SilentHunter76

Hey y'all, I'm upgrading my home workstation/gaming computer. I use this computer for everything from home use to AAA gaming to editing 1080p footage for work. I recently upgraded my monitor to a larger 31" 1440p 144hz display and now find myself wanting to upgrade my graphics card to push all those frames. My question is I'm not sure what the most cost-effective card for this would be with the massive product stack from both AMD and Nvidia. I have no preference on brand or if it is used as long as it is reliable and can get the job done. For clarification, I'm looking for a card that can run AAA games (Assasins Creed, GTA V, Farcry 5, etc.) at 1440p and at 100+ fps. I'd like to stay under $600 but looking forward to what people have in mind. Ray tracing would be cool but by no means something I have to have Current build: CPU: Intel i7-8700k OC to 5Ghz GPU: EVGA GTX 1060 6BG SSC RAM: 2x Corsair Vengence LPX 8GB DDR4-3000 Storage: WD Black NVMe 500GB M.2 Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB PSU: Corsair CX 750W 80+ Bronze Thanks in advance for any advice you can offer. -SilentHunter76

You can try two things. You can go into your default administrator account built into your computer (you can active it in the cmd with the net user commands). This sometimes gives your the needed permissions. Windows had a lot of built in security what can make it difficult it override the safeguards. If that doesn’t work you can try a program like DBAN or EaseUS AFTER you back up your important files to another drive.

Seems like a solid build but I like a speed advantage I’d get with the NVMe drive. What would the advantage of that Asus motherboard be? I’ve never been good at comparing them.

No. You can make a recovery disk with a thumb drive. I’ve never tried this method so I’m not sure on how exactly it works (if it works) but you can give it a shot. The windows page about it can be found here. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10/how-to-create-a-recovery-drive-for-reinstalling/58df9c7d-84de-4652-9952-8bac34abc6c5

Use Macrium Reflect to clone your HDD to your SDD. You can use this page to help you if you get stuck. https://lifehacker.com/how-to-migrate-to-a-solid-state-drive-without-reinstall-5837543

I'm building my first desktop computer. I am upgrading from a workstation laptop from CypberPowerPC I got 2 years ago now on sale. I do lots of video editing as part of my job and play video games like FarCry 5 and Rainbow 6 from time to time. I'm currently editing videos shot in 1080p to 4k and some 2D graphics from time to time. I live in the US and have about $1,600 to play around with. The link to my planned build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/bvGkHh I plan on getting a curved monitor for editing and studio monitors. This is not included in my budget and as long as it's "worth the money", practical, and not super expensive I'm open to anything. Monitor: Samsung CFG7 Series C24FG73FQN Matte Dark Blue Black 23.5" Curved FHD 1080p 1ms 144Hz AMD FreeSync Monitor ($300) Speakers: PreSonus Eris E3.5 3.5" 2-Way 25W Nearfield Monitors (Pair) ($100) Any feedback or suggestions would be great. I'm not honestly concerned about the looks and more focused on a solid build without breaking the bank. Thanks in advance to anyone that takes the time to help me out!