[QUOTE=Teddybeer;50698161]Something like bumptop?[/QUOTE]
Not even that. No 3D gimmicks or icon stacking or anything. Literally your regular desktop but with a tiny amount of physics added exclusively to window and icon movement but not the movement of icons within windows themselves or drag and drop into windows.
So I've been delving harder into monitors and my first two requirements have left me in a very [I]expensive[/I] spot.
My top requirements are:
1. IPS panel. All my current monitors are TN and I want to see what the fuss is about.
2. 144 refresh rate.
This seems to have pretty much locked me into a 27" 1440p monitor with either FreeSync or G-Sync.
Screen tearing and juddering really aggravates me. Is G-Sync [I]actually[/I] worth it? According to PCPartPicker, the cheapest G-Sync I can get is: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009742[/url]
I was also looking at this ASUS monitor since I like them a little more: [url]https://www.amazon.com/SWIFT-PG279Q-Screen-LED-Lit-Monitor/dp/B017EVR2VM?ie=UTF8&tag=pcpapi-20[/url]
Now if I dump the G-Sync, I can get this one: [url]http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236466[/url] and I suppose I could just hope that nVidia will implement FreeSync (which I don't see happening).
TL;DR
1. [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009742"]Acer w/G-Sync for $689[/URL]
2. [URL="https://www.amazon.com/SWIFT-PG279Q-Screen-LED-Lit-Monitor/dp/B017EVR2VM?ie=UTF8&tag=pcpapi-20"]ASUS w/ G-Sync for $750[/URL]
3. [URL="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236466"]ASUS w/ FreeSync for $569[/URL]
Normal prices on all three are all $800, so I'm hoping I can make a choice before their sales expire.
Help me decide, peeps :(
I've had good experiences with 60Hz Acer monitors, up until I try overclocking it. The ASUS ROG styling pisses me off, but if you want all the features and the response time, go for that one.
[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;50697889]Literally every workstation at my job runs dual monitors. Decently sized ones too.
[I]but now I'm spoiled. I want 2 at home...[/I][/QUOTE]
After using dual monitors for video editing at school, I got myself a dual monitors setup at home because it's sooooooooo nice. I might get a third monitor, like a decent colour accurate one for the colour editing stuff.
Might get some ips one from Dell, 24 inch, 1080p to fit my current monitor setup for consistency.
So I think my issue is indeed my RAID controller or something. I opened a big screenshot from OW into Photoshop. Like a 24kx14k image (it has tiled screenshots) to do some editing on it, and My scratch SSD disconnected. So I rebooted photoshop and moved my scratch disk to another SSD. That SSD disconnected. I then did the same on a harddrive on a different controller and it did the same thing.
My Intel 6gbps ports just drop the drive when PS does too much work, and same with Marvell.
That's 2 different SSD models too. And all different cables and on two different power cables.
:ohno:
Edit: Come on, approve this credit card so I can be gone with this madness.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;50697653]You might think that, but where I work I'm normally bouncing between any number of windows, usually have 2 dozen open. You can't have too many monitors for that.
The leftmost display is the laptop display which is 12 inches smaller and also 4K, but I run it at 1080p since Windows 7 DPI scaling.[/QUOTE]
I agree you can never have too many monitors. It's about the width. I have three and to be honest, having them side by side in landscape mode is already kind of awkward for working.
Though I suppose the left being a laptop explains things.
The scaling with windows is so annoying. Why can't it be decent like on os x?
[QUOTE=Te Great Skeeve;50696745]I just checked, they don't do it anymore except on TV's.[/QUOTE]
if you're a prime member they'll do like anything you ask pretty much
Well I ordered my tickets to Europe. Levelog may be coming to drink at a city near you.
Doubt it Europes a fucking long way away.
Yeah. Wrong direction buddy.
I'm in the US state Georgia, not the country Georgia....
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50700499]Yeah that's not even heading towards down under.
If he wants real alcohol...[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure you yourself told me there isn't really any fantastic beer in NZ.
[editline]12th July 2016[/editline]
Because it was the first question I had when you told me to move to NZ.
[QUOTE=garychencool;50700316]The scaling with windows is so annoying. Why can't it be decent like on os x?[/QUOTE]
Windows can do good scaling. Blame programs that assume everyone has a 96 ppi monitor. It can't cope if the program is put together like shit.
The way Windows renders my 27" 1440p monitor at 100% is my perfect level. I've tried some 28's and 25's and various 4k's and they don't hit it as well for me.
[editline]12th July 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50700511]Our red wine is pretty good.[/QUOTE]
Red? What do you think I am, a commie?
But really a really dry and bold red is all I generally like drinking wine wise.
By the way, have I told all of you how much I hate Windows Update in 7 this week? Because its really pissing me off again, like normal.
[editline]12th July 2016[/editline]
I just want to upgrade to Windows 10 ffs.
[QUOTE=Demache;50700534]By the way, have I told all of you how much I hate Windows Update in 7 this week? Because its really pissing me off again, like normal.
[editline]12th July 2016[/editline]
I just want to upgrade to Windows 10 ffs.[/QUOTE]
Try [code]yum install windows10[/code]
[QUOTE=Levelog;50700557]Try [code]yum install windows10[/code][/QUOTE]
I wish Windows Update was as simple as yum. Just extract and replace the files. No bullshit.
[QUOTE=Demache;50700534]By the way, have I told all of you how much I hate Windows Update in 7 this week? Because its really pissing me off again, like normal.
[editline]12th July 2016[/editline]
I just want to upgrade to Windows 10 ffs.[/QUOTE]
What does windows update have to do with running the media creation tool?
[QUOTE=helifreak;50700604]What does windows update have to do with running the media creation tool?[/QUOTE]
It hangs and just spins when it gets to the "Checking for Updates" section. I let it sit for literally 18 hours and it didn't even budge. I managed to install the Convenience Rollup, and a few patches to stop CPU usage and memory leaks and redid the SoftwareDistribution folder. I'm still checking right now, crossing my fingers. Not much activity except it chewing up one core though.
[QUOTE=garychencool;50700316]The scaling with windows is so annoying. Why can't it be decent like on os x?[/QUOTE]
Windows 8.1 was pretty good, and Windows 10 scaling is perfect for me.
Not sure what problem you're talking about tbh
[QUOTE=Demache;50700730]It hangs and just spins when it gets to the "Checking for Updates" section. I let it sit for literally 18 hours and it didn't even budge. I managed to install the Convenience Rollup, and a few patches to stop CPU usage and memory leaks and redid the SoftwareDistribution folder. I'm still checking right now, crossing my fingers. Not much activity except it chewing up one core though.[/QUOTE]
Try the rollup updates for Windows 7 instead.
[url]https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/3125574[/url]
[QUOTE=BackSapper;50700889]Try the rollup updates for Windows 7 instead.
[url]https://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/kb/3125574[/url][/QUOTE]
Installed that already. It installed fine, but unless I restart the Windows Update service manually, it will just sit there.
[editline]13th July 2016[/editline]
Hooooly shit I forgot about this: [url]https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/971058[/url]
Ran the Microsoft Fix It utilty while the 10 upgrade was running and jesus christ...
[img]http://i.imgur.com/u9O9VQg.png[/img]
I'M PAST 0%!
[editline]13th July 2016[/editline]
Service registry corruption.
WHY NO BIG SURPRISE.
BitLocker took two hours to encrypt my 250 gb SSD. 4 TiB of HDD is going to take weeks I bet.
It isn't even a sequential process, only went at 40 MiB/s instead of the sequential 4-500. This is going to suck.
[QUOTE=helifreak;50701139]BitLocker took two hours to encrypt my 250 gb SSD. 4 TiB of HDD is going to take weeks I bet.
It isn't even a sequential process, only went at 40 MiB/s instead of the sequential 4-500. This is going to suck.[/QUOTE]
What's the hardware it's running on?
[QUOTE=wingless;50701182]What's the hardware it's running on?[/QUOTE]
i5-6600k, the service never went above 4% but the SSD was at 100% the whole time.
[editline]13th July 2016[/editline]
Oh yeah 840 EVO.
[QUOTE=Demache;50700515]Windows can do good scaling. Blame programs that assume everyone has a 96 ppi monitor. It can't cope if the program is put together like shit.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;50700839]Windows 8.1 was pretty good, and Windows 10 scaling is perfect for me.
Not sure what problem you're talking about tbh[/QUOTE]
The scaling issues I've run into are partially Windows fault and partially the program developers fault.
So for my case, I currently use a laptop that has a 15-inch 4K display at 200% scaling. My "desktop" setup is two 24-inch 1080p displays, at 100% scaling. I connect my laptop to my desktop setups dual monitors and what will happen is that Windows will keep everything at 200% scaling, but make the output 1080p instead of 4K. Not every program adapts to this properly so I have to quit the program, then reopen it for it to fix. Another problem is that not every program fixes itself when I quit the program, then reopen it. An example of this is Adobe programs. If you have their UI scaling set to auto, it will read whatever Windows is telling it. Since the scaling of the main display prior to connect to the dual monitors was 200% on a 4K display, it will tell the programs to scale at 200%. For some programs, it seems to work fine and they auto scale just fine on the 1080p monitors. For some programs, they do, but they end up blurry or blocky when opened when I am on the 4K display, without the monitors connected to it. The only way to properly fix this is if I reboot the computer with the dual 1080p monitors connected so Windows will recognize that it is two 1080p monitors at 100% scaling, and not 1 4K display at 200% scaling. After the reboot, everything that I open is basically fine.
Now after this reboot, I open some programs and I decide to disconnect from my dual monitor setup, what happens is that some programs don't adapt to the scaling properly and will stay really tiny. Some will somewhat scale properly but will be very blocky or blurry. If I was to quit, then reopen the programs, some of them don't scale properly and still open at that 100% scaling setting instead of the 200% that is set on the 4K display. Rebooting fixes it for the most part with the exception of the programs that are not set up for scaling properly, they open blurry or blocky.
It's not just programs, but a lot of Windows applications and core Windows things can be blocky, blurry, run at 100% scaling when it should be running at 200% scaling and vice versa. Context menus can be massive, but the text is tiny. Text can be massive, but the context menus is regular size. It's a mess but it's gotten somewhat better in Windows 10 compared to Windows 8.1. The desktop icons can be tiny when you go from 1080p monitor to 4K display. Or become massive on the other direction. The file explorer likes to have really weird scaling when this happens. On the Open/Save file window where you browse to folders and such, even that can be really massive or really tiny. It's just overall annoying and on OS X, pretty much none of this shit happens.
TL;DR: don't get a 4K display on a laptop unless you have 4K monitors for it. Otherwise scaling is going to be annoying. Going between different scaling options without signing out can cause a lot of issues.
[QUOTE=helifreak;50701273]i5-6600k, the service never went above 4% but the SSD was at 100% the whole time.
[editline]13th July 2016[/editline]
Oh yeah 840 EVO.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like it's something with the SSD. It's possible (Perhaps likely?) that it is windows (Access patterns, etc) but hard to say without proper inspection. It's AES-XTS so it's just block-level encryption. Dont have to worry about filesystem or anything like that, so it's confusing what the problem may be.
[QUOTE=~Kiwi~v2;50701384][video=youtube;wqw1JkoV2hc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqw1JkoV2hc[/video]
Sketchy.
I'm expecting some backlash.[/QUOTE]
The comment section is basically cancer, as expected on YouTube. I think it's good that they made this video tho. Also I like how people are telling people to just go get mobile data. It can be very pricey in some places in the world.
Is the 750 series seriously the only U.2 SSD's around. I'm trying to think of what I could use my U.2 ports for if I got the X99 Deluxe II. if it's just some PCIe lanes, it'd be sweet if it had some adapters to use with stuff.
Seems like literally the only stuff that uses U.2 is just one of the Intel 750 SSD's. And there are M.2 to U.2 adapters, but not the other way around.
Maybe I'm missing something.
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