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My 4th grade class did an assignment like this where we all picked a company and wrote them a letter asking them for samples. I don't think mine got a response, but a lot of them did. I think one kid wrote to Jelly Belly and got a ton of Jelly Beans back, some that were unreleased flavors. Interesting thing to do! Newegg sent me a free duffle bag once for being a long-time customer.

Sure doesn't seem like a driver issue. I don't think their evidence supports that theory either, as one would expect most gaming GPUs to be running the latest drivers, especially AMD since they don't release drivers every 2 weeks like Nvidia does. All they can really conclude is that most people using modern AMD GPUs keep their drivers up to date.

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The 4070ti beats the 3090 in most cases.

Do it. 4070Ti is a solid 40% faster than the 2080Ti. Definitely a much bigger jump than you would get from water cooling anything you currently have. MSI RTX 4070 Ti Graphics Card with 12GB DDR6 | Newegg.com - Newegg.com WWW.NEWEGG.COM Buy MSI Ventus GeForce RTX 4070 Ti 12GB GDDR6X PCI Express 4.0 Video Card RTX 4070 Ti VENTUS 3X 12G with fast shipping and top-rated customer service. Once you know, you Newegg!

I had a customer bring me his PC that had a 7900xtx and I tested it in furmark. On that GPU, the temps were very impressive. 62c under load.

I do a lot on ebay. I checked and the loswest buy it now price for a 2080Ti is ~$250, which means that's about what it would sell for. After ebay fees and tax, you would get about $200 for it.

Nah, PCIe bandwidth is never an issue for gaming. By the time it would bottleneck a GPU, the rest of the hardware along with it would be a much bigger factor.

I didn't notice it was only 2%, but being just under capacity is a lot different than being unable to keep up with demand.

OP what do you do with your old parts? Do you sell them? FYI I think a lot of us here sell our old parts so we usually consider the resale value as part of our upgrade costs. You sell your 2080Ti and get $200 back for it, buy a 4070Ti new for $850 after tax, or a used 3080Ti for ~$700 and at the end of the day you'd get a huge FPS upgrade for a pretty solid price.

Ryzen 3600 would bottleneck in modern games though because it's only 12 threads and just an average clock speed. Wouldn't have been because of PCIe3. Games are designed for 16 threads now and the 9900K is a 16 thread CPU that can hit high clock speeds.

Is your CPU overclocked? I think at that resolution you would get a lot more of a performance boost putting the same amount of money all into a GPU vs spreading it out across multiple parts. You should be much more GPU bottlenecked than CPU bottlenecked with the games you listed at the resolution you're targeting. The PCIe3 bandwidth factor in not important, it won't bottleneck the GPU at all. 4K is a bit higher res than you're targeting, but you're not far off. You can see here the real difference for gaming are basically nothing at high res, even for a 4090, aside from a few odd titles but anything short of a 4090 would see much smaller differences still.

Yea, as pio said (and it pains me to agree with him ) that calculator is worthless in the context of stuff like this. A mild overclock on the 9900k would go a long way for one, and two, you have to be looking for cpu bottlenecks to find them with games on a cpu like yours vs something new. You can benchmark CSGO at 1080p and find differences, sure, but for all practical purposes the differences in modern games at resolutions above 1080p are completely negligible. If it were me I'd hold onto the CPU and put the money towards something else if this is for gaming. What kind of games do you play and what resolution/hz are you targeting?

9900k is not going to bottleneck a newer gpu unless you're playing at 1080p.

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Wish granted, but evertime you use one it will break. I wish I could control time.

Remember when you could just overclock from the nvidia control panel with a couple sliders? Peppridge farms remembers...

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You should definitely check it out if you at all like games with a lot of exploring to do

Oh nice. Do you play?

Again, not a big deal but IMO it's worth looking into. 4 screenshots per post feels unintentionally limited. I'm gonna post the same number of screenshots either way, just wouldn't have to bresk them up into multiple posts as much.

Yea its not a big deal but it seems like logically the limit should allow for more than just ~4 screenshots.

Oh word, I didn't know it was tied to account tiers.

As long as we're on this topic, can the upload limit be increased because my screenshots are like 15mbs each and I can only upload about 4 to a post.

Haven't played no man sky. Tried Elite Dangerous for a few hours before getting Star Citizens. Elite Dangerous served as a demo for Star Citizen for me, because Elite does space well enough to suck me in but the controls are aggressively bad. They made design decisions with the controls that any idiot would know not to do. It also feels really limiting to never be able to move from the cockpit at all. Star Citizen on the other had has been a total blast so far. A lot of time spent just figuring out how the game works, but tur game is so interesting and detailed that the mundane is still impressive and fun. It works well as a sandbox game right now, which is great. From what I hear if you try to just grind missions, it will get boring because of bugs/incomplete content but if yoy treat it like a sandbox to explore and mess around with, it's great. The first time I left my ship and forgot to put on a space suit and suffocated in space was both exciting and hilarious.