Recent content by Emig5m

I only do 4k these days on a 4k 120Hz display. Gaming at 4k is always the priority but I do a lot of video encoding as a hobby as I film a lot of 4k video with my drones and gopros but my video editor uses the hardware nvidia encoder (Vegas Video) so it's pretty fast, much faster than CPU only...

See this is why there is no such thing as future proofing, lol. As soon as there's any single piece that's a viable upgrade you have to upgrade everything else to fully utilize it anyway. So do you guys think that I would be better off just skipping the 4000 series and waiting till the 5000...

I updated my bios to the most current one so I would need a 11th gen CPU for the PCI-E 4.0 support? The 4090 is my current max budget, but just in case, what would be an actual noticeable upgrade to my current 10850k that would fit my board?

The manufacturers website says PCI-E 3.0 but in CPU-Z it shows the graphics interface as 4.0? I'm just wondering about being able to run a RTX 4090 on this board. New mobo/cpu/ram isn't in the budget. I run everything at 4k.

4k isn't overrated if you have a large screen. On my 75" HDR 4k screen it will still show some alaising without anti-aliasing at 4k but otherwise it looks breathtaking. On smaller screens such as 27" I find 1440p the sweet spot. 1080p really looks chunky to me now.

Horizon Zero Dawn and Monster Energy Supercross 3. Even more sadly, I don't even really see any perceivable boost in video or photo editing and my video editor will max all 10 cores but it is also GPU accelerated. I am keeping the system/parts though for other reasons (more stable, old system...

Ok so I got a 10850k, MSI Z490 mobo, and 32GB of DDR 3600 and what a joke - not even one frame per second more at 1440p! Definitely still GPU bound even with a 2080Ti! 15 days to return at Microcenter so I'll probably return everything and get a RTX 3090. Anyone out there with the 6700k era...

I don't think that anyone would deny that under "certain" bin picked conditions that there won't be any difference at all, it's just that the majority of the time you probably won't notice anything worthwhile. On the Steam forums I seen someone complaining that their 9900k with a 2800Ti was...

Yes, my oldest drive still in use that I just removed had 30,000 hours according to Crystal Disk Info. But still, who knows what someone did to the drive for those 65 hours, maybe they dropped it or damaged something internal or what was the reason was for the return anyway (was it giving them...

I also picked up a 12TB WD drive from Best Buy and shucked it... It's large and in charge and is dead silent. Copying large video files over from my M.2 NVME Samsung SSD is exactly the same transfer speed as the loud as hell Seagate NAS drive so I don't believe just because a drive is large that...

Are you guys sure GPU encoding still sucks? I find that as long as I keep the bitrate close to the original file that it looks nearly identical? It's when I use a pre-configured profile is when the video quality degrades. Youtube degrades video quality more than anything and Facebook drops 4k...

Yea gaming is the top priority and why I bought a 2080Ti. Video editing I don't really care too much as the latest version of Movie Studio Platinum 17 claims full GPU acceleration and it does seem to run very smooth to the point I don't even have to create smaller cache files of clips anymore...

My 6700k only does 4.4Ghz so that's my base on what I'm looking to improve from (I feel like I've been using this CPU forever, definitely my longest lasting CPU) I game mainly at 1440p and like to crank on the eye candy as high as possible on a 144Hz G-Sync monitor but sometimes play on my 4K...

Well I didn't have time to dick around with it anyway, would of been interesting, but I returned it to get a 12TB drive from Best Buy. Maybe the store themselves was using it for customer tech repair, backing up files, then moving them to a new disk, who knows.

I picked up a 6TB drive from Staples last night and didn't notice that the seal had been broken until this morning and that it was a returned/used drive. I ran Crystal Disk Info on it and it said that the drive has been powered on 29 times and used for 65 hours. That seems like a lot of use to...