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I bought a NobleChairs Hero and their footrest for my girlfriend so she can use my setup without her feet dangling. I'm 6' she's 5'1" and we both swear by it. PU leather is highly durable and attractive so don't be fooled by real leather as an expensive alternative. The other route is Herman Miller, which I didn't wan to drop the insane amount of money on. The Hero is built extremely well and was pretty easy to set up as well. Generally I'd stay away from "plush" as a term describing a good chair. Ergonomics is much more important, especially built-in lumbar support!

First, what you're experiencing is the auto-protect feature built into your CPU. If you were using Throttle Stop it would be a little easier to see what I'm referring to, but there is a way to increase the length of full power draw, or in your case the desired 78w to an indefinite duration. However, this is risky and completely unnecessary. I saw you running a 125mv undervolt which is pretty good considering. I'd say stop tinkering with stuff before you're looking for a burn recovery drive. Celebrate your win and enjoy your tech! Most guides online that refer to modding bios or system registries are specific to that machine, and even more specifically, to the hardware inside their particular machine. If you want an easy boost to your machine I saw you had no issues with thermals. You can boost your core clock multipliers for extra power under load during the time it's drawing full power. Just be sure to adjust according to your system's cooling ability. Too high of a multiplier will result in premature throttling. Too low of a multiplier will leave you with a slow machine.

First check system update settings and see if Windows has any available updates. Then download the Nvidia GeForce Experience and update your GTX drivers there (called game-ready driver). Then I'd download the most current version of Nvidia Control Panel, as this can also become corrupted. I'd also recommend you download the Intel update utility and update most of your Intel device drivers that way. Finally, on your search bar next to the windows button type "Device Manager". Here you will see all devices your laptop is currently recognizing. You should go ahead and right-click each device and check for driver updates. If no drivers are found, it is NOT NECESSARY to check for updates deeper in Windows Update. If it finds an update that requires a system restart, go ahead and let it restart. This will either fix your problem entirely or at least rule any old or corrupted drivers out of the equation.

https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34GK950F-B-gaming-monitor $1200 USD (Radeon Freesync) https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-34GK950G-B-gaming-monitor $1400 USD (Same monitor with Nvidia G-Sync) 34" WQHD Curved Ultrawide 144Hz Screen Refresh 1ms Responose Time DisplayPort HDMI 2.0 98% DCI-P3 Color Accuracy 100% SRGB Color Accuracy 400 cd/m Brightness 1000:1 Contrast Ratio

The Razer Kraken V.2 has better audio quality of the two you're deciding between. I think SteelSeries offers superb mic clarity that Razer can't quite match yet and found the Kraken to be a bit bass heavy like the Razer Nari Ultimate. The Arctis are better for gaming and the Kraken are better for listening to music.

Looks like LG has a nice 34" curved ultra-wide monitor coming out soon. 144Hz, WQHD, curved and 34".

I finally got to see how the new Dell XPS performs and I'm genuinely impressed. I would feel confident in their product, performance and customer support. They are the best of the "road warriors" as far as laptops go in their price range in my opinion. Well rounded, highly productive and extremely long battery life. Also has some extensive workstation abilities through TB3 as well.

Absolutely. Try to download the drivers then overwrite/repair if possible. Also, adjusting the NVidia control panel 3D settings can help improve FPS without adding risk through educated modifications of bios.

Go to the manufacturer’s website and update your drivers. Sounds like it could be an issue with NVidia or Intel control panel/command center. I’ve had a similar issue in the past when I rolled back my GPU drivers and somehow it corrupted my control panel driver. Also verify the storage capacity on your SSD. Good luck! This was done through a link provided by the program dialogue once I selected the control panel from Windows. GeForce Experience said it was downloaded and didn’t rewrite the file and I was forced to go through the Microsoft store on Windows 10 Pro.

No set budget. Need the hardware.

I'm looking for a new curved monitor. They are very immersive and caught my appeal years ago so I'm finally willing to invest in one with the correct specs. I am a business professional by day and a gamer by night and would like a G-Sync monitor. I've heard adaptive sync opened doors for G-Sync Compatible but I also hear many people complaining of issues with ghosting, screen brightness and game freezes. I want to keep the monitor around 34-35" wide and have a high refresh rate to help keep me competitive while gaming. I'd also like WQHD or 4K resolution if possible. Any thoughts?

The Turbo-Boost feature in Dragon Center is unnecessary. Consumer grade is a laughable comment and the weaker cooling comment is not applicable. MSI strengthened their chassis by increasing the thickness of the aluminum body among other upgrades. Also, my consumer grade setup holds the current world record for benchmarks in CPU, and outperforms 95% of other RTX 2080 Max-Q GPU's. For the cooling, the GS75 is phenomenal. I've made numerous adjustments to tweak performance none of which caused heat build-up or thermal throttling. The Dragon Center fan adjustments make it easy to manage how often and loud the fans get. Whatever you decide, run away from the new MacBook. They've had thermal throttling issues, port adjustments (for the worse), and offers high end CPU's that under-perform their lower clock-speed counterparts. Speaking in generalities previously posted by streamers instead of personal experience adds nothing to the solution. It's just more clutter to skim through.

Where exactly is everywhere? Lol...

Everyone going to college has access to financial aid giving them the opportunity for 4-8 years to have access to the best technology and education available and interest free at a minimum. I'd suggest coming up with a way to get past the $1200 limitation to break a minimum of $1800 to get into RTX cards. Ardu was correct that my model is not in your price range. However, MSI has various models with the 8th gen core i7-8750 currently on sale in both 15.6" and 17.3" models. Sorry for any confusion, I apparently did scroll past your pricing comment

MSI GS75 Stealth 9SG (479). Most powerful thin and light in the world. Regardless of what you're doing, this laptop has you covered. Professional, Powerful and Portable. I currently hold the world record benchmarks on the CPU and perform in the top 5% of all RTX 2080 Max Q GPU's. MSI definitely has their stuff together this year!

I purchased the MSI GS75 Stealth 9SG (479) to have a mobile workstation at home. Needless to say I have everything I need. MSI made the most powerful laptop setup money can buy from the thin and light category. Pick up your portable SKYNET today! I also have a CalDigit TS3+ running all the peripherals and extras. Works really well with the MSI GS775 Stealth 9SG.

Best laptop money can buy for a business professional and gamer. Ridiculously powerful i9 cpu paired with RTX 2080 gpu provides optimal performance everywhere you go. I use it both as a workstation and a desktop replacement at home. MSI offers a 15.6” version called the gs65 which comes in an RTX 2060 version I think you’d really appreciate. If you go with an 8th gen cpu you’ll also save a couple hundred dollars without sacrificing too much. I am thoroughly impressed with MSI as of now.

Intel 10nm Icy Lake is one of Intel's new CPU's and is built around the 10nm architecture releasing Q4 2019. Intel 10nm server CPU's will be released Q2 2020 and the 7nm architecture you must have been referring to will be released late 2020 to early 2021.

I would recommend holding off as long as you can. The end of 2019 will be interesting with Intel releasing their updated CPU architecture with lower nm alongside nvidia's release of the 30-series RTX graphics cards. These two changes could possibly be small game-changers for the not too distant future, which would drastically reduce the cost of today's high end components. Also, ensure whichever components you decide to go with have the latest ports to maximize bandwidth and display capabilities. Your thoughts to the more "common" components rising after a big release is spot on! Good luck!

The Display Port is located on the CalDigit TS3+ Hub which would be connected to the laptop via a StarTech 2m 40Gbps TB3 cable. I am not sure if g-sync is output across TB3, or if it is connected to the integrated graphics card. I would think at least the HDMI 2.0 port would carry G-Sync. Its a simple question but I'm unfamiliar with MSI.

I have both G-Sync and FreeSync external monitors available for hookup. I need to find out which ports this laptop can output g-sync across.

I've recently purchased the MSI GS75 Stealth 479 Laptop. Does anyone know if it's able to push G-Sync through any of the ports? Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the Thunder Bolt 3 port is connected to the Intel graphics which would not meet the requirements of Nvidia's G-Sync which requires the port to be connected to the Nvidia GPU inside. I am using a CalDigit TS3+ Hub which has a Display Port and Thunder Bolt 3 port available for video output along with the HDMI on the laptop itself. I also have a Samsung Q6F 55" QLED TV I intend on using as a secondary monitor so our guests can watch on the big screen. Ideally I'd have the laptop closed (we took extreme measures to ensure overheating would not be an issue) and placed to the side of the monitor with my peripherals connected to the CalDigit TS3+ Hub for a dual display (TV and External (g-sync?) Monitor) setup. Thanks!

I tried 3 different models. The first was Razer's Base model with a GTX 1060 and it performed perfectly fine but with extremely limited SSD which made it incompatible with my needs. The second was Razer's Blade 15 Advanced RTX 2060 Mercury that was a previous return from another customer (so I figured the previous customer damaged the device and didn't really count this against Razer). The third was the Blade 15 Advanced RTX 2080 and it was absolutely amazing running games. So well that when it had problems, I wanted an identical replacement without problems. Last try was Razer's last chance. I'll also add I have a few friends running on identical Razer Blade 15's without any issues which definitely affected my decision to keep trying to make it work. I was also limited to the options that look professional in an office environment. Your opinion is stating I am at fault. I am at fault for attempting to be a loyal customer and not just purchase a laptop, but an experience. Razer's peripherals work really well and have earned themselves a strong reputation in the gaming community for this reason. Their laptops this year seem to fall short, across the board.

I went through a total of 4 Razer Blade 15's. First one the SSD was too small, second didn't charge (but it was open box so that explained it), 3rd should have been the final return but it performed so damn well I had to see if I was the unluckiest Razer consumer ever and the 4th pushed me away for good. I'm sure I'll find something I don't like about the MSI (starting with the price) but you usually get what you pay for. I feel like with MSI I am purchasing the internal hardware. With Razer I felt like I was paying for a nice chassis and marketing overhead costs, and their launch dates were terribly inaccurate for their refreshed models. All in all it is still a gamble but one I feel more confident with than another Razer. Thermal throttling is more prominent with "desktop replacements" pushing high performance hardware than even the "thin and light" class. I've had some time on the Aero and it did perform extremely well during work related tasks, but the gaming performance you pay for doesn't translate quite the same as in a gaming targeted device. Also, the cooling MSI uses on their GS75 is pretty amazing. I've ran Metro Exodus on a lower spec'd machine than the one I've purchased while monitoring thermals and performance and experienced zero throttling with safe temperatures. As long as the laptop is elevated on a stand or cooling pad the machine will run optimally without any thermal throttling (unless you manually bypass MSI Afterburner and Dragon Center to further overclock which is not needed or recommended). As for what you've heard about MSI specs, I'm sure you haven't heard about their refreshed 8-core i9 laptop processors in regards to performance and throttling (as they are currently being made available for release at the end of this month). The reason I'm going all out, especially on the CPU, is because Intel is making some HUGE changes in the coming months. The first generations of their new CPU architecture will probably have unforeseen issues that'll be fixed through release of later generations (across a number of years). For this reason, I feel like I'm investing in the finely-tuned high performance version of what Intel has been working on for years instead of the newest tech that hasn't been tried and true as of yet. I also didn't want the 9th gen performance to disappear from the market after the 10th gen architecture changes and be "stuck". As for a comparison between our two CPU's, yours reaches 4.1Ghz with turbo boost active and scores just above a 12,000 CPU score. The i9 in the MSI GS75 reaches 4.8Ghz (17% increase) and scores just above 14,000 CPU score (17% increase). This is comparing the top-end 6-core 8th gen i7 to the top end 8-core 9th gen i9, both of which are very powerful laptop CPU's and shows the i9 transfers the additional power into additional performance.

Have you seen the redesigned chassis of the GS75's that are coming out? Much sturdier build quality all around, especially in the keyboard area. I have a few Razer Blade 15's that are regarded to having a higher build quality (although lower QC in hardware) and I experienced an identical amount of screen and keyboard flex on the updated MSI GS75. Cooling has a lot to do with positioning of the vents. Utilizing a stand will prevent any throttling from either the CPU or GPU while adding fans will promote longer hardware life due to cooler temperatures.