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captain cactus

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  1. Vega 56/1070 or if your budget allows Vega 64/1080. And please, get off of ultra settings. You won't see any difference between high and ultra yet it usually takes a big hit on fps. Hell you could drop stuff to medium and still wouldn't notice (unless you're standing still of course but at that point you're pretty much guaranteed to be very dead).
  2. I mean really? Why do these exist? Why does KabyLake X exist? You're just making a motherboard for a CPU that's also on LGA1151! Seriously! Hell, even less of that because of the lack of an iGPU! What? Why? It offers no advantage over anything on LGA1151, so what's the point of these existing? My brain cannot handle the level of stupidity involved here. Who in their right mind is going to drop money on these boards or KBX CPUs in the first place? Seriously! Get a Z270 board if you really want Intel (but you're buying into a dying platform) or get Ryzen for the longevity of the AM4 platform for at least 4 years.
  3. At least fix the timestamps yo, these are not even from the same WAN show.
  4. Yeah, that's not going to be an issue at aaaaaalllllllll /s Seriously. Now people know about it, someone is going to try to get to it in a non-legal matter. I'd rather not thank you.
  5. I mean, it's not like Vega has some specialised hardware/instruction sets for mining, right? right? Wrong. Why AMD... Whyyyyyyy... Just gimme a Vega 56 on launch day, ok? I won't mine on them. I just wanna play some games man
  6. The Samsung one is known to flicker badly at lower FreeSync ranges. Literally anything else would do.
  7. Purchase any bundle, then sell the monitor ASAP for something better, because apparently the FreeSync Samsung monitor shipped with the bundle sucks ass.
  8. Are we honestly surprised? Really? +1 reason to get Ryzen. Platform longevity is pretty much confirmed for AM4 to be at least up to 2020. No need to fork over $100s to get a new motherboard for your new CPU. Just get the CPU and BIOS update, update BIOS, drop in CPU and boom, done.
  9. The shitstorm of IoT stuff hitting the market right now is incredible. Everybody wants their piece of the cake and what gets left out? Right, security. That stuff takes time to do right and test right and test again. Good to see something is being considered on a government level because this is getting idiotic at an alarming pace.
  10. It got its reviews out from the guys at Hardware Canucks and Bitwit a few days ago so I'd say between now and 2 weeks.
  11. *at stock voltages. AMD likes to massively overvolt their cards out of the box to make sure it runs at stock settings even though it could do at much lower voltages. Undervolt the bastard for lower temps and power consumption while still getting a clock speed boost/stay at stock clocks.
  12. Not too bad if the performance is there.
  13. The PLX chip is the chip on dual-GPU boards that allows two GPUs to run off of one PCIe x16 slot.
  14. PUBG has a couple of issues, all of them because it's an Early Access title. One of them being that it eats up RAM like a maniac. It has memory allocating issues and some folks are actually describing it as a memory leak. And it's unoptimised as hell because it's in early access. As for the GPU, you've said you installed multiple AMD drivers. I suggest you use a tool called DDU (Google it) to uninstall all display drivers and then download/install the latest from the AMD website.
  15. Well, you said you have two fans pushing air into the stock cooler. If that's the case then there's absolutely no way it will go to 91 ºc at all unless you also have a heat gun blowing at the GPU. Anything can hamper a proper mount, no matter how good you are at it. To be sure, open the side panel and have fresh air blown onto the card. If it still throttles then it isn't making contact with the cooler. If it doesn't throttle you do have a case of a restricted case and only then would a 3rd party cooler make sense.
  16. Hey hey hey, before you went out and spent money on that thing, did you actually check if the cooler currently mounted is actually mounted properly? As I said before: You should see if your remount of the cooler was done properly because I'm pretty sure it wasn't going off the evidence here.
  17. 1080 Ti's will usually hit the high 1800 MHz, as for the CPU, anywhere from 4.7-4.9, 5 if you're lucky. Don't delid the CPU, as mentioned above. Just don't. It voids any warranty you have on the thing and there's a very high chance of damaging the CPU package which has components on it and if you do that the CPU's dead. Just dead.
  18. Well if that's the case the cooler isn't mounted properly. A GPU with two fans of its own getting fresh air forced into it by another pair of fans with fresh paste should not hit a thermal wall at 91 ºc.
  19. 91c? Dismount the card, blow some compressed air into the cooler, and if that doesn't help, dismantle the GPU cooler and apply a fresh layer of thermal paste.
  20. These clock speeds though... How's that monolithic die working out for ya Intel?
  21. The 1700 didn't come with a Wraith Max, it had a Wraith Spire, a 95W TDP cooler. Wraith Max is for 140W TDP.
  22. It's a rumour. If AMD tells us with their all be it crappy marketing that a FreeSync+Vega setup vs GSync+1080(Ti) setup is $300 less expensive than the latter you can't have a Vega GPU that's above 1080Ti pricing.
  23. Sauce: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-wraith-max-cooler,35098.html Well, that, but OEMs also shipped this beast of a stock cooler with their machines. RGB setups just got a whole lot more interesting. The cooler looks nice and performs pretty damn well for a stock cooler. The pricing's a different story though... I mean, it's about as good as a Hyper 212 (at least the previous Wraith was, don't know how much has changed from the previous Wraith alongside the RGB-ification) but that thing costs about $30 less, so you're paying $30 more for an AMD logo and some RGB. I guess AMD was kinda forced to do this by their cooling partners in order for them to not get competition from AMD themselves, but this is a little too much if you ask me. Still, it's a 140W TDP cooler with RGB and an AMD logo, so if you really like the brand and it fits the system you're building I'd say go for it.
  24. ? You bought an add-in card with a PCIe x1 connector? Or a separate box with a Thunderbolt cable? Link us the product so we can see what you bought.
  25. Did you use DDU to uninstall all previous drivers?
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