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HiAkitaLuna, I tried your proposed solution, and I must say: You are an absolute legend. It worked! Thank you so much for your idea and the helpful video! For reference: I removed the CMOS battery for 6 minutes and reinstalled it. Then, I simply restarted my machine with the hdmi cable...

Hi AkitaLuna, Thanks for the suggestion. I will try this! With kind regards, Toms Cat

Hello everyone, I ran into an unfortunate issue today: When booting my computer, I noticed that my monitor displays "No Signal" (black screen). After trying to restart a couple of times, unplugging and plugging in the HDMI cable and retrying, the issue persists. I was able to plug in the HDMI...

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Hello ! Thank you for your advice. I was thinking about buying a RTX 2060 to be a bit more "safe" if that makes sense. (It might just be my perception) I have noticed however that there are many RTX 2060 cards available from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, EVEA, etc. Some of these cards cost € 360 while...

Hello ! I agree with you that the RX 580 provides very good value for money. I looked at some benchmarks however and it seems that the card has trouble getting 60 fps in modern AAA titles ? my GTX 680 struggles to get 60 fps as well, but I fear that the rx 580 in this case won't be much of an...

Hello ! That's very true. The RX 580 is more than helf the price of the new RTX 2060. The only concern I have is that the RTX 2060 will be more futureproof: I think I will have to upgrade the GPU faster when I go with the RX 580 - for example that card might begin to struggle with newer games...

Hello ! Yes, I haven't upgraded my CPU yet because I thought the new chips - while faster - do not offer a significant enough performance increase to warrant the cost of a brand new CPU, motherboard and RAM. I will certainly wait some months to see what Ryzen 3000 is all about, and how Intel...

Hello ! Thank you for the very sound advice. I think you are right: It's best to upgrade my machine step by step and evalutate the necessity of changing out the CPU. I will first get a new graphics card and monitor and then evaluate if my CPU also needs replacement (depending if it becomes a...

Hello ! Thank you for your reply. I do have some questions about the build if you don't mind: Is it necessary to upgrade my CPU right now ? I thought of keeping my i7 3770K for a while (max a year or so) until the new Ryzen 3000 series of processors releases (I read some rumors) and decide...

Hello ! Currently I have a i7 3770K CPU. Would you reccommend me to ugrade my processor once the new gen Ryzen chips release ? Do we know something about the price points of these new chips ? Thanks ! Toms Cat

Hello ! So you would pick a 1080p screen at higher refresh rates ? Something like a 24 Inch 1920x1080 @ 144 Hz - 1ms monitor ? I think such a monitor paired up with a RTX 2060 would make a nice combo. I might go for that. But do you think I need more RAM ? Is 16 GB not enough ? Also does the...

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Hello ! As you pointed out, I don't have to replace all components at once. Getting a monitor will be top priority however. I will figure out if I want to get a 1080p or 1440p screen and choose an appropriate GPU as a first upgrade and go from there. A small question about the new RTX GPU's...

Hello Tom's Hardware ! I'm making this post because I need some advice on upgrading my PC. Perhaps you kind folks could help me out ? I do apologize in advance if this is not the correct community to post this question, and kindly ask to redirect me to the correct community. A small...