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    All new build, feels very slow, awful SSD benchmarks; please help!

    Fixed! I tried different m2 slots and swapping the SSDs between the systems, and everything was pointing at the problem being the motherboard. In a last ditch effort I flashed the bios to the latest version and that freaking did it. So a late '22 bios on a new motherboard model was cutting SSD...
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    All new build, feels very slow, awful SSD benchmarks; please help!

    About a half a year ago I built a new system for myself with: MSI z690 mag tomahawk and Samsung 980 pro 2TB, win11 pro. It's been running beautifully, no complaints. Today I built a new system for the wife with: MSI b760-p pro and Samsung 980 pro 2TB, win11 home. Same model SSD, CPU, RAM, GPU...
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    2080 Ti for $1000 confirmed, HDMI 2.1/VRR confirmed dead for another year

    Actually, from the way DLSS was explained in the presentation, it sounds like the greatest benchmark cheating technology ever invented. "Deep learning" the exact sequence of frames in a predetermined benchmark, heh heh.
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    2080 Ti for $1000 confirmed, HDMI 2.1/VRR confirmed dead for another year

    The 1080 has a 60% higher clock than 980ti. The 2080 has a 6% higher clock than a 1080ti.
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    2080 Ti for $1000 confirmed, HDMI 2.1/VRR confirmed dead for another year

    I'm just going directly off official 2080 specs: 2944 cuda cores and 1800 boost clock, vs my 1080ti which has 3584 cuda cores and 1700 boost clock. 2080 has GDDR6 though.
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    2080 Ti for $1000 confirmed, HDMI 2.1/VRR confirmed dead for another year

    Am I reading this right? The 2080 costs about the same as this 1080ti I've had for over a year, but is actually 15% slower (without knowing the effect of faster memory) in existing games? Yeah, I'm gonna need to see a "killer app" utilizing raytracing before I consider a deal like that.
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    Head-scratcher: why am I having performance issues that are solved by reseating the video card?

    Thank you everyone for the ideas. I've addressed the sag, we'll see if the issue pops up again. That's almost exactly what I ended up doing, except I ran the line under the card like a noose right past the end of the PCI-E slot and then tied the two ends at the top after threading through the...
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    Head-scratcher: why am I having performance issues that are solved by reseating the video card?

    Interesting thought, I will try this next time. Unfortunately I don't know how to trigger this problem myself, so have to wait until it happens. It's definitely exerting force on the PCI-E slot, this card is freaking massive. As far as drivers go, yes I reinstalled from safe mode with DDU.
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    Head-scratcher: why am I having performance issues that are solved by reseating the video card?

    For ~7 months I was running an asus gtx1070 with absolutely zero issues, then recently I sold the card and bought an asus gtx1080 ti, and now I'm experiencing a problem I'd never seen before. A few days ago, during normal desktop operation, my screen went black yet my computer did not reboot or...
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    FS: ASUS GeForce GTX 1070 8GB ROG STRIX OC

    mint condition original box (small tear) single owner still unregistered asking for $450 shipped, firm https://www.heatware.com/u/48263
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    PC hard reboots in certain games within an hour, runs stress tests all night

    No reboots whatsoever, I'm declaring the PSU swap a success! Good call Doc, thank you and everyone else. Feels damn good to have a stable system again.
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    PC hard reboots in certain games within an hour, runs stress tests all night

    I went all out and picked up a Seasonic prime titanium at microcenter. Got it hooked up and running, we'll report after testing.
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    PC hard reboots in certain games within an hour, runs stress tests all night

    Hmm I have a 7 year old 750W HX Corsair PSU, I'll try that before going for the motherboard.
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    PC hard reboots in certain games within an hour, runs stress tests all night

    It's an asrock, but I see in the thread you linked that there are further links to asrock message board. I'd already updated the bios, but now I've disabled c-state; we'll see if that helps. Thank you all for these suggestions so far!
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    PC hard reboots in certain games within an hour, runs stress tests all night

    The video card is only a couple of months old - a gtx1070. Tried running DDU and reinstalling, did not help. What's frustrating me to no end is that I cannot figure out the logic behind what could be happening. Why would this be happening in some games but not in others? I've got another...
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    PC hard reboots in certain games within an hour, runs stress tests all night

    Everything is at stock. I've reinstalled TW. Have NOT tried rolling back graphics drivers... I wonder how far back I should go.
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    PC hard reboots in certain games within an hour, runs stress tests all night

    What do you fellas think could cause this behavior: - reboots without BSOD within 20-60 mins when playing the new Total War or Unreal Tournament - runs some other graphics intensive games like Doom or XCOM2 all day, never reboots - runs heaven benchmark, 3Dmark, prime all day/night in a loop...
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    FS: MSI GTX 970 Gaming 100ME *price drop* SOLD

    sales fell through, lowering the price again
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    FS: MSI GTX 970 Gaming 100ME *price drop* SOLD

    bump with price drop
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    FS: MSI GTX 970 Gaming 100ME *price drop* SOLD

    SOLD Selling my mint condition, never overclocked, rock stable MSI GTX 970 Gaming 100ME with 100% of the original packaging: GeForce GTX 970 GAMING 100ME | MSI USA | Graphics card - The world leader in display performance heatware Alx asking for $210 shipped asking for $200 shipped...
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    Cliffy B admits he was wrong to trash talk the PC platform

    Ahh this hate train for cliffyb really warms my heart. Unreal is easily one of the most mishandled IPs in pc gaming history, and he played an important role in it every step of the way. After Unreal just about died due to the mismanagement he publicly blamed pc gamers and packed it up.
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    NVIDIA Unveils Pascal GPU: 16GB of memory, 1TB/s Bandwidth

    Thanks for taking your time to write that up, very informative!
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    NVIDIA Unveils Pascal GPU: 16GB of memory, 1TB/s Bandwidth

    What do you hate about SLI? I've never actually ran SLI and sometimes wonder if I'm missing out.
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    Star Wars: Battlefront Reboot

    I can tell you after watching some early access action on twitch, that what you got in the beta is the closest this game has to a traditional battlefield game. The supremecy mode is nothing like conquest; it's a tug of war over a series of chokepoints. In one match I watched the caster spawn...
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    ASUS PG279Q 144hz 1440P IPS G-Sync

    Is amazon a good place to buy these? There seem to be QC issues from what I've gathered from the thread on overclockers, anyone have experience replacing displays with dead pixels and whatnot that they bought an amazon? There is a microcenter by me and they have PG278Qs, so I'm wondering if...
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    ASUS PG279Q 144hz 1440P IPS G-Sync

    I wonder if there will ever be a 23"/1080p version of this. I'm at a point where I don't want to deal with a mammoth monitor that requires a mammoth GPU to feed.
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    ASUS ROG Swift PG348Q - 3440x1440 Ultra Widescreen, 100Mhz GSync

    All these high refresh, IPS, g-sync models, but too big for me. All I really want is one of these in 1080p.
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    Steam Workshop now supports paid mods.

    Why? What this allows for is something MUCH MUCH better already! One of the most popular "mods" for Skyrim is the unofficial patch that fixes about a million different things in the game. Suppose they decide to start selling it. Bethesda will get paid for someone else fixing their bugs...
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    How would you go about troubleshooting occasional crashes?

    My gf's machine will have a seemingly random BSoD, at the rate of about 1-2 times per week, and I'm having trouble figuring out what the crashes are related to. Happens mainly outside of gaming, though it has happened several times specifically while tabbing out from the League of Legends...
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    Unreal Tournament 4/2015

    Game is in a really good place already, I just hope they create a steady stream of fully fleshed out maps like outpost to keep people playing. Especially CTF maps, UT is mostly about CTF.
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    Which 970 should I go for? MSI or Asus?

    Is there any tangible benefit to a backplate on this card? Does it theoretically protect exposed memory modules on the back of the card or something?
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    Massive discounts of 780 series

    I don't know man, 780 has been out for like 16 months now, it would be sad for the industry if a $600+ card hadn't lost a big chunk of its value in that time. We're not talking about a geforce 3 here, that came out for 600 and dropped to 400 like a month later.
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