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So Apple has an official USBC to Lightning adapter https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MUQX3AM/A/usb-c-to-lightning-adapter It supposedly supports power as well as data transfer. However, when I've tried plugging in any lightning accessories, I get an "Accessory Not Supported" error. This seems like it will affect a lot of people who have what are now "legacy" devices that are important (blood glucose meters, etc).

I currently have an RTX 2080 with 2 monitors attached via DP->HDMI adapters. When I resume from "sleep" mode, the secondary monitor for a split second displays my login screen, then the first display comes on with the login screen, and second display comes back on as a secondary. I can deal with that weirdness but the main issue is that once I login, any windows that I had positioned on the secondary display when I engaged sleep mode are now on my main display Is this a Windows(10) issue or is there a way to make it behave properly? I have tried: * Running main monitor straight HDMI->HDMI * Running secondary monitor from the onboard intel HDMI * Using HDMI->DVI adapter on secondary monitor * Using DP->HDMI->DVI adapter on secondary monitor (LOL) Every combination I have tried seems to have no effect on the the secondary display windows being moved to the primary display after waking from sleep. UPDATE: I just realized the issue is more annoying than I first realized. The "sleep" state I was referring to earlier was from going to Start->Power->Sleep, which shuts down even my case fans and is a super low power mode (C4?). I just noticed that after my computer is idle for 15mins, and goes into it's normal power save mode (monitors blank but system is running), I get the same behavior. I assume this is issues with the BIOS settings of my new motherboard. I guess I'll dig into those and see if I can figure it out.

Thanks for the tips. I thought too that a 750w PSU was a bit overkill, I guess I was just hoping that it would also have higher quality components than a cheaper one. I have had a PSU violently explode before (A couple of caps blew simultaneously), and it's not something I want to experience again, LOL I've never used an NVMe drive before, but I've heard all the hype of them being up to "7 times faster" than SATA? I'm less worried about boot times as sometimes I go for a couple of weeks without rebooting, but I would like all things to load quickly, including game levels and stupidly large datasets for work stuff. Why do you prefer the Zotac RTX 2080? I initially picked the Gigabyte one because I liked that it had more cooling (3 fans), but I see the Zotac does as well, although costs a bit more. Thanks again for your advice.

Cheap is cool, but not really looking for a <$500 PC that isn't up to doing all the things I need to do (my work stuff is already straining with the RAM it has, I wouldn't want to drop down to 8GB)

Building 2 new PCs to replace both mine and my wife's aging gaming machines. It's been an embarrassingly long time since I have built a system, so I'm looking for any advice on my build list, for anything that is obviously mismatched or anything I could swap out for cost savings. We both work from home, and are gaming and general internet geeks. We spend a LOT of time using our PCs for both work and gaming (games like Overwatch,Battlefield, etc). We are seriously on our machines for most of our waking hours, so having our new PCs be wonderfully fast and at least semi-futureproof is very important to us. I want this new build to have very good GPU performance that hopefully will not have to be upgraded for several years, so I opted for an RTX 2080 We are both already spoiled by SSD primary drives, so I picked an m.2 drive which should meet and exceed our current loading times etc. I already have a couple of 4TB sata drives to use as secondary storage. I picked a case that has good cooling, as her PC will be in a cabinet. She usually has the front door open, but it still doesn't have as much airflow as being on an open desk. I also require having 4 front-panel USB ports, which the CM case I chose has. I do have a question about the motherboard I picked. I saw a warning that the m.2 drive conflicts with and disables 1 of the sata ports. Losing a port isn't a big deal since I plan on having at most a 4TB secondary drive and maybe migrate my DVDwriter over, but what I am wondering is, will the NVMe performance be impacted at all? Here's my first pass at a build. Bear in mind that I will be buying 2x of all these parts and building 2 identical systems. This is the main and only reason that I am trying to be a bit conservative on cost. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant Type Item Price CPU Intel - Core i7-9700K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor $409.99 @ Amazon CPU Cooler Corsair - H100i 77 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler $89.99 @ Corsair Motherboard MSI - MPG Z390 GAMING PRO CARBON ATX LGA1151 Motherboard $169.99 @ Newegg Memory G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory $244.99 @ Newegg Storage Western Digital - Black NVMe 1 TB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive $229.99 @ Amazon Video Card Gigabyte - GeForce RTX 2080 8 GB WINDFORCE Video Card $706.98 @ Newegg Case Cooler Master - MasterCase H500 ATX Mid Tower Case $104.99 @ B&H Power Supply EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply $82.90 @ OutletPC Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total (before mail-in rebates) $2059.82 Mail-in rebates -$20.00 Total $2039.82 Generated by PCPartPicker 2019-02-13 22:29 EST-0500 Thanks in advance for any advice!