Recent content by JustLong

All but the 24G-P5-3985-KR have been purchased and passed on at cost to co-workers and friends... or one for myself.

Windows setup will take care of all the partitioning for you. If you don't care about accessing the machine remotely using remote desktop, encrypting the drive using bit locker, or joining a domain, home will work just fine.

Generally I'll only do a clean install of the OS with a major hardware change... so every 6 to 24 months. Back during the windows 7 pre-release days I'd roll the OS every couple weeks and started keeping my user profile folders on a separate drive so I could blow away the OS without impacting...

Thanks, but It's no big deal. Both UPS and other carriers (except ontrack*) have been doing an awesome job. *Our Ontrack driver likes to toss packages :|

I literally had to chase the UPS guy down the street to get the first couple EVGA 30x0 series cards as I wasn't fast enough to answer to door, but the more recent hybrid deliveries they just left them on my porch and drove off 🤷‍♂️

How long did the kit install take you? I have two of these to install this week, wondering how much time I should set aside.

My initial 30 series card was a 3080 FE on launch day. I got one of the cancelled bot orders at 11am PDT. Every other 30 series card I've purchased has been through EVGA's queue system. With all but one going to coworkers, friends, and family at cost. When I got my 3090 I sold my 3080 FE to a...

I've used this card for your exact scenario. GIGABYTE GeForce GT 1030 DirectX 12 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Newegg.com

I've had far less 3080s go through my hands so far. [Edit] to be clear I'm not making any profit, just helping out people I know get their hands on cards while also upgrading/rebuilding machines for them for the fun of it. 1 FE, 1 XC3, and one FTW3 Ultra. Today the first of 6 3080 Hybrid FTW3...

BTW at 9:00am EVGA will have more cards available for auto notify. The last batch they put on notify, were sold the same day....

Just used their queuing system. I have 1 evga account and my friend has six. I bought three of those cards, one per house hold per card type. He bought the rest. Fun fact 3 x 3090 hybrid cards are difficult to install in one machine, but possible.

As I've been helping my friends/coworkers upgrade their machines, I've had no issue getting cards from EVGA. No bots, just paying MSRP, most of these card were purchased this month.

I'm seeing odd issues related to remote desktop with these drivers. On a clean boot connecting to my machine over RDP works fine. If I first log in locally, then later make connection using RDP, I get black screen or redraw issues in the remote session and have to restart the machine.

I put my name in the queue on Nov 13th. For the 3090 XC3 Hybrid I reserved on Tuesday I was able to order the same day it also arrived today.

Woot.