Crosshair VIII Hero, G.Skill Trident Z Neo RAM in either a Meshify C or a Phanteks P400a. I'll have a Asus ROG 2070 Super in the first PCI-e slot also. I'd rather go the air cooled route since I'm not a fan of AIO water cooling.

I wish I could get a black U12A now but it won't make it for this build

I don't mind the D15 in terms of aesthetics but I'm worried about potential compatibility problems with it being so large!

Hey guys, I'm looking to build a 3950x system on a Asus Crosshair VIII Hero motherboard. I'm wondering if the Noctua U12s chromax is enough to keep everything cool or would I need to step up to the D15 Chromax? I don't mind spending more for the D15 but it's so massive and I'd rather stick with one of the chromax versions to suit my build aesthetics.

I'm looking to build a new PC as an upgrade from my 4.8ghz OC'd 8600K PC (which is going to a family member). I hope to gain a noticeable improvement especially in lightroom for both active and background tasks and even after looking at the puget systems scores I'm not sure which way to go with the CPU. I have always gone with Intel but even if I go with a 9900K it seems I just get 2 cores on top of my 8600K and not much else (especially since mine is OC'd). With the 3900x at least I double my core count. But puget gives a slight edge to active tasks to the 9900K and that's without any OC: https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Lightroom-Classic-CPU-Roundup-AMD-Ryzen-3rd-Gen-AMD-Threadripper-2-Intel-9th-Gen-Intel-X-series-1592/ I'm also not familiar with AMD systems and not sure if there's any chipset/bios stability issues or any other concerns I should be aware of. The intel platforms have been pretty much bulletproof for me for the last decade at least. It may be overkill but anything I can do to squeeze more performance out of lightroom would be great as I edit thousands of photos every week.

It looks like I'll have to go that route. The x1 carbon is still the non-touch, matte IPS panel. Usually I'd prefer matte (running an Eizo coloredge at home) but for showing off work glass just adds that extra pop!

Yea I don't know what's going on with Dell in Australia currently. It seems much more expensive than the last time I checked!

I wish, it is out of budget however! I'm looking for a maximum of $2000AU

I'm looking for a photo viewing/editing laptop as an upgrade from my Surface Pro 4 Core M (which was good only for viewing photos with it's great screen but not for editing due to specs and ergonomics). Beyond that it'll be a secondary/travel computer doing the normal tasks of web browsing, movie watching etc. I have a beast desktop PC so spec wise I just have simple needs: an i5 cpu, 8gb ram, 256gb ssd should do. My main requirements are: great build quality and the best screen possible. I'd also like good resale value which generally means sticking to the popular products like Surface and Macbook (maybe thinkpad?). Having a great screen is good for both editing as well as making my images look better to my clients which leads to happier clients and more sales! The new Macbook Pro 13 is basically the ideal laptop with it's amazing build and screen and good resale value. It's screen seems to just be flat out better than anything else in the category. The thing is, I'd prefer a windows 10 device. Scratch that: I REALLY don't want to use macOS if I can help it. Having a windows 10 device would just make it integrate much better alongside my windows 10 desktop. On my list as alternatives are: Surface laptop: this was my number 1 choice but some key issues have me concerned. The lack of ports (especially no future proofing with USB-c/TB3), potential wear issues with the cover fabric and the annoyance of having to pay so much extra for 8gb ram and a 256gb ssd since it's completely non-upgradeable. Otherwise it seems to do everything quite well even if not up to the same level as the Macbook hardware wise. Thinkpad X1 Carbon: this is on sale here in AU at the moment which puts it in the same price range. I'd probably get the UHD screen upgrade. I'm not able to get a hands on however so I'm not sure how the screen, build, ergonomics etc. compare. Not sure about other things such as resale value. Yoga 910/Spectre x360: I'll dump these all together. High end "consumer third party" devices with various advantages and disadvantages. I worry about resale value on this kind of product and price-wise they're not really any cheaper than the Thinkpad X1 Carbon or the Surface Laptop. So, nice to look at but I didn't see any compelling reason to go this route. Dell XPS 13: This is probably perfect spec-wise but i'm striking this off my list because Dell AU has overpriced this thing in Australia for some reason. It gets to be more expensive than the Macbook once you factor in a 4k screen. I could probably get by with macOS if there was not other good option but I would really just be a lot happier with a native windows 10 machine. Any advice or opinions to keep me away from the dark side??

Yes I've updated my bios and reset CMOS as above. I've tried using many combinations of RAM which doesn't help. The fact that the system starts up after some prodding also suggests the RAM is fine.

Hey guys, Before starting please note I have checked the boot sticky and it does not solve my issue. My computer has developed a strange issue where it wont power up (motherboard LEDs are on, however it wont attempt to boot - fans wont kick in etc.). However, I have found a way to make it boot and when it finally does it runs perfectly fine for days and weeks on end. My method is to keep flipping the PSU switch off and on at the speed of light until it boots. The system is set up to boot automatically when power is restored thankfully. It seems to be some strange State that one of the components (I'm guessing motherbord?) is set to which is telling the system that it's not ready to boot. Any ideas?? System specs: Asus Sabertooth X99 Intel 5820k 32gb DDR4 RAM nVidia 780Ti Seasonic X1050 PSU Steps tried so far: Remove RAM/GPU/HDDs/USB basically everything non-essential Result: issue still remains Attempt to try another PSU - unfortunately I only have a very old PSU loaned to me which didnt have an 8pin ATX port. So i at least tried it in the 24 pin and kept my original PSU powering the rest if that helps Result: issue still remains Updated motherboard bios to latest version and reset CMOS Result: issue still remains Leave the PSU unplugged for 20 minutes to "drain power" completely Result: issue still remains The only thing helping is to cycle the power repeatedly which seems to kick my PC into the correct state. This tells me all of my components are working correctly but SOMETHING is telling the system to not boot?

To complicate things: is there anyway to do it with just a single 10bit monitor? ie. Use the quadro as a display only GPU (for 10 bit support) and the 780ti for all GPU processing and gaming?

Might have to stick with 8 bit output for now then if that set up isn't possible

Hey guys, I've currently got a desktop which is used for equal part photo editing and equal part gaming. I have a 780ti GPU and a standard Dell 27" display. Looking to change things up a little and get one 10 bit panel for editing and one 144hz panel for gaming, but the 780ti won't do 10 bit output. Is there anyway to get a cheap quadro card and have that run the 10bit panel, and let the 780ti run a 144hz panel where the gaming happens as well as make sure my system uses the 780ti for all GPU tasks? ie. the cheap quadro acts JUST as a display card for one monitor. If so, is it handled well in windows 10 or do things get buggy? Cheers