Have you taken a look at the LG displays at Apple? They looked nice to me whenever I walked past them.

The iMac display is 10 bpp (bits per pixel) while that LG is 8 bpp + FRC (frame rate control).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate_control
FRC is going to compromise image quality to some extent.

LG makes the display for Apple on the iMac and Apple offers an LG-branded monitor with essentially the same hardware in an external monitor, though beware that it requires Thunderbolt and there are lots of complaints about connectivity in the reviews even for Macs that have Thunderbolt.

https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/produc...splay?fnode=4c

Bought an ASUS ROG Strix Vega 64 off someone online for $525.

I set it to Power Saver mode because I read that it outputs less heat and noise with minimal performance hit. I was surprised when I ran Fire Strike because it still had a score of 23,000, a bit higher than I expected and right in the GTX 1080 territory.

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/30120808?

Did a bit more benching with Unigine Valley. Looped it for 45 minutes and the clocks stayed steady at 1500/945 with the max temperature being 70 degrees. Fans were pretty quiet the whole time.

I normally opt for NVIDIA cards if possible due to the better power efficiency and heat output compared to AMD, but I'm very pleased with this one.

So amazon cancelled my ram order........ But credited me a $200 gift card

No read it more carefully. It's a $200 coupon TOWARDS THAT ITEM. :lawl:

I ordered the RAM, same as you, and got the same email.

what a bait trap.

Can you stack coupons?

Ya I saw that. What a crock. Not gonna buy 1800 ram for 200 off lol

2016 55" B6 OLED demo (LG rep claim only 400 hours opened this year) for $1400 bestbuy cambie, with the monitor garbage colours talk, my short time with it it looked meh compared to the latest OLED
dunno if that's a good price but thought i'd drop it here , im sure you can do better during BF

why I don't waste time on price errors unless airfare (good chance of them being honoured)

at best you get a $10-20 coupon

at worst they ship you the wrong item, and you gotta print out a label & drop it off (or go to the store and line-up and waste more time)

I called in to politely complain and got a $20 general use promo coupon! that is a free 20.....woohoo

is there anywhere in canada that does delidding for cpus, such as silicon lottery for the usa?

What CPU are you trying to delid?

9900k with the sTIM.

From what I have read there is no point to delid the 9900k.

https://www.gamersnexus.net/guides/3...4ghz-overclock

Ya its not the 20c u get from a 8700k, but even saving 8-10c on the 9900k is worth it

Just do it yourself using a Rockit 88 or a knockoff one.

http://a.co/d/1rLBYK3

Questionable, but you could buy that on Amazon and return it after.

https://rockitcool.myshopify.com/pages/relidding

I'd do it myself if it wasn't a soldered TIM

^ oh shit....nah man keep you're warranty intact :heckno:

double post

finally got the okay from the wife, so this is gonna be the build...only thing that might change is the case, might switch to the Phanteks Evolv X RGB case.

just going around trying to find the biggest gaps in prices to price beat everything, before the black friday lockout on price matching...a lot of work for saving $15-$20 hahaha

CPU: Intel - Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor ($742.54 @ PC-Canada)
CPU Cooler: EVGA - CLC 280 113.5 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($159.02 @ PC-Canada)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - Z390 AORUS ULTRA ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($334.88 @ Canada Computers)
Memory: Kingston - HyperX Fury 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3466 Memory ($243.02 @ PC-Canada)
Storage: ADATA - XPG SX8200 480 GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive ($156.78 @ Memory Express)
Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($82.60 @ Vuugo)
Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB WINDFORCE OC Video Card ($1779.68 @ Canada Computers)
Case: Cooler Master - MasterCase H500M ATX Mid Tower Case ($268.78 @ Newegg Canada)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($134.38 @ Canada Computers)
Total: $3901.68 taxes and shipping in

meh, not overly worried haha

had an ivy bridge...first time intel started putting shitty TIM
thought about delidding :heckno:

now I'm on AMD don't have to even bother thinking about such non-sense...but my cpu and ram is still stock af

$3900 for a PC! @.@

:alonehappy:

Cross check your parts list on shopbot.ca, might be able to get some savings there. Also some places you could get them to price match and might save even more too.

But then again, $3900 computer, you might not care to save $10. :awwyeah:

Currently eyeing two laptops for black friday and wanted feedback:

Acer Aspire 3 - Ryzen 2500u - 8 GB RAM - 1TB HDD - $499.99
Dell Inspiron 15 3000 - i5 7200U - 8 GB RAM - 1TB HDD - $529.99

Main use is for school, perhaps some light gaming CS/Lol. Leaning on Acer currently since the integrated GPU is way better on the ryzen than intel, but any personal experiences with either brands would be nice. Still waiting for tigerdirect and memoryexpress since they don't have any flyer previews.