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    RTX 5060 listed for over $500. Has Nvidia lost their minds?

    what people do not realize is the cost of sub 5nm lithography and poor yields. My 2013 390x did 400 GB/s overclocked LOL. If you expect sub $300 GPUs break out the mothballed 28/44 nm litho scanners from last decade.
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    Got the flashing 00 from Asus. What to try?

    Are you using any aftermarket cables not from the PSU OEM? I used Cablemod customs and had random reboot errors that were resolved by using the OEM cables. I tried every HW swap and SW uninstall with no luck. Any event viewer codes like -41 ?
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    What brand name of surge protector comes w/ insurance policy?

    Second that on pend's recommendation Tripp lite makes an excellent surge protector.
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    RTX 5060 listed for over $500. Has Nvidia lost their minds?

    If you want cheap GPUs go back to 44/28nm lithography. Yields are poor at sub 10nm litho.
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    Those of you who have built more than once, what motherboard manufacturer(s) is the best in terms of longevity?

    Agree didn't mean to diss anyone with a not so shiny new setup I rocked a 2011 5820K for many years past due. The allure of a microcenter combo for a 12700K swayed me to replace.
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    Those of you who have built more than once, what motherboard manufacturer(s) is the best in terms of longevity?

    Over the years our company builds have had only one MB issue, a ASUS MB had a USB port failure and it was resolved in less than a week with a replacement sent. The problem is that all manufacturers now design a product to last through a socket refresh timespan. Most CPU sockets go 3 yrs...
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    Mouse not always powered on when booting PC

    My Logitech G900 does not connect when I charge it and when I disconnect the usb cord the mouse works but the LED and DPI settings are borked, need to press reset on the mouse to fix. I too have an Asus Z690 Wifi DDR4 D4 board. Armoury crate is crap.
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    Has Nvidia abandoned the gaming market?

    Problem with gaming GPUs is the law of diminishing returns. As the litho scale goes down, price of the dies go up and the visual gains with RT on vs off do absolutely nothing to give you an advantage in competitive events. In other words the max eye candy is not worth the price of admission...
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    Lots of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 & 5090D GPUs Are Getting Bricked, Possibly Due To Driver, BIOS or PCIe Issues

    Does it come with a mini Halon fire suppression system for the rest of your PC ? Don't laugh but when they built a new server room at my university they used water sprinklers instead of Halon to save costs1
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    RTX 5090 FE Molten 12VHPWR

    Do these idiots not understand basic electrical design? Time for class action lawsuit. No excuse at all for this, been happening since 3xxx cards released.
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    $2500 5090 I’m out

    I agree give it some time to mature, the pricing of a 5xxx GPU is almost past the law of diminishing returns now.
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    $2500 5090 I’m out

    So far my predictions are true 1. Poor yields due to massive dies at hard stop lithography limits. Will need some non linear thinkers(like a modern day Einstein) to get over this UV wavelength hard stop lithography limit. 2. Peeps are not paying 2500 plus for DLSS and FG improvements. If...
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    UPS that can work with portable generator?

    Be careful most gensets have horrible THD only use one that is a high quality inverter generator. For example, we lose power frequently here in SE Texas, if I use a gasoline typical HW box store portable genset regardless of capacity my PC will not even boot. Now a residential genset like...
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    $2500 5090 I’m out

    I will pass on this gen GPU unless my 3080 blows up. Not too impressed with the way DLSS and frame generation is used to boost FPS, I can use Lossless scaling program(6.99 USD) to use frame gen on any card. Now if I was making a living doing ML or AI, my business would invest in a GPU...
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    Falcon Northwest pulled the 5090

    i read somewhere that the die yields were poor.
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