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yoshiktk · 31-12-2019 01:32PM

TheDoc wrote: »

Went through a wide range of things with mine and my fathers GPU's.

DDU is a good start alright.

There is also plenty of evidence that Radeon's software crashes it's own 5700's/XT's. Something about a bogey API. So any software that returns performance related metrics can cause crashes.

I have the radeon software completely turned off

There is also some settings in the Radeon software that cause plenty of crashing, if you do use it, put the profile to standard

I have thread from reddit somewhere, have to check it later. Like I said now even thou I haven't changed anything and pc was still running thru the night, now it works ok. Weird. Won't complain, the gaming experience is great. Now BF5 on 1440@ultra gets me 100fps+.

K.O.Kiki · 31-12-2019 03:13PM

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

No no, I just want RGB :pac:

Urge to spend... rising...

yoshiktk · 31-12-2019 03:29PM

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Urge to spend... rising...

K.O.Kiki · 31-12-2019 06:21PM

This looks so nice, too...

Sadly I can't find the correct version for my card anywhere - need the 2080 FE version (EVGA 400-HY-1184-B1), but all I can find is a B-Grade for £130, or the FTW3 version for £99

Kimbot · 31-12-2019 11:55PM

OSI wrote: »

The Red Devil arrived today. Holy **** it’s a big card! It’s replacing 2 overclocked partner board 970s that I always thought were large enough but this easily weighs more than the 2 combined.

It's a beast haha

Kimbot · 31-12-2019 11:58PM

Put some more light on the situation :P

https://m.imgur.com/a/SFgmxJB

wotzgoingon · 01-01-2020 12:32AM

I thought the case was on fire.

Kimbot · 01-01-2020 12:36AM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I thought the case was on fire.

Thankfully not, I haven't decided on a color scheme just yet, set it all to red haha

Krombopulos Michael · 03-01-2020 10:42AM

Stupid question, but is there anywhere online I can use a One4All voucher to buy PC parts. Currys/PC World accept them but they have little stock or over priced. Littlewoods also accept them, but I saw a Ryzen 2600x CPU that was 100euro more expensive than Currys :O

If this is in the wrong place, let me know

MiskyBoyy · 03-01-2020 10:48AM

Krombopulos Michael wrote: »

Stupid question, but is there anywhere online I can use a One4All voucher to buy PC parts. Currys/PC World accept them but they have little stock or over priced. Littlewoods also accept them, but I saw a Ryzen 2600x CPU that was 100euro more expensive than Currys :O

If this is in the wrong place, let me know

You can get them to refund you the balance of the card to your bank account minus I think maybe €8 fee.

https://www.gvsprepaid.com/one4allie-tcs.html

See 10.1

Krombopulos Michael · 03-01-2020 10:51AM

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

You can get them to refund you the balance of the card to your bank account minus I think maybe €8 fee.

https://www.gvsprepaid.com/one4allie-tcs.html

See 10.1

Cheers for that

Krombopulos Michael · 03-01-2020 10:59AM

OSI wrote: »

Note that they won't do that if it was purchased by your employer under the tax incentive thing.

Gift from the Inlaws so not from employers. Id be happy just to use it online but limited options which sucks for using One4all gift cards.

Krombopulos Michael · 03-01-2020 11:16AM

OSI wrote: »

Total shame they removed the option to buy an Amazon gift card with it.

Yeah I know. I did that a few years ago and it was a great option. It looks like more of the big retailers have dropped them and more smaller niche shops on board.

Not great for PC Building if your only source of parts using a One4All is Pc World.

K.O.Kiki · 03-01-2020 11:59AM

Other option is to just use regular money to buy the parts and use the one4all to fund other stuff throughout the year.

wotzgoingon · 04-01-2020 08:17PM

I was reading about Moore's Law on another website and someone said I prefer Murphy's Law.

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

mp3guy · 05-01-2020 10:23AM

Anyone able to identify a laptop with a 2080 non-mobile GPU? Also with the largest number of cores.

smacl · 05-01-2020 11:19AM

mp3guy wrote: »

Anyone able to identify a laptop with a 2080 non-mobile GPU? Also with the largest number of cores.

MSI Titan GT76 maybe; https://www.msi.com/Laptop/GT76-Titan-9SX/Specification

K.O.Kiki · 05-01-2020 02:10PM

mp3guy wrote: »

Anyone able to identify a laptop with a 2080 non-mobile GPU? Also with the largest number of cores.

https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb&xf=11295_21901+-+RTX+2080+(Mobile)

Robert ninja · 07-01-2020 10:41AM

Anyone have 1440p high Hz monitor recommendations? Thinking of selling this BenQ XL2720T and upgrading.

Krombopulos Michael · 07-01-2020 10:48AM

Robert ninja wrote: »

Anyone have 1440p high Hz monitor recommendations? Thinking of selling this BenQ XL2720T and upgrading.

This caught my eye when I watched the review.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgeVFfGyecI

Robert ninja · 07-01-2020 11:00AM

Does look nice but out of my budget unfortunately. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WF726S9 seems more affordable.

SickBoy · 07-01-2020 11:55AM

Robert ninja wrote: »

Anyone have 1440p high Hz monitor recommendations? Thinking of selling this BenQ XL2720T and upgrading.

The ViewSonic VX2758-2KP-MHD got a very good review on Hardware Unboxed recently..

TitianGerm · 07-01-2020 12:01PM

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/27-msi-optix-mag272qr-gaming-monitor-va-2560x1440-1ms-165hz-amd-freesync-100m1-300cd-m-hdmi-dp-type?utm_source=hotukdeals.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hotukdeals

What about the new MSI monitor?

farna_boy · 07-01-2020 02:51PM

So I currently have an i5 6500 and the upgrade bug is itching.

Is there a significant, noticeable difference if I upgraded to a Ryzen 3600 when I will be using it only for gaming?

Currently it's paired with 32GB RAM and a Vega 64, so the CPU is the obvious bottleneck. Also only gaming at 1920 x 1080 but looking to also upgrade to 1440 x 2560 soon.

cherryghost · 07-01-2020 02:58PM

farna_boy wrote: »

So I currently have an i5 6500 and the upgrade bug is itching.

Is there a significant, noticeable difference if I upgraded to a Ryzen 3600 when I will be using it only for gaming?

Currently it's paired with 32GB RAM and a Vega 64, so the CPU is the obvious bottleneck. Also only gaming at 1920 x 1080 but looking to also upgrade to 1440 x 2560 soon.

Yes, there would be a significant difference, in modern games at least. 4 core processors are starting to show its age.

Here's GN doing 6600k modern review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCV9yyD8X6M

Here is 6500 direct comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHKge2d3wGQ

Whats the RAM speed on the 32GB RAM? Is it DDR4/DDR3? Skylake at one point had boards for one or the other, if you have DDR4 and its decent speed RAM it could be a simple cheap upgrade. The 6500 seems about 30% or more slower than 3600.

farna_boy · 07-01-2020 03:06PM

cherryghost wrote: »

Yes, there would be a significant difference, in modern games at least. 4 core processors are starting to show its age.

Here's GN doing 6600k modern review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCV9yyD8X6M

Here is 6500 direct comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHKge2d3wGQ

Whats the RAM speed on the 32GB RAM? Is it DDR4/DDR3? Skylake at one point had boards for one or the other, if you have DDR4 and its decent speed RAM it could be a simple cheap upgrade. The 6500 seems about 30% or more slower than 3600.

That's the answer I was hoping for

.

RAM is DDR4-3200 so I can reuse it for the Ryzen.

cherryghost · 07-01-2020 03:18PM

farna_boy wrote: »

That's the answer I was hoping for .

RAM is DDR4-3200 so I can reuse it for the Ryzen.

Nice, cheap enough upgrade for noticable improvements so!

Robert ninja · 07-01-2020 05:03PM

SickBoy wrote: »

The ViewSonic VX2758-2KP-MHD got a very good review on Hardware Unboxed recently..

Think I might be going for this one. It's it in my price range when I offset it with the money from selling the XL2720T. It's just a bit big so I'm worried if my monitor arm can handle the weight. If it can that's great because I won't need to use the poor stand it comes with (the stand for XL27OT is amazing but I don't use it :pac:). There's a lot of yap about adaptive sync n' such but I don't care about any of that because I turn off all syncing technologies.

Happy to hear it has a a strobing feature, too! If it's done on the monitor and not software side, that is. My current BenQ also has this but it's the older version so it only works on windows with a 3rd party tool and since I'm 100% linux gaming now I lost the feature. Would be great to have it back if the panel can do it itself.

Edit: Actually it seems it's the same size as my current. Was looking at a 32" similar model.

wotzgoingon · 07-01-2020 05:48PM

Robert ninja wrote: »

. There's a lot of yap about adaptive sync n' such but I don't care about any of that because I turn off all syncing technologies.

What? You turn off Vsync but not Adaptive sync. Tear free gaming with little or no hit to performance compared to Vsync which does significantly hit performance.

Robert ninja · 07-01-2020 06:09PM

wotzgoingon wrote: »

What? You turn off Vsync but not Adaptive sync. Tear free gaming with little or no hit to performance compared to Vsync which does significantly hit performance.

I don't see much tearing on my current monitor so I assumed it must be a benefit of high Hz. I've only seen a handful of games that had bad tearing. I've been using it for years like this so now it doesn't bother me even if there is a little tearing. It's not worth turning on any sync tech now because of the overhead and I like to blast the FPS as high as it can go even past the Hz of the monitor if possible.

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