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.......But can it play Portal? No seriously, I want to know because I'll be happy with its performance everywhere else except Portal.

If I remember the youtube videos on it right, its actually a tech demo for the new RTX tools to mod ANY older games into RTX titles. But yeah, its basically for the 40 series only, and basically a tech demo for the cards. Kinda sucks, I was really hoping to be able to play it (and enjoy it) on my setup. I played it, I didn't enjoy it.

Hope you've got deep pockets, latest bid is $8300. They did state this though, "Bids turned in within 1 hour of auction closing WITHOUT any prior bid will be removed". So yeah, so long as you bid before the last hour, you should be good to go. I know you wanted one of these to add to your EVGA collection, so I hope you have good luck.

Alright, so I really need to start taking some pictures. I didn't realize I had this much done already. Here's a slight update, although nothing physical yet. Just been going through "finished" rigs to make sure they're actually finished....... The following list is 100% done rigs, fully installed with their "correct" OS's, imaged for easy re-installation, and ready for me to play with. The rest of my originally stated project list, is going to get hopefully finished after Christmas. AGP GPU's are still with a buddy being "repaired" (re-greased / re-padded / stripped screws fixed), so I'm not counting any AGP builds as "done". With that said, I do have the ONE AGP build "done" so far, but not really since missing GPU and "wrong" OS on it. So whatever........ Anyway, enough rambling. Here's what's "DONE": Done rigs: Ryzen 5800x / RX 6900XT / Windows 11 Ryzen 3600 / RX 5700XT / Windows 10 Ryzen 2600 / Vega 64 / Windows 10 (not imaged since kiddo's rig right now, but done) Ryzen 1400 / Fury X / Windows 10 FX 8350 / R9 290x / Windows 8.1 Phenom II 1100T / HD7970 / Windows 7 Phenom 9850 / HD6970 / Windows Vista Opteron 180 / HD5870 / Windows XP x64 Still have to finish (* denotes needs lots of work, otherwise noted): *Opteron 180 / HD5770 CFX / Windows 7 *Opteron 180 / GTS 250 SLI / Windows 7 *Athlon64 3200+ / X1950 / Windows XP SP3 x86 *AthlonXP 3200+ / X850 / Windows XP x86 Athlon T Bird 1100 / Radeon 9800XT / Windows 2000 (done except GPU) *K6 II 600? / Radeon 9000 or 7500? / Windows 98SE *K5 or K6 underclocked? / Radeon 7500 or Rage 128? / Windows 95 I still have quite a bit left obviously, however MOST of the missing equipment is just drives and peripheral expansion cards and stuff like that. I do have 2 cases I need to finish refurbishing, but can't do that till it warms up a little. Board that needs to be recapped, just the one though. Idk, things are moving along. Just wanted to share the "kind of" update, that I've started installing the "proper" OS's on things and getting things imaged, making sure compatibility is all there, stuff like that. The ones listed as "done" are absolutely, 100% done unless something breaks.

No, its actually legit............. Kinda surprised to be honest. https://forums.evga.com/EVGA-Next-Gen-Graphics-Auction-for-Charity-m3590023.aspx

Whoa. So according to Rob @ EVGA it actually was legitimate? Again.....whoa. o.0

From what I've been seeing, you "should" be capable of running it at 4k with DLSS on "Performance" mode. You'd probably be a lot happier at 1440p "Performance" DLSS though. Either way, yeah seems like if you don't have a 4080 or better you're not going to see the benefits as well from this title, which is a huge shame. Yeah, its a great way to "showoff" the new technology in the 4000 series, but even people that run them admit the AI frame insertion and DLSS isn't nearly as good as playing native.

Not hard to pull up Wikipedia to see where EVGA is headquartered at and create the listing as being from 92821 in Brea, California. I just created a dummy listing (didn't fully create it), and ebay let me create mine as being from Brea, CA despite me being thousands of miles away from there.

eVGA's already been emailed. If its legit, then its legit. If not, I'm sure they'll release an announcement or something, who knows.

Dude, that whole listing just SCREAMS fishy...... Seller just joined ebay Dec 7, 2022. Seller claims no returns or refunds on both their active listings (even though eVGA is still in business for now) That listing has jumped literally $12,000 in just hours...... eVGA has their very own web shop on ebay, and that's not them I dunno man.....it just screams scam to me. Maybe I'm wrong. The hilarity of my original comment aside, there's a sucker born every minute.....this really REALLY seems scammy to me. Maybe I'm wrong, and maybe somebody will get their $10,000 GPU, excuse me $11,000, excuse me, $12,000......is it done climbing yet? This thing's going to be $100k before the first day is over....... Inb4 TPU publishes an article about EVGA scammers on ebay......

I can't find it on ebay myself. Link? Are people SERIOUSLY bidding $10,000 for a card that's not even worth $1600 because its EVGA? -_- I mean I guess because its "REALLY LIMITED" edition its worth more, but $10,000???? EDIT: Nevermind, link is in OP but you've got the image in the link too so it was hard to find.

With my RX 6900XT, I was getting around 25-30 FPS at 1280x720, ish, give or take. It was ALMOST playable at 16:9 720p. I played the first few levels though at 1920x540 due to having an ultrawide. RSR was active, and honestly it didn't help anywhere near enough at "540p" ultrawide. It just looked horrible. The lighting effects were nice, but the rest looked really bad. Performance was ALMOST okay, almost. I got 23-30 FPS at 1920x540. EDIT: I figured out the ALT + X menu thing. Got things "tuned". 1280x720 with "performance" mode on, "enhanced graphics" on but the preset on "high" instead of "ultra" at 50% res scaling (so basically 360p), and I played through the whole game. It looked horrid, didn't use my whole monitor, but at least I could kinda almost tell what they were going for. Was getting 30-36 FPS with those settings. I did notice at 1920x540, if I could turn OFF the resolution scaling in the game itself, RSR actually made it look not too terribly bad (same with 1280x720). But the performance was just not there with the in game scaling turned off. Like 8-12 FPS. Sigh. -_-

I'll give it a try, why not? -_- I was REALLY hoping Valve would make it more open so it worked on a wider variety of hardware better.

I lick windows....... But yeah seriously, other than being a little "edgy" with a $1000 case comment, so what? Who cares? Thermalfake? I have a Thermaltake case, and I am absolutely offended. Wait, is offended the right word for laughing my butt off at calling them "Thermalfake"? Seriously, @Outsider, bro, this isn't reddit. And from what I've gathered around here, that's part of the reason E made this site, was so us enthusiasts could openly speak our mind after OCN went the way it did. Other than saying you're going to be banned for being offensive, I haven't seen anything actually offensive said yet. Quit talking about being banned, and have some fun man.

Because I've personally degraded those chips, but I have yet to degrade an AMD chip. I've killed RAM sticks on an AMD setup, but not the IMC yet anyway *knocks on wood

Still? No lol. I scored the SOHO BNIB "new old stock" on ebay a while back, and the PC-60 was a rescue from a computer repair shop locally. When the weather gets better, I get the lovely joy of sanding the PC-60, and re-graining it because its got some massively deep and bad scratches on it. Wanna sell some of those beauties? LOL No, don't answer that, I have enough. -_- Back on topic: There's some modern cases that are pretty good. I can honestly say the HAF 700 was a joy to build in.

You're talking about digital efficiency as far as frames on the screen go. We're talking about real world efficiency, as in the heat being dumped into your room. 2 different things here mate. "Energy in motion is ALWAYS in motion". Comparing a turbo's efficiency isn't the same thing as discussing a GPU's heat output. A turbo takes waste heat energy from a car's combustion engine, and brings it back into the engine to produce more power, or more "movement" if you will. A GPU's ONLY purpose physically is to literally dump heat in the terms of wattage. That's the only physical thing it does. That energy HAS to be going somewhere, period, per the laws of physics. Talking about turbos vs GPU's would be like if we could take the waste heat off a GPU and re-circulating it with a "turbo" to produce even more frames per second. That doesn't exist because frames aren't a physical thing. Heat is the byproduct of energy being used. You're using 400w worth of energy, so 400w worth of heat is being dumped. A car....a car is using so many watts of power (kilowatts+), but its actually producing movement. Energy in motion is always in motion. Until your GPU starts zooming around the room from the power its using, the only PHYSICAL measure you can have from it is heat dumped into the room. That's the only "movement" it can have with the power it consumes.

I actually have both of those.

I understand that...... My 6900XT runs cooler than my 5700XT does, but it still dumps more heat into the room than the 5700XT does though. You're not wrong that less warm metal certainly would mean less heat coming out. We're arguing semantics at this point. *shrugs My point is, if you're drawing 400w with the GPU, that's 400w worth of heat dump. Regardless of the temperatures the card itself is running at. Just like my card being 310-320w vs my 5700XT's 200-250w. More power draw = more heat dump. That's why Sir B was asking about undervolting, to reduce the power draw some, thus reducing the heat dump.

Well the thing is, if your GPU is pulling 400w, that's 400w worth of heat dump. Efficiency just means it produces more frames for that 400w, or it could mean that the cooler is doing a better job producing less heat on the silicone itself (GPU temps). 400w is still 400w worth of heat being dumped into the room your computer is in. It's no different than say a 45w vs a 100w light bulb. Or a 1500w space heater being ran at 750w setting. Since PC parts have no way to output that electricity power being drawn other than frames on a screen, its dumped as heat into the room. Audio parts are a little bit different as they typically put the power out as sound, since sound is energy. There's no energy being produced by what your computer is drawing from the wall, so that energy has to go somewhere......heat in the room.

Sir B was talking about heat OUTPUT from the card though mate. Your figures there show nearly 400w heat output, not the actual temperatures of the card itself. That's why he was talking about undervolting. My 6900XT for example is nowhere near 400w, I think it peaks around 310w or so at my current settings, and I can absolutely feel the heat coming off of it in my tiny apartment.

Yup. It's like, okay you drive a Honda Civic. Who cares? Oh, you drive a Ferrari? Okay, again, who cares? Cases are the ONE point in a build where you HAVE to look at it everyday. YOU have to live with your case, not me. Doesn't mean I can't criticize the Honda Civic for not being fast or being too ricey or whatever. But that's part of the criticism you open yourself up to when you post what you've got. If I had a Honda Civic, I'd fully expect people to rip into me for it. People rip into my FWD one wheel peel Jeep. I don't care.....its mine and I love it, and that's what matters. Same rule applies for cases. Now where's Michael at with the popcorn?

Yup. I'm curious to know what he had to say about modern cases to be honest. If other people don't like it, screw em. Isn't that the point of the thread titled, "Modern computer cases are going to hell"?

Same but for T-shirt or hoodie. Realistically, I'd be down for a T shirt or hoodie. If its some cheap clothing that'll rip or tear easily just tossing in the washer and dryer.....meh. I tend to try to keep clothing for years and years. I hate it when it rips, shrinks, or fades easily after a few runs in the washer and dryer. -_-

<<<<< This guy wouldn't say no to a EHW Ducky with MX Blues.........