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    ASUS GeForce RTX 3090 STRIX OC

    I own a 3090 (and a 3080) and the power consumption/heat/efficiency (or lack thereof) is precisely why my "main"/gaming PC has a 6900XT card in it rather than either of those Nvidias. When I play Apex at 1440p "locked" to 120Hz refresh (I have a 144Hz 1440p gaming monitor) I smile every time...
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    The Ampere owners club - 30xx series

    What dimensions? 20x20x2mm? I suppose, to be safe, after putting the shims onto the RAM chips (w/some thermal paste in between) we should use silicon rubber caulk around the edges to hold them in place and prevent them from sliding off and possibly touching another part of the PCB/components...
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    REGULATING DIGITAL COINS

    Moving even more taxes off the wealthy and onto the poor and middle class is the opposite of what we need. Without tax, money is literally worthless - what we need to do, is have a "flat tax" on income over a certain amount, with no "loopholes" to get out of paying at least 15%.
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    XFX Radeon RX 6700 XT Merc 319 Black

    Ugh - they decreased the memory bus width compared to the 5700XT? No thank you! Also, while I understand that prices are currently exceedingly high in the GPU market, I don't accept how high they set the "MSRP" for this card, simply doesn't make sense IMO.
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    Arctic Liquid Frezer II + i9 9900 so high temps !

    Might want to edit your first post and change the word "properly" to look like this: properly ;) Glad to read that your issue was resolved!
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    Bitcoin price suddenly surges to 3-year high

    One of the mornings I went to wait in line at my local computer store hoping to buy a 3070 but by the time it was my turn to pick a card, my only option was the $1800 EVGA FTW3 3090 Ultra - well, I couldn't go away empty handed so I bought that (gasp - $300 was already an expensive GPU IMO)...
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    Graphics card prices

    I don't have a clue what percentage of the global market USA makes up, but I reckon we buy a decent chunk of the world's GPUs? So the "Stimulus Checks" have had a huge impact on the supply. I've even heard some people call this 3rd round their "GPU stimulus". And the cryptocurrency mining -...
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    Use 3600X stock cooler or replace?

    I thought the stock cooler was "fine", and, never intended to overclock these CPUs as the gains seemed so minimal so as to be totally pointless, at least from seeing how little impact OC'ing gets you in benchmarks. But, the recent trend of my CPU fan to keep spinning up briefly, then slow down...
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    GIGABYTE Outs AORUS C700 Glass Full-Tower Chassis

    Good lord that's ugly!
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    GPU-Z RTX 3090 (and 3080) SRC voltage (Power plane source power) readings?

    I have a 3080 and recently started using GPU-Z and my PWR_SRC Voltage is at 12.0 V 95% or more of the time, very rarely going to 12.1 V. Whether under "desktop use" or gaming. Elementaler: I recommend undervolting by adjusting the voltage curve in AfterBurner - there are quite a few guides...
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    ASRock Radeon RX 6800 XT Taichi X

    Well, unless companies like AMD and Nvidia are selling their "reference" cards at a loss, then, AIB makes could theoretically sell cards at a LOWER price, since they have fabrication advantages such as, they actually make the cards themselves, and volume of production/volume of sales.
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    Are you the Frick who was Thresh's clan mate?

    Are you the Frick who was Thresh's clan mate?
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    ASRock Radeon RX 6800 XT Taichi X

    The $800 seems way out of line, unless AMD come up with something to equal Nvidia's DLSS 2.x in a future update?
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    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Founders Edition

    I got my 5700XT for $300 and I'm currently running a 1440p @144Hz "gaming monitor". 95% of games are not significantly subjectively improved by upgrading to 3080, given this monitor. But, reviews had me convinced that Ray Tracing was finally worth having w/Cyberpunk 2077, and, I wanted to...
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    Urban Terror 4.0 released

    Urban Terror is still the best FPS game out there. Hopefully a new version 4.2 will be released this year :) :toast:
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