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[Phillyrider807]

New Radeon update is amazing....the ui is much cleaner and making gifs are much easier now

What program u use to make gifs?

 

[shutterguy]

Question for my coli brehs! I copped a ryzen 3800x. Doing some research reviews seems split. Some say the wraith cooler that comes with the 3800x is more then enough while others are saying i should still get a aftermarket cooler.

Any tips?

I have (2) 2700x and went with the Corsair H60 watercooler for both, I noticed my temps dropped quite a bit. Right now at idle I'm at 32/35C. Under load I haven't seen it climb higher than 60C.

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

What program u use to make gifs?

It’s the Radeon driver program itself you can make gifs now...now added on to the take a screenshot and record video options is a make a gif option

You just have to enable the background recording option

 

[kdslittlebro]

@Ciggavelli @Barnett114 general thoughts even if y’all don’t apply

Say brehs, any of y’all use 1440p as your main/only monitor?

I got a kinda budget 4k60 and a 1080/144 monitor, and I’m thinking of replacing the 1080p with 1440/165. I have no problem with gaming on it (8700k and 2080ti), But I’m worried about media on there like YouTube, etc. Will I miss having the 1080p option?

Also, do y’all think g-sync is still worth the premium now that NV supports Freesync?

 

[Barnett114]

@Ciggavelli @Barnett114 general thoughts even if y’all don’t apply




Also, do y’all think g-sync is still worth the premium now that NV supports Freesync?

Nah, the only G-Sync monitors that are worth it are the G-Sync Ultimate Monitors

G-SYNC Ultimate Gaming Monitors from NVIDIA GeForce

Just get the best Freesync monitor you can buy.

LG 27GL850 : LG 27GL850 27'' UltraGear IPS 1ms Gaming Monitor with G-Sync Compatibiliy | LG USA

 

[Ciggavelli]

@Ciggavelli @Barnett114 general thoughts even if y’all don’t apply

Also, do y’all think g-sync is still worth the premium now that NV supports Freesync?

If ou have a 2080ti and have a bit of money to spend, I’d get a 27” 4K, 144hz. That way you can go 144hz at 1440p when you want and then 4K when you want (for example games where high refresh rates don’t matter).

I have this:



$1300 is a lot, but it used to be $2K. Also, you are preparing for the future when GPUs can do 4K 144ps

I’ve never tried freesync, but it supposedly works well.

you can still watch 1080p on a 1440p. It won’t look different.

If you’re going 1440p, @Barnett114’s posted LG looks good. I had an LG monitor in the past, and I liked it.

 

[kdslittlebro]

If ou have a 2080ti and have a bit of money to spend, I’d get a 27” 4K, 144hz. That way you can go 144hz at 1440p when you want and then 4K when you want (for example games where high refresh rates don’t matter).

I have this:



$1300 is a lot, but it used to be $2K. Also, you are preparing for the future when GPUs can do 4K 144ps

I’ve never tried freesync, but it supposedly works well.

you can still watch 1080p on a 1440p. It won’t look different.

If you’re going 1440p, @Barnett114’s posted LG looks good. I had an LG monitor in the past, and I liked it.

You mean putting 4k on the 1440p? I plan on replacing my 4k60 once cards can hit at least like 4k120 on good settings.

These my monitors rn




LG 27UD69P-W : 27'' Class 4K UHD IPS LED Monitor (27'' Diagonal) | LG USA

 

[Ciggavelli]

You mean putting 4k on the 1440p? I plan on replacing my 4k60 once cards can hit at least like 4k120 on good settings.

These my monitors rn




LG 27UD69P-W : 27'' Class 4K UHD IPS LED Monitor (27'' Diagonal) | LG USA

No, I mean you can play 1440p, 144hz on a 4K monitor (the one I posted). You can then also play at 4K, 144hz when possible, and 4K, 60hz as well.

It’s killing 3 birds with one stone

 

[Captain Crunch]

If ou have a 2080ti and have a bit of money to spend, I’d get a 27” 4K, 144hz. That way you can go 144hz at 1440p when you want and then 4K when you want (for example games where high refresh rates don’t matter).

I have this:



$1300 is a lot, but it used to be $2K. Also, you are preparing for the future when GPUs can do 4K 144ps

I’ve never tried freesync, but it supposedly works well.

you can still watch 1080p on a 1440p. It won’t look different.

If you’re going 1440p, @Barnett114’s posted LG looks good. I had an LG monitor in the past, and I liked it.

I have that monitor, the only thing that sucks about it, is that for some reason my PS4 Slim games look like shyt on there(even w/ hdr on).

 

[MMA]

Spend $53K on a shytty Mac desktop, brehs

I want to meet the person who buys the $53k Mac Pro

I was agreement until we tried pricing one out in our office the other day. The server rack option is the biggest giveaway who this intended for - it's compute is intended for sharing and we can all guarantee it won't have has many hiccups like many of the windows/linux machines we use.
It’s actually priced well if users spec it the way Apple expects (without ram, user/business will add in their own lrdimm ram sticks from a third party) most of its customers would do. A similar PC Built, not server grade build - W3175x + C621 + LRDIMM Ram + Quadro RTX Cards of similar Vram price will cost 20% less. Now if we used actual Xeon cpu + motherboard it would cost more compared. Most companies are going to manufactures like HP, Dell to build these for shared server.

If we had the options for nvidia cards and other non proprietary options, I wouldn't hesitate to use it for our data sets which we are currently using a several machines to handle. I'm waiting for puget to hopefully get the hands on it.

 

[daze23]

RDR2 reassures me that my 2070 Super isn't overkill for 1080p

 

[KalKal]

I was agreement until we tried pricing one out in our office the other day. The server rack option is the biggest giveaway who this intended for - it's compute is intended for sharing and we can all guarantee it won't have has many hiccups like many of the windows/linux machines we use.
It’s actually priced well if users spec it the way Apple expects (without ram, user/business will add in their own lrdimm ram sticks from a third party) most of its customers would do. A similar PC Built, not server grade build - W3175x + C621 + LRDIMM Ram + Quadro RTX Cards of similar Vram price will cost 20% less. Now if we used actual Xeon cpu + motherboard it would cost more compared. Most companies are going to manufactures like HP, Dell to build these for shared server.

If we had the options for nvidia cards and other non proprietary options, I wouldn't hesitate to use it for our data sets which we are currently using a several machines to handle. I'm waiting for puget to hopefully get the hands on it.

It's really the "extras" that make it easy to mock.
Like, it's meant to be in a rack, but if you want put wheels on it they charge $400.
Reminds me of that Chris Rock routine about putting rims on a toaster.

 

[shutterguy]

Dell U4919DW UltraSharp 49" 5K QHD 60Hz - Micro Center

Dell UltraSharp 49 Curved Monitor: U4919DW | Dell USA

Anybody looking for a non-gaming widescreen 5K monitor, this Dell Ultrasharp 49" is on sale. Microcenter is the lowest price on it at $1,199. This replaced my 2 Dell 23" Ultrasharp monitors for photo work. Has multiple split screen features with the ability to run 2 applications/programs side-by-side. I bought a full motion tv wall mount to make it easy to move around if needed.

 

[Rain]

RDR2 reassures me that my 2070 Super isn't overkill for 1080p

This shyt on ultrawide is

 

[duckbutta]

I guess no one is going to release a 32 - 34 inch 4k gsync ultimate monitor huh

I can't do a 27 inch monitor for a gaming rig it's to small