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It's Rockstar. It's GOING to be delayed. PC release? Expect at least a year later. Did we not learn our lessons with GTA IV, GTA V, and RDR2? I know I did, and I'll go ahead and say it. I will not be buying this one. I want to want it, I do. I love the GTA franchise. But Rockstar's burned me too many times.

@Guest ML04: I'm not the builder here, but it LOOKS like @Mr. Fox ran the cables from a hole behind the motherboard, and then out the side and used the fans themselves along the bottom of the case to hide the wires maybe? There's usually enough clearance between the motherboard and the tray, USUALLY to hide basic front panel wires and let them sneak out from under the motherboard where they belong. Regardless, I'm sure Mr. Fox will respond soon.

I'll run my 6900XT on PCIe 1.0 x16 with a Socket 939. Don't tempt me bro..... I definitely wish you'd have taken some recordings man, this would've been interesting information. PCIe 3.0 x4 is basically PCIe 1.0 x16 in terms of bandwidth capabilities.

If there's a VPN that'll work, by all means. I just know my Speedify VPN service that I use, I can hop around to all sorts of different servers. Honestly, gaming over it.....it works fine on some games, other games it doesn't. It also does seem like it 100% depends on what server I'm connected to as well. Example, I can use my "Seattle 1" server, and most websites and even a lot of games work fine over Seattle 1. I switch to Seattle 2 or 3, and I start getting captcha's, websites not working, and gaming not going through at all. If you've gotten Forza to work over VPN before, then yeah try a different VPN. I can't really recommend one, as I tend to turn mine OFF for gaming since a lot of titles don't work over it. A lot DO work over it too though, as I'm sure you know. It really depends 100% on the VPN service and the server they use, from what I can personally tell. If a VPN server has been listed as abused, then it probably won't work. And unfortunately, VPN services tend to get abused by their users. Yeah, I recall. I wish there was another option for him, that's got to suck being stuck with restrictive internet like that.

As a VPN user myself, some games just don't work over VPN. If your internet doesn't allow gaming (weird restriction but okay), and the game isn't working through your VPN, you're PROBABLY out of luck. Best advice would be to get a non restrictive ISP.

That's a LOT of review to go through. Dude, I don't know how you did that in the required time frame. Absolutely amazing. Am I the only one who was alarmed at first though reading about CPS being a bully on the playground on here? Very nice choice of headlines there....... I'd never heard of them as a PC parts company before. I'll definitely be on the lookout for their stuff next time I'm shopping, looks great!

Mine's not OLED, but still a 49" 5120x1440 / 120 Ultrawide. Do not recommend unless you're ONLY gaming on it (and games that support it). Productivity, multiple monitors is still king. OLED..........honestly, probably better suited for film I'd think? Yeah, OLED is amazing for gaming (I've seen some of the screenshots you OLED users have put out). I just really don't see THIS particular monitor as being a good buy though.

Not entirely. When they removed the OC email addresses, I was officially kicked out of OCN at that point. After years of actual work given to them for free too. Yes I'm still bitter about that, they still have a decently popular marketplace there.

Shocking............I know huh?

If you put in the Facebook like button again like in OCN back in the day, you know darn good and well I'll abuse it. I could dig a "good idea" button though, or a few other reactions though. Maybe a laughter reaction too? Idk how hard it'd be to implement though, I wouldn't want humorous posts to count towards somebody's reputation for example.

That's great news! Glad you've got it sorted out (hopefully).

If I'm pulling the board, it'll be when I have a replacement on hand. Everything is in this rig so incredibly tight, push / pull fans on a 240 rad on top, cables tucked nicely (not shorting). It was going to be my main rig when I move the 5800x / 6900XT to sim rig duties here in a few weeks. I definitely can find SOMETHING to daily drive. I'll daily drive Windows 98 if I have to, I'm building my sim rig. I really REALLY doubt its shorting on the standoffs. Rig's been built and was running solidly for 2 years, and I've never had to pull it apart until now. This was a failure of multiple reasons from the looks of it. Cooked the old CPU from voltage / weak VRM's on the Gigabyte UD3, and PROBABLY hurt the board from the backfeeding +5v a week or so later (is my guess). I'm sure power back feeding through the HDMI cable wasn't exactly assisting these old parts any at all, especially since I ran it like that (unknowing) for about a week. -_- I didn't have the chance to swap CPU's as of yet to verify. Half days at school all week, so I've got a motor mouth all afternoon preventing me from concentrating on anything.

You and I both know how deathly afraid I am of hooking that stupid adapter back up. It's in the Labrat pile for now.

So far, I've got it down to board, CPU (different), RAM (different), PSU (different), GPU (different), and NVME drive installed for OS only, no SATA drives, case unhooked (its still in the case, but its all unhooked). I think its to the point where I try swapping CPU's back around to determine if the old FX chip acts the same as it WAS, or if it acts the same as this new one is. If my old FX chip freezes like this one's doing, I'm going to assume board failure. If the old FX chip acts like it was, "stable" at stock with 1.55v, then I'll know to try yet another CPU before assuming board's dead, which I have a Phenom II I can toss in for troubleshooting. Old parts SUCK when they die btw. No warranty / RMA.

The PSU was originally approximately 2 years old, if that. EVGA 700BQ. I pulled it with intents of RMA'ing due to this problem, and have swapped in a EVGA 650GT from my test bench, to find the same problem. Possibly worse, but definitely not better. The EVGA 650GT has never had a failure to date, and was used as my "test bench" PSU. It was also powering Ryzen rigs at one point, its been a solid PSU. Also about 2 years old, give or take.

I've stripped the rig down to just the NVME, CPU, RAM, motherboard, and GPU (known good RX 580). Still doing it. Nothing on the front panel is connected and no SATA drives either. I'm thinking its the motherboard still having a problem. -_- I'll swap CPU's out tomorrow to check, but looking like the board suffered a failure somewhere, possibly from the capture card shenanigans and not the dead CPU from the Gigabyte board like I thought. The old FX was definitely faulty, it was requiring 1.5v for stock. But it wasn't freezing like this new CPU is. The only thing in between them is that HDMI cable carrying power (as shown above).

Welcome to another round of "Which part did I kill?"........ On today's episode, we have my good ol' "trusty" AMD FX "retro rig" I built a while back (current sig rig). Let's dive in, and see if we can find an answer for me shall we? (Please lol). So.....this all started during the hwbot Team Cup. We needed a (4P) FX run, which only certain Gigabyte boards were capable of doing (1 module per core active). I went ahead and took one for the team, and ran it in a 4 phase Gigabyte 990FX UD3, with my good clocking FX 8350. Chip used to pull 4.8GHz stable at 1.56v no problems. Well, during that run, the stupid Gigabyte board decided that 1.55v set was going to be 1.75v actual. Damaged the CPU (I'm assuming). Swapped the CPU back into my Sabertooth 990FX, figured it was an FX.....it'll be fine. System SEEMED fine for the week-ish I had it setup like that. I never really stressed it, but it booted right up at its old clock speeds fine and was working. Ripped a few thrift store CD's to my collection with it, again seemed fine. I received an EVGA Capture card in about a week later. I hooked it up, and I also hooked up a VGA adapter to it and an HDMI splitter. This way I could run HDMI into the capture card OR a VGA cable into it, and either way I could capture footage. It SEEMED to be working, but for some odd reason it kept crashing. When trying to determine the crashing, I swapped rigs out completely at that station, trying my Phenom II rig in its place. Something wasn't right. I noticed that with the Phenom II rig connected, my fans were powering up..........WITHOUT the AC power plug even connected to the wall!!!!! So something, either the capture card or the splitter or VGA adapter, was backfeeding +5v back through the HDMI cable. I ran the FX rig like this for a week or so before figuring this out. (See picture for proof of the power problem) (Pictured rig is my 1100T build, I never ONCE powered it on like this, HDMI plug removed, the lights turned off) (Pictured rig is my 1100T build, I never ONCE powered it on like this, HDMI plug removed, the lights turned off) NOW......... I've swapped CPU to @neurotix's old FX 8350, thank you @damric. I've applied PTM to it. I've swapped in my known good bench PSU (and its showing kinda low +12v according to software, haven't tried a multimeter yet). The system will NOT even run at stock / auto / turbo. It just freezes under load. No errors, no BSOD's.....just flat out freezes. How screwed am I? Any idears on what I can check from here? I really hope I didn't kill the board with that stupid attempt at trying to stream my screen. -_-

Interesting. We need review samples! Those actually look pretty nice, very minimalistic and sleek looking.

Windows is SUPPOSED to have that feature built in, however I was never able to get it to work properly on anything past like Win7. I use Connectify these days to make it work (I use LAN out, but you can use any NIC).

I can understand it. I'm looking at those older HAF cases because of all the 5.25 bays. But I did recently do a build in the HAF700. Honestly, for such a giant ass case I loved it. Don't get rid of that old case man, they're SOOOOOO hard to find now. Cooler Master HAF 700 Review and Build - ExtremeHW REVIEWS.EXTREMEHW.NET Fan of Cooler Master? We will be putting together build with the HAF 700 Case, MasterLiquid PL360 Flux & XG850 Plus Platinum PSU, Read...

I want your case. Just saying. Welcome to EHW! Nice to have you.

Either bad mobo, or maybe a bad BIOS revision. Either way, yeah its looking more like mobo here. Hopefully he gets it figured out and maybe its something stupid that we're all missing. It happens sometimes.

I don't know if this helps at all, but if you have any SATA drives, have you tried swapping SATA cables? You've got me stumped, that's really weird that it was fine till IceQ was installed too though.

Unfortunately I'm absolutely strapped, but I do hope they get what they need so they can stay in their new home country. Have a bump. Seems like a fair and honest enough cause.