TsubasaLi

This EQ is soooo damn good. It basically gets rid of the kinda weird treble and "distant" sound feeling it has out of the box.

Hello everyone, as the title suggests I'm looking for a new monitor to go with my 2070 Super. I was looking to buy the AOC CQ27G2U but, sadly, I was unable to buy it because it was sold out instantly the day it was officially released in Europe (28th February). The maximum I would want to spend is about 400€. I was looking at some other monitors like the MSI Optix MAG271CQR or the Acer XF0 XF270 was but I was was unsure if there were other good options as well.

Hey everyone, I want to upgrade my current rig, or rather, I want to build a completely new system but this time on my own. I'm living in Germany and my budget is about 1000 to 1200 euro. My current rig was built by Mifcom (company similar to ibuypower or cyberpowerpc and whatnot). At first I was obviously impressed with that built coming from a literal potato (AMD A4 pre-built with no graphics card from 2011 or 2012). Now, after having upgraded the GPU, RAM and adding an SSD I had and still have some issues of random freezes which I can't be asked to fix myself. Surely, I could fix it but I can't be asked anymore honestly I'd rather just sell it, which is what I also intend to do. The PC will be mainly used for gaming mostly at High/Ultra settings 144FPS (Apex, Forza Horizon 4 etc) and basic compute work (MS Office etc). I can already get much more than 144 FPS with my current setup in LoL which is why I haven't listed it there. Short disclaimer: I don't plan on building this new pc right now. I might do it starting December or in late February (end of term exams at the end of January which means no time for other things). I've read through all the guides and tips for an hour or two and things that I knew myself and came up with this (unfinished) build in the end: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor €194.90 @ Mindfactory CPU Cooler NZXT Kraken X52 Rev 2 73.11 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler €133.84 @ Amazon Deutschland Memory Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Memory €110.80 @ Alza Storage Samsung 970 Evo Plus 500 GB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive €94.90 @ Amazon Deutschland Storage Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive €42.16 @ Amazon Deutschland Case NZXT H700 ATX Mid Tower Case €109.90 @ Amazon Deutschland Power Supply Corsair RMx (2018) 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply €99.90 @ Amazon Deutschland Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total €786.40 Obviously, a mainboard and a GPU is missing as I was unsure what mainboard I should go for. I was debating on just buying the Gigabyte Aorus Pro because you get the Gigabyte G750H 80+ Gold PSU with it. I was maybe thinking the MSI B450 Tomahawk Max or the Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite which I would most likely pair with the Corsair RMx650 PSU. As for the GPU: I was debating on getting a 1660 Super or a 2060. Let me know what you think and please give me advice on parts I should rather take.

Would you still rate the Gigabyte G750H at B?

Hello everyone, I've made some upgrades to my system that I got from a site that is similar to iBuyPower, CyberPowerPC. It was not a pre-built, I used their configurator about 2 years ago during the worst possible time to build one (Dec. 2017) but I needed a new PC quickly as my old one "passed away" (insanely slow but that one was a pre-built that I got for cheap). The only upgrade I've done was swap out the MSI AERO ITX GTX1050, the 2x4GB Samsung value RAM and install a 500GB SSD as my boot drive and use my pre-existing 1TB Seagate Barracuda as a pure storage drive. Long story short ever since I installed my new GPU and SSD (Sapphire RX 580 8GB, 500GB 970 EVO Plus) I have experienced very random freezes. Sometimes the freeze is barely noticeable as I can still move my cursor (the screen itself is frozen though), on other occasions everything freezes and I can't move the cursor. Then there are the very rare occasions where my screen just turns black (because of the freeze) and ultimately turns off because it doesn't detect a signal anymore. Another thing that has happened was that my PC bluescreened on me but this has only happened 1 or 2 times. I've look for advice pretty much everywhere but nothing has really proven beneficial. I've checked that everything is plugged in correctly, even though it is near impossible for something to be loose. I've even went back to base clock on my GPU (OC'd it to 1450 on the core clock), I've completely wiped both my storage devices and did a full, clean install of windows on my SSD, reinstalled all drivers and everything else but... nothing. Everything is still the same I still get the random freezes and it seems like my screen turning off has become a bit "more" present as it happened to me 2 times in the last 2 weeks. This problem I'm having happens everywhere. It happens while just being idle and in some rare cases my monitor flickers, goes black for about 2 second goes back to the regular screen only to to black for 2 seconds again. I didn't have any problems with the pc up until a month after I installed everything. I also noticed some coil whine while playing apex but that's random as well, sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. When it happens, it only does so while playing Apex. I play/do everything on 1080p@60. PC specs are as follows: i5-7500 CPU Sapphire Radeon RX580 8GB (latest GPU drivers) 16 GB (2x8) Corsair Vengeance RGB 3000Mhz CL15 RAM ASUS Prime Z270-K Motherboard (latest bios) Samsung EVO 970 Pus (latest firmware and nvme drivers) Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD 7200rpm Corsair TX550M PSU

Hey guys, I have a Lenovo Ideapad 320s 15" (really great laptop for university I can highly recommend) and ever since I got it, about 2 years ago, I had a very strange problem with it. In certain applications, the graphics are pretty bad and look very blurry. Watching youtube videos or doing general office work works without any problems whatsoever and the graphics are "crisp af", if I may say. The Ideapad320s has a dedicated graphics card, the GT920MX with 2GB VRAM. I tried fiddling around with the options but nothing seemed to be of any help nor did it do anything. I took a screenshot of how the text I'm writing right now vs. the CPU-Z window as an example to further "support my case". Obviously, PC graphics are completely different from mobile graphics but I never had that problem even when I had the MSI Aero ITX 1050 (which has 2GB VRAM as well) about 4 to 5 months ago. On the attached screenshot you can better see what I mean and the difference in detail: the very sharp and crisp-looking text I'm writing right now and the blurry text on the cpu-z window.

The one thing one should never forget is the budget and I forgot to add it. As I said earlier I can put 100 to the side each month but I don't want to spend more than 350 to 360€ for a graphics card. My budget is basically that and free games don't really matter too much to me as I have plenty of games that I cannot play at an acceptable framerate without the game looking like mud.

Hey guys, I've been looking to upgrade my GPU. I built my PC in December of 2017 with what was basically "available" to me. Even though I had a job during that time (I took some time off after having graduated in June 2017 to start studying at a uni in the summer semester) I couldn't get the GPU I, necessarily, wanted/needed. My build came up to 835 or 875€ in total. This was also the during the time of the big hype and attention around cryptocurrency. I know that people always advise others to buy cheap used parts but as legit of a "strategy" that is, I don't really like it myself (a bit of stubbornness really). That build hasn't really changed at all except upgrading the two 4 GB sticks of Samsung RAM to two 8 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB (not pro, the "old" model with the metal fence on top of it). Back then it was more than sufficient for the games I played as I also had and still have my Xbox One (traded in at GameStop for the One X Division 2 bundle) for other games that I don't want to play on PC. To not make this post too long, the GPU I have atm is the MSI Aero ITX 1050. Even though this card comes OC from the manufacturer itself, 2 GB of RAM is not sufficient for me or rather for the games I play. This becomes very apparent in games like Batman Arkham Knight or even in newer titles like Apex Legends. Those two only work mid to low settings (Apex works on some high settings on 40 to 60 FPS but 60 is the outlier) but while they work, they don't look good as they should (first world problems, I know). Now, I don't know really know which of the three cards (1060 6GB, RTX 2060 or 1660/TI) I should buy. Spec-wise I should be pretty good: i5-7500 16 GB DDR4 RAM 550W 80+ Gold Corsair TXM PSU if the mobo is of any importance --> Asus Prime Z270-K 1080p gaming, single monitor. I tend to lean toward the 1060 and 1660 (Ti) because I don't know whether "ray traces" would make such a huge impact in gaming for me that it would justify buying that one. Money itself is not that big an issue as I can set off 100€ to the side each month and I'm in no rush that I absolutely must have either of the three by tomorrow. Oh, almost forgot. The build is not an ITX build despite having the ITX 150, it's just the best I could afford with the money I had left but 6 GB is a must.

I just tried to reinstall the driver and checked the graphics settings once more, changed them to a lower res and back to 1080p but it's still blurry on discord or in games.

Hey all, about two hours ago I turned on my PC but for whatever reason, it didn't turn on properly and, as the title suggests, it left me on the "Press F1 to run setup" POST screen. I have tried basically anything with my own knowledge, I googled for some advice but to no avail. This is how my screen looks btw https://imgur.com/a/nzYQIyM. I didn't touch anything inside my PC, I also didn't drop it nor did I do anything else to it. Also, no new parts installed except a RAM upgrade from 2x4 to 2x8 GB of RAM but that was 3 months back and didn't cause any issues whatsoever. All drivers etc. are on the latest version and I did basically anything that I can think of. I updated the firmware to its latest version a while ago (11.8.55.3510) through a USB stick and the bios via the internet within the EZ flash utility in the bios to 1207 (this one is not available on Asus' website for some reason. I didn't take a picture of the very first POST screen but today, it happened again and this time I took a picture https://imgur.com/a/j23ttFn. Yesterday, I tried changing the resolution in the windows settings, after that didn't work I tried changing it in the Nvidia Control panel but neither of them worked. My PC is also not overheating as all 4 CPU cores are at 30 to 35°C and my GPU is at around 24°C in idle according to MSI Afterburner. Is there something else that I could do? My PC Specs: Win 10 Home 64bit on the latest build 1809 Asus Prime Z270-K mobo Intel i5-7500 CPU 16 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB RAM MSI Geforce GTX 1050 Aero ITX 2G OC graphics card 550W Corsair TX550M PSU Edit: It gets worse especially after being in a game but it's only blurry on places other the desktop itself (https://imgur.com/a/zJu63tM). On the desktop, or when I'm in chrome it's pretty clear but within games, it's somewhat acceptable but gets worse after having done something like clearing a level or playing a match.