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i used to have an 8800gt geforce but eventually i realized if you dont play video games on pc all you need the card for is hdmi hookups
 
i used to have an 8800gt geforce but eventually i realized if you dont play video games on pc all you need the card for is hdmi hookups
Ever think about upgrading to a 1030? You don't even have to run cables to it from the PSU and EVGA makes one that's passively cooled.
 
Ever think about upgrading to a 1030? You don't even have to run cables to it from the PSU and EVGA makes one that's passively cooled.
A 1030 is so weak though the money might be better spent elsewhere

And 1050’s are easily found under 100 on Craigslist everywhere.
 
Either one would basically be an RTX 2080 Ti compared to what he has now.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GeForce-210-vs-Nvidia-GT-1030/m7740vsm283726

And the 1050 ti is insanely faster than the 1030 also, 1030’s are not very popular and harder to get good deals on used locally.

So you can pay 75ish new for an1030 , or 85-100 for a 1050 ti and be worlds worlds better.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1050-Ti-vs-Nvidia-GT-1030/3649vsm283726
 
Does anyone make a passively cooled 1050 ti though?
Not that I’m aware of, but he doesn’t need it to be I don’t think?

Out of his 7 computers surely one has a case it will fit in.

1050 ti’s are pretty small

If not just get a 25.00 case like this one and put the best shit he has in it and chunk the rest in a garbage can.

They went down lol. Now 19.00

https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16811353151
 
Google Express is running their special for first-time buyers on the Samsung 860 EVO 500GB. Cost after discount is $65 which puts it in line with the best pricing on the cheapest SATA SSDs available at any given moment:
https://slickdeals.net/f/12168811-samsung-860-evo-500gb-ssd-2-5-65-00-or-67-49?src=catpagev2
https://express.google.com/product/...97454789502875785_6993822032390686823_6136318

Additionally, Black Friday is a ways away, but the Costco PDF adscan with their planned sales is now available:
https://slickdeals.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=7467325&d=1540681420
 
PCWorld had the head of Intel's Storage division on an interview today and it's full of info on different storage options. They talked about the future of storage as well. It's well worth a watch.
 
https://tyrone.tech/nvidia-shipping...dRn-LWvTBDhE5eJi6FevZc256S9jKG20q_p1yGrV15a60

Nvidia recently announced their RTX 20 series of GPUs based on the Turing Architecture to much praise and fanfare however customers who were lucky enough to receive their RTX 2080 or 2080Ti already are reporting severe issues.

Users are reporting startup woes and severe artifacting with the most likely culprit being faulty GDDR6 modules incapable of operating at the default clockspeed that Nvidia ships their GPUs with.

With the sheer amount of reports it’s clear that Nvidia have avoided quality control before shipping with a particular batch, this could be contributed to the fact that Nvidia aren’t meeting demands of their early pre-orders with many orders still being unfulfilled. Leaving some customers no choice but to cancel their orders as there was no clear indication of their GPU arriving anytime.

<mma3>

Anybody here facing the same issues?
 
And that's why you don't preorder hardware
 
This is the cheapest GeForce GTX 1070 Ti graphics card you can buy right now
We've never seen a lower price for this card, and it come with Monster Hunter: World.
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The Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales are right around the corner, though if you're looking to upgrade your graphics card right now, B&H Photo is selling an EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Gaming (08G-P4-5670-KR) for just $349.99. That's the lowest price we've ever seen any brand GeForce GTX 1070 Ti sell for.

B&H Photo lists the card at $499.99, but there is a clickable coupon on the product page that knocks $150 off, which you'll see at checkout. There are no mail-in-rebates to fuss with, just an extra mouse click. Plus, it qualifies for a free copy of Monster Hunter: World, according to the product listing.

EVGA's model is essentially the company's own take on Nvidia's Founders Edition model. It uses a blower-style cooler and sticks with the reference 1,607MHz base and 1,683MHz boost clocks.
For reference, here is Anandtech's review of the GTX 1070 Ti Founder's Edition:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/11987/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1070-ti-founders-edition-review

It's just slightly weaker than the GTX 1080 and RTX 2070 in terms of performance:
https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1080-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1070-Ti/3603vs3943
https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-RTX-2070-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1070-Ti/4029vs3943

This is about as affordable as max 1440p AAA gaming has ever been. Strictly in a games benchmark roundup summary it comes in just...
  • 5% below the GTX 1080 (the cheapest variant of which-- the Gigabyte Mini ITX-- runs $430 right now)
  • 17% below the new RTX 2070 (the cheapest variant of which-- the Asus Turbo-- runs $530 right now)
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Interesting need to see price and benchmarks vs r3 1200
Never mind that’s fm2 not fm3.

That is odd that they have a new processor for that damn socket , like WHY!!??!!
 
Never mind that’s fm2 not fm3.

That is odd that they have a new processor for that damn socket , like WHY!!??!!
AMD & Intel still have contracts for ancient hardware that needs to be filled. I don't remember if it's TSMC or GloFlo that still makes 486 chips for Intel.
NASA still likes to use really old hardware. Older CPU's are less complex so there's less things to go wrong and it makes them easier to harden against radiation. Hubble uses a 486, The ISS uses 386's, Spirit and Opportunity use a slightly modified PowerPC 601 cpu, and New Horizons uses a MIPS R3000 that runs at 15mhz.
 
AMD & Intel still have contracts for ancient hardware that needs to be filled. I don't remember if it's TSMC or GloFlo that still makes 486 chips for Intel.
NASA still likes to use really old hardware. Older CPU's are less complex so there's less things to go wrong and it makes them easier to harden against radiation. Hubble uses a 486, The ISS uses 386's, Spirit and Opportunity use a slightly modified PowerPC 601 cpu, and New Horizons uses a MIPS R3000 that runs at 15mhz.
We still have a few products at work that use 386 and 486 processors that customers in harsh remote areas want to use due to simplicity of the systems over our newer stuff.

We have to have a contractor make the boards for them every couple of years.

Never thought about where the old ass chips come from I just thought they were old new stock we had at manufacuring we keep telling them when stock runs out we can’t make them anymore for the old systems but we have people custom make some parts like the boards so who knows.

Didn’t think about it that way.
 
I saw an article yesterday saying some company is licensing the HORI N64 controller molds to make it available again and first time to sell in US of A. It said it was a good controller. I know HORI is good quality.
 
The more we learn the more of a disaster the RTX launch turned out to be.

Tech headlines abound in the past few days covering the excellent investigative journalism of-- once again-- Steve Burke over at Gamer's Nexus. They found there are actually two different versions of the RTX 2070 being sold, explaining the performance discrepancies being observed across the benchmark landscape, and it's the result of undeclared binning. This is observed in performance & thermal discrepancies between the EVGA RTX 2070 Ultra and the EVGA RTX 2070 Black. The latter runs considerably hotter at stock, about 10%, and achieves 3%-5% lower framerates in games/benchmarks:
NVIDIA's Secret GPU: TU106-400A vs. TU106-400 Benchmark (2070 XC Ultra Review)
EVGA’s RTX 2070 XC Ultra gave us an opportunity to compare the differences between NVIDIA’s varied RTX 2070 SKUs, including a low-end TU106-400 and a higher-end TU106-400A. The difference between these, we’ve learned, is one of pre-selection for ability to attain higher clocks. The XC Ultra runs significantly higher under Boost behavior than the 2070 Black does, which means that there’s now more to consider in the $70 price gap between the cards than just the cooler. This appears to be one of the tools available to board partners so that they can reach the $500 MSRP floor, but there is a performance cost as a result. With Pascal, the performance cost effectively boiled-down to one predicated on thermal and power headroom, but not necessarily chip quality. Turing is different, and chip quality is now a potential limiter.
It was bad enough that NVIDIA was already so quiet with the rollout about the change to the Founder's Edition cards as pre-overclocked for the first time (when those always served as incarnation of the reference blueprint).

Meanwhile, the RTX 2080 Ti is already suffering an inordinately high number of failures reported anecdotally (as on Reddit and the official NVIDIA forums) that could be linked to the Turing architecture itself. This has been reported across a dozen outlets now dating back to a Digital Trends article on October 29th, but Tom's Hardware has dug in with the finest comb:
Tom's Hardware > RTX 2080 Ti Owners Complain of Defects, Nvidia Responds (Update)

What is NVIDIA's solution to this, and the widespread dissatisfaction with the new line's value? Well, to cancel production of the GTX 1080 Ti, of course!
Report: Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti No Longer In Production, Supply Running Low

Hard to feel good about this company as a PC gamer, right now.
 
I was gonna sell my 1080 Ti and "downgrade" to a 1070 but looks like I'll be holding on to it for now.
 

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