I was going to get a 3080 and tried for a while. I am putting it off now, maybe black friday or after Christmas, dunno. The 1080 ti will have to handle business for a while. I am getting gutters for the house. Gutters are not much more than a 3080 and less than a 3090. Weird times.
The new batteries are supposed to be cobalt free and according the Musk there is enough Lithium and Nickel in the US to supply the batteries. Musk has been openly recruiting Nickel miners that mine responsibly.
I have an EVGA 980ti and an EVGA 1080ti. I have had both cards since they were released new and the EVGA cards have worked well. At this point I plan to get an EVGA 3080. My kiddo is using the 980ti and is looking forward to my 1080ti. He is the real reason I am upgrading LOL. The HDMI port...
If you buy it today there is a $20 rebate available. Get the rebate form from the main newegg page.
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 Ti DirectX 12 06G-P4-0998-KR 6GB 384-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 SLI Support Video Card - Newegg.com
I am going to get the SUPERMICRO SuperO MBD-C7Z170-SQ seems that with the latest bios they have the XMP memory issues sorted out. It seems like this might a good basic solid board for a long time.
SUPERMICRO SuperO MBD-C7Z170-SQ -Seems like a workstation level board at consumer prices
ASRock Fatal1ty Z170 Professional Gaming i7 -Lot of features and there are some good deals for this board
MSI Z170A SLI PLUS -No frills basic board that seems like it will get the job done for a gaming...
This is simply a gaming PC. Looking for a solid no no nonsense motherboard that I can setup and overclock without any hassle. My 7970/2500k setup seems dated and I have the urge to upgrade.
Most Likely components:
i7 6700k w/EVO hyper 212 with Nidec TA450 fan
Mid tower case Older Sentey...
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I flashed the bios chip on the motherboard using the chip clip and the CH341A programmer and it now lives! Thanks so much for your help. The first thing I did was setup IPMI!!
The power led does light up and if the BMC is enabled, that light comes on and blinks and the fans spin up.
I added 1 CPU and 1 memory stick, removed the battery, cleared CMOS, put the battery back in and powered on the machine and I never get any lights on the USB keyboard or the USB flash...
I ordered 2 bios chips - SST25VF016B-75-4I-S2AF , the chip clip and a Ch341A programmer. I am going to remove the chip and try to flash it with the ROM you have recommended. What I am nervous about is removing the bios chip from the board and then soldering it back on.
If I have problems...
I downloaded 3.5a I have tried doing recovery 3 times. I was doing the recovery attempts with all 4 cpu's installed. I have since taken everything down. I will put 1 cpu in and one stick of ram and give that a try.
I am very unsure about doing the programming with the chip onboard, but it...
I was having issues getting into the bios on reboot and decided to flash it to the latest. I tried using the USB drive/rename the bios file to super.rom method. It seemed to work and the computer beeped 4 times and rebooted, but ever since it won't post. I contacted supermicro and they said...
The jury is still out on this card and I don't mind waiting a little while to see how this all plays out. It is pretty cool that there is now high end competition in the GPU market.
I certainly agree that the Fury X is not the 980Ti killer that it was marketed to be, but no single good reason?
How about this:
It is water cooled
It has a smaller footprint
It trades blows with the 980ti at 4k with stock clocks.
It has a brand new memory technology that from all...