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So recently got a rtx 2070 and i have a old Pc with i5 (4560) 4th gen DDR3 8gb ram i know this is not bottlenecking it is straight up strangling. But i don't have that much bugget and i want to upgrade it. I am thinking of like DDR4 16gb ram (don't have any idea about motherboard) I7 6th gen So please enlighten me and give me clear suggestions but not like expensive. I know any high end CPU is good but i am broke and website are full of that type of suggestion. Note : (Please give idea of how much which cpu will it bottleneck 2070)

so i am interested in squeezing every last drop of performance out of my 2070 armor card by msi, i have downloaded a multitude of different bios but all do not work, i have even tried the oc version of the armor 2070 and that does not work, all i get are the errors "gpu mismatch" on the patched version of nvflash, can someone please help me figure this out?

Hello everyone! I have had my trusty 2070 for about 4 years now, I'm not unhappy with it's performance and wasn't really looking to upgrade till it started having some thermal problems. I have already tried replacing the thermal pads and googling almost every fix possible but something seems to just be wrong with it and so I have decided just to let the poor thing die and get a new card. Been looking at 30 series cards but they all still seem pretty expensive here in the UK. The 4070 has caught my eye with DLSS 3.0 as well but the price is difficult to justify atm. My main question is would a cheap 3060ti be able to give me a little better performace or would I need to go higher than that for a 3070/80? Or am I best skipping the 30 series with its mental power draw and saving for a bit and going for the 4070? Tried doing my own research but it's all very conflicting and I just can't decide. I have a 3800x and 32gb RAM at 3200.

i just ordered a displayport 2.1 because i realized the one im using is displayport 1.2. I just realized that I actually dont know if it does support displayport 2.1 or if it even matters

Got a secondhand 2070 from a friend and went to use it but having issues. I just don't know if it's actually a dead card or if my setup isn't powering it enough. It won't start games. and when it gets close it starts sprinkling green artifacts everywhere. I wonder about power because my 750W PSU is almost 8 years old and might be slacking. Does anyone have a tip on what to troubleshoot? just get a new PSU? New MOBO? The closest i've gotten to running a game is CSGO. When it actually loads into a match it crashes that it cannot load shaders.

I have an i7 7700k with an RTX 2070 right now. I built my pc back in late 2017. I think my pc is still pretty good right now but I've been thinking about upgrading my graphics card to a 40 series card, probably a 4070. I was wondering if I should upgrade my i7 7700k to a newer one like the 12th or 13th gen i7, or wait for 14th gen. If I do get a 4070 will my GPU be bottlenecked by my i7 7th gen ?

Hi everyone, first time posting on the forum I am looking into upgrading my rig with a new GPU. Current setup: i5 8400 2x8GB DDR4, non XMP Asus Strix R9 380 OC 4GB Samsung Odyssey G5 32" 1440p monitor I am currently considering 2 used GPUs: GTX 1070ti - 210 USD (Gainward Ghost variant) or RTX 2070 - 260 USD (MSI Gaming Z variant) For my current needs, i believe that the 1070ti might be sufficient for my current needs, but the 50 USD difference makes 2070 compelling for a bit of futureproofing. Just for context, i am aware that the upgrade from R9 380 is very noticable and basically anything will be an upgrade and a half, but i want to make a purchase and be content for the next 3-5 years at least. (After all, i am still getting 50+ FPS on the titles i like to play with the 380, with some (slowly increasing) degradation of details ) Which card would you suggest? I want my purchase to be the best possible bang for buck, of course. RTX is not something i am too much interested in ( i am aware that the FPS drawbacks are quite high in many cases), but the DLSS support makes a case for the 2070, since i plan on playing with it - upscaling to 1440p from 1080p. Thank you in advance :)

So long story short my RTX 2070 went belly up (RIP), two repair shops told me it's unrepairable, so I'm now GPU-less. I'm reading rumors about the upcoming 4000 series, and some things I like, some things I don't, there's also some conflicting info, and let's not forget they're just rumors. The only thing that's a given is that there will be a performance increase, which also makes them relevant for longer. What I can't decide is, do I get an RTX 3080 now, or do I wait for RTX 4070/4080? If I decide to wait I will have to buy something to at least play LoL and CS GO, cause I don't even have an IGPU (thanks AMD, once known as the kings of integrated graphics lol). I know now is a bad time to buy a GPU, but is it kinda bad, or really bad? All opinions are welcome, but please be knowledgeable about the matter, at least more than me lol. Thanks, bye!

Hi everyone, I am making a new build for gaming and streaming. On Ebay, the price of the 2070 and 1080ti are comparable, I know that the performance of the 1080ti is greater, at least in Unigine superposition. But I'm not sure how to check the streaming performance. I know that the newer NVENC probably has a huge effect, but I don't really know much about NVENC anyway. So, what would you guys recommend? Should I buy a 2070 or 1080ti for gaming and streaming?

I've come into possession of a Gigabyte 2070 from one of my friends, and it has a quite the history. The original owner had bought it to use in someone else's build over 2 years ago, but kept having artifacting and BSODs, so he sent it into Gigabyte for repair. Twice. Neither time had fixed his issue, and the working theory is that Gigabyte just flashed the BIOS both times. After the second time he gave up on the card and just put into storage. He then gave it to my friend as they're family members and he was needing to downsize since he was moving. My friend then sent it in again to Gigabyte, as it was still in warranty, and when he got it back it started working for about a week and then started bluescreening and artifacting at random. Then he gave it to me as we thought that it was a possible power supply issue since he had also gotten a 650W supply that wasn't opened from the original 2070 owner. After doing some testing of my own with the 650W and an older board I had with a gtx 460 and a i5 7400, I concluded that it wasn't the power supply that was the problem. Even so, I bought a new 850W power supply just to make sure that it wasn't the cause of the issue. I did get the card to work before installing drivers, as I was getting video output, but my friend had told me that he had gotten artifacting even without drivers installed. The drivers fully downloaded but during installation the screen went red, and after restarting the computer it only displays a black screen after the windows splash screen. I really don't know what else to do with this 2070 because as of right now it's essentially just a paperweight. I want to get it fixed so I might be able to give it to a friend who might want to build a computer, as the 2070 is a small form factor card and I have a full 2060 super already, so I imagine it would operate similarly and I don't really need the upgrade. Along with the 2070 my friend received a lot of other parts too, he got a full tub of them with some really good parts, such as a 780 TI and 1080 as reference with a couple intel motherboards and chips. We've both been collectively using these parts to make sort of frankenstein builds for people, and we've been just giving the parts to them free of charge because we don't want them to be wasted. The card is now out of warranty and I am completely stumped on what to do, and I don't even know if there is anything to do if it's a physical issue with the silicon or something else, I just don't really want to see a 2070 get wasted, especially in the GPU climate we have today.

Hello, I broke one of the fans on my GPU recently (snapped a blade) and I'm looking to fix it or replace it myself. RMA isn't really an option for me since I don't have another system to use for work/school. Do you guys know where I can order a replacement set of fans for this? I've tried reaching out to MSI support in the past but I haven't heard back from them at all. Anything would be helpful! My GPU

Little bit of background: My thicc-17 died, randomly out of nowhere it just went black and eventually stopped turning on. It was still under warranty so I sent it off to repair and in the meantime I planned to use my surface pro but I quickly realized that it's not that fast. After some searching around I noticed bestbuy allows returns until jan 2nd because of the holidays so I figured I would just get whatever they had and return it once my machine gets repaired. The fastest machine they had that had mini displayport and USB-C (I needed those for my monitor and dock) was a dell G7-7700, I figured it would be fine it was not fine The Issues I had audio and USB devices randomly cutting out (more on this later) I need to disconnect and reconnect my main monitor every single time the machine rebooted The GPU randomly decides it's to go to the lowest power state (101Mhz MEM, <30W power draw) The CPU sometimes is happy to pull almost 100W and sometimes won't go above 30W The Fans (while quieter than my thicc-17) are way more annoying, instead of a low pitched woosh noise it's more like a high pitched reeee They don't include a screw for the secondary ssd for some reason Audio Issues I spent hours days trying to figure out why out of nowhere audio would turn to static and USB devices would stop working properly, I eventually narrowed it down to mining. For some reason if it's mining with nicehash randomly (sometimes within a few minutes and sometimes not for several hours) audio and usb would break. I still haven't fixed this, I just mined only at night Monitor/GPU Issues I tried everything I could think of, reinstalling windows, reinstalling drivers, DDU, NVCleaninstall, older drivers. Nothing fixed either of these issues. I HOPE this is just an issue with my unit. CPU Being Weird I doubt this one is just my machine, I assume it has some dumb ass system to divert power to the GPU in games however it's fucking obnoxious, if you can't cool/power a high end CPU and GPU THEN DON'T PUT IT IN THE LAPTOP IN THE FIRST PLACE, I can't stand this shit, especially when there actually was temperature headroom for the CPU to pull more power... What I Liked? Idk, I guess the keyboard lighting was ok, I mean it's not great but it's definitely better than my clevo's garbage software to control the keyboard lights. Typing was pretty good as well. That's about it. Sorry for the rant, but I haven't had a machine that was this bad in a long ass time, please pick something else, this laptop was awful. I was concerned I might question my giant desktop replacement and think above getting something more portable but this laptop firmly reminded me that nah, I think I'll keep the thicc ass laptop.

The other day i decided to replace the thermal paste on my EVGA 2070 Black as it's been almost 3 years and starting to run hot. I reassembled the card and now only the on fan spins and the other makes a high pitch coil whine sound that changes if i manually spin the blades. I have since taken it back apart and verified no damaged wires or loose connection but it still does it. Does anyone have an idea why this happened? i'm covered under warranty until december if i have to send it out.

Before you post saying that the card is a fake here's a picture of the branded chip (zoom in). Hello everyone, I got this card for free from a buddy that does warranty for prebuilt pcs. He doesn't know from what specific prebuilt this is but there's a reddit post mentioning this card and a comment about it ( 1 ; 2 ) there's also an old ebay page for it ( 1 ) The GPU itself is working great but the temperatures are a bit too hot (even after changing the thermal paste). I'd like to get a third party GPU cooler but I'm not sure what would fit... I've seen people suggesting the Accelero III, NZXT G12 (which might need some modding), the MORPHEUS II or the id Cooling 120mm vga cooler for other blower style 2070's but no one seems sure if they fit or not. The problem that I see is the DVI shroud and that usually doesn't allow a good fit. Here's some pictures of the board when I changed it's thermal paste today ( 1 ) Hope you guys can help me since on reddit everyone just calls it fake and what not. I can also post a Userbench page to prove that it's working as expected and it's not a spoofed card. Thanks! PS: Maybe a video about these weird custom brand made prebuilt cards would be something interesting? PPS: I live in Canada

First, PC Specs: PSU: Corsair CX650 GPU: MSI Ventus RTX 2070 Super CPU: Ryzen 5 3500 // Be Quiet Dark Rock 4 RAM: HyperX 2x8 3200Mhz MOBO: Asus Prime B450M-A OS: Latest W10 x64 Drivers: Latest version BIOS: Latest version ---- Hi LTT, i have a suspicion that my GPU is on its way out. Randomly the system will crash while on idle/almost idle. When i try to open the task manager the tray icon would be transparent, as it is crashing, i can navigate to the performance tab and i can see my GPU ay -1%/-2% load and after that the entire system will crash and i'll have to restart. No BSOD and i can't seem to find an Event in the Event Viewer. Does this seems like a GPU issue? maybe the CPU? I don't know. There no OC in the system.

Hi all, I’ve been doing some research lately on what the best laptop deals are during this current market. I Have a few ones I found listed below and would love input which one would be the best bang for the buck but factoring in reliability and performance. First up: MSI Stealth 15M A11UEK-021 Highlights: 144hz, Core i7-11375H, Nvidia 3060, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz, 1TB NVMe SSD, $1549.99 USD https://www.bestbuy.com/site/msi-stealth-15m Second up: Dell G7 15 Gaming Laptop Highlights: 144hz, Core i7-10750H, Nvidia 2070, 32GB DDR4 2933MHz, 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe, $1549.99 USD https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/dell-g7-15 Third up: ASUS ROG Zephyrus 14” Gaming Laptop Highlights: 144hz, 4th Gen Ryzen 9, Nvidia 3060, 16GB DDR4 3200MHz, 1TB NVMe SSD, $1499.99 USD https://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-rog-zephyrus-14 Fourth Up: Razer Blade 15 Base Edition Highlights: 144hz, Core i7-10750H, Nvidia 2070, 16GB DDR4 2933MHz, 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD, $1599.99 USD https://www.razer.com/gaming-laptops/Razer-Blade-15 There are some other key features I left out such as Nit Brightness, lack of ports such as thunderbolt, and Battery Size. These should all be available in the links provided. Would love to hear you thoughts and suggestions!

So I sold my friend an RTX 2070 about 3 months ago. I used it for 2 years prior to selling it to him. I had mined on the card and new it could be faulty after using it to mine for maybe 100+ days. He called me telling me the pc went black while he was playing Rocket League. I went to his house popped in a GT 1030 to test it out with and the pc worked perfectly fine as well as running on integrated graphics. I take the card home, and put it in a test bench the card boots bios and windows install media just like normal. I set it up with an offline account and after about 10 seconds of just sitting on the desktop with nothing opened the screen went black and didn't come back on. Eventually forced a restart and bios screen showed then black. I continued doing that until the windows recovery started. Things I've tried are putting it in other benches with the exact same issue. Haven't tried anything else because I've got no idea where to start. I've heard of DDU but haven't gotten around to it. If anyone can point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated. This is the exact card: https://www.amazon.com/Gigabyte-GeForce-Windforce-Graphics-GV-N2070WF3-8GC/dp/B07JBTS8HR/ref=sr_1_10?dchild=1&keywords=gigabyte+rtx+2070&qid=1615178813&sr=8-10

I bought a second ram kit and it was 3200mhz and I had a 3600mhz kit already so I overclocked then to 3600mhz with 18-22-22-42 timings and it glitches my graphics card driver and crashes it to a black screen then it goes back to normal. It crashes any 3d application that is on screen. Youtube, twitch, a game, anything that needs a graphic drivers. I for now have clocked the ram to 3200mhz at the same timing's and they work completely fine no crashes. I would like my ram to be at the 3600mhz if anyone knows whats wrong with my system.

Hi. I built my first pc this fall (ryzen 3600, b450, rtx2070), And i've started having a issue, When playing games randomly all of my 3 monitors turn black for a moment and after about a second the game continues playing but all the other applications (like Chrome and Discord) freeze and sometimes I hear a beeping sound in my ear. It happens moslty while I play Gta and Rocket league. Sorry for any bad English.

Hi all, I'm planning of getting rid of my old 1080Ti FE and gifting it to a friend, however the price that I found was around the same for both the 1080Ti and 2060 ($500-600AUD). Since this is around his price point I was hoping for some feedback as to whether I am giving him a fair price for the performance, or if he would be better off going for a new 2060. If the 1080Ti is still better, what 20 series card would he have to buy to begin outperforming the 1080Ti? I noticed that even the 2080 seems slightly worse (on paper at least). His specs: MB: Asus P8Z77-M PRO CPU: i7-3770 3.4GHz PSW: Corsair VS 550W Thanks in advance

A company replaced my gpu because I turned on the PC one day and I was having a vga error and also a grinding sound on the first start up, I got a new Gigabyte 2070 Super but still get the VGA error with one long beep and 3 short, i thought the new gpu was faulty again because the fans went off after a minute, but maybe they are designed that way not to spin until they reach 60 degrees? Could this be another issue to do with something else? I have managed to get a display once and browse my desktop yet the VGA light remains on? Thanks.

I'm going to start with posting a benchmark of my computer so the base line components are known. I'm replacing the OLOy Ram with 2x16gb 3600mhz Trident Z Ram whenever they come in. [UserBenchmarks: Game 99%, Desk 92%, Work 93%](https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/36105730) ||Model|Bench :----|:----|:----| **CPU**|[AMD Ryzen 5 3600X](https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/AMD-Ryzen-5-3600X/Rating/4041)|88.2% **GPU**|[Nvidia RTX 2070](https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Nvidia-RTX-2070/Rating/4029)|108.4% **SSD**|[WDC WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GB](https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/715742/WDC--WDS500G2B0A-00SM50)|96.3% **HDD**|[Microsoft Storage Space Device 1.5TB](https://hdd.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/169517/Microsoft-Storage-Space-Device)|103% **RAM**|[G Skill Intl F4-3600C16-16GTZR 2x16GB](https://ram.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/1050318/G-Skill-Intl-F4-3600C16-16GTZR-2x16GB)|101.6% **MBD**|[Asus ROG STRIX B450-F GAMING](https://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Asus-ROG-STRIX-B450-F-GAMING/93471)| **PSU**|[Toughpower GF1 750W - TT Premium Edition 750W 80+ Gold](https://www.newegg.ca/thermaltake-toughpower-gf1-tt-premium-edition-ps-tpd-0750fnfaga-1-750w/p/N82E16817153397) I'm running 64 bit Windows 10. Software I would be running while streaming would be: Logitech G Hub - mouse/speakers and headset Corsair ICue - temps/fan curves/keyboard settings SLobs&SLChatbot/OBS - stream software Nvidia RTX Voice whatever gaming software - steam, epic or battle.net Now, as for the problem, I cannot stream.. at all. I have made multiple Reddit posts to no avail, I've taken my computer to a doctor, to no avail. I'm lost. And I don't know what to do. About seven weeks ago, my pc started crashing due to Kernel 41 Term 63 Issues, I read online it could one of three things, not enough power - replaced the cpu because I was running a 600w bronze sff psu - but it didn't help. I read that it could be faulty ram, which, I did indeed have faulty ram, it would not boot past 2133mhz after about six months of use, with no overclocking. So I took it to a doc here local to me, and he is letting me use his OLOy ram for the time being until mine come in. Which we thought would fix the problem, but, it did not. Whenever I crash I'm still getting the same issue. I have searched high and low, tirelessly, and I cannot figure this thing out. The last option that I have is replacing the motherboard which is the last and final option, but I don't want to replace it if it isn't the cause of my issue. When the issue first began, it would happen about four hours into streaming, which is at the end so, I just thought I was wearing my computer out. Then it started coming about an hour in, and sometimes as frequently as fifteen to even six minutes in, just crashing with EXCEPTION_MODE_NOT_HANDLED and thats it. Hardware that has been replaced - ram, PSU, and case. processor, mobo, gpu, hdd, and ssd are all the original equipment I bought, everything is... about nineish months old now. Current installation of windows is about a month old. BIOS version is 3103, a beta version of bios came out on 11/24 but is not recommended for 3000 series amd processors. I believe I added all information and screenshots I have posted in another post, but this one is updated to rule spec I believe and I hope someone can help me at some point. Thank you. Cheers. SysnativeFileCollectionApp.zip 1586207181_PerformanceReport.zip

Hi, I was thinking of exchanging my 1070 for an RTX 2070 Super from EVGA. In some games my GPU is 99%, I believe it is a bottleneck. I wonder if the gain is considered to be worth the purchase. My monitor is 60hz full hd, but I intend to buy a 144hz one in the future. Is it worth swapping or it's better to wait a 3070 price drop? Thank you! My PC is: Ryzen 3600x asus rog strix b450f 2 x 8 gb at 3266 MHz EVGA GTX 1070 Masterwatt PSU 750w CM

I currently have a GTX 970/i5 4690k and am upgrading my whole system to an ryzen 3600x and some new(er) GPU. I have a friend that is willing to sell me his 2070 non-super for $340, but in the current GPU climate I'm wondering if I should buy the 2070 (for what seems to be a good price), or wait for a 3060 in Jan/Feb or just splurge on the 3070 when it becomes possible. I know there's plenty of AMD options but I'm trying to keep it in the Nvidia family (no good reason otherwise tho). Thx!

Budget (including currency): $1700 AUD Country: Australia Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Assassins Creed Odyssey, Metro Exodus, CS:GO, word processing and browsing, Cyberpunk 2077 Other details Planned build: Case - Corsair 4000D TG MoBo - ASUS TUF Gaming B460 Pro WiFi CPU - Intel Core i5 10600 GPU - ASUS GeForce RTX 2070 Super Dual Evo 8GB RAM - Crucial DDR4 2666 2x8GB PSU - Thermaltake GF1 650W I intend to play at maximum graphics at 1080p, and will consider 4k depending on what monitors are within my monitor budget.