7531Leonidas Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Yeah, I figured (I am using a Ryzen 3800x CPU on a last-generation MB), just wanted to give you some hard(er) figures to help confirm your choices, and maybe help keep you from biting off more than you can chew WRT landscape/outfit/skin mods. I am pretty sure that DynDOLOD 3 will make some kind of difference, once I can get it to run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrettsfloyd Posted April 13 Author Share Posted April 13 Also, keep in mind that the monitor that I currently have is only capable of 1080 resolution. I am hoping that I will still be able to use it. I'm already in debt deep enough as it is. I will eventually have to replace it, but as it stands now, there is nothing wrong with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7531Leonidas Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 Well, as long as you are not in a place w/a lot of lightning or power instability, your monitor should be fine. Here's hoping! I had to get a new monitor a year or two ago, when my beautiful 16:10 NEC monitor lost something due to a power surge, in spite of power back-up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrettsfloyd Posted April 20 Author Share Posted April 20 Okay Folks, Got the new computer built and it is up and running. Took alot longer than I care to admit (haven't done this in 13 years). Besides the disgusting eyesore that is windows 11, I seem to be having issues with atrocious sound quality from this pc (Asus Rog Strix Z790-f) . I have my old sound card from 13 years ago, but I don't see anywhere to install it. I am guessing it is incompatible with the newer technology. Does anybody have any ideas on how to fix this audio quality? I mean seriously, elevator music over the telephone has better quality than this. There is absolutely no way that I can do anything with this in it's current state. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AaronOfMpls Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 (edited) 3 hours ago, barrettsfloyd said: Besides the disgusting eyesore that is windows 11 There are ways to enable different Windows themes, though I'm not familiar with 11 myself. (The last Windows I used regularly was 7.) Otherwise, it can be remedied by shopping around different Linux distros, many of whose desktop environments can be made quite Windows-like. If Windows eventually annoys you enough, then download a few .iso's and run them in a virtual machine for a while, see if you like any. There are also plenty of guides out there for getting Windows games to run on Linux, not to mention ProtonDB for Steam games. 3 hours ago, barrettsfloyd said: I seem to be having issues with atrocious sound quality from this pc (Asus Rog Strix Z790-f) Are your sound drivers up to date? Or if it started after a driver update, can you roll it back? 3 hours ago, barrettsfloyd said: I have my old sound card from 13 years ago, but I don't see anywhere to install it. I am guessing it is incompatible with the newer technology. What kind of expansion slots does your motherboard have, and what kind is the card meant to go into? Edited April 20 by AaronOfMpls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrettsfloyd Posted April 20 Author Share Posted April 20 3 hours ago, AaronOfMpls said: There are ways to enable different Windows themes, though I'm not familiar with 11 myself. (The last Windows I used regularly was 7.) Otherwise, it can be remedied by shopping around different Linux distros, many of whose desktop environments can be made quite Windows-like. If Windows eventually annoys you enough, then download a few .iso's and run them in a virtual machine for a while, see if you like any. There are also plenty of guides out there for getting Windows games to run on Linux, not to mention ProtonDB for Steam games. Are your sound drivers up to date? Or if it started after a driver update, can you roll it back? What kind of expansion slots does your motherboard have, and what kind is the card meant to go into? Until today, I regularly used Windows 7. Windows 11, in some ways, reminds me a bit of Vista...an OS that I couldn't dump soon enough when 7 was released. Maybe I'll get used to it, but at the moment, I'm not a big fan of it. I have looked a bit into customizing it. I will keep looking, but IMO, you can put all the lipstick you want on a pig, but at the end of the day you've still got Miss Piggy. Sound drivers are up to date. Stayed up most of the night putting it together and banging my head against the wall trying to figure out how some thing were supposed to go together. I got it eventually. It is possible that there is a slot for the sound card I have, but at the moment it would be underneath the graphics card. The sound card is an old Creative SoundBlaster. Bought it about 10 years or so ago (still works just fine). From what I have been reading online, the Rog Stryx z790-f (maybe all the 790's) have this problem. Nobody I have seen online yet has a real answer for it other than an external sound card. USB or an amp, I think. I am out of date on my tech knowledge so the time, assistance, and suggestions people here have given me is appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 I see three PCIe x16 slots, and one x1 slot... No pci slots, and no, the two are not compatible. (assuming your sound card is PCI.) You can put a PCIe x1 in in x16 slot, and it'll work just fine. So, time for a new sound card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrettsfloyd Posted April 20 Author Share Posted April 20 3 hours ago, HeyYou said: I see three PCIe x16 slots, and one x1 slot... No pci slots, and no, the two are not compatible. (assuming your sound card is PCI.) You can put a PCIe x1 in in x16 slot, and it'll work just fine. So, time for a new sound card? Got any suggestions that'll work? I may have a slot underneath the graphics card, but I can't remove that just for a sound card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7531Leonidas Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 Try searching for "changing windows 11 to look like windows 7". There were several options, but I didn't want to link spam here, and only you know what you are willing to try/chance in some of those methods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyYou Posted April 21 Share Posted April 21 1 hour ago, barrettsfloyd said: Got any suggestions that'll work? I may have a slot underneath the graphics card, but I can't remove that just for a sound card. Anything in the other two slots? Pick the soundblaster of your choice. Even if it is an x1 card, it will still work in the x16 slot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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