Hi all. So in a thread post I made in the video card section I mentioned 1 of my tech deals I got from Amazon during this year Amazon Prime Day/Week. The 2nd deal I took advantage of was nearly 50% off on an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU. Currently I'm running a Scythe Mugen 5 Rev. B CPU air cooler...
Hi all. It's been a while I know. I've been quite busy with life and all. Over the summer during Amazon Prime Day (which for some products stretched into Prime Week really) I took advantage of 2 AMD tech deals. We'll get to the 2nd one later as I just want to focus on the GPU. Being tired...
Hi all. So in browsing the Black Friday Deals at Newegg I discovered that amongst their deals they have an LG 27" Ultragear 27GP850-B on sale for $299.99 which for the research I've done on it today...is nearly a steal. Now, I'm currently using an Aorus 27" FI27Q-P monitor which has served me...
Hi all. So there has already been talk of ASUS releasing a BIOS for the Crosshair VIII Hero, Hero Wi-Fi and Dark Hero on the 4002 BIOS which uses the AGESA 1.2.0.6b version. Well, ASUS just made it a non-BETA BIOS at ver. 4004. Here's the notes on it:
ROG CROSSHAIR VIII HERO BIOS 4004
"1...
Hi all. So at long last, I upgraded my Ryzen 5800X CPU today. It did have some events (like dropping the CPU into the case [don't worry, he properly repaired all the pins that were bent]). We did one into one rather annoying issue: when booting the machine with the new CPU, the machine will...
Hi all. So there are a good amount of X570 motherboards out there now that carry a 2.5G Ethernet port on the motherboard. The ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero X570 motherboard is an example of that as well as Gigabyte's Aorus Master X570 and MSI's MAG X570 Tomahawk Wi-Fi amongst a few others. Now...
Hi all. So in the last 3-4 days I purchased an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU from Newegg. I am planning on installing this into my system during the spring. Before I got this CPU, I picked up this air cooler from Enermax: the Enermax ETS-T50 AXE RGB air cooler. Listed at Newegg here...
So I looked in a few sub forums of General Gaming but haven't found a thread on this subject yet for people just getting Cyberpunk 2077 so I thought I'd create a thread where we can discuss our actual experiences in the game. Let's try to keep the spoilers to a minimum at the moment and just...
Hi all. This just popped into my head and is meant for those who have upgraded their Zen 2 CPU to Zen 3: when you completed the hardware side of the upgrade have you had to completely reinstall Windows and your system after the upgrade or would the build of Windows you were running with Zen 2...
Hi all. So I thought I'd pose this question knowing while it cannot be answered now it just might be in the next week or two. That is with the Wraith Prism and Wraith Spire CPU coolers from AMD how well could they cool say a Ryzen 7 5800X or Ryzen 9 5900X if they were setup in a PC to do so...
Gentlemen, something in my PC just went beeeeeeewwwwwwwwwww. I installed 2 WD Black SN750 M.2 SSD's in my new build last month. 1 500GB and 1 1TB. The 500GB was the OS drive (still works and Western Digital's monitor reads it as in Nominal condition with 100% life remaining). The 1 TB drive...
So here we are...I was about to commit to another post about this subject and then I found...wait a second! This is the 4th time I checked and eVGA is still shipping this model? So as we all know, eVGA has a Step-Up program for those whose cards are eligible by warranty and the like to upgrade...
Hi all. A Tom's Hardware article pointed me to this site that I think is potentially driving more scalping of the RTX 30 series than ebay and Amazon 3rd party vendors combined. It's called StockX. Many of you haven't heard of it because it's usually a site that specializes in the sales of...
Hi all. I'm surprised this hasn't been discussed yet (searched the entire HardForum before I posted this) but earlier this week CD Projekt Red released and PC system specs for Cyberpunk 2077. Here's what we got:
Minimum requirements:
CPU: Intel Core i5 3570K or AMD FX-8310
Memory: 8GB
GPU...
Hi all. Looking at the disaster of the 3080 launch that a massive amount of the cards were bought by bots/scalpers it tells us of the situation we could be towards getting a 3080/3090/3070 for the next few weeks as stock stabilizes. I do have a question to pose to all of you as to the forecast...
Hi all. So with all that went on today with the launch of the RTX 3080 that seemed to have left all of us feeling a lot of different things involving so many different angles of this situation I sense there's one last question to pose: Concerning the upcoming weekend and this card...are you...
Hi all. So for the longest time (about 3-4 years now) I've been using my current GeForce GTX 1080 and for the last about 2-3 years I've been using it with nVIDIA's GeForce Experience. I haven't had to upgrade cards for as long as I've been using GeForce Experience so my question is when I get...
Hi all. I don't know if my subject has been addressed in other posts here to this forum but I'd like to get your thoughts on the 2 subjects I am starting a conversation about and share my thoughts too. Starting with card scalping, 2 different things appear to have been talked about in some...
Hi all. This will be an easy one for anyone who owns the case in the subject: on the case's built in fan controller when you have your fans connected to it and you power on the machine for the first time what is the default speed setting of the fans? Is it low, medium or high? It doesn't give...
Hi all. So as part of a new PC build I'll be upgrading to over the Labor Day Weekend I've been looking at a new chassis to replace my Corsair Vengeance C70 ATX mid-tower. The case that's available and caught my eye the most so far is the Phanteks Eclipse P400A non-RGB ATX mid-tower. From all...
Hi all. So on Labor Day weekend (in less than 3 weeks) I'm going from this old Intel system below:
Intel Core i7 6700K CPU
Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 7 Z170 chipset motherboard
32GB G.Skill Trident-Z DDR4-3200 CL15 RAM
eVGA GeForce 1080 SC 8GB video card
Corsair AX850 850W 80-Plus Gold PSU
To this...
Hi all. So this week, due to fears of continuing QC issues with ASUS' 27" ROG Swift I decided to go a different route with 27", 1440p and G-Sync and went with Dell's S2716DG monitor. I was fortunate upon pickup that it was Revision A03 (because Revisions A00 and A01 of this monitor weren't...
Hi all. So over the past couple of months I've been looking on and off at 27" 1440p high-end gaming monitors and have got my eyes on one that has quite the controversial following. Being that I'm also partial to getting one with G-Sync I've been (of course) eyeing closely the ASUS ROG Swift...
Hi all. Not sure how many jumped on this game with their GeForce equipped system but do we know if nVIDIA ever loaded an optimized profile for Forza Motorsport 6 Apex for Windows on GeForce Experience? I know they released a driver that supported the game but unsure if they ever released an...
Hi all. So about 3-4 years ago now I purchased a Corsair AX850 PSU to replace my aging (at the time) Enermax Galaxy 850W PSU. I think I made the purchase through Amazon if memory serves. But it's not about where I bought it as the question but a peculiar thing it's been doing ever since I...
Hi all. This is the last concern I have for my Skylake build going into I feel I need a moment of clarity on. In reading through the manual for the mobo a few times I noticed that the SATA controller only has 2 modes of operation: AHCI and RAID. My storage drive is an old Western Digital...
Hi all. As my previous posts have mentioned I am going to be doing a Skylake build in February to replace my aging X58/Nehalem build. I am going with a Core i7 6700K with a Gigabyte GA-Z170X Gaming 7 mobo. I haven't decided with this build (aside from using the XMP profile for the memory kit...
Hi all. So later this week I will be looking to order my new case for my Skylake build from Amazon or Newegg. My 2 finalists are the aforementioned (from past forum posts on this forum) Corsair Vengeance C70 (Gunmetal Black) or the Fractal Design Define S. I've read many reviews on the...
Hi all. Quick question about a trend I've seemed to notice on Newegg over the years but could never understand. Last couple of days, inventory of memory kits on Newegg seems to be disappearing as kits sell out. Where they're used to be maybe 120-145 different DDR4 kits from all brands...
Hi all. So tonight I bring up the topic of a memory company I've known of since around the time in my growing up that I wanted to be a PC technician/PC builder on the side. Back in the day (around 2000/2002) there rose a memory company called Mushkin. In their time of genesis and for quite a...
Hi all. So with my Skylake build's motherboard acquired and the case coming for Christmas as a gift and the CPU decided on (yet at such a premium over MSRP it's not worth getting right now I go to the next important piece for the build: memory. Throughout tonight I have perused various 32GB...
Hi all again. So here is part 2 of my 2-part question for my Skylake build I am posing. From the first question in the Cooling and Overclocking subforum, if my current Corsair H70 self-contained CPU water cooler will not fit a Socket 1151 CPU then what is the best Corsair made self-contained...
Hi all. So in this forum (and also the computers cases sub-forum) I am posing a 2-part question. Each part is a key question I want to make sure I have a moment of clarity on for my Skylake build down the road. So as I am building my next machine on Skylake/Z170 I have on my old Core i7 950...
Hi all. What I have here today is a 2-part question. 1. Say you already have a Razer branded mouse (with Synapse 2.0 installed) and you wish to switch Razer branded mice (i.e. a Deathadder 3.5G for a Diamondback Chroma). Do you have to reinstall Synapse for Synapse to identify the 2nd Razer...
Hi all. So in my thread in the nVIDIA Flavor section of the Video Card forum, I mentioned that I was going to do a Skylake build in terms of core parts (CPU, mobo and memory) but also an updated chassis. I already decided on CPU, memory and chassis shown below:
Core i7 6700K CPU
Mushkin...
Hi all. My birthday is coming up in about a week and I get paid September 25th. I am planning to pull as much as $450 out to get either an eVGA GeForce GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0 card or an eVGA GeForce GTX 970 FTW ACX 2.0 card. I'm looking to future proof my system as much as possible with this...
Hi all. So earlier this weekend I picked up a new Samsung 840 EVO 500GB SSD. It's replacing an OCZ Vertex 4 256GB SSD namely because that SSD is running low on space and I use the OCZ drive as a Games drive not a system/OS drive. I'm learning by study that the Samsung Data Migration is not...
Hi all. So, in the next little while I'll be upgrading monitors. I'm looking at something that can provide 2560X1440 resolution. My GTX 680 should still be capable enough for BF3, GW2, PS2 and Borderlands 2 at that resolution. The 2 I am looking at are the Dell U2711 (or U2713HM) and the...
Hi all. So back last August I picked up an OCZ Vertex 4 SSD to install into my system as the new OS/limited Games drive. Haven't had a free moment to sit down and actually install it into the system and then install Windows on it until this coming weekend. My question is I have Windows 7...
Hi all. So I am uncertain whether this thread should go into the Video Cards forum or this one but based on the fact this is a headset issue my first thought is that it should go in here. So here's the situation: On June 22nd I picked up an eVGA GeForce GTX 680 Superclocked+ video card. Runs...