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My 5900x idles in the mid-high 40s. Purely stock settings. 60 does seem high to me. for sure get more airflow in your case. Make sure your AIO has all the fans installed and get exhaust fans installed on your case.

I’d say that’s too much. There should be a light glow around the edge of the screen. This appears to be dominating the screen. I am aware that eyes and a camera see things like this differently. Does it look better or worse in person than the video? If you’re going Acer, I recommend the predator line of monitors. Can’t tell if that’s what’s shown in the video.

Why Intel and not AMD? I don’t have a strong opinion on one over the others except that AMD tends to have a slightly better price to performance ratio. Both companies make great stuff. If you can wait it out (including scarcity at launch) then definitely go for the new stuff if you can afford it.

Recently upgraded to a Corsair H150i Capellix 360mm AIO and a Ryzen 9 5900x Unfortunately the AIO doesn’t fit in my case due to RAM clearance. It’s very close but just doesn’t quite do it. For now, I’m using a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO to cool the 5900x. It’s not doing the best job, as one might imagine so I want to get my cooling upgraded probably within the next month. Because of this, I’m looking for a new case. Looking at the Corsair 5000X and 5000D Airflow. Currently leaning more toward the 5000D since it gets a bit more air through the case. I like the look of both cases for different reasons. Obviously, the price is a little more desirable on the 5000D. Anyone have thoughts or experience with these two cases?

Maybe. I think the fact that crypto has already seen the heights it has may allow for it to grow much faster in the future. At least back to the level where it was. I hope I’m wrong.

22mbps is a very fast upload speed for residential. the advertised speed of an internet package is always the download speed. Upload speeds always tend to be a lot slower.

I think when the 40 series releases prices will rise. Here’s why. There is likely to be a lot of difficulty involved with getting one due to very limited inventory and people will become frustrated and go out to buy up all the 30 series stock available out there. No doubt the crypto miners will have another go at it too.

I’ve done several home theater builds. a few key questions. 1. what is your preferred price range for this initial phase? (More money equals higher quality, to a point with eventual diminishing returns) 2. Do you have pictures of your space (every room is different and most require some degree of creative engineering. 3. is your room a basement room up is there a room (or crawl space) under the room? 4. What height is the ceiling (does the room have a vaulted ceiling?) 5. are you comfortable installing ceiling speakers? 6. Are you comfortable running speaker cable from the front of the room to the back? 7. do you have a TV you’re planning to use?

Yeah. That’s what I’m thinking too. Hopefully a replacement or repaired card would be ok.

I got an 850w Corsair unit today. I’m intending to keep it. Overhead is a good thing.

Been dealing with an issue all day. Randomly, yesterday, my computer started having issues. I’ll try and provide as much detail as possible. I upgraded to an RTX 3070 from an RTX 2060 Super. The 2060 super worked fine for a full year. I sold it to my brother after upgrading to the 3070. Specs at start of this venture. -ASUS TUF X-570 plus motherboard -Ryzen 5 3600x -16gb (2x8gb) G skill DDR4 3600 -EVGA RTX 3070 XC3 Ultra -Corsair RM650 power supply --7 120mm case fans (6x rgb) The computer would run stable basically forever when idle or low usage. Once it’s put under a heavy GPU load of any kind (gaming, benchmarking, mining, etc) it will crash within 20 minutes, usually within 10. This just started happening yesterday, I installed the card on Monday and had no issues at all until yesterday. No performance degradation though, it just crashes randomly. Depending on the task, windows event viewer would tell me that DWM.exe has crashed, heaven.exe has crashed, etc. This afternoon, after messing around, I am no longer able to get the card to post at all. I am positive I didn’t do anything to damage the card, I’ve been building for 15 years. My motherboard just hangs on the light for VGA during the post process. It does pass the DRAM and CPU lights before hanging on the indicator light for VGA. Everything powers on but I never get a post. Things I’ve tried. 1. Verified voltages with power supply tester and inside UEFi -card was working but crashing at this stage 2. newest BIOS (old one was from 2019) 3. new chipset drivers 4. Reset CMOS 5. run DDU in safe mode 6. install recent 461.51 hotfix 7. Mine crypto with CPU only, not gpu, no crashes after 30 minutes. 8. test heaven benchmark with each stick of RAM in each slot. Would always crash within 20 minutes at varying lengths of time. —-card stopped posting at all after this for whatever reason 9. Reset CMOS again 10. memtest86 (4 passes, 0 errors) 11. Install new Corsair RM850x power supply -still no post 12. Test with old 8500gt gpu (system boots every time with this card) It’s nice to know the system boots with the 8500gt but it’s concerning that the RTX 3070 won’t post at all at this point. I’ve been careful with it but something is obviously up with it, no? Just for reference. The graphics card was never run above 70*C and I have very adequate case air cooling. Anyone have any thoughts? I’m thinking I need to RMA the card to EVGA.

Fire stick is Amazon which competes directly with Apple in certain ways. They don’t support Apple products in that way. The best way is to get an Apple TV but I understand it’s expensive. Next best option is to get the hdmi to lightning adapter from Apple. I have one and it works perfectly and ton fuss at all. Just instantly displays what I need every time.

wireless AC can run a theoretical maximum of 1331mbps. You can only achieve this under absolutely perfect conditions. Cell phones, walls, other wifi networks, radio signals, fluorescent lights, etc. all stop the signal from working perfectly and slow it down. I always feel like the advertisements aren't quite accurate because achieving true maximum speed is essentially impossible. I have a TP Link AC-1750 and get 433mbps connection speed between my laptop and the router. How are you measuring? I guess an equally as important question is why do you care? Once you get above 100 or so it literally isn't noticeable unless you're moving huge files over your network or streaming 4k in at least 6 or 7 spots in your home. On a side note. If you own your own modem, be sure that you have a nice enough one to actually run your full connection speed. I only have a 60mbps service plan so it was easy to get a cheaper one, you need something quite a bit more expensive.

This is my opinion, others may disagree. The systems are so comparable that it might as well come down to whether you prefer intel or AMD. I'm pretty impartial on CPUs at this point given the release of 3rd gen ryzen. I have been an intel guy for over 10 years and very recently switched to make my only computer an AMD system. The reason? Simple. It's the cost. I think the performance is so on par for the system I needed. Cost was nearly $300 less in my case. Ryzen does offer an upgrade path at least into next year, I seem to recall Intel is going to retire their current socket after this generation (someone please correct me if I'm wrong here). That may be worth considering. If you're really set on the parts you want then I'd probably lean on the Intel side since the build is slightly cheaper but obviously still of fantastic quality and performance. The performance will be so strong that you're not likely to notice any difference at all between the two builds for your needs (especially at this time). You won't even come close to asking your rig for all it can give.

Several of the numbers here seem questionable. 244hz? 1900x1080? It's actually pretty simple why at higher resolutions the refresh rate has to decrease. It's all about bandwidth. This can be impacted by the source, the cable, or the display. Any interfaces or items in your video chain can also impact this. It takes the same amount of bandwidth to move 4k @ 60hz over a cable as it does to move 1080p @ 240hz.

I like organized icons but I don’t actually store anything on the desktop. I can’t stand getting on my moms computer because she has somehow decided the desktop is the only place worth saving documents and files, lol

I just got a Dell Inspiron 14 5000 series with a quad core Ryzen 5 3500u. I upgraded from pretty low base specs to 16gb RAM and a 500gb Samsung NVMe SSD. Keyboard is awesome. Comes with a touchscreen and everything. There is a version with a Ryzen 7 3700u as well as various quad core i5 and i7 models. No dedicated graphics though. I know this machine would do stuff like photo editing pretty well but I got it for more general use purposes. I only paid $650 USD for the computer, brand new. Not sure if you can shop deals in your area. ASUS Zenbook is awesome but the price was a bit out of reach for me.

I've always followed the philosophy that if we're on the verge or a major release that it's worth the wait unless you absolutely can't. This is more of a minor thing that you'd be waiting for so I would consider going for the super card. I've heard amazing things about the cards, people generally seem to be very happy with them.

I’m not certain but I think labeling certain sites as potentially false information could lead to lawsuits. Sounds like defamation to me and is likely worse than just resorting search results a bit. It seems that most of the tech connected world is ok suppressing right leaning opinions and sources. Most of Hollywood, most major news networks, Facebook, google, Twitter, etc. it’s just something you need to know. It’s becoming a real problem. I, personally, don’t think I want the government stepping in and trying to “fix” the problem. It seems most things government touches gets ruined. I lean pretty heavily to the right and would rather see liberal owned companies suppressing conservative ideas on their platform rather than have the government try to fix it. As bad as it is, I do think they have a right to suppress and filter what is said on their own platform. The ethics of that is a totally different question.

At my work we had probably 100 or so PDAs like this and fully discontinued support back in 2013 or so. Still, several of them remain around the building. Stupidly, one of them is set up as the ONLY computer that can reprogram the door to the IT tech shop. This is still a thing and it’s the only one left that gets any use I am aware of. I want to strangle whoever made that decision.

You can run most any external enclosure but I agree with the sentiment others have expressed in this thread that your money is better spent on a more powerful laptop. It’s just not an economically efficient way to accomplish this goal. But maybe that doesn’t matter to you or you have a specific case where it does make sense.

lol, oops. i still think the games are fine for teenagers.

Open world - Skyrim (modded for next gen graphics and gameplay) FPS - Half Life Source, Half Life 2, Portal, Portal 2 Action/Adventure - Mass Effect Trilogy (my favorite games ever), Tomb Raider series (starting 2013)

Exactly right. Tell me if this is correct: The fiber is beneficial for eliminating congestion over large areas. While homes might use coax the fiber can still better feed a large area as all bandwidth for all homes connected is shared through it. in theory, it should make internet service more reliable. Even with the conversion to coax. No?

The last time I personally had this problem my graphics card was the culprit. It was making some super loud coil whine occasionally, fps would drop dramatically. A hard drive will only slow down a computer where data needs to be read or written to the disk. For actual performance in games and things of that sort the HDD shouldn’t be getting involved much if any. my other thought is that you may be just on the edge of hitting a thermal threshold. you won’t know what’s going on until you get some monitoring software and watch what the hardware is doing during these drops.