Leadsalad
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NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Big Phoenix
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Good, coin mining is possibly one of the dumbest fucking things humanity as ever engaged in.
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Tripamang
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Quebec as some of the cheapest electricity in the world and they can't sell as much as they generate. All those miners are going to appear in Canada in the not too distant future. They've been courting the Chinese miners for years and some have already moved.
Fadaar
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Tripamang
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Bitcoin doesn't use GPUs, it uses specialized Asics designed for high efficiency hashing. Ethereum mining uses GPUs and they've got a plan to remove mining in favor of staking but that's late 2021 at the earliest. Lots of other coins use GPUs so it may not go away entirely but it will certainly be less profitable.
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If anyone ends up buying 1 of the Cyberpower pre-builts from best buy with a Ryzen 9 being linked in here, consider budgeting an upgraded cpu cooler. The included 120 aio idles around 40c and jumps to 80c almost instantly under load. About 10 minutes of gaming will push it to 90c and cause the cpu to throttle. For me it throttled to around 4 ghz until the temp dropped back to mid 80s, then went back to 4.7 ghz and throttled again. Cycled through that sequence of events over and over. I will say that even at 4 ghz there wasn't much performance lost, but if you want the best, it will need to be upgraded. Running this system also definitely eliminates the need for a space heater. It puts out an absurd amount of heat lol; easily raised the temp of the room I had it in by 10f
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Big Phoenix
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Brahma
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I swapped to a 240 AIO and added 3 additional fans (2 of which I simply salvaged from the AIO that came with the system, although I guess it might make more sense to buy 2 new fans and then sell that 120 AIO) and dropped my idle temp from 40c to 32c and load from 90c and throttling to 67c
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Brahma
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TLDR? Higher res and quality DSLL looks slightly better. Looks like FSR is legit though. Especially when you consider it's a 1.0 version. Games are bare for FSR. Devs will probably take the easier route IMO and go with FSR. More cards, easier to implement.
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Brahma
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Higher res and quality DSLL looks slightly better. Looks like FSR is legit though. Especially when you consider it's a 1.0 version. Games are bare for FSR. Devs will probably take the easier route IMO and go with FSR. More cards, easier to implement.
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Kuro
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My NZXT prebuilt arrived last week, got it set up on the weekend. Clean looking machine, good cable management. Only problem was it kept shutting down randomly. Ran benchmarks to see if the PSU was faulty. Super low scores. Got a monitoring program set up and lo and behold, 85 degree CPU. Someone at the warehouse had straight up forgotten a power cable for the liquid cooler. So I had to gut the nice cable management to access the battery and add a SATA cable. Running fine now.
3080 1440p is a noticeable upgrade from 1060 1080p
Amusingly, if I had known the cooler had RGB the fact that it wasn't powered would have popped out a lot quicker
3080 1440p is a noticeable upgrade from 1060 1080p
Amusingly, if I had known the cooler had RGB the fact that it wasn't powered would have popped out a lot quicker
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