Recent content by Alexoferith

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    Question Laptop with HDMI but Monitor only has DP

    Thank you for such a quick response. Another noob question. How will I be sure that the cable I am going to purchase will be a good quality cable? The 1st thing I can think of is the price. Higher the better?
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    Question Laptop with HDMI but Monitor only has DP

    Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me. I purchased a ROG Strix G513RS Laptop back in January this year. At the time, I didn't consider the use of external displays. Then a couple of months ago, I visited my brother-in-law's home. Trying to show him what collections of movies I had ripped from my...
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    Question Is there a way to connect my laptop only having HDMI to a 165Hz monitor?

    Ok, I have just found that I can connect my laptop to the monitor via the USB-C port of my laptop using a USB-C to display port connector - 2K at 144Hz, 4K at 60Hz.
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    Question Is there a way to connect my laptop only having HDMI to a 165Hz monitor?

    In January this year, I have to travel abroad for 3 months. So I bought myself an ASUS ROG Strix G513RS. And due to my inexperience with the laptop, I didn't realize that it only had an HDMI port. Is there any way to connect to my 165Hz multisync monitor so that the FPS is not restricted to 60...
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    [SOLVED] Need help finding a motherboard upgrade for my CPU

    Thanks for the quick response. Yeah, I have checked my motherboard already. There is no TPM nor PTT facilities at all... :( Hence the request posted here. Any suggestion would be much appreciated. Many thanks.
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    [SOLVED] Need help finding a motherboard upgrade for my CPU

    Thank you very much for your response. I am very sorry. Yes, I have made a mistake. It was an i7 CPU with the X99. I know that SLi is being killed off but I am re-playing old games, like the Mass Effect series (not the remastered ones). That is just one of them. I cannot afford to buy a new...
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    [SOLVED] Need help finding a motherboard upgrade for my CPU

    I have upgraded my system 3 yrs back to i9 10900 S1200. The motherboard was EVGA X99 Classified. But it was killed a year later when the power supply went faulty. I replaced the memory, the motherboard and the PSU of course. MBD is now ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-E gaming MDB. But now I have learnt that...
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    [SOLVED] Strange sound problem after installing the latest NVidia driver 466.63

    Today I ran DDU and then installed the latest NVidia driver. Yeah, that did it. The "muffled" effect has gone. Thank you very much for your help.
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    [SOLVED] Strange sound problem after installing the latest NVidia driver 466.63

    Hi, thank you for the quick response. BIOS? Which BIOS? Do you mean the GPU? If it is GPU, it is 86.02.39.40.92. And if you mean the MB, it is 0607. Yes, it is 21H1 for Windows 10 Pro 64bit. PSU was bought and installed in Aug 2020 and it is EVGA SuperNOVA G3 1000W.
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    [SOLVED] Strange sound problem after installing the latest NVidia driver 466.63

    I wonder if anyone can help. Today I have just installed the latest NVidia driver 466.63. I have been playing Far Cry New Dawn for the past two weeks with no problem. Oh sorry, my spec: i9 10900 ASUS ROS Strix Z490E Gaming MB 32 GB RAM 2 TB Samsung 850 EVO SSD 2 x EVGA FTW3 1080Ti I have...
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    [SOLVED] White bands at bottom of screen ?

    Hi, I hope you can see the pic taken from phone. https://drive.google.com/file/d/11fjRHgdpK6u8jrFOBLTRk6TGUwXS5l1H/view?usp=sharing PS It disappeared a couple of minutes later. Well, line by line, sort gradually goes down. Hope this make sense.
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    [SOLVED] White bands at bottom of screen ?

    Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me. I have this monitor for a few years now. No problem until recently, the last couple of months, I think. The monitor is ROG PG278Q. When I switch on the PC every morning, It shows the ASUS logo, fine. But when Win10 Pro 64bit starts up, there are white bands...
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    [SOLVED] Need help to recover Steam games during to motherboard died.

    Thank you very much for your help. It is now up and running. After installing Steam, I copied the Steamapps folder, just that one, onto my system. It took over 20 hours!!! I started on Tuesday afternoon around 3:30 pm. The copying was completed at around 1 pm today. I thought, well, I guess the...
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    [SOLVED] Need help to recover Steam games during to motherboard died.

    Thank you very much for your response. Yes, I know that I can browse backup image. My question is about recovering Steam games. Do I need to copy the entire Steam folder from the backup image or just the Steamapps folder will do? Many thanks for your help.
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    [SOLVED] Need help to recover Steam games during to motherboard died.

    Thank you very much for your quick response. Oh, dear. The driver that Steam was installed was wiped clean when installing Win 10. Hence my question about whether I can restore the Steam folders from my backup image after I install Steam software which I haven't done yet with this upgraded rig...