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  1. I bought an LG 27GP850 about 2 years back, and it was fine for a while, but it started displaying odd behavior. If i was using the extended freesync mode, and had gsync enabled, every so often, the screen would go black (backlight turned off too) for a second or two, often flashing on for a split second before turning off again. It would do this several times before the image came back. 

     

    I sent it back to LG to repair it twice, but nothing helped. Ive used multiple different display port cables, different ports on the back of my gpu, i also bought a whole new gpu (not for thos reason, i was upgrading anyway), but nothing has fixed it. 

     

    I was convinced it was the monitor at fault, not anything else, as the only other suspects i thought about could by gpu, which was brand new, and this was a problem on both the old and new one, or the cable, which as i said, was switched out several times.

     

    I bought a new monitor, and its happening on this monitor as well. The LG doesnt have this problem on my brothers computer so im kind stuck at this point. Its a massive problem, as i will be in the middle of a gun fight or something, and every other game, i will just lose the image for a couple seconds.

     

    I asked on reddit, and someone said they had a similar problem to me, and theres was caused by an improperly seated graphics card. I checked mine, but its as far in as it will go. This however did get me thinking. I had no problem with the monitor for a long while after i got it, but one thing i did do is buy a new case, the fractal design pop air. Is it possible that the case could be preventing me from fully seating the gpu? I didnt think of this initially, as this problem doesnt occur on my tv, which gsync is also enabled on, and i mostly use my tv anyway, and its never happened once on there.

  2. 1 hour ago, Rooked said:

    If the port lights on the ethernet is not on, that means the motherboard can't access that port. Has to be a hardware issue.

    Okay, so i updated to the latest bios as a last ditch attempt, and it finally worked. The reason i didnt try earlier is cos i didnt know if they removed support for older cpus, but it works just fine.

  3. 23 minutes ago, Rooked said:

    If your motherboard is the MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk, here are the download site for the realtek drivers the motherboard has (RTL8125B), try putting the Win10 Auto Installation Program in a USB drive and transferring it, then install it.

    https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-interface-controllers-10-100-1000m-gigabit-ethernet-pci-express-software

     

    WARNING, ONLY IF YOUR MOTHERBOARD IS THE SAME MODEL AS I'M REFERENCING TO

    No it doesnt work. Also, the port lights on either ethernet port are not active. 

  4. 24 minutes ago, Rooked said:

    Ah, okay. Can you go to device management, go to network adapters and check the power management of the realtek network adapter under the properties? If 'Allow the computer to turn off..' was checked, uncheck it and restart your PC. See if that works.

    There is no realtek network adapter in the device manager, thats the biggest issue. Many of the solutions i find were asking me to do something with it, but its not even there in the first place 

  5. 11 minutes ago, Rooked said:

    Ryzen 5 2600 should be supported in B550 motherboards. I'm pretty sure the B550 Tomahawk doesn't have inbuilt wifi. If it says something about deep sleep, you need to go to the BIOS and disable that. Have you tried plugging the Ethernet cable anyways? Try it before and after disabling the deep sleep feature in the BIOS.

    I cannot find any deep sleep setting in the bios. I mean a pci wifi card, not built in. Ive tried ethernet, no luck. 

  6. While waiting for my 5900x to arrive, i decided to put 2600 into my new b550 tomahawk as i heard it works fine. I know its not offically supported (which may well be the issue) but the cpu works fine, its just i have no internet? 

     

    Ive tried every solution i can fine, and nothing works. Ive installed thr chipset drives, the lan drivers, i even put my old wifi card in and installed those drivers. Nothing.

     

    The only thing that works is usb thethering from my phone, but nothing else. The only adapters that show up when i click show adapter options, is my bluetooth dongle, no ethernet or wifi card or anything. In device manager, under network adapters, its just the blutooth again, as well ad a whole bunch of different WAN things. No realtek ethernet or wifi card or anything.

     

    In device manager again, under other devices, it says network controller. No idea of this is the realtek ethernet or the wifi card as its just that generic name, but its got the yellow triangle saying its not working, and nothing i do seems to help.

     

    When i downloaded the lan drivers from msi, and installed them, when it was done it said somethig along the lines of realtek network adapter could not be found, if deep sleep is enabled plug in the cable or something like that. Apparently i had to reset my motherboard settings to fix that, so i did, and it still didnt help. 

     

    What can i do? Ive tried everything i could find, so if u give me a solution, dont be surprise if i tell u it wont work. Thanks in advance.

  7. 6 minutes ago, Enderman said:

    You could spend a bit more money to get a third 8TB drive and do raid 5, so if one drive fails you won't lose any data and you can rebuild the array.

    https://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/08/raid-levels-tutorial/

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    Get rid of those 1TB drives and sell them on craigslist or something for a bit of extra money.

    this sounds like a good solution, however, im not familiar with raid. I did a quick search and found this https://pureinfotech.com/setup-raid-5-windows-10/ would this be how I should do it? do I need specific drives, or will regular drives work, as im not sharing files on the network, or leaving my pc running 24/7, and will I lose all the data due to formatting when I do it?

     

  8. 2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

    Yeah I would replace the small drives with one large one.

     

    Is it really sensitive data that you can't afford to lose?

    If it's just movies and stuff that can be redownloaded I wouldn't worry about it, hard drives last many years.

     

    You can use tools like crystaldiskinfo to check the smart data and see when one is starting to have problems that could indicate imminent failure.

    It's very rare for them to just outright die with no warning.

    While it wouldnt be the end of the world if i lost it, it would be a nightmare to re rip everything.

  9. 39 minutes ago, Enderman said:

    Motherboards have 4-8 sata 3 ports so you have plenty of room to add a few more drives.

    8-12TB drives aren't that expensive so I would just do that.

    I have no more space inside the case, only 3 trays, though theres no reason i couldnt replace one of the two 1tb drives i have. What about redundency?

  10. 33 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

    If its just for storing movies. you could get a HDD caddy, number every drive and once its full catalog whats on it in a file on your PC and only plug it in externally when you need it?

    Like a hard drive dock kind of thing? If thats what u mean i thought about that shortly after posting, but 3.5 inch drives are too big for me to physically store them and 2.5 inch drives are more expensive, but ill see what i can do.

  11. I have an 8tb seagate baracuda at the moment as my main storage drive, its very new so im not concerned about failure anytime soon (fingerd crossed), though it doesnt have any redundency.

     

    My need is simply more storage, and i thought of a nas, but they seem very expensive, and building one also seems too expensive for my use case as well.

     

    I have about 1.6tb free on that drive, i would like to double total capacity to 16tb, with redundency as well. All i need is more space, i dont need to access my files while out and about. Its mainly movie and tv shows ripped from bluray at full quality, no reencoding. I just move the stuff i want to watch or what i may want to watch to a 2tb external hdd i have connected directly to my tv.

     

    Nas drives seem quite a bit more expensive, and i dont want to spend a whole load more money on the convenience of not needing to shuffle files around if i want to watch them, 2tb is plenty for many movies and even full series taking 100s of gb, so it itsnt a massive inconvenience, nor is not being able to stream them on the go. If i want to watch it on my phone, i simply reencode with handbrake using nvenc, so its super snappy.

     

    What would u recommend?

  12. 5 minutes ago, Xaring said:

    First, please, space out your text in paragraphs! It makes reading your post so much easier!


    Second, I doubt very much that said consoles max out a PCI-E Gen 4 bandwith. It just doesn't work that way. The maximum theoretical speed for an x4 link on gen 3 is 4 GB/s and there are no drives on the market that do that (you get up to 3.7GB/s or so).

     

    Third, you shouldn't worry about your drives being quick enough for games... There's only up to a certain performance you can gain. If you look at current technology, the difference in loading times between an SSD and a HDD is extremely evident, but once you start comparing different SSDs between each other, you find out that the higher speeds are not used at all.

    Made up numbers here: Loading in a game can take 2 minutes in a HDD. That goes down to 35s on a Sata SSD, then that goes down to 25s on a NMVE(Gen3) SSD, which goes down to 20s on a NVME(Gen4). The are diminishing returns, as the bottleneck starts happening elsewhere.

    In any case, you can always treat yourself in the future with a nice, new SSD if you feel like there really is a need, but you already have a 970 Evo Plus, which is a really nice drive, so i'll say you're set for a couple of years for sure.

    But with the consoles having ssds, wont that cause game devs to optimize games for them? Causing huge gains in load times?

  13. The next generation of consoles, the ps5 and project scarlett are going to have ssds that are much faster than todays drives, probably pcie gen 4 and potentionally maxing out the x4 bandwith, which i believe sits around the 8 gigabytes a second range. Pcie 4 ssds now are around 5. Will current ssds still be relevant for PCs as it relates to gaming when these consoles are released at the end of 2020? What kind of performance difference will there be? Im probably not going to upgrade my pc as it stands, and build a new one early to mid 2021, but i may salvage some stuff from my current one, namely the ssds, i have a 500gb samsung 970 evo plus, and a 1tb samsung 860 evo. Will these still be sufficient at that point in time? I may buy another new one as a boot drive at that point anyway, but im just wondering. I have plenty of time to think about it. 

  14. What settings should i use in geforce experience and davinci resolve to retain quality after uploading to youtube? Should i set gfe to record at 2160p 130mbits to have the highest quality source material before youtube compresses it? If i play at 1440p will recording at this resolution cause problems? Is recording in 1080p 50mbits and rendering at 4k a better option? Or just leaving it at 1440p?

  15. At first, I had no idea what I wanted to buy between these 2 cards. When amd dropped the prices i was set on the 5700 xt (wanted to wait for aib cards though) but now I'm not too sure. The 2070 super is quite a bit more expensive than the reference model 5700 xt. The cheapest i can find is a zotac gaming twin fan for £489 and the reference 5700 xt is £389. How much more expensive will the customs navi cards be, and given the heat problems of the reference model, what kind of performance bump. From what i know, the 5700 xt is only 2-5% behind the 2070S on average, so im assuming a decent performance jump would make it the better option hands down. I have a few ray tracing games, like sottr and metro exodus, though i havent got around to playing them yet, and im looking forward to cyber punk. Which do u think i should get? My monitor is 1440p 144hz, but i would like to play more single player games on my tv with a controller, which is 1080p, so maintaining 60fps with raytracing shouldnt be a problem if i go for the nvidia card. Also, while i can order the 2070s right now from amazon, it wont arrive for some time, the zotac one says it will be in stock on the 17th of august, and most of the others say they be dispatched in 1-3 months, so im kind of forced to wait either way. What do u think i should do? Is ray tracing worth it for upcoming games? I have 1060 3gb atm.

  16. Im planning in buying a 5700xt when the AIB models are released, but have no plans in upgrading my cpu (R5 2600). Im not the kind of person who plays on 1080p lowest settings for the sake of dem frames, so i think that will help me here. If im playing 1440p max settings, will it be worth upgrading my cpu? I was planning on waiting til 4th gen ryzen is releases before upgrading or even until the 5th gen that leaves AM4 behind. If the performance benefits are decent though (in the realm of 10% or so), then i may consider an upgrade for my cpu as well. I have 16gb of 3200mhz CL16 ram as i know ryzen likes fast ram.

  17. Another question that i didnt want to open a new thread for. What about b550 and 'big navi'? I'm willing to wait a little bit before i make a purchase and was wondering if these would be worth it. If i choose to wait for 4th gen ryzen, i think im safe in assuming a b550 would be better than a b450 for those cpus. And im willing to pay more for a gpu than what the 5700xt costs, maybe up to £600 if the price/performance doesnt take that big of a hit. When do you think higher end gpus would be launched like a 5800xt or 5900xt? If at all.

  18. At the moment I have an idea about how I want to upgrade. I'm probably gonna buy a 5700XT to replace my 1060 3gb, a b450 tomahawk/gaming pro carbon to replace my a320, and 650w psu to replace my 450w one. But what i'm not too sure about is whether i should buy a 3rd gen ryzen cpu. I currently have a R5 2600, so I feel like will serve me at least until next generation. I believe AMD will release ryzen 4000 on the AM4 platform, at which point i would probably buy it. Do you think the b450 boards will support 4th gen? Or should i buy 3rd gen and wait until AMD is done with AM4. I'm not sure whether the 2600 will bottleneck a 5700XT but if the gains are significant with a 3600(X) or a 3700X for example i will probably consider it.

  19. Well I found the solution, it's to stop being such a moron, and start paying more attention to what i'm doing. The DIMMs weren't full seated and that's it. I heard the click and thought it was in but it was just the little clip thing. When I put my old ram in to check the bios, I heard a much louder click along side the smaller one from the catches. The new ram for whatever reason needed a fair bit more pressure. Thanks for your help anyway.

  20. Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

    It's still fundamentally the same RAM though as far as I know...

     

    Is your BIOS up to date?

    I don't know, I don't know a whole lot about the details, only the basics of computers. I can't even get the bios with the new ram installed, I'll put the old one back in and see.

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