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Budget (including currency): under $500 CAD but open to suggestions Country: Canada Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Data Science, light gaming (rocket league, CS, Dota, Brawlhalla, etc.) Other details Current specs: Ryzen 7 2700 GTX 1070 B450M Pro4 32 GB RAM (8x4) EVGA 650w 80+ Gold I’m looking to get into Data Science where I work with AI/ML. The RTX Cards have Tensor Cores which I think might be beneficial for when I explore Deep Learning. I also do a bit of light gaming on the side (can’t really find a lot of time these days) just 1080p 144hz with a secondary monitor just running at 1080p 60hz. Which GPU should I buy? I’m thinking of upgrading my CPU later down the line to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D so I don’t want a GPU that will bottleneck that. Any suggestions?

So i was just playing some ready or not. When my screens went black and my computer restarted. Its happened before so i didnt think much of it and got my back into my game when the same thing happens again. I then let it reboot into windows again, but it doesnt put me into windows. I start looking inside my pc and see that my graphics cards fans arent spinning (gtx 1650 super from gigabyte). And theres a green light on my motherboard (Asus b450f gaming). I did some research and saw that some other people have had the same thing happen to them and they said that they tried a new graphics card and it worked fine again. Im guessing that im gonna have to get a new gpu too then? And thats another concern for me as i’ve got a Ryzen 5 3600 and since its very hard for me to get a 20 series card im curious if a 3050 would pair well with a 3600? Excuse the bad english, im from sweden and my english is not the greatest.

I just built a brand new computer from the ground up and I am facing one issue that's a real bummer right now. When the computer is lying on it's back, the graphics work perfectly fine, but the moment I sit the computer upright, the screen goes black or flickers heavily. I guessed it could be from the weight of the 4090, but I have installed all the anti-sag supports, but it still has an issue. Today, I am going to try slotting in a different GPU to see if it could be an issue with the motherboard or the GPU. I wanted to check here to see if you guys have had any experience like this or if you have some suggestions on what else I could test out before returning the card as defective. Specs: Case - Fractal North Mobo - Z790 Gigabyte Gaming X AX CPU - I9-13900KF GPU - Gainward 4090 PSU - MSI MAG A1000G Cooling - NZXT Kraken 280

Hi so I recently purchased all the parts needed for my first pc build and everything went well. However, whenever I try to load up any game whats so ever I am always stuck in a black or loading screen for ever. Sometimes my computer will say that my graphics card drivers are out of date but I've already downloaded the most recent driver from the website (which is amd because I have a AMD Radeon rx 6750 xt) and it still says that it is out of date even after installing. At first when I tried to install it my computer froze, and I was forced to hard shutdown it as I was staring at a frozen screen for over 2 hours but afterwards I just installed the driver only and it worked fine. Is there something I am doing wrong or forgot to install? I've run SFC to scan for any corrupted files, verified all my files for my games on steam, ran checks to make sure my ram or ssd is not faulty, deleted and reinstalled the gpu driver installation multiple times, try reducing what starts up whenever I start my computer and nothing seems to work, deleted and reinstalled the games I am trying to play, have the most up to date version of windows 11 installed, and lowered the graphics settings in my pc. I've also gone into the device manager and tried to roll back my driver and then update it again and that caused my pc to freeze again. After installing the AMD driver AGAIN, i went back into device manager and looked at the events of my gpu and saw that any recent event to try and install a new driver was not listed and the most recent request to install said that further installation is required, whatever that means. I just dont know what to do Please help.

Hello everyone! I have lost track of GPU space over the past few generations and need your help here, as I am thinking about upgrading my GPU. With an upgrade, I would mainly like to futureproof myself and respond to the new generation of available games with their requirements. I am using my PC for gaming as well as for content creation and media production. Therefore I am kinda interested in the possible benefits of AV1. However, as I said, I now have little idea about the current offers. What is important to me is a pleasant price-performance ratio. Should this be good, I am also willing to pay high prices, despite the fact that I am aware of the current price situation. Budget up to 800€ wouldn't be a problem, higher is possible if recommended. I am curious about your opinions and input! Thank you very much and have a nice day PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 3.7 GHz 12-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX 75 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Thermal Compound: Noctua NT-H1 3.5 g Thermal Paste Motherboard: Asus ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (WI-FI) ATX AM4 Motherboard Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory Storage: Western Digital Black SN850 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive Storage: Western Digital Black SN850 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive Video Card: Asus STRIX GAMING GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB Video Card Case: Lian Li O11D XL-W ATX Full Tower Case Power Supply: Corsair HX750 Platinum 750 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro OEM - DVD 64-bit Case Fan: Corsair iCUE QL120 41.8 CFM 120 mm Fans 3-Pack Case Fan: Corsair iCUE QL120 41.8 CFM 120 mm Fans 3-Pack

What would the best graphics card be for this build under £600? I currently have 6800XT but not sure if this would be best? It will be a gaming PC wanting to run MW3, CS2, Starfield etc. Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D Eight Core CPU (3.4GHz-4.5GHz/100MB CACHE/AM4) Motherboard ASUS® ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING WIFI II (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s) - ARGB Ready! Memory (RAM) 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3600MHz (2 x 16GB) Graphics Card 16GB AMD RADEON™ RX 6800 XT - HDMI, DP - DX® 12 1st M.2 SSD Drive 512GB SOLIDIGM P44 PRO GEN 4 M.2 NVMe PCIe SSD (up to 7000MB/sR, 4700MB/sW) 2nd M.2 SSD Drive 2TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3300MB/W) Power Supply CORSAIR 850W RMx SERIES™ MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET Processor Cooling DeepCool AG400 Performance ARGB CPU Cooler

Hi there, I want to let Stable Run on some card like GIGABYTE Radeon RX 7900 XTX Gaming OC 24G. This is a PCIe 4.0 card, but my servers mainboard I want to use it in just hast PCIe 3.0 Lanes. The question is, what exactly are bottle necks for this use case. I currently have a SuperMicro 1U Case with this board: https://www.supermicro.com/zh_cn/products/motherboard/X10DRW-i Quite performant for the various docker containers I am running there on my Linux server. But I have multiple uncertainties here: 1. I don't have space for a graphics card like the previously mentioned one in the 1U Supermicro case. 2. I am not sure if a PCIe 4.0 card can work on a PCIE 3.0 bus and what kind of performance impact it might have on the rendering speed of images with stable diffusion. 3. I am a bit uncertain If I should simply get a PCIe extender to get the lanes out of the Server and connect it to the card laying on top without any special case for it, or if I should try some eGPU case for it, because also I would need to connect some dedicated Power Supply, because the servers Power Supply does not even have the connectors for a graphics card 4. Are there some nice rack mount cases for external GPUs the fit into a 19'' rack and have a dedicated PSU, or do I need to use some consumer eGPU case, that is connected not via PCIe but via Thunderbolt to the server? - Does this make some performance impact? 4. How exactly is the image rendering process of Stable Diffusion working in general? I would assume, that in the beginning it needs some time to load the model into the VRAM and then all magic happens on the card and there is no connection to the outside except for some minor data transfers, like writing the output images to the disk or sending some status information, how quick the process is running. - Here I'm an absolute newby and I would like to understand what exactly happens internally there. Last of all I want to know, is this some project, that is worth realicing, or should I try some completely different approach? Another good question is, if it's possible to switch on/of this graphics card separately from the server, so that it will stay connected but just run in case that I plan to render some images. I plan to connect this card to the linux system but in a way, that it is not used for any graphic processing at all but just for this Stable Diffusion rendering. I hope these are not too many strange topics mixed into one thread and I wish someone has some hands-on experience with this stuff, to give me some proper advisory.

I just ran into a strange problem and I am looking for some advice. I recently purchased a Razer Core X egpu enclosure to use with my laptop. I have the i9 version of the Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Ultra which does have a laptop 4070 in it which is really nice but it only has 8gb of vram. I have a 3090 that was in my prior computer so I got the egpu enclosure so that I could take advantage of the extra vram for simulations. I bought the enclosure off of ebay and it appears to be in good condition and it was packed very well. It arrived yesturday so I put my graphics card in it, fired it up, plugged my laptop in, and then recieved bad news. When the egpu is connected, the nvidia driver (which is up to date) seems to crash. My whole system starts to lag, I can't open windows settings, I can't open the nvidia control panel, and my laptop fan goes to maximum. I checked device manager and the intel graphics, 4070, and 3090 are all detected. The properties on the 3090 says it works fine but it definitely doesn't and I don't have any display output though it. The 4070 says that windows can't access the driver. Win+ctrl+shift+b does flash the screen but has no effect. I assume that is because the intel graphics are running the display so it doesn't actually restart the nvidia driver. I tried rebooting and restarting the nvidia driver through task manager but neither did anything. When I unplug the egpu and even if I reboot the 4070 has the same error. The only way I have fixed it is by uninstalling the nvidia driver. Sometimes when I reboot after the uninstall, the driver is magically back and working but other times I have to reinstall the driver manually and that fixes it. Any ideas? I am really lost here and any input would be really helpful. Also, I am using a 3ft usb-c 240watt 40gbit cable. Strangely, when I plug it into my laptop, I also get a windows notification saying I would get faster charging if I plug into a faster charger. I thought this enclosure was supposed to put out 100 watts which is what my laptop takes so I am confused why it isn't getting that. Do I have a bad cable? I don't have any faster cables and this one was fine with my 10gbit ssd but I guess 40gbit is a lot more than that. Is that the potential source of error is there something else I should check?

Heyoo, I didn't find this but probably because I don't know how to precisely search so I apologize in advance. I've had a post open about this but it turns out it did not fully fix this problem here. I have a KFA2 GeForce RTX 3080 SG-1 click OC LHR and it's fans never fully stop. They turn on for a few minutes every so often despite setting a curve in their Xtreme Tuner Plus software. I tried Palit's software too since that one worked for my old Palit card. And lastly I used Afterburner. None of these did anything. I'd even say the card doesn't respond to my curves at all most times. Setting it to a set speed however, works fine. This would be fine if the card would be over 60°C for those times but it's not. Most of the times my idle temps are around 40°C. Let it be 50°C occasionally. So my questions... Is there any way to fix this? Why is it doing this? And can I somehow make the card respond to any software better? What I tried -Clean install of Xtreme Tuner Plus -Tried different GPU softwares -Clean windows install (Win11) -Contacted support (KFA2) about it. They gave me a bios for my card but it didn't change anything sadly. -Checked connectors (PCIe and fans) -Checked the instructions and manual Other things I just want to say but may not be important All of this would be fine if the fans wouldn't be so loud. They ramp up to 1400 RPM every time and yes, I know, these card's fans are small... like tiny.. but it was one of the cheaper ones I was able to afford. Lesson learned though. Maybe doing the bios update was a mistake? This literally happens no matter what I do. I can let the PC idle for hours and not touch it and it will still turn the fans on occasionally. I thought about water cooling but I couldn't find a fitting block. Which makes sense. KFA2 isn't exactly known for that nor are they popular enough. Or maybe I'm wrong and someone correct me on that please. Can it be controlled by the voltage going through it instead? Or just the general power draw? I doubt that though. Don't they all have temperature sensors..? Anyway.. Maybe I'm just missing something. I thank all of you in advance.

Most of the time PC boots without any issues but sometimes ite gets stuck on VGA and i get no display. All components are almost new so i dont thing it's an issue with any hardware. Did BIOS reset, Reseating the GPU , Changes DP cable and also tried different DP slots in GPU, Updated Bios to latest version, Stress test all components including PSU. All ran fine without any issues. My pc specs are I7 12700F RTX 3060 B660 Aorus Master 8x2 G skill TridentZ neo 3600 mhz Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W Psu As I said this issue happens quite often, it started only day before yesterday. Before that I never had any issues for 6 months from when I bought all the components.

Hello guys! I wanna change my actual GPU (rx 590 fatboy) but I'm kinda confused. My mind is telling me to buy a rx 6700 xt going around for 339€, but my friend is telling me since I have a atx case with not the best air flow ( I have 5 stock fans) he said i sould go for a nvidea since they run colder compared to AMD. He recommended me to buy the 4060 (palit) that goes for 339€ as well. I'm kinda undecided because I think it's not the best bang for the buck going for the 4060, even going to the 4060 ti (palit) is 449€ and both of them have 8g vram compared to the rx 6700xt. Btw, i can't use a graphics card that has 3 fans since it won't fit due to the fans in the case. ATM, I'm using 2 1080p monitors but I'm planning to change my main one to a 2k being the one that I mean to game. I don't know if it helps but my setup is: I5-11400F 16 GB of ram (that I will also update to 32) 1 SSD / 2 HDD Motherboard PRIME H510M-K Case 1Life Ray Thanks for the help, and sorry for my bad english! Best regards ! =D

VID-20230715-WA0000.mp4 Me demonstrating the stuck fan received_2571218783025403.mp4 the video seller sent me during benchmarking. I have purchased a gtx 960 from Facebook market place. However I have noticed that one of it's fan doesn't move freely. I have yet to attach it to my system. The seller send me a video of it working. Should i be concerned. I was really happy since it was my first gpu.

I have purchased a used gtx 960 and I can't fit into my case. Do i have to cut something out of my case I am really frustrated as this is my first gpu and warranty period is only two days. Also do i have to screw gpu in place if yes then how. i only got gpu.

I have not got much money but I'm really into computers and gaming, and I finally got my setup working, (which is an HP Compaq 6005 from 2011?) And I have been using an amd Radeon HD r5 230 (1gd ddr3) from 2013 I think, for about 3 years, and through HDMI, it only shows on greyscale, (see photos). Can it be fixed? (Also I am using an athlon 2 from 2009, 7gb ddr3 ram) It's also all I can afford. So I can't buy a new pc.

Can it? I'm very new to this GPU thing and I'm planning to upgrade soon to a RX 5500 XT. However, my CPU is a little old and I wonder if it can be compatible with the GPU. I was originally planning to go for an RX 580 but I'm looking for a recent GPU. What are your thoughts on this? Is it possible for me to upgrade to the RX 5500 XT??? (I forgot to mention, I have a 500w PSU.)

Planning to upgrade GPU from RTX 3070 to RTX 4080. My current CPU is Ryzen 7 3700x. RTX 4080 + Ryzen 7 3700x

Hello everyone! I just realized that my gpu (asus rx6600) is pci-e 8x gen 4 by checking gpu-z. But it showing that my gpu is running at 8x gen3. With that in mind I tried to set pci-e speed to gen 4 in motherboard (gigabyte z590m) bios but can't do it. There are only gen 1/2/3 options (see attachments). Maybe I'm looking at a wrong place. Tried googling but cant find anything. Please help Pc specs Gigabyte z590m i5 10400f Asus rx6600 Kingston fury 3200mhz 4x8gb ram Fsp atx-500pnr pro 500w psu

My PC is right next to my window and yesterday it was raining pretty bad while I was at work. My PC wasn’t wet but there was moisture on the glass panel so there was probably some moisture inside as well. I let it dry out and padded some of the components dry. This morning I went to turn it on for the first time and heard a pretty loud pop- sounded kind of like a single firecracker going off. Usually it turns on right away but this time there was a slight delay for all the LEDs to turn on, which is shortly after when the pop happened. I didn’t see smoke or smell anything unusual, and the PC was able to turn on and work- the CPU temps seemed to be normal. I was able to turn it off and on again. My initial thoughts were a blown capacitor or a transistor blowing in the psu from the moisture. Or it could have been something going on with my fans’ LEDs. Does anyone know what it could be, or how I can test/ do diagnostics? My PC is very new I just built it 3 months ago. CPU: RYZEN 7 7700x GPU: RTX 4070ti Motherboard: MSI B650 Tomahawk PSU: 850 W Corsair RAM: 32 GB DDR5 Corsair Mem: 1 TB Samsung M2.2

RTX 3000 CUDA Cores %cores %cores CUDA Cores RTX 4000 GA102 10752 100% 100% 18432 AD102 3090ti 24GB $2000 10752 100% 3090 24GB $1500 10496 97.6% 3080ti 12GB $1200 10240 95.2% 88.9% 16384 4090 24GB $1600 3080 12GB $800 8960 83.3% 3080 10GB $700 8704 81.0% 79.2% 14592 4090D 24GB $1600 3070ti 8GB $600 6144 57.1% 55.6% 10240 4080 S 16GB $1000 3070 8GB $500 5888 54.8% 52.8% 9728 4080 16GB $1200 3060ti 8GB $400 4864 45.2% 45.8% 8448 4070ti S 16GB $800 41.7% 7680 4070ti 12GB $800 38.9% 7168 4070 S 12GB $600 3060 12GB $330 3584 33.3% 31.9% 5888 4070 12GB $600 3050 8GB $250 2560 23.8% 23.6% 4352 4060ti 8GB $400 3050 6GB $250 2048 19.0% 16.7% 3072 4060 8GB $300 13.9%? 2560? 4050 6GB? $250? The important takeaways: Nvidia is upselling their binning scheme for what cut of silicon they call what tier of card with respect to RTX 3000 series. What I demonstrate here is that each card is upsold at least 1 tier, if not 2 tiers, like the example of the RTX 3050 8GB versus RTX 4060ti 8GB. they're practically speaking ~24% the CUDA cores of the fully unlocked architecture, yet 2 tiers apart in name. Each RTX 4000 series card excluding the RTX 4090, is about twice the price of its equivalent tier of RTX 3000 series. Even then, the RTX 4090 falls into a silicon bin between $800 and $1200, which isn't too far off of half of $1600. Yes, the die sizes aren't 1:1, but they're close. We're talking 628 versus 608, being 96.8% the same, which tracks down proportionally to the lesser GPUs with comparable CUDA core counts (naming isn't 1:1 so I compare die sizes). @LinusTech talks about how we shouldn't compare GPU dies like this and should look purely at the price/performance, but I think RTX 4000 series shows where this is limited. We should clearly be getting better value and performance out of this generation and we're not. The only way I see to explain why is with this matrix above. I've done some data gathering and analysis when comparing benchmarks based on this adjusted matrix, but I think its still warranted. When I last did so it was only when the RTX 4090, 4080, 4070ti released, so I'm unsure if it still tracks. The theory being that we should be able to measure the actual Ampere to Ada Lovelace generational improvement by using this adjusted matrix. I don't think this is a hot take, but I've gotten plenty of pushback on this subject since the RTX 4080/4070ti was announced with specs. Feel free to question the applicability of this, but ideally refute it with benchmarks showing non proportional gaps between the adjusted intergenerational gap (if you can). If you look at the metric $/core, this is the breakdown based on rounded up MSRP (because $0.99 nonsense is stupid). Lower = better. 4090 24GB $1600- 0.0977 4080 16GB $1200- 0.123 4070ti 12GB $800- 0.104 4070 12GB $600- 0.102 4060ti 8GB $400- 0.0920 4060 8GB $300- 0.0977

Basically what the title says. I've had the card for a few years, and I'm not too knowledgeable about card degradation, but I feel like that's not what's happening here (inb4 need to replace). Only one single part of the card temp is actually spiking that high, while the other two sensors are reading stuff normally around 70 and 75 (sometimes a bit higher). It used to be that I'd be able to play high-end games at max graphics while streaming and it wouldn't overheat. But now, if I'm just chilling and not streaming, it'll overheat, sometimes even if it isn't on max graphics. I'm worried something is wrong with the card, but I've no ide why. The important specs for my computer are included in the screenshot, which shows my temps. This happened earlier today and I immediately closed the game I was playing, which was tetris effect (not in vr mode) After shutting it down, it immediately went down to these levels These were actually done with my fans all blowing at 100%, and it was worse than earlier when I didn't have them that high. I'm confused and worried. My case shouldn't be a problem, and I've been dusting semi-regularly (last dusting was a month ago). Oh, and my case is the Corsair D500 Obsidian, which I'm assuming has decent airflow, and even if not, these temps still happen with both side panels off. It should be worth mentioning, that there was a defining point that this all started happening, it didn't gradually occur. Just one day the temps started spiking like crazy. Also, overall gpu temps have just been much higher than normal since this point, not just the random one part getting super hot. Wat do?

I reposted this from the graphics cards section cus I really need this to get fixed, here’s the copied version: Hi guys I got a RX 580 4GB eGPU and my graphics card is acting up lately. It refuses to install drivers, and the way it refuses is a blue screen (DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE). After the blue screen the laptop refuses to log in, and it’s stuck in (Please wait for the Local Session Manager). I tried DDU it multiple times and it just show the same results. Can someone help me fix it? Also while it’s “installing” the drivers I noticed that it’s stuck in 92% (around 00:12 remaining). At that time the device manager picked up the Radeon RX 580 Series. And waiting for another 5 minutes and Mr. Blue Screen is here.

Budget (including currency): $600 - $700 USD Country: United States Games: Pavlov, Onward, VRChat, several other VR games with a Quest 2, Squad, Arma 3, Destiny 2, Cyberpunk, Jedi Survivor Other details: Currently using a laptop with a 3080 and 10750H as my daily driver (Aorus 15P I think). My old desktop has as GTX 1660 Super and 3600x. The games I typically play aren't extremely demanding other than some of the VR titles I play, although I would like something that will give me a consistently smooth experience for both flatscreen and VR games. I'll be pairing this new GPU with an i7-13700K with 32gb DDR5 (I'll be getting the Microcenter Bundle). So far I've considered the following GPUs: RTX 3070 RTX 4070 RX 6900xt RTX 3080ti I've looked at several benchmarks comparing each of these cards against one another and I can't come to a decision on what would be the best value for my money at 1440p. I strongly considered the 6900xt because of how much better it performs against the 4070 at the same price, but I feel like I'd be missing out on DLSS 3 and better ray tracing. I've also used Nvidia cards for years and I'm kind of scared to go red team since I use shadow play a lot, and I know some games tend to favor green team more. I also considered the 30-series GPUs because of how cheap they are used nowadays and how easy they are to get, especially since most of the games I play aren't all AAA titles. TL;DR: I'm unsure what GPU is a good value in 2023 and I need people to tell me how to spend my money.

Just like the title says. Budget (including currency): Preferably under $2000 Country: United States Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Modern gaming, recording/streaming, some video editing The parts list is attached, if any parts can be swapped out for better value or performance please let me know. Thank you!

I am looking upgrade my GPU from Vega 11 but I have some limiting factors, Mainly being my PSU and my CPU. I don't want to upgrade anything besides my GPU, What can I get with $200 Budget? (Only New cards) Specs: CPU: Ryzen 5 3400g 4C 8T 3.7Ghz GPU: Vega 11 Motherboard: ASRock A320M HDV-R4.0 (Has PCI-E 3.0) PSU 400 Watt Powerspec NON 80+ RAM: Cosair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 3200 Mhz SSD: 970 Evo Plus 500GB M.2

While I was removing my graphics card to install some NVME storage, I could not help but notice the graphics card coming loose well before I thought it should, and after removing it noticed the locking mechanism was just gone. I don’t recall breaking it or it coming off at all. Just afterwords it being not present. Mysterious vanishing hardware issue aside, I'm now left with a missing lock. I know functionally it should be no issue at all, as long as I don't handle it too roughly and if anything makes it a bit easier. But modern graphics cards are heavy, I don’t like the idea that its missing. What are my options for finding a replacement? Would micro center help? The motherboard is a MSI Z59-A pro.