DJfern94

Not long after the GTX 1080Ti came out, I got my first well paid job and spent my first paycheque on an EVGA 1080ti SC along with an Acer Predator 24xb241yu monitor. Both have been going very strong for the last 5ish years and while it still plays most games at 1440p around 60fps, I am starting to notice a few frame rate drops in more demanding games. I used to be really into hardware back then but honestly I have just stopped paying attention to the finer details of what has been available for the last few years. I am looking at upgrading the 1080ti but have no clue what would even be a worthwhile upgrade. There are only so many framerate comparison videos I can watch on YouTube, but it would be interesting to know what people would see as a worthwhile upgrade. In an ideal world I would keep GSync and stay below £600ish (maybe include the sale of my own gpu on top of that budget.) What would people's recommendations be? Thanks!

Thanks, yeah I've taken the board out and tried booting just on the board itself, still no luck. Thamks though

Thanks, yeah done all that so it must be the mobo. Yeah tried that! Thanks though

Hi all, I've been using my PC as my daily driver solid for the last 6 years or so. Today I have come back from work to try and turn it on. It seems to be stuck in a power cycle, I press the on button and then every second or so it turns itself on, fan spins, turns itself off. No error code as the mobo display shows usual booting code 00. I've not got a lot of equipment to test at home so I've been trying to go step by step. Bridged the 4/5 pins on the psu to test that, when bridged the power supply starts up fine. Taken the ram out one by one and placed them back in, no luck. Reseated cpu, no luck. Unplugged everything and tried again, no luck. Taken gpu out and tried again, no luck. Is it a case that the motherboard or cpu has died? Or am I missing something? Thanks

Hey, Pulling my hair out here, I installed a 500gb 970 evo onto my Asus X99-s, using a pci adapter card as my heat sink blocks the vertical m.2 slot, and cannot for the life of me install Windows. I updated my bios and tinkered around with some of the bios settings as shown in various YouTube videos, and eventually I got it to show up in windows 10 installer, and went through the installation process. When it reset though, the drive was still not bootable and now wouldn't show on the bios or installer. I plugged in my old ssd and booted into windows, I can see the drive as another drive in windows and Samsung magician, and I can see some of the files left over from the install. However I still have no way of seeing it in the bios or booting it. What can I do? Thanks.

Thanks!

Sweet thanks. So a Samsung 970 EVO would be all good?

Hi guys, I am a little bit confused about whether my motherboard actually supports NVME M.2 drives, or whether it is the SATA M.2 drives The manual states that the motherboard supports: This is my first foray into M.2 drives, so a little confused. Thanks

I have just upgraded today to a 1440p monitor, and while I wouldn't say the resolution itself was a HUGE bump up, I got a monitor with GSync and 144Hz and I would say the smoother framerate was much better than a standard 1080p 60Hz monitor.

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Haha that is true, and yes.... that is also true! It would probably be a high refresh 1440p panel or 4k 60hz

I have been running my dual GTX 780's for a few years now (see signature for full system specs) and I am now wanting to have a more power efficient PC, which expels less heat, is near silent and will last for a good few years! I am currently playing at 1080p 60Hz, however, I may upgrade in the next year or so. I mean I would be willing to spend up to a basic GTX 1080Ti price (£700ish) but I would like to know what would be the best overall card for my use case. Thanks

I am pretty much the same, love my Sennheisers <3 Could always play around with a 5.1 to binaural decoder! now that stuff is weird and impressive

Will always be nice to have, just in case you get a surround system in the future?

Also, it looks like the DVDs do contain 5.1 support, I would dare say that would be a way bigger perceived difference than any slight difference between the audio quality of CD vs DVD

I don't know how aware you are of nyquist theorem, but the biggest difference can usually be perceived when listening to audio under 44.1kHz, as the sampling theory has to be at least twice the value of the highest pitch of the audio track. So, in theory, our hearing only goes up to 20kHz, so a sampling frequency of 44.1kHz SHOULD contain all the audio we need to hear. Anything below 44.1kHz usually sounds muffled. There was a PhD student at the university doing a lot of research into all the ultra high-frequency stuff, recording violins with high-frequency mics and playing it back at over 192kHz... After hours and hours of listening to all that audio, I can honestly say, 48kHz is where I cap out and everything else is just a bigger number for bigger number's sake.

You can guarantee they will have at least been recording at 48kHz 24bits.

In terms of the actual audio quality, my research during my masters degree found that many people could not tell the difference between the 44.1kHz and 48kHz standards used by CD's and DVD's respectively, however you will find that DVDs will normally allow for 5.1 surround sound (this will be explicit on the back of the box). But yeah, in theory, DVD's "SHOULD" have a higher perceived audio quality.

I don't have a real budget in mind, probably less than £1400 in total. Haha two 1080ti's would be lovely!

Thanks for the heads up! I only really picked that card as it was the cheapest triple fan one I could find it the UK, but I will have a look at some others

Hey guys, Every two years I upgrade my PC, and it has come to that time! My aim this time to to get near silence while still having a powerful gaming/content creation machine. I still have all the parts listed in my signature and will obviously be taking over all the storage devices (and adding a few more). Also I still have two LTT Noctua fans that will get transfered. What do we all think of this parts list? Any changes needed? https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/4bnsGf

HI guys, Being the "Techy" friend, I offered to have a go at replacing a laptop screen if my friend purchased the part off ebay. Essentially I have managed to complete it, and the screen works perfectly, bar one thing. There are some weird numbers in the bottom corner that actually seem to be a part of the LCD, almost as if they're stuck pixels, at first I thought it was a screen protector I forgot to take off, however I've just checked and there is no protector over the screen, any ideas?

Good point, If I wait a little longer and am not majorly impressed with benches of the "1080Ti" I suppose the current line up "should" at-least be price dropped.

Thanks, I have been looking into all the recent releases, I was toying between the 1070/1080 and 980Ti

Hey everyone, So basically I am looking for a bit of advice downsizing my rig and moving from 2x GTX 780 SLI. I want to get away from the heat caused by the two cards running together and just get a stronger single card. I game at 1080p but always want to run max graphics and DSR whenever I can at framerates above 60FPS. I upgrade my GPU's probably once every 2/3 years, so what card do you think I would be best off buying now? (UK) Will listen to any suggestions price wise! Thanks, DJFern94