Upgrade Plan

[EarthboundHero]

I just wanted to share my upgrade plan with you guys, and get your thoughts. 

December=~$400, Desk+chair=$200, 2TB HDD=~80. $120 left over, maybe some games, not sure yet. 

January=~$205, Corsair K70 Brown Switch keyboard not RGB=$140. $65 left over, save probably.

February=~$205, Swiftech H240-X=$150, $55 left over, saving.

March on I'm going to save for an Intel build, something similar to this one. The H240-X, 2TB, my monitors from my Current PC, my current case, mouse and the K70 will be used in that build. I'm also gonna buy a new case for my current PC. Maybe a Define R5. What do you guys think? If you need me to explain something just ask. Thanks.

[ImBleu]

Looks decent enough I guess but in your planned build pcpartpicker you include Hard drives, Monitors and a Keyboard that you probably wouldn't buy as you'd have bought the K70 etc.

[EarthboundHero]

Looks decent enough I guess but in your planned build pcpartpicker you include Hard drives, Monitors and a Keyboard that you probably wouldn't buy as you'd have bought the K70 etc.

I need to fix that. I haven't edited it in a while.

[EarthboundHero]

Looks decent enough I guess but in your planned build pcpartpicker you include Hard drives, Monitors and a Keyboard that you probably wouldn't buy as you'd have bought the K70 etc.

Fixed.

[Geekazoid]

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That's a decent monitor you got there. IPS FTW! B)

[EarthboundHero]

That's a decent monitor you got there. IPS FTW! B)

Going from 720 to 1080. Everything looks so small now.

[Geekazoid]

Going from 720 to 1080. Everything looks so small now.

Yeah, I bet it does. What monitor did you have before the ASUS one?

[EarthboundHero]

Yeah, I bet it does. What monitor did you have before the ASUS one?

An Orion SLED1945. It was a cheap TV from Walmart.

[Geekazoid]

An Orion SLED1945. It was a cheap TV from Walmart.

Hmm...not bad, but you're obviously loving the ASUS one now since it's an actual PC monitor .

Do you calibrate your displays or not really?

[EarthboundHero]

Hmm...not bad, but you're obviously loving the ASUS one now since it's an actual PC monitor .

Do you calibrate your displays or not really?

Just kinda to what looks best to me. The ASUS one hasn't lived up to my expectations in the color area. Viewing angles are great though. Colors look pale.

[OhhTee]

That's a decent monitor you got there. IPS FTW! B)

*cough cough* dell u2515h *cough cough* I hope they come out early Q1 and not like march.

[Geekazoid]

Just kinda to what looks best to me. The ASUS one hasn't lived up to my expectations in the color area. Viewing angles are great though. Colors look pale.

Hmm...what connection do you use, HDMI, DVI or VGA?

[EarthboundHero]

Hmm...what connection do you use, HDMI, DVI or VGA?

HDMI, it has 2 HDMI's one VGA. My second monitor (The Orion) uses DVI-HDMI.

[Geekazoid]

HDMI, it has 2 HDMI's one VGA. My second monitor (The Orion) uses DVI-HDMI.

And you've got an AMD GPU, correct?

[EarthboundHero]

And you've got an AMD GPU, correct?

An R9 280.

[Geekazoid]

An R9 280.

Alright, then I might just have a fix for you, courtesy of PC Monitor's Adam Simmons.

[EarthboundHero]

Alright, then I might just have a fix for you, courtesy of PC Monitor's Adam Simmons.

And what's that?

[Geekazoid]

And what's that?

I've just gotta get, bear with me.

[EarthboundHero]

I've just gotta get, bear with me.

Haha alright, I'll try and be patient. 

[Geekazoid]

Haha alright, I'll try and be patient.

This only applies to AMD GPUs such as the Radeon 7950 used on our test system. When connected via the monitor’s only digital input (HDMI) we navigated to ‘Catalyst Control Centre –> My Digital Flat-Panels –> Pixel Format’ and changed this from the default ‘YCbCr 4:4:4 Pixel Format’ to ‘RGB 4:4:4 Pixel Format PC Standard (Full RGB)’. The screen then re-established connection and lists ‘RGB’ for the input colour format in ‘Color Settings’ on the monitor’s OSD. This didn’t alter the colour significantly (we checked for tell-tale signs of colour signal range issues) but added a little extra contrast – around 150:1 extra which is a nice little freebie. The setting to change is shown in the screenshot below.

I hope that helps.

[EarthboundHero]

I hope that helps.

Cool, thank you.

[Geekazoid]

Cool, thank you.

No worries! Let me know if it helps your monitor.

[EarthboundHero]

No worries! Let me know if it helps your monitor.

Mine doesn't even seem to have the YCbCr settings. It was already on Full Range RGB, weird.

[Geekazoid]

Mine doesn't even seem to have the YCbCr settings. It was already on Full Range RGB, weird.

Hmm...that is weird. Maybe if you can post a screen cap of your settings I could take a look for you.

[EarthboundHero]

Hmm...that is weird. Maybe if you can post a screen cap of your settings I could take a look for you.

Here ya go.

Just realized this doesn't help, one sec.