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Hello All, I watched a video from Linus and a few others that all stated that the reason why PC Parts are priced high was do to Covid and amongst other things, well i have proof now that they are all lying and they are just as bad as the scalpers and everyone else that are just simply ripping off people. I could understand that supply and demand for the brand new stuff etc... AND i know Linus had just recently done a video about the reason why they are selling the new stuff with the ridiculous pricing, but i also did watch a few videos about people saying that companies are complaining about dont blame them for the prices because the suppliers have jacked up the prices and they are just passing it onto their customers. Well i have proof now that this is all bullshit. Sapphire Radeon RX 580 8 GB PULSE Video Card (11265-05-20G) - PCPartPicker I also attached screenshot incase this link changes. Now , as far as i know the RX 580 is a discontinued product so how in the hell did these companies get BRAND NEW RX 580's ??? The only reason why i know this was because before Covid, i was in search for a GPU and i checked every online store here in Australia to find either a RX 580 and RX 590 and they all had 0 stock, so we ended up buying another GPU. So this is why when i see companies claim they are looking after their customers is all bullshit and this is the exact reason why i have absolutely 0 respect for any company that claims this crap, PERIOD!!!! Now these GPU have been out of production for awhile now, so i dont know how these companies are selling them as "BRAND NEW" when they all had 0 stock when i was trying to find one before, thats how i know this. Cheers,

Here is some of the "OFFICIAL" pages... https://www.accc.gov.au/speech/the-acccs-digital-platforms-inquiry-and-the-need-for-competition-consumer-protection-and-regulatory-responses https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/taking-a-broad-approach-to-digital-platforms-issues It turns out if you read this info that its not just news media, there are other things too, like google misleading and lieing to its userbase etc... Something sounds fishy here, google links newspapers articles and not the actual source from the ACCC website and when you actually read the full report, the news media is like 1 part out of many parts/topics that Google and Facebook are in trouble for, not just the news media topic.

Hello All, If you are or have experienced this issue, here is a solution for you...... Solution Update your Chipset Drivers from your manufacture's website. If you are experiencing your pc rebooting randomly or if your games are crashing this might fix it. What was happening to me was my PC would just randomly reboot out of the blue and because of this i couldnt get any error log files or event viewer info, all i would get was this from the event viewer.... ERROR CODE: 6008 The previous system shutdown at 5:34:55 PM on ‎25/‎02/‎2020 was unexpected. Since i have updated my chipset, now all im getting is game crashes with error reports, instead of my system just rebooting. It would even reboot out of the blue whilst watching vid's on youtube as well and since updating the chipset never had an issue with youtube. Im not 100% sure, but through all my google searches and reading tonnes of forum posts and watching countless hours of videos and all that exciting stuff, i think vast of the majority of people having these kind of issues were AMD CPU users. Most of the info out there were suggesting RAM problems, PSU power cable problems, etc... Well from what has happened to me it wasnt hardware at all, it appears to be more like software/programming issues with CPU's. But i thought i would post this here just incase someone or someone else you know might be having the exact same issues, as there is little to no information at all to go off. This is not a 100% fix as my games are still crashing, but not as often and my PC is no longer just rebooting randomly anymore. I dont mind games crashing as much as my PC just randomly rebooting as it does do damage to hardware eventually down the line. I am no programmer or software engineer, but i think the problem is more related to AMD & Intel to quite possibly look at there chipsets as its conflicting with the M.Soft OS Win10, imo. Cheers,

Well, TBH i havent really gamed on PC's for that long to have a long history on past hardware. I was a console player in the beginning and what burnt my bridges with the console industry was the fact things became not backwards compatible. So once PS 3 was released, was when i decided to go PC, was around 2005'ish i think. I think my very first GPU was a GT 230 perhaps not sure 100%. But when i decided to take PC gaming a little more serious i got a GTX 660, but it died due to poor electricity to my home. So i then got a GTX 960 4GB as i knew the new GPU's were going to come soon. When NVidia released their 10's and saw the prices i was like WTF, nah i will wait for price drops. So when the release of the RTX 20 series released, overnight the 10 series were no longer available and i didnt want to buy any NVidia 20 series as the pricing were off the charts. So when i heard AMD were releasing their GPU's, all tech reviewers were saying to wait on buying a GPU's. So i did. When i saw the new GPU's of AMD, i thought well ill get myself a 5700XT, but couldnt because a lot of price hiking was happening so i got the 5700 instead as the price was pretty good. But as i bought my VERY first AMD GPU, i was so excited. I had 0 issues with my AMD GPU, it wasnt until roughly 2 weeks later thats when the problems started, first it started with the black screening on my main monitor, so i still could just reboot my PC from my second monitor. Then i started to see performance dropping, i then starting contacting the manufacturer and AMD through their support channels. I had manufacturer telling me its AMD problems with their drivers, and when AMD responded, all i got was just update the driver and they would send me a link to their drivers where i would dl and install them from. When i kept on reporting that my problems were getting worse, at this point my PC was just turning off by itself and rebooting, they just kept sending me links to newer drivers. So i decided that you know what i had enough, i paid $638 AUD and to me if a GPU is worth over $500 AUD then i shouldnt be having to have to go through problems. But because i wanted to try and use the AMD GPU, i tried diagnosing the issue myself. I got the point where it was like a lottery ticket, some days the GPU would work awesome, but most days i couldnt keep my pc running for any longer the 10mins. I bought my GPU in the middle of October and decided enough was enough at the end of November, and contacted the store i got my GPU from, sent them all the info i had on what AMD and the manufacture sent to me and said, thats it enough i want either another GPU or refund. They decided to refund me, so i then wacked another $100 on the price and got myself a NVidia 2070 Super. I have right now a AMD CPU 2700 and have had zero issues or problems, so AMD as a whole isnt bad, but what they are doing about the their GPU's (Navi), its pathetic. AMD dont care about their customers as i proven in my first post and how they treated me, compared to NVidia customer support that i have needed in the past, is pathetic to say the least. NVidia Customer support is 2nd to none when it comes to customer support, well for me anyways. TBH, i would of stayed with my AMD GPU, if only AMD treated me like a human customer, instead of treating me like an idiot, with repeat emails of installing drivers all the time. But because of how things went down for me, couldnt game for almost 2 to 3 months over the x-mass holidays, when trying to get things done was hard as i live out in the country side up to 5hrs+ to any CBD, was really annoying. So for now AMD GPU side of things have left a litter bitter taste in my mouth, and in order for me to prob ever go back to an AMD GPU product, they would have to send me a GPU first to try out before i would even think about buying one, now! And after watching that gamer nexus video where they showed more effort on making a software UI to look great and ignore their customers about hardware issues, then have the audacity to say that they are all about the gamers, pffft yeah right! All i know is and im probably not the only one too, is that AMD had their chance to win over SOME NVidia users, but now they will have to do more now instead of releasing some sort youtube advert, to convince me to try an AMD GPU product ever again.

Time stamped @ 15:15 Still Something Wrong At Radeon - Which from this redit user, was exactly what i was experiencing, word for word. There isnt much i can say as in the video from that redit user, was exactly what i had done. I ordered and installed an AMD RX 5700 in OCT 2019, got refunded and RMA'd in Jan 2020, then bought a NVidia RTX 2070 Super 0% problems after 2 weeks of playing every game i had to test things out, other then the initial install of it. But i think that was merely due to me on the way i install software on a fresh OS install. I contacted AMD on countless support tickets, only to be fobbed off with, just install the latest driver crap responses! Im not a hater on AMD, as i have a 2700 cpu and was hoping to finish up my build with an AMD GPU, but unfortunately i was forced by AMD incompetence for caring of their customers i had to go back to NVidia. Everytime i have had to contact NVidia through their support channels, i got to speak and interact with at least a human and they actually took the time to make sure i was a always good to go! Gotta give props to NVidia for their customer support, i have had nothing but great experiences with their cust. support. But like this guy said in his video towards the end, we need more people that are youtube reviewers to start putting more pressure on AMD to fix their crappy GPU drivers and buggy software, as i can not myself recommend any 5000 series AMD GPU to anyone, after experiencing what i went through. Even Steve @ Gamers nexus stated in one of his videos that AMD, were preferring to make there UI look better, rather then adhering to actual driver and hardware issues. Asking AMD When Its GPU Drivers Will Be Fixed, + RX 5600 XT's Existence Dont know if AMD understands the gaming industry at all, but as a gamer i prefer stuff to just work, probably every other gamer in existence too, then worry about cosmetics later. Nothing but problems, neglect from AMD. Not hatin, just sayin. AMD needs to get their act together, period! Great hardware and potential, just crappy execution mixed in with little lies, imo. Cheers,

Hello All, I just thought i would let everyone know that if you are planning on resetting/reformatting your windows 10, just becareful if you are using NVidia GPU's. After spending 4+hrs with NVidia support staff, they couldnt even solve this problem, so i had to spend up to 4 to 5 hrs on my own to solve this. I dont know if this is just a one off thing, or an actual bug or not, all i know is i ran into troubles and the NVidia support staff couldnt even solve or fix this issue, it was until i sat down myself and worked out this puzzle, that i managed to get my PC to work properly. So i thought i would just write down step by step on what i did to fix the issue. Step 1. Unplug your ethernet cable from your pc. So Microsoft doesnt try and and update or have your system use background processes. Step 2. Install your Windows 10 as normal. Step 3. Once you have finished installing your OS and you are logged in on your desktop, then follow step 4 very carefully. Step 4. Plug in your ethernet cable and connect to the internet, as soon as you connect, first thing you do is go straight away to the Microsoft Store and download and install the NVidia Control Panel APP - As fast as you can! Step 5. Once you have installed the NVidia Control Panel APP from the Microsoft store, then just go ahead and proceed finishing off installing everything else as normal. Im not 100% sure on whats going on here, but from now on you cannot have or install the NVidia CP software anymore in the "Program Folder", its now an APP. I had a lot of problems surrounding the NVidia pop-up icon, to the point of not being able to use literately nothing, the only way i could access anything at all was through the "Run New Task" option from the task manager, and no Windows 10 based commands would work. It appeared that my Windows 10 OS was non-existent. The old Windows 7 commands would work, but when i wanted to open up anything to do with Win10, nope! Anyhow, i think the builtin NVidia CP software thats in now Windows 10, is buggy and glitchy. I hope this post will help anyone that might have the same problem as me, as i spent well over 8 hrs to have finally fix it. Here is some info i came across along the way as i was trying to solve my problems. Website --> Windowsloop Website --> Winaero Cheers,

No, Movavi doesnt only for NVidia and Intel, but it does allow a tick box for OpenGL and thats about it. As with Blender as im fairly new with, the only settings i could find were in the PREFERENCE options, if there are any other different options that im unaware about, then no. But other than that all settings are set to AMD cpu & gpu, but i have tried toggling with all different variants and still with no changes. Did you see my zip folder? Only asking cause i uploaded it, but im not sure if its here as i cannot see the attachment on my OP.

Hello to all, Im experiencing an unusual problem i think and i cant really put a finger onto why this is happening, my only one conclusion that i have, is that there is an actual problem with AMD's line up with their GPU's driver or BIOS issues. As im new to AMD products and this is my very first usage of all their product lines, im finding it very difficult to diagnose. So i thought i would come here to ask, am i missing something or is it just another AMD bug/problem waiting yet to be fixed? All my troubleshooting & diagnosing efforts have all led me to a brick wall and dont really know where to go now. Here are my PC specs as of right now... CPU: Ryzen 7 2700 MOBO: Gigabyte X370-Gaming 5 GPU: Gigabyte RX 5700 GAMING OC 8G RAM: G.Skill F4-3200C16D-16GTZB DUAL CHANNEL: 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 3200MHz TridentZ X2 = 32GB SSD: Intel 500GB HDD: 2x 2TB RAID 0 to = 4TB PSU: 1200W Cooler Master Watt OS: Win10 Pro 64bit Vers. 1903 Build. 18362.418 ***NEWLY EDITED HERE*** My BIOS Vers. is Gigabytes F40 I had a Gigabyte GTX960 Gaming 1 4GB GPU, that i just swapped for the now RX 5700, a couple of days ago. Here is my problem/situation. I started trying to create videos and the software that i use mostly is Movavi, but now slowly learning atm Blender (as of 2-3 weeks ago). Now as i go to encode/render my newly made video its taking now 5 x longer on my RX 5700 as to my GTX960. When i dug a little deeper into it, the task manager is showing only 25% usage in Movavi and 50% in Blender of CPU usage and doesnt even use any GPU power what so ever, as the GPU power in task manager is always showing 0%. Over the past couple of days i have been trying to fix this, but to no avail, so here is everything i have tried and done so far. Firstly, i went through all the video editing software and adjusted all settings within the software to only use GPU resources only and AMD radeon software to force the software to use only GPU, still 0 results/change. Secondly, since the above didnt work, i then dl'd the DDU software wiped all NVidia files, then AMD files, both in safemode, reinstalled the latest drivers from AMD's driver page, still 0 results/change. Thirdly, since 1 & 2 steps failed, i then tried looking into my mobo's BIOS settings, but there wasnt really anything that i could see in there to change/modify to solve it, so still 0 results/change. My method of thinking was along the lines of perhaps like hotswap drive settings and virtual settings, thought maybe perhaps a GPU rendering settings would be in there. Lastly i decided to encode straight to my SSD, still 0 results/change. So now i went googling for fixes, but to no avail. All i could find was the basic blah-blah about how to change settings inside the software which i already new and the other info was all about how there is a problem with AMD and OBS. So after having 0 luck i then decided to dig around inside my OS. After having a look around inside windows there really wasnt anything i could adjust or change that seemed important or relevant towards improving performance for rendering/encoding purposes, so i let it be and went to bed @4am lolz. FACTS: This is what i do know. Before i changed my GTX960 to the newer RX 5700, i could encode/render a 5min video to 2k in about 10-15mins on average, now using the newer GPU it takes or it says 45mins. As this being a weird time period i decided to look in the task manager and found that my new GPU Movavi runs @0% GPU & 30% CPU usage, Blender @0% GPU & 50-55% CPU usage, as verses to my old GPU, it would be running @99-100% and CPU roughly @25-40% using the Movavi software, dont know about blender as i never used it with old GPU GTX960. Before you have a look at my attached zip files to this post i noticed that im now kind of using GPU power, so what ever i touched last night in the windows 10 settings must of somehow tweaked the performance. So now i think perhaps the problem is with M.Soft Windows OS and not the vid editing software or hardware. Its just too bad that i dont remember what exactly i did last night, but before last night the GPU was running @0%, now im getting at least getting it up to 25%. As i mentioned before, im fairly new when it comes to AMD products. I have never hardly had any issues out of the 10+ yrs using intel & nvidia only products, so i dont know if its my lack of knowledge fully understanding AMD wording of their techno jargon, or im actually just now discovering the limitations of their products. But i cant understand how the tech youtubers like, Linus, JayzTwoCents and others can run bench marks on their AMD product line and get great results with Blender and i was at least expecting with my current setup to be pretty good or ok to handle encoding/rendering at respectable speeds, but when my crappier GPU does better then my newer one and also not on so good software, so one has to question sometimes, WTF! Anyhow, thanks for reading my post and i am hoping to find someone in this world to help me solve this issue as the only 1 option that i have up my sleeve is to do a windows format, but i have a feeling its not going to do much, if at all anything, but after realizing now that somehow that i got that extra performance out of my GPU after fooling around with some settings last night in windows, is why im contemplating/entertaining the idea of a reformat of windows. Cheers,

I had exact same issue... Mine was because of drivers. Since you did a clean install, have you updated all your GPU drivers? Once i updated all my NVidia drivers, still had same prob, it wasnt until i updated M.Soft Win then my GPU went back to normal. Just make sure that your OS & NVidia drivers are all up to date. Cheers,

Hi All, I just came across this vid on youtube, is Linus aware of this? I sat there watching the whole thing and they never explained why Linus was wrong, other than the fact that "Linus, shouldnt complain about the price after he bought it". So what was the point of these guys releasing this video? Please someone explain it to me, i feel like im missing something here. Cheers,

@newcbomb @79wjd You guys are missing the point, look at the pic's, this is what it specifically says... Pic1. Test ExpressVPN's full arsenal for a whopping 30 days without spending anything. See for yourself what this service is about. Most Popular VPN of 2018. Pic2. Try it for free for 30 days. So i go to ExpressVPN website and their is absolutely nothing about a FREE 30 days trial. i have to PAY upfront, then cancel within 30days. So? The 2nd pic says JULY, so they just put it their advert. there just recently, and when a company puts an advert, they outline specifically what to put and say, even Linus has said this for his sponsors on what and how to say it. @danomicar Its not about the damages, its about reporting wrong and misleading information. Cheers.

Hello All, Im asking for help in redirecting me to a company or law firm that looks into online bullshit practices done by companies. I live in Australia so i dont know if i can do anything as most if not all companies are subsided in the USA. Australia i dont think has anything that i know of that i can report ONLINE business and companies bad practices too. Here is the issue... Im seeing this as a scam as the same as the loot box scenario in the gaming industry, and i have noticed that this malpractice that companies are started to do, is just getting worse, so i want to report it as i know its just going to get worse and worse in the near future. So whats happening? Well whats happening is that companies not all, but most are doing this FREE TRIAL, but they want all your details even your banking details in order to use their so pro-claimed FREE TRIAL, and its false, misleading and bullshit. Because i didnt want companies to get my real c/c, i ended up getting another c/c without having any money in the account. So i could at least give them my card details knowing that if they try any shady crap they cant touch my money. So once that so called FREE TRIAL period had ended and you didnt cancel your sub, they will bill you. Now, i just looked at checking out a VPN program to use, as i was searching this and that, most of all the websites i went to were saying FREE TRIAL - CLICK HERE, once i clicked on the link this happened, i couldnt use their product unless i paid 1yr worth upfront, despite them saying 30-FREE TRIAL. When i questioned their online support staff about where is this 30day FREE trial, they said no i misunderstood them and blah blah, anyhow here is the transcript... As you can point blank see that they are truly lying and playing around with words. As you can see just by doing a google search you see how they mislead ppl... Whats even worse is if you go to ALL of those sites where it says TOP 10 & what ever, they all say FREE TRIAL, as you can see here... So basically you can see 100% proof of evidence that they are lying in their advertising and getting away with it. Im using ExpressVPN in this example as 1 out of many other companies are also pulling this bullshit as well. Sure ExpressVPN can say, we dont tell others what to put on their websites, but im sure as shit they are paying $$$ to create this false and bullshit advertisements. So their should be an online law, like how things used to be when the internet and PC's were first built, FREE TRIAL meant FREE TRIAL, even if its 1 week or 2 week (14 day) or 1 month (30 day). But the law should be that IF your company wants to offer or have a TRIAL, it should be out lined clearly the A) Time period & B) Have Full access to their product & C) Not having them ask for personal info, especially banking details. If companies want to play these sneaky and bullshit tactics, then they ought to be fined and fined huge! And if these companies want to use the excuse "Oh we cant control what others say and do about our products on their sites", yeah! then why is the government spending loads and tonnes of $$$ on the serious hunting mission for torrenting sites? like PirateBay? They have no control on who and what their users upload! So if anyone can point me to law firm or someone that i can report this sneaky and bullshit tactics to an authority government agency i would be more and happy to report this to them. HOW CAN SHIT BE FREE IF THEY WANT MY PERSONAL DETAILS AND MONEY UPFRONT !!!!!!! please someone explain this logic to me.... Cheers, CK

Yeah cool, It wasnt around til 2005'ish give or take a year or 2 was when my friend and I started dabbing into Linux, we first started off with Ubuntu, then a little of mint & manjaro. As those names sound familiar to me, and i think Citrix too, but i could be wrong. The reason why we stopped was because we were running into barriers, and my friend and i werent developers or coders, as we were learning, but only if we had someone that was knowledgable enough to teach and show us, perhaps we could of learnt it. But at that time there wasnt any REAL info, and trying to get software and hardware to work was a nightmare for us... For example. we were trying to get our optical drive to work, and after around a week or so we still couldnt get it to work, i just remember reading one guide after another, trying all the different methods etc... And still nothing. We knew back then my friend and i that Linux would take off and be awesome if someone would just make a linux OS like Ubuntu to be similar like windows it would take off, we were wanting to do that ourselves, but because my friend and i were very limited in what we can do. Meaning it was one thing reading and understanding code, but starting from scratch like creating code, thats another thing! But this course i have booked myself in, the teachers have told me that i would be dealing with Linux base software, so i was very curious on how far Linux had come wince last time my friend and i played with it. Before you say Linux and no one would ever know what your talking about, now i have started seeing website support for Linux, like gaming platforms, steam, nvidia etc... Going from trying to install everything manually for every single thing compared to seeing how companies have linux support on their websites, it might not ba as daunting now as it was last time. Plus also things have changed too hardware wise, like optical drives, who has optical drives now??? i mean i have a Blu-Ray player, slash DVD burner and i havent used for that long that when i put a disc in it the other day the thing was loud as fuck and grinding it ass off, lol!!! I have had my optical drive in my PC now for roughly 6yrs, give or take a few yrs, and i only ever used the thing a couple of times just to install my Win7 OS, and ripped a few movies from DVD to hard drive. So going from my friend and i spending weeks trying to install an optical driver for linux, to not even needing an optical drive, boy things have come a long way, i just watch a Linus vid the other day where now you boot off Linux on a thumb drive, A BLOODY FUCKING THUMB DRIVE !!! Without even touching the main OS, i was in total shock, let me tell ya. This was unheard of back in the day. But anyhow, you have given me a great start and after watchin that linus vid, i had downloaded PoP-OS, it was going to load it onto my virtual machine to have a look around, but im thinking perhaps ubuntu is the way to go to be perfectly honest, as it looks like a more industry standard, but i know more once i start my ccna course to see how and where linux is used. Cheers,

Geez thanks for the info, thanks for giving a head start!

@Windows7ge Yeah unfortunately with my modem the only thing i can really do is look at things and hit the reset button to reboot the modem and thats virtually it. About Linux i was actually considering of putting together a linux based OS on a little PC that i have laying around just so i can dibble and dabble with it, i played around with ubuntu like 10-15yrs ago and thats about it, never really gotten back into linux. But i am seriously now contemplating on getting off my lazy ass and learn linux, as linux has come a far way from what i can tell, dont get me wrong tho i like windows, but i feel like companies like microsoft and apple are so consumed by the $$$ in the market that they are now to the point where they are just bullies now. I have book myself in school to do the 4 or 5 yr cisco course, i used to install servers and local machines for small businesses, but due to my health condition i had to shut up shop. But i do miss the work tho, lol just thinking how geekish that sounds. So im kind of thinking of doing a server setup at home, but instead of running microsoft software ill run a nas with linux. At least this way i can keep myself on top of things like server side tech, which i really do love and miss. Which was half of the reason why i was tempting this little project of splitting the nic's, cause i was going to run linux through virtual box just to learn and get the gist of it. So i was going to run virtual box with linus OS and use my PC as like a local machine on the server, that way i could learn things with out having have to run between PC to PC. But i think the best way to go is just pull out this shitty old PC that i got put linux on it and do things that way as trying to run it from one PC would just be making it harder for me to diagnose if something were to go wrong. As far as changing DNS on local machine, yeah im doing that right now, as my ISP has blocked certain websites that i can not access, unless i change the DNS settings on the local machines. Thats another thing that really shits me with this shitty ISP modem, i can not create static IP and address to machines on the network, etc... I prefer to do things old school and do things manually cause i dont really like this automated stuff, cause when things go wrong its very hard to diagnose them. When you ask to get something fixed now in Windows 10 it doesnt tell you anything, whereas 2000NT and WinXP at least showed you what it was looking at and diagnosing and when you saw the system hang on that particular area you knew, ok i think thats where the problem is... Now windows 10 just says TROUBLESHOOTING and when its finished it just says cant fix, contact blah blah to take a look. Which is why im thinking of switching to linux, my problem is i gotta get off my ass and learn it, lol. Got on any suggestions on linux OS, for server side OS and local mach based OS? Cheers,