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Hey there! Thanks for the reply! All of my games are running at 2560X1440 and the actual textures and gameplay is super crisp and correct. just the text that is sometimes blurry. Cheers! Theo.

Hey everyone, Yesterday I purchased a fairly nice Dell monitor (U2719D) for my gaming and music production studio. Games run smooth as butter and the graphics are really sharp but the in-game overlays involving text on almost every game I've tried is somewhat blurry to the eye. The text looks way chrisper on my old 1080p monitor. haven't been able to find any solutions on the web and I've tried loads of things. Makes me want to send it back to the shop and get something else . If anyone could help that'd be great. Thanks guys! Theo.

Hey everyone! Everytime i hit the caps lock, scroll lock or num lock i get a visual prompt in the middle of my screen. I've scoured the internet and it seems that absolutely no one has an answer on how to turn it off. Just got my Valorant beta key and the quick-view map button is set to caps-lock which means everytime i press it i get the visual prompt which is very annoying. any help would be greatly appreciated! Cheers, Theo.

Hi there! They are safe to disconnect once the PC has been shut down and the power with has been turned off on the power supply. try changing the SATA port that the drive (that's not being recognised) is plugged into. Windows should automatically find the drive and remember what its name is so it shouldn't matter what SATA port its plugged into. If This doesn't work, try a different SATA data cable (the small one) and if you've still got no luck try swapping out the SATA power cable (the big one that goes to the power supply) Cheers! Theo.

Hey there! From what I've heard, the 3900x is a fairly hot (in temperature) chip, however, the cooler manufacturers don't offer TDP specifications of their coolers. From the reviews I've read, The MSI one is good for the money. The cooler master cooler, seems to have decent cooling capability but don't expect any of these to cool the chip to surprising levels, this cooler would be my choice for its capability (+ aesthetics even though it may not matter to you). If price is a concern, at over half the cost of the cooler master then I would head for the MSI cooler. From my research, this chip WILL get hot under load so at the end of the day its your choice between more expensive + slightly better performance or less expensive + slightly worse performance. Cheers! Theo.

Hey everyone! For about 7 years I've wanted to properly water-cool my PC, though I have never bitten the bullet and gone for it over fears of breaking my hardware. I am due a CPU and RAM upgrade soon and have decided that I finally want to go for it properly. I think I know all there is about the building process of a custom water loop but all tips and tricks are welcome. I am aiming for a Budget/Performance type loop (I enjoy pushing my hardware to the limits) and wish to cool both GPU and CPU. I also want to do hardline tubing. Here are my specs: CPU (upgrading to) - Ryzen 3700x GPU - EVGA 2070s FTW3 RAM (upgrading to) - 16GB 3600MHz Corsair RGB memory Case - Corsair 465X Shouldn't really need much more info. All tips and tricks welcome! I have attached a few photos from my current setup at Uni too so you get the gist etc.

I feel your pain! I found a pretty good deal on a 2070s FTW3 on eBay which I'm pretty pleased about, few tiny tweaks and its faster than any of the standard 2080 cards out there. Feel like I'm slightly bottlenecked generally with my CPU, a nice 5-10 fps boost on average would make me happy. The main reason for this topic was to sort out my performance in BFV It just happened that i didn't realise how poor AC Odyssey optimization was. Hopefully a new CPU will improve my overall stability in BFV and upcoming games that are using DX12. Cheers.

It's such a shame The game looks stunning I just wish it ran faster. Shame on Ubisoft! You're probably right, still think a new CPU would be nice though, I work in music production and these massive sessions sure love snappy CPUs. Cheers!

Just bought AC Odyssey on sale on steam and I'm getting sub-par performance there aswell. It's definitely not the card. would you recommend that I buy a new CPU or try and RMA my current one. Cheers

Haha its been a while but my overall system responsiveness has improved and things feel generally faster. BFV runs without stutters on DX11 and feels nice and smooth, still slightly slower performance than I would expect but at least the performance is constant rather than going really high and then dipping down. CPU is performing a bit slow, I think I'm due an upgrade soon anyway because some of my large Pro Tools sessions love that extra core count and speed. Maybe a 3900x is on the table ?, Thanks very much for your help though it it much appreciated Cheers, Theo.

I'm still not seeing the results i would like, I am going to fully reset my PC i think. Hopefully if it acts as a new machine then I will have no issues thanks for all the troubleshooting help though

Just put DX11 on and no stutters as opposed to last time with DX11, I'm seeing ultra settings framerates between 80 and 120?

Yep so I'ts on auto now, just achieved a 2682 which is close to the average of 2736 that this particular CPU holds

Haha its almost like you're emplyed by them

I will run the test and some games when I change it in the bios

Schoolboy error by me when removing my overclock a couple of days ago i set the clock speed to 34.00 which i guess means that the cpu is being forced to stay at 34?

These are my temps on Cinebench R20, nothing seems abnormal.

My 2600 scored 11907 in passmark while the average 2600 score is 13503

Yep my gpu runs at max in furmark and heaven and creates some massive scores for a 2070s, way faster than a standard 2080 in furmark i believe. My cpu runs at stock no and as you can see from the cinebench test it underperforms a bit.

Nothing else is running. Feel like slamming my head on the desk. I've just loaded up far cry 4 and i get 70FPS on ultra and 80FPS on Low

Perhaps my stupid 4.3 GHz overclock on my 2600 killed my chip

Yes the RAM is in dual channel mode 2 & 4 on the MOBO and the game is installed on my secondary SSD

Indeed, just uploading a little video to youtube showing my career performance rather than multiplayer. take a look at the GPU and CPU percentage at the top left As you can see there are still a few stutters visible but FPS is more what i'd expect.

Are you wanting to use PCIE 4.0? if not there are a few great B450 boards that i can show you?