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    Question Is the high power-draw for its Arc A-series GPUs in multi-monitor setups really fixed?

    I think that was Intel's fix last October when the issue was first discovered. Since then there is an article stating there was a driver based solution. See THIS. Howver, I have a driver issued after the aforementioned driver and it seems like it still is an issue for me. Or maybe I don't know...
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    Question Is the high power-draw for its Arc A-series GPUs in multi-monitor setups really fixed?

    I just built a new PC (i7 13700 & Z790 Gigabyte Elite & 32 GB RAM) with an Arc A750. It is a 2 monitor setup - 2 BenQ monitors It is running driver version 31.0.101.4255 According to this TechPowerUp article the issue was fixed with an earlier driver 31.0.101.416. Yet according to ArcControl it...
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    Need a GPU for Lightroom 5.7 photo editing on a 27 incher monitor and 4 year old rig

    NB > Local pc store having a sale...I've decided to buy a Radeon RX 460 Already have a CPU Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO...will oc the cpu soon.
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    Need a GPU for Lightroom 5.7 photo editing on a 27 incher monitor and 4 year old rig

    I'm wondering if even a cheap vid card would help a bit - anything $100 or less. Also do I lose something by using the mini-display cord plugged in to the thunderbolt port? Could a a cheap GPU take some of the load off of the CPU? Would anything be gained if I had a cheap GPU with a...
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    Need a GPU for Lightroom 5.7 photo editing on a 27 incher monitor and 4 year old rig

    Did a system upgrade. Monitor is playing very well with LR now. At time of first use, it was slowing down when I was using crop tool - this forces LR to change zoom to fit in to screen. As a result, I added a second SSD as the LR lrdata previews file (> 100 GBs) had almost filled my SSD C boot...
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    Need a GPU for Lightroom 5.7 photo editing on a 27 incher monitor and 4 year old rig

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/phil_marion/albums
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    Need a GPU for Lightroom 5.7 photo editing on a 27 incher monitor and 4 year old rig

    Received the monitor today and setting up was a breeze. Base, arm and screen easy to assemble. Had absolutely NO problems running it on my 4 year old processor's HD4000 graphics - even have the NEC 20WMGX2 as a 2nd monitor with both running at their native resolutions. The BenQ is at 2560x1440...
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    How do you finance your GPU purchase?

    I will fund my GPU by whoring these photos I've taken while traveling the world: https://www.flickr.com/photos/phil_marion/albums Hopefully the GPU's improvement to my digital workflow will pay for itself many times over. Fingers crossed.
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    Need a GPU for Lightroom 5.7 photo editing on a 27 incher monitor and 4 year old rig

    I realize the following site is a commercial site devoted to selling you hardware but their advice is interesting. https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-Adobe-Lightroom-141/Hardware-Recommendations Video Card (GPU) In Lightroom CC 2015 and Lightroom 6, the software...
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    Need a GPU for Lightroom 5.7 photo editing on a 27 incher monitor and 4 year old rig

    Impulsively I went online all of last night and in to the early morning and in a sleepy mindset I pulled the trigger on a BenQ SW2700PT. http://www.benq.ca/product/monitor/sw2700pt/ When I awoke this morning I realized that I'd neglected to consider whether my PC can handle it. My expertise in...
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    A question about external hard drive enclosures

    Thanks cerb, So i rule out eSATA because this is an external port on motherboards. But when selecting a drive enclosure I have to choose the internal interface. So this old drive will work in any drive enclosure?
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    A question about external hard drive enclosures

    Recently I upgraded my pc and as a result I upgraded all my external backup drives to USB 3.0 drives. As a result I have an old 1 TB USB 2.0 external collecting dust that I want to give to the wife. She also has an old USB 2.0 external drive so I thought for fun I’d remove my old external drive...