Sir Beregond

Code didn't work for these, but they are half off what they are on PPCs. Picked these up just to have on hand.

Taiphoon Burner is not always accurate and sometimes can't even read what the memory ICs are. While you may be able to figure out like Micron, Samsung, Hynix, if you are struggling to figure out like B-die, A-die, CJR, DJR, rev E, etc (depending on manufacturer), you may look here and this might help you figure it out: MemTestHelper/DDR4 OC Guide.md at oc-guide · integralfx/MemTestHelper GITHUB.COM C# WPF to automate HCI MemTest. Contribute to integralfx/MemTestHelper development by creating an account on GitHub.

Yeah I got those too yesterday.

I mean the 3080 was $699. Why would them suddenly raising the price for it's successor by $500 lead to good sales? There should be no surprise at all that the 4080 isn't selling well. When your price increase is proportional to your gen over gen performance increase that means its literally zero performance per dollar increase gen over gen for the 4080. 4070 is clearly a misbranded 4060 Ti in reality for $599, again a rip off. And the 4070 Ti has all the performance characteristics of a real "4070" as 70-class products usually matched previous gen flagship products and the 4070 Ti does this. Yet again, $799, so grossly overpriced, and again, misbranded - just maybe not as poorly as the "4080 12GB", but still misbranded. The 4090 is the only good selling 40-series product. And my opinions about 90 cards being a rebrand and successor to the 2080 Ti in the last 2 gens with a massive price hike again aside, it's at least a great performer that really is unmatched and remains the only card in the lineup that they didn't actually try to massively raise price on from last gen. Yet it is still a cutdown card and I don't think they have any reason to release a 4090 Ti given AMD's current showing. All I can say to Nvidia having poor sales is: GOOD, hope they learn something, and couldn't happen to a more deserving greedy company that is now more interested in being absolutely predatory with misbranding and pricing. I am an enthusiast of graphics, doesn't mean I have to be ok with how they are trying to price everyone out of it and ultimately give the average joe who doesn't buy the top end halo product for the price of what one not very long ago could build a whole high end/enthusiast grade PC for, every gen ultimately less for more. So Nvidia poor sales? HA!

Or Nvidia will just reallocate wafers to server/data center/AI products and keep prices as is. Retailers on the other hand might drop prices. At this stage, I am seeing too many situations where high supply and low demand is not actually resulting in lower prices. See: housing markets, graphics cards.

+200 just means you don't have as aggressive a curve optimizer. It's all in what you are looking to get out of it. Optimized CO can sometimes overcome that gap. For example I was boosting higher with per core CO and +125 than with a straight +200. That said, still had some instability on low load/idle, so needs some more work. The one downside to CO, really a PITA to tweak. Though should be easier with a 5600X than a 5900X. Can confirm, for non 3d v-cache Zen chips, specifically tuned memory makes a big difference. Throwing in a generic 3200 CL16 kit and then going to a tuned C14 3600 kit OC'd to max your max FCLK really makes a difference. For Zen 3, it's pretty rare to have an FCLK that hits 1900 or above stable, so usually I'd say a 3600 kit is the way to go. Looks like you have that already though.

I found this guy's charts in the first part of the video pretty good for understanding this.

You got that right.

Core Cycler for figuring out each individual core per curve optimizer I have heard. I've yet to try the tool though. I don't know, I've heard of so many having bad effects from OCing baseclock, but it seems hit or miss. Might turn out ok.

So they are regressing in CUDA core count now. And I am sure it will cost more too. What a joke....again.

Perogies

I seriously doubt anyone serious about 4k gaming is looking at a severely cut down third tier silicon with only 12GB. The 4070 Ti already showed deficiency in performance scaling to 4k from 1440p. I've already hit a VRAM limit in 1 game at 4k with my 12GB 3080 Ti. These 4070's are not 4k cards. I am not saying you couldn't play 4k with these, but let's be real, these are at best 1440p cards. My point was that $600 not that long ago got you cards that were marketed as 4k cards. So 4k is getting more expensive, ok. But why is 1080p and 1440p also getting more expensive? That issue aside, let's look at something else. 970 was roughly equivalent to a 780 Ti - for $329 1070 was equivalent performance to a 980 Ti / Titan X - for $379 2070 was a bit worse than a 1080 Ti - for $499 2070 Super was roughly equivalent or beat a 1080 Ti - for $499 3070 was equivalent performance to a 2080 Ti - for $499 4070 is roughly equal to, but can still lose to a 3080 (regular, not Ti) - for $599 So not only is the 4070 not even matching the performance characteristics of previous 70-class branded GPUs, Nvidia has the gall to also charge you $100 extra minimum, for it compared to those. 4070 and 4070 Ti are misbranded. 4070 Ti should be the 4070, and the 4070 is really a 4060 Ti, for $600. I hope these rot on shelves.

$600 bought you 4k cards not that long ago. This is definitely a 1080p/1440p card, so yeah I have no positive opinions of this card aside from the performance per watt is good.

So far tried RT in Control and Witcher 3. Control I definitely noticed a difference, but I found some negatives using DLSS, such as rooms with mirrors in them. Witcher 3 looked great, but it taxed the hell out of my 3080 Ti and I had to turn some of the RT off. I also was hitting VRAM limits and activating slideshow mode with the 12GB buffer on 4k. DLSS balanced mode helped here and didn't notice any visual issues with it, but still had slideshow mode here and there. I haven't tried any other RT games yet.

You know I have had this game for like a year and still have never launched it. One of these days I will check it out and see how the 3080 Ti fares with it. I'm starting to get worried about this 12GB frame buffer.

Dang, yeah I went to see if they had some EPDM and noticed the Mayhems and then the big fat "Out of Stock". Honestly trying to figure out what I need to buy. Maybe some quick disconnects will be handy in the future. I otherwise have everything I need right now. EDIT: Oh I know what I need. Another pump/res unit. I'll see what they got.

Yeah will say I have a set of single rank and a set of dual rank Samsung B-die 3600 DDR4. The single rank kit is definitely easier to work with tweaking wise. Nice that it can be both 1T and GDM off. That said, the DR kit can still tweak and I have 32GB with it vs 16GB with the SR kit. My DR kit also achieved a lower tRFC then my SR kit did. Lower tRFC definitely helps in those 1% lows gaming. Samsung B-die is nice for this as it scales with voltage. But you definitely pay more for B-die. As for what Memory IC you have, might check here. Supposedly Corsair sticks have a code on the sticker. https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/wiki/ram/ddr4#wiki_corsair https://github.com/integralfx/MemTestHelper/blob/oc-guide/DDR4 OC Guide.md

I'm not against consoles. They just don't fit what or how I game. I play a lot of indie PC stuff. I don't play a ton of AAA.

Guess I'll start looking.

Ryzen really benefits. While the X3D models are very much plug n play, the regular Ryzen chips benefit a ton from tweaking both PBO to get higher boosts, and big time by having fast RAM (frequency matching FCLK) with tight timings. For Zen 3, usually a good 3600 kit.

Oof. RIP another OG indeed. I'll be honest, I haven't shopped there since that drama went down. My last order with them was literally a week or two before that all happened. But still, they had been a great shop, so its sad to see them closing for real. I really think they should have just shuttered the FrozenCPU name and started over as a new brand since they supposedly had new owners. FrozenCPU had too much of a bad rep by the time they were trying to come back. I imagine they seriously lost some relationships with suppliers. They never seemed to have the same extensive stock they used to have. That had to kill any chance to really grow back to where they were and didn't help that all that drama brought about new shops like ModMyMods and PPCs really stepped up their game. Sad, but sadly, not surprised.

Oof, very sorry to hear that.

I haven't bought a console since the PS3.

I tried curved monitors a couple times. They always went back. I guess I don't get it. I get the concept, but it just never translated for me in real world use. Although its slightly too big, I do love this flat OLED.

Ditto on the house.