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posting in OT because this is more of a rant topic than a "chose my hardware" topic.
yesterday i unplugged the DVI cable of my PC while the PC was running and i must have shorted out something because the monitor went black and it refused to work afterwards.
if i unplug the video card, the monitor cycles through the basic colors, but if i plug the DVI into the motherboard DVI socket, i still get no image. still, i could have royally screwed up because i'm pretty sure i turned off the onboard gpu in BIOS. so i panicked and i bought a new monitor, AOC 27" 144hz TN 1ms !
pretty decent for £275 shipped, although i wanted to save some more and buy a 120Hz IPS.
my current monitor is/was a hannspree 23" that i bought in 2010 because my viewsonic died, i paid £95 for it and was never a great monitor. i needed to run a calibration app that killed the gamma otherwise it was impossible to make out any details, and playing Quake on it was pain and suffering.
on top of the £275, i'm now looking at a serious possibility that my GTX 770 broke (it still spins), and while my monitor does support Freesync, it seems all the RX570 are being sold at a ridiculous price right now, and the benchmarks over my 770 aren't really impressive.
there wasn't a worst time to upgrade. i'm so bummed out about being forced to buy a new monitor that isn't what i wanted, because i wanted a proper 2560x1440 IPS 120hz 27", i just wanted to wait for the ridiculous price of over-a-thousand-pounds to come down.
same for the GPU, i really didn't want to update it until my 770 was not doing its job anymore. hopefully, i won't have to, and looking at the prices for AMD cards is making me feel ill.
And to top it all off, i'm on the waiting list for a Topre !!!
jesus .. i was so happy i had £1300 saved .. half of it is already gone.
AND THIS WHOLE THING STARTED because i wanted to replace the Logitech 2.1 system i have, which although it works, it can sometimes only play outof 1 speaker (it does this and then goes back to working flawlessly for months), i splurged on a $50 new logitech while my brain was telling me DO NOT BUY IT YOU DO NOT NEED IT and because the cable was tangled with the DVI and i did not want to cut the old speaker cable, i unscrewed the DVI .. and bam!
yesterday i unplugged the DVI cable of my PC while the PC was running and i must have shorted out something because the monitor went black and it refused to work afterwards.
if i unplug the video card, the monitor cycles through the basic colors, but if i plug the DVI into the motherboard DVI socket, i still get no image. still, i could have royally screwed up because i'm pretty sure i turned off the onboard gpu in BIOS. so i panicked and i bought a new monitor, AOC 27" 144hz TN 1ms !
pretty decent for £275 shipped, although i wanted to save some more and buy a 120Hz IPS.
my current monitor is/was a hannspree 23" that i bought in 2010 because my viewsonic died, i paid £95 for it and was never a great monitor. i needed to run a calibration app that killed the gamma otherwise it was impossible to make out any details, and playing Quake on it was pain and suffering.
on top of the £275, i'm now looking at a serious possibility that my GTX 770 broke (it still spins), and while my monitor does support Freesync, it seems all the RX570 are being sold at a ridiculous price right now, and the benchmarks over my 770 aren't really impressive.
there wasn't a worst time to upgrade. i'm so bummed out about being forced to buy a new monitor that isn't what i wanted, because i wanted a proper 2560x1440 IPS 120hz 27", i just wanted to wait for the ridiculous price of over-a-thousand-pounds to come down.
same for the GPU, i really didn't want to update it until my 770 was not doing its job anymore. hopefully, i won't have to, and looking at the prices for AMD cards is making me feel ill.
And to top it all off, i'm on the waiting list for a Topre !!!
jesus .. i was so happy i had £1300 saved .. half of it is already gone.
AND THIS WHOLE THING STARTED because i wanted to replace the Logitech 2.1 system i have, which although it works, it can sometimes only play outof 1 speaker (it does this and then goes back to working flawlessly for months), i splurged on a $50 new logitech while my brain was telling me DO NOT BUY IT YOU DO NOT NEED IT and because the cable was tangled with the DVI and i did not want to cut the old speaker cable, i unscrewed the DVI .. and bam!
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