Any PC Builders Out There?

no clue what the specs are on his laptop but it works now so were all good

 

417.71 Nvidia driver that enables A-Sync on freesync monitors is live, its 545 MB

 

I have the Acer XF240H and its working flawlessly. No tearing, no flickering and smooth as butter.

 

I havent read up on this new nvidia cross playing thing. So they will play nice with a g sync or a freesync monitor now? The freesync monitors are quite a bit less than g sync, correct? I'm not a pc gamer, sorry for my ignorance on the subject.

 

Yes you can now enjoy tear free gaming with Freesync and Nvidia GPUs. Freesync monitors are usually $100-$200 cheaper than their G Sync equivalent. Other Freesync monitors may have issues running G Sync, I was lucky.

 

This is not entirely accurate. There are 14 monitors that will guaranteed support “tear free gaming” with no issues now. The 400 or so other Freesync monitors are hit or miss with some working completely fine, some showing slight lag, and some others completely shitting the bed when used with a GeForce card. G-sync is still the better product, look into how the two work and you’ll see why, but nVidia is taking the locks off of using Freesync with their cards. I’ve had both Freesync with AMD cards and g-sync with nVidia cards. I was much happier with the nVidia solution but it was definitely more complicated in terms of hardware and it was overpriced like most nVidia products are.

 

https://youtu.be/ZOsJzV8yzic There’s a video explaining exactly what nVidia did.

 

Do you always install the latest driver right away? I always wait a few days.

 

I only install drivers if it benefits me so I'll sometimes go 2-3 months without updating.

 

If you go RTX trying the latest driver and then wiping and going back becomes the norm. So many updates in the new drivers are to milk locked potential from the RTX design.

I've seen my framerates on BF V go up 20 fps on my 2080 since the initial game optimized drivers when not using ray tracing (RT) with newer drivers. From what I've read 10 series cards have not seen the same jump. Also DLSS is supposed to bring RT frame rates up to non RT frame rate levels. DLSS support in BF V is supposed to come out in the next release.

 

Used to build PCs, don't have time now that I have to manage 5 different data centers with a total of 244 servers and everything that goes along with it. I miss over clocking the hardware and burning shit up. Take care my fellow geeks.

 

Does this transfer speed seem correct for a USB 3.0 external drive?

 

It depends. Is the drive a SSD or HDD? If it's not solid state and the controller is garbage than, yeah, that seems about right. Also if you MB doesn't support native USB 3.0 that can cause speed issues. It might have a USB 3.0 header but not natively support USB 3.0 on the chipset. If their is a separate controller chip that can incur a penalty when transferring files since there are several hand offs between the two drives during the transfer and no cache support in those handoffs.

Edit: I looked up that WD device. It should support 100 mbps transfer speeds IRL. http://usb3speed.nirsoft.net/pdesc=...+Digital+Technologies,+Inc.&vid=4184&pid=9635 . Odds are either of the cases above are true or the data you are transferring is from the OS drive which limits speeds sometimes if the OS is trying to pull and write data at the same time as the transfer.

 

HDD as you looked up, it’s the OEM dell MoBo with USB marked SS (I assume it’s an early version of 3.0) plugged into the back.
I am probably limited from the OS drive as it’s pretty old.

 

Upgraded my ram to 4x8 GB at 3600 mhz. Crazy fast for a Threadripper system and stable.

 

Would love to build a TR system. Almost bit on a 1950x when it was on sale for $400 during black friday weekend, but held off. Now with the news of the 7nm zen chips coming, I am going to have to look at which would be best for me. I'm not planning on building anything until later this year.

 

Finally got my router situation sorted out.
June we moved into a new place, got AT&T and since I wasn't home for setup we just used their all in one system.

In my office (opposite side of the house from the router, downstairs) I was getting between 1 and 4 Mbps down, and between 6 and 8 up. So I finally plunged in last night and with the help of Chris (Jumpers LED's) started setup for using my router with the modem/switch of the all in one unit. I have no clue what I'm doing on a network side but finally got it setup properly this morning and now I have a consistent 8-12 down, and 9 up from the office.
In the living room I am getting a 5G network that i can actually connect to that gives 40 Down and 11 Up, with a wired connection at the switch I can get 54 down and 12 up, so I'm pretty happy with the performance in the living room.
The performance in the office is still slow, but at the old house we were lucky to get 6 Mbps down at the switch so it's livable for now, if all goes to plan by the middle of the year I'll have 3 jobs so I probably won't spend the time/money to improve performance for now, as ideally I shouldn't have the time to use it.

 

Since sli isn't being optimized on newer games lately, I've decided to sell one of my evga 1080's. Not sure what I could get for it but if anyone is interested in it, pm me.

 

Naw. Havnt even tried. But my fps is up by 12 or so in BFV after I removed it from sli.
Got the 1080 and 2 770's.
I think the 1080 is a founders edition.

You interested?