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Leave the multi-trillion dollar company alone! They and their partners can't afford to replace 10 cent connectors on $7000 GPUs when they melt due to poor connection quality, and they aren't melting at unacceptable rates because Nvidia mods...

A handful of games put them in, mostly newer ones, but generally no, it's up the user to force the preset they want. It's still common for games to ship with an old-ass version of DLSS or FSR.

Yes, that's right—why not ask the AI:

It's weird still, some people used the leaked version of Reflex 2 and had no major complaints.

8 pin connector has 19 years of history behind it, you can't be serious comparing the few failures it had with 12hpwr that is only around since 2022 and making the news since release. There is already far too many documented cases. That Google...

Burn-in in 18h isn't possible the way I understand it, that's got to be temporary retention, which you can clean up? But running your HUD elements at full nits certainly isn't smart. Personally HUD elements beyond 100ish nits literally hurt my...

They'll put a very small "data centre" up there and declare victory to keep the investors happy and to appease the fans. They'll quietly deorbit it after a while and never launch any more of the things but people will have stopped paying...

Unless they pull their heads out of their asses, I'm not super worried at this point. They are too dumb and greedy to make it a threat yet. The biggest problem is just not wanting to provide it with good hardware and good service. They want to...

Going in the comments, he said he had a Seasonic Prime PX 1000w. Hate to think a Seasonic would take out multiple components.

The CPU may be a coincidence, hard to believe as it may be. And maybe it's not even really dead, it's not like we have pictures of the damage or extensive testing or anything (like maybe a clear CMOS and the CPU could boot again?), the melted GPU...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/1wxqgoy/my_9070_xt_isnt_feeling_quite_well/ When even a 300w card isn't immune to it you know it's bad. Luckily you can avoid the connector on such cards though... just have to pick the right model.

Cool. So out of 10? 4090/5090 owners in this thread, 1 had a blow up, and 1 managed to catch a blow up before it occurred. A 20% failure rate seems unacceptably high to me, but what do I know.

My 5090 was going to be another statistic, but I caught it with the WireView Pro II and replaced the cable. Crazy, that.

No, what I meant is that this metric makes sense to you. It doesn't make sense for others. I wasn't trying to claim you liked every game that fit within this metric. Granted, your metric is also based on personal likes and dislikes. Not your...

I think it is rose colored glasses and survivorship bias. People tend to remember things from when they were a kid more fondly than those things perhaps deserve. They'll give that stuff a pass for things that they won't give a pass to things...

It is everything. Lots, if not most, people really don't like change in areas they consider sacrosanct to their own personality. People have a very rose-coloured glasses view of past things and don't like to admit they weren't perfect then...

“Modders get DLSS 5 running on Apple Silicon” https://videocardz.com/newz/modders-get-dlss-5-running-on-apple-silicon-but-performance-is-far-from-playable

Really getting tired of the attempts to frame games as "disasters" because of either their in-game ideology or that of the team. There are plenty of good inclusive games; there are plenty of bad games featuring straight white men. Can we please...

You have never played in the dark? As Kalston said above, a cheap IR illuminator will let you use your headset in the dark. You don't have to spend the kingly sum of $15, you can get them cheaper.

It can't out of the box, but you can add a $15 IR illuminator in your room and it will.