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  1. It's incredibly complicated since the departure from the gold standard. GDP is huge, but not necessarily the reason for the value of currency, as is oil. The amount of money in circulation is also a huge determining factor over its worth. However, the marketplace almost completely dictates what the value of the dollar is, and that's where it tends to get complicated. A major oversimplification would be that if there is no supply, our money doesn't go as far, and the value of our dollar decreases due to increasing costs. I'll tell you this much, with the risk of starting an argument about covid (to give an example of supply dictating value, and also how much money is in circulation being a large determining factor), locking down our entire global market and paying people for staying home has created a bubble that will eventually collapse be it sustainably, or catastrophically. There's really no way to know, but in my opinion it trends further towards the latter. Governments across western society are printing money on an unprecedented scale, exacerbating the issue. Look at the major price increases from food, to computer parts. Whether or not it should have been what we did isn't the point here, the point is that's what we did, and I think that the problem is far more than minimum wage increases can handle at this point.
  2. So, ever since I bought this G9 (G95), I've been having serious issues with my PC and/or the monitor itself. First off, my completely stable at 3440x1440 OC turned up FX errors and artifacting with this monitor, which I figured was the overclock being not as stable as I thought it was (if I swapped back to the old monitor none of those problems persisted). So I turned it down to stock in the program and still continued to have the issues until I uninstalled the OC program itself. Fine. I'll run it stock speeds and use my monitor. I've also been getting wholesale computer freezes that only happen when I'm outside of media like videos or in-game. If I'm in-game nothing happens. I've also gotten intermittent black screen from this monitor that only happens once a while, but it definitely happens. These problems get worse when gsync is turned on. I'm wondering if anyone else is getting these issues with this monitor? I'm sorry if its been beaten to death (I'm Canadian can't you tell), I just want to confirm that this isn't just me or if the problem is elsewhere in my PC. Granted I'm pretty sure it's not to do with my PC as my old 3440 monitor doesn't replicate what I've been dealing with, but it's hard to say, because it happens fairly infrequently. I just can't be sure it's not a PC hardware issue unless I can confirm that I'm the only one having these problems. I've flashed the firmware to the newest version time and time again on this monitor and it has never once fixed the issues I've had. I'm bummed as there's no way to refund it at this point. Am I stuck with a dud that I can get fixed through samsung warranty, or am I'm stuck with a dud that will never get fixed and I was roasted for 1500 dollars? **Also, directed towards LMG staff as an aside to the question** Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't recall seeing a video that you guys have done outside of the initial praise you had for this panel critiquing the serious and fundamental flaws it has. I saved up and bought it off of your recommendation, and knowing what I know now about all the problems people have had with it, I would never have bought it. I'm not blaming you for praising it. There are a lot of things it has that are done right, and the negatives it has aren't immediately noticeable. I saw your video and I was sold. It's more my fault than yours for not looking deeper into it, but judging by what I know now about it, and it being common knowledge at this point with people who own the panel (and people who follow these things far more than I did at the time) I feel you guys really dropped the ball here. You guys do all things tech, and this is a serious investment that everyone who bought it are having problems with. There's no way that you didn't know about the issues that the majority of people were having, and the complete disregard upon informing people about this monitor is seriously making me question your credibility. Maybe that says something about me trusting a single source, but that says a lot about the source itself. Maybe my situation is isolated, but the amount of people who have been burned by this monitor is not inconsequential and I'm certain that a large portion of people who own this thing bought it on your recommendation.
  3. I just bought my 1tb samsung 970 evo nvme drive for 219 CAD (165 USD). I dont know if its canada only or you specifically need sata but it was on sale through amazon. Youd get way more bang for your buck at that price.
  4. Haha thats rad! Also you can have the rage quit to end all rage quits by nuking your system. Dual purpose builds are awesome as hell.
  5. Yep, mine does that too. The drive is loud as balls. Well if balls could speak anyway.
  6. Yeah i jumped the gun on my reply. I looked at the link and realized what you were talking about. Thanks for the help dude, ill do that in a week or so when im certain the clone went well. So far so good anyway.
  7. Booted just fine before I plugged the other SSD in. I'll probably give it a week with the old drive unplugged just to be safe. Should I run that and format the drive as it is, cause my concern was that it's booting from the 860 right now and I can't get it to boot from the 970 with the 860 plugged in. *edit* Bombastinator, that's my problem, with the 860 plugged in it no longer comes up in the BIOS. It just gives me two 860 selections which both boot from my old drive
  8. Hey guys, so I just bought a 1tb 970 Evo NVME SSD and cloned my old 500gb 860 onto it for those sweet sweet read and write speeds. I used the Samsung proprietary cloning utility to do it. I'm intending to use the 860 as a faster long-term program/game drive. The cloning itself worked fine, and it booted to windows without the old drive being plugged in and read as the drive it is and the right size as well. The problem I'm running into now is that when I boot with the 860 plugged in, it reads two drives as an 860 evo, and no matter which I give boot priority it shows the 1tb 970 as offline due to a signature collision. This is the first time I've ever cloned a drive, so I've been scratching my head for about an hour and I thought I'd find some outside help. Any ideas on how to make sure the NVME drive is what I boot from so I can re-format the 860? Obviously I can't reformat it if the drive itself is unplugged and I don't have a secondary PC to use either.
  9. I already have done that. It's a strange issue. On a whim I decided to try to plug the HDMI into the other HDMI port and it worked fine. Today I turned it on and it did the same thing in that HDMI port so I turned it off and plugged it into the top one and I'm talking to you guys on the PC now. I can play games on it just fine. That just raises more questions for me.
  10. I knew I was forgetting something when I posted specs. It's been updated now. EVGA supernova 750 G2
  11. Yeah, I've already started the process. Funny thing is on a whim I plugged my HDMI into the second port on a whim and although that did nothing, I took it out and plugged it into the main port and all of a sudden it's working fine again. At least I'll get to play around on it for the time being while I wait on the return to clear. Working or not, I don't trust it anymore
  12. *update Did a clean install. No dice. Guess RMA it is.
  13. I already did roll back the update, it worked for about 10 minutes, the PC froze and when I rebooted the second time it wasn't working again. *edit* I'll try a full re-install of windows Enderman. Thanks, I'll be back when it's done.
  14. First post yadda yadda, probably gonna be the only thread I ever post in here. I spent about an hour troubleshooting by myself, and also with ASUS who told me to just RMA the card, but I thought I'd post around on the forums to see if anyone has any idea of what's going on as a last effort hail mary. So I built my new PC about a week ago, which was working perfectly fine. I installed windows onto it on saturday, and it worked great until I got home from work today. I had it powered off since last night and when I turned it on this morning, the RGB lighting was back to the stock out of sync unicorn puke which was my first clue that something was up, and then the screen was stuck completely black. I shut it down and plugged the HDMI into the motherboard and it booted no problem, my RGB was back to normal (including the GPU), and I subsequently began stressing. I re-seated the GPU and PSU plugs, re-installed drivers, updated gpu tweak (although I don't get what that would do for me, the ASUS representative suggested it.), and then finally I remembered that I downloaded a windows update the night before. Thing is, after the restart it worked fine, I played Dirt 4 for an hour or so and then went to bed. The next time I turned it on it wasn't working. So I rolled back the Windows update, and restarted it. Boom. Fixed. Or so I thought, when it crashed not even ten minutes later, frozen. I reset again and the same problem persisted along with it. Strange thing is that when running HWmonitor I can see the GPU installed, and it all updates normally. My question is, does anyone have an idea of why this would be happening outside of a hardware issue? I thought it was just the 2080ti's that were defective. Everything is screaming that it has to do with the windows update, but now that I've rolled it back I don't know why it's not working. Its just curious how both times happened the second reboot after updating (or removing an update from) windows. The idea of RMAing a week old GPU that I spent a grand on hurts me physically. Just for good measure I'll leave the specs of my build too: intel 9700K ASUS PRIME z-390-a ASUS STRIX 08G 2080 2x8 Gskill Trident-Z 3200 Corsair H150i Pro Samsung 970 evo nvme SSD Samsung 860 evo SATA SSD WD Black 7200 rpm HDD EVGA Supernova G2 750 W PSU
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