CADGuy23

I would buy it as long it's a reasonable price. I bought my EVGA 3080 FTW3 soon after launch and sold my 2080TI to a friend for $400. (they were selling around $500 at the time.) You can probably make most of you money back if you sell the 2080TI.

It may be as simple as cleaning hair or debris in front of the laser. Use a Q-tip with alcohol. Try a second mouse if you can before you start messing with windows, drivers, ect.

If you are using an NVME boot drive, it usually requires your mobo to run with CSM on depending on format. If you do have CSM enabled it will not let you turn on resizeable bar.

Myself and 3 of my friends got our 3080's and we were in queue day 1 and 2. I got mine about 6 weeks after launch, theirs were a week or two after mine.

Found the problem. It needs both pins connected.

There is a lot of variables in play on this and is tough to diagnose imo. The only constant here is Rainbow 6, is there another way to test your system to rule out the game being the culprit here? There are several recent bios updates for your board, that may be something you want to try. Are you running with PBO enabled on your bios? That will help with keeping a higher FPS.

I have the same PSU with a 3080 and 5950x. It will run stock fine and some light overclocking, although it is recommended to have a more powerful PSU. I have not had any issues.

5 years is average and 10 years would be a long life.

I wasn't aware of that Issue, I've had a 7700k since launch. That's pretty awful if it doesn't even last 3-4 years.

That sounds incredibly hot for 4.5Ghz. Can you check if the heatsink mount screws are tightened up? It may not be making good contact.

I'm running a 7700k @5ghz with a 3080. The CPU usage is pegged at 100% while the GPU around 60%. I average around 70fps. Have you tried overclocking your cpu? If you haven't done the config file edit, It will help with the frame drops.

Thanks for the assistance.

I recently purchased an ASUS Prime X-570 Pro with the intent on buying a 5900X when they are available. At the time they were advertised as "AMD 5000 series ready" and I did not know know they required a bios flash to work. I did not see a bios version listed on the board, I know I need version 2606 from 8/17 or newer. I am a little confused on how this works because some boards are capable of flashing bios without the CPU. Is this board capable of doing this? What would you guys recommend as solutions so that when I do get the CPU I will be able to use it? https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/PRIME-X570-PRO/specifications/

Make sure you put them in slot 2 and 4 if it covers the first slot so it will run in dual channel. I'm not sure about the difference in dies, I don't think it will make a noticeable difference.

I'm just taking a guess here but it would be a bit long winded to say certain speeds like 1866 mhz as 1.866 Ghz or 3866 as 3.866 ect.