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grimreeper132

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  1. My friend has a terrible track record with AMD CPUs, he has somehow bent pins on 3 seperate CPUs, but one of the most recent ones, was a spectacular one, in a way which broke off two pins off a R7 3800X, the pins were which J23 and K22 relate to VSS/GND and VDDCR_SOC respectfully, there is pins next to them which have the same function which means internally, in theory, they are connected so it should should be able to work still, so the question is how much current does these supplies require as it could still work..... I realise that its not probably not a great idea to use it but he is a bit short on cash, so it would be an upgrade for him, (hes going to be running a R7 1700..... which is another CPU which he bent the pins on and I have needed to fix.... I have no idea how he does it) but how bad of an idea would this be, as it seams to be an external short from when he bent the pin rather than an internal one??? EDIT: got the pins wrong, it wasn't AD18 and AC19 Image of the CPU
  2. As the title says I am looking to buy a R9 5950X, I have been trying to get one in the UK for a couple weeks now and no luck, the rest of the PC is here and I just need the CPU, is there any news of stock dropping soon or is it worth going to a scalper (I don't wanna do this, but I need a PC as I am stuck on my laptop) as its only £1000 vs £850, which is more than buying a temp CPU just for a couple weeks until I can actually get it. So big question is, I need a CPU soon, is there any news on when new CPUs will become avaible or not???
  3. The motherboard should have a memory support list to download, but yours only has it from zen1+zen2 not zen3 (Vermeer), but the zen2 list probably will be similar to the zen3 list. As for the ones you have mentioned CORSAIR appears alot on that list so you should be fine, but I would explicitly check as I haven't. As for zen2 vs zen3, zen3 likes faster RAM again so the 3600MHz out of your 2 options might be better, but 3200MHz is fine as well. (the performance up lift will only be 1-5% depending) https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B550I-AORUS-PRO-AX-rev-10/support#support-doc
  4. We haven't heard anothing about the 2660 ti, this time around, we are still unsure if its all going to be RTX or if there will be able GTX.but as for the RTX 3060 ti, romours are saying in December at somepoint, but this is hard to say, especially with nVidias supply issues at the moment this might be pushed back to January, weh it will be easier for them to get stock as the Christmas rush is over
  5. Hey, I want to get an ultrawide as part of my next rig, I have the other displays from my last rig as well, but I am trying to cut the number down a little bit. I will mainly be gaming on the system, but I will also be doing work on it as well, mainly CAD and PCB design, and screen realatsate is always handy. it will be running off a RTX 3080 (min) but maybe a RTX 3090. I have alooked a wee bit into what I can get, and I have found the following 3 options, my budget is capped about £1000, but obviously less is better if possible. MSI Optix MAG341CQ (3440X1440 100Hz, 21:9) £440 (put this here as the step up, the 144Hz version, I'm not sure if an extra 44Hz is worth £400) MSI Optix MPG341CQR (3440X1440 144Hz 21:9) £845 Samsung LC49RG90SSUXEN (5140 X 1440 120Hz 32:9) £890 Other sugestions are welcome I don't know monitors as well as other tech, so yea
  6. Personally I feel like this is a move by intel that means when it comes out they can point at the game and go "See we are better" that being said, I also can't see the game being terrible on AMD even still, because AMD is starting to get more and more market share, it would be a mistake to just ignore AMD, especially as the AMD fans are a bit vocal at times. I personally don't think neither AMD, nVidea or intel should be doing stuff as I feel like it artifically affects performance in a way to make the one side look better, but it happens but especially now the FX days are gone, they can't just ignore one side, both intel and AMD need to be supported. And now AMD has starting becoming reasonably competative GPUs (I think the next gen of these cards will be properly competative, where as the current gen are and aren't depending (AKA nothing ray tracingy)), they will need to improve support on both sides. That being said, this isn't the first time this has happened, this won't be the last time, and if anything now that competitions is heating up, I have a feeling it might become more common
  7. The problem is that cost an extra £500 roughly, and digs into the budget for the ultrawide, as I don't know the cost of that yet its hard to pull the trigger on one, but it is in my mind if the ultrawide isn't too expensive, although it does require a "downgrade" from a 2TB SSD to a 1TB SSD I was going with that motherboard, as it has enough USBs, I ran out of USBs on my TR build which I believe had 13, so yea, I use quite a few, which stops B550 I believe as for the other 2, X570 gaming edge, hasn't got as many rear USB 3.2s as that one, same with the X570 Tomahawk. (I get this is a stupid reason but for me it surprisingly matters) As for the RAM I thought I heard somewhere that 4 sticks was better for Ryzen 5000, but I have just looked into it, I think I heard wrong. SSD, I will probably still spend the money on the Gen4 SSD, as the speed upgrade will do for the years to come, also with the idea of direct access from the GPU becoming a thing, it is possible Gen 4 SSDs will affect FPS in the near(ish) future. As for monitor current thoughts are any input here would be grateful MSI Optix MAG341CQ (3440X1440 100Hz, 21:9) £440 (can afford a 3090) MSI Optix MPG341CQR (3440X1440 144Hz 21:9) £845 (can afford a 3080) Samsung LC49RG90SSUXEN (5140 X 1440 120Hz 32:9) £890 (can afford a 3080) (3090 only if I make my bank hate me, which to be fair it will anyways)
  8. From what I can see from a brief search, the 1660 (non super) with a i5 9400F gets about 200 FPS, not sure on the settings though and the CPU and GPU are both heavily utilised, so I would say with a 3770 and a 1660 Super, you might be bottlenecked by the CPU, but 144 FPS at 1080 should be reachable and not too far out of the possible ballpark.
  9. Hey pretty much I want to build a new PC, as my laptop aint cutting it and my old desktop died (think it was the GPU and possibly Motherboard that died on it (1st gen TR)). Informationis below Budget (including currency): £3750 (GBP) (I know my wallets gonna regret me saying thisbut I could strech to £4k if the gains are good enough) Country: Scotland Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: MATLAB, CAD (Mainly autodesk, but other ones will be done), Several AAA, lots of indie games, VR Other details: I have the keyboard and mouse as well as the extra screens, but I want another monitor, I was thinking a an ultrawide of somesort, although I haven't been following the monitor game for a while so can't remember whats good I had an attempt at building a base PC, 64GB of RAM is sorta a requirement, as I am struggling with 16GB alot, and my old rig had 32GB and I did max that out several times, as for the 3080 and 5950X, I might be being hopeful on finding one but you never know, but I aint paying scalpers, so I will be holding off till they become available (hopefully before christmas, but afters fine to). PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor £871.51 @ Overclockers.co.uk CPU Cooler Corsair H100i RGB PLATINUM 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler £100.99 @ Amazon UK Motherboard Asus ROG Strix X570-E Gaming ATX AM4 Motherboard £279.99 @ AWD-IT Memory G.Skill Trident Z 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL17 Memory £345.00 @ Amazon UK Storage Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive £319.47 @ Scan.co.uk Storage Seagate IronWolf Pro 4 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive £112.76 @ Amazon UK Video Card Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3080 10 GB GAMING OC Video Card £813.67 @ Overclockers.co.uk Case Phanteks Eclipse P500A ATX Mid Tower Case £105.11 @ Overclockers.co.uk Power Supply Corsair HX Platinum 1000 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply £198.67 @ Overclockers.co.uk Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total £3147.17 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-11-24 23:25 GMT+0000
  10. Hello So I run 2 weekly sessions of D&D online, on roll20, and I went to make the tokens the other day, at which point my machine seamed to start having issues, so the output from the image is shown below, it just flashes through all the colours, and any image I upload to roll20 looks similar. How do I fix this as this is causing issues.
  11. Shit sorry thought it was the otherway round, yea, stick with the Acer, it looks good enough for your uses
  12. The Lenovo has a better CPU, so if your just needing CPU power go for that, it will do webrowsing and light gaming etc just fine, as well as do some CPU heavy tasks as well. The Acer one if you need a gaming laptop or need a GPU for whatever work you do. From what you've said though Lenovo will be fine, as long as you are streaming non gaming stuff and what you are doing isn't something that requires GPU, like if its just cameras for you chatting or something like that your good
  13. depending if you can wait but there is new AMD CPUs and a RTX 3070 (if you can get your hads on it) next month so you would get a better bang for the buck if you wait. In theory.
  14. Ah right, yea I don't really use Macs so it was just from memory from what I heard a few years ago so yea, also that makes sense for Apple
  15. Linux is open source and free so no activation etc unless you go with very specific versions for enterprise etc. As for the components you'll be fine Linux runs on pretty much anything.... apart from macs from what I remember because Appple.
  16. Ok so if your willing to spend a little bit of money, this is a tricky one 2000 Series is going really cheap as people are getting too hype for 3000 Series (which is why I sorta want it to be a bit of a let down because I just want to see the out roar) but if its not quite as good as people are expecting 2000 Series price might go up or if it is as good the second hand 2000 Series might go down further. In the end I would wait because I recon it will stay the same or be the latter but I would say maybe even look at the 1000 Series as the diffrence between 1000 and 2000 is very small and you might get a 1000 for cheaper.
  17. Probably not. Most people would probably need 30 Mbps for themselves alone, 100 Mbps for a family for a decent experience. I would say most people on this forum would be looking for about 100 Mbps for themselves (for both bragging rights and because we can occasionally use it) and double that for their family. As for 10 Gbps most of your devices will (at the moment) only be able to handle 1 Gbps anyways and its not worth it.... unless its really cheap
  18. Its more the other USB devices which matters the most, also I am not really wanting to spend money on it, because well to say I have spent enough this past month already is an understatement
  19. Assuming your not wanting to spend any money, and your having no issues with the 56, keep it. Its still an OK card, which has more performance than a 1050 ti. As for the new cards most of those features won't come to the 1000 Series soon if at all so most of the benefits won't be gathered by you. If you are willing to spend money, wait for reviews and depending on how much you are willing to spend buy a second hand card instead.
  20. Pretty much I have a couple of USB devices I want to share the following devices Webcamera Mouse Keyboard Possibly USB Flash drives Is there any free solutions that will allow me to do this. It would need to work on both Windows and a Ubuntu machines. Probably 2 machines but this might be extended to 3 or 4. Thanks
  21. It has just fixed itself I have a feeling windows installed drivers in the background and didn't tell me but yea. Thanks anyways
  22. There should be a slight metal tab in order to remove it.
  23. Have you tried resetting the BIOS/CMOS, to do so go to your motherboard there should be a watch battery, take that out and leave it out for 20s then plug it back in that might fix it
  24. My PCs screens keep freezing, then works for a few seconds then freezes again shortly after again. There is only 3 main changes since when it was working, this morning Change 1 = I added a second GPU, I needed a second GPU as I needed another HDMI out, so I now have a 1080 ti and a 760, for the 1080 ti for the main GPU for gaming and 760 for the spare screens Change 2 = I got a Oculus Rift and such installed the software etc for that Change 3 = I reinstalled my graphics drivers (although the problem had occured before that) What possibilties do I have to fix this? Thanks
  25. as the title says I wanna get into VR, the only hardware I have is the PC at the moment (1920X 1080ti) which should be powerful enough for most if not all games what would the best headset be to pair with this set up. I am happy buying second hand if needs be. Thanks
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