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MlnmFlcn

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  • CPU
    Ryzen 5 1600
  • Motherboard
    ASUS Prime X370-Pro
  • RAM
    2x8GB Corsair Vengeance 3200mhz
  • GPU
    GeForce 7300 GT (Just sold 2 RX 480s, waiting for prices to normalize)
  • Case
    Phanteks Enthoo Pro (Windowed)
  • Storage
    250GB Samsung 960 Evo, a 2TB 7200 RPM HDD, and ancient 240 GB and 500 GB HDDs
  • PSU
    Corsair RM750X
  • Display(s)
    Cheap 1080p 60hz from Amazon for like $80
  • Cooling
    Wraith Spire
  • Keyboard
    Cheap decent mechanical ten keyless
  • Mouse
    Logitech G602
  • Sound
    1980's Carver Power Amp, M-Audio AV40 with broken internal amplifiers
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 Home

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  1. As long as you aren't planning to mine, all good. (side note: don't mine)
  2. Newegg: ASUS GeForce GTX 1080 STRIX-GTX1080-8G-GAMING 8GB 256-Bit GDDR5X PCI Express 3.0 Video Card Whaddya know, a Strix 1080 for $50 below original 1080 MSRP. It's the lowest clocked model, but it's a normal price, a Strix card (good cooler, RGB for assholes, etc.), and in-stock*. Edit: no longer in stock.
  3. Okay, I'm getting the lowest-clocked Strix 1080 for $550 after mail-in rebate. That deal just started on Newegg, I think, because I didn't see it earlier.
  4. So I have a dead GT 730 that I just returned to Amazon, $800 from selling two RX 480 8GBs, and a need for a GPU. I tried to buy a dirt-cheap GPU with the 730 (Amazon link), but that broke. Yay for Amazon Returns! There's also an ROG Strix 1080 for $650 on Newegg (it's not the highest-clocked card, but I'm overclocking it to whatever it'll do). So, should I buy another GT 730, the 1080, or another dirt-cheap GPU? (I would like to stick to new or refurbished if possible). If I do go with a dirt-cheap card, I'm planning to stick with it for like 6 months or a year until I get a high-end card.
  5. Soooooo.... I went to turn on my PC, and something seemed a little broken.... Please see attachments. This is a Zotac GT 730 with 1GB DDR5 VRAM (Amazon link) that I got a month or two from Amazon (sold my RX 480s). The PC seems fine (except for the shitty Microsoft Display Driver) with my 256mb 7300GT (only other card I have). I think that this is a VRAM hardware issue. The things on the screen that are most recently loaded/refreshed seem to be the least screwed-up elements, so that indicates that memory items are being corrupted over time. It also seems to pretend to function as a GPU using the Microsoft Display Driver, but the GPU Memory is not showing up in HWInfo64 (Should be 1GB DDR5) My PC seems to boot some of the time, but not always. The BIOS screen always shows up, always with artifacts. Not always the same artifacts though. I managed to grab the HWInfo screenshots and email them to myself before the PC crashed again. Does anyone have any insight into possible causes/solutions/workarounds for this? (I should also be able to return to Amazon, so no oven fixes) IMG_0410.MOV
  6. I just sold my 2 RX 480s for $400 each, planning on doing the same thing once prices go back to slightly closer to normal. But not buying a Titan. I'm not that baller.
  7. I have a Ryzen 5 1600, so no iGPU. On the bright side, through some janky combinations of installing an older version of Geforce Experience, installing an old driver in regular, windows 10 mode, having that fail, and then running that driver installer in windows 8 compatibility mode without removing the older settings, I got some old Nvidia drivers installed. Now I have proper 1080p output, so I can at least browse the web and (somewhat) watch videos until Volta. That'd be great. Did the mid-March rumor you saw say only the 2080 would be launching then, or also other cards? I'll have about $750 from selling my 2 RX 480s, but I'm not sure whether I want to spend that all on a new graphics card or buy a 2070 or something and save a bit more of that money for other stuff.
  8. Lol I posted this just after watching that video
  9. At the moment, I don't need to game, so I'll probably buy something like a super cheap GT 710 ($30-$40 new right now) just so I can output at a proper 1080p. If Volta released by March or April, that'd be best because I have a March exam week instead of midterms or finals, so I have a lot of work right now and likely until then, but I should have more time to game and stuff after that. Also, if pricing doesn't go back to semi-normal before Volta is released, how crazy-balls do you think Volta prices will be? Also, if AIB partners are avoiding Pascal overstock, would Volta release help that because AIB partners can order a f*ckton of Volta GPUs and sell them to meet market demand, and just sell any overstock as time goes on?
  10. It shouldn't matter much for you. In my case (sorry, bad pun), there is no ventilation in the PSU shroud (which I wanted when I bought it), so I need to use the bottom intake for the PSU. The only real reason it might matter is for airflow optimization. If your setup has a very negative pressure, a case-intake PSU setup would hurt that a bit more, but still not very important.
  11. There are only 2 things that might separate that case from a case released within the last or next few months. First, tempered glass. Aesthetics only. Second, IO. Very few cases have front panel USB-C right now, but you could theoretically get one. Personally, I have neither of those things, and I could not care less.
  12. So I need to buy a new graphics card (current card is so old that it doesn't have a Windows 10 driver, so I'm stuck at 1024x768). We all know that Volta is coming at some point, but right now, all that we've heard is "Early 2018". Nvidia doesn't exactly have much competition, so I'm sure they're more than willing to wait until later "early" this year. We also all know that current GPU prices are obscenely high, and will likely drop, but no one is sure when. So here's what I'm wondering: Which will happen first, Volta release or GPUs being sold for roughly MSRP?
  13. I have 2 RX 480 8GB reference cards. One might note that these are currently going for approximately a "fuckton" used on Ebay and such. Should I sell those right now, and then wait until I can get a 1080 or a 1080ti for roughly MSRP? I have a GeForce 7300 GT from an ancient Mac Pro that I can survive with in the interim.
  14. Update: I elected to take apart one of my cards, to see how the thermal paste is and try to figure out the thermal pad thickness. The thermal paste definitely needs some replacing. Some people call thermal paste "thermal grease", but this paste is not exactly greasy. It's REALLY dry and crumbly- I got some on my shirt while taking it off because it crumbled while I was taking the cooler off. And I was able to scrape the bit that I got on my shirt off. As far as the thermal pads, they aren't too bad, but 3 of them are ripped. They appear to be 1.0mm, right? Is it possible for a 1.5mm thermal pad to shrink that much or something?
  15. Thanks. Do you happen to know the thickness of the thermal pads on a reference RX 480, or what a normal thickness might be?
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