yeah, exactly – I’m keeping my Titan XP (1080Ti equivalent, ~12 tflops, and I’ve always thought of 4-5x as a real generational upgrade even without rtx or dlss) basically until the pricing situation is favourable, performance is irrelevant for the next couple years still
a thousand bucks give or take is probably gonna be the ask though, you’re not wrong
also like the fact that anything currently in a price I find I can sort of talk myself into has much less VRAM than this 1080Ti (8, or 6, vs 11) makes it feel like a downgrade, particularly given we were starting to hit VRAM issues in a couple of newer games with our old 6GB card lol
cursed with too good of a card, how awful (to be clear I am extremely grateful to the friend who gifted this, like, $600-thrashed-with-crypto-mining-on-craigslist card to us lol)
yeah they’ve been stingier with memory since Pascal for sure
like on the one hand a 24GB GPU sounds ridiculous but otoh it feels weird to wait 6 years to get maybe the same amount if not a third more
This is a PSA for anyone whose computer intermittently crashes for no reason: just as I was going to install a new power supply I noticed that a couple of cables from the old PSU and a stick of ram were loose. Reinserting everything with more force fixed the crashes, no new parts required.
To think they make people get a license to drive a car yet any idiot off the street can just walk into a Microcenter.
don’t worry, I could tell it had been a while since I built a PC when my new CPU wouldn’t boot and it turned out I just needed to re-seat the RAM with more force than I’d been initially comfortable imparting lol
Is there anyone with an AMD card and a 4K monitor who uses Windows’ built in screen high DPI scaling, and if so do you have weird hangs and occasional crashes where windows and their contents will appear squished and off to one side like the computer is struggling to scale them?
It’ll occasionally completely lock up Premiere when I’m toggling between its different interfaces, and it’s starting to drive me nuts.
When I was getting rid of my old PC I discovered that the DVD drive I’d assumed had been dead for like 3 or 4 years had just somehow had its SATA cable knocked loose
I am in that situation but do not encounter that problem. I also don’t use Premiere and imagine that’s part of the issue.
The issue I have is that it tries to scale things that don’t want it, and so I’ll end up in full-screen but only have 1/4 of the window showing. I have to manually disable it for all kinds of programs.
I also had more of an issue with windows acting stupid (both Capital W Windows and the windows it contains) when I had a second monitor hooked up using a different resolution. I think that’s easier to understand though, dragging windows between two resolutions, one of which has special scaling, is gonna cause problems imo
I took my laptop apart to clean it about 3 years ago and putting it back together must have gotten one thing loose because the disc drive will now eject with the slightest bump.
Wasn’t a problem until I ripped a few things recently.
I certainly don’t have parent time to take apart the laptop again to try and fix it.
Intel: hey we have the GPUs now and they’re okay
me: yeah, yeah, tell me when you have something interesting
Intel: the entire stack has AV1 encode
me: hello, yes, I will take one of your finest, cheapest GPUs
I am very very pleased about that, it means nvidia will definitely have it
The siren song of upgrading took over my brain. I found a (supposedly brand new) 5950x on eBay for $450. I guess it never hurts to put the best cpu your socket can handle in before the next gen stuff comes out (assuming there’s no 3D cache or XT version coming down the line).
Got a weird email from newegg.ca that somebody tried to order a $100 item (can’t tell what) using Bitcoin to be shipped to an address in Ontario, and put in my email address (and also their last name is my email address prefix, so it’s definitely not a real person). Then I got 2 more emails from Newegg in the following days that the Bitcoin payment wasn’t able to process yet, and finally that the order was cancelled. They didn’t create an account, it’s a guest checkout. I wonder what the scheme is here.
My current theory is they’re trying to scam Newegg by taking advantage of some quirks in bitcoin payment processing. Maybe they’re doing something like moving the Bitcoin to another wallet immediately after Newegg verifies the wallet has the funds, but before the payment executes. Maybe the trick only works 1% of the time so they’re spamming bogus orders at a high rate with random real email addresses. Just speculating though, would be curious to know for sure (especially if actually I’m the mark somehow)
OK, I figured out $100 is the minimum for Newegg’s Bitcoin payment processor so it’s pretty clear this is a validation attempt on a stolen Bitcoin wallet that might have a lot more than $100 in it. The Ontario address is just another rando like me who might get a Netgear router they never ordered.
$100 seems like a steep expense for validation, so it wasn’t my initial theory. But presumably there’s no cheaper method available, with so few retailers accepting bitcoin (I wonder why there aren’t more?)
i mean, who pays the gas fees
I want to wait until the new AMD chips are released later this year before upgrading my computer, but I also need more SSD storage space so I can stop having to play hot potato with my steam games. I’d like to buy an NVMe drive rather than SATA, but my motherboard does not have an M.2 slot. I’m looking at expansion cards. My motherboard has:
I’m thinking of buying something like:
I figure since the NVMe drive is 4x bandwidth, it will be fine that I’m putting an x16 expansion card into a x4 bandwidth slot, and won’t have performance issues until I eventually move to an on-board M.2 slot when I upgrade?
Does this make sense or am I doing a stupid somewhere, or missing a better solution?
if you have the Motherboard handbook (if no physical copy, check supplier’s site/support section) you should check whether these two PCI x16 slots share their bandwidth, i.e. if your GPU is running at full steam x16-speed, the second slot might only be allowed x4 (or less), thus limiting the potential speed benefit an expensive m2 NVME expansion card might bring.
If you plan to continue to use the Expansion card, you can go as high as you want/price permits, if it’s just a stop-gap, just check the price difference and if it isn’t too much, you can gift it as a hand-me-down to peers in need later, and they’ll appreciate a potential 10,20 bucks surplus today.
That’s how i’d go about it, ymmv obv!
My second slot runs at 4x, just as a hard limit, regardless of the other slot. But NVMe drives run at 4x speed, so on that alone, it didn’t seem to me like there would be an issue, unless there was some obscure technical caveat.
this should work and I agree it’s your best forward compatible option