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For the most part, it just runs slowly, it doesn't seem to crash. I think it has only crashed when it didn't like my afterburner settings

So small update, I continued to mess with the card, tried it again the next day, and the card wouldn't boost, couldn't even get it to work with a forced boost level or anything. seems like the card is junk for 3d work, it was worth a shot. could be just as RazorWind suggested, there doesn't...

Could be, ill probably load some games on that PC and try it out, see if it holds up to extended sessions of load or not. Thanks for the replies.

Thats good to know, I mean after repaste and testing under timespy the card dropped a good 7-8c under load and at stock voltage and frequency settings. Ill have to look up the issues you're talking about, I've never dealt with fixing those issues and probably should for the health of my 3080...

This card has no RGB inside it, its a fairly plan Dual Fan Design with a single 8 Pin power connector. I opened it up last night to repaste after it seemed to be revived. and the board was pretty clean, no major dust, fins were all clean, and my untrained eye didnt see anything obvious in the...

That's what I figure as well, he left CIV V running and stepped away from his PC, which is on the floor near a gas fireplace. Not an ideal environment, and definitely not in one of those aurora cases, where the components are crammed in Tetris style. The thermal paste was dry and crusty, but I...

It is not under warranty, and my neighbor would have had to shell out $450 to reinstate the warranty and ship the whole PC back to Dell for service, which in my past experiences is hit or miss as best. He opted to buy a 3060ti off of me for MSRP, and gave the card to me since I wouldn't have a...

This particular card only has 1 power connector and has exhibited it across 3 systems and 3 power supplies. I wonder if an on board fuse is bad?

The drivers were obtained from nvidia, using the clean install function, I'll try ddu, but this has carried over between 2-3 PCs now, so It is unlikely to be a driver issue. I was going to tweak voltages further, than I did, but noticed just a slight change caused 3dmark to crash during it's...

It doesn't report high temps. it runs in the mid 40's or 50s during the time spy run. The clock speed doesn't stay boosted, I can't recall GPU usage, but i'm fairly certain it was low.

So my neighbor has an Alienware Aurora that came with an OEM Dell RTX 2070. Randomly one day we stepped away from his pc while running CIV 5, when he came back, his framerates were bad and the system was running choppy. Upon reboot everything seemed fine, but his performance in games was awful...

I woke up this morning to my Facebook Marketplace Feed with 4-5 sellers with postings selling 3080TIs for $2100+. One piece of crap had 13 or 14 - like 8 founders and 5-6 FTW3 and Strix models sitting on the hood and trunk of his Mercedes, and his buddy next to him had 3-4. They were still in...

let's see if i can remember them all, lots of changes, switched to mobile for a while. I really can't even remember all of them. Pentium 66mhz Athlon K6-2 366mhz AMD Duron 700 AMD Athlon XP+ AMD Athlon 3000+ Opteron 165 AMD Athlon XP again? Intel e8400 Intel i5 760 intel i5 2500k Intel 4670k...

You're definitely right, I certainly don't notice much different between the 9700k and the 3600. But I also don't want to have to keep upgrading my CPU. I did that when I was younger and couldn't necessarily afford the i7 variants, i'd buy the i5 and overclock., then I ran a first gen i7/6 core...

I'll likely pass my monitor on to my son for his rig, hes using a 13 or so year old LG monitor and buy myself at least a 1440p monitor, My old eyes I think could use a 27" haha. That said I got the 5800x, Bestbuy Shipped it USPS, in a padded envelope, luckily it appears to be intact. now to...