Simple Questions - August 07, 2019

Simple Questions - August 07, 2019
Why cant I get 144fps for my new 144hz monitor ?
Is G-Sync worth it?
The Never Ending Trainwreck - tried three different motherboards, two different 1060s and PSUs, but still no POST?
Gaming/Streaming Build for my lil bro!
30th birthday build for my fiance
It's done !
AMD Stock Heat Sink and Noctua Fan
1TB inland Premium M.2 NVME not showing up in Disk management
Ryzen 3 2200g + gtx 1060 6gb
PC restarts from random things in room
Help!!
Help with Displayport Issues
Upgrading 5 year old build
Audio Production Build
First PC, I think I've got a good build ready! Please tear it apart! (Rate my Build)
How can I improve my cable management?
Is this build any good?
Ze - NO RGB 3900x + RTX 2070 Super Build
Modern Home/Media PC (No Gaming)
Ryzen 5 3600 or RTX 2060 super
Anyone got any recommendations for a good, white air cooler?
My first time using a amd graphics card help!
36GB RAM whats better 2 x 16 or 4 x 8 (with 3600MHz and CL16)?
Best somewhat budget motherboard for Ryzen 3000 series

Posted: 07 Aug 2019 05:15 AM PDT

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Why cant I get 144fps for my new 144hz monitor ?

Posted: 07 Aug 2019 09:49 AM PDT

So I bought a 144hz monitor today with the resolution of 1920x1080

I have a 3840x2160 60Hz Monitor here as well and in a game like Mordhau for example I get stable 55 to 60 fps in 2160p but now in FHD with the 144hz its the same, even less or just slightly more fps like in fhd, I played on High in 2160p and now it can´t even get over a 100fps with FHD and 144hz ?

In Forza Horzon 4 its the same, in 2160p on ultra i have a constant 60 fps, on fhd with 144hz its the same or less...

I have a RTX 2070 and a i5 9600k

I mean thats not normal right ? Any suggestions ?

EDIT:

So I tried basically everything now. I have turned off v sync everywhere I could, had only this one display attached to the card, reinstalled all the drivers, tested my framerate with https://www.testufo.com/ and see there its 144hz... In Cs Go I get 100-130fps so not even the full potential but I can see a little difference... Thats just way too low for a rtx2070 and the i5 9600k to do in cs go... Framerate was never capped to something under 144fps in the games I tested.

Hwmonitor basically just shows me that my cpu is at a constant 70 to 80% at normal temperatures with 4,3ghz and no limiting caused by heat or so... GPU sits at 60 to 70% normal temperatures too.

My full rig:

ASUS TUF B360-Plus

i5-9600k

Crucial DDR4-2666 2x8GB

Gigabyte RTX2070

Samsung 860Evo SSD

Displayport Cable I also use for 2160p60 and it definetly can do the 144hz

I will reinstall my whole system at the weekend as I have basically no Idea anymore what I could do else

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Is G-Sync worth it?

Posted: 07 Aug 2019 06:28 AM PDT

Unsure if this is the right sub for this but here it goes: I'm starting a new build and am pretty confident I want a RTX 2070 or higher to drive a 1440p 144Hz monitor. I also already picked up a Ryzen 5 3600 for my CPU. I've been seeing sales for various 1440p 144Hz monitors with and without G-Sync and was wondering if the G-Sync premium would really be worth it?

In the specific case of the LG 34GK950, the Freesync version is allegedly "G-Sync compatible" and is 144Hz base whereas the true G-Sync version is only 120Hz overclocked. I've read this review of the G-Sync version and they seem to claim that for gaming the G-Sync version comes on top due to much lower input lag granted by the G-Sync module. But they also seem to say that the FreeSync version is basically better in every other category like factory calibration, color depth, frame rate, and motion blur reduction. Is the input lag reduction and variable refresh of a true G-Sync more valuable than the extra 24Hz, color depth, and limited variable refresh of the "G-Sync compatible" Freesync version?

EDIT: GTX -> RTX

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The Never Ending Trainwreck - tried three different motherboards, two different 1060s and PSUs, but still no POST?

Posted: 07 Aug 2019 07:40 AM PDT

EDIT: Because Scan asked for the CPU back a few days ago, they are now saying that I am past the fourteen days return policy...a policy I would have been able to do if they did not say that the CPU was working and take ages to return it. *I thus cannot return a broken PC.*

Posting this here and just about everywhere I can think of, and tagging in u/GBT_Matthew and u/GBT_Brian as I'm completely out of ideas at this point. I'd have put this in /r/AMD as this is my first ever AMD build, but the rule in there for all techsupport to go in one place means it'd probably get drowned or something.

Obligatory tl;dr: I've gone through three motherboards, two GPUs and had my CPU tested, but still cannot find a problem that is stopping POST and am now completely out of ideas and very, very nearly about to send everything back and give up on building a PC.

So, let's start from the back and come forward: after many, many years soldiering along with a first gen i3, I finally got round to building a new PC last month, taking the few bits that were worth taking from the old PC to the new one. I ordered everything from one place, Scan, and - deciding that it was better to be safe than sorry - popped another £44~ on ScanProtect just to be sure in case something went terribly, terribly wrong. I ordered the following:

CPU: Ryzen 3800x, which had pretty much everything I could have possibly wanted from a CPU.

MOBO: Asus PRIME X570-PRO, which I chose because it could support an M.2 RAID.

RAM: 32 gigabytes worth of Corsair Vengeance, divided into 4 sticks of 3600Mhz.

SSD: 2x 1TB Samnsung 970 Evo Plus

NWC: An ASUS network card, bought a day after I got the machine when I realized it didn't have any WiFi.

PSU: EVGA Supernova 850w Gold, because my brother - an experienced PC builder - gave me some real good warnings and advice about cheaping out on the PSU.

Case: Game Max Shadow, pretty much the only case I could find that met my particular brand of aesthetics.

From my old PC, I took this:

GFX: An Asus 1060, with just one fan on the card. I can't even find this thing on PCPartPicker anymore. I intended to get a bigger, chunkier card in the future, but the fact that I had a 50% bottleneck on this thing before I upgraded to my Ryzen was a good enough performance gain for me to be happy with it for a long while.

HDD: Some old Western Digital drive full of stuff that I put into the PC after its first day of booting, all around fine and good.

For the first few days, all went well. I had my PC working downstairs plugged into the TV since I had to wait for my wireless card, so I just connected straight to the router by a short cable and just did everything there. Updated the BIOS, installed Windows (and ultimately reinstalled Windows, after accidentally corrupting the installation by fiddling in the BIOS. Whoops.) did all my drivers, hell, I even played Fallout 4 and Battletech down there. All went well, and all was good. After a couple of days the network card arrived, got installed, tested the PC there, everything worked fine. My brother and I finished assembling the case, after which it was moved to a proper desk, where it ran like a dream for a good seven days. During this time I heard a little bit of a clipping noise coming from the inside of the case, most likely a cable hitting the GPU fan. This was caught and fixed, and whilst there was a little bit of harmonisation or whatever it's called, when the entire case vibrates a little because of its position, that got solved, didn't seem like a problem and I don't believe it had anything to do with it, but just for completion's sake I'm mentioning everything that I can recall.

Then we get this huge, angry summertime thunderstorm. Being very, very protective of my new PC, I hop out of bed at the first bang and unplug my PC from the wall just in case a bolt of lightning hits the house or something. Next day, the PC boots fine after I plug it back in and everything goes well...at least for the first few hours.

That's where the problems start. I was playing Fallout 4 for a while, then went downstairs to get a cup of coffee. When I came back upstairs, I found my PC back at the Windows 10 log in.

"That's odd," I say to myself. "Maybe it overheated and rebooted itself or something?"

I log back in, the PC humming along happily, then go to Chrome to start googling about possible causes. I manage to get around three or four minutes of use before an instant black screen of death. It was dead as a door nail, but there was no flash of light, no puff of smoke, nothing. Just completely, utterly dead. Tried to boot it again, still dead, no POST.

So I call in my brother, and we start going through the machine, trying to figure out what's going. I've wrote everything below:

First motherboard fails to POST, but managed to get off a single, solitary beep on one RAM stick. After cycling through the others to confirm that the other RAM sticks were either dead or dying, we got back to the original RAM stick and it didn't beep, despite it being in the same spot as it was the first time around. Diagnosed as a dead MB, sent it back to Scan, they did a test there and confirmed that it was a dead motherboard that didn't post, no idea why, but RMA'd me a new one. During the whole time that we had the problem, there was a white VGA light on the motherboard, as if the graphics card had died, but my brother has an identical and confirmed working 1060 to mine and swapped his in, but still got the white light of a problem with the VGA.

Second motherboard arrives, machine gets completely rebuilt, everything is the same as when the original machine was set up for the first time, machine fails to POST, giving a white VGA light. Swap in the other 1060, still get the white VGA light. We can't even get to the BIOS to check if there's something wrong there, and all the info we've got about the ASUS x570 Prime says that it has to get to the BIOS to do any updates there, so we can't tell if there's a problem in the options there or anything of that sort. We get back in touch with Scan and start the process of sending them back another motherboard. Thinking that it might just be some problem with Asus, I decide to drop the cash and buy another motherboard and get the Prime refunded, this time from Ebuyer because they can get it me the day after I ordered it, and go straight for an Aorus x570 Ultra - a good motherboard that I probably should have had from the start. We dismantle the machine, box up the second dead ASUS motherboard the next day, the new one arrives, we reassemble the machine...

...and still no dice. Everything is in, everything lights up on the board, but we get another VGA light, exactly like we did on the Asus boards, but we know the graphics card is fine and the RAM seems good as well. Now I might not be the luckiest guy around, but the chance of getting three dead motherboards in a row from two different vendors and manufacturers is so far out there that we don't even consider that, and phone Scan once more to tell them about the board coming back. We talk with them for a while, and the technical support on their end reasons that it might not be the motherboards that are dead, but the Ryzen 3800x, so they make arrangements to pick the parcel up at my house and take it to them.

That was yesterday: the motherboard fails their tests and is written off as a no post, but the CPU is said to be fine so they send it me back and start the process of crediting me for the mobo.

That brings us to today: we get the Ryzen 3800x back. Thinking that it might just need a BIOS update or something, we use the QFlash feature to update the BIOS without the CPU installed, then fully reassemble the machine and try and POST.