Yeah the PC got sold so its back to the drawing board, looks like im going full Ryzen for this one
Reports coming in of 2080tis dying weeks after use. keep your eyes peeled
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1078162/geforce-rtx-20-series/rtx-2080ti-massively-die-
Jesus, imagine having a $1300 card die on you
Local man ponders how GPU maker manages to fuck it up time and time again
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A coworker just texted me to tell me he managed to score eight 240GB SATA SSDs for around $300 total.
Apparently intends to use them in dual quad-RAID in his networked "home datacenter" rig, as a cache for frequently accessed files from the 16 or so terabytes he already has in traditional hard drives. I still don't understand why he needs that kinda storage or speed, but more power to him I guess.
I asked him why and he said the board he's using (retired dual Xeon server board) doesn't have any M.2 slots, and also happened to come with four SATA RAID controller cards already installed. Prior to this he was using only two (4x2TB HDDs each), and I guess he wanted improved reliability and speed more than he needed another 16TB.
So I am a man with more money that sense, I already have a decent PSU, case and hard drive setup and am Looking to buy a new machine with basically as much power as I possibly can.
I like to play video games and record them using OBS and then render them as videos later.
I could reasonably spend around £1,600 possibly more. Any recommendation before I go full retard and buy an intel i9 9900k, 32 gb of ram and whatever nVida blast-furnace is the shinest?
I have a nice 144hz 2560x1440 monitor for the playings of the video games.
With that kind of money you could roll SLI 1080TIs and crush games at 1440p for a decade.
20-series cards cost more than they're actually worth right now; real time RT tech in general is still in its infancy, and aside from a modest performance bump and tensor cores that's all they really offer, so stuff like the 2080/2080TI isn't likely to age gracefully. Right now your money is best spent recruiting the champions of last gen's GPU lineup, if you're wanting something you can be sure will last.
Also check CPU availability, 9th-gen high-end parts are looking extremely hard to actually get hands on.
You're literally better off going Intel HEDT.
What's your CPU workload look like, actually? Despite its higher price, I would look into what benefits Threadripper could offer you as an enthusiast.
Comparing the 9900K and the 2950X, Intel definitely has single-core performance down to a science, but AMD's corner has literally double the cores/threads, and completely smokes the i9 in multicore tasks with as much as a 70% advantage in some particular use cases. Threadripper also has significantly more PCIe lanes to work with, meaning you could go crazy with overkill features like high-end SLI or NVMe RAID later on.
Whether or not it's worth it would depend on two things: 1. How much you do right now that uses more than 4 cores, and 2. How much stuff on into the future will be optimized for more than 4 cores.
People use NVMe even on LGA775 systems, you'll have to boot using DUET if you're wanting to boot from the drive though. X58 guys do it pretty frequently, the 950 Pro and Plextor M8Pey support legacy boot with a bootable legacy oprom.
Booting Samsung SM961 on ASUS P6T SE mainboard
https://i.imgur.com/ihXPnFt.jpg
There's also the massive amount of Nvidia forum posts about people with 2080TI's that are just shitting the bed hard with mere weeks of use.
Going to find out in a few days how true that is.
The 2080ti gives over 20%+ in 4k compared to the 1080ti, and that's not including RTX or DLSS. IIRC in Final Fantasy XV at 4k DLSS showed ~13-20+ FPS gains on the 2080ti which is huge for 4k and completely blows the 1080ti out of the water when you consider that's on top of the 20% gain already. Both technologies are in their infancy, so I'd expect driver updates to boost that performance further.
The 1080ti goes for $800-$1000. You can get a 2080 ti for $1200 on amazon. Doesn't make much sense to not spend the extra money - especially if you're a 4k gamer.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/1078162/geforce-rtx-20-series/rtx-2080ti-massively-die-
2080Ti Founders Edition Issues
2080 Ti Fe
Asus Dual RTX 2080 Ti artifacts and crash
etc, etc:
https://forums.geforce.com/default/board/227/
Best of luck not getting a lemon, it seems like a very large majority of posts in their support forum are about the 2080TI.
I'm covered if that happens. 30 days return policy with amazon, one year parts and labor with the pc builder and four years extended warranty through a protection plan.
Yes, I could have built it myself but I added up the parts and it was pretty much the same price anyway.
So if I get a new graphics card, and I switch brands from amd to nvidia or the other way around, is that gonna screw stuff up? Like, am I gonna need to reinstall my OS because the drivers don't play nice together?
The in-a-nutshell verdict for "should I buy a Pascal card" seems to pretty much be:
2080 Ti: Only choice for that level of performance
2080: Zero reasons to purchase
2070: Toss up between itself and the 1080
It's $400 more and worth the price for 4k gamers. I tried a Vega 56 and the thing couldn't even hardware decode youtube, massive disappointment.
Nah, you should be fine. Technically you can easily have multiple graphics cards from different vendors installed at the same time and they'll work just fine. Just uninstall the old driver, swap the cards and install the new driver. Worst case scenario, if something goes wrong with the drivers you might need to run DDU.
I'll shutup now
Why would I want to go with a 2070 over 1080 ? Is raytracing the only reason?
RT and lower power consumption if you're into that sort of thing. Also better compute performance I think.
that's literally it
Raytracing, DLSS and really anything that will be using the deep learning tensor cores in the future.
Also that new VR connector, if you're buying a new GPU for VR
That is, if anything comes out that uses it
What's the cheap, silent CPU cooler to get nowadays? I know the Hyper 212 has sorta been superseded by cheaper coolers, but I don't know which. It's for an LGA1155 CPU, but it needs to come with mounting brackets for AM4 as well, don't wanna run around buying new coolers left and right.
Generally from what I've seen, the Cryorig H7 is more or less the replacement for the Hyper 212 Evo. It looks like they come with an AM4 mounting bracket, atleast according to Newegg's specs: CRYORIG H7 Tower Cooler For AMD/Intel CPU with 120mm PWM Fan
No. All you have to do before taking the card out is uninstall the drivers for it for respective brand, power the computer off, remove the old card and swap the new one in. Once the OS loads, install the respective drivers to the card you installed, and then after the install the card should be working, though I'd recommend restarting the computer as well to be on the safe side.
What about the Ryzen 2700x? I want to send off my trusty i5 3570k into retirement, but the current Intel prices seem just insane to me.
Well I think the h115i I'm using to cool my threadripper might have corrosion.
Had some bad temps so I removed the top of my case and flipped the fans to get the best cooling possible for my radiator. Also tried retightening the socket mount. My temps went down but after a week it once again throttles severely under anything other than a very light load. I'm thinking my moving the case around might have knocked some corrosion off and in the week since then, its built back up. I tried retightening the cpu mount again and using compressed air, but no dice this time. Not even improving the without side panel on. Can't even get it below 60C on idle now. I put in an order for a noctua tr4 cooler and an extra fan. I just hope it doesn't get so bad before the noctua gets here that it starts throttling on light loads as well.
My old 4790k performs better at this point
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