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Is an HDR monitor pointless for me?

Welp, Looks like the benefit, for me, is minimal to non-existent and I should spend the cash in other areas. Thanks for the replies!
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- Post #7
- Nov 2, 2017
- Forum: Displays
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Is an HDR monitor pointless for me?

Information on this is a little hard to find but it seems that HDR is focused mostly on games. Games is only < 5% of my use case. What I do on a regular basis: Photoshop/light room for semi-professional photography. Watching youtube/netflix (though, most of it is on my phone) General...
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- Oct 31, 2017
- hdr lightroom monitor netflix photoshop word youtube
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Displays
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System crashing due to # of RAM sticks????

The PSU I have is the Corsair HX750i. PSU was mentioned a few times and when I look back, it's probably just as likely or more likely given the information. It's definitely next on the list to swap out but time will tell. Right now my system is stable and has been since I swapped the mobo
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- Post #30
- Aug 24, 2017
- Forum: Motherboards
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System crashing due to # of RAM sticks????

I agree, but I don't have spare parts to swap out. I felt like I was at the point of guessing and buying one part at a time and returning if the same symptoms occurred. I did try to find the problem. All memory tests passed with ~72 hours of running memtest86+ with memory in various...
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- Post #29
- Aug 24, 2017
- Forum: Motherboards
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System crashing due to # of RAM sticks????

Update: I started to get additional weird behaviors. Even when "stable" my computer would sometimes become unresponsive. The screen would be off so I can't say much about what it was last doing. It would never wake back up. This usually takes anywhere from 1 to 3 days to occur. After being in...
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- Post #26
- Aug 22, 2017
- Forum: Motherboards
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System crashing due to # of RAM sticks????

To clarify, the ram voltage was gradually bumped up from 1.2 to 1.38 over the course of about a year. But 1.2v was used during all testing.
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- Post #25
- Aug 11, 2017
- Forum: Motherboards
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System crashing due to # of RAM sticks????

Basically every night for a week. 8 hours overnight per ram stick and stopped only because it completed. 16 hours overnight with all 4 sticks installed. I ran this test twice. I've been leaning towards the motherboard since the beginning and just been trying to prove otherwise. I guess CPU is a...
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- Post #23
- Aug 10, 2017
- Forum: Motherboards
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System crashing due to # of RAM sticks????

I well, looks like my ram is not in the list. I honestly have never looked at ram compatibility lists as it has always worked no matter what. I am running the later bios unless there was an update in the last week or so. Still doesn't explain why it was bulletproof for a couple of years and...
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- Post #20
- Aug 9, 2017
- Forum: Motherboards
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System crashing due to # of RAM sticks????

So I ran a bunch of mem86+ tests...The full test was ran until completion. 0 errors. Slot names below are based on the manual labeling for the 8 ram slots. 1 stick, slot A1 1 stick, slot B1 1 stick, slot C1 1 stick, slot D1 4 sticks, slots A1-D1 All tests pass. But windows crashes only on the...
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- Post #18
- Aug 9, 2017
- Forum: Motherboards
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System crashing due to # of RAM sticks????

After ~20 years of building PC's at some point there is a conflict of interest between your wife's desire to declutter and your own desire to hold on to what is dear to you. Happy wife, happy life. So....
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- Post #16
- Aug 1, 2017
- Forum: Motherboards
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System crashing due to # of RAM sticks????

Unfortunately, I can't try this. I dont have spare power supplies laying around. What I have is an HX750i backed by a 1500 VA backup.
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- Post #12
- Jul 31, 2017
- Forum: Motherboards
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System crashing due to # of RAM sticks????

Yes, at 2133mhz. It's actually rated for 2666Mhz so it's already downclocked. I tried downclocking further and increased latency numbers. No difference. Dropping overclock on CPU was the first thing I did. No difference. BIOS is latest. Second thing did. No difference. Removing memory sticks...
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- Post #8
- Jul 31, 2017
- Forum: Motherboards
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System crashing due to # of RAM sticks????

I did the inverse of that. Instead of one stick at a time, it was 3 sticks at a time. Each memory stick took turns being "out". Then a memtest was ran for hours during each combination. Every combination was stable except when 4 sticks of ram was used.
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- Post #5
- Jul 30, 2017
- Forum: Motherboards
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System crashing due to # of RAM sticks????

Yes. It's pretty binary. Either rock solid stable or crashes shortly after loading the desktop.
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- Post #3
- Jul 30, 2017
- Forum: Motherboards
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System crashing due to # of RAM sticks????

So...lately my computer has started to crash. The symptom is a blue screen given about an unrecoverable error that will randomly happen. When it happens, it happens every time I reboot. It is the same or similar screen I get when I overclock the memory or CPU too much. My System: ASRock X99...
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- Thread
- Jul 28, 2017
- asrock blue corsair crash ddr4 extreme4 overclock screen stock unrecoverable
- Replies: 30
- Forum: Motherboards

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