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Xexx

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I need to find someone to trade me a ps5 for a 3070 - its so much easier to get 3070s than a ps5 :D
 
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Hmm now did I get a good chip worthy of ocing?

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Really fucking annoying thing is that I lost all my bios settings when I did the required update. Fan curves memory profile etc. It wont load the settings I saved right before I updated.
 
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Big Phoenix said:
Hmm now did I get a good chip worthy of ocing?

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Really fucking annoying thing is that I lost all my bios settings when I did the required update. Fan curves memory profile etc. It wont load the settings I saved right before I updated.
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Issue will be the actual gains in your daily apps. Most overclocking on these chips is only aimed at all core and that only benefits production based apps. You will lose single thread performance, i.e. gaming and most other things that aren't rendering of some sort.

These things push so hard from the factory against thermal and power limits of the chips already.

These are just stock settings clocks with a brief run of Cyberpunk somewhere in there (to see if I had a save around some crucial story element I could re-do). Rather recent data as I spent last night restarting my system endlessly to see if I could actually control my motherboard's RGB header (I couldn't).

The 2nd chiplet (8-15) isn't even boosting as high as I've seen it before either (they both have a core that will do 5,050 and then a pair that will do 4,975.
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But if I turn PBO on, my cinebench scores go up because it ups the all core clocks from ~3.8ghz to 4.45ghz but while playing a game most cores without PBO enabled are switching between 3.8ghz and 4.65ghz naturally. So PBO isn't actually doing anything for me.
 
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I wouldn't know, but at full power those cards would use ~$2200ish a month
The article said just over $1600 so it is not idle either.
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It also said he lives in vegas. Imagine that shit in the summer.
 
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Xexx said:
I need to find someone to trade me a ps5 for a 3070 - its so much easier to get 3070s than a ps5 :D
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Funny I got both. Scored the ps5 off Amazon. Thought about not getting a 3080 and just sticking with the 3070 but I don’t wanna do it.
 
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It also said he lives in vegas. Imagine that shit in the summer.
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in vegas/arizona/NM/parts of CA you can nowadays run solar panels and essentially have free power, just some overhead for the main line utilities runs and battery system for night operations. In Nevada/Arizona you'll have sun 90% of the year. So like a $2k/mo monthly regular bill would probably run closer to $100.

The only problem is the solar panel costs, they are still wildly expensive and most people amortize them over 20 years like a house.
 
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Hey man, have you ever bricked a house in full RTX??! Ship is da bomb! Enjoy, it's a great card amigo
 
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Xexx

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If he wants to do $1200 and add a 3070 as tip, then yes.
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Lol you cray - PS5s are down to $700 locally here - i can get one i just dont want to chase Target down to get one. I've had no issue getting and selling cards off BB - i got 3 3070s on this last drop.
 
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Xexx said:
Lol you cray - PS5s are down to $700 locally here - i can get one i just dont want to chase Target down to get one. I've had no issue getting and selling cards off BB - i got 3 3070s on this last drop.
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Xexx Xexx , I think you have an addiction problem my friend.
 
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spronk said:
in vegas/arizona/NM/parts of CA you can nowadays run solar panels and essentially have free power, just some overhead for the main line utilities runs and battery system for night operations. In Nevada/Arizona you'll have sun 90% of the year. So like a $2k/mo monthly regular bill would probably run closer to $100.

The only problem is the solar panel costs, they are still wildly expensive and most people amortize them over 20 years like a house.
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I think most just use the credits from contributing to the grid to pay for non-generating hours rather than pay for a battery.

I know a number of people who just pay the connection fee, like $12.50/mo for power. I haven't bit yet because of the related costs you mention.
 
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Idiots who owe 20 years on obsolete solar panels FTW. Wait 5 years from now and buy a smaller, cheaper, and 20x more effective one.
 
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