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That could be the issue, I do remember the disc looking "dirty" after being in the drive for some reason, like there was some weird residue on it. I just checked the warranty on the site... and it has a warranty of exactly one year. So it failed pretty much EXACTLY when the warranty was up, and...

Yeah, I did try that, and also tried downgrading the firmware because apparently it got silently upgraded earlier this year, and I wasn't even asked if I wanted to do that. I suspect that the firmware update might have played a role in bricking it, and that the update I was fed wasn't intended...

I have this Blu-Ray burner that can no longer read DVDs, and I confirmed it was a hardware problem. It can still playback Blu-Ray discs, but I have a huge library of both software and movie DVDs and that is unfortunately a deal breaker. I wound up having to replace the Blu-Ray player with a...

I don't think they're still made, but I have an older OEM case that is either a Lian Li or a knock-off that looks very close. It's made of aluminum but is painted black.

I heard nVidia just decided not to launch the 3070 Ti Founder's Edition in the US. I've seen it on eBay when I include international listings, especially in Europe. The fact that AIB 3070 Ti is available also makes me doubt it's a chip shortage issue, seems more likely that nVidia was pressured...

There is one thing I would like to note because I'm a user of Oracle Solaris and OpenIndiana. nVidia's Unix drivers are not as bad as you're being led to believe by the out of the box experience in many Linux distributions. They use something called "nouveau" out of the box because of their...

That's what I'm thinking too, that eventually the demand will be met even though it's taking a long time. A lot of the people willing to pay the current prices already have a card. So if the supply eventually reaches a point where there's more cards than people willing to pay the current prices...

If you don't want to buy an SSD, there's always ReadyBoost: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReadyBoost Basically, if the laptop happens to have an SD card slot or a working USB port, you can use any flash storage device you have lying around as cache to avoid having to access the slow hard...

That's still a perfectly serviceable laptop. I would say it's still good enough to use for light web surfing and productivity tasks. If it has a dedicated GPU, you could probably run a few games on it. I would say that's a good laptop to take with you on trips where you're worried it might get...

The GTX 3090 can pull 350W even without overclocking, and considering I typically have to buy a PSU that can do 100W over what the manufacturer recommends for stability at stock speeds, I'd say overclocking a 3090 on an 850W PSU might be pushing it. I looked at how much power some of the factory...

That's a really good point as to why this kind of ruins the fun of buying a new GPU. I have the money to buy one, but I find I don't want to because it's just not a good deal, and part of what made the RTX 30 series exciting was the idea of getting RTX 20 series performance for less money. I...

They have discontinued the 16 series to focus on the RTX 30 cards, it seems. They only kept making them as long as they did to relieve supply issues (usually they would have stopped shortly before or after the launch of the new cards), but now they're just going to pump out as many RTX 30 cards...

The reason two sticks are generally better is because most motherboards only support a dual channel configuration, and generally the ideal configuration is one stick per channel. So if you have a dual channel configuration, usually having one stick on each channel should allow you to reach the...

The 2080 Ti goes for like $1200 these days, so if you can get even $1000 for it, you're only out $500. Having an existing high-end GPU to sell off after you buy the new one leaves you in a much better position right now, actually. So people who have high end cards and want an even better one can...

A GT 1030 is significantly better than nothing. It has built in HEVC decoding, and in terms of gaming it's pretty much equivalent to a 560 Ti or a 650 Ti. The big advantage of a GT 1030 over an older card like a 560 Ti is lower power consumption, better video decoder, more modern drivers, and...

You might have better luck finding a 970 for that price. There are plenty of 970s for under $200, but basically anything newer than a GTX 900 series card is going to be way overpriced. GPU supply has been bad since Pascal, and has only gotten worse every generation as far as I can tell. I've...

He said he only needed something that could do 30FPS, and that's achievable with older hardware. Sure, it won't do a solid 60, but the game itself recommends a 970 and says the minimum requirement is a GT 640, and his old hardware was basically integrated graphics in terms of capabilities. It's...

I feel like the highlighted isn't being appreciated enough. A GTX 285 is from 2008, and UHD 750 is on par with a GTX 260 in terms of performance at this point. It's also worth noting that it's kind of amazing Apex Legends runs at all on that card given that it's below the minimum requirements...

I just finished Nier: Automata. Well, I haven't gotten all the endings yet, but I did get ending C. I give it an 8.5/10. The reasons why it's not a 10 are as follows: 1. Route B doesn't add much to the story and feels like filler. It seems like most of the (very sparse) added content could have...

I don't believe anyone made the argument that the weather widget consumes no RAM/CPU resources at all? All any of us were saying was that we liked the feature, thought it was neat having the weather displayed there, and we don't get why it's a big deal that it's on by default. I don't think...

Yeah, I bought a 670 in 2012 when I had the opportunity to get a 680 with 4GB of VRAM for only $100 more. I figured I wouldn't need 4GB of VRAM for 1080p gaming until around 2017 or so, which was when I planned to upgrade. If I'd known how long I was going to be stuck with that setup, I would...

A GTX 680 is essentially a 770 with slightly slower VRAM (though depending on the manufacturer's memory overclock this might not matter much). I know plenty of games as recently as 2018 that still listed a 770 as the minimum requirement, so we're talking about a card that can still play a lot of...

Actually, what's funny is that when I ran Linux, one of the things I always liked doing was adding a weather widget next to the clock when customizing my toolbar. That is the one thing I've always kinda felt was missing from Windows, and now they've added it. I kind of like having the feature...

If crypto doesn't die, we'll have bigger problems to worry about than not being able to get graphics cards... like the end of the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. That would be... problematic, given what our national debt is. Let's just say graphics card shortages are the least of the...

Umm... no, I'm not saying wealthy PC gamers should be taxed and have their wealth redistributed to nVidia involuntarily. Not sure where you got that from. You realize we're talking about something people purchase voluntarily, right? Even within the context of PC gaming, no one NEEDS a 3080 Ti or...

I'm a big MSI fan. I pretty much always go with their motherboards and GPUs. They tend to be well-engineered and last a long time. If I were getting a 3080 Ti, I would get this one: https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-3080-Ti-SUPRIM-12G Honestly, I think that's what I actually hate...

The weird VRAM artifacting issues and the prices still being inflated from the last shortage was why I skipped Turing. I was tempted by the 16 series cards, but I felt like those were not really a better deal than a used Pascal card, and didn't bite. I never expected to regret that decision as...

My old Z77 board had 32GB of RAM. When it came time to upgrade, I didn't want to drop down to 16GB, and couldn't justify paying for 64GB, so I wound up with 32GB again...

Well, that's really too bad. It worked well for me in several games I happened to play a lot, but you're right, most games weren't quite compatible. That said, I really wish there was a way I could use the integrated graphics on my Rocket Lake CPU alongside an older GPU and divide the work...

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lenovo-ideapad-5-15are05-15-6-laptop-amd-ryzen-7-8gb-memory-512gb-ssd-platinum-gray/6406888.p?skuId=6406888 How about this? Has a numpad, 15" screen, looks thin, and has a 512GB SSD. Ryzen 7 and 8GB of RAM. A little over $700.

To me this really seems like a non-issue. If you're already paying $1000 for a graphics card, are you really going to quibble over $200? Seems kind of silly to me. Especially given that people are paying $1500 for a 3070. Besides, do you really want the scalpers to get a discount so they can...

Yeah, as far as I know that's not a new thing. I don't recall the IGP working in BIOS mode on a 3770K either. I did want someone else with an older chip to confirm that, though. I think it's because the BIOS they're emulating is sort of a "classic PC" mode, and traditionally PCs didn't have...

The only case I've ever owned where that was true was my Antec 902 that I picked up as B-stock for $60 in 2012. All the other cases I've owned had at most three fans and cooled better with the side panel off... then again, that's probably because I'm too cheap to spend $100 on a case. LOL.

Yeah, I know that's how it's supposed to work, but the point is... I have seen low-end motherboards struggle with high-end graphics cards before, and seen power supplies that can run a card in one motherboard not able to keep it powered on another. Maybe there's some other reason and it's not...

I don't think the PSU's age was the problem here. The 3080 has a TDP of 320W. Even if you try turning it down, it's still going to suck a lot of power... nVidia actually lowballs their PSU requirements, and in my experience you want an extra 100W on top of what they're saying, so I read that as...

I've been using Edge since before it was Chromium. I was a long-time IE user before switching to Edge. I didn't really want to switch to a Chromium-based browser, but I'm not really a fan of Firefox and Edge was the last alternative. I basically just stayed with Edge at this point because all my...

It really depends on what you're doing. However, I will say that one surprising situation where you can find yourself needing more than 16GB of RAM if you're not careful is web browsing... if you're like me and you let the tabs full of JavaScript-heavy sites pile up without remembering to close...

My old Z77 I just upgraded from used to have that technology, and I'm kind of curious what happened to it after the fact since I haven't heard anything about it since. Specifically technologies like HyperFormance and Virtual V-Sync. I put this in the "Video Cards" section, even though you could...

That would wire them in series, not in parallel, so you'd wind up with a 6 volt battery with a short life, right? ;)

Well, it turned out that it sits a little on top of the RAM, but not by a whole lot. It seems to cool adequately. The RAM clearance turned out not to be the main problem I had. The bigger problem turned out to be that the side panel won't go back on with the fan installed, even in a single fan...