Reddit mentions of Dell SE2717H KYKMD 27" Screen LED-Lit Monitor, ,Black with Silver Base and Back

Don't listen to advertised response times, as they are usually inaccurate and are best case scenario with the highest overdrive setting. A good monitor I'd recommend is the Dell SE2717H

Same.

Step off, I'm Dell Monitor Fanboy #1. Fite me IRL.

The Acer is a nicer panel (slightly) but the Dells trashed it in build quality.. It actually was very competitive with my P2715Q once I got it adjusted properly. The P2715Q is slightly more "vivid" (contrasty) at a given brightness than the S2716DG, if that makes sense. Increasing the brightness washes out contrast but if it's too dark you lose your shadow detail.

(if you shoot cameras it's like shooting a negative - get it on the film)

Good news is, the S2716DG is real close. I can tell side by side but I know what I'm looking for. Both of those monitors have been rock solid for me. The P2715Q was color-calibrated pretty well from the factory (using a colorimeter). I'm 100% sure they have crappy cost-reduced models but the high end stuff is the shit.

They have a sub-$200 27" 60 Hz IPS Freesync panel out now (sadly only 1080p). Also a 24" version.That would be real nice for a low-end workstation setup, or maybe triple-screen it with Eyefinity.

I've had AMD CPUs since I was a kid (K6-2 400) but a couple years ago I switched to Intel due to the really poor gaming performance. I went back and forth on GPUs every couple years when I was a kid, but a lot of NVIDIA. Started with Matrox (tfw old as fuck), my parents refused to buy me a Voodoo, eventually got a Rage 128 Pro when games with mandatory HW T&L came around, then a GeForce 2 MX, and the 440MX (scam!), and then finally wised up and started buying a nicer GPU every other generation instead. I think I bought some flavor of 5800 or 6800 and then I want to say my next GPU was a 8800 or 9800 or something. There is also the possibility it was an AMD 2600 or something, I forget that one. I switched to a 7850 in Nov 2012 and spent the whole winter break marathoning Far Cry 3 at 720p. A couple years later I switched to the 280, then the 780 Ti (got a really good deal), then a good deal on the S2716DG (1440p TN GSync) happened.

When Pascal launched I got a pretty great deal on a 980 Ti ($400 for a new EVGA Classified) and I figured I'd do Step Up for a 1070 or 1080... then I got on the list and it ended up being 9 months until they had anything and by that point EVGA was having a problem with a batch of bad caps. I ended up getting a nice price mistake on a 1080 FE (for $435) in November and upgraded.

Obviously upgraded a lot recently, but I sell off my old kit, so it's more like trading up. I keep one cheap spare, currently RX 480 8 GB.

I actually almost got a 295x2 at one point (during my 280 era), had it in-hand for $350, decided to send it back and get a Maxwell or Fiji instead. I do have a title that won't scale with SLI that I play all the time - but srsly, major regret there.

I also have a couple 480 8GBs I bought back before prices spiked a couple months ago. Love it at $175, hate it at $220.

I really liked GCN in the early days, going up against Fermi and Kepler it was amazing, against Maxwell+Pascal it's been shit. Polaris is OK, not having a Big Polaris to compete against the 1070/1080 was a bonehead move in hindsight.

I have no particular animosity towards AMD but on the other hand I'm not really willing to entertain the Hype Train bullshit anymore. I have been through this far, far too many times with AMD. Show me the hardware, the benchmarks, and the dotted line I can sign on, or I'm not interested.

I get a lot of entertainment time out of my rig overall, it's cheap as viewed per-month, and if there's a $150 one-time upgrade that will noticeably improve my game quality versus a promise a year into the future then fuck it. I don't have an unlimited budget, I watch religious for deals on hardware, but as yuppie scum with no kids: if there is a serious value proposition to be made I would rather just suck it up and pay the GSync tax or whatever than wait around forever.

My 780 Ti was perfectly playable, and I was actually perfectly happy with my 980 Ti, but I can't stop myself when I have the chance to trade up cheap and the 1080 has also been nice. I game at 1440p at 100fps, the 980 Ti did like 75 which is perfectly fine in my book, I don't see the need to peg the needle at 165 Hz or whatever. With *Sync, 60fps average is magic and 40 is perfectly playable, the big steps upward in many games are in maxing out the last few settings, not the extra 10fps or whatever.

NVIDIA has been constantly delivering lately, which is one reason I mind being locked in somewhat less. Kepler (in hindsight) was a pretty good release actually (given its compute support). Maxwell is a pretty masterful move for the consumer gaming market. Pascal is a solid die shrink with some weak spots patched (DX12/async performance). Jen-Hsun basically invented his market and knows his engineering shit too.

I am very impressed with Lisa Su so far. I don't know that this is her lifelong work like JHH but she's made the right calls since taking over. While Rory Reid picked her, which appears to have been the best call of his life - the technical/leadership directions AMD took during his tenure were all fucking terrible. I hope she does right the ship, a charismatic engineer with vision in charge of a company can go a long ways.

Ryzen is great, I believe in the value propositions high-core-count processors make so strongly that a year ago I upgraded to a 6C/12T i7 + motherboard for $440 total (Microcenter). Memory was half the price then too (got 32GB of DDR4-3000 CAS15 for $126). I still think my hardware still has its advantages (I clock to 4133 all-core at stock voltages, maxing out around 90W with a normal load (handbrake x264) and 130W in Prime95 smallFFT) but Ryzen is a legitimate contender right now especially in the server market IMO. I could probably go to 4.5 if I tried but I'm really more than happy to just run with stock voltages. Xeons are a ripoff (except engineering samples), although i3s and Pentiums can also do ECC now for ye olde ZFS box.

Looking at doing a 8-bay ZFS NAS build on a mATX chassis, needs to have 8 onboard SATA ports minimum (no expansion cards - I want to hold that open for infiniband) plus ideally something for cache too. Right now I'm looking at an Asus PS10M-WS with a G4600 plus a M.2 NVMe drive for boot and L2ARC cache, and maybe 16 GB of ECC RAM. There's also the C2750d4i but that's got a processor with a track record of problems and only a mITX size...

2x Dell SE2717H monitors

HP Pavilion w/ i5-7400, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD, and 512GB SSD

EagleTec KG010-RGB

AUKEY 104 Vintage Typewriter-Style Keycaps

Pictek Mouse

Cougar Bunker Mouse Bungee

Halter height adjustable monitor stands – 2 Pack

Gimars memory foam keyboard and mouse wrist rests

Cyber Acoustics CA-3602a 62W Speakers with Subwoofer

Reflex Lab Large Gaming Mouse Pad – 36”x12”x.20”


Guitar Pen Holder thing from an arts festival years ago – I think.

Coffee mug from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. If you haven’t been here yet, you seriously need to go. It’s incredible.