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Heatpipes are definitely affected by orientation. The liquid inside should flow back to the baseplate either by gravity or capilary action and evaporate there to get the heat away from the chip. If you mount a GPU as in your picture, capilary action is not strong enough to work against gravity...

I own this exact screen. It's okay gaming wise. It goes up to 70 Hz, official Freesync range is 48-70 Hz, I expanded it through CRU to ~34-70 Hz. Contrast is good, colours are nice. Input lag is not the lowest, around 25 ms according to prad.de. I would recommend Overdrive setting +1, because +2...

Or it was a plasma TV that had way better motion clarity than LCD TVs due to the inherent flickering. You could try a monitor that supports backlight strobing (ULMB or similar) to see if you get the same effect.

Won't matter in a year when support for Win 7 ends.

I'll never understand why manufacturers feel the need to curve a 16:9 panel. Didn't make any sense on TVs (and was quickly abandoned) and doesn't make any sense on monitors. :confused:

Maybe, that 3570k is getting a little old, but I'm trying to hold out for the 7nm Ryzen. The 580 manages 1440p quite well. I adjust some settings here and there and it also helps that I'm rarely playing the latest iteration AAA games like Assassin's Creed etc.

Hey there, I just signed up to confirm this exact thing happening to me, too. I run a Sapphire RX 580 Nitro+ with a Iiyama ProLite XUB2792QSU-B1 (27 inch 1440p screen, 48-70 Hz Freesync range, no LFC, connected via DisplayPort. Not the best, I know, but FreeSync should work nontheless). I...