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LG sorta answered my question today with- https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-27up650-w-4k-uhd-monitor I'll probably go with it.

I currently have one of these- https://www.amazon.com/LG-27UD68-P-27-Inch-Monitor-FreeSync/dp/B01CH9ZTI4/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=27UD68-P&qid=1627431048&sr=8-1 It's my primary. I do game on it. I know it's a waste of my RTX 3090, but 'tis what 'tis. Long-term there I am thinking of an LG...

Thank you, everyone (for the answers on Freesync/Gsync Compat)!

The "review" mentioned it supports Premium Freesync, but I can't find any specs that verify it actually supports variable refresh rates and if it does, what the range on those are (and for what inputs). Not encouraged by the manual not explicitly mentioning it, but it also seems like there is...

Latest update is the Dark Hero arrived ahead of schedule, so just a under a week after my last post I got the MSI swapped-out and the Asus swapped-in. Have to credit Asus that there isn't much of a drop in overall connectivity and available board space dropping from EATX to ATX- MSI gave a...

That's awful =( Got ahold of MSI via livechat today as they hadn't responded to the ticket since Saturday. They confirmed a mythical tool capable of solving this problem by enabling force-flashing of the BIOS exists... but they only give it to authorized repair centers and in the US they only...

Yeah, this has been my take-away. Definitely going to be making dual BIOS and/or flashback an absolute requirement from now-on. I am surprised that the chips aren't replaceable these days tbh. I'd imagine it's out of concern for security, but honestly I would be quite happy with just a simple...

Follow-up The X570 Prestige Creation started well. It actually came with Rev 7C36v1B BIOS out-of-box, so I didn't have any issues dropping my Ryzen 7 5800X in and getting everything going. While the board waited until the physical manual to advertise that MSI offers a PCI-E support brace they...

Oh, I definitely noticed ;) I am keeping myself unexcited about it to keep expectations low until I dive deeper on it and figure out how I want to move forward for storage, but it definitely immediately slotted into the, "nice to have" category and helped seal the Creation's position...

I ended up pulling the trigger on the MSI PRESTIGE X570 CREATION. Moving on now to finding qualified RAM (probably needs to be this as the D15 AM4 is still going to require tiny-ass RAM modules; waiting to see if NewEgg gets more back in-stock tomorrow and will honor that deal still though) and...

Thank 'e, everyone, for the excellent recommendations! Starfalcon, the X570 Creation looks great. Looks like NewEgg has it for $500 right now which would make it cheaper than the Crosshair Formula and would address the heatsink compatibility issue (it tosses a PCI-E 1x slot between the CPU and...

Thank you! $400.00 is the ideal price point, but I'm willing to go higher given the circumstances (capping around $700). Ideally, would like the board's layout to work well for my Noctua D15 AM4. Would like at least 8 USB ports on the back panel, at least one of which is Type-C. Haven't...

Or maybe I'm overthinking all of this and I should just grab a second Strix X570-E (got one in late 2019 to build my wife a rig centered on a Ryzen 3800X) and call it a day.

Thank 'e. Getting closer, but I noticed a NewEgg review where someone using a Noctua D15 had clearance issues with a GTX 1080 installed in the first PCI-E slot (and there may be general issues with the idea of only being able to use the second slot). I have a D15 AM4 edition I'm planning on...

Thank you both for the feedback! I just found out that an RTX 3090 has fallen into my lap, so my absolute top priority is now stable power delivery above all else- last thing I want is for the motherboard to have an electrical problem that fries a part whose MSRP is 3-4x its own. While I'm...

I am doing a rebuild (I know, awful time, but good reasons behind its urgency) based around a Ryzen 5800X. I have usually gone with upper-mid-tier offerings from Asus (my current board is an X370 Prime Pro- which has been... eh), but given the current, weird situation of stock and the overall...

[H] w00t!

It's annoying the few times that happens, but the browser recovers extremely well- I don't lose any data and pick-up right where I left off. This tenacity carries over even when your entire PC goes down from a brief power surge without warning and you were working on a sizable Wiki entry. Boot...

I do agree that $50 at launch was perhaps a bit much from a pure pricing perspective (that is, evaluating what pricing actually should be as opposed to looking at what most things are actually priced and using relative pricing to formulate what the pricing should be- the Orange Box fared quite...

Almost. Friend who got it on X360 had PC HL2 and HL2: Ep1 (should have gotten PC TOB but he bought a FailBox instead of a new comp, a decision he's been regretting ever since), but besides that the X360 has still yet to get any of the TF2 updates and Portal: First Slice which is free on PC is...

Actually, the Orange Box is still a rather good deal. The better of the two HL2 episodes, Portal (short but a worthy experience), but best of all Team Fortress 2. At launch, perhaps TF2 didn't account for much, but since then it easily surpasses L4D in value by a long shot despite that somehow...

Imagine a world where everyone you talk to who is a gamer has a vested interest in getting you to buy a certain game. Now recall current fanboy wars. Now consider fanboy wars where money is involved. Anyone else see where this is going? Also, as a dev, keep your money... seriously... It is...

They FINALLY fixed the boot-up bug where it would, on boot, swap your rez to something lower than what it should be (and than it was last set to) for no discernible reason. For me, this meant that it swapped my primary display from 1920x1200 to 1600x1200 and I needed to manually swap it and...

Radical concept- charge less for games because rather obviously the asking price is currently too high. Greater non-used sales offset the lower price and everyone = happy.

So I popped over to a friend's place yesterday with my rig and requisite components with a pure determination to get my Xigmatek HDT-S1283 mounted and working. So I did (though at the moment I have sacrificed my Antec 900's side fan- I'll need to locate a 120mmx15mm maybe... heard Scythe is...

Hm, well, I've looked over my Xiggy again and I guess it may be salvageable still (did more research on better ways to attach the fan as opposed to the recommended method and it almost seems like the Heatsink Fairy came and made many of the fins look like new minus a couple of bent fins that...

The task of choosing a CPU cooler would be rather straightforward for me... if I didn't transport my current rig so much. When I originally built it last summer, I did so as a relatively quick replacement for my old Socket 939 rig whose motherboard had just died after five years of service. I...

For what? Another five months? They're also talking about including L4D in L4D 2 so... Seems like they're going to be shifting their support to that. Team Fortress 2 is still getting updates and it's been more than a year. aggies though had a good point w/the SDK vs. lack of SDK- I mean, if...

And Team Fortress 2 without any patches was...? Seriously, the amount of mechanics in TF2 that have been notably reworked- Spies being able to recharge their cloak via ammo boxes/dropped weapons, upgradable Dispensers/Teleporters, Pyro compression air blast, etc... Then consider the three game...

Adding insult to injury is of course Killing Floor which has essentially cut what little play-time I allotted to L4D's Survival Mode to basically zero.

Oh, I like L4D, but I already loathe L4D 2. The ONLY REASON I paid $45 for L4D was because of how extraordinarily well Valve supported Team Fortress 2 and they all but stated that L4D would be receiving the same kind of support. If it wasn't for that "assurance", Left 4 Dead wasn't worth my...

Why the hell is that crap in [H]'s sweet spot at the moment? Get that crap out of here.

So wait, why weren't any RTS/RTT games used in the testing? That's usually where cpu-limitation comes into play...

Thus far I have been VERY PLEASANTLY surprised with Killing Floor. I mean, Red Orchestra is my favorite WW2 FPS (it's in a bit of a war with Crysis and Team Fortress 2 for favorite FPS overall and I have to put FPS on the end of WW2 there thanks to Company of Heroes being my favorite WW2 game)...

Hm, have seen some software-side problems reported for the LG. Planning on running whatever drive I go with on Vista x64 (generally not much of an issue nowadays for newer stuff like this but there is always the occasional product that just doesn't feel like supporting it) though ofc I'm not...

Both of my five year old CD/DVD drives that I carried over from my old PC (whose motherboard bit the dust last summer) to my new one have conked out, leaving me with only my newer Asus CD/DVD drive that I bought last summer. In modern times you'd think one drive would be enough but it gets to...

Assuming that Steam and Impulse and D2D and etc are not factored into the US game market percentage since GameStop's PC game sales aren't even factored in according to the article.

From the sounds of it, CounterStrike is more realistic than this would have been, lol.

Konami pulled it because the devs don't really stand a snowball's chance in hell of pulling this off. They made a big deal about if a game was going to be done about that conflict that it was going to be done "right" and "realistically" and "accurately" and etc... Problem is, judging by early...

But it wasn't? It only "beat" the GTX 280 in certain games with certain restrictions (restrictions that should cause you to shy away from plopping down money for an enthusiast-level card) and even when it "beat it", because of its inherent microstuttering issues you would not want it anyway...