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Review: Gigabyte Aorus GeForce RTX 2080 Xtreme 8G I found this interesting as it has comparisons with the Radeon VII and 1080ti. At this point, it looks like these three cards are pretty evenly matched unless you want ray-tracing.

Power supply tester - $10-30 on new egg or Amazon.. It is not a hard thing to do to test your power supply.

I have a power supply tester that has been reliable in identifying bad power supplies. $10-30 on Amazon or New Egg. This should give you a quick easy way to check. Also - after years of running that OC on the CPU, it probably has a bit of degradation. The previous suggestions to lower the...

Thant's what I did. Great monitor, and good for gaming too.

I enjoyed this review as I have been running a Seasonic X-850 since July of 2013. That is 5 1/2 years. It is still running strong through 3 builds. It is one those purchases were I really got a lot of value. Gonna miss these reviews and you guys.

I have relied on HardOCP for my power supply buying decisions for years (my old Seasonic X850 is still going strong). I am just repeating the above sentiments but not sure where I am going to go for my future buying decisions. You guys are the best!

I have this on my "Tech" tab for my daily stops even though they were big defenders of signing the NVIDIA NDA. I also regularly check extremetech.com and PCWorld.com. If you watch the video's on PCWorld.com, you can find Kyle featured on several of them.

Very interesting review. These Radeon VII cards are looking like a really solid card. As AMD irons out some driver/bios kinks and tweaks are applied to the cards (undervolting) these cards are looking more and more competitive to the 2080/1080ti.

This card and this whole Nvidia stack does not interest me at all. I picked up a used 1080ti last fall, and it is going to last me for the next release or two. If I had to buy a new card today, I would go with either: a Vega 56 or 580 over the 1660ti (for 1080p) or a Radeon VII over a 2080...

I am betting that in 6 months, the Radeon VII will be beating the 2080 in most of these benchmarks. I think in the long run it's a better buy.

Thanks guys for getting this review out. If I were buying a $700 GPU today, I would consider this card pretty even with the 2080 and would probably get the Radeon Vega II just because NVIDIA has been nasty lately. While the RTX2080 has had plenty of time for the drivers to mature, I think AMD...

I was just going by the conclusion referencing the review of the Seasonic FOCUS SGX-450 450W SFX-L PSU (https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/12/31/seasonic_focus_sgx450_450w_sfxl_psu_review/9). Reading closely, the Corsair unit is a bit shorter although they are both SFX.

While this looks like a good PS, the conclusion just reinforces why I always end up with Seasonic Power supplies. They are almost always a bit better and usually at a better price/value.

Back in September, I picked up an MSI GTX1080 TI Gaming X for $550 on eBay. I could not be happier with this purchase. I did this and upgraded my monitor to a 4K monitor at the same time. My current back-up gaming system has 1440p/144hz G-Sync monitor which runs great with a GTX1080. I think...

I am a bit confused.. the $450 Maximus XI high end board gets a Gold Award, while the $275 Maximus Hero XI gets called out for diluting the the ROG brand due to the VRM implementation (and they have the same VRM solution?) Am I missing something?