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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.

NOTE: This is not me asking for money or anything like that I am looking for experience or advice in the approach to the tech/gaming industry looking for who I could contact or where I could start. I am reaching a slow none urgent crisis point in my situation. My story is actually well documented on the web and reddit, my wife is remembered with a painting in the animus and story event in the valhalla (her painting also hangs up in the Montreal office) Valve sent me an index when they heard about and so on it is all verified. I did a post here yesterday which explains how technology and gaming saves my life every day. My interactions with this forum have always been positive so here goes. Nothing I do either on Twitch, facebook, Youtube, twitter or Trovo is monetized, I have no patreon, the reason for this is very simple, I am severely disabled, I can't do schedules or edit content, I don't do intro's or outro's, I can't keep to one game or subject matter, there is no filter between my brain and mouth, I have 1050 followers on youtube, 1200 on twitch and about 1000 scattered among the others (I am not twitch affiliate because I multistream to 5 different places everything that I do.) 2950 videos/streams/vlogs over 2 years, most people who follow me do so because of the way I talk about and shine a light on disabilities and cancer, death and my gaming which is weird at best. The only money that comes into my house is disability. (UK). Which is enough to live on. The problem is all the money that put together all my streaming and gaming came from me slowly selling off spare tech and items, I don't even make a profit on the sales because my brain doesn't work like that (yes I sold my backup graphics card to finish the house network a 2070 rtx for the same price I bought it for in 2019, my current card is a 1080ti, still under EVGA extended warranty and I have an older card as a backup while it is fixed so I felt safe selling that). I am now at the end of items I can sell and while not in any danger of not being able to stream/vlog I am at the point things are getting to be an "issue" Used to do cooking programs in my kitchen live on stream, no planning just stick three camera's around the kitchen grab some basic ingredients and do a show That computer had to be taken apart to rebuild the main streaming pc. I used to have 5 webcams and a camcorder, now I have 2 webcams and a camcorder (main me, dog cam and VR cam) if another fails then oops. This also put an end to my plans of doing BBQ streams this summer and fun night streams in the back yard gaming, cooking and firepit, people seemed to love it but the laptop I have has issues and can't handle even one usb camera anymore, the risk is too great taking my main pc out there the camcorder is already on its last legs due to battery death and a few other things. And then there is my NaS which I have no backup for, which is currently sitting at 15tb of 16tb capacity 2950 videos my whole journey from march 2019, if I ever say something on youtube that gets my channel killed this is the only record of my survival, of how technology and games helped me survive, helped me come back from nothing. But it is more than that, a lot more, I get messages from a few people all over the world saying my story inspired them or helped them deal with problems they face, or just made them smile. You would think this would be a no brainer a win win for the gaming and technology community as a whole, not another story about cheating in games or trolls on websites, not a story about stealing or scalpers or the latest unavailable graphics card but a story about how technology and gaming is helping people survive trauma and mental issues, that even though I don't know what day it is most days, that I might forget to have a wash or change clothes that every day since March 2019 since a forum full of people convinced me to tell my story to the world and I bought my first webcam and microphone thinking "what did I have to lose" and every single day no matter how bad I feel, I turn my camera on and say "hello and welcome to the quebber channel I am Jason your host" So if any of you have any advice (that doesn't involve turning this into a business, my brain just can't do that) and other than asking my followers most of which are drawn to me because of trauma in there own life and thus I could never ask them to help with this, or know of anyone or place that could/would/maybe want to help me sort this out.

Bi-polar type 2 means I am depressed nearly all the time, my brain lives in that state, with lower spikes into deep depression and higher spikes into hectic mania style hyperness, my PTSD is usually triggered by thoughts of my Wife's death and how I didn't cure her or save her (completely irrational but not everything is logical) my ADHD latches on to a thought "you watched your wife die" "you could have done more" and won't let go of it which triggers PTSD which if I am at a low point via depressed and empty (everything is grey with no colour) Bi-polar can all work itself into a perfect storm of you are fcuked. Then we come to my Higher functioning autistic nature which means yes "I write gud!" I have a 98% problem solving ability (didn't help me cure my wife) test depending on the type, which unfortunately is fuelled by the above conditions. a perfect storm of conditions that by all rights should end up with me heavily medicated or in a long stay unit. So yes I built a briefcase computer in 6 hours, I built my own online game in 1998 so my wife had a safe place to play, (it still runs today on a server in my bedroom and a few people around the world play it) I self taught and built a backyard solar project which gave backup power to her stair lift and since 2016 has charged my laptop, game controllers and tablets/phones. I learnt so much about Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia with Philadelphia chromosome positive (the disease killing my wife slowly) that I was consulted on my Wife's treatment and when my Wife went into hospital for treatment, I was classed as hospital support one, when her kidneys failed and dialysis began, home based peritoneal dialysis, we used an adaptive program on a specific machine that the hospital wasn't trained on so I came in to hospital at 6am each day and left at 9pm dealt with all the ordering of new liquids and keeping 3 different departments informed. But that little voice inside with a really big hammer tells me I never saved her. Sorry to say your "wise guy" doesn't know shite Using technology I can mitigate most of what I have. Vlogging and streaming on a base level focus my brain and distract it by the camera. Gaming on stream with people watching or may watch mitigate and keep me on one subject, engaging my brain. multiple different games and subject matter. Turning on an audio book on audible the moment I turn off the stream or vlog once again keeps my mind distracted. So on and so forth. Unfortunately like with most mental issues of these kinds, I look kind of normal just a little off the wall.

I think we all had that moment in our lives when we have a bad day or week, we get home sit in front of our PC/Console and relax with our favourite game and after a few quests or blowing things up with friends, life doesn't seem so bad. In March 2019 I was having a "bad day" After fighting my wife's illness along side her for 20 years watching the medication that kept her alive slowly destroy her body we lost the fight in November of 2018 3 days after my birthday, not only was I broken apart by grief but also (undiagnosed at the time) Higher functioning Autism, Bi-polar type 2, ADHD and soon to come PTSD, the disability payments that helped pay the bills (my own issues meaning a full time job was impossible) were stopped the day she died, income went from 1300 to 500 per month, in one day without notice, mum finally entered end stage dementia and 7 days after my Wife died I was diagnosed with bowel cancer, spent Christmas of 2018 in hospital (same hospital my wife died 5 weeks before) having 40% of my Bowels removed, no cure for me either, CT scan every 6 months and blood works just because I developed nodules in my lungs which could go either way. 3 months later and no family visit, 5 consultants trying to keep me alive as quite rationally I didn't see the point of going on especially with PTSD kicking in which meant I had the happy fun addon of experiencing my Wife's death 3-6 times a day every day in full colour and sound while I rolled into a ball on the floor. Pretty much a sucky day lasting 20 odd years with the last 30 mins being the worse. No one would have blamed me for ending it, there is only so many days you can experience the death of your loved on before it wears you down to nothing especially with almost no support except a few online friends keeping an eye on me. March came around and I started to say goodbye to everyone, Doctors had me on suicide watch, Samaritans actually rang me each week to see if I was still alive, I had a plan and my last act was going to be watching End game then have my own end game. My last act was going to be loading up all my Wife's and mine favourite games, the ones we played together, just take a last walk about, visit all the places we did. Days away from the end I logged on to The Division and as I closed the client it came up with an advertisement for The Division 2, had nothing to loose nothing to do that night, so I bought the ultimate edition and logged in curious to see what changes they had made to a favourite game of ours in the sequel. Something amazing happened, the next morning when I woke, I had the urge to log back on. I did a post on reddit that blew up when I thanked the developers for saving my live. Well that post and the amazing support given to me, people convinced me to vlog and stream because even though I was enjoying TD2 it was triggering my ptsd and other issues badly. But something about being online, about being focused on a camera actually helped. I bought my first webcam and mic on the 23rd March 2019. My consultants and Sr psychologist stopped expecting me to be dead by the next visits, I went down from Five different people to one and he wants to come visit me after covid to co-write a paper on using technology and games as an alternative therapy to medication and hospital stay. Just over two years later, yes I may end up stuck in this house for the rest of my life but I am still here, todays streams and vlogs will take the count up to 2940 videos, oh I will always be a very minor person on Youtube and Twitch, 1050 people following me on YT 1200 on Twitch, but it doesn't even matter if no one watches one of my streams or vlogs they still get uploaded and someone will watch them one day. my content is uncut, unedited and very raw (my version of autism means I have no filter between my brain and mouth) on the plus side a few people seem to like my honesty and willingness to talk about anything, as I put it, what is the point in telling you I am having a good day if you don't get to know when I am wrecked and having a bad day, I variety stream because my brain can't lock into one game, and even if I have 500 hours in a game, I can still forget how to shoot or access inventory multiple times a game. And some of the amazing things is when someone leaves a comment on a video letting me know I inspired them, when I do a live cooking video and someone says "hi I'm going to make this for a girl I like" or "after your talk about what really matters in life I won't be on tonight, taking my mum to the cinema" If I have a really bad time then VR helps also. Currently going through some "issues" but things will work out. For some of us with disabilities, mental issues and other problems gaming and technology is more than a hobby, it is life support and I wouldn't be here without it. If anyone wants to know more about this or how specific types of technology or games help in different ways feel free to ask talking about these things is good.

Couldn't wait needed a better PC setup and as I have pointed out I believe the just because we will have the AMD info in October does not mean the equivalent to the 3950x will even be out this year, from what I understand it is usually a staggered release. BTW the 3950 rocks! omg handbrake transcoding and 7zip compression is amazing, also installing a 89gb Wabbajack SkyrimVR Ultimate mod list went so damn fast I didn't even have time to make a drink. x264 stream encoding on 1440p 8500bitrate with all the shiny turned on uses less than 20% cpu usage. I love it.

bios, updated to latest version. AMD 3950x MSI X570 Tomahawk Wifi Arctic Freezer II 360mm 32gb Vengeance 3600mhz m2 Sabrent 1TB EVGA 1080TI Everything in Bios is Default except XMP turned on and gameboost turned on. Temps are 36 idle 65c Max New to AMD builds and MSI boards ( my last was a 8700k in an gigabyte Aorus) Anything I should turn on or off in the bios.

Oh my chicken soup loader! this PC is fast, I just did the extract and install of an 89gb Wabbajack Skyrim VR mod list and I have never seen a PC extract stuff so fast :)

2 years ago I searched through most of the "bespoke" "custom" "oak" and all that jazz furniture stores for an item I needed, the price I got quoted was £2700 I was on a time table, my Wife was coming out of hospital about to start home dialysis and our living room was being turned into a bedroom for her, complete with full entertainment system and a 55" UHD TV at a range from her chair equivalent to a 28" monitor on a desk, I had Oculus rift, Xbox one X, Ps4 and a gaming computer I built, plus her crafting items, I managed to get a wall unit from Ikea that cost £399 fit a 5ft by 5ft wall alcove, including a set of cupboards for all her medical equipment. I built it in a night (2am by the time I finished). Now three years later that unit is still behind me (you see it when I stream) the room is now my living room after my Wife died in 2018, it is still solid and now sits my LG 55" ps4, Xbox one X and gaming equipment. The point of this story is that unit is NOT garbage and will probably outlast me, it is rigid in construction and very well designed.

Or try one of the lighter Noctua air coolers NH-U14s or NH-C14 very good coolers maybe overkill but a lot lighter than the big ones. Very reliable for this kind of situation.

Plus as I was just reminded by a subcriber I want to get back into VR again, OBS (Streaming and recording) + OVR Drop (twitch chat in VR) + Natural Locomotion for movement + A fully modded skyrim on Valve index, the extra cores may help a little, it can't hurt lol.

It is more about the transcoding of the raw footage afterwards for youtube, atm I am having 2 hours downtime between streams while I use handbrake to take the raw footage to 1080p before Youtube upload drops it from a 50gb file to about 5gb.