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There might still be people inclined to switch from a 2060 (super) to a 3080, which can increase amount of used 2060's on the used market and drop the price. There's like 2-4 months inbetween the xx80 and xx60, but the time table can shorten due pressure from amd.

Just hang in there, prices will drop and you'll get more bang for buck. I had the GTX 960 (4GB) myself until end of last year. That card indeed still was able to run games like AC Odyssey, but as you said on very low settings. I think you squeezed the right amount of life out of the card.

From a GTX 960 (I assume the 4GB version) to a RTX 2060 or higher, that's like tripple the performance? Oh you are going to enjoy that

Definitely wait. Cyberpunk isn't coming out for a while and GPU prices are on the high end right now, even on the used market. Once new cards get released the market will be flooded with the 2060's, so you can take advantage of price drops then.

I'd say so yeah. On some titles there might be a slight cpu bottleneck, but the i5-9300H isn't a bad cpu to begin with.

use @-rascal- settings first as a baseline. If that runs stable, increase OC of frequency/mem clock in small 10Mhz steps, until either things start to crash under a Heaven Benchmark or when you see artifacts/weird stuff on the screen. Should the baseline not be stable, decrease by steps of 10Mhz.

Latency is not the same as the refresh rate of your monitor, basically it represents how long it takes to get your input on the screen (excluding other bottlenecks of course). It can be helpful in competitive multiplayer gaming, but otherwise I doubt you'll ever notice the difference. What happens if you go for 1440p? In my experience that is still very wonderful on a big TV monitor, and the 2070 super should be able to run high settings 60FPS comfortably for most if not all games. Also, you can try to overclock the TV monitor to get higher refresh rate. Also, picture quality of your TV makes a huuuugeee difference. Games on my 1050Ti HPTC coupled to my Sony Bravia look way better than on my 1070 dedicated gaming PC with a Samsung 4k monitor, despite having to drop back the graphics settings quite significantly. So I'd say try things out; 1080p might still look mighty fine.

What kind of games do you plan on gaming? Overall, the choice weighting towards gpu is better for gaming, but not always. Civilization for instead is highly cpu intensive

Graphics cards are in a weird spot today, with prices being overall too high. If you can hold off buying one, I'd do it. A 1050Ti for 133 dollar sounds overpriced, I got mine for 80 euro's late 2018. So i really wouldn't pay that kind of money for a used one. You might find new GTX 1650's for that price or a little bit more expensive.

Depending on what kind of games and at what settings, your GPU might be the bottleneck, which means the CPU is not going to be a performance differentiator (atleast not between those 2). However, going for a 3600X allows for better upgradeability. There's still some confusion around B450 boards and whether you can put in AMD Zen 3 series (new claims from AMD say you can after a bios flash), but an X570 board should allow for it. The 9600K sits on a chipset we can now effectively call end of cycle. So you can't upgrade from there to a new generation.

At this point I wouldn't. Newer graphics cards will come with better suited drivers for new games. So even though a 1080 Ti will on paper out perform a lower tier new graphics card, performance ingame might be such that you are not getting your worth out of it. Also, going from a 1030 to a 1080 Ti is a very hefty upgrade. You have to consider if your CPU is up to that, as well as your PSU. Newer, lower tier cards are likely to draw less power than the 1080 Ti. Checking a second hand site for Belgium, I noticed 1080 Ti's are still going for 400 euro's. For that money it is likely Ampere will give you a better card.

Just want to get quickly back on this: the price difference between the i5 and i7 dropped massively down, from 231 to 31. So that's atleast swallowable.

We currently have a couple of generations older i5's (on desktops though, so difficult to compare) which works fine for the graphical work. We are neither looking at a priority order; we are in the process of revamping our current IT hardware and software and integrating it better into the main company. Part of that is that we can, we aren't forced to or in need of but it is nice, order new hardware. We don't really need to look at budgets or justify the costs of this order, but we can only order those T590's since those are the only ones supported by our IT department. We can order them with the extra price for the i7. But, my reasoning is that instead of spending the 231 euro's (per device!) on extra computing power that is so marginal above the i5's performance, we could reallocate it to other office stuff. I can't really find anything about heat output under load of these cpu models. An educated guess would be that the i7 will on average run hotter due a higher boost clock.

Hello, The office I am working for is looking into buying new Lenovo T590 laptops for the department and has asked my opinion on a good customised setup. Now, they offer the model with either an i5 or i7, exact CPU model is in the title. The manager responsible for the order is quite eager for the i7, but on closer inspection it looks nothing more than an expensive i5: -both have 4 cores 8 threads -Same TDP -The i7 only has marginally better single core performance according to cpu benchmark, as well as neigh-identical overall performance: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i5-8365U-vs-Intel-i7-8565U/3447vs3308 The only thing going for the i7 is the higher turbo boost clock, which I seriously doubt we'll need. These laptops will be used for the vast majority as work offices for email, documents and google chrome. One user will need to do some light graphical work (inkscape and paint.net). Choosing for an i7 will be an additional cost of EUR 231,11 per laptop. Am I overlooking something that makes the price difference more swallowable, or should I just convince the manager of the i5?

https://www.overclockers.com/amd-ryzen-5-3600x-cpu-review/ check paragraph "pushing the limits". 4.25Ghz on 1.4V; I mean it is subjective, but going from a base clock of 3.8Ghz the jump is kind of modest. I'd say put it on auto OC if you really intent on it, but again I don't think it will be noticable frankly.

To be honest, I wouldn't. I mean as long as you don't do anything rash, there's no actual danger involved in doing so. However, the 3600x is very good processor on its own. I don't think you'll see a lot of improvement from overclocking. Especially since it will handle the programs you mentioned really well due the amount of cores. Save a couple of bucks on your energy bill! Just be sure to add in high speed memory as amd chips benefit quite a bit from that.

Definitely 3600x. The Intel chip might slightly, and I mean slightly, better for gaming: However, for all your other programs the 3600x will destroy the 9600k. All round definitely go for the 3600x.

I wouldn't go for the 3000Mhz version, and here is why: the board only supports 3000+Mhz with overclocking. Given you indicated not being very knowledgeable around hardware, I assume you want to stay away from overclocking. You CAN put in the 3000Mhz sticks and it will work, but it will run probably at 2400Mhz speeds. So I'd say save yourself a few bucks and go for sticks will lower speed. Unless you want to turn on XMP in the bios/uefi. I think that will bump up to maximum RAM speed, but someone else who knows more about that should correct me if I am wrong. Technically enabling XMP is walk in the park. Reviewing your first post, it might actually be possible your current set of RAM is actually running at 2400Mhz speeds.

Thanks for the help, Lauren. I'm just going to assume this is a problem with Microsoft. The exact same issue on 2 different devices, it is going to be the app that is causing the problem. Now, it's not a critical problem. My neighbour can read everything just fine; just that the title of the mail folder is wrong. It's nothing more than a very small inconvenience, which I am sure microsoft will fix.

I tried this. It did not work unfortunaly. EDIT: we backchecked on a different device. Same issue. It's a problem with microsoft.

Gmail was running on the background, but it did not have this issue. I force quite it. So it really shouldn't be interfering. It's a really weird problem. If you restart the app, it works fine, but if you switch to a different app, leaving outlook running on the background, and switch back to outlook, the issue will pop up again.

When reinstalling the device got automatically logged out of the outlook account, and we had to sign back in. Does that count? There are no other accounts linked to that app. I don't think there are other accounts from different apps involved.

Hello, My neighbour came along today with a very bizarre issue: her outlook app on her huawei smartphone is showing 'inbox' on top of the screen regardless if she looking at her sent folder, trash folder, archive folder,... . For the record, the corresponding emails to the selected map are showing. It's just the title on top of the screen that is showing incorrect, which is a nuisance. The folder names are showing up correctly in the side menu. We tried the following already: -restarting the app -deleting the app and reinstalling the app -rebooting the device. When applying any of these solutions, the folder titles will show correctly for a little while before this issue returns. Is there a fix to this? Did anybody else encountered this?

Sure. Just send me a PM or make a reply here. Can't hurt to try.

I didn't pay particular interest to this. However, since I made the usb recovery stick at that moment, I assume it encompassed the latest build. Another assumption would that my mate kept his OS updated (not a far stretch really as microsoft does not allow you to turn them off by normal means). So I think they matched at the time. I honestly don't think this is going to matter if the version on the recovery drive is newer, as that will likely end up with the OS being repaired and updated. Absoiutely not booting is a bit vaguely described ?. I had a lot of cases across that spectrum, and that goes from a failing drive, to messed up boot records to a botched windows update: -A failing hard drive is rather simple: I don't even begin on an attempt to repair or salvage data, because I lack both knowledge and instruments for that. Me trying to do anything about that will likely result in permanent loss of data. So I usually give them the option of a 1000 euro repair job by an external firm who have airsealed rooms and spare parts to crack up a hard drive and replace broken components. Of course, I can remove the hard drive myself, build in a new one, set up the OS and their programs. That's basically Lego for adults. -Missing master boot records we already covered, though note I have only seen this once (and that is what this topic is about). -A botched windows upgrade that damages the OS beyond ability to boot, is pretty much solvable with the a recovery usb drive. It will even keep programs, registry files, and all your data. Though from experience I do know some settings do get lost. Of upmost importance however, is that your system can still detect the boot drive. The outcome will wildly vary. I think if it fails, windows will try to roll back to the version before updating. But, if critical OS files are damaged it will not boot to windows. At that point you will need to use the recovery drive. And this is again a case where you can't judge such a thing before it happens: it really depends where in the middle it crashes, which file it was replacing at that time. There's no pinpointing to that. There's no library in the world that will 100% guaranteed give the answer you seek immediately. Usually small mundane questions, you will be able to find the answer immediately by googling it. These kind of questions, it gets tricky, and will end up with just sifting through google search results until you find the answer that matches your question. Do you really believe that? Ok, you have not found the solution (yet), but in the whole process you have learned how to tackle similar problems, you have learned how to better diagnose the problem. Your problem-searching and solving skills have improved. You have learned potential solutions. Even though all that you have learned is not applicable in this particular case, it was not useless. It can always be applicable for a future case. Can you send me a picture of the error codes and other relevant things? taken with a smartphone or something like that. I'll not guarantee I will be able to solve it, but it can't hurt to try.