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  1. Wait.... that sounds pretty good. I'll give it a try and if it works, you're a genius
  2. Oh, unfortunately it is the cable that is from monitor to the power adaptor brick that is short.
  3. I currently have a not so ideal situation where my new ultrawide monitor's (LG) power adaptor and cable can't reach my monitor without the actual adaptor brick looking thing floating mid air due to the short length of the connector cable side. I was wondering if I can interchange the power adaptor for my Asus ROG monitor's power adaptor cable which is long enough. Both have power adaptor bricks and both are connecting to the monitor using that single circular connector that are used in laptop chargers (don't know what that is called). My LG adaptor brick says 100-240V AC - 50/60HZ and 1.5A max for Input and 19V and 5.79A for ouput. My Asus power brick says same 100-240V AC -50/60HZ and 1.5A max for Input but says 19V and 4.74A for output.
  4. Thanks. I have seen and read that the Gigabyte M34 is a great monitor. However, is it discontinued? I can not find a single one of those and can only find the Gigabyte M34 version which is a curved VA. I would 100% go for the Samsung G series if they made a 34" ultrawide version but sadly closest is 32". Do you think there will be any issues with the BenQ Mobiuz's IPS panel or will it be fine? I'm currently stuck with these 2 options as they are the only ones currently in stock (I guess the MSI MPG341CQR is another VA option but its the same price as the Benq IPS but seems to get about the same reviews as Dell).
  5. Hi, thanks for that. I would very much consider the Gigabyte M34 but there is only the G34WQC which is still a VA panel and seems to get lower results in reviews than the Dell. Would you perhaps know how big of a difference is between the LG/IPS vs the Dell/VA in the motion clarity aspect? I do know that IPS have much less ghosting but I just don't know how much is the difference. Rtings score of 8.9 doesn't sound bad but as I have no reference point, does that mean that there is ghosting but tolerable?
  6. I'm looking to purchase a new 34" Ultrawide monitor for mainly gaming, I don't do any professional editing that needs really accurate colours but somewhat more accurate colours is nice. I'm mainly looking at the Dell S3422DWG for an affordable, readily available monitor I can purchase right now. Apparently seems to have good reviews but I am somewhat concerned about the VA panel. When online reviews say that VA panel has ghosting and black smearing issues, how bad is it? Also how much worse is the colour output of a VA panel vs an IPS panel? The other monitor I was looking at was the Benq Mobiuz EX3415R. Thats curved IPS panel at about the same specs as the Dell but around $500 AUD more expensive. I would actually love to get the LG 34GN850 but that's not coming in stock until first of July. Is $500 more for the Benq IPS worth it over the Dell's VA panel? I just can't get an estimate of how much of a negative VA is compared to IPS. I do like the benefits of the IPS more as black contrast isn't as important to me as ghosting or colour accuracy but what's the actual difference? Is it noticeable or just nitpicking things for reviewers?
  7. Hello, I want to understand my networking setup and see if my connection went according to plan. My house has a fibre box downstairs but the only ethernet port in the wall its connected to is upstairs. However, there is a room downstairs that requires internet. So my solution to this was that I went out and bought a mesh system for the home. I connected them and setup the network. It works fine but the room downstairs still was only getting about 10% of our maximum speed and I wanted to improve this. So I went and bought a second mesh system and tried to connect it directly to my fibre box downstairs. However, I only then realised that only 1 of the LAN ports on my fibre box works. Not being able to refund the new mesh system I thought of a way to connect both mesh systems. My solution then was to connect my new mesh system directly into my fibre box and then connect the ethernet cable that connected to my upstairs room into the new mesh router's LAN port. I then connected my old mesh router to the ethernet port upstairs and turned my old mesh router into an Access Point. I was wondering if this connection is what I wanted, which is basically have the old upstairs mesh router send signals to its satellites for wider wifi coverage as well as have its own bandwidth for its connected device, separate bandwidth from the new mesh network. My second question is if I were to connect a PC directly via ethernet from my old mesh router upstairs acting as an AP, would this use up bandwidth of my main, new mesh network?
  8. Looking at that photo, i can 100% say that my cables were all correctly placed into 8pin. Unfortunately, I dont have another PSU but will try limit the power. In the case limiting the power fixes it, is it due to PSU having bad ripple during high peaks or GPU just being poor?
  9. Hello, I've recently made a post on the troubleshooting page about my recent BSOD problems. TLDR; I was getting BSOD randomly with error volmgr. Tried memtest86, used new SSD, did an entire clean and wipe + fresh install of windows. Nothing fixed. However, I noticed that the BSOD got worse after the fresh install of Windows and that I would also BSOD every time I was installing my GPU drivers. I recreated the crashing using DDU to uninstall my GPU drivers and then reinstall them again. I crashed every time without fail. So what I did was replaced my 3080 with my older 1660 Super with everything else the same. I installed the same drivers and no crash, I proceeded to play games and alas no BSOD. Also please do note that after installing the drivers (somewhat), my 3080 can still sometimes get into Windows and not crash on idle. Before the fresh install, I even managed to not crash while running stress tests on 3DMark using Firestrike Extreme, Timespy Extreme, Port Royal, which sort of muddies up which one is at fault. So my question is, is it my PSU (which is Corsair RM850x) the culprit and its dying or is it my 1 month old Asus Strix 3080 OC that is dying? I just read the PSU tier list post and there were some notes about some PSU being very poor and unable to handle the high spikes of the RTX 3000 series and also with unlocked OC bios cards such as my Strix have further issues. So I'm just wondering where my issue lies.
  10. Hmm, I swapped out my GPU for my older temporary GTX 1660 Super and i managed to play games without crashing. I don't know if its the PSU or GPU having issues though. I was BSODing every single time I was installing GPU drivers with my 3080, I used DDU to uninstall my drivers and every time I would reinstall it, I would crash before I finished installing it. I downloaded and installed the same GPU drivers (its same drivers for 3080 and 1660 Super) using my 1660 Super and it works without any issues. No crashes yet. Question is is this a GPU hardware problem or PSU problem?
  11. I have not done either of those. What is CMos clear? Just take out CMOS battery and discharge then put it back in? I never thought of trying to clean using DDU because I did a fresh reinstall after completely wiping everything off my drives
  12. My Issue Recently I have been getting few BSODs. Everytime i check the Event Viewer, the only errors that shows are volmgr error id 161 and kernel power error id 41. My PC specs Asus Strix B550-A motherboard, Ryzen 5600X CPU, Asus Strix 3080 OC, Corsair RM850x PSU, 32GB G.Skill Trident Z RAM running at XMP, Samsung 970 EVO SSD as C drive and Crucial P1 as D drive. Cooling is pretty decent and during stress tests, the temps are all within normal and much safe ranges. Describing my Issue and fixes I've tried These have been happening randomly at any time, sometimes when I was playing games, other times when I was idle. Every time I would look online, it would say turn off fast startup which I did, and something about outdated drivers. I have an Asus Strix motherboard and downloaded realtek audio drivers from the manufacturers website, but it came with A-Volute and NahimicService as well as Sonic Studio 3 bloatware. I've tried my best to remove those but I could never fully remove them as they would just reinstall after restarting my PC, I even failed to remove it from registry. So anyways, I got annoyed and thinking maybe it could be left over files, so I completely reset my PC. I selected to cleanly wipe everything from my drives and cleanly reinstall Windows. However, do note that around the 50% mark of resetting my PC it would stop and say that it was unable to reset my PC and fail to wipe my drives. So I used my motherboard's built in Asus EZ Erase to wipe my drives and try fresh installing windows again. It worked this time and I installed a fresh copy of Windows 10. However, this did not fix my issue and it seems to have only made it worse. I've crashed with the volmgr error every hour or so now, previously it was twice a week. I've reinstalled another fresh copy of Windows and even tried repairing it. Nothing fixed it for me. I've lowered my Ram speeds to below XMP, I've updated the bios and chipset drivers to latest. Didn't download any bloatware other than Logitech G Hub and Nvidia Experience for my mouse and GPU. All the tests I've done to narrow down the suspects I have just run Passmark Memtest86 for 8+ hours now. Each test took 4 hours and 30 minutes. Both tests have passed with 0 errors. (This was after reset) I have run Prime95 for 5+ hours. I have run Blender. I have run 3DMark (Firestrike Extreme, TimeSpy Extreme, Port Royal) on stress test mode twice. I have run Prime95 and 3DMark stress test at the same time. Note that this was before I completely wiped my PC and my PC was crashing twice a week give or take. During all these tests, my PC did not BSOD or crash once. Please Send Help I've basically done all I can. If anyone can please try help me or guide me to fixing or figuring out the problem, The help would be greatly appreciated. Apologies for the long post.
  13. I bought and installed the EKWB 360 D-RGB Elite AIO and installed it in my case. My quick thoughts on this AIO: - comes with 6 pretty nice fans, they are rather quieter than my old Corsair RGB fans. - installation with AMD is super easy and super nice, with consistent pressure. (Corsair AIOs are terrible in this regard) - temps are good. - Pump block feels extremely good, its heavy with its metal build. However, this pump can get super loud, Kraken X73 pump is quieter and Corsair H100i SE pump was much quieter. Max speed pump on NZXT and Corsair pumps had similar pump noise as this pump at maybe 1500rpm (40% ish max speed). Like I could hear the pump noise on the Corsair or NZXT when I focused in and got close to listen to it at 2200rpm, but with this pump, I can easily hear it at 1800rpm and even at that speed is so much louder than the other AIOs. My concern is that is it just my pump thats loud or is it just EKWB's pump design in general being loud. Anyone else with experience on EKWB AIO share their experience with the pump noise? Also would it be better if I set the pump to be at a specific speed 100% of the time like the Corsair and NZXT pumps did or should I have the speed vary depending on temps?
  14. Recently, I upgraded my GPU and the very next day I started getting BSOD. I thought the BSOD was related to GPU so I put in a different GPU but I still got BSOD. I tried 1 stick of memory stick on every single dimm slot and still BSOD. The only hardware I did not change was CPU and motherboard and my 2 m.2 SSD. However, when I started in safe mode, I did not BSOD, although I only tested this for 2 hours. I immediately weny back to normal mode and continued to get BSOD. So does this mean that its 100% a software problem? Also the stop code i received during every BSOD was: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR. I could also repetively get BSOD if I start spam pressing my Enter key during the Welcome message when logging on. Anyone please help me whaf this problem could be and how I could fix this? Things I've tried: Different GPU, tested single stick of memory. Uninstalled display drivers using DDU Reset PC although keeping my storage drive files.
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