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Thanks for the replies so far. I should edit the above to add that using any pre-applied stuff isn't an option as this is a CPU swap and remount, rather than a brand new cooler with pre-applied paste and a new CPU.

I'm about to mount a 5800X3D. Cooling is a 360 AIO (Z73). I've got two unopened syringes of thermal paste sitting here: 1) Kingpin KPX 2) Noctua NT-H2 What is your opinion? Which do you think I should use? Which have you had good experiences or bad experiences with? ETA - This is a CPU...

Looking to upgrade from a 3090 to a 4090 and trying to figure what will fit in my case. Just wondering if anyone had any experience with stuffing an RTX 4090 in a Lian Li O11 Dynamic Case? (The original O11 Dynamic, not the EVO or Mini or any of the other offshoots). On PCPartsPicker I see a...

Thanks everyone for chiming in. There are quite a few threads here, and other places, about some gaming advantages to the 5800x3d and even a few comments of switching from a 5900x or 5950x to a 5800x3d. Especially in MSFS 2020. However, I figured I'd pop in here and see if anyone had done...

Built a new system about a year and a half ago (May 2021) for flight sims (Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 & DCS) & gaming. For flight sims I use only VR. For non-flight sim games I use a monitor. AMD 5950X ASUS Crosshair VIII Dark Hero GeForce RTX 3090 Over the past year and a half the...

Thanks Vengance_01 Got it. Just a couple follow ups and then I think I'm set to give it a go! What duration do you set the test for? 1 Hour total? Or 1 Hour per Core (16 Hours on a 5950X)? Are you selecting all physical cores in the advanced thread box and then testing them all at once...

Vengance_01 Just wondering exactly which type of CPU test and exactly which options you set in OCCT? I'm new to it and just watched a few videos and did some reading on the options available, but wanted to know which options to set to follow your advice and exactly what a 1-hour test consists...

I'm pretty new to MSFS 2020 so am still tweaking and fiddling and trying to figure out what FPS feels "ok" and what is just too much of a slideshow to enjoy. That said, I've been working off the following settings: HP Reverb G2: Set Render Scale to 100% via OpenXR Tools for WMR in windows...

Thanks Vengance. I'll give that a shot :)

Thanks! I went out and snagged CoreCycler. I haven't had a chance to give it a try yet. Thanks Vengance_01. Specs are as follows: CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU COOLER: NZXT Kraken Z73 360mm AIO MOBO: Asus Crosshair VIII Dark Hero X570 MEM: 64 Gigs. (4x16 GB) G.Skill Trident Z Neo DDR4 3600...

Built a 5950X/Asus Dark Hero/RTX3090 system on a 360mm AIO about a year and half ago. At the time, the performance provided by precision boost alone was all I needed. However, these days I'm in Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 in VR with an HP Reverb G2 and need all the frames I can get. I'm CPU...

What is the best way to "angle" a large center channel so that it points at the listener's ears when sitting in an easy chair. You can see my center channel in the picture below. The center of the center channel is 16" above the floor. I need to get that pointed at the listeners ear. My...

I need a little advice on e-mail solutions. I understand that these days no one uses their ISP assigned e-mail addresses. However, it was back sometime in the 90's when Comcast first arrived in my neighborhood so I've been with the same ISP ever since. Back then, you'd create a few e-mail...

Thanks to everyone who chimed in, got me steered in the right direction, and offered information and advice. After the advice here, I've elected to switch gears and instead of going with my electrician, I'm going to try a local small business that does home network and home theater wiring as...

Thanks kindly for the help and advice. Its much appreciated. So it looks like I'll stick with Cat5e or Cat6 based on your advice. I think I'd rather go with Cat6 as all the other cables I have lying around are also Cat6. With regards to knowing how to properly install Cat5e vs. Cat6 - does...

I've recently moved into a rental home and the ISP that serves this neighborhood offers Metronet Fiber Optic Internet and my package is a Gig speed package. I've previously always had comcast cable internet so Fiber is new to me. The fiber optic line comes through the outer wall into the house...

Thanks! Maybe I'll go ahead and give that a shot. This might be a stupid question but do you happen to know which settings in the BIOS I should set to enable it. What did you set to enable yours? When I look through my BIOS (ASUS Crosshair VIII Dark Hero) I see PBO mentioned in several...

Thank you!!! Thats greatly appreciated! I'm so used to my previous Intel 3770K world where, while it had 4 cores, it was either boosting or it wasn't. It was alot simpler to look at the numbers and realize it was performing as it should. It was overclocked to 4.4 and I'll I'd have to do is...

Hello. I've recently just built two new systems. One with an 5900X and one with a 5950X. These are my first AMD systems and it had been almost 10 years since I built a machine (my last machine was an intel 3770K). I've run both systems on Aida64 stability test for about 2 and a half hours...

Does anyone happen to know the correct driver for the 38gn950-b? The owners manual that came with the monitor specified that LG recommends you install 3 pieces of software: The OnScreen Control Software, the UltraGear Control Center, and the Windows Driver. There are no drivers at all that...

Wow. That was very kind of you to look that up. Thank you! To simplify matters, I decided to try using my laptop instead of a desktop PC/graphics card. Here is the setup: 1) Laptop (Windows desktop resolution 1920x1200) to AVR via HDMI then AVR to ASUS VG278H 1080p monitor via HDMI. This...

Thanks Ebernanut :) Sorry to say that I don't quite follow. Perhaps I should try and describe better.... I set up the following test just as its a simpler setup then all the "sidecar" stuff and such above. Here is my setup. I have a PC with its video card connected to the input of the...

Thank you Ebernanut. You were 100% right. I'm so glad you chimed in when you did or I might have spent the better part of the day farting around with this thing trying to figure out why it won't work. You were right: The 1440p monitor couldn't see the HDMI signal from the receiver. It was...

Please forgive me if you've already seen this thread in the video card forum as I really wasn't sure where to post it or where I might get the question to the right people. I've got kind of a weird question here and I wasn't even sure where to post it...whether it was a GPU question, a display...

I've got kind of a weird question here and I wasn't even sure where to post it...whether it was a GPU question, a display question, or an audio question. So I'll try here and hopefully someone here smarter than me (which is probably most of you anyway) will know the answer. If not maybe I've...

Its been over a decade since I purchased a laser printer and I really don't know much about laser printers so I wanted to ask for some recommendations. There is a recent similar thread on this however my requirements are very different from that member's so I wanted to start a new thread. My...

Thanks again for the help and advice. Just as an update, it looks like I'll probably just end up sticking with my ProCenter 1000 as a center channel after all. I'd like to go with the Emotiva but ffter taking some measurements and comparing the dimensions of the Emotiva center channel to my...

Thanks warhol76. To answer your question, I'm a little embarrassed to say that I really don't know the answer. I bought that Denon receiver in 2012 and its sole purpose has really just been DAC for gaming. I run HDMI out of my video card into the receiver. I've watched a few movies on it...

Thanks for the advice Boonie. Its much appreciated. I think maybe I'll check what their return policy is, and then if its decent maybe I'll just go ahead and give it a shot. Unfortunately I'm absolutely awful at actively listening to differences in audio setups. If I am actively listening...

A good decade ago I'd asked for help here in selecting a good 5.1 sound setup for my PC. I used it for gaming and movies and I wanted to go with a 5.1 setup. A bunch of folks who will probably forget more about sound setups then I'll ever know stepped up and offered me some absolutely...

Update. It appears everything is ok. Had towels on-hand in case of emergency. Unbolted the radiator and swung it outside the case, fired it up, and all appears well. Left it run for a good 15 minutes and no signs of any leaks or moisture that I could see or detect. Bolted it back into the...

Thanks to everyone for chiming in with the info & advice. Maybe it'll be ok then. It sat for a couple days and I didn't see any indication of any moisture on the outside so I went ahead and finished assembly so hopefully it will be ok. The couple of holes through it doesn't appear to be near...

Thank you for chiming in Leykis. You're post helps a a TON and thank you so much for taking the time to write it. Sounds like we are of the exact same mind when comparing these two monitors. Like you, I don't play alot of high FPS first person shooters or competitive gaming. The closest...

Ok. I'm an idiot and I'm embarrassed that I need to post this. NZXT Kraken Z73. I'm not even exactly sure HOW I managed to pull this off but I was attaching my fans to my 360 radiator and the radiator to the case and somehow I managed to miss the screw hole JUST right and the screw went...

I've been on the fence between the LG 38GN950-B and the Alienware AW3821DW for a while. After hemming and hawing I finally decided that maybe the full G-Sync module was worth it, and the folks here in the forums spoke highly of the Alienware warranty and support. So I went with the Alienware...

Probably a stupid question and a simple topic but, for whatever reason, the google or the YouTube isn't helping me to find what I'm looking for. I've just built an AMD 5900X system on an ASUS X570 Dark Hero motherboard (Not my first build but my first AMD build). Anytime I read folks asking...

Thanks to everyone for your help, opinions, and advice. I also wanted to apologize to everyone who chimed in here as I certainly didn't mean to start an argument. I didn't realize "admin" versus "standard user" was a touchy subject with such strong opinions. I had no idea. I also think there...

Thanks for the advice and opinions. I was already somewhat familiar with Prime95 as that is what I'd used in the past. But I went ahead and DL'd Aida64 Extreme and OCCT to give those a shot per the advice/recommendations above. Thanks! :)

Thanks :) Yup. That is exactly what I'd done. I'd created her a local non-MS admin account. That was my question: Whether or not folks were still doing that...just creating a non-MS admin account as a "main" account and thats it (like I'd always done on previous machines and previous...

Building a gaming machine for my wife. This is the first time that I've installed Windows 10 (My last build for her was many years ago and was Windows 7). On previous machines I'd just created her Windows local account as an "Admin" so that she could do what she needed to do. However, this...