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yoshiktk · 31-12-2019 3:16am

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

No no, I just want RGB :pac:

Install some led from aliexpres?

Gonna be cheaper. On my rig only bit with a light on is rx5700 now, but because of stupid cable placement, I'm gonna turn it off, couldn't get the cable to run under the card, goes on top, looks horrible. As for rx5700, performance is great, driver stability poor. Will have to check it with older version of adrenalin, this one crash at high gpu load.

wotzgoingon · 31-12-2019 4:05am

yoshiktk wrote: »

Install some led from aliexpres? Gonna be cheaper. On my rig only bit with a light on is rx5700 now, but because of stupid cable placement, I'm gonna turn it off, couldn't get the cable to run under the card, goes on top, looks horrible. As for rx5700, performance is great, driver stability poor. Will have to check it with older version of adrenalin, this one crash at high gpu load.

Is it overclocked? If so run at stock and see.

yoshiktk · 31-12-2019 4:14am

wotzgoingon wrote: »

Is it overclocked? If so run at stock and see.

Nope, fresh out of the box. Windows logs show crash with radeonsoftware.exe, id 1000. Google shows a variety of reasons. Will ddu tomorrow and see what will happen.
Edit:
Weird day, now it works all fine.
EditII:
My Oculus was sent by Fastway... F me. Third day in delivery. Great.

TheDoc · 31-12-2019 2:28pm

yoshiktk wrote: »

Nope, fresh out of the box. Windows logs show crash with radeonsoftware.exe, id 1000. Google shows a variety of reasons. Will ddu tomorrow and see what will happen.

Went through a wide range of things with mine and my fathers GPU's.

DDU is a good start alright.

There is also plenty of evidence that Radeon's software crashes it's own 5700's/XT's. Something about a bogey API. So any software that returns performance related metrics can cause crashes.

I have the radeon software completely turned off

There is also some settings in the Radeon software that cause plenty of crashing, if you do use it, put the profile to standard

yoshiktk · 31-12-2019 2:32pm

TheDoc wrote: »

Went through a wide range of things with mine and my fathers GPU's.

DDU is a good start alright.

There is also plenty of evidence that Radeon's software crashes it's own 5700's/XT's. Something about a bogey API. So any software that returns performance related metrics can cause crashes.

I have the radeon software completely turned off

There is also some settings in the Radeon software that cause plenty of crashing, if you do use it, put the profile to standard

I have thread from reddit somewhere, have to check it later. Like I said now even thou I haven't changed anything and pc was still running thru the night, now it works ok. Weird. Won't complain, the gaming experience is great. Now BF5 on 1440@ultra gets me 100fps+.

K.O.Kiki · 31-12-2019 4:13pm

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

No no, I just want RGB :pac:

Urge to spend... rising...

yoshiktk · 31-12-2019 4:29pm

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Urge to spend... rising...

K.O.Kiki · 31-12-2019 7:21pm

This looks so nice, too...

Sadly I can't find the correct version for my card anywhere - need the 2080 FE version (EVGA 400-HY-1184-B1), but all I can find is a B-Grade for £130, or the FTW3 version for £99

Kimbot · 01-01-2020 12:55am

OSI wrote: »

The Red Devil arrived today. Holy **** it’s a big card! It’s replacing 2 overclocked partner board 970s that I always thought were large enough but this easily weighs more than the 2 combined.

It's a beast haha

Kimbot · 01-01-2020 12:58am

Put some more light on the situation :P

https://m.imgur.com/a/SFgmxJB

wotzgoingon · 01-01-2020 1:32am

I thought the case was on fire.

Kimbot · 01-01-2020 1:36am

wotzgoingon wrote: »

I thought the case was on fire.

Thankfully not, I haven't decided on a color scheme just yet, set it all to red haha

Krombopulos Michael · 03-01-2020 11:42am

Stupid question, but is there anywhere online I can use a One4All voucher to buy PC parts. Currys/PC World accept them but they have little stock or over priced. Littlewoods also accept them, but I saw a Ryzen 2600x CPU that was 100euro more expensive than Currys :O

If this is in the wrong place, let me know

MiskyBoyy · 03-01-2020 11:48am

Krombopulos Michael wrote: »

Stupid question, but is there anywhere online I can use a One4All voucher to buy PC parts. Currys/PC World accept them but they have little stock or over priced. Littlewoods also accept them, but I saw a Ryzen 2600x CPU that was 100euro more expensive than Currys :O

If this is in the wrong place, let me know

You can get them to refund you the balance of the card to your bank account minus I think maybe €8 fee.

https://www.gvsprepaid.com/one4allie-tcs.html

See 10.1

Krombopulos Michael · 03-01-2020 11:51am

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

You can get them to refund you the balance of the card to your bank account minus I think maybe €8 fee.

https://www.gvsprepaid.com/one4allie-tcs.html

See 10.1

Cheers for that

Krombopulos Michael · 03-01-2020 11:59am

OSI wrote: »

Note that they won't do that if it was purchased by your employer under the tax incentive thing.

Gift from the Inlaws so not from employers. Id be happy just to use it online but limited options which sucks for using One4all gift cards.

Krombopulos Michael · 03-01-2020 12:16pm

OSI wrote: »

Total shame they removed the option to buy an Amazon gift card with it.

Yeah I know. I did that a few years ago and it was a great option. It looks like more of the big retailers have dropped them and more smaller niche shops on board.

Not great for PC Building if your only source of parts using a One4All is Pc World.

K.O.Kiki · 03-01-2020 12:59pm

Other option is to just use regular money to buy the parts and use the one4all to fund other stuff throughout the year.

wotzgoingon · 04-01-2020 9:17pm

I was reading about Moore's Law on another website and someone said I prefer Murphy's Law.

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

mp3guy · 05-01-2020 11:23am

Anyone able to identify a laptop with a 2080 non-mobile GPU? Also with the largest number of cores.

smacl · 05-01-2020 12:19pm

mp3guy wrote: »

Anyone able to identify a laptop with a 2080 non-mobile GPU? Also with the largest number of cores.

MSI Titan GT76 maybe; https://www.msi.com/Laptop/GT76-Titan-9SX/Specification

K.O.Kiki · 05-01-2020 3:10pm

mp3guy wrote: »

Anyone able to identify a laptop with a 2080 non-mobile GPU? Also with the largest number of cores.

https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb&xf=11295_21901+-+RTX+2080+(Mobile)

Robert ninja · 07-01-2020 11:41am

Anyone have 1440p high Hz monitor recommendations? Thinking of selling this BenQ XL2720T and upgrading.

Krombopulos Michael · 07-01-2020 11:48am

Robert ninja wrote: »

Anyone have 1440p high Hz monitor recommendations? Thinking of selling this BenQ XL2720T and upgrading.

This caught my eye when I watched the review.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgeVFfGyecI

Robert ninja · 07-01-2020 12:00pm

Does look nice but out of my budget unfortunately. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WF726S9 seems more affordable.

SickBoy · 07-01-2020 12:55pm

Robert ninja wrote: »

Anyone have 1440p high Hz monitor recommendations? Thinking of selling this BenQ XL2720T and upgrading.

The ViewSonic VX2758-2KP-MHD got a very good review on Hardware Unboxed recently..

TitianGerm · 07-01-2020 1:01pm

https://www.scan.co.uk/products/27-msi-optix-mag272qr-gaming-monitor-va-2560x1440-1ms-165hz-amd-freesync-100m1-300cd-m-hdmi-dp-type?utm_source=hotukdeals.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=hotukdeals

What about the new MSI monitor?

farna_boy · 07-01-2020 3:51pm

So I currently have an i5 6500 and the upgrade bug is itching.

Is there a significant, noticeable difference if I upgraded to a Ryzen 3600 when I will be using it only for gaming?

Currently it's paired with 32GB RAM and a Vega 64, so the CPU is the obvious bottleneck. Also only gaming at 1920 x 1080 but looking to also upgrade to 1440 x 2560 soon.

cherryghost · 07-01-2020 3:58pm

farna_boy wrote: »

So I currently have an i5 6500 and the upgrade bug is itching.

Is there a significant, noticeable difference if I upgraded to a Ryzen 3600 when I will be using it only for gaming?

Currently it's paired with 32GB RAM and a Vega 64, so the CPU is the obvious bottleneck. Also only gaming at 1920 x 1080 but looking to also upgrade to 1440 x 2560 soon.

Yes, there would be a significant difference, in modern games at least. 4 core processors are starting to show its age.

Here's GN doing 6600k modern review

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCV9yyD8X6M

Here is 6500 direct comparison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHKge2d3wGQ

Whats the RAM speed on the 32GB RAM? Is it DDR4/DDR3? Skylake at one point had boards for one or the other, if you have DDR4 and its decent speed RAM it could be a simple cheap upgrade. The 6500 seems about 30% or more slower than 3600.

farna_boy · 07-01-2020 4:06pm

cherryghost wrote: »

Yes, there would be a significant difference, in modern games at least. 4 core processors are starting to show its age.

Here's GN doing 6600k modern review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCV9yyD8X6M

Here is 6500 direct comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHKge2d3wGQ

Whats the RAM speed on the 32GB RAM? Is it DDR4/DDR3? Skylake at one point had boards for one or the other, if you have DDR4 and its decent speed RAM it could be a simple cheap upgrade. The 6500 seems about 30% or more slower than 3600.

That's the answer I was hoping for

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RAM is DDR4-3200 so I can reuse it for the Ryzen.

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