Recent content by BlueCat57

Thank you for the answer. The next question is "Why not?". I bought the components SPECIFICALLY because they COULD be overclocked according to their product descriptions. The CPU can. The RAM can. And the motherboard supposedly could be when I bought it. So, is it true that the H97...

I'm going to try overclocking for the first time. I bought these components so that I could overclock the system but never wanted to until now. CPU: Intel Pentium G3258 - 57.1% (bought 2016) GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti - 29.7%, EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (bought 2016) SSD: Adata Premier SP550 240GB...

Now I get greedy. Hmm, is that 4 monitor limit just on the graphics card or can I combine it with the integrated graphics and do 7 monitors? (evil grin) Actually, I have absolutely no reason to even try that except that come next summer I'll have enough monitors lying around to try. Thanks.

I have 3 Asus VX248H monitors which have HDMI and VGA ports. I have an EVGA GTX1060 3GB with 1 HDMI 2.0b 1 DVI-D 3 DisplayPort 1.4 I'm guessing the answer is: It doesn't matter, but... Should I use 3 HDMI to DisplayPort cables to attach the monitors to the DisplayPorts on the graphics card...

The need for speed was more about when I tried to "improve" them or work with the videos. I've done a little bit of that and get bored fast when I have to wait for something to happen.

I'll buy that. I'm going to try and digitize and organization my photos, videos, and stuff so faster would be useful. Not sure what that speed is worth. Is that an hour a day or just a few minutes. Is that 100 every day or once a week?

In some areas of computing, I've never really understood the need for speed. You have to perform something that saves you 30 seconds a Million times to save ONE year's worth of time. I understand that in competitive gaming you need speed, but for the normal, average user, you are unlikely to...

Thanks for the tip. You still need a PAIR (ie 2) so the cost is $110 per coax run. That is better than the $170. Remember too that Black Friday is coming and some stores are already offering deals.

At $170 per MOCA adapter pair, I'd tear into my walls. A professional might cost about that per ethernet run. To some degree coax is dead, so you might be able to use the coax to pull ethernet cable if the coax isn't stapled to the studs internally. Measure a thousand times and cut once. Map...

It looks like anything from AMD won't arrive until next year. I just offering my impression of what is available now or soon. I'm planning on buying an RTX 3070 as my next card. Hopefully it will be under $500 by the time I'm ready to hit the order button.

My advice? Wait for Black Friday and buy whichever RTX card is available for $350. An RTX card is essential. A ray-tracing capable graphics card will last you several years longer than a new GTX. Wrap it up in Christmas paper and put it under the tree. Then use your Christmas money to buy a...

We needed a Blu-Ray player so we bought an Xbox One because Blu-Ray optical drives (plus software) or a stand-alone player would be a couple of hundred dollars. For an extra $100 we got a gaming console to boot.

Thanks, that's all I was wondering. Nope, sorry, I asked you another question as well. I thought since I found this thread that others would find it as well and have the same questions.

Sorry, but a bit off topic, but since an HDMI to DisplayPort cable was mentioned and you offered a response, I thought I'd ask this: I have a laptop with an HDMI out and I believe a GTX1060 or 1070 GPU (I check that). Based on the research that I've done, the GTX 10 series CAN use Freesync but...

I hope you get an answer. I'm doing research on G-sync monitors (turns out I can probably buy a Freesync one since Nvidia is making their cards "compatible" with Freesync.) and was wondering how big a problem "tearing" is.