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Yeah, one moment it was working fine then a blank screen, reboot and code 43 and artifacts. Same way my old 970m went to the big GPU afterlife lol. Checking through my paperwork and it looks like the fine gent I originally purchased it from had purchased the 3 year extended accidental warranty so it is covered till November 2023. Time to contact ZtecPC support.....

Well, my 2080 Super is dying..... Grabbed a 1060 for testing and it boots fine. I get artifacts even in BIOS and once powered on. Going to decide if I am going to replace it, upgrade it or sell the laptop / piece it out. We'll see.... Oy....

I really like the look of that Strix board, especially around the I/O. Can't wait to see it lit up! Congrats. 🙂

Beautiful site to see.... Everyone who bought (and continues to buy) on eBay needs to just pump the brakes. 🙂 Is MC still charging $1799 for the MSI Suprim Liquid X or $1749 like BB and NE? LOL, well that was one of the shortest reigns ever for a CPU.....Intel back on top with a quickness. Looks like you might have a good sample too Gratz bro!

100mbps to 1gbps will immediately pay dividends for any large downloads (steam, updates, etc...). My only option since I moved over a decade ago has been Xfinity which is just the worst cost wise but killer Internet 1000mbps. Next closest was DSL at a whopping 15mbps. Tmobile started offering 5g unlimited Internet and I test drove it. I get 400-700mbps down at $50 flat per month so I switched and now I save ~$200/mo vs Xfinity even calculating all the streaming and native content they offered. Outside of monster downloads, I don't miss the 1gbps speeds. I replaced Xfinity native content with Peacock for $19.99/yr promo. I was already paying for multiple steaming services anyhow and had really moved away from watching native "Cable Box" content for some time now. I use an AppleTV 4k for everything. First chance I got to cut the cord I did with a quickness.

This, plus for EVGA cards some use boost lock with PX1 with all stock settings to try and get an idea of their silicon quality too if you're curious.

Yep, by December or even after the New Year these will be plentiful. Recession Inflation Cryto bust AMD ------------- In Stock w/ potential lower prices I'm still waiting for AMD results before anything... If the results are to be believed (2x) AMD will win in all resolutions even 4k for pure Rasterization. They were so far behind in RT that even doubling performance puts them at ~3080 levels...maybe a touch more DP 2.1 would be a nice kick in the teeth for Nvidia FSR vs DLSS means nothing to be as I won't be using either. If AMD comes out guns blazing Nvidia is in trouble and that means we'll see the 4090ti much quicker. Or we'll get a big ole pile of AM5 where it is looking like Intel is going to match the 7950x multi and beat them single with more overclocking capability to boot. I'm hoping AMD brings the thunder big time.

Best Buy had a 4090 drop earlier today. I added both a FE 4090 and MSI Suprim X Liquid to my carts and had no problem getting to "hit this to buy" stage. Then I removed them and carried on. 🙂 Now they're all sold out (as expected) but they did linger for a bit on several models. Again, nothing like the Pandemic / Crypto boom.

Considering 6900xt raster was equal (or better) than the 3090 at 1440p and 1080p and competitive at 4k, if it is truly 2x faster for RDNA3, it will flat out beat a 4090 and maybe even a 4090ti.. RT would at least be on par with Ampere. Could be another case of AMD having fantastic (even superior) Rasterization but Nvidia doing everything else right. A superior Raster card and potentially DP2.1? Mmmmmmm QUOTE: "As per the leaker, the AMD RDNA 3 GPUs featured on the Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards are delivering up to a 2x performance increase in pure rasterization workloads and over 2x gains within ray tracing workloads. It is not mentioned in the RDNA 2 GPU is the RX 6900 XT or RX 6950 XT but even if we look at the 6900 XT, the RDNA 2 chip offered superior performance in raster vs the RTX 3090 and came pretty close to the RTX 3090 Ti while the RX 6950 XT excelled over it. A 2x improvement in this department would mean that AMD would easily compete and even surpass the performance of the RTX 4090 in a large section of gamers. In ray tracing, a gain over 2x means that AMD might end up close to or slightly faster than the RTX 30 series "Ampere" graphics cards, depending on the title. The Ada Lovelace RTX 40 series cards do offer much faster ray tracing capabilities, offering close to 2x gains in ray tracing performance over the RTX 30 lineup. So ray tracing will see a major improvement but it may not be able to close the gap with RTX 40 series."

Whew, is that coil whine I hear?

More fuel for the 4090ti fire.... "However, Kopite is now sure that there won’t be a new TITAN with such specs. What he referred to before as “The Beast” might end up with slightly altered memory specifications as RTX 4090 Ti. The Ti variant is reportedly not canceled, and it may still happen in the future, he adds." https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-titan-ada-is-reportedly-not-planned

That would rock. Even more reason to wait and see if we can break free of the cookie cutter PCBs that seem to dominate most of the models outside of VRMs.

New EVGA CLC AIOs 360mm = $300 280mm = $270 240mm = $250 https://www.evga.com/articles/01585/evga-clx-series/

Every time I see a Strix 4090 video it grows on me more and more but that $2k price....

Yeah, I saw the video when it posted last night and didn't deem it worthy of posting. He does go out of his way to state if you're in to productivity of course the additional e-cores (and frequency) will be a big boost but his focus is on games and system optimizations thereof. I would have liked to have seen a CB23 run at least with vcore, package, heat , scores, frequency and all that good stuff we love here. 🙂 I took it as more of a "first look" like video and he is comparing his on site, heavily tweaked, fully optimized 12900k god bin chip he has had for nearly a year vs a new, off the shelf 13900k that he is testing remotely on a beta or early revision 13th gen bios. Still fun to watch though.

Nice, solid review of the MSI Suprim Liquid X 4090. Definitely my favorite along side the Neptune and FE.

I was just doing some testing the other night. 5120x1440 resolution on the Ultra wide which is less overall than 4k (7372800 vs 8294400 = ~13% less) but obviously 2x QHD. Memory runs rock solid at up to +1250 for D2D use. +1350 for benchmarking. +130 on clocks solid. +140-+150 for benching. Avg game clock = 2205. All stock BIOS. Testing on the stock BIOS with slides maxed I'm seeing ~540w pull. I have hit some Vxxx limiting so switching over to the performance BIOS would maybe help a bit. XOC is obviously useless (or near to it) in a Hybrid config. And yeah I'm still test driving this 49" monstrosity lol......

So far on eBay, sell through rate of 4090's is about 35-40% (versus near 100% in 2021 for scalped 3090's) and overall pricing on average is not far above MSRP after the initial day 1-2 rush (versus as the insane pricing of 2021). It took my Microcenters 3-4 days to sell out of their initial batch of 4090s. It is nowhere near like the Pandemic/Crypto days for scalpers. Expect pricing to normalize sooner than later. On the flip side, two KPE 3090ti's sold on eBay. One for new for $2900 and a used one for $2100 in the last few days.

If you're building from scratch, a build thread like @jaybee83 would be nice to see bro. 🙂

If you needed a large capacity drive AND you already have a loop in place why not? 🙂 Overkill? Probably, but ah well. 🙂

Nice find! That was my top pick out of the gate but would have to be imported. 😞 Steve over at Gamer's Nexus had one brand new sitting on his presentation desk while he was talking about Nvidia in general and the 4080 12GB fiasco. Hopefully he is going to do a full review and teardown:

LOL..... I like how in the comments this basically explains it all....

Pulling what? All intervals? Idle? Where does it start to scream?

Yep, that makes total sense. Unless AMD comes out with something competitive with the 4090, I expect to not see a TI variant for about a year during a mid cycle refresh. If AMD can bring the high heat, then I wouldn't be shocked to see it in Q1 or Q2 at the latest of 2023.

Nvidia was shook the last time around with Ampere vs RDNA2. They brought the heat this time around and left nothing on the table Ada. I was hoping AMD had mastered their chiplet approach to bring effectively 2x the performance as RDNA2 theoretically and really shake Nvidia up even more at least in pure rasterization. If AMD can only shake things up to let's say the 4080 16GB that leaves the 4090 to roam free and Nvidia to keep back the 4090ti for much longer as they have no reason to release it or scale down their expectations for Titan as previously tried and go full fat full FP on a Titan card with the ~18k core dies and enable SLI since there is no competition at the top for them.