Figured it would be a matter of time before Amazon jumped on the Google YouTube model of starting off light with injected ads. Be prepared for a systemic gradual increase in both frequency and duration of ads...
I don't mind having a couple/few minutes of "mandatory" ads at the beginning...
No idea! LOL
I really know nothing about VR headsets and gaming.
...they merely expressed interest, so I'm thinking of springing for a headset to get them for Christmas.
Hello, [H]orde!
Wanting to get my boys (15 and 16 YO) a VR headset for PC gaming (maybe XB1 compatible, if that's a thing) if it's even capable, but I know jack-squat about the tech.
Not looking to break the bank, so maybe around $300 max.
Their PC specs are so-so:
Ryzen 5500
GTX 980Ti
16GB...
SSDs *should* be fine ...I did upgrade the firmware on all three right before the fresh reinstall of Windows and checked them with Crucial Storage Executive - no errors and they are all under 20% of their TBW. Is there a better utility that I should try?
This is really perplexing: OCCT CPU...
Ran 4 hours on RAM, 2 hours on CPU, and 2 hours on GPU - no errors detected in OCCD.
Fired up Timespy...finished with no issues (I do not have the latest 3Dmark so no benchmark with DX12U with RT) - no issues running it.
Then fired up Jedi Survivor - about 5 mins into it, another crash-reboot...
Downloaded and ran OCCT large+extreme for 4 hours...no errors detected. This was with the two modules that didn't show errors with MT86.
System is crash-reboots in GPU-intensive games.
I'm at a bit of a loss...
You mean third memory slot...a shown in the manual when a single module is populated?
If so, then that is what I did for each module's individual test.
weird thing is this computer has been stable for about two years since it was built, and only recently in the past couple months has started exhibiting the crash-reboot behavior when games that are pushing the max settings are fired up.
Ran MemTest86 (standard 4 pass) on each DIMM indicidually, and only one failed.
Pulled that 2x16GB set and reinstalled the other set that showed pass.
Fired up some games (Jedi Survivor and Far Cry 6), which both experienced the same crash-reboot as before all the RAM testing was done.
Any...
System specs in my signature...all firmwares and drivers up to date, getting random game crashes that wind up fully rebooting my system.
Dug into Event Viewer and the only entries that point to anything were from memory bugs.
Fresh install of Win11 Pro this morning, random crash-reboots still...
I agree...4060/Ti feels like a stopgap filler between last gen and next gen.
"It's there if you really need it and we're happy to take your money, but wait if you can."
No, but the problem is the 128bit bus and 16GB of VRAM - there's no real reason that such a neutered GPU would need 16GB since it doesn't have the horsepower to push anything that would eat up that much frame buffer.
Crash, crash, crash!
Anyone else still experiencing random game crashes/lockups that outright reboot their whole system?
Ran a couple mem test programs that returned zero errors with all four of my DIMMs, set factory defaults in BIOS (even scaled back RAM to DDR4-2666 (down from 3600), and tried...
TnT2
256
8800 GTX
980/Ti
1080/Ti
3080/Ti
The way I see it, the TnT2 was the first real threat to the Voodoo lineup, the 256 was the nail in the coffin since they were on shelves months before 3Dfx had anything to answer with and, by that time, the GeForce2 was a big middle finger to the Voodoo...
That's the historical norm of corporatism. There is a difference.
nVidia had the ever-deepening pockets along the way to start buying up various IP and eventually entire companies...not one peep from the taxpayer funded government administrations that are supposed to be watchdogging and...
I'm pretty sure *most* people are using their own vehicles instead of stealing them when speeding, driving recklessly, or DUI, which vastly outnumbers the amount of vehicles stolen to be used in other crimes.
This is frivolous and ridiculous on the SEC's part.
It's like blaming the auto makers for not saying how many of their cars were sold to people that used them to commit crimes: speeding, reckless driving, DUI, getaway vehicle, etc.
That info doesn't exist in their databases!
Does the SEC expect...
This is great - as an EE that focused on electronics and computer theory/repair doing all sorts of solder work in the classroom and as a hobbyist at home, this warms my [H]eart.
Eh, you're current setup is likely not bottlenecked at all.
The differences between the 3700X and 5950X with the 6800XT being put under proper load will be negligible...
Have you tried underclocking the core and vram around 5-10% to see if it makes a meaningful difference or not in regards to the load temps?
If you're going to sell it anyway, then just sell it since it'll be the next owner's potential concern. You have proof from ASUS that they tested it and...