Randy_Baton

Its a heat issue with the model rather than an issue with raw power. I've been reading up and it seem like under volting the CPU is the thing most people settle on but the BIOS locks users from doing this so it looks a right PITA. I did a complete fresh install a while ago and it didn't have any noticeable impact. on fan noise and slow down.

Budget (including currency): £1500 Country: UK Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: streaming / you tube at 4k I currently have a DELL XPS 15 9560 (2017), its hooked up to my LGCX and handles all my media streaming and downloading (Usenet + plex) its fine for that but its been getting a bit noisy when playing things at 4k and struggles to play youtube HD at 60hz in chrome. Plays fine in edge though.... Plex is chromium based so its also struggling, I can use the plex app on my TV but there seems to be some sort of codec issue where i can't skip forward/backward or resume from where I left on a lot of the TV shows i download, it only happens on UK shows so i presume its a certain pirate group. This isn't an issue on the pc build but plex on my laptop its just too noisy from the laptop fans. I changed the thermal paste and cleaned out the dust a year or so ago but it didn't make to much of difference and anyway its 5 years old so probably time for a change. Things that don't matter other than for resale value: Looks, for 99% of the time its going to be docked to the side of my TV behind a plant Like wise, screen / keyboard / trackpad are going to be used very infrequently, just when traveling or maybe in the bath (laptops will be on a chair to the side of he bath and on battery) I'd still like something slimish, for travelling but its doesn't need to be ultra light. I guess i just need something capable of easily playing 4k UHD and isn't a complete potato outside of that and it will be on most of the time so something that isn't power hungry at idol would be good. My ast 2 laptops have been XPS's but i feel the latest version is kind of overkill for what i need. Having written that... Maybe my best option is too keep my current XPS for travelling and build a dedicated media pc to sit behind my tv.

I have a Synology DS418J 4 Bay (https://global.download.synology.com/download/Document/Hardware/DataSheet/DiskStation/18-year/DS418j/enu/Synology_DS418j_Data_Sheet_enu.pdf) Its currently set up with 2 x 9tb drives in raid 1 housing my media and 2 x 4tb drives backing up my C drive. Ideally I just replace all the drives with 12tb but can't afford that at the moment. What i was thinking is replacing the 2 x 4TB drives with 2 x 12tb drives and splitting my media - Films on one Raid and TV on the other and fitting my C drive backup onto which ever has the most amount of space left over. If i was to stick all drives into raid 10 rather then 2 x raid 1, I believe I'd be getting 2 x the smallest drive, so 18tb rather than 21tb i'd get in 2 x raid 1. Is the lost space accessible in any way I.e. not in raid or is it just lost? If in the future I want to buy 2x more 12TB to replace the 9tb, how would i do the upgrade? I have enough spare drives lying around to copy the 9 TB onto a couple of drives if I have to, but would I have to also do that with the 12tb drives or can I go from 2 drive Raid 1 to 4 drive raid 10 without losing data? If I set up raid 10 with 2x 9th and 2 x12 tb could i just swap out the 2 x 9 tb with 2 x 12tb and increase the capacity or would I have to rebuild the whole raid and move my data elsewhere temporarily

My GPU is the main noise culprit for my system. Seeing the latest LTT video made me think what if i just put my GPU in an external enclosure and put in my loft (boarded up and pretty empty, 10ft lead would probably do the trick). Do GPU enclosures have any draw backs? I've got an asus tuf gaming x570-plus wifi which I don't has thunderbolt, so that might be a problem.

Hi, I've a horizontal tear line that appears in the same place all the way across my screen. I notice it in gaming but also watching videos in chrome look at the tree in this video https://drive.google.com/file/d/14PoUoH6MFKO2bKouVM2z1zhqvBeKUOPN/view?usp=sharing (having just viewed that video back i think my phone isn't helping... there is only one tear line IRL) I have a lg CX set to 4k 60 hz and a RTX370 Ti I have vsync enabled in nvidea control panel it doesn't appear to lock my refresh rate in game. I have to enable it in game to restrict my FPS, tested this out on 4 different games. But even when my fps sticks at 60hz the line is still present. New to gsync so don't know if this is expected behaviour or not. Its a fairly new build, the only issue i had was the Pc not getting past boot on a cold start, an immediate restart and it would boot no problem. This seems to have resolved itself overtime though. Just playing around and it only seems to be an issue at 4k 60hz, 1080p at 120hz is fine.

Sounds a lot like one of these https://jalopnik.com/fuel-saver-devices-will-not-save-you-fuel-5802645

Hi, Upgraded my GPU and also got a new PSU, it was working fine before the upgrade. Switch on my PC, it get to the BIOS screen (press f12 etc) gets passed that but then my monitor splash screen shows up as if its no longer receiving any output. All power lights still on on my PC etc. I have to hold down the power button to hard switch off my PC and then when I power it back up its boots fine. Happens every time with out fail and no issues whilst its on. Not sure of the time frame between powering down and having a failed boot but its happened after being off (but still turned on at the plug socket) for a few hours. To be honest I don't know if it is a failed boot or a problem with the output. ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus Ryzen 5600X RTX 3070 Ti ROG Strix OC 8GB 750W Corsair RM Series RM750 I'm booting to m.2 SSD on the MOBO

I brought some v1 cables on the back of the original LTT video. The main plus for me was on cable being able to charge different ports. I've spent just under £100 pounds on 6 cables and 6 different tips and changed my whole charging infrastructure over to them. Both my lightning connector tips have broken one just disintegrated in my phone (also happened to micro USB one) and I had to pull it out with tweezers. The other only connects when its in one way and then it looks to be charging but my battery % decreases. I contacted Volta as they sing and dance about their lifetime warranty no fault replacement, only to be told that the lifetime warranty stops as soon as they bring out a new version and stop selling the old version. So if you have v1 cables and tips you don't have a warranty. Volta 2.0 was on sale less than a year after the Indiegogo campaign ended. I don't know when they stopped selling V1s but I'd presume it was around the same time. They didn't even offer me a discount on upgrading to 2.0 (not that i would of anyway)

Just a follow up to this - I'm all up and running. Thanks guys. I took 13 days but 3 of them were my fault.... AMD supplied me with a brand new boxed and sealed ryzen 3 3100 These were the timelines Thursday 14th - Started the initial request Saturday 16th - AMD raised the service request and requested further details and photos. You can't attach them when raising the initial request. You need to wait form AMD to email you. You need to supply: Photo of your CPU showing the serial number Photo of your MOBO showing model Proof of purchase ( i just did print to PDF on my email receipt) Details of the conversation you've had with your mobo supplier explaining why they can't help. Thursday 21st - AMD told me I'd missed off the photo of my mobo.... Sunday 24th - Boot kit authorised Wednesday 27th - Boot Kit delivered from Amsterdam to UK during CV19 and the first few weesk of brexit. 3 day delivery not bad. Had all the classic start up problems, Forgot to put the power leads in my GPU Decided as i was only updating my BIOS I probably didn't need a heat sink on the loanner CPU. I can't believe how quickly they get toasty under no load and also how quickly a heat sink with no paste or fans cools one down! Only issue I have now is ther was supposed to be a pre-paid return slip in the box and there isn't.

Cheers Link for anyone else in my situation: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-105

Well pooh sticks... How do i go about updating bios on a board that won't post? Do i have to buy an older chip flash i then sell the older chip (or RTM)

I can't past the first stage of boot, the board is stating there is DRAM fault. Solid orange light. New - Board - Asus TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) https://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/TUF-GAMING-X570-PLUS-WI-FI/ New - CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 5600X New - RAM - G.Skill Tident Z Neo 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4-3600MHz CL18-22-22-42 1.35V https://www.ebuyer.com/1023099-g-skill-tident-z-neo-32gb-2x16gb-ddr4-3600mhz-cl18-22-22-42-1-35v-f4-3600c18d-32gtzn Old - GPU - MSI Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X 11GB https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/geforce-gtx-1080-ti-gaming-x-11g.html Old - PSU - EVGA 600 B https://www.evga.com/products/specs/psu.aspx?pn=e7a4ca30-cc2f-4769-b8ac-4293f30e7820 I've tried a single stick of Ram in each slot. My PSU doesn't come with the 4-pin ATX power connector, it should still boot without it though shouldn't it? The PSU was the part I was most worried about as i plan to get a RTX3080 at some point. I have 3 SSD and 2 HDD in the case, but had unplugged them before booting. I also have a m.2 attached to the board. Everything lights up - RGB on board and ram, GTC fans spin, all case fans spins (there are 3 fans, 2 on the case and one on the CPU cooler.) HDMI is plugged into the onboard No beeps from the mobo. Thanks for any help

Yeah, but its more future proofing than anything else. I'd expect the TV to last a couple of generations of graphics cards. The TV that broke is 10 years old. I probably upgrade the GPU every 3 years

TBF going form my current set up to OLED 1080p at 120hz or 4k UHD 60hz, will probably be great but I just want to be clear that the TV is future proof enough. It does sound like the limitation is on the GPU not the TV.

With all the new fun gaming things coming out I realised the are all pointless to me as my TV (which everything console / PC is connected to) isn't up to scratch (1080p 60htz). I thought its about time I upgraded and having seen the overview of LTT of LGs cx range I thought I'd look into that. I see there are few posts around it not support g-sync when the settings are maxed 4k, UHD, 120hz etc. can anyone confirm this is the case? There are plenty of people saying its not possible and then a few people saying its caused by the bandwidth limitations of people not using hdmi 2.1 video cards. I thought you people could give me a straight answer? My plan is TV first (as my current TV is broken) then try and pick up PC parts on black Friday (rtx 3080 , + new MB and CPU)