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I do have a RTX 3070 but I'm afraid some games might not run as good as I wish they would in 1440p.

My budget is no more than 325$. I'm looking for 1080p, 144hz, IPS & 24 inches. 27 inches is probably fine too, but personally I find that a tad big for 1080p (can't be too picky in this price range I guess :P). I recently got a new banging MSI laptop with a 144hz display, so I won't need any more hertz than that. I prioritize response time over everything pretty much, colors come second. A while back I found a really solid looking looking monitor that exactly filled my needs but I lost the link. It was an AOC monitor I think? I found the Acer XF243Y & ASUS VG279Q which looks super promising, but perhaps you guys here know something better?

Got something to add. When I installed MSI Afterburner all of the GPU sensors showed dead zero. That made me think the GPU sensors were dead and it was heavily thermal throttling due to the fans not doing anything, but that wouldn't make any sense because it'd still need the sensors to know when to thermal throttle. I booted up a game and it showed some activity. Still, it was super weird the GPU was at 0 degrees because the fan was not doing anything and it shouldn't be under the room's ambient temperature which is about 24-28 degrees here.

The moment I got the laptop I did a full reinstall. My brother has also done full reinstalls after it "broke" or whatever's going on with it.

I was hopeful at first. I updated my BIOS, Intel WLAN drivers, touchpad drivers and manually installed AMD VGA drivers that was one of 2 drivers under the "GPU" dropdown on Lenovo's drivers&software website. It didn't make anything better, though I noticed something weird. It doesn't really matter what resolution I'm playing on, it still results in somewhat the same performance. In 720p, I got agressively fluctuating 30-50 FPS with heavy drops and spikes. In 1080p, I got more stable 30-40 FPS with some slowdowns and less frequent spikes. Here, you can't really judge by the numbers because actually playing the game I noticed almost no difference between the 2 resolutions playability or performance wise.

Due to some things, I've ended up with my brother's old shitty laptop (Lenovo Ideapad 510S-14ISK, R7 M360, i5-6200U, 8GB RAM). It didn't used to be shitty. He just told me one day that he couldn't run any games anymore and the performance was super bad. CS:GO is an example. The specs aren't crazy, but they aren't that terrible either. Thermals are fine, I checked. The FPS doesn't progressively get worse, as soon as you boot up the game it's already running like that. As I'm goIing to spend some time with this ol' thing I'd like to get it working decently. I wish I could tell you more about it, but honestly I don't know since it's my first few days with it. Oh yeah, semi-working ethernet port, wifi doesn't work, semi-working bluetooth... I have the latest updates installed and I also updated the GPU drivers. The screen hinge is crooked also, but that doesn't really matter. This thing has obviously been through some stuff. Maybe some rage smashing? I'm not sure. It's been a while since I've done any sort of debugging of this sorts and I don't exactly remember much since I've done all my things in a very functional and working custom desktop that I never really had any major issues with. If someone was willing to work this out w/ me, that'd be great as I'd really like to know what's wrong with this, not only to get it working decently but out of curisoity as well.

Thank you. I scored about a 100 points below average so I guess there's something weird going on software wise. Not that my performance is bad, just having some weird problems overall.

I'm suspicious that my GPU is damaged from either overheating or my old PSU. I've already tested my CPU on cinebench. Although it didn't give me an identical system to compare to, my CPU seems fine. I need a program that tests my GPU or preferably my whole system and compares my system to an identical one to see if I'm being crazy or not.

@Syaoran I am downloading EFT. I also checked SpeedTest before actually making this post and it showed my internet was a bit slower than usual. It kinda stabilized in the end. Maybe it was just an unlucky combination of their servers and my ISP doing/fixing something.

Nope, fresh installation of Windows. I just have basic stuff installed like Spotify, Discord, Steam, etc. None of them are running either.

I just have Windows Defender, disabled. Other than that I'm installing GlassWire right now to look further into this.

I closed all of the apps that could be using my internet. It hasn't behaved like this before, even when streaming videos. It'd slow down a few MBs but it would still be stable.

It worked fine before, though. Don't know if I have another cable but it wouldn't hurt to at least try.

Forgot to mention that, my bad. Ethernet.

Hi. I just got my PC back from repair (turns out there wasn't anything wrong with it, just had wrong RAM) and now my download speeds are going up and down constantly 100KB/s - 7MB/s. It's not random. It goes down & up constantly, perfectly. Even though I have 100MB/s internet, wired, it doesn't go over 7MB/s (should be floating around 11MB/s - 12.5MB/s) This is a pretty fresh installation of windows so I have no viruses or anything. Another thing that is most likely related to this, is that I can't install 3 of my windows updates, with the error code 0x80071a91. I also tried to reset Windows Update Components which didn't help. What is going on? Did they change my internet settings or something? Thanks in advance.