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I was really looking forward to jumping on the 30 series cards but it looks like we could be in this boat for years. When I registered my 1080ti FTW 3 EVGA in 2017, I was offered a 10 year warranty for £49.99, decided to take it for two reasons at the time, Trust in EVGA support and my graphics card would probably end up being used for 7+ years if you include dropping it in the media pc when it couldn't handle top tier games. Now with 6 years left on that warranty I at least know if it dies on me then it will be replaced or an equivalent newer version will take its place (a friend had a 980ti which died EVGA replaced it with a 1080ti as no 980ti's remained in stock)

That is awesome, I didn't think about extra AMD drivers coming from an intel system, and my system was glitchy and unstable, I thought WTH?? AMD then I realised oh...these drivers look important. Happy it helped

Did you do a clean install of windows, like above said may be remnants of drivers also very important make sure you installed the AMD updated drivers for the CPU, I had issues with my 3950x and now it is completely stable.

PSU would be my go to answer but as you said tried 2 psu's, it could be a hard drive crash, or sata port died, try the drive in another port, are you on a UPS or direct to wall any issues with power to the property, brown outs and such like, the other direction to go even though it is happening when not under load is temperature, or like you said MB, have you tried factory defaults, oh and silly as it sounds see if the latest frikken windows update (if it enabled idle shutdown or some other junk).

How many other devices is your USB system powering or using the bandwidth, what PSU are you using and how near its wattage limit.

I would first take a look at your PSU, shutdown problems can be MB but biggest culprit is a PSU bought as an afterthought or not researched properly, when really it is the heart of your whole machine.

That is the big problem, I just wondered if anyone had some bright idea that I hadn't already thought of.

Let me put it this way, on the 26th of March 2019 I was about to end my life, nothing mattered and all was grey to put it simply, my journey from then to now, inspiring people along the way, isn't just for me, its a rallying call for the entire tech industry, and more than that everyone out there dealing with depression, suicidal thoughts, grief, and mental illness. videos from 2019, I still get messages about (I am uncertain of my future on youtube) a south korean teenager thanked me for putting his school problems in perspective, another from SK watched an early kitchen food live stream video and it inspired him to cook for a girl he liked, messages from people dealing with grief thanking me for uploading the videos and how they help them deal with there own tragedy. A comment last week puts it into perspective from someone who watched a video. "This video shines light on so many issues. Thank you for this. It really bought me to the edge of having tears. I am so glad that I can vibe with the fact that I now know someone who also thinks gaming might have saved my life. No matter what anyone says, if gaming makes you feel better, without the need to hang out with people or socialize, IT STILL is a friend in all the darkest hours of our life. The adventures. The memories. They can help online friends bond as well. I've made friends online with whom I share amazing rapport even though I haven't met them. I want to do something like this as well, in the future. To have my own time where I can play, just create content using some creativity/film making in video games. Thank you for this update. This is so important. Thank you for helping me understand that it's okay to video game and for making me feel less lonely that even you're out there who knows gaming plays a huge role. Thank you for sharing all this. You have endured so much. Thank you for being strong and for definitely clicking Division 2 when it really mattered. Please keep streaming. Even if there aren't anyone who are able to watch it at the moment, you can be rest assured I go through atleast one of your videos after my dinner. Please take care and thank you for making my day with this update." So should I really even entertain the thought of culling those videos this journey which is a prime example of how technology and gaming can make a huge difference to people and help them. If youtube ever changes its policy or my channel ever gets strikes I could loose it all, as long as I have a backup, a copy I can reupload it all elsewhere. Something that is actually championing a use of technology that isn't about mining or the latest out of stock graphics card but is actually saving lives and making a difference. No I couldn't cull those videos but I am looking into the glacier you mentioned that is interesting to me. Thank you.

That is my idea, I am contacting a few people in the industry to see if they can help me sort this out.

Streaming is my life support, without it I would be dead, long term hospital or heavily medicated, something about focusing on a camera and living my life on stream helps me deal with stuff in a way nothing else has. My situation is well documented, Valve gifted me an index once they heard my story and my Wife's painting hangs in the main montreal office of Ubisoft (she also has a picture in the Animus Assassins creed valhalla and a world event story in memorial) been doing this since march 2019 but now I am at the point of almost running out of things to sell and so looking for ideas. 50gb is about norm for 6-12 hours of footage at 1080p I believe. The synology does have 1 disk as a backup built into it. Already lowered the bitrate. My own idea is drop the 15tb of files to a £250 16tb external drive grab a couple of 4tb hd's and raise the synlogy to 24tb (or I buy 3 16TB drives and redo the synology with them giving me massive space for expansion and use the 4tb drives to build a backup that stores a copy plus a couple of the 16TB externals) But Wanted to see if anyone had cheaper safer ways to do this, I am going to still need funding but in talks with a few people in the industry, I just don't want to ask for more than I need.

I have shucked, no problem with that but those two 8TB drives I did that too are now also full, I have no backup for any of this as very little funds to play with. This also a "am I as sc6wed as I think I am thread"

This is a backup plan if my hopes for funding don't pan out. I have a Synology 1815+ currently at 15.2TB of 16TB, no where else to store this and it is the only full copy of my life since 2019, it has to be kept so looking to bounce ideas on ways to store this while I either rework the Synology into a 24tb or build something else. Any ideas ? This also a "am I as scr6wed as I think that I am" 16TB main nas populated with 4TB in a Synology hybrid array, .9TB free space being eaten up at a rate of 50gb per day, 2* 8TB shucked drives in a backup pc acting as extra space almost full, 70% of it 1080p footage, 30% of it 1440p, currently leaving my primary pc on 24/7 when not in use for streaming to drop the 1440p files down to 1080p. last hail mary is a couple of 2tb old drives not in the best condition but one I think is usable and I can use one of my 500gb ssd's for another 5-10 days storage. None of this is backed up elsewhere and has multiple points of failure. No funds unless I sell something in the house. Personally I think that without funding I am screfuffled but other people have other points of view thus seeing if I missed anything here.

As everyone said, it is possible with extreme niche hardware to do what you are asking BUT and this is the point everyone is making which you seem to ignore, these boards work at x2 x1 per slot AND no game will take advantage of that many cards, now in theory if you created a 16k screen or multi screen combined, you can go window mode but the loss of performance the glitches, the lack of drivers would mean a complete waste of time except for a "HEY I CAN DO THIS" video.

I used to use gaming headsets till an audio technician let me try his DT 990 PRO, it completely blew me away and made me realise what I was missing, bought my own pair in 2016 and still working fine today which is about 3 years longer than any game headset I ever had did.

In some circumstances that would be true but remember I had one SR Psychologist, 4 consultants in various specialties, 3 counselling groups, my own GP all knew I was ending my life and the consensus was yes they could try to stop me but this wasn't a plea for help this was a logical decision based on no longer having any reason to live, if I died either I ended up with Paola or I ended up dead and either way I stopped the pain and suffering, did you know you can die of a broken heart, this is why sometimes a husband will die and a wife die soon after, me and Paola were true love in the best sense of the words, I spent 21 years with this woman every day caring for her, no respite, no outside job no hobby or anything to give us space, we were truly in love, 6am to midnight I looked after her with not one day off in 18 of those years, was it torture? was it to much? no and I would do it all again without a seconds thought, we gamed together, we watched films cooked, all our hobbies aligned. Both of us scifi geeks and nerds before it was fashionable, we needed no one else. and imagine if every time you did leave the house it was to push her wheel chair and that was so ingrained that even now when I go out my front door for a blood test or CT scan my hands naturally go to the holding the back of the wheelchair. When she died there was no getting over it, no moving on, there was only pain and suffering that added to my problems and wore me down over time and that doesn't count the cancer problems. For all purposes I should be dead that isn't my conclusion but those that know my case, I will never get over my wife's death, ADHD can latch on to an idea or a thought like a train on a track, it doesn't allow you to switch until the station is reached (sometimes you will see people with ADHD talk about the same subject until it is driven into the dirt and everyone else has moved on) now imagine if that subject is the death of your true love. When I started gaming/vlogging/streaming again, my consultants had a group meeting and said this to me "whatever you are doing keep doing it because honestly all of us here were just waiting for the call from the police, some people we just can't help or fix" I now have an online girlfriend and a community behind me and lets be honest. I am 50 years old, before I met Paola I travelled, I went to Egypt and Greece, I did my dream job in computers, I don't feel any need to go out there and exist in that world, a world I shared with a wonderful girl now gone, like I said there is two parts of this. 1)It helps me cope and works. I use ever way to deal with this and no I do not hide away I talk opening my camera is my therapist now, every day I talk about all that happened and what works, I never hide from it, some days are good some are bad, but I get through them and I am 100% honest about it all, in fact I probably share too much but it works. 2)It helps others to know they are not alone the amount of people who contact me saying thank you is awesome. And lets remember for me what is so special about real life, in real life my mum is end stages dementia, and the love of my life at 21 was told she had incurable cancer, i'll take doing a quest in a game over that because at least in games the rules are understood.