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I was actually just sitting here pondering that very same scenario......

Speaking of merch..........Avacado should definitely get this made up and wear it on his little outing. Me flexing my mad photoshop skills.....

I absolutely love both of your ideas there TBH. I'd love to see some EHW AIO's, keyboards, mice maybe......we could do all of that pretty easily I'd imagine. The question is, would it sell / make money, be worth the investment for E? Depending on mounting capabilities of the AIO, and keyboard and mouse options (if that was ever brought to), I'd possibly want all 3 at least one of each. I do have a question though, not at you directly, but about that process in general with the merch. Would going through a merch handler like that, for our small of a community be a little bit, I dunno too much? For streamlining a full time merch gig, I could totally understand something like that. But for the 5 or 6 people here that'd want some neat EHW stuff? Let's just be safe and bump that up to idk, an order of 50 (of whatever). That even seems overkill. Wouldn't it be more cost effective to have the merch made as a one time run? You'd have a wider variety of manufacturers to choose from and could order the exact number that is needed, no more. Or maybe a few extra to give away as freebies in competitions or something, but still. If the site ever got anywhere near even old OCN member levels, I could totally see a merch handler business like that being a useful tool to keep in mind for future merch runs though.

Granted, you now have the super power of being too slow for everything. I wish I had water cooling equipment.

Okay, I think I see a potential plus with that setup. The mics could plug directly into the wireless DAC (which then goes to speakers) and bypass the tablet entirely for mics. THAT wouldn't be too bad of an idea actually. Then tablet can just send audio over BT (for videos), and video content over wifi to a Chromecast, Firestick or Roku, into the splitter, out to the 4 TV's. Yay! That'll work!

We're basically trying to use his Samsung View tablet to be a mixer, speaker output, microphone input, AND display videos on 4 TV's (which we already have a splitter for HDMI). But.....all wirelessly so the tablet can be carried around.

Man I miss mine, broke the USB plug on the keyboard itself and at the time had no clue how to repair it. -_-

I mean my "hotspot" has always hit 110*C on this card since I got it. RMA'd it once and that didn't change a single thing.

BRB, swapping drivers.

Close, except we already have 4x HDMI cables coming down the wall already, and an existing HDMI splitter he's been using already. Forgot to mention that part I guess. I was thinking: This + some shielded RCA's to the speakers (use bluetooth from the tablet): https://www.amazon.com/Bluetooth-Amplifier-Wireless-Receiver-Digital/dp/B087JJ24SG/ref=sr_1_11?crid=3EMNW5CUXMH72&keywords=bluetooth+dac&qid=1673499554&sprefix=bluetooth+da%2Caps%2C307&sr=8-11 Then use microphones similar to these (idk if they make with receiver USB Micro-B instead of C though): https://www.amazon.com/Aisizon-Microphones-Microphone-A2d-Recording/dp/B0B4KLW9B2/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=XFYG4BTVAQ35&keywords=wireless%2Bmicrophone%2B3%2Bpack&qid=1673500243&sprefix=wireless%2Bmicrophone%2B3%2Bpac%2Caps%2C270&sr=8-2-spons&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUEyUThaN05STzA2OTlaJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwNzYzMjg2M1IzM1dHQ0JSUEJSUiZlbmNyeXB0ZWRBZElkPUEwNDI5NTcyM1QyOFA0TVgxTlFNQSZ3aWRnZXROYW1lPXNwX2F0ZiZhY3Rpb249Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU&th=1 And then I guess plug a Roku or Firestick into the 4x HDMI cables going to the TV's and use wireless display to get the screen out? (Already have an HDMI splitter) Not entirely sure if that'd work 100% though, seriously it'd be so much easier on a PC lol. I'm not 100% sure microphones will keep working on an android if you don't have an app open to use them. So say they start a video, but then they want to use the microphone during the video, that probably won't work on an Android without switching the apps back over is what I'm thinking. Or to be honest, if my idea above would even work at all.

Put here because not entirely sure what section this really belongs in........ So, I'm trying to help a local church out with their technology needs, and they've got an interesting idea but I've never done it before. Is there a way to connect speakers wirelessly, screens wirelessly (4, all displaying the same thing is fine), AND microphones (to go through the speakers) wirelessly to a Samsung Galaxy View SM-T670? I was thinking maybe get one of those wireless bluetooth to RCA adapters Parts Express sells and use bluetooth for the audio. They sell those usually for wireless surround DIY options, is basically what I was thinking. Not sure 110% if there's a bluetooth option, but I'm sure there's something out there that's a bluetooth DAC basically. I know Amazon sells some decent 3 packs of wireless microphones that come with a USB receiver that they talk to (I'd need to either find a Micro-B receiver / mic pair or convert). Although I am curious what your guys' thoughts are on what the appropriate type of mic would be suitable for the situation. So that handles KINDA audio, at least in theory? But how can I get the 4 HDMI cables we have coming down the wall, and get those wirelessly into the tablet and duplicate the display on 4 monitors too? Would I use like a Roku type device, or maybe a PC with appropriate Windows 10 capabilities of using wireless display tech or something? Would that even work? A $30 Roku sitting perhaps even up in the ceiling connected to the 4 TV's would probably be a lot easier to wireless Picture very much related, its the back of his speakers (he has 2 just like this). TLDR: We're trying to get these + mics + 4x HDMI outs, wirelessly, from a Galaxy View with USB Micro-B, Bluetooth / Wifi.

Isn't the 3090 faster than the 4070Ti? I'd almost rather grab a used 3090 personally for that kinda scratch. More VRAM available to it too, for the higher resolutions.

Like I said earlier, it ALL depends on games you play and the goals you have for that rig. If you're happy with the 2080Ti's performance, or maybe if you want just a LITTLE BIT more performance out of it (like 1-3%), then water cool it. If you want it to be a neater looking rig, water cool it. You want silence? Water cool. If you're after a bigger jump in performance, new GPU / CPU depending (in this case GPU). Basically, what I'm getting at here is that water cooling isn't going to net you any increase in performance. At least nothing tangible. Yes, you'll be able to overclock a little bit more. But is that overclock going to be worth the money invested to get it for such a small percentage increase? No. People that water cool proper, do it for other reasons. Keeping the same loop for years (as mentioned by Avacado earlier). Silence. Higher performance across multiple builds by just changing the blocks out. The looks of water cooling. DIY'ing and building something custom 100% yourself. There's many reasons why people water cool. But to make a big leap in performance, that's not one of them.

Right, that was exactly my point even if I made it horribly. If the CPU is going to bottleneck, its going to bottleneck regardless of resolution. The PCIe version makes much less of a difference in terms of bottlenecking than the CPU will. Actually, if anything PCIe 3.0 would be about his ONLY bottleneck on that 9900k system. If I found an upgrade with my 6900XT with a Ryzen 3600 with PCIe 3.0, he'll surely see it as an even bigger upgrade with a 9900k with PCIe 3.0. As such, yeah I wouldn't even worry about it because the performance jump from having a better GPU would negate any "bottleneck" from the PCIe bus.

Well, I'll just put it this way. My 6900XT is a PCIe 4.0 card. My Ryzen 3600 / B450 build only allows PCIe 3.0. Card worked fine, and I saw a massive improvement over my 5700XT that was in the build previously. HOWEVER, minimum framerates hadn't changed at all, and that was the biggest reason for my own personal upgrade. So yeah, I was CPU limited, in the sense that my minimum framerates (the stutter) hadn't changed. Yes, PCIe 4.0 matters on PCIe 4.0 cards, of course it does. That doesn't mean that you won't see an improvement on a PCIe 3.0 system as well though. This has been argued about since PCIe 2.0 came out to be honest. It really all depends on your needs and wants out of the system. If you're happy with your current 2080Ti with + 1-2% more, then yeah watercooling that sounds like the right choice. If you're happy with it, and just want it to be cooler running, more silent, or perhaps just to do something different, yeah watercooling it sounds right. If you're after a higher percentage difference than overclocking can give you, get a better GPU for it.

Not trying to convince you one way or the other, but those bottleneck calculators are usually so off its hilarious. Your 9900k easily, EASILY beats my Ryzen 3600. But yet I've ran my 6900XT on my Ryzen 3600 and it worked fine. Yes, I saw a minimum framerate increase when jumping to my 5800x. Averages were about the same. I'm confident you'd see a significant increase going to a 3080 / 3080Ti over your current 2080Ti in the system, enough to the point it'd be worth the "upgrade". HOWEVER, given this isn't your only system, that upgrade path is up to you. Nothing wrong with the pairing you already have either. ------------- About water cooling...... Have you thought about ditching the AIO and doing a full CPU / GPU loop on that build? It'd save a little room in the case, and might make it easier to control where the heat is coming from in that case since Avacado pointed out the case can be a hot box. Besides, most of the time when somebody builds a loop for their GPU, they USUALLY toss the CPU in the loop too eventually, whether it was in their original plans or not.

Would you mind expanding on that last point a little? That's a first I'm hearing about that one, and I have a lot of AMD GPU's I don't want ded. Unless you're just meaning the drivers that absolutely nuke performance to the point last gen GPU's are about worthless, then yeah that's a thing too.

Welcome! I've only ever personally gone properly wet a couple of times, but there's plenty of guys here who do it on every build. You're definitely in the right place.

Not sure if I should consider that rude, or a gift. Wish granted, but choose wisely. You're only allowed to control time in one direction (your choice). Never to return to present time ever again, leaving your entire life behind. I wish for EHW's HEALTHY growth in 2023. More reviews, and more (healthy) site members.

Wish granted, but now you can ONLY fly. Good luck, your arms are about to get awful tired..... I wish I had my PC collection completed already.

Welcome David! I hope you enjoy your stay here, and find whatever it is you're looking for.

Nah, the problem was that I removed the C drive all together, but I had it imaged. I was trying to access that image as a usable drive to recover data because restoring the image somehow had failed....possibly due to new physical C drive. Idk, I fixed it by the above thing regardless. Kinda neat that you can now mount your old images as a usable drive with Macrium.

Figured it out...... Opened Macrium Reflect Existing Backups tab, browse for image, opened old image. Right click the path, "browse image", so I could open it in Explorer. When choosing the drive letter to mount out of the image, chose drive C. This is the trick here "Enable access to restricted folders" & "Make writeable" both needed to be checkmarked. Now I have access to my old user profile folder. I got my Minecraft world back!

So I was swapping NVME drives yesterday, and I broke my system. -_- I backed it up first with Macrium Reflect. Restored the image to the new NVME, and for some odd reason the rig didn't like that too much. Kept BSOD'ing saying boot device failure. So, I clean wrote Windows 11 to the new NVME. Now I have my old backup file open in Explorer.......I can't access my user folder on the old image. Security is broken, but it won't let me re-write security. I try to take ownership of the folder and it says that its write protected. I do still have my old NVME drive, that I "can" plop into another rig, but being Windows 11, I'm not sure that's going to work out too well either? I'll have to pull out another rig to test it with, but yeah......... TLDR: How can I gain access again to my user folder on my Reflect Image, or can I recover it somehow off the old NVME drive I just pulled out?

They're stealing our nanometers! bits!