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Also the Ivy Bridge laptop is a mobile chip so it only goes from 2.3-3.0ghz! The Ryzen is a huge improvement!

I actually swapped in a GTX 1080 I had in my recording/streaming PC last night. The 1060 is going into the recording rig. It should be ok since the 1080 only hits 3% utilization while recording 4k60 from my gaming rig. SO much faster than the 1060 and can use Ultra quality textures thanks to the 8gb vram. Not to mention Ultra everything else... (I'm at 1440p)

I have a new set of GeIL SUPER LUCE RGB SYNC AMD Edition 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model GALS416GB3200C16ADC bought from Newegg. I tried the XMP setting but it does not work with my motherboard (ASRock B450m/AC). I am using a Ryzen 5 2600. The fastest I can get it to so far is 3000mhz with 16, 18, 18, 38 timings. Can anyone help me with other timings I can try that will get me to 3200mhz? Thanks!

Decided to sell my i7 Ivy Bridge laptop and build with the funds from that. It was a $1000 laptop and I upgraded it with 16gb ram (from 6gb), SSD, second HDD, etc. Anyway I figure it is worth about $600 and so that is the budget I decided on for the new build. I found a Thermaltake Core V21 cube case on sale for $50 at amazon, and I love the Core X71 that I put my Threadripper 1950x build in, so I decided to try the little cube case. That limited my MB choices to ITX or microATX, which was fine since I wanted a compact build. I wanted built-in wifi so after a lot of shopping around I decided on the ASRock B450m/AC microATX board. It fit the budget and had no unneeded features. In terms of CPU I waited specifically for the 3000-series chips to launch, so I could grab a previous-gen chip off ebay cheap. Which I did. The used Ryzen 5 2600 fit the budget perfectly and seemed like a solid choice for gaming. Speaking of which I found a really cheap used GTX 1060 6gb, which also fit into the budget nicely. All told I got it done for $14 under my $600 budget and I have replaced a slow(ish) laptop that could barely play games (has GTX 650M) with a capable gaming rig for 1080p and medium+ settings. Plus I can play youtube and load web pages at the same time without the youtube stream stuttering like hell.

Wow the fanboi is strong in this one! ?

3600 is a better value and performs within a few percent of the x.

Test it stock and overclocked and see what frames you get for each.

Anybody mod their Thermaltake V21 to hold more than the stock 3x 3.5" hard drives? TIA.

I'm waiting for 1880 ti without RTX stupidity to upgrade my 1080 ti.

The entire windows networking shitshow is maddening.

That sounds high in spend and high in hassle. I'm talking about two of these cards connected with a $30 cable for 40GbE speeds and no moving sneakernet gear around. https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mellanox-MHQH19B-XTR-Single-Port-40Gb-s-QDR-PCIe-Gen2-5-0-GTs-VPI-Adapter/303139813218

Hello I have a two-pc setup where I game on one PC and record on the other one (in 4k 140mbps, so the files are pretty big). I want to improve on the 1gbps I get over normal ethernet because transferring the files from the recording PC back to the gamer (gamer is more powerful rig for editing too). One of the PCs has a 10GbE motherboard (Gigabyte x399 Aorus Extreme) and I was just going to upgrade the other one with a 10GbE NIC or switching to a MB with it built in, and then just directly connect them with a crossover cable. But then I heard about Infiniband NICs that you can supposedly get for $30 for 40GbE speeds. Anybody done this? Again, I don't want or need (I hope) a switch since I plan to directly connect them. Also, is there any way to directly connect two PCs over USB-C?

THIS ACTUALLY WORKS! Now to set a macro to execute this every time I boot up... Thank you.

Yep both running Win10 which does not have home groups.

I have two PCs in my office, one for gaming, the other for recording. The gaming PC is far more powerful than that recording PC so I use the gaming PC for editing as well. So every time I record a clip I have to transfer the file to the the gaming PC so I can work on it. Trouble is, I can't seem to reliably get the two PCs talking to each other or even noticing the other is there. I can ping each from the other, have set up fixed IP addresses for each machine, Network Discovery is turned on on both machines, I have manually turned on (and set to automatic) the DNS Client, Function Discovery Provider Host, Function Discovery Resource Publication, SSDP Discovery, and UPnP Device Host services. SOMETIMES it works, but not reliably and not right now. Any help appreciated.

Well, if true, then good for us consumers. Looking forward to what Navi does this summer as well.

April Fools! Note the article date.

Yay it works! I got the dual vertical monitor stand yesterday and got around to setting it up etc today. Works like a charm, except in order to adjust the mixer while playing a game I have to play it in windowed mode which kind of messes up the recording on the second PC in terms of screen real estate. Easy enough to fix with OBS or by zooming in in post, but not ideal. Oh well, life is full of compromises.

Thanks, I guess I just need to try it. Iv'e never tried mixing and matching extended/duplicates across different resolutions before. I made a graphic to better illustrate what I'm talking about....

I am looking to add a 1080p display to my current setup, which is two 4k displays in "duplicate" mode. Really it is one 4k display and an Elgato 4k capture card which acts like its own display at least as far as the PC is concerned. What I am thinking of doing is using a third display, a 1080p one, to use to show the virtual mixer board I am using (VoiceMeeter Banana) while I play on the main 4k, and capture on the Elgato 4k60pro. So, is it even possible to duplicate across two displays, then use the third in "extend" mode? If not natively in Win10, is there separate software that would let me do this? TIA.

Yup, I spent all morning today trying to get it to work again. I might try using the headphone output and jacking it directly to the other PC, and listening with a splitter to my headphones. Before committing to the external mixer that is...

Is anyone else using two PCs to game/record with? I ***HAD*** it all working but something happened (maybe a windows update?) that has caused my setup to stop working. Here's the setup: PC1 (gaming): Windows 10 latest update (just updated this week) TR 1950x OC to 4.06ghz all cores Gigabyte X399 Aorus Xtreme mb 3200mhz G.Skill Tridentz RGB "X"-type ram for AMD, running at 3200mhz GTX 1080ti Playing at 4k on HDMI link to Samsung 50" 4kTV I listen to game audio via headphones plugged into front jack I feed 4k60 footage (and audio) over HDMI to second PC I do voiceover via battery-powered mic plugged into front mic input PC2 (recording): Win 10 latest update Ry 1800x running stock (this CPU/mb doesn't like to OC and don't really need it just to record) Asrock X370 Taichi MB 3400mhz Patriot ram running at 3066mhz (cant get it higher for whatever reason) GTX 1080 Recording 4k60 footage via Elgato 4k60 Pro capture card and Elgato 4k Capture software So I am able to hear my voiceover via using "Stereo Mix" device in Win10 Sound Setup app, via PC1's headphones as mentioned above. I also used it to mix sound output to both the Elgato 4k60 device on PC2 (PC1 sees it as another HDMI screen) and my headphones. And I *HAD* the sound going over to the second PC and being recorded by the Elgato app, but as I said, it no longer works for some reason. Video feeds and records on 2nd PC but not the audio. It is so frustrating I have started shopping for an external audio mixing board that I can feed into the second PC's mic/line input. Anyone here have a similar two-PC setup that has a trick I can use to get this to work again that doesn't involve buying a $75+ external mixer? Thanks in advance if you can help!

I just came here for the EA hate. It keeps me warm here in 10degF Indiana.

The Star Citizen cult is fascinating to be sure. If they ever release a working game, I'll hopefully not be dead by then.

Thank you for all the answers. I have an Arctic Accelero III on my 1080ti and mostly Noctua case fans (200mm in front and on top) and with the case (Thermaltake Core X71 TG) all buttoned up it is basically silent unless it is hammering benchmarks and I really listen for it (I have it on the floor about 3' from me). My 1800x rig is louder (next to it on the floor and slightly closer) but it has crappier fans in it. I keep it turned down most of the time too -- just use it to record what is coming out of the TR). It has a Corsair 115i AIO running Noctua fans (the Corsair maglev fans were ridiculously loud making all kinds of clacking noises in addition to just normal fan noise) but all the others are cheap LED fans. That is other than the EVGA fans on its GTX1080 ICX 2.0). I was going to put an AIO in the TR build but could not find one acceptable (hello Enermax shitshow) that would beat the Noctua D14 (and last more than a few months).