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*** I HAVE FIXED THE ISSUE*** Recently i upgraded my monitors and like usual i go messing around in the settings to see what i can do with them and how much i can get out of them... The monitors i purchased are 2 x EG 27" QHD 144hz (Like most of you i hadn't even heard of the brand before i sunk £500 into them after many nights of research) Its been about 2 weeks now since i got the monitors and i am absoultely in love with them.. the picture is so clean and the 144hz really helps out... i use to run 1080p 144hz monitors and i can honestly say im never going back to 1080p from now on... So anyway back to the issue at hand... earlier today i was messing around on American Truck Sim trying to set up multi monitor support so i could have the game spread across both monitors. Everything was good i went in the config files of the game and edited it so multi monitor was enabled, i went into the Nvidia control panel and both monitors were there and all i did was enable surround and select which orientation i wanted them and clicked apply... i loaded my game and played for about 2hrs... i gotta say with the 2 27inch monitors at 1440p ultra settings with a G29 racing wheel it was pretty good, anyway so after my session i went back into the nVidia control panel and disabled the surround feature... thats when my Left monitor wasn't displaying a picture... its been about 45mins and i have tried all the usual suspects... Wires, drivers, ect i even changed GPU and the issue was still happening... Now heres the kicker before you all say that its the monitor that's the problem and to you i say "If it is the monitor why when i uninstall the drivers the display goes over the left screen and then once installed again it moves back over to the right" There is a second monitor being detected in the display options in windows and the monitor is showing up under the PhysX in nVidia control center... please have a look at the pics and tell me what you think *** I HAVE FIXED THE ISSUE***

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What you are saying is going to be imposible to manage, so many people have so many different over clocks it is not even funny... To add a setting for every 0.1ghz would not only be a waste of time but stupid in general, just take what you are given... I will contact them again and see if they can add another drop down box for GHz on the cpu but the answer will most likely be no as it would take too much time and with a quick google you can find what your CPU will preform at with your 1070 If you are not experiencing any of the symptoms stated above then you don't have to worry... Open Task Manager when running heaven benchmark and see if your CPU and GPU are running at 80% to 99% then it is fine but if it is under 80% you might want to dial down the overclock to about 4.5 and see how it behaves Plus what temps do you run at when CPU is under load... a 5GHz overclock on a AIO is unusual, you must run about 60-70 under load? you are running a 143% overclock not many people will go that high 4GHz being the max in most case scenarios

I got in contact with the owners and asked them to add the 8th gen intel CPU's and within 24hrs they were added They said they are going to work on adding as many consumer grade CPU's and Commercial CPU's as possible (Lists on all of them are in Alphabetical order and not in generation order so you might have to have a look through to find the CPU/GPU you need)

I know you can't calculate the amount of bottle neck it just gives you approximation of how much your pc will bottleneck in general, Triple A games will bottle neck if you are using two different generations of components. Like the example given someone bought a i7-6700k and two GTX 1080ti's and they were bottle necking due to the CPU reaching max useage before the GPU's and the whole point of this was to make people aware that the proformance doesn't come from the GPU alone but in assistance from the CPU

Introduction Recently I have seen many threads on here saying "I have a i7-6700k, 32gb DDR4 ram and 2 GTX 1080ti's but the gpu's are only using %58 but when I test them on their own they get %98-99 is it my PSU that is not providing enough power??" Well on that post out of 54 comments not a one said it could be a bottlenecking issue (Which it is) they all recommended taking the psu back and getting a bigger one... When instead of spending £250 on a new 1200w psu think about upgrading the cpu or just removing one of the 1080ti's, if you have the money to get 2 £700 cards then you have enough to buy a £300 i7-8700k to reduce the amount of bottlenecking (Not saying it will completely remove bottlenecking to do that you would need a higher end CPU like a Threadripper or i9-7940x but it will significantly reduce it to allow better performance)... It is sad to see that ammature PC builders throw all their money into GPU's thinking that is what gives better performance and blow all their budget on 2 things. I have made a recent discovery on the internet (I am willing to say some of you may of heard of this website) It is a website built to check specs and see if there is any bottlenecking before you even buy the parts, I have used this one upwards of 10 of my builds for customers and never once got a complaint that the PC was bottlenecking all because of a simple website. I recommend to anyone new to building PC's from scratch to use this website to calculate and see if there will be any problems before buying - http://thebottlenecker.com/calculator What is bottlenecking Bottleneck is a kind of hardware limitation in your computer. A bottleneck occurs when the capacity of an application or a computer system is severely limited by a single component. Components that often bottleneck are graphic card, processor and HDD. Bottlenecks affect microprocessor performance by slowing down the flow of information back and forth from the CPU and the memory. If all of the components of a system are not able to feed the same amount of data at the same speed, a delay is created. How to find a bottleneck UserBenchmark ( Home - UserBenchmark ) is a website devoted to comparing various models of hardware to see how they perform in the user's computer. In addition to that, if you allow their benchmarking tool to run on your computer, it will spit out areas where you can upgrade components in effort to increase performance. But wait it gets better. Rather than simply saying "Hey you have a 7200RPM HDD, upgrade to an SDD", it give you ideas of upgrade parts and how they would perform based on the benchmarks from other users. Now you can argue that the results can be skewed by users who are over-clocking, but to that I'll say, keep in mind over-clocking doesn't give huge performance boosts. On average it's less than 5%. On top of that it's easy to look at a graph and say "OK the top 30 benchmarks are likely from over-clockers, just as the lower 30 likely have faulty or problematic hardware. But for an idea of what you should upgrade/replace, check out UserBenchmark and run their benchmark tool and let it give you an idea of where you are likely to encounter bottlenecks and so on. Signs of bottlenecking General observations I have made: If you are hitting your resolution, frame rate, graphic settings goals then do not worry! Quit reading this post and go play! You want your GPU to be working at 99% utilization. This means you are getting what you paid for. This means the bottleneck is your GPU (good thing!!!) During gaming: If your CPU utilization is at 99-100% and your GPU utilization is "low" (50% - 80%) then your CPU is bottle necking your system. If neither CPU or GPU utilization is very high, that means the game you're running is not demanding. Either turn up the graphic settings or find a new game to test with. A high (120Hz, 144Hz) frame rate on CPU intensive games will generally require a "modern" i7 or an overclocked i5 perhaps (example: BF1) A high resolution (1440p, 4K) will more easily place the bottleneck on your GPU. 16 is the new 8 GB of RAM. 8 GB doesn't seem to be cutting it in high end AAA games anymore. For example when playing BF1 with only Steam and Discord (desktop version) open I see RAM usage of just over 8 GB (I have 16 available on my system). If this is the case then you may be bottle necking at your RAM in these titles. If you have the budget I highly recommend going with 16 GB. If you have a 144Hz monitor and are experiencing a CPU bottleneck, limiting your frame rate to a lower value will help make it smoother with less dramatic frame drops. This can be done with MSI Afterburner/Riva Tuner Statistics (link below) Thank you if you took the time to read this, I just wanted to put all the information into one place instead of running in circles around google trying to find answers... This Is just a basic rundown of what bottlenecking is and what to look out for if you think your system is bottlenecked Luke **UPDATE** I have been working with the guys over at 'TheBottlenecker' and now it is a lot better and has individual generations of CPU's and GPU's... It now includes the new flagship RTX 2000 series cards and the new i9 processors **Please note that it only contains one of the Xeon E7 range CPU's due to it being one of the most common Xeons to be used in consumer grade builds - They will most likely add the 28 core beast of a CPU the Xeon Platinum 8176 for those crazy people who want to build a pc with one or two of them in It *cough* Linus *cough* how's that going by the way been a month since we had an update - I digress but the Calculator is always getting updated and if you want to request any features such as a GHz selection for CPU's or GPU's I'm sure if you gave them enough requests they will look into it**