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some LG 27” 4K IPS display that i keep forgetting the exact model number too. i think the card has issues. it wont play certain videos encoded in h265 unless i force the iGPU to handle the decode.

I recently upgraded from RX 580 to RTX 4070 and the game images are so washed out. It looks really bad. Maybe the radeon over-saturates it - not 100% sure. Need to do some reading up . For video, i was able to change it to full and it’s fine now.

Yeah I realize that. 12.5% is maxing out a single core (of the 8 in the fx) and looks like PPT isn't optimized for more threads. @Karadjgne i'm honestly not a fan of laptops at all. They're all so poorly built these days, not to mention extremely hot and loud. Plus nothing can be replaced if...

It should balance it out on its own and eat up however much it needs.

@geofelt it's hard to tell. The powerpoint process is maxed out 12.5% in task manager which is roughly 100% of a single core. Doesn't look like it's well multi-threaded (except during things like PPT video export). Still, I'm guessing the boost over the fx8350 in single threads performance...

it's about $269 in Canada right now which is what I paid for my i5 way back in the days. the i5 11400 (the other option i was considering) is sitting around 249

Thinking of building a new system for someone who uses it primarily for online teaching and very complicated /big PowerPoint presentations that have plenty of step-by-step animations that is currently taxing the CPU. Current CPU is fx 8350 with 16gb RAM. Ideally looking for a CPU that doesnt...

Thank you - good to know. Ill run some memtests and if it proves to be futile, ill just eventually buy a whole new set

I know it's not recommended but i'm looking to see which of those two is better than the other. On intel, RAM speeds doesnt really matter much and especially so for older systems but hitting the swap will murder performance. So in this sense, capacity >>> any degradation in speed. I've...

Let's say there's Brand A and Brand B. All are 8gb sticks each. is it better to consolidate each brand to a specific channel or mix them up. e.g. Scenario 1 Channel A: 8gb of brand A + 8gb of brand B Channel B: 8gb of brand A + 8gb of brand B OR... Scenario 2 Channel A: 8gb brand A + 8gb...

Yeah it’s kinda true to be honest. Multi monitor power consumption is through the roof for the longest time on AMD. Even with a clean install of windows, my AMD crashes on wake from sleep regularly. Connecting a display to the iGPU does help a bit for some reason. Also blasts so much heat into...

Getting my popcorn ready! I hope they get screwed over so badly.

makes no sense. Builds capable of running win7 are likely not running coffee lake/Ryzen CPUs (minimum

Interesting how lowly ATOM processors can get the update but an i5 6600k with 32 GB RAM cannot, despite also having TPM 2.0 support. Looks like they took a page out of Apple on this one!

Well Apple went from macOS 10.x for the last decade or so to macOS11 (and now 12) so I guess Windows must copy that or Windows will automatically "look old"