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Hi Kelly, I switched to AMD a couple of years ago too and it's worked well. FX63xx and FX83xx have been nice CPUs. Intel's AMT and Vpro are scary.

Just got a Firepro W2100 to do 4k with a screen that's on the way. How have you liked that product line? Anything I should know?

Bet the promise of a free upgrade had a lifetime guarantee. They just didn't say whose lifetime it was.

Thanks Kelly, This card's got Display Port only, but came with a DVI adapter. I also got a 4k Display Port to HDMI cable, which is what the monitor needs. Monitor's a 42" TV, and an experiment. 4k has been around long enough in TV that some of them are showing up at reasonable prices. The card was marketed as the entry level CAD end of things instead of gaming, so I took a gamble on it too. We'll see what I get for color and detail.

There was a discussion on Dyxum a month or so ago about monitors vs tvs and 4k vs other high resolution monitors. By the time it got through I wasn't sure we'd sorted out anything definitive. I do know my old eyes like bigger better, and the specs seem at least nominally higher on the 4k devices. What I am really sure of that the camera's sensor is producing images that are a lot higher definition than the 1080p screen I've been looking at.

Yeah, its Ok and as I mentioned, does everything I need it to. Has 8 cores and its not slow. I'll ask the same question Peter (Peekayoh) asked, "What's Video"? First, I'm an old farht and I'm a still photo photographer and couldn't care less about video and couldn't care less about gaming. So for me it would be over kill and stupid to spend the additional money on an Intel rig for minimal gain in performance (for my purposes). I'd rather spend that money on good glass! Besides any money you over spend on computers is wasted as it will be obsolete even before you have it up and running.     Just like the OS, it has to do the job you need it do, and otherwise stay out of the way. My son built an 8 core i7 top fo the line everything, and over clocked but that is because he's Broadcast Design/Motion Graphis Professional and he needs to render video fast. But none of that applies to me. BTW, on a rare occasion I'll edit and render video from my Tivo to burn to disk and this rig does it plenty fast. Furthermore, Intel needs competition to keep prices somewhat reasonable. This is my 4th AMD build since about 1997 and I haven't had a lick of trouble with any of the hardware. Only problems have come via Microsoft software!   

My Macbook Pro is a Core Duo and my wife's Sony Vio laptop is an i5 both do the job as well, neither is as speedy as this desktop, but then I'm using an SSD for my operating system and programs.

Cliff, I think that TV will work fine for you. However I'm not sure about the color space for photo editing and whether you can calibrate it correctly for PP. Possibly these newer TVs can run in sRGB but I have never researched that. I would have assumed it to be to (for the US) NTSC/ATSC standards. I'm sure the manufacture's specs will give that info.

Performance edge, yes, but you pay for it. And with no compitition, you would pay even more.

Let us know how the 4K TV works out. Like I say my main concern would be a color calibrated work space.

First impressions: At regular viewing distance, side by side with the 1080p, 4k clearly has more detail. Both are approximately 40" screens, so regular viewing distance translates to a little more than a meter. From across the room, the difference is not as pronounced. For viewing and editing photos it's a winner. Next step is color calibration, that may take a little longer. I'm curious how that resolution stacks up with some of the higher than 1080p res but smaller monitors.

Last week the Win10 cumulative update was KB3081424. This week it is KB3081436. Gossip is it will include an Edge browser security update along with OS performance and functionality patches. Win10, maintaining the Microsoft traditions.

I guess a driver problem? Did you check the manufacturer for an updated driver? Of course, I guess if there was one, Microsoft should have used it for the upgrade to Win 10. I'm guessing there will be fewer problems for those upgrading from Win 8.1.

As for the Edge browser, is anyone using it? I haven't used Microsofts browser for a long while -- not unless I have to because a site requires it. I use Chrome mostly, and occasionally, Firefox. Actually I access most of my web based apps from the Chrome launcher from quick launch. Gmail, Google Drive and Calandar, Google Docs and Sheets, Google Maps, Feedly, Dropbox, Kindle, Zinio, and even Outlook mail. Hardly ever accessed stuff from the start screen in Win 8.1 or the start menu in 10 because I use this launcher.

Kilkry wrote: ... As I zoom in one step, the image appears almost to be 100% but like I used heavy-handed USM on it, which I didn't... If this is how the default Photos work and many people will adopt Win 10 then sending digital images is pointless.

'Photos' is an image editor, right? It doesn't have to be the image viewer people would use to view photos. I assume things look okay if you can get Windows Photo Viewer - or some other viewer - to open them.