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My understanding on SLI is the application needs to specifically support it. That stopped happening years ago.
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NVidia GeForce RTX 50x0 cards - 70% performance increase, but AI > you
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Burns
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It probably would have been faster to troubleshoot the blue screens...
I have not had an issue where the whole thing is just bricked. I've had memory go bad, for that take out all the memory except 1 stick, still blue screen, replace that stick with another. Still blue screen it's probably not the memory, but if you have a 3rd stick, could swap it out. It also depends on where it's blue screening.
I have also had two PSUs go out, (one actually popped and smoked when a capacitor sploded). The non-splod-e one caused blue screens. I also had one occurrence where it would post, and I could get into BIOS, but windows wouldn't boot, even in safe mode (I think), so installed a fresh windows on a second HD.
I'm no expert, so I always had to look of the various trouble shooting steps and programs.
Big Phoenix
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Mildly interesting. Just took steam hardware survey and more people use 4090s than they do 4080s or 3080tis;
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Folanlron
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And I'm sure that in a few months 5090's will take that spot. Everyone thinks they need the new shiny.
Lambourne
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Should add the 4080 and the 4080 Super numbers together really since it mostly replaced it, the 4090 had no refresh.
Bulk of the market is still on the 4060 level. Guess most of us can afford to throw whatever money we want at a system now but if you're on a budget, you can build a solid system with a $300 video card. Just built a complete 5700x3d/4060 system for a kid on a budget for substantially less than what at a single 4080 card goes for now. New PSU, SSD, case, everything. At 1080p it runs everything just fine too.
Bulk of the market is still on the 4060 level. Guess most of us can afford to throw whatever money we want at a system now but if you're on a budget, you can build a solid system with a $300 video card. Just built a complete 5700x3d/4060 system for a kid on a budget for substantially less than what at a single 4080 card goes for now. New PSU, SSD, case, everything. At 1080p it runs everything just fine too.
TJT
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This is what I do.
I do all my work and whatnot on a macbook. I have a gaming PC that I also tinker on somewhat and a few Raspberry Pi I fuck around with. I also want to get a mini pc to add to my home network for stuff.
I am willing to shell out like $2.5k here but anything above $3k I just can't justify.
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Every time I buy new memory, or switch memory to a new board or tighten timings I let this run for an hour at least:
The free version works fine for home use.
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TJT
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Burns
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I used MemTest86 to chase down a intermittent blue screen before but never though about checking sticks when they are brand new. Good idear.Every time I buy new memory, or switch memory to a new board or tighten timings I let this run for an hour at least:
The free version works fine for home use.
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Eh. These are always YMMV. I bought a cyberpowerpc a few weeks ago and it’s fine and nothing like that.
Like any review for cars, restaurants, or other things, you hear about the bad ones, never hear about the 95 percent of them that work fine.
Leadsalad
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Well, I need 4090 level performance for my sim rig/vr. iRacing is unoptimized trash, but also pushing 3 monitors isn't simple to begin with.
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Intrinsic
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I mean Costco has a CyberPower 9800X3D with a 5080 for $2,300. Probably get a little bit off that with another Costco discount. That’s not really bad given the current state of things.
*edit: guess it is out of stock so doesn’t count
*edit: guess it is out of stock so doesn’t count
RobXIII
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Yep, I felt like an idiot buying what was then 2 of the latest cards, when new games wouldn't support SLI / Crossfire until like a year later lol.
Grabbit Allworth
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I saw this debacle coming and it's why I bought my 7900 XTX 5 months ago.
I knew the value/performance/etc. wasn't going to be there and the XTX was in an incredible sweet spot for price/performance. The VRAM also makes it as future-proof as you can expect from this type of tech.
TL;DR: I couldn't be happier with my brand new $700 7900 XTX.
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