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thank you everyone for your advices! i'll continue to wait! though idk if my chances on finding one is a good for i soley only look at new egg every 2-3 days. seems rather unpractical =x= though that's interesting theirs a discord idea and to check up on stores. i should give that a shot.

So my graphic card is pretty much on it's last legs and i'm hoping to get an Geforce Rtx 3080 Card but of course it's hard to find it anywhere. I'm hoping in Jan i might get a chance in finding one in newegg but in all honestly i have very little idea on how and if i can even secure one. Any advice or tips on how to get one would be helpful thank you x-x

so you think the reason the vram is failing is because it's soldering might be loose/damage over long periods of time/use?

Alright Well if it's vram is the main issue. i'd like to wonder how did it became an issue in the first place. What happens to components after a long period of time n what not. Why did the vram began to fail? o-o

oooooouh Well alright! Hey thanks for your input and video example! This helps quite a lot! i wonder if theirs anything i can do from their.

Oh really! Like the card memory? or the system Memory?

Welp. it's that time again where my old gtx 670 Graphic card is failing on me. it had trouble last year and somehow it fixed itself randomly. Now it's malfunctioning again though this time it's showing artifacts which is pretty interesting. though it's just so weird how.. everything was fine. and then one day Bam (Picture below) Tabletop simulator got all weird. And then other games got all weird on me! Now i know the card needs to be replaced soon which i'm hoping i will do on january. but i'd like to pinpoint What and why is it failing in the first place so suddenly.. Heres are the things i've tried. Checking it's temperature "Which only touched 80 so no issues their" De-dusting the card upon removal/reseating. reseating it at a different pci slot. Reducing it's clock/memory clock settings on msi afterburner and increasing voltage/volt limit. Deleting nvidia drivers and uninstalling the video driver on device manager (which keeps reinstalling itself upon after a pc reset) Pretty much tried out and looked at any other option other places offer, getting to the point maybe i should take the card apart and remove/reapply thermal paste or something... From that point i'm like "Okay.. let's ask the forums if they can help" Again i'm going to replace this soon but i wonder if anyone can find the main issue directly. maybe a silicon deformity? or perhaps even bad drivers that i haven't removed entirely. Or could it be other things? like my memory stick or inadequate power? Or maybe the motherboard itself? what do! lol I'd love to keep it running just a little bit more! XD

Welp.. it's been returned and got my refund. but now it's been weeks and i'm still on the hunt for the rtx 3080 card x-x; I wonder if the rtx 3090 are any different. And what's this about capacitors blowing up?

Oh it is? it's just i've seen the rtx card hit the top of the graph and turn yellow so i'd assume this one should do the same..; Also woaw.. it uses system memory? But the gpu has it's own memory doesn't it? hence the core memory thing..; and i'm not sure but i maxed out both core voltage and power limit. Do you mean the heaven benchmark thing?

Okay.. so i've come to the realization that despite doing some research like watching what a graphic card is to reading my 2008 textbook on computer stuffs. i've come to the conclusion that i have very little in-debt knowledge about graphic card and overclocking for i can't seem to figure out Why is this Geforce GTX 760 gpu at full max yet everything else, (The core clock, memory clock) Is so low on the graph? This has been brought to my attention ever since i overclocked an rtx 2080 card [which i returned cuz rtx 3080..;] For that one i was seeing full memory usage upon running fur mark. That was impressive! Yet for this card no matter how much i try to overclock it's coreclock and memory clock (to a point where it gets unstable) it never reachs it's max potential. Only the gpu usage. So like what? Is their a way to overclock the gpu usage or something? Or at least get that memory usage n core clock to hit it's max? at least halfway... LIke i'd love if someone can tell me what would changing the bars on the afterburner effect what i can see in detail. Recently i found out jumping the memory clock to 1000 would create artifacting and than a crash later. so that's something new. though i wonder what's happening when i increase the memory clock. Like is it storing memory for later use by the core clock? or something.. Does anything change more fi the GPu temperature rises. is it also responsable for the crash/artifact thing? What does the core clock actually do!?!? it's either i raise it up to a point where it would crash and than lower it down a little to where it's stable but i don't see any noticeable difference with it's increase/decrease.

the Restocking fee hurts.. how would one do homework effectively i wonder;.. But yeh i'd be looking to getting the rtx 2080 series since it's around $700 or so. but i assume that's just the base card that nivida's putting out. And i'm sitting here wondering about how much the cost would be from venders like Msi,evga,gigabyte etc that would be utilizing this new GPU chip-set. Kinda concerned if their price will be over $800...; or something.

Wow really?!?! but... why? what? Wouldn't the GPU process everything? ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i wonder how bad..; Fuh

Alright! Welp from the looks of it. might as well do it now than sooner. at least i still kept my old 660 card lol. Also recently a friend was telling me that my cpu would bottleneck any new graphic card? what's up with that i thought the graphic card has it's own cpu thing in it. why would my cpu matter in gaming? cuz i have a intel (R) core(TM) i7-4770 CPU 3.40 GHz

I thought core clock was like the raw power that a card could produce; also boost-clock is just how much it can work when over-clocked or something..; God thank you everyone for informing me about these things. Like i've been stressing out over this for quite a long time Thank you so ever much! I would love to learn more about graphic cards whenever possible. i like to be informed about these things; God thank you!!

So about 2 weeks ago i bought a Gaming X Trio Rtx 2080 Super graphic card on new-egg because it was listed at 779.99 and after comparing it's core clock/boost clock with higher and lower end card of the rtx series i decide to purchase it. 2-3 weeks later SEEMLY out of nowhere they unveil the rtx 3080 series and announced they were much more powerful than the 2080 and a lot cheaper. I'm kinda upset. why was the rtx 2080 Super More expensive than the 3080 series? Should i return it and get the rtx 3080? i have until 3 days left to return it and it goes to show i',m ill-informed about graphic card. LIke does the rtx 3080 have a higher core clock/boost clock than the rtx 2080? Is it actually worth just trading in for an rtx 3080 card than my 2080 i seriously have no idea.. please inform me on the specs of these two cards x-x

ALso thank you everyone for helping me out with this! i diden't expect to get a lot of responses lol. Thank you! I'm trying my best here to try to learn what i can. it's my second time assembling a machine for my friend and my "CompTia A+ Certifaction" is like.. 8 years late or something. like i'm talking 2014 information here. so i'm a bit dusty with these kinds of things but i want to learn! (Here's the current idea of the build i'm thinking about) The orange Case is something i currently have that i'm gonna give away to her once the assembly is done.

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well i was kinda looking into the $150-$200 range. hence why when i saw a graphic card that had 4 GB of memory but it's price is $79.99 i felt like something feels off. (Turns out Linus actually made a video about it) *Though i still don't know why it's a bad graphic card if it supports 4 gigs of memory* To be honest i don't know that very well with Graphic cards. The last one i bought for myself was like a $300+ Nividia GFeforce GTX 760. It only lasted me 2 years until i can no longer play other games on the highest settings. I'd like to get her a card that could last longer; like at LEAST 4 years on the highest settings of 7 days to die and Overwatch. around that price of $150-$200. That can run 7 days to die and overwatch pretty well.

So i'm trying to help a friend out in figuring out what is the best inexpensive graphic card that can somehow run the video game "7 days to die" and Overwatch on the max settings possible. I'd assume OH a graphic card with 4 gigs of memory! no problem! Errruahhh. The cheapest one i found was like $75 and that doesn't sound right at all.. So now I'm wondering if it's the core clock and boost clock that i should be concerned about. I'm only one person looking into this so i'm reaching out for help in desperation ;x;