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About LordHiler
- Birthday Feb 01, 1987
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Gender
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Location
Virgina, USA
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Occupation
Social Studies Teacher
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CPU
Ryzen 7 5800x
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Motherboard
Aorus B550 Elite AX V2
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RAM
4x8GB 3200 C16 Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB
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GPU
ASUS RTX 3080 ROG STRIX OC Edition
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Case
Corsair 4000D Airflow, 6x LL 120mm fans
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Storage
500GB Samsung 970 Evo+, 1TB Samsung 980 Pro
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PSU
Corsair RM-750
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Display(s)
Acer Predator X34 (2021 Version) 3440x1440 overclocked to 180hz with G-Sync on
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Cooling
Noctua NH-D15s chromax.black
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Keyboard
Ergodox-EZ with custom modded switches (Kaihl Copper, Gold, Pro Green, and Zilents on various switches)
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Glorious Model 0 Wireless with ceramic skates
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Drop x Airist Audio R-2R Dac, Balanced Loxji Hybrid Tube Amp with NOS Sylvania Gold Series tubes from 1950s, Sennheiser HD 650 with custom balanced cable, Blue Yeti X mic with stand/shock mount/pop filter
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Windows 10 Pro
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Laptop
Dell XPS 13
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Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra
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This is a hyper specific scenario, but I've found that running Control in Windows 11 it seems to crash occasionally, at random, with Auto HDR enabled and not with it disabled. Given that I haven't found a specific trigger for the behavior it's possible that's a coincidence and has nothing to do with it. Has anyone else noticed anything similar? And yes, I realize the venn diagram of people running Windows 11 Insider Preview on their gaming PC with Auto HDR and Control on this forum is probably just me, but I wanted to get some outside confirmation before reporting it as an issue to Microsoft. Otherwise, it's worth noting that I've encountered essentially no change in gaming performance between Windows 10 and Windows 11 from a subjective standpoint. If there's a frame or two difference here or there I haven't felt the difference. I did try to get RDR2 going for the first time AFTER the Windows 11 upgrade and that was a total fail, but all the issues I encountered seemed to be known problems and it seems like that's just a horrible implemented install/port/clugey disappointment. Otherwise all my games have run exactly as well on Windows 11 as 10. Except for the possible exception of this auto-hdr Control crashing behavior. Thanks!
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Custom Water Cooling Advice?
LordHiler replied to LordHiler's topic in Custom Loop and Exotic Cooling
Thank you! That's good to know, and reassuring. -
Custom Water Cooling Advice?
LordHiler replied to LordHiler's topic in Custom Loop and Exotic Cooling
And given the market and climate I feel line I should clarify that I got all of this hardware for retail from either Best Buy or B&H. It took months of obsessing day after day to do that - basically my entire hobby has been buying hardware lol. -
Custom Water Cooling Advice?
LordHiler replied to LordHiler's topic in Custom Loop and Exotic Cooling
Totally should have clarified: Noctua NHD15s Chromax.black on the CPU ASUS ROG Strix 3080 GPU I was talking about putting a water block on the GPU and throwing away the ROG Strix cooler that is on the GPU. -
Custom Water Cooling Advice?
LordHiler replied to LordHiler's topic in Custom Loop and Exotic Cooling
I feel like I should clarify that the top can only support a 240 or a 280 rad and I'm worried about clearance, and even more worried about RGB in that scenario. Best cooking seems like intake fresh air through the front rad and exhaust from top and back. -
I'm in the VERY early stages of considering a custom loop. When I say very early, I mean it's intriguing but I've never had so much as an AIO, so total extreme newbie. I've seen stuff from Jayz2Cents, Linus, etc. but that's as far as it goes. My current setup: -Corsair 4000D Airflow Black case -6x Corsair LL120 fans - 3x front intake 2x top exhaust 1x rear exhaust -Gigabyte Aorus Elite B550 AX V2 mobo -AMD Ryzen 7 5800x -Noctua NHD15s Chromax Black cooler -4x8GB Corsair Vengeance Pro RGB 3200mhz CL16 RAM -ASUS Rog Strix RTX 3080 OC edition GPU -1x 500GB Samsung 970 Evo+ nVME for Boot -1x 1TV Samsung 980 Pro nVME for games -Corsair RM850x PSU To be clear I am not at all sure I'm going to do this. But if I did I would water cool the CPU and GPU and do a custom loop. I would be throwing away the ROG Strix cooler which is a thought that almost makes me ill... so there's a high burden here. Considerations - I'm leaning towards a 360mm front rad if I did do this. Is that enough for CPU and GPU on the same loop? If so, can the LL120 fans stay in the front because I want the RGB. That's actually import to me. Lights are pretty. Is there a MEANINGFUL performance improvement to be had? I'm already running both the CPU and GPU on a slight overclock and getting great performance. Am I crazy? Thoughts? And if so any resources you recommend for planning for a total newbie?
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At least it's not just me! I have stickers for my Aorus motherboard, my Noctua cooler, and my Corsair case/memory/PSU (only one Corsair sticker and I'm not sure which component it came with). Nothing for the CPU or GPU.
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I'm not totally sure which forum this should to in, but I have a monumentally unimportant question. Did the Ryzen 5000 series come with a case sticker/badge? I bought a Ryzen 7 5800x from B&H and didn't see one in the packaging, which has since been thrown out. I'm worried I just missed it. Various other components including my Noctua cooler DID come with such a badge. The other thing that didn't come with one as near as I can tell is my ASUS Rog Strix 3080... but it did come with a ruler on a small key chain? For some reason? Anyway I'd love to have a full set of nice little metallic badges for my components. It's obviously the farthest thing from a crisis but I'm just curious if anyone else has seen these.
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I've had exactly the same experience with it looking washed out/dimmer, which is the opposite of what you would want or expect (I would think) with a wider color gamut. Very disappointing.
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I also don't see any tearing, but I see some really gnarly ghosting/smearing which is obviously not what you want. If you ARE getting genuine tearing, I did notice you're running a Freesync monitor with a 3070 and there can be compatibility issues running in G-sync mode. The first and most obvious thing is to make sure that G-sync is turned on in the Nvidia control panel. If you're still having issues it's possible that it just isn't going to play nice. My old monitor was a freesync monitor that would allow me to turn on G-sync in the control panel but never actually worked correctly with G-sync. If it's not listed as G-sync compatible than there are no guarantees. Someone more advanced than me might be able to give you insight into that ghosting/smearing issue. What display tech is it? IPS? VA? Are you running in some sort of aggressive overdrive mode?
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Hello All, I recently upgraded to the 2021 refresh of the Acer Predator X34 and so far it's fantastic. I'm having more trouble than expected selling my old monitor to offset the cost which is causing some anxiety, but disregarding that... Great color, ultrawide 1440p which is my sweet spot (I prefer the wider aspect ratio to 4k 16x9), and overclocked to 180hz with G Sync... all great. It also has display HDR 400. Now I know this isn't "real" HDR - I also have a true 10bit 4k TV with FALD and Dolby Vision and the difference is obvious. However, if I turn on windows HDR and HDR in the monitor and actually watch HDR video content it's pretty good. While yes, due to the lack of local dimming and truly HDR level brightness there is still black crush and highlight clipping, but the higher color gamut is noticeable at least to me. Its an improvement over the same content in SDR when doing a direct A/B comparison. Games, not so much. I went through a variety of games in HDR mode and they ranged from "meh" on the high end (Forza Horizon 4) to "unplayable" on the low end (Jedi Fallen Order). Is it just me? Is it just my monitor? What do you guys think? And if there is a consensus that HDR in games = terrible, why is that true for games and not true for HDR video content? Thank you in advance! P.S. when using HDR on a monitor all I REALLY want is to take full advantage of the wider color gamut rather than sticking with 8-bit sRGB color space. Is there a way to do that in windows without making it do weird and sometimes terrible things in games? I just want the best color I can get out of this monitor (not that it's bad out of the box).
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Thanks guys! I used GeForce Experience to make sure drivers are up to date and it sounds like that's all I need to do.
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Hello! I'm here with another total newbie question. Just installed my brand new ASUS Rog Strix 3080 and I'm tremendously excited. Seems to work perfectly so this isn't troubleshooting. I just know with a lot of hardware (motherboards for instance) the BIOS is out of date when you buy it new. Is this true with Graphics Cards? If so is there a simple and approved way to make sure it's up to date? Thanks!
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This is very helpful. I'm climbing back down off the ledge. I can always upgrade to something like the RM850x down the road if there's a sale or I have a little room in the budget, but it sounds like that doesn't need to be an immediate priority. Thank you!
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Ok after doing more research I'm starting to get nervous. Apparently the original peak power consumption was 375W but the newer vbios is capped at 450w. I have a 105W TDP on the CPU but some people say on a full load synthetic benchmark it'll draw more like 120W. PC part picker seems to think the rest of my system (fans, cpu cooler, mobo, SSDs, RAM) will draw about 150W total (+/-). I assume that's full out, fans all at 100% RPM, fully accessing both SSDs at the same time, and probably not realistic, right? Still. If we are talking about 450W GPU plus 120W CPU plus 150W elsewhere that's 720W on a 750W PSU. I imagine just redlining every aspect of the system simultaneously is unlikely, and it is technically under, but how nervous should I be? The PSU is practically brand new... and a week out of its return window . If I had to sell it used and upgrade to the more expensive 850 I would take a hefty loss. On the other hand, I don't want to reck my system with inadequate power. How do my numbers look?