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Its because I was just researching the 390 and was comparing it to the 970.  My response was because what I found was the brands were consitent on both.  Gigabyte/Powercolor were bad and EVGA/XFX/MSI/Sapphire were good.  Didn't really notice EVGA didn't make AMD cards.  My advice still stands for both cards, minus EVGA for AMD.

Nice job jumping to conclusions though.

Sapphire is the one I've heard

MSI, XFX and EVGA also have good iterations. 

Gigabyte and Powercolor have bad reps on the 390.  Both are notorious for overheat. 

Thumbs up for a LOUIS AND LINUS COLLABORATION!
 
 

Thumbs up for a LOUIS AND LINUS COLLABORATION!
 
 

Wow, I'm surprised @LinusTech would put this crap on this internet.  I guess he didn't watch all of Louis Rossmann's videos, who made the apple video he talked about on WAN. 
 
The strange thing is, if you COULD reflow a SSD/HDD, THAT would serve a purpose since maybe it would allow you pull data.  But reflowing is a very temporary fix.  There is almost no reason to do this VS just buying a new GPU. 

Wow, I'm surprised @LinusTech would put this crap on this internet.  I guess he didn't watch all of Louis Rossmann's videos, who made the apple video he talked about on WAN. 
 
The strange thing is, if you COULD reflow a SSD/HDD, THAT would serve a purpose since maybe it would allow you pull data.  But reflowing is a very temporary fix.  There is almost no reason to do this VS just buying a new GPU. 

Wow, I'm surprised @LinusTech would put this crap on this internet.  I guess he didn't watch all of Louis Rossmann's videos, who made the apple video he talked about on WAN. 
 
The strange thing is, if you COULD reflow a SSD/HDD, THAT would serve a purpose since maybe it would allow you pull data.  But reflowing is a very temporary fix.  There is almost no reason to do this VS just buying a new GPU. 

Exactly.  As he said, feel free to test it.  If it was the balls, then using heat below their melting point WOULD NOT WORK
 
The issue here isn't that @LinusTech made a video about it.  The two issues are:
1. Someone could take a failing but still working VGA card and kill it trying to repair it.  Even worse if the card was just underclocking itself due to overheating that could be fixed with a reapplication of thermal paste
2. Linus put no disclaimer in the video about that this was temporary if it did work.  So if someone in a disadvantaged country did this and thought their card was fixed, they might not start saving as they otherwise would for a new card, and be pretty boned when it crapped the bed again

1. I agree, that's what my issue with the video is as I wrote, it's misleading because he doesn't make it clear enough that this is supposed to be done on a hardware that is for the garbage and is not a proper fix.
2. I live in a shitty country, on every hardware forum where this method is posted(not the Linus video), it's clearly stated that if you fix your card with this it would last from few hours to few months at best, and people who fixed their cards are confirming it. No one is doing this as a permanent solution, at least on the hardware forums I visit. So in this case this is only an issue for the part of Linus' audience that is not educated and won't do the proper research.

Exactly.  As he said, feel free to test it.  If it was the balls, then using heat below their melting point WOULD NOT WORK
 
The issue here isn't that @LinusTech made a video about it.  The two issues are:
1. Someone could take a failing but still working VGA card and kill it trying to repair it.  Even worse if the card was just underclocking itself due to overheating that could be fixed with a reapplication of thermal paste
2. Linus put no disclaimer in the video about that this was temporary if it did work.  So if someone in a disadvantaged country did this and thought their card was fixed, they might not start saving as they otherwise would for a new card, and be pretty boned when it crapped the bed again

Wow, I'm surprised @LinusTech would put this crap on this internet.  I guess he didn't watch all of Louis Rossmann's videos, who made the apple video he talked about on WAN. 
 
The strange thing is, if you COULD reflow a SSD/HDD, THAT would serve a purpose since maybe it would allow you pull data.  But reflowing is a very temporary fix.  There is almost no reason to do this VS just buying a new GPU. 

Wow, I'm surprised @LinusTech would put this crap on this internet.  I guess he didn't watch all of Louis Rossmann's videos, who made the apple video he talked about on WAN. 
 
The strange thing is, if you COULD reflow a SSD/HDD, THAT would serve a purpose since maybe it would allow you pull data.  But reflowing is a very temporary fix.  There is almost no reason to do this VS just buying a new GPU. 

Wow, I'm surprised @LinusTech would put this crap on this internet.  I guess he didn't watch all of Louis Rossmann's videos, who made the apple video he talked about on WAN. 
 
The strange thing is, if you COULD reflow a SSD/HDD, THAT would serve a purpose since maybe it would allow you pull data.  But reflowing is a very temporary fix.  There is almost no reason to do this VS just buying a new GPU. 

Exactly.  As he said, feel free to test it.  If it was the balls, then using heat below their melting point WOULD NOT WORK
 
The issue here isn't that @LinusTech made a video about it.  The two issues are:
1. Someone could take a failing but still working VGA card and kill it trying to repair it.  Even worse if the card was just underclocking itself due to overheating that could be fixed with a reapplication of thermal paste
2. Linus put no disclaimer in the video about that this was temporary if it did work.  So if someone in a disadvantaged country did this and thought their card was fixed, they might not start saving as they otherwise would for a new card, and be pretty boned when it crapped the bed again

Wow, I'm surprised @LinusTech would put this crap on this internet.  I guess he didn't watch all of Louis Rossmann's videos, who made the apple video he talked about on WAN. 
 
The strange thing is, if you COULD reflow a SSD/HDD, THAT would serve a purpose since maybe it would allow you pull data.  But reflowing is a very temporary fix.  There is almost no reason to do this VS just buying a new GPU. 

Yeah man, I can't imagine a game that would bring a 980ti to 60FPS in 1080 except for a split second.  But yeah if you see the benefit then great.  However OP would be better served allocating that 300 bucks elsewhere in the budget for 1440p, then making the jump to Polaris/Pascal when he/she jumps to a 4K display.  And that was my overall point.  More in response to the guy thumbing his nose at people who would dare consider price/performance 

This.

I was never a fan of the move towards laptop-sized dies for anything but Celeron desktop processors.  Never made much sense to me as I always thought like you did: just build more on the same space.  Hell, if nothing else just asstons of cache.  

This.

I was never a fan of the move towards laptop-sized dies for anything but Celeron desktop processors.  Never made much sense to me as I always thought like you did: just build more on the same space.  Hell, if nothing else just asstons of cache.  

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No, the spyware is making it act up
McAfee is the lazy security guard who isn't doing anything about the kids vandalizing the building. 

On a grand scale AMD has always been second to most other companies it competes with. Before the Athlon it was definitely a second rate budget CPU maker with very weak FPU performance. But AMD had one key innovation, they moved the memory controller onto the CPU and it gave them a massive performance jump, it came out of no where. It took Intel years to make the same change while Intel was also desperately trying to deal with clock speed issues which today we know topped out at 3-4Ghz, but Intel didn't know that until they hit it. AMD won in performance for quite a while with its Athlon range. But then Intel's long term success kicked in, they developed an on CPU memory controller and added hyperthreading then multicore and then pushed and pushed on their new way of scaling performance via IPC while controlling the thermal output. AMD got crushed because its still using the same core it released back in 2001.
 
To be fair to AMD one of the reasons they weren't more successful was that Intel behaved in a really corrupt manor to maintain its sales and AMD lost out enormously from it. They also received an enormous payout from Intel via the courts that still sustains them to this day.
 
AMD also bought ATI, which was definitely a second in the market competitor to whoever was dominate at the time. It was second to 3dfx and it was second to Nvidia once they became popular. ATI always had severe driver problems to the point where installing them was awful, performance was quite often bad and despite great feature sets Nvidia/3dfx was always way ahead of them in terms of performance and support for actual gaming. They narrowed that gap becoming part of AMD but a series of scandals pointing at their past problems keeps a lot of people away.
 
AMD has and remains a budget maker of CPU and GPUs, its place in the market is to be cheap. It got lucky once with its CPUs and it propelled it into something else for a while but AMD doesn't have the capability to consistently deliver. The GPU side with ATI has vastly improved, but the perception at large is still quite poor and takes a long time to fix and the way they market doesn't help them on that front.