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I dont use it at all, instead hardware shop parts. A small table foot with a threaded insert, bolt with matching thread. locking nut and felt pads that are meant under the legs of chairs. Works wonders

Measurements in mm.

Can give this info in a couple of hours

Yeah, that does look like some hardware artifacting. Good luck with your RMA I run my card at stock AMD settings right now. Not gonna raise any conspiracy, but could also be some weird glitch because of OC BIOS cant control memory. But thats just pure speculation, based on different BIOS...

Atrifacting? Are you sure its hardware related, not drivers being raw? I get artefacts in specific scenarios, not overall corrupt pixels regardless of the scene. Also, I have seen people report weird texture glitches due to decompression done on CPU instead of GPU. So many added points of failure in the chain again... But hopefully the new unit is ok

Yeah, unfortunately the AV1 encode is one of the things being implemented still. I think YT and other streaming platforms have implemented it properly, players not so sure. VLC should have support, but not sure how good AMD driver side could be the issue, AV1 is rather new thing.

Its a decent investment for the next 3-4 years minimum and will work good with a CPU upgrade since its PCI-e 4.0. Plus, it will hold value much better down the line.

As a daily driver of R9 390X for 7 years, the 7900XTX i bought this february with January drivers have given me much less headache than old drivers. Games that dont have direct support anymore have little glitches but all run so far with little to no headaches

How much it will bottleneck? Impossible to grade that without knowing your games, your preferred detail level etc. 1080p for 120FPS is doable on the 3070, at most you will see some asset loading issue (decompression, data fetch-pass through). Unless you know what to look for, Id wager you would have no idea what causes the low performance. Ryzen 4500 is a lower mid-tier CPU on the PCI-e 3.0 bus. No resizable BAR, no direct access anything. 3070 is for sure much better than a 1050, but dont get your hopes up for a miracle.

Nvidia is banking on the PCI-e 4.0 and future versions for the features. Using up silicon for AI stuff, which demand support from the rest of the system. Mainly the CPU. Thats why they can say "you can manage with only 8GB". If the GPU can share direct link to RAM and rely on CPU features for some tasks, TECHNICALLY it works. But you are adding so many points of failure into the chain. And it has become apparent, sales people have abused the natural points of failure to up sell "bottleneck". That said, dont forget Nvidia is a majority market share holder. It kinda has to ration resources. If you scale the availability of VRAM and other components over millions of units, offering 8GB cars in 2023 with AI gimmicks start to make sense. Still, gouging price to all hell is one really crappy practice. THIS is what makes Nvidia so bad for value: over saturated the market and under performing in the near future. You will be upgrading with Nvidia MUCH MUCH sooner than with any current AMD offering.

Fair enough. Good luck

teleporting? Clean you sensor hole, could be a piece of dust or a hair Any luck with BIOS cycling?

Yes.

im not saying DONT use OC. Im saying just switch between them once But I see the confusion: i cant explain why the card work ok with the physical switch on "Silent" bios, but TRIXX has Primary active. TRIXX does not detect or say which BIOS is which. Who knows what it considers "primary". Mine shows reference clocks on graphs after BIOS cycle.

Middle (Silent) should be AMD reference BIOS and right (OC) should be Sapphire factory OC.