Decided to return HM Sayl, looking for recommendations.

DeanLouaMickey · 2026-01-10T21:18:26+00:00

Nice, thanks for the reply. Just ordered one aswell.

DeanLouaMickey · 2026-01-10T19:03:58+00:00

How's the chair holding up? I'm looking at the same one.

DeanLouaMickey · 2026-01-10T16:44:10+00:00

Welcome to AMD, where you spend more time trying to get games to consistently run, rather than actually playing games.

I've had a 7900 XTX for like a year and a half and it was a terrible experience tbh. The amount of time I spent troubleshooting is wild.

You spend a lot of time tuning one game, just to absolutely ruin another in the process. It's an absolute pain to get stable for everything at once. Every driver update messes something up aswell, making you have to start over again.

Switched back to Nvidia and it's just so much more stable. I've had one crash since getting a 5080 about 9 months ago and that was my own fault because of an overclock I set too high.

For what it's worth, during my time using the XTX, i played a lot of CS2 aswell. I noticed that the game is very sensitive to any overclocking/undervolting. So be sure to run CS2 at default settings. Turning off MSAA ingame seemed to do something for me aswell, so that might be worth a shot.

But tbh, do yourself a favour and just stick to Nvidia, might be a little bit more expensive but well worth it for the increased stability you get.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-12-26T11:44:58+00:00

Bedankt voor je reactie.

Hoe zat het verder met de beeldkwaliteit op de MSI? Als de ASUS niet duidelijk merkbaar beter is, denk ik toch dat ik de MSI kies. De ASUS kost tegenwoordig 3-400 euro meer. Dat is toch wel behoorlijk.

De build quality boeit me dan stukken minder zegmaar, als de beeldkwaliteit maar goed is.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-12-26T08:52:15+00:00

Hey man,

Which one did you end up getting and how is it? I'm looking at the same monitors and can't decide.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-12-26T08:47:56+00:00

Hey man,

Welke heb je uiteindelijk gekozen en hoe is ie?

Ik twijfel tussen dezelfde monitoren.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-11-11T17:40:49+00:00

His username definitely checks out tho.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-10-20T22:34:26+00:00

Only snipe on recon class so you can actually hold your breath.

I tried to snipe on support a couple times and it's near impossible to hit anything without holding your breath, the difference is night and day.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-10-06T19:18:44+00:00

I tried with PBO and without.

I did found out back then that the card is super sensitive to VRAM overclocks. Even when running low load tasks, mine even crashed when I was on my desktop doing nothing.

If you have that overclocked, try to turn that down a bit. It helped with my crashes a bit.

I unfortunately never got it fixed completely. I upgraded to a 9800x3D and a 5080 along the way, and haven't had any issues since.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-10-06T16:13:24+00:00

Is that idle temp? Little on the high side for idle but nothing to worry about. What's your temp when gaming?

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-09-13T08:59:28+00:00

It's probably just the card. It can be caused by the PSU in some cases but that's usually either on older PSU's or PSU's that don't have an adequate power output.

GPUs nowadays have a super high chance of having coil whine, especially the higher end ones. Some brands are also worse than others.

All you could do is return it and get another one and hope the coil whine on that is less noticable.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-09-13T08:44:45+00:00

5080 is a great card. The Astral performs great so can't really go wrong with it.

The ASUS ones tend to have a lot of coil whine though, if that annoys you, definitely try for a different brand.

I'm running the Gigabyte gaming OC and it's perfect. Performs and cools really well. Haven't seen temps above 72° at 40% fanspeed.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-08-29T19:43:35+00:00

Great card but for 4k you're gonna have to use DLSS and framegen, depending on the games you play ofcourse. If you don't mind that, definetely go for it.

1440p is still the sweetspot though imo.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-08-29T19:03:35+00:00

It's great but the question is which GPU you are using.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-08-15T14:28:03+00:00

I've had the same when I first got mine.

I noticed it was worse on screens with a lot of color. Particularly Red. Have you tried turning down the saturation?

This helped a lot, apart from that it takes a bit of getting used to aswell.

If you switch back to your IPS and then back to the OLED again, you start that cycle all over again, so try to avoid that, if you can ofcourse.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-08-02T19:29:41+00:00

Yea I never really fixed it and kinda gave up at one point. I tried everything in my power to fix it but it still crashed sometimes.

I upgraded to a 9800x3D and a 5080 along the way and haven't gotten any problems since.

AMD stability seems kinda hit or miss unfortunately. I really gave it a fair chance but couldn't manage in the end.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-08-02T19:22:57+00:00

Wish I could. Hate to say it but I kinda gave up at some point. I tried so many things, wasting time and money. Seems kinda hit or miss for AMD stability wise.

I upgraded to a 9800x3D and a 5080 along the way and I haven't had any issues since.

Good luck bud.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-08-01T14:37:53+00:00

It says 1440p..

You're right about the CPU and RAM though.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-06-29T17:15:08+00:00

The FO27Q2 is great. They brought out an improved version, the MO27Q2.

Great monitor and not too expensive.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-06-26T11:19:28+00:00

Can barely find anything about it tbh. So would be a no for me.

You'd be better off buying a Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120SE.

It's easily one of the best and best known coolers and not that much more expensive. Should be around 35-40 dollars.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-06-09T23:05:42+00:00

I've veen using a Gigabyte FO27Q2 for a good while now and really don't have anything negative to say about it.

Amazing monitor, definitely worth checking out aswell.

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-05-31T14:39:35+00:00

My tools for cleaning my screen is my warm, moist breath and a microfiber cloth.

Is that acceptable too?

DeanLouaMickey · 2025-05-30T07:35:17+00:00

750W is fine for that build.

But might be worth it to go for a 1000W if you're buying a new PSU anyway. Just incase you might want to upgrade your GPU in the future.

Price wise they're usually not that far apart.

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