Recent content by Gravestone Doji

Thank you. I looked into this and read a little about Raytracing. It sounds very cool and interesting. But being new to gaming I don't know how much it matters, or whether I would notice that much in certain types of games like flight sims and RPGs.

I'll be using my Dell G3223Q 32 Inch 4K Gaming Monitor bought two years ago on Black Friday deal. Also have a TLC 6 series 65" 4K TV but not sure I would use that for PC gaming. Thank you for the excellent info and suggestions. I found it very helpful and will wait to see what happens with the...

Thank you, it looks, well... Super! Which retailers would you suggest buying an RTX 4080 Super from, after it's released?

Basically new to gaming and looking for a little help with buying my first video card. Listed below are the parts bought so far (from Microcenter) for a new system build. After doing some research it's become evident gaming at 4K is too much of a GPU load for most video cards to handle. I...

I kind of thought a flight sim wouldn't be a game that required a lot of video processing. I guess I was wrong, but thank you for the GPU sugesstions Yes, I believe I mentioned it's probably overkill and you're correct, my charting and trading platform are not CPU intensive. But I figured at...

The ASUS motherboard came with the CPU as a combo deal from Microcenter. It was an impulse buy ($322.99 and I had an in-store coupon for an additional $25 off). Needless to say I really didn't look into the fact that the MB only had two video ports. So hence the reason I want to go with a...

I want to get back into trading stocks and plan to build my own computer. I don't think I really need need a high-powered gaming video card, but I do need a card that can run at least three monitors. I suppose I may do some light gaming, like flight sims. I need some help deciding which video...

I suppose you're right. I just thought if there's an update available then I should install the update. But I have no problems with my monitor and it looks amazing. So I guess if it aint broke don't fix it applies here? I mean don't people update to the latest firmware just so it's current?

Last year (2022) I bought a Dell 4K UHD Gaming Monitor - G3223Q. I have never updated the firmware but I think I should. However I've read that updating the firmware downgrades the image quality. And that Dell does not keep copies of previous firmware files for their monitors. So I'm on the...

I went to pickup my order Saturday, 12/10/22 at the Madison Heights store. The place seemed busy but only two people were ahead of me in the Internet Order line. I also used the $25 coupon for new customers despite being a previous customer. Just used my wife's phone number and had her forward...

Thanks for the quick replies. For what I'll be using them for I didn't think I'd notice any difference either but thought I'd ask Now just wondering which drives to use in which machine since I have two identical M550 512GB drives and one large capacity 960GB drive.

I have several older model SSD 's that are brand new, never been used and still sealed in their anti-static bag and was just wondering if there would be any issue with installing them into a couple new builds I'm planning. I was thinking about getting a couple of new M.2 NvMe drives since both...

Perhaps they are date codes of the chips. But if you look close, both sticks have "2017 Sep" printed below "2153" on the label. I decided to send the one back and just go with a single 8GB stick. If I need more memory then I'll order a 16GB (2 x 8G) kit and just sell the single.

So I received the second stick and everything matches EXCEPT one number. It's kind of hard to see but if you look in the yellow circled area, the number on the chip of one stick ends in 726 and the other ends in 723. However, if you'll notice in the kit in the last pic, they both end 726. Not...

Well I just checked and I see it's too late to return the first stick even though I haven't opened it yet. I bought it from NewEgg's eBay store and used a coupon and some eBay Bucks that was about to expire but it's beyond the return window. If I were to buy another identical 8GB stick, seems...