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  1. captain cactus
    Get something from the 2nd hand market. Don't get new cards at that price point, their price/performance doesn't make any sense at all.
  2. captain cactus
    Could be a couple of things. -Bad PSU giving crap power to the GPU. -Old drivers interfering with 1080Ti drivers (use DDU to uninstall all previous drivers before downloading the new ones)
  3. captain cactus
    $3.5M?
  4. captain cactus
    Well your i5 might have a sub-par memory controller. It's also part of the silicon lottery. It doen't only dictate core speeds at certain voltages but also applies to quality of other CPU components such as the IMC or I/O.
  5. captain cactus
    Thermal Insulating Mayonnaise vs soldered IHS, I think we know what will win.
  6. captain cactus
    Your CPU's IMC may be of sub-par quality. It's also a part of the silicon lottery. Just because the RAM can run at 3200 doesn't mean the IMC can handle it at that speed.
  7. captain cactus
    Not all Ryzen CPUs will accept high clocked RAM no matter how good the timings and BIOS revisions. If it has a finicky memory controller you're not going anywhere. It's an often forgotten part of the silicon lottery. It doesn't only apply to core quality but the entire piece of silicon that's in your CPU. This includes the CPU subsystems like I/O and IMC.
  8. captain cactus
    Did you DDU back to 17.8.1 or just install the older driver on top of the new one? Also, OC that CPU and RAM, whatever it is. If it's Ryzen than yes, an OC on RAM MASSIVELY helps with frame times, as does the CPU OC (but not as much).
  9. captain cactus
    Actually, the performance/watt for Vega compared to Polaris is up by a big amount. You overclock a 580 into V56 power draw yet V56 still outperforms it by a big amount (or you undervolt V56 to 580 levels and it still outperforms it massively). It's just that the Polaris power draw is so high it sets a high base power draw to work down to.
  10. captain cactus
    Updated my reply to you, it explains it pretty well.
  11. captain cactus
    It isn't. It's a very nice arch, if everything falls into place. That means everything's enabled in drivers, and the HBM2 supply/cost issues are a big part of Vega's delay and cost. AMD's limited cash pretty much forced them to make a one-size-fits-all architecture. It's amazing at compute (V56 eating 1080s and coming darn near close to 1080Ti) and does pretty well in gaming (V56 is beating a 1070 more often than not, on immature drivers with stuff turned off). Just at a higher power draw (which could be fixed by undervolting).
  12. captain cactus
    HBM2 is a necessity for Vega, power wise and bandwidth wise. The arch needs every mb/sec it can get, especially with almost all of the bandwidth saving features still not working due to drivers. SK Hynix/Samsung just didn't deliver on the original spec of 1GHz HBM2 at a lower cost compared to HBM1 so we're left with lower performance HBM2 stacks until the kinks in HBM2 are sorted out.
  13. captain cactus
    2nd hand market.
  14. captain cactus
    GN did a 1080Ti video with the Armor version: Basically, don't get the armor version. The cooling is poop regardless of model. Only get it if you plan to rip off the cooler and get a custom water block for it, because the PCB is identical to the much more expensive Gaming X series of GPUs.
  15. captain cactus
    ...or take the cooler off, wipe off the old thermal goop and replace it with some fresh paste. Also give the heatsink a blast of compressed air to get rid of all the dust bunnies.
  16. captain cactus
    Then lets beg Naughty Dog to hire Mark and get the game going.
  17. captain cactus

    IBM Z

    captain cactus replied to NumLock21's topic in Tech News

    5.2 GHz?
  18. captain cactus
    Sort of. Intel is going the Vega way with multiple nodes on a single package (Vega is 14nm core with some node for HBM on a 40nm interposer). So yes, still glued together, but with the logic (like IO) that doesn't require a lot of complex paths on a cheaper to produce bigger node and then putting that together to form one CPU.
  19. captain cactus
    That 1050Ti needs an upgrade.
  20. captain cactus
    It's like a car mechanic working on your car deliberately made the brake lines weak and unless you keep coming to him and paying him big cash your brakes will fail over time. Now that's illegal, so I don't why Sonos' actions here aren't because it's the same thing.
  21. captain cactus
    Clock reporting on Vega is sketchy. And no, your card isn't doing 1900 MHz. Probably somwhere around 1700 or lower.
  22. captain cactus
    Like it matters when the vast majority of Android users are on OSs released in 2014 and 2015. Those devices didn't even get 2016's Android.
  23. captain cactus
    Sauce: https://blog.vive.com/us/2017/08/21/htc-vive-announces-price-drop/ So, yay I guess? After the Rift's price drop Valve/HTC had to follow of course. It's still an expensive piece of equipment though.
  24. captain cactus
    Indeed we do, it was announced by AMD on the same day Threadripper was released. This is old news.
  25. captain cactus
    It comes down to power consumption. If AMD were to put regular GDDR5(X) on Vega they'd have to add another 40-50W of TDP to the card.
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