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What are you talking about? There are plenty of good looking cases. Corsair, ncase, Fractal Design, Phantek, Silverstone. You'll have to pay premium for cases like these but they have always been around. If anything, you have a lot more choice in good looking cases today than 15-20 years ago...

Why "you chose it" is irrelevant as our needs and budget are going to be different than yours. You didn't tell us what you need. Do you need 10 sata ports, two M2 ports, and 2 WLAN ports? Do you want top notch VRMs and don't care about the rest? Do you need integrated WiFi on your motherboard...

FYI got my ASRock X370 Fatal1ty Professional with three sticks of Kingston KVR24E17D8/16MA (all I have on hand right now) going yesterday evening. Had a bit of a scare because the motherboard would not post, it would just get stuck displaying code 48 on the debug screen. However, I managed to...

Kind of disappointing to see that Ryzen supports unbuffered RAM only. It would have been nice if it supported Registered ram since there is plenty of those modules on ebay. It's kind of shocking how short the list of Unbuffered DDR4 ram is and how expensive it is. I'm upgrading my server/NAS...

FYI the only 32GB sticks available on the market are quad-ranked Registered ECC modules that Ryzen does not support. You will need to buy unbuffered/not-registered ram, and to the best of my research those are limited to dual ranked 16GB modules.

Assuming you're talking about Asus X370 Crosshair VI Hero, personally I'd go with ASRock. I've had good experience with them, Taichi is cheaper (<$200 vs $250), ASRock seems to be very committed to releasing BIOS updates, Asus on the other hand had bricked tons of their own motherboards through...

Yeah, I came across those while looking for solution to my problem, however these adapters are only for HDMI and they are intended to solve a problem that I have never had. As I said, I got a pair of DP to HDMI cables yesterday evening, and so far I have had zero signal drops, so hopefully my...

Ugh, I may have to backtrack on what I said. While you may not need expensive active adapters, it looks like GTX10xx series can only drive 4 monitors at once, in which case, you may be OOL?

FYI windows is now much better at running multiple video drivers. I have run my AMD card in parallel with onboard Intel IGPU and it worked just done. If you have IGPU you can try that before plunking down cash onto another card. Also, FYI, the only time you need expensive active converter is...

Yeah, the cables were "Premium Certified" which means they are guaranteed to carry 4K@60Hz signal, and they were no longer than 6 feet. I've tried multiple cables too, I've tried cables that came with the monitors, I've tried really thick 24AWG cables, I've tried active RedMere cables, I've...

I'd probably keep AMD cards if you plan on mining in the future. Historically speaking nVidia cards have always had poor mining support in the past, while AMD ruled the scene. The 1070 mining ZEC and ETH at rates comparable to AMD is somewhat of a surprise. It's possible that nVidia will be...

Yes, Asus Essence STX and STXII have 4 pin molex that is supposed to power the card. Theoretically, a dirty/noisy power supply could affect sound quality, and if that's the case, theoretically external power supply terminated with 4 pin molex would improve the sound. Having said that, stuff...

Because what I have right now is good enough, I want to wait to be absolutely sure ECC ram works, I want to be more responsible with my money (ugh), and there might be a good deal around BF at one of those places. Basically being responsible sucks.

Tempted to buy 8C for my server, but I really want to wait until I know the if Ryzen platform (including motherboards) will support ECC ram. If the answer on ECC ram is positive, then depending on the funds and pricing I may get one for my server right away. May also wait for end of year, maybe...

Eventually I think we might have no choice but to go optical if we want ultra high definition high refresh displays. We're already reaching limits of copper cables. Over at AVSFORUM...

Warranty wise, it depends on manufacturer and where you live. Some manufacturers put warranty void stickers and explicitly state they won't warranty card if the sticker is broken. Some countries however have laws that say manufacturer has to warranty card even if the sticker is broken. Some...

Backstory: a few months ago I got two LG 27UD68 4K FreeSync monitors for a good price to replace my old 1440p Aurias with big ugly plastic bazels. My R9 290 didn't have proper outputs to drive 4K at 60Hz so since I don't game that much anymore I also got RX 480 (MSI Gaming X model). I tried...

Couple of thoughts. One, pretty much every aftermarket rx 480 has worse VRM's than reference because reference is overbuilt. Two, technically the youtube video in question reviews Red Devil whereas this deal is for Red Dragon, The Red Dragon PCB might be different from Red Devil. And third...