Case in point! (Pun intended)
You just hate to see it.
Has anyone spent time undervolting Nvidia GPUs? What kind of gains did you get?
I’ve got 3080ti and I want to get the maximum performance possible from its 350 watts available. I’ve seen people suggest undervolting can improvement overall performance. But in this case, I don’t see how undervolting could get me higher peak performance compared to just overclocking. From my own experimentation, my initial UV+OC attempt seemed to get me slightly better performance compared my regular OC. But it turned out unstable when put to real game use. So it’s looking like the they’ll end up practically the same when I dial back the clock.
Although as I’m writing this, I’m wondering what my efficiency is when under 100% usage. So I’ll have to look into that next
I have a 3070ti and haven’t seen any performance improvement, but nice in thermals. I used a curve in afterburner and drop about 5 degree and a lot of noise in my ZOTAC card. Also overclocked almost +1k in the memory. With this I’m around the same performance as stock with better quality of life.
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You wouldn’t know it from the video’s meaningless title, but Linus actually had some good tech tips for Windows power users. I learned you can install group policy editor to home versions just by running a couple commands.
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God i love apple fanboys (in the most ironic way)
So a month ago a freind of mine switched from a MAC to a PC i built built for him, he wanted something pretty baller but not unnecessarily expensive…
2 days ago he sees the announcement of the new MAC, being the loveble idoit that he is, he said fuck it and decided to go back, and sell his PC…
I told him he is an idiot of course, but i also convinced him it to sell it to me at about 60% of the cost…
So in ended up with a 7700X with a 4080 for less than 1500$… which after selling my current system will probably only cost me about 300$
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Geez a 4080 alone is like 1200 alone for lower end models so for that price it is insane. Gotta kinda envy how mac people are, they kinda just have a simple choice on what to get compared to the diversity that could appear in pc. I take forever to make a decision for anything, I upgraded to a x570 board and new cpu when my old mobo decided to die but still stuck with a 1050 ti as I cant figure out what my next upgrade on that side would be.
AMD finally gave price and release date for the 3D Vcache CPUs.
The 7900 and 7950 come out Feb 28 and the 7800 comes April 6th.
I’ve been patiently holding off from upgrading in anticipation of the 7800X3D. So for AMD to delay that one over a month really blows. And that’s on top of them launching the other 2 on the literal last day of February so they’d meet the timeframe they gave at CES.
The regular 7700X is currently on sale for $300 right now on Amazon. So I said screw it and got that one on order. I figure I can flip it later down the line without much loss.
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I imagine at least a couple of you all bought a 980 pro when it was on sale like I did. Some of them have a major firmware bug. But supposedly you should have been emailed if you’re affected. I’m guessing I wasn’t because my purchase was relatively recent. I’ll check tomorrow
But I also just read about a guy on Reddit who applied the update and got more issues. So I guess hold off a bit if your SMART stats are OK.
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The one I bought while they were on sale seems to be fine. No errors, and it’s already on the latest firmware. Samsung needs to get their act together though. First the issues with the 990s and now this?
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How’s your drive health? Mine is eating a awful lot of TBWs, I already have 2TBs written, even though I haven’t been installing and uninstalling a bunch of stuff
1.3TB, which is probably accurate since it’s the drive I have Skyrim installed on and I’m constantly installing or updating mods.
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Interesting, I have filled only 400gb of 1TB.
I’ve only got 758GB of the 1.8TB of usable space filled.
Mine’s at 1.8 TB which is maybe 25% than I would have guessed. If you’re using as your boot drive, I imagine it’ll end up writing much more than if it was a data drive. As long as yours isn’t just rapidly climbing still, I’m sure it’s fine.
FWIW Pudget Systems, a major workstation seller, have switched to Sabrent as their go to brand. That’s enough reason for me stick with others brands for the foreseeable future.
Samsung Pro SSD reliability questioned as longtime partner shifts to Sabrent | Ars Technica
It’s a boot drive yup
Does anyone have experience with Ryzen 7000 tuning?
Slightly, recently got a 7700X
For the most part not worth the hassle, after a while i just left precision overclock, work great
From what I’m reading, it’s absolutely worth it plugging in a -10 to -20 offset into the curve optimizer (easy undervolt basically). Same performance for less power. I’ll experiment with all the options and report back later. There was one guy on Youtube who found an all core OC to yield better gaming performance than stock. Which doesn’t make any sense since your reducing your peak clock speed.