graphics-cards

[vital oriole]

or that the gpu's having problems itself

[velvet grail]

Looks like it is 100% a 1080ti

[velvet grail]

Fan problem

[feral wadi]

yeah thats why i was figuring its a gpu issue, they said its been happening for a couple months and they have had the gpu for 2 years

[velvet grail]

Oh wait you weren't talking with me lol

[vital oriole]

as for the fan problem

you can find replacements for fairly cheap tbh

[velvet grail]

Yeah, 12 bucks on AliExpress

But still "perfect condition"... Doesn't look like, I'd have said more like meh condition

Btw that fan that's making the noise probably never spun because it was jammed with one of the metal parts of the shroud

That's probably why it's making noise

Got squished badly

[vital oriole]

I would ask for a partial refund and profit with replaced fans

[velvet grail]

I was thinking about that too but where I bought it you can't really get partial refunds...maybe a wire transfer... Idk

[velvet grail]

I'd ask for at least 20€ off because of the big scratches on the backplate, the bent cooler fins (already repaired those) and the fan

[vital oriole]

ya

[velvet grail]

This is the noise the fan makes, and the fan is running at just at about 30%

It's louder than the one you hear ^

I think I need ddu, the drivers are probably having some problems because of the old 1080, doesn't look smooth and idle power consumption is high

[hasty sphinx]

Might try having them turn off Link State Power Management in their Power Management settings.

[vital oriole]

I didn't think of that

Yeah, I guess windows sometimes decides to turn that pcie slot off for god knows why

[hasty sphinx]

71c idle is hot as heck though. I wonder if it's overheating and needs to be repasted.

[feral wadi]

[feral wadi]

they werent idle they were on FFXIV

[hasty sphinx]

Ah, I just closed FFXIV for the night 😛

[feral wadi]

kek

[velvet grail]

15w idle for the 1080ti ok? They say it should be 10w and below

[heady turtle]

Idle wattage usually depends on how truly idle the card is, what resolution it's doing etc

15w is nothing to worry about

[odd siren]

15w is arguably good lol

[heady turtle]

laughs in intel cpu idles

[odd siren]

Bru u can't compare those, cpu's don't have ray tracing

|| ||

[heady turtle]

Neither does a 1080 ti

https://tenor.com/view/g2esports-g2-mikyx-m1kyx-anime-gif-19256301

[odd siren]

1080ti can ray trace

It sucking at it but it will tracing the rays

[heady turtle]

How?

Some work around?

[odd siren]

It just

It tries

Best little gpu ever

[hot folio]

RX480>

[normal hawk]

Microsoft DXR Raytracing.

AMD 6000, GTX 10 and 16, and then the rtx cards can do it. It's a directX 12 thing.

Had to test DXR on MW2019. 😅 My work PC was a 1660 super at the time.

[heady turtle]

Oh I haven't heard of that

I mean rx 6000 supports it natively anyway lol

[hot folio]

Doesn’t 6000 series have RT cores?

[heady turtle]

It does thats what i mean

[hot folio]

Ahh ok

[heady turtle]

What's really cool is when not being used for rt they can actually do raster too instead of sitting their idle

[neat flint]

Quick question. I installed a 6900xt in a system with a 700watt PSU and a ryzen 7 2700x, after I’ve been seeing games take much longer to load and frame rates worse or not much better. Could this be cpu bottleneck? Or cpu and PSU problems?

My cpu utilization is between 50-100 depending on the game

I also did do a clean install of the drivers

[keen nacelle]

Did you ddu?

Oh I'm blind

Yes you did

For the 8 pin connectors, did you use multiple cables or did you daisy chain

[neat flint]

I used multiple cables

[keen nacelle]

What's the psu?

[neat flint]

It’s a 700 watt bronze. Gigabyte B700H

[odd siren]

That sounds like a PSU that'll need replacing

Also yes, 2700x would be holding back the 6900xt in a lot of games. Terribly so

[neat flint]

How bad of a match do you think the PSU is? I only do gaming in 1080p so wouldn’t it draw less power?

[odd siren]

1080p you'll also really be capping your card with the monitor

It's more of a 1440p card

[keen nacelle]

Very

[odd siren]

I'm not familiar with gigabyte B-H but I imagine it's either very new or very old

I'd go for something a bit higher tier for 6900XT

Like a Leadex III or RMe

What motherboard do you have?

[keen nacelle]

2016

Psu made in 2016

[neat flint]

Oh damn..

[odd siren]

Yeah that's due for a change

[neat flint]

The motherboard is a x470

I don’t remember brand

[odd siren]

You don't want to lose the card so soon

[odd siren]

Ok awesome. A 5800x3d would drop right in

[keen nacelle]

You can check make and model in systeminfo

[odd siren]

Grab that and a thermalright phantom spirit 120 se

[keen nacelle]

Odds are it'd be fine with a 5800x3d unless it's a very bottom of the barrel board

[odd siren]

Yeah pretty much

[neat flint]

One sec lemme see

[odd siren]

@neat flint how much ram do you have too btw

And how much are you willing to spend for this card 💀

[neat flint]

16gbs running at 3000mhz

[odd siren]

I see

[neat flint]

Oh um..I don’t know yet

[odd siren]

Alr

Let us know the motherboard name

[neat flint]

It’s a prime x470 pro by asus

[odd siren]

I believe that'll work fine yeah

[neat flint]

Yay xD

[odd siren]

Start with, 5800x3d and psu, rm750e

That's about, $450-ish?

[neat flint]

That seems reasonable

[keen nacelle]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/d6x4H2 or https://pcpartpicker.com/list/rrnYv3

Second one might need a new cooler depending on what you have

[neat flint]

What about a 7 5700x?

[odd siren]

Yeah basically what You'r did

[keen nacelle]

Depends on price, if it's still $160 it's good

If its not then nah, I'd go 5600 or 5800x3d

[odd siren]

Then you grab the ram after cpu and psu

Then upgrade the monitor

I would go to 1440p 144hz+

Like gigabyte G27Q or HP X27Q or X32

Any of those 3 for like, <$220 usd

@neat flint do you have an ssd for your windows

[neat flint]

My system is on an nvme while the games are on a 2tb hard drive

[odd siren]

Ok that's perfectly fine

Yeah pretty much that

[neat flint]

Sounds good! Thank you both for the insight!

[odd siren]

So $540 or $700 total

And you'll be running the pc most suited for the gpu

[keen nacelle]

Happy to :D

[odd siren]

Quick little breakdown on what happens, the cpu essentially renders frames at the same time the gpu does

The cpu and gpu need to both be pumping out as fast as each other to render as much fps as possible

So if you upgrade the heck out of one? That gpu/cpu is capable of much faster now, but it's then being held back by the other

Different games yield different results but the 2700X working between 50-100% usage is it just working pretty dang hard rn 💀

This restriction also becomes much less of a problem the higher resolution you go, but games like shooters should still be (mostly) on the high side of fps still

[neat flint]

Ahhh I see

I do have one more question

[odd siren]

I'm all ears (eyes)

[neat flint]

I have a 7900 xtx in my personal system that needs 3 8-pin connections, problem is my PSU only came with 2 and I don’t know where to get more that work with my PSU

[odd siren]

What psu is it

[neat flint]

Asus rog strix 750w

[odd siren]

And the cpu?

[neat flint]

7 7700x

[odd siren]

Ah ok

And are any of those 2 pcie connectors

Do they have an extra connector

Or is it just 2 straight connectors, single 8 pin

[neat flint]

They both have the extra 6+2 pin connector piggy tail

[odd siren]

Ok so pop that piggy tail onto the 8 pin to the farthest right

[keen nacelle]

Tbh it should be fine with one being a pig tail

[odd siren]

Yeah

You should be good using it

[keen nacelle]

Only issue is when a two pin card is being daisy chained normally

[neat flint]

Oh okay, well thank you again!

[odd siren]

Np

[unborn sinew]

Is the 4090 fe still in production or have they been discontinued?

[keen nacelle]

yes it is still in production, it's the current gens flagship

[unborn sinew]

Thank you! I was just making sure since i saw on Reddit fe models are limited edition and only made for a certain amount of time i was afraid I missed my chance to buy one

[vital oriole]

that's only the fe

all the aib models are still in production

[unborn sinew]

I know that but my question was if the fe model was still in production

[livid idol]

It's still in production for the 40 series

[vital oriole]

^

[nocturne nest]

anyone know if there any guides to dissasemble a 6650 XT XFX Qick 308?

[unborn sinew]

Thank you

[vital oriole]

taking a gpu apart is fairly straightforward

remove all the screws out, check for any fan connectors and stuff

[nocturne nest]

oh i thought there would be more since theres the heat sinc and pipes in there

[livid idol]

You don't usually disassemble the cooler itself

It comes right off the PCB

[vital oriole]

^

[oak rivet]

I wonder if a better and bigger cooler matters way more if the ambient is at 40c

If the max temps are 66c at 25c they should go up linearly as the ambient increases

At that point cooler becomes very important and not really overkill

[livid idol]

It scales mostly linear but not 1:1
At a higher temp it'll run at a lower clock speed and produce a little less heat

[oak rivet]

Going through this heat wave of highest recorded 41.2c glad I have ac ik peeps who can't afford it probably feeling real bad rn

[livid idol]

My electricity goes up to $0.52 per kWh during peak times this summer, definitely can't afford that so I'll have to run my AC before peak when it's only $0.32

If the temp goes up during peak...

https://tenor.com/view/guess-ill-die-gif-9704573

[odd siren]

pretty normal to do here

[oak rivet]

God help 🙏

[livid idol]

I'm expecting another 120F (49C) summer this year

We set a bunch of records last year, records that were set just a few years prior at that, so it's just getting hotter

[oak rivet]

3090ti owners in shambles rn

Probably will be a while anything tops that thing in power consumption

[livid idol]

4090 ti be like 👀

[oak rivet]

Was watching some benchmarks that thing is soo hilariously bad at fps per watt

[odd siren]

Pshh

Just another day in Australia

[livid idol]

Yeah how's that fall weather treating you right now

[odd siren]

Go from anywhere to like, near or sub zero to 40C+ depending on the time of year lmao

[odd siren]

It's unusually humid. like, temps are reasonable? 25-27C, but very humid so it just feels, yuck

And then at night it drops to like, 6C lmao

Summer it'll do this sorta routine but hotter and with storms and hail

[livid idol]

Yeah sounds about like late October-November here to me

[hot bough]

Sounds like my home town ShangHai.

Horrible weather.

[odd siren]

Ya shanghai and Cali are probably very similar

[hot bough]

Oh your in Cali?

[livid idol]

I am

[odd siren]

I'm not inland too much so I get sort of coastal-ish weather

[hot bough]

I lived in Truckee for a while.

Cali weather is considered heaven compared to Shanghai lmao.

[livid idol]

We got a new fear unlocked this year, first hurricane in the history of california. Now we have to worry about being blown off our feet into the earthquake chasms.

[odd siren]

If I was in central Australia tho, like every day is 50C+ and you stay indoors always

[hot bough]

The best word I can think of to describe ShangHai's weather is miserable.

[odd siren]

Super dry and hot to the point it's legitimately dangerous out and around alice springs

[hot bough]

There is no good time of year for weather unless you love icy humid weather with heavy rain during the winters like me.

[odd siren]

You take a 4x4 with an extended tank and nothing else cos there's no way to get through the highways otherwise

They're too long for normal cars or ev's

[oak rivet]

The water tank is in direct sunlight outside and feels like boiling water during the day

[odd siren]

Yeah? Kinda normal lol

Have a bath m8

[livid idol]

Dig a well

Ground water is cooler

[odd siren]

Nothing is more concerning to me than breaking down somewhere near alice springs

People actually die from overheating out there

And there's no service for hours

[livid idol]

Sounds like death valley national park to me

[odd siren]

Yea, hot af

But like, hours and hours

Next fill up you gotta fill up

[livid idol]

Death valley is 3.4 million acres

[odd siren]

To the north west right?

[livid idol]

It's northeast of Bakersfield and LA, near Vegas

[odd siren]

Ah so like western America then

Butthead city lol

[hot bough]

Seems 4.6ghz is as good as I am gonna get stable with 1.35v.

[livid idol]

Southern california near the border of Nevada yeah

[odd siren]

Oh wait bullhead

LOL

[hot bough]

Scored 15,209 in r23.

[livid idol]

And when I say "near" I mean it's a 2 hour drive

A walk in the national park for an aussie I bet

[odd siren]

How long would it take to cross

By car

[livid idol]

It takes about 2 hours to cross where that highway is, which is the shortest point across there

About 3 1/2 hours to cross the long way

[odd siren]

Ah that's pretty big

[livid idol]

Which is longer than the average car can last yes

[odd siren]

Now quadruple it

[livid idol]

Yeh figured it was a walk in the park for you lol

[odd siren]

Lol

The standard out there are extended tank 4x4's like land cruisers or patrols

120L+ of diesel

You make it to the next stop hours away then you fill up again lolol

50C+ ambient, they consider it life-threatening to be out too long

Nothing to do with me tho

I ain't about that life

💀

[livid idol]

I'm picturing a Jeep with the rear seats removed and replaced by a giant gas tank, is that about right?

[odd siren]

Closed roof yeah

That would be about right

[livid idol]

I doubt you use Jeeps there anyway, they're barely insulated

But at least the doors are removeable

[odd siren]

Like this

[odd siren]

Yeah you definitely want aircon lol

[livid idol]

That's Toyota's idea of a jeep

Ooh a snorkel

[odd siren]

Yesh pretty much

They're very common here tho, go for like, up to 100k usd some of them

Especially if they're modded out the pants

[livid idol]

I kinda want something like that with a snorkel, they're fun to drive through deep mud

Like up to the windows mud

[odd siren]

Oh hell yeah

They're a do all kind of car

Car for life really

The newer ones are really watered down imo

Pretty standard treatment to raise the heck out of them, slap on wide offroads and yeah, snorkels, roo bars or bull bars and some spotlights for night driving

Big tank or racks for jerries

Always a spare

💀

The only time not to own a land cruiser in Aus is when you're a suit in an exec job

And even then some Land cruisers are nice and perfectly acceptable

[oak rivet]

https://youtu.be/O5B_dqi_Syc

Went from competing with fsr to literally native

Based dlss

🍯

[livid idol]

The trick with calling it better than native is it only needs to be better in one way for them to legally claim that

[livid idol]

Yeah, marginally better at best not counting outliers is still legally speaking better

[cyan vault]

On that topic what's the reason AMD cards can't use DLSS? Are they missing something hardware wise or is it just NVIDIA gatekeeping

Since any card can use FSR

[oak rivet]

hardware wise pretty much

end results better with dlss for a reason 🤷‍♂️

[livid idol]

2 reasons, DLSS uses Nvidia Tensor cores (hardware) and DLSS is closed source.

[cyan vault]

Thanks for the info! Interesting

[heady turtle]

It's better ish with dlss because it's closed source and Nvidia is finicky about who can use it and they basically demand it to a standard whereas anyone can through fsr into their game

[livid idol]

Yeah FSR is open source so anyone can implement it easily

DLSS requires certain things to work like image training, more work for game devs

That does mean that the quality of DLSS is better, since it's upscaling the image based on what it expects a 4k image should look like

[vital oriole]

tho dlss has been standard on common game engines

like unity and ue

[cyan vault]

Waiting for FSR 3 😴

[soft flume]

What does this mean

Note: The video card PCIe 16-pin power connector adapter is being supplied by three 6+2-pin power connectors. Please ensure that the three 6+2-pin power connectors are not daisy-chained and do not share the same power cable.

[cyan vault]

A daisy chained connector looks like this

[soft flume]

Ok

I still don’t get it

[sonic mural]

I'll draw a picture

[cyan vault]

Sorry my connection cut out

That is 1 connector but it has 2 that go to the graphics card

[sonic mural]

This is what you want

3 separate cables

This type of thing is what you don't want

Where you have 1 or 2 cables that have multiple outputs

[soft flume]

The text thingy says I need three 6+2 pins but I’m pretty sure the gpu only needs two

Becuase the gpu comes with an adapter that spreads to two

[odd siren]

Some psu's have 2 connectors at the end of one cable to supply a gpu, the warning is asking you to only use the 1st of the 2 connectors to plug in on each cable

It's probably something to do with the quality of the 2nd connector, like the cable quality isn't great

As an example

[soft flume]

So this my psu right

So don’t use the PCIe 8 pin (6+2)

[odd siren]

Like this

[odd siren]

Wait RM850e should be fine. What gpu is this for

[soft flume]

4070

[odd siren]

You're totally fine whatever cable you use

Either the 12vhpwr or the single 8 pin pcie

[soft flume]

Ok

[odd siren]

These two will look the cleanest with it

[soft flume]

It’s comes with only one 8 pin though

[odd siren]

And that should be fine no?

[soft flume]

Ight

[odd siren]

All 4070's either have a 12vhpwr or 1x 8pin connector afaik?

They only use like 200W max

[soft flume]

So u use the 12hpwr to this Lina li strimer to the gpu?

[odd siren]

I guess?

I'm gonna say yes, but I've never used strimers

[soft flume]

Ok

Ok so the black cable is the adapter the gpu comes with

And why is the bottom one bad

And the top one good

[heady turtle]

If you're using extensions they DON'T go into the psu so, pcie cable from pcie into strimmer into adaptors

[soft flume]

Ik

I don’t even they they are long enough if I tried

[nocturne nest]

Im trying to DDU but this pops up. Anyone know a fix?

[heady turtle]

Store it locally maybe? Also did you unzip the folder

If you're in safe mode it can't access onedrive

As you won't have internet access

[velvet grail]

Ddu specifically says it won't work on cloud storage

[nocturne nest]

Its in my ssd

if thats what your asking

and yes its unziped

[velvet grail]

The file path is OneDrive...

[nocturne nest]

oh

what

im slow

lemme fix that rq

[nocturne nest]

alright it works now thanks

[umbral granite]

With a current 3070 would you say the 4070 Ti is still the only worthy upgrade on the NVIDIA side? 4070 probably not worth it?

[keen nacelle]

4070 def not worth it

[solemn panther]

4090 or bust

Get the the 4070ti

[cyan vault]

Is it safe to run a GPU at like 70-80C main 80-90C junction? I can run it at like 60 if I have fans on but I like it being nice and quiet.

From what I've remembered it's fine but just making sure

Card is 7900 XTX red devil :)

[vital oriole]

it's fine

expected of xtx, especially if you prefer running it quiet

[cyan vault]

If it's over 100~ thats when I should worry right?

[vital oriole]

well ye

junction temps looks fine

[supple grove]

For some reason my 3070 (EVGA XC3 ULTRA) doesn't turn on the fans unless I turn it on

Very weird behavior coming from the software, and it's especially annoying when I'm in a game and it starts slowing down due to overheating

[vital oriole]

Hm

I would try reinstalling the software

[supple grove]

Nah, it just seems like an issue with the software as a whole, as I've seen some posts of other people having the same problem

[cyan vault]

?ddu

[neat venture]

DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) Guide by Pato
https://github.com/NeweggTechie/Graphics-cards/wiki/How-to-use-DDU

[cyan vault]

Always worth a try :)

[supple grove]

Not sure why that would fix the problem, as it happened after I installed the software

[cyan vault]

Is it nvidia software or what?

Just assumed it was

[supple grove]

Evga precision x1 iirc

only way for me to get the fans on auto mode spinning is by turning them on manually and back to auto

[ivory herald]

Firmware on evga cards can be quirky by itself. I outright prefer AB & so have my fan at either 0% or 50+ like so. If I knew, would've definitely gotten another brand.

[barren trout]

Is a 3090 used for 740 a good price or its too good to be true n sumthin is definitely wrong with

[oak rivet]

thats very close to new 4070ti prices

atleast in the US

[barren trout]

So is it fake or u think it's broken or is it not worth buying

@oak rivet

[hot bough]

you can get a 6950xt for $600 at the moment. Not as good at Ray tracing but has faster rasterization. Not recommended if it's being used for productivity applications though.

[barren trout]

Would that 6950xt be n ok combo with a intel i5 8400

Not to game but to edit

@hot bough

[hot bough]

What type of editting?

Overall if your going to be using the gpu for productivity apps I'd recommend grabbing a Nvidia card. If my memory does not serve me wrong the RTX 4070 is a bit faster then the 3090 while also being faster in ray tracing.

[vital oriole]

for editing i think 4070 would fare better

[vital oriole]

nah, the 4070 actually performs like 3080

not 3090

that's the 4070ti you're thinking about, but that's 3090/3090ti perf card

[hot bough]

ahh gotcha, thanks for correcting me.

[barren trout]

But my motherboard is only a 3.0 slot its not a 4.0 doesn't the 30 n 40 series 4.0 slots

@oak rivet @hot bough

[odd siren]

It's fine

It runs with 1% of itself of pcie 3.0

[barren trout]

So if it's a vertical gpu mount 4.0 going into a 3.0 motherboard board it doesn't matter @odd siren

[odd siren]

Uh, manually set the slot to 3.0 in bios and it'll be ok, if you're using a riser

8400 is pretty old tho, you'd see some good gains upgrading the mobo and cpu for editing as well

(why vertical mount...?)

[barren trout]

I know im. Thinking of upgrading to a 9900k

[odd siren]

Ok, ima stop you right there

What motherboard do you have

[barren trout]

It's always been my streaming pc only but I've been getting into editing n my 1060 6GB be ramping up like crazy lol so i. Know I jus have low teir components

Uh rog strix code x

[odd siren]

Normally I'd say "heck yeah, go for it!" But specifically the 9900k sells for absurdly high prices online even if it's as old as it is

You can buy 12900K's for 9900K prices and 12th gen beats the snot out of 9th gen

What's your total budget?

And what ram & psu have you got

[barren trout]

Well I don't want to totally let my 1st pc go to waste but I have 32GB of ram 3600 n 660W psu

[odd siren]

Ok the ram can stay

660w psu will not handle a 6900xt

What's your total budget, we can work something out

[barren trout]

I've seen on ebay 250 9900k selling for but yes I could build a new pc jus don't want my old pc to go to the un used lane lol

Jus ton of compatibility to upgrade I guess bells n whistles

[odd siren]

It's more like, I'd rather maximise the investment

Cos 250 for 9900K is gross

You can get equivalent power on a next gen mobo and cpu for the same price

[barren trout]

I know it's old

[odd siren]

It's not that it's more like, you can have more in your hands for the same money

[barren trout]

But that's the only thing my cpu holds

Motherboard I mean

[odd siren]

I know

[barren trout]

True

[odd siren]

But 9900K comes with 2 caveats

#1 lower single and multi thread performance

#2 really high power draw

[barren trout]

I mean I know if I were to build a 2nd pc my streaming pc would jus go in a closet

[fringe scroll]

So it's got no positives 🗿

[odd siren]

You could sell the old PC and make a return on investment

[barren trout]

I know but I doubt any 1 buys it

There's noway

[odd siren]

And 8400/1070Ti pc will get you a good few hundred

People would buy it tbh

[barren trout]

Not with a i5 n a 1060 6GB

In it

[odd siren]

That's still good

Good enough for a lot of things

People still sell and trade ddr3 pc's man

Much much older

[barren trout]

I gotcha

[odd siren]

Whatever fits the budget for the buyer tbh

We're in the ddr5 era now

Let us know your budget man I'll see what the best case scenario is for your system

[barren trout]

Well my 2nd build budget is 1500-2k but my 1st build im trying to put as much lights as possible n make it a capable pc for editing n streaming

@odd siren

But slowly but surely I've been trying to chase that 2080ti with the led light fans from aorus gigabyte 1

But there already at the 40 series 🤣🤣

[keen nacelle]

I wouldnt pay more than $350 for a 2080 ti, even that's pushing it

[barren trout]

It's 600 on Newegg refurbished

[keen nacelle]

That's absolutely awful

[barren trout]

5 sumthin

[keen nacelle]

You can get a 6950xt for that, a 6800xt for less, a used 3080 for less, and a 4070 for that

Gpus that are no longer in production are awfully priced directly from retailers most often

I would only buy a 20 series gpu used

[barren trout]

Yea used on Newegg is high as well

[keen nacelle]

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/gbXV3C/asrock-phantom-gaming-oc-radeon-rx-6950-xt-16-gb-video-card-rx6950xt-pg-16go

[barren trout]

I jus like the rgb fans on it I wanna vertical mount it

N put it in my case

[keen nacelle]

You can replace fans on a gpu, im sure you could find rgb ones

[odd siren]

you're doing 2 pc's?

what's your total budget

[barren trout]

No jus building a 2nd 1 but upgrading my 1st with lights as much as possible

[odd siren]

so just sticking a bunch of lights in the 8400 1060 build?

[barren trout]

Tryna make it look like Vegas

[keen nacelle]

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/MsPy6r

Have budget to go for ddr5 too

If you want to spend more

[barren trout]

Kinda but wen I run small after effects stuff my gpu ramps up crazy n it take awhile to load or render so I know my components are not up to standard or jus below performance

[keen nacelle]

Could just buy rgb strips and stick them in

[odd siren]

yeah you could give it the vegas treatment with some cheap rgb like ez-diy FAB strips

[barren trout]

This is wat I have so far

I jus switched to a all thermaltake theme

But my gpu ramps up like crazy doing small edits so idk if my gpu needs to upgrade or my cpu needs n upgrade or both

[odd siren]

I can't really do much better than Bacca here, we have basically the same list

[odd siren]

@barren trout do something like the reply linked or this https://pcpartpicker.com/list/8mvwLs

I'd personally opt for 64GB and call it a day, you wouldn't even need the old pc tbh

flip it for 300 or so

[oak rivet]

Lol this is soo sad

Looks like a pandemic build

[odd siren]

it's not tho

8400/1060

it's old

[barren trout]

Well b4 I had no idea bout the pc space world

So b4 I wasn't into all the lights I was n still am a console person

So spending a thousand was crazy to me

But now I'm getting into enthusiast builds while upgrading my 1st to max b4 I pull the trigger on the 2nd

[oak rivet]

You would think a pc with a strix board would be fast right 🤷‍♂️

[barren trout]

Well i didn't know any better

[odd siren]

they don't write a book on these things so I don't blame you

I would strongly consider going with one of our lists tho, enough power to just rock a single system instead of two for streaming and editing

[barren trout]

I studied for like a year n come to find out I still was lost

[odd siren]

ya man

I still get lost in this stuff sometimes and I'm like 3 years in

[barren trout]

My budget was 1k but I spent like 1300 on my 1st build but 5 years later I'm jus trying to max my 1st build b4 I move on

Bcuz pcpartpicker told me everything was compatible but my mother board wasn't

Yea im 5 years in still learning but I don't feel accomplished maxing out my old I know I wasting hard earned cash but let me be me lol 😆😆🤣🤣

Until I max out my old pc

[rain aspen]

Hi
May I have problem if I install my four years old GPU (ZOTAC RTX 1660 ti oc) in my new build until I got money for a newer GPU?

[solid glacier]

hey for my fps limit thing should i have this application detection level on low or high

[normal hawk]

Should be fine

[solid glacier]

any one

[oak rivet]

Just do high

[oak rivet]

https://youtu.be/rtt60ONpm44

[blissful tapir]

i’ve just switched from a 1650 to a rx 6700 but when i power on with the new gpu it only comes up with a black screen can someone help me with this

i’ve done my ddu and everything

[hot folio]

PCie cables plugged in all the way?

[nocturne nest]

anyone know if there is a way to take the radiator off the bottom shroud for the fans on a 6650xt XFX?

I was able to Get the top part off and paint it but the bottom part has a radiator thats mounted to the fans, But i can unscrew them as the radiator is blocking them

[hasty sphinx]

QICK or SWFT model?

I can't tell if it has 2 or 3 fans

[nocturne nest]

QICK

sorry forgot to put that

[livid idol]

You have to take the heatsink off the GPU to be able to access the screws usually but yes the shroud is removeable

[nocturne nest]

I did that

But the heat sync is screwd to the bottom shroud

[livid idol]

Is the problem that your screwdriver doesn't fit?

[nocturne nest]

The heat sync is in the way of the screws

and i cant take the heat sync out because its tied to the fans

idk its hard to explain without you being able to see what it looks like

[livid idol]

It's just sounding like you need a slimmer long bit screwdriver to me

[nocturne nest]

dosent fit between the rad

[livid idol]

Right which is why you need a slim one

[nocturne nest]

Then its too small for the screw

do they even make screw drivers that small

to fit through that

[livid idol]

You said you took the heatsink off the GPU
That doesn't look very off

There's screws under the backplate that are holding the heatsink to the GPU

Warning: You will need to repaste the GPU if you take that off, and be careful not to rip the thermal pads

[oak rivet]

https://youtu.be/9wuRxL3b8wU

Very helpful and goes over all price class of gpus

[nocturne nest]

I put it back togeather

in that pic i was showing how small the gaps are between the rad

[random walrus]

uhoh

...its being compared to the 8gb 3060 variant

[hot folio]

At least it’s an improvement over the 3060

unlike the 2060 super and 3060

[odd siren]

$409

[random walrus]

Looking at that graph, the 3060 12gb might match it in performance though...

at least in some games

[random walrus]

my $400 3060ti is gonna beat it lmao

[odd siren]

hahahahaha

it might actually

once again nvidia with the stagflation

[vital oriole]

is that an early rumor

or actual nvidia marketing?

[random walrus]

I assumed it was actual marketing but maybe its a rumor

yeah maybe it's fake

[vital oriole]

that looks very fake ngl

i would be mad if 4060 is only a little bit faster than 3060 8gb

the slower 3060

it better be better than 3060, but i won't expect 3060ti perf

that's where the 4060ti fills the gap

[random walrus]

oh

[vital oriole]

3070 perf

[odd siren]

Even fake, I look forward to the entertainment as how accurate that turns out to be

[vital oriole]

i'd be both sad, angry and entertained if it turns out true somehow

that's some perf regression if there's one

[odd siren]

400 imo would be accurate

[vital oriole]

i doubt it will happen, if cuda count matches 3060

[odd siren]

500 for 4060 Ti

400 for 4060

300 for 4050

[vital oriole]

cuz 4070 has matching cuda count against 3070

[odd siren]

That would line up perfectly with market stagnation

[vital oriole]

but the increased efficiency of the cudas gave it perf uplift

along with addition of g6x

[odd siren]

Nope

You think but compared to market price/perf?

Throws all that out the window

[vital oriole]

im talking outside of price/perf

but yeah

once we see 600

the whole deal falls apart

[odd siren]

It's hard for me not to look at price with Ada

Cos it's focus is literally price this gen

[vital oriole]

we all know how badly the prices are gonna go lmao

4070ti was enough clue

[odd siren]

4080 tbh

Both

[vital oriole]

fair nuff

4080 1.2k

ouch price indeed

at launch it was pretty terrible, inflated to 4090 price

or near

[odd siren]

Supposedly computex (computech?) is the drop time for new rdna 3

[vital oriole]

7700xt pls

better perform well

[odd siren]

Ya 7800XT and 7700XT

[vital oriole]

or 7800xt on that matter

im expecting 500 and 700 respectively, perhaps

[odd siren]

Take it with salt

It's a rumour

[fringe scroll]

Wonder how much better it's rt cores will be

[vital oriole]

xtx is already 3090 rt perf

i wouldn't expect it to be worse than say 3070

[odd siren]

Ai acceleration when

[fringe scroll]

Mine

[fringe scroll]

Frfr

[odd siren]

Urs isn't real RT Dan Dan

RDNA 3 got dem real RT

[fringe scroll]

🤯

[odd siren]

[fringe scroll]

Hey I have rt cores

Just not many

[odd siren]

ROG Ally be like, Z1 CP2077 5fps RT

Brrrrr

You know you want it

$649

The most experience of all time

[fringe scroll]

Wait how 😭

[fringe scroll]

I need

[vital oriole]

real talk, rog ally is a beast

uses a better bin 7745U

[odd siren]

@grizzled nimbus remembers it better than me but it's supposedly software-based.

[vital oriole]

5 ghz boost on a handheld lmao

it's insanity

and higher igp clock

[fringe scroll]

Oh? Huh

[odd siren]

Ye

I'm just a dumb techie tho I might be wrong

[vital oriole]

at what point did we come to where 5ghz is possible on a handheld

[fringe scroll]

Heyyyy don't say that lmao

[odd siren]

What de hecc

[vital oriole]

ye

[odd siren]

I am

[vital oriole]

it's called Z1

[odd siren]

I am open about it 💀

[fringe scroll]

Felix I'll have real rt next month

[odd siren]

U won't

I'll eat ur hand

Don't u even-

[fringe scroll]

But how will I do the 3080 gaming

[odd siren]

I'll RT u in a minute

[odd siren]

U NOT

?

PLS

[fringe scroll]

WHAT

YOU'VE KNOWN THIS

[hot folio]

DO THE AMD GAMING

[odd siren]

https://tenor.com/view/oblivion-gamerpoop-criminal-scum-gif-15277113

[fringe scroll]

THAT CUTIES UP FOR SALE ON OFFERUP BRUH

[odd siren]

YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS A CUTIE ON OFFERUP

THE PUPPY UP THE STREET WITHOUT A FATHER FIGURE

[fringe scroll]

https://offerup.co/ZKhtZb0L9yb

[odd siren]

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU SHOULD DO

[fringe scroll]

RAHHH

[odd siren]

SSSS-SIR

[fringe scroll]

Me when I lie in description

But I do wanna use blender

Jelly was supposed to teach me 🗿

[odd siren]

Dude it thinks I'm a terrorist

[fringe scroll]

LMFAO

[odd siren]

Fair enough

[fringe scroll]

Not why I'm buying one

[odd siren]

But don't come crawling bacc when you remember ur first wife (AMD)

[fringe scroll]

These are the pics I posted

[fringe scroll]

MY FIRST WIFE WAS A 1080TI

[odd siren]

Wow that is unusually clean

Danny lives in a hospital

Confirmed

[fringe scroll]

I clean my pc every other month or so

[odd siren]

Was not

That was a fling

[fringe scroll]

And before the pics lol

[fringe scroll]

She was a side hoe

Wait can I say that here LMAO

[odd siren]

Dude it's 3 am stop

I'll wake the neighbours with ur sass

[fringe scroll]

No its 1pm silly

[odd siren]

U right

Ofc

https://tenor.com/view/face-palm-cant-believe-hugh-laurie-head-slap-house-gif-12137942

[cyan vault]

fsr 3 when 😢

[odd siren]

Soon™️

[fringe scroll]

I need

Well my sis will

[cyan vault]

before 2024 is all i want 🙏

[fringe scroll]

1070ti moment

Should have posted this pic @odd siren that cat would have made it sell frfr

[odd siren]

OMG

HE SO CUWU-

AHH

[fringe scroll]

AMD CAT AMD CAT AMD CAT

GPU CAT GPU CAT GPU CAT

[odd siren]

[hot folio]

…I thought that said ass

[fringe scroll]

LMAO

[vital oriole]

ass so thick they keep alerting the neighbors

[odd siren]

[cyan vault]

how much.

[grizzled nimbus]

halfway

with RX6k, and maybe 7k, haven’t looked into it, each stream processor has part(?) of an RT core

i believe 7K has dedicated ones

it’s hardware, just not the best implementation by any mean

[fringe scroll]

345

I'll likely lower

[soft flume]

I heard the 4070 gonna drop

Y’all know when it is?

[fossil stirrup]

Figure this would be the best place to ask. I'm old School, so maybe Im worrying for nothing. Last year, built my son an Aorus Master Z690 I7, DDR 5 64gb ram, and several SK Hynix P41 NVME 2tb, with 12gb RTX. Only just found out he's using his RTX to run servers, instead of the MB. I'm worried he'll kill his RTX unnecessarily, when he could be using the PC components instead, like when your running a Minecraft servers or Terraria server, or am I wrong?

[heavy pendant]

... what?

[hot bough]

By RTX do you mean the GPU?

[fringe scroll]

HUH

[heavy pendant]

the server runs on the processor

not the graphics card

[fossil stirrup]

Yes

[heavy pendant]

also, you can run a GPU 24x7 for years on end without any problems

this isn't even a problem

[hot bough]

Now just to double check, do you mean he's running the server off his GPU or do you mean he's running a server that also has a gpu installed.

[fossil stirrup]

He's running off the GPU. I'm used to having a GPU to take the load off the motherboard, but when he told me he's running servers off his RTX card, it just didn't sit right with me. Happens when your old and do things a certain way for years, that when something that just doesn't sound possible is possible, has me a bit worried that while he may be running a server off his RTX card, that it's at least safe. First time I heard of this. Back in the days when overclocking required pins being cut, I just wanted to make sure it's something safe

[heavy pendant]

overclocking does not require hardware modification these days, and servers don't need a GPU

[fringe scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/uncomfortable-drinking-thirsty-gif-13676825

[fossil stirrup]

Was just using it as an example. I rather replace an I7 should it fry, then an RTX

[heavy pendant]

neither of them will fry

[fossil stirrup]

Thanks.

[hot bough]

So long as the card receives sufficient cooling and he doesn't physically modify the card it'll be fine.

[heavy pendant]

bro

the kid is not going to physically modify the card

[last barn]

no he's a pro XOCer

[heavy pendant]

far

[last barn]

vince and miller taught him everything they know

[heavy pendant]

stop talking far

tl;dr pc is fine

you won't experience any explosions

[fossil stirrup]

Coolings fine. Not like me who used a horrible psu on a new I9, oh yeah, Gamax 😂

[fringe scroll]

I would of at his age

[hot bough]

Yeah your son's pc is just fine then. I am surprising he's using a GPU for a server though, very rare to see that.

[heavy pendant]

he's not

[hot bough]

Usually CPU is better for servers.

[last barn]

apex thats not how servers work

its just based off use-case.

[fringe scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/gpu-rtx-3080-gif-19640317

[fossil stirrup]

Yup

Thanks.

[heavy pendant]

danny what did you say

🗿

[fringe scroll]

https://tenor.com/view/lightskin-lightskin-damn-damn-bruh-thats-crazy-bruh-lightskin-damn-thats-crazy-lightskin-thats-crazy-gif-24367088

[oak rivet]

https://youtu.be/WPE_CvvqJpY

[heady turtle]

Strange how they fail to mention the 6950xt

[ancient crystal]

what's the price discrepancy?

[heady turtle]

6800xt 520
4070 600
6950xt 600

[ancient crystal]

ah, yeah

then that's an important distinction

[thin silo]

i bought a Nvidia geforce 1660 super and a ryzen 5 4500, was it good or stupid. Just a curiosity if i did bad or not, i found this server only now

[hot bough]

Depends how much did you spend on it?

[thin silo]

260 for the GPU and 73 for the cpu

Roughly

[hot bough]

Ehhhh, very so so.

Especially considering for just a bit extra you could've gotten a much more modern GPU.

[thin silo]

Like 300 hundred?

Btw I just wanted to be able to play games like the Witcher 3 o CoD

Which I couldn't with my 10 years old pc

now i can play them on ultra setting

I am quite happy

[hot bough]

You can find a RTX 3060 used for about $300 or a 3070 for about $350.

[thin silo]

And used is it okay?

[hot bough]

Yes.

[thin silo]

They told me that taking it from eBay is risky

[hot bough]

Used is just fine.

[thin silo]

They could overclocked it

[hot bough]

Just make sure the seller has a good reputable then Ebay is find.

[thin silo]

They told me

Mmh

Yeah I thought so

Next time I'll consider it

[hot bough]

Overclocking does no harm to the GPU unless someone used a custom bios on it which is extremely rare.

[thin silo]

I don't think I'll buy a new pc for a long time, 600 hundred euros was a long time investment for me 😅

i hope I'll be able to play the latest games at least for 4/5 years more

[hot bough]

Oh well, just be sure to check in with the geeks next time your in the market.

[thin silo]

Even at Low setting

[hot bough]

...... Just a fair warning its most likely 2-3 years given the tech.

Given that 60fps is the target.

[thin silo]

Even 30 is okay

[hot bough]

Then yeah probably.

[thin silo]

I played the entire game: Batman Arkham lagging

and i was happy with it

(not with this game, the previous one)

Btw thanks a lot

good luck with everything

[hot bough]

You too. Have a good day.

[brisk flame]

[hot bough]

👍

[spare relic]

I want boinging cat

[fringe scroll]

20 giggle farts

[spare relic]

Not enough

[heady turtle]

For those prices yeah not very good assuming you're in the US

It'll depend on what country but 260 sounds steep at least the cpu might be okay

[random walrus]

Said euros so probably not US

[heady turtle]

Yeah noticed that after

Also depends if it was new or used but either way 260 sounds steep at least for western Europe anyway ik eastern tends to be more expensive

[hot bough]

out of curiosity would replacing the fans on my EVGA RTX 3070 XC3 with another one make it more quiet?

[random walrus]

Deshrouding or just getting replacement EVGA fans for the shroud?

[heady turtle]

You could ziptie 2 p12's to it or something and yeah it probably would be quieter

[fringe scroll]

Yes thats the method

[hot bough]

I thought that maybe I could replace it with some like P12s or noctuas.

Something good and quiet.

Right now my GPU is the loudest component in my system by a large margin.

[random walrus]

If you do it right a deshroud will be quieter

You could also try an undervolt first

[heady turtle]

Can also make a less aggressive fan curve

[hot bough]

Did that but still a big loud.

Might try adjusting it a bit more so it doesn't turn on unless it exceeds 50c.

[fringe scroll]

Make it like 60 or so lol 50c is nothing

[fringe scroll]

Yea I noticed on my card max fan speed isn't much better than just leaving it at a stagnet 35%

[hot bough]

how's this look?

[fringe scroll]

OH MY GOD

NO WONDER

[hot bough]

?

[fringe scroll]

Why you cranking the fan at the end 😭

[hot bough]

that's set to go to 100% if it hits 80c.

[fringe scroll]

80c is safe

Here

Try 45% fan and see how warm it gets in game

[hot bough]

that's what the first dial is set to.

60c 45%

[random walrus]

I personally wouldn't go to 100% till you hit 90-95C

[hot bough]

gotcha.

[fringe scroll]

Like I said tho 60c is nothing

Set a stagnet 45% fan and see how warm it gets

[hot bough]

anyway to make fan curve presets?

[fringe scroll]

Just to get a base line of when to start pushing the fans.

[fringe scroll]

Better but 70% is prob still loud

Test it and see lol

[hot bough]

Aight, also what should I use to monitor temps while in a game?

[fringe scroll]

Afterburner overlay works

[hot bough]

how to enable that?

[fringe scroll]

Go to settings in afterburner

[hot bough]

k.

in

[fringe scroll]

Here I'm in class rn lol https://youtu.be/sbh5O4abiwY

[hot bough]

temps are averaging betweren 60-70c

This is in Halo Infinite.

[fringe scroll]

Good, how's it sound?

[hot bough]

tolerable.

Well it's alright.

It's only noticable if I don't have anything playing.

[hot bough]

If I were to try this, would the Deep cool FK120 fans work well? Those are the only 120mm fans I have on hand.

[heady turtle]

Yeah it'd work idk how quiet they are tho

[hot bough]

Also if I were to ziptie them where would I do that?

Onto the shroud or the PCB?

[random walrus]

You should be taking off the shroud if you want to lower noise

I think you'd be ziptieing to the heatsink, probably not the pcb

[hot bough]

Mhmm, will I need to repaste if ai remove the shroud?

Also, it's been about two years since I got the GPU is it time to repaste?

[odd siren]

Probably

Probably

[hot bough]

Anything I need to be cautious of or know before I attempt a repaste.

[odd siren]

When you take the cooler off the card

Pry it off very slowly and very carefully

The thermal pads will still stick like glue

Taking it slowly you'll keep the pads more (or fully) intact and also you shouldn't tear anything off the PCB

[hot bough]

Gotcha. I think I have some Arctic MX4 paste sitting around.

That work?

[odd siren]

Ye

Cover the whole die

You can't do dot or cross or line

[hot bough]

Gotcha.

I may not have enough paste then.

[odd siren]

Order more first then

[hot bough]

Gtg

[odd siren]

K

[cyan vault]

Speaking of repasting lol, would it be a waste of time to repaste and add new thermal pads to my card? Only had it for a month but I really love to just tinker with stuff lmao even if theres little performance uplift

7900 XTX red devil thats like a monthish old, delta between hotspot and edge is around 15-25ish

[odd siren]

Whenever temps start running away on it

[odd siren]

Perfectly normal

[cyan vault]

Yeah I've seen people with like, 100 on hotspot

[odd siren]

AMD edge up to like, 30's delta is fine

Nvidia hotspot between 10-15 is fine

[cyan vault]

It idles at pretty high temps but I think that's from the VRAM thingy where it always runs max

[odd siren]

Depends if it's actually idling

Like

It will pull out of idle pretty easily at high hz 4k

Idle clock on xtx is pretty lightweight

[cyan vault]

Yeah, just like on discord with hardware acceleration off and steam open it sits around 45 so it's not like horrible just higher than I'd expect

[odd siren]

45 is fine

[cyan vault]

With a very mild fan curve so it's not like the fans are super high, just like 1K RPM

[odd siren]

You also have the gcd playing a factor

Gcd itself gets hot on rdna 3 and it's usually the highest reported chiplet

[cyan vault]

Whats that? Never heard of that before

[odd siren]

So rdna3 uses a chiplet design right?

[cyan vault]

Yep

[odd siren]

There are 7 chiplets on the xtx

6 MCD's for cache

And 1 gcd for graphics

The big one in the middle is gcd

It runs the hottest

[cyan vault]

I assume the G stands for graphics and the M for memory?

[odd siren]

Ye

[cyan vault]

What does the CD stand for, something die?

[odd siren]

Chiplet die

Iirc

[cyan vault]

ahhh ok that makes sense yeah

[odd siren]

Probs not this but it's simple enough acronyms

But ye the gcd can get fairly warm

It's load temp is also not too high tho

GCD I've only ever seen get up to like, 80C?

[cyan vault]

All the MCDs are within a degree of another, besides one which is like 4 above but its nothing insane

Lemme hit it with a load and see

[odd siren]

That's pretty normal yeah

Much like cpu cores you get deltas just from yields

Nature of the beast

[cyan vault]

Memory junction shoots right up lmao

It's odd how the radeon software only allows fan control based off of the GPU temp and not memory or anythin else

[odd siren]

How hot is your g6

[cyan vault]

MCD6 or GCD?

[odd siren]

Sorry memory junction

[cyan vault]

Ah junction is sitting at a flat 90

Not sure why it isnt going up

[odd siren]

Is fine

I think the red devil, iirc,

Uses a separate plate

For mem heatsink

[cyan vault]

I saw some reviews on micro center and someone had 60 on edge 119 on junction

This is under furmark full load at like 2K RPM though so it's not that bad

[odd siren]

Nvm it doesn't use a plate I'm misremembering

[odd siren]

That's definitely a bad factory paste job

60 delta is way too high

You can run like 700W through these things on good paste and still have hotspot deltas under 40C

[cyan vault]

Yeah they gave it 1 star and wrote an essay on how bad it was. What was weird though was the fact that they emailed powercolor and they said it was within spec with no problems

[odd siren]

Lol

Yes some companies can be dodgy about it

Cos if it still runs games above spec, well

[cyan vault]

Ah they also said "No vapor chamber"

Not sure if thats true?

[odd siren]

I think MBA, Merc and Nitro are the vapour chamber models

I don't think RD has one no, it's really thick instead

It's a good cooler anyway, a simple repaste would fix 60-119 temps

[cyan vault]

Micro center reviews are funny like that

[cyan vault]

Curious about this though; how well does it perform at 700W?

Like, compared to idk the 4090

I've heard of modding it to draw more but never seen actual numbers

[odd siren]

Near 4090 perf

Once you pass 600W, you're basically there

Save RT and AI, etc etc

It runs well though

[cyan vault]

Is that through something like a shunt mod?

Not too familiar with GPU modding

[odd siren]

Evc mod

[lone pond]

shunt mod no workie on AMD because they don't really do shunts for current monitoring

not in the same way as Nvidia I should say

[odd siren]

They locked down the pcb and sppt code down pretty hard on rdna 3 so more conventional methods are thrown out

That said, evc isn't the hardest to do. Not easy either for the inexperienced

[cyan vault]

Might look into that someday in the future then

Can it be undone at all?

[odd siren]

Uh, yes

Also a good chance of messing up too

[cyan vault]

Probably not the best place to start with GPU modding 😅

[odd siren]

Indeed lol

[cyan vault]

Maybe in a few years or if I upgrade

But dang the XTX is just amazing in every way tbh

[odd siren]

Unlike rdna 2 I've met so many RDNA 3 owners now and none of them seem to be unsatisfied at all

XT and XTX are both just really nice experiences

Only ones I've seen upset are over idle draw and that's proving more rare lately

[cyan vault]

It's understandable, there isn't really much to hate at this point. At launch the XT being $900 was meh but it's mostly good now

[odd siren]

Yeah the XT is a good price rn

[cyan vault]

Very good price! I've seen some open box for like 725 if you're lucky enough to be close to micro center

[odd siren]

Wow I'd take one for 725 any day

[cyan vault]

There was a 4080 TUF for 1,055. Kinda regret not going for it but it is what it is and the XTX is still amazing

[lone pond]

rdna 2 owners were unsatisfied? may I ask why that is in your experience? I've been exclusively a Nvidia owner up until my 6800 and personally I'm thoroughly impressed

[hasty sphinx]

Speaking as one of the owners that was unsatisfied that he knows.. I had 2 different 6950xt that absolutely refused to work properly with my system. Spent several days with very little sleep trying to figure out what the cause was with no good outcome. Swapped to Nvidia 30 series and had no issues whatsoever in the same system. Been that way for the last 8 months.

[sonic mural]

I'm an rdna and rdna 2 owner and I've honestly never really had issues with anything that was the fault of the card

[oak rivet]

Almost like sample size and unit variation is a thing?

[odd siren]

Talk about blowing that comment way out of context. My personal experience with rdna 2 was fantastic, but I've met a number of people who did not like RDNA 2 at all and crossed the floor to nvidia. Similarly? I've met a number of people who did the opposite and crossed the floor to AMD. These people exist in every crowd and every hobby. It was never a comment on the total population of RDNA 2 users I know

However, of all RDNA 3 users I know

I've only met a couple that have had any significant complaints, if at all

And that was a long time ago

Now? No one that I know is complaining about any of the older launch issues or daily stability or whatever

I could introduce you to a hub of RDNA 3 owner's if you like and you could go ham all day about it

[sonic mural]

Yeah, but it's a pretty high likelihood I would've gotten screwed somewhere

5700xt which is notoriously crap with drivers for 3 years and a 6700xt at launch where amd usually makes a few oopsies on drivers

[odd siren]

Yeah, we could talk about the sheer amount of people that feel burned by RDNA 1 forever and will always curse AMD for "bad drivers" lolol

[sonic mural]

Yeah

[odd siren]

Everyone's experience is different

That context was blown way out of proportion

[sonic mural]

I find it funny the swath of Nvidia people who have never used rdna1 who crap on rdna1 (specifically 5700xt)

Can't knock it until you try it

[odd siren]

I'm admittedly guilty of that 💀

I want to try a 5700XT, just haven't had a real reason to get one yet

Much like I'd love a 1080 ti

[sonic mural]

Buy one for when crypto booms

There nice mining cards

It's an investment

[odd siren]

💀

• slaps 5700xt * this bad boy will be big one day