NVidia GeForce RTX 30x0 cards
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spronk
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if you want a 3050 try the newegg shuffle, i've entered 2 of the 3 or 4 days its been up and gotten a "win" every time. I didn't bother, since it looks like the card is worse than my 5 year old 1080ti (lol) but it was like $400, which seems kinda nuts for the performance
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Daidraco
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Ya, I wouldnt buy a 3050 unless I was just desperate for a card and didnt have any other options. Especially at 400? But the 3050's Im seeing for the price vs performance, are all in the 200-250 range which I think is pretty fair if you're in that situation. Especially since you're getting the extra VRAM that hurt the 900 series for not having, more than anything. Though its still a power hog and its insane to me that it still demands that much.
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I wasn't sure if I would get a new PC when my current would die or finally become too old. 6 years old, I7-5820K and GTX980 since I do most of my gaming on consoles these days.
Well the day finally happened and my PC passed away, MB died on me.
So big decision to make, do I get a new PC or not. I finally decided to get a new one after all, while most of my gaming is on console I still play some stuff on the PC, and more importantly stuff that I play on PC is with friends.
Getting parts is hard and expensive. So I decided to go pre-build with an HP Omen with a 3070. Now the parts are good, but I had serious concerns about airflow since it has only 1 fan in front, 1 in back and 1 fan for CPU...not an AIO. The price was right though and it was available.
No surprised, airflow was total shit, CPU was running at 55°C on idle, and playing Black Desert Online was running at 75°C and peaking at up to 97°C. I wasn't happy with that.
So I got a new case, AIO and now CPU on idle is around 38°C, and Black Desert Online runs at around 48°C with peaks at 64°C. So the max temperature in new case was lower by 11°C than average in the Omen case.
Anyways, got a new PC. It's running great. Probably paid a bit more than I should have due to having switched case and getting an AIO, but under the circumstance it was worth it I think.
Well the day finally happened and my PC passed away, MB died on me.
So big decision to make, do I get a new PC or not. I finally decided to get a new one after all, while most of my gaming is on console I still play some stuff on the PC, and more importantly stuff that I play on PC is with friends.
Getting parts is hard and expensive. So I decided to go pre-build with an HP Omen with a 3070. Now the parts are good, but I had serious concerns about airflow since it has only 1 fan in front, 1 in back and 1 fan for CPU...not an AIO. The price was right though and it was available.
No surprised, airflow was total shit, CPU was running at 55°C on idle, and playing Black Desert Online was running at 75°C and peaking at up to 97°C. I wasn't happy with that.
So I got a new case, AIO and now CPU on idle is around 38°C, and Black Desert Online runs at around 48°C with peaks at 64°C. So the max temperature in new case was lower by 11°C than average in the Omen case.
Anyways, got a new PC. It's running great. Probably paid a bit more than I should have due to having switched case and getting an AIO, but under the circumstance it was worth it I think.
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Yeah they do have pretty awful airflow, I bought one a year or so ago in a frenzy and it was priced pretty well but the thermals were terrible so promptly sent it back. Otherwise, they are pretty good bang for the buck in terms of specs - fixing their thermals would make them pretty attractive as they look nice as well (better to my eye than other prebuilts - looking at you alienware).
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I dunno how many times I read this before it dawned on me.
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