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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.

Its not which one will be better and stable but might help some confusion the card itself is having. Could be stuck in between the different BIOS loaded on the card. And neither have I updated VBIOS since purchace in Feb. But I take it you bought recently, so there may be different VBIOS on your unit. Still, a relatively easy debugging check, wont expect it to do any harm.

Middle one is Silent OC, have it set to that. Cycled between BIOS 1 and BIOS 2 with restart for each. Run BIOS 1 or "Primary" in Trixx. But this was on February BIOS, later version might have fixes. Still wont hurt to try, eliminates some things perhaps

Neither did I, just cycled between the 2 with a restart of PC. Seemed to un-plug what ever confusion the card was struggling with

it may sound weird, but when I got my Nitro 7900XTX, I flipped the switch on the card to silent bios. And the performance in games and programs was occasionally lagging for no reason. Then I cycled the bios versions in the Trixx utility once and it fixed it. Maybe could be the cause?

XTX. At this price difference, 4GB for extra 100 is the best value you can do. Plus, you are on AM platform, everything should work as good as it gets. 4070 is just out of the question at that price.

Electronics has a pretty distinctive "burning" smell. It may be a bit late to ask this, but without visual aid, its the only way of guessing anything.

This armchair measuring contest we see here is EXACTLY what Nvidia sales people want to see: people arguing among themselves which is better. Nvidia will then have no need to actually build or design something good, just let the people make excuses on "poor performance" or arguments for "good performance" Unless you know what makes the whole system work, taking sides is a fruitless exercise. Theres additional problems now with direct access memory protocols between memory, CPU and GPU. So many points of failure. Casual observer only has resultant FPS to judge whats "good or not". But 99% of users cant tell what causes the "bottleneck". Stable performance is always required, shiny features something nice to have. You cant live without one, can you tell which one it is?

True. Nvidia has an edge on new tech. But thats also a double edged sword. Nvidia has the monopoly on the new tech, to dictate how it will pan out. Nvidia may just decide one day that RTX30 or 40 series will not work with newer AI "features". And you are forced to upgrade. Also, those AI "features" use up silicon on the die for those AI features. Pushing other required functions on the CPU. THATS the "bottleneck" people are so worried about. RTX20 is already getting shadow phased out from newer RT and DLSS versions.

7900XTX. Did regular DDU + disable windows update while installing. Only use the drivers, no UI elements. UI has always caused the most headaches with weird profiles or over writes. Nitro+ has not given me any problems than I can definitively put on the card or drivers.

I have a 7700k. Recently got a 7900XTX. Does triple FPS almost every where, very rare stutters in select places. Basically if you had stutters in known places, you will have them with a newer card. Just you can turn up the eye candy more. 2070 or 5700XT will pair beautiful with your system I had an R9 390X for 7 years, 5 of which on the 7700K. Used a 4K monitor and got 60FPS performance when I turned eye candy to low or off. I wish I could say bottleneck is hog wash but its also not that of a witch hunt as its made to be. Most of the scare is with newer Nvidia cards that depend heavy on CPU support. Or late 2022-2023 titles that have been built with PCI-e 4.0 features in mind...