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Curious where everyone stands at the moment? I often skip a generation but the latest Paul’s Tech News video I watched says 50 series in 2025. If accurate, that’ll make 40 series the “current” gen a full year longer than 30 (and 20) series before it. That timeline puts me firmly in the “will...

I was playing MW2 with the sensor readings up on another monitor and there are two power categories: GPU Power GPU Rail Powers GPU Power topped out at 342.723 watts while GPU Rail Powers topped out at 547.129 watts Whats the difference between these two? At first I thought maybe GPU power was...

What’s the deal with this technology in current times? With both amd and nvidia now supporting adaptive sync (free sync) what’s the benefit of shelling out $$$ for gsync Equipped monitor?

Wasn't sure which forum to post this on but I felt it was share worthy. This just happened after I tried to submit a review for my MSI RTX 4090 Gaming X

Per subject line, anyone? Issues? 4090 on its way and currently running a 850watt Seasonic. I do plan on setting power limit to 60-70% since it appears to have a negligible performance impact but quite a large power impact. Based on some reviews it should pull roughly the same power as a 3080Ti...

What say you? Better? Worse? Same? Can’t find a 4090 anywhere near MSRP yet. 4080s pop up on BB locally now and again but not really interested in that card at it’s asking price. I’m hoping a 4080Ti will eventually slot into the 4080s price point but I’m not confidant I’d actually be able to...

I've got an aging SSD that still works fine, but showing 81% health in Crystal Disk Info. Is there a general consensus on when to replace an SSD? For example, in my vehicles I don't wait until 0% oil life before getting an oil change.

Bought a gaming laptop a week or two ago (i7-11800H/115watt RTX 3060/1080p @ 144hz) I got a chance to really put it through it's paces over the last couple days while I've been out of town. Performance is great, better than expected. I didn't realize just how much power they've been able to cram...

I figured some may appreciate or find interesting the quick little test I did. Laptop Specs: i7 11800H RTX 3060 115w variant Time Spy Score 8196 (Graphics: 8035/CPU: 9252) Power Consumption: ~200watts 4-5 year old gaming desktop: R7 2700 (non-x) Vega 56 Time Spy Score: 6721 (Graphics...

So my wife is dragging me to an out of state conference with her because she doesn't want to go alone, so I decided this would be a good excuse to buy a gaming laptop to keep myself entertained. It's an HP Omen 16 with an i7 11800H, 16GB RAM and the 115 watt derivative of the RTX 3060. This...

How many here have experience with this and what is your opinion of it? My deployments are largely using Sonicwalls with Ubiquiti WAPs+cloud controller. I've come to like Ubiquiti's cloud management features and overall configurability/performance but I have no experience with their firewalls...

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Perhaps it's my imagination, but I feel the last couple years, PC game requirements for recent games has taxed GPUs of today far harder than games of yesteryear had taxed the GPU's of their time. It wasn't that long ago when we had so much GPU power on tap compared to what games required that...

Are there any PSU's on the market that natively have the new 12vh power connector that's supposed to be present on the RTX 4000 series cards? I will undoubtedly need to upgrade my current 750watter once I upgrade the 3080. I know there's no immediate need to upgrade my PSU, just getting a head...

I pulled the trigger on the Alienware 34" 1440p Ultra Wide QD-OLED display w/HDR and wondering if enabling HDR in games that support it impact FPS? This will be my first venture into HDR, wondering what to expect.

I was going through HWInfo with a fine tooth comb just to learn more about my hardware and noticed that one of the CPU features, (virtualization) is “supported” but not enabled. I’m pretty sure the switch is somewhere in the bios. Is there any benefit, or for that matter, drawbacks to enabling...

$220 shipped OBO. Includes IO shield and original box for the board. RAM and CPU will come pre-installed on the board. This was my primary gaming PC up until I upgraded to a 3900x which then became a secondary gaming machine, but doesn't really get much use so it's time to go. CPU has been OC'd...

1080Ti Used for gaming. Bought an Alienware using my Dell rewards and harvested the 3080 from it so no longer need the 1080Ti. $550 shipped to CONUS BF 2042 RTX Bundle. $40 Got this with the above purchase of the Alienware, I believe you need a qualifying RTX card to redeem.

I'm curious if anyone has tested performance and thermals of the custom design Alienware uses on their 3080's and compared them with a 3080FE? I have a sizable chuck of Dell rewards I can put towards the order and i'm considering going this route to get my hands on a 3080.

Soooo I got a notification from Hot Stock that BB has the 3090 in stock. I click on it immediately, i'm able to add to cart (or so it seemed) only to get greeted by a message saying it's a high demand item and that stock will be replenished every few minutes.... Ok, fair enough. Now i'm on the...

Per the title, anyone know if the Alienware Aurora R11 equipped with RTX 3080 is using an FE card or are they using some sort of proprietary design?