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    What was your 1st 3D video card ?

    voodoo 2, had a rage ii before that, but I am not sure that counts. The performance in tomb raider was less than aspiring
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    System will not boot with Wifi M2 card installed

    Yea I ordered an AX200 instead. Reading up on the laptop forums it seems like AX201 is CNVi2 and it only works with 10th gen or above. Thank guys.
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    System will not boot with Wifi M2 card installed

    Got a weird issue on one of my machines. I wanted to add a M2 AX201 wifi card to the setup (Asus Z390-P with i5-8400.) The system will not boot with this card installed. Can't even turn the power on. I've only needed to change network cards in Laptops before and they always just worked. Latest...
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    What's the truthful reason(s) for the GPU shortage?

    AMD 6x.. cards are no better than the last gen 5700xt at mining. Roughly equal to a 3070 at worse wattage. If you are looking ROI the reference cards would decent but the AIBs are a tougher pill to swallow. They also don't appear to be as good at the productivity and work applications. I think...
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    What's the truthful reason(s) for the GPU shortage?

    Stop looking at GPUs as "GPUs." They were once primarily used for PC gaming and rendering, now they are more like simulation computation units. Take a look at nVidia GTC on what amphere actually is, a simulation architecture that also happens to be damn good at playing these "videogamez." The...
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    NVIDIA 3000-series Resizable BAR support is out.

    Only the following games are supported for now. GeForce RTX 30 Series Resizable BAR Supported Games As of March 30th, 2021 Assassin's Creed Valhalla Battlefield V Borderlands 3 Control Cyberpunk 2077 Death Stranding DIRT 5 F1 2020 Forza Horizon 4 Gears 5 Godfall...
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    NVIDIA 3000-series Resizable BAR support is out.

    No difference on ASUS cards.
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    Fan orientation

    Not sure about 9 intake with one exhaust. For Air cooling I tested top/bottom intake - side / rear exhaust and temps was definitely worse vs bottom/side intake - top/rear exhaust on the XL. Still waiting for my distro plate to test out the WC temps with both setup.s
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    Your CPU progression

    For stuff I've owned 486DX66 Pentium133 Overdrive AMD K6-2 350 P2 Celeron 300A Athlon XP 2500 p4 3.0/3.2C AMD X2 6400 Intel SU7300 Couple Intel mobile i7s that I can't recall now Intel i7-7700hq AMD 5900x.
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    Logitech G Hub - Still Sucking?

    I think the lastest update just broke the G560 lighting again... Sigh it was working perfectly too
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    RTX 3090 [H] Owner's Official 3DMark Time Spy Leaderboard

    https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/60199680 +100core +500 mem on 450W. Will try again once I have the loop setup and settings dialed in for gaming
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    Anybody here still have a Abit board?

    Still have my BH6 and Ic7-max3. I thought the ~300 price of max3 was crazy at the time, but looking at top end mb prices now...
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    X570 USB Issues: Keep or Exchange for Intel

    Temporarily using a ML240 with LL120 white fans. Going for custom loop, probably a bykski am4 block now that ek monoblock is always out of stock...
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