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I'm still using that desk as well! Good old jerker. The 48" fits perfectly in the 'frame' made with the desk and the top shelf :)

Just to clarify, does this gamma issue only manifest when VRR is enabled? If I disable VRR, and I use vsync to lock 60Hz or 120Hz, I assume there is no issue because the screen is still refreshing at 120Hz as long as VRR is disabled? I have one of these on the way (finally) and this gives me...

Can you lower brightness when doing desktop/browsing activities such that the ABL would never actually kick in (for example, say ABL knocks fullscreen white down to 150nits ... what if you set brightness low enough that the screen never went higher than 150 nits period)? For desktop type...

Apparently the CX models aren't supporting FULL hdmi 2.1 bandwidth (see https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2020/05/04/lgs-2020-4k-oled-and-lcd-tvs-dont-support-full-hdmi-21/#4cbbae466276). Is this something to be concerned about for any current or near future use-cases?

I have an i5-4670K OC'd to 4GHz, purchased > 5 years ago. This morning I was looking around at black Friday deals and thinking maybe it's time to give my core system components (CPU/MB/RAM) a refresh. i5-8600K or Ryzen 7 2700X seem like good bang-for-the-buck upgrades, along with some DDR4...

Thanks Nenu, this is the kind of thing that has me intrigued about the idea of a TV as a monitor. I was The 'TV as a monitor' path definitely seems more viable today than it ever has been, which really makes me pause when considering the more expensive PC monitors. It's too bad most of the...

Is the high refresh stuff even worth it if you rarely get your fps higher than 60? Historically, I'm the kind of person who will crank the graphics as high as they can go (within reason) as long as I can hit a consistent 60fps-ish, and I will also favor a consistent fps over one that swings...

I'm rocking an 11 year old 24" BENQ LCD that is still chugging along fine, and have been waiting patiently for the holy grail of displays. I'm itching to upgrade, but it (always?) seems like an especially bad time. On the one hand, you have high refresh rates and VRR. On the other, you have...

OK, so I got home and did some mixed testing. This led to GPU thermals in 80-83 degree C (which as far as I know is normal for hardcore stress testing of the GPU). From what I've read, once it gets into this temperature range, it should start throttling to prevent damage and overheating, not...

Added relevant system specs to OP. I'm not running a UPS, but I am using a 'mature' power bar, so I'll try going into the wall directly. The system does appear to be stable while not gaming, for now. Last night I updated the MB and reset the bios to default state, but it didn't help.

This doesn't sound good. I was reading through your post and getting all excited that you were building up to a solution, haha :) I hope I don't have this experience!

I thought the GPU would also throttle if it got too hot (980ti)? I will definitely try to test more by loading both at the same time. However, let's say I can't get the GPU to fail alone, and I can't get the CPU to fail alone, but I CAN get a failure by stressing both at the same time. What...

This one is starting to drive me crazy. During gaming (e.g. DOOM) the PC will reset after some random amount of time (5,10,15 min). System is a few year old Haswell build, and has been solid up until recently. I noticed this in a few games, knew my PSU was nearly 10 years old, assumed it was...

I'm not making this post to discuss which is better or to discuss the technology itself - based on all the reading I've done, it seems that as long as you are pushing frames at a rate that exceed the monitors minimum refresh rate, you're going to have a pretty nice experience in both cases. I...

I don't get any beeping or useful BIOS errors, just no signal. RMA isn't an option for me; it's a 4 year old HD6950 (flashed to 6970) so it's past the 3 year warranty (longest I've gone without upgrading my video card!). Too bad really, since it was still holding up surprisingly well for 1080p...

Thanks for the suggestion, that actually worked!

As far as the device manager is concerned the HD4600 is the only display device installed. But the actual adapter that windows thinks it is using is the Microsoft Basic Display Driver. No combination of installing/removing/installing/screaming makes any difference. I found one thread on...

I tried another quick test with furmark. It wouldn't even run a test because it couldn't detect any graphics hardware. Detected graphics hardware: - OpenGL renderer (main graphics card): Microsoft Basic Display Driver <sigh>

If I look at the device manager, it tells me i have 10.18.14.4170. If I run intel's driver update utility, it tells me I have 15.36.19.64.4170. The actual title of the update i installed is: Intel® Iris&#8482; and HD Graphics Driver for Windows* 7/8/8.1 64-bit Installs the Intel® Iris&#8482...

Hi, I have an i5-4670K processor with HD 4600 graphics. I have no other video card in my system at the moment (my primary PCIE card is likely dead so I wanted to try out the HD4600 until I can sort out a replacement). I installed the HD4600 graphics driver from Intel's site, and that seemed...

I played around a bit with safe mode, but the results all point to a dead card. If the card is even present in the machine, whether it is the primary adapter or not, it will prevent windows from booting properly. Booting into safe mode with the card in the machine, but with the monitor...

Thanks Babel, Unfortunately, drivers are not my problem. Since I AM able to boot into windows using the integrated graphics (with the video card removed), I was able to remove all AMD driver software from my system. That didn't improve my situation. Under no circumstances have I been able...

I'll probably take it to a local PC store tomorrow and see if they can try it one of their machines. If it fails there I will know for sure.

Oh, it's been on and off plenty of times. I tested both the 6-pin connectors feeding the card with a multimeter and they display healthy a 12V for all the power pins (I know that if the problem is ripple I won't be able to detect it easily without an oscilloscope but I don't have access to...

BIOS is set to PCIE, so if a card is in the slot it will take precedence over integrated graphics. I took a small PCIE express graphics card from my office and tried it at home and it was fine (I guess that rules out the motherboard).

It appears to boot up with familiar lights and sounds with the video card plugged in ... although without being able to see anything on the monitor I'm not 100% sure what state it is in. At this point it is either the card, the motherboard, or the PS. I should be able to rule out the PS...

I tried both outputs on the card, and both pcie slots on my motherboard, same result. The fan spins up on the card. I'll probably try and borrow a multimeter from work to test the power supply lines going to the card. If they are fine that will rule out the power supply at least.

Hi, So today when I got home and powered on my PC, my monitor didn't detect any signal from my video card (HD6950). Since I was pretty much handcuffed until I could see anything on the display, I pulled the video card, reset my motherboard (asrock z87m extreme 4) CMOS, plugged my monitor...

Copyright - I just wanted to understand you. Are you saying that when using adaptive you get instabilities during 'regular' system operation that you don't necessarily see during stress testing? I think I'm seeing something similar. I currently get random blue screen and bootup issues and I'm...

Out of everything I've tried so far, only a single 'workaround' has made the problem go away. When you plug in a PCIE graphics card, the bios will make it the primary display device and by default it will disable any onboard graphics HW. This is normal bios behavior in my experience. If I...

Hi. Yes, this is a 6950 flashed to a 6970. I too thought that could be a problem, so flashed it back to the stock 6950 bios. Same strange behavior. I tried other PCIE slots. Same behavior. I tried changing the PCIE speed associated with the slot. Same behavior. I'm starting to think this...

Corsair TX750W. Should be more than enough power, and I've never had issues with it before. Both the PSU and video card are more or less 'tried and tested' since they were doing fine in my previous build prior to shuffling them over to this one last week. Unless within the span of a couple...

Yes, the card gets power, fans turn on. Although when it turns on 'properly' the fans tend to spin fast for a few seconds then slow down. When my problem occurs, the fans just turn on low and stay on low. As soon as I hit reset though the fan RPM spike occurs, I get a signal, and the OS boots...

I have a strange problem that has manifested itself on a new system I am building. I recently bought a haswell MB (ASRock z87m extreme 4) + i5-4670 and some RAM. I built the system using the onboard graphics and everything was fine. I then moved the HD6950 from my old machine over to this...

I too am using a hyper 212 evo CPU cooler. My motherboard is an ASRock Z87M Extreme 4.

I spent some time playing around with overclocking my i5-4670k and found what feels like a stable number (4.4 @ 1.235V manual override voltage). I then read about Haswell's adaptive voltage settings and enabled adaptive voltage with a 1.235V cap. Once I've achieved a stable overclock, is...

So far I'm happy with the upgrade, yes. I upgraded from a Q6600 + platter HD to a i5-4670 + SSD though so things definitely feel faster. So far I've had no issues with the motherboard (although I don't have my whole system setup since my case hasn't arrived - bare minimum running spread out...

Thank you very much - this is it. I don't know why I assumed it was a motherboard thing ... but now I know why I couldn't find it in the bios!

I'm using an ASRock Z87m Extreme 4 motherboard, and I'm playing around with overclocking my i5-4670k. One thing I can't figure out is if there is a bios setting to prevent the CPU core speed from dropping down when it's idle/not busy. If I load the CPU (e.g. aida64) I see my proper...

I don't think I have much more OC headroom - I went about as high as I could go with air cooling. And yes, that 6950->6970 bios flash option is enticing as well. Might be worth a try.