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    December 10, 2020

    Hardware support: (VideoCardz) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti allegedly appears in HP GPU drivers

    (VideoCardz) NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti allegedly appears in HP GPU drivers

    Posted: 09 Dec 2020 07:52 AM PST

    PSA: For those who experience sub-par FPS relative to similar-system benchmarks

    Posted: 09 Dec 2020 09:03 PM PST

    So I just went through a month+ process whereby at first my system was as follows (tl;dr at the bottom for those who don't want to read the story):

    8700k OC 4.9ghz

    32gb 3200mhz CL16 RAM

    2060 Super lightly OC'd (don't remember exactly how much)

    I would average around 90-120 fps in warzone (1080P LOW settings) and not really think much of it, seemed normal to me and was playable.

    Then I managed to score a 3090 and excitedly installed it only to realize that my FPS only kind of increased to around 130-140 average but on all highest settings (1080P still), with literally no change in FPS if I changed the settings to all lowest. This seemed odd to me as most streamers and other benchmarks I've seen with the 3090 are able to realize 200+ average FPS.

    I did almost everything I could think of or find on the internet. I formatted and did a fresh windows install, tried all the optimizations including power, adv. config, etc., with no dice, my FPS was stuck here.

    Created a few reddit threads and most people pointed me to the fact that I was CPU-bound, which I accepted could have been true but didn't explain how benchmarkers on youtube were able to achieve 200+ fps with 8700k's and 3080's.

    Oh and I might add that at 4k res (which relies much more heavily on GPU-performance), I was basically within 2-3% of benchmarks in warzone, so no problems there although I don't play on a 4k monitor.

    Earlier this week I was able to secure a 5800x and figured ok, now finally I will be able to achieve the mythical 200fps average.. only to once again fall short now in the 150-180fps range.

    By matter of chance... my original plan was to give my GF the majority of my old PC while swapping the RAM since she already had 16gb and I figured my 32gb 3200mhz was more than good enough. However, her system was pretty old and still running on DDR3 so the RAM wasn't compatible, and therefore I had to purchase new ram.

    Conventional wisdom historically has always been that RAM speed isn't that impactful on performance, specifically game performance or FPS, but this is where I get to my "ah ha" realization.

    It's been somewhat well established since Ryzen 3000 that Ryzen CPUs specifically are very sensitive to RAM speeds and you can achieve much greater discrepancy in performance based on different RAM (most of the popular youtubers have done vids on this). Furthermore, Gamersnexus recently posted a video about how not only is Ryzen sensitive to RAM speeds, but there is a significant performance uplift (or downtick, depending on where you're coming from) on the same exact RAM with 4 or 2 sticks.

    So I then proceeded to purchase 64gb 3600mhz CL16 RAM (4x16gb) and boom.. my FPS instantly increased to 200-220fps average (hitting as high as 240-260fps in some map locations). I checked some of the benchmark rigs that I was looking at before and sure enough all of them were running on at least 3600mhz RAM.

    I then proceeded to do a number of underclocks (and attempted overclocks, to no avail) on my RAM with multiple iterations in controlled environments (same spot, same path, etc.) and came to the following results with my current system (5800x stock, 64gb RAM, 3090 FE slightly OC'd):

    The FPS difference between 2133mhz RAM (no XMP), and 3600mhz RAM is a whopping 24% on average and 30% on max FPS at 1080P highest settings. The difference between 3200mhz and 3600mhz is 13%. Assuming you are not GPU bottlenecked, I can only assume the variance would be greater at lower settings. That is a HUGE discrepancy for just RAM, which most people ignore other than the size.

    I tested a few other games and generally it seems (and makes sense) that more CPU-intensive and bound games benefit tremendously from higher RAM speeds (CS:GO for example). Also mostly at 1080p, at higher resolutions the variance decreases and becomes less meaningful.

    Warzone out of any game I tested was the MOST sensitive to changes in RAM speeds.

    Finally I would point out that for AMD Ryzen processors, RAM speed actually is a deterrent past 4000mhz (you lose FPS) and you'd need a bit of a win on the silicon lottery side to even effectively make use of that much. Won't get into the tech here of why that is but you can do your own research. The sweet spot is 3600 --> 3800mhz.

    TL;DR:

    Warzone (and other CPU-heavy games at 1080P) FPS is HIGHLY dependent on your RAM speed, which can generally be upgraded for less than a new CPU (which often requires a new MOBO) or a new GPU (which is impossible to find right now anyways).. RAM is abundant and relatively cheap right now! I would recommend 3600mhz CL16 but at a minimum 3200mhz CL16.

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    Intel’s micro-ring detector paves way to optical server interconnects

    Posted: 09 Dec 2020 05:16 PM PST

    Live 3000 series Nvidia Inventory tracker for Canada

    Posted: 10 Dec 2020 02:23 AM PST

    I wrote a whole inventory tracker for Canada, bestbuy, memoryexpress, newegg for now.

    please let me know if other countries are interested.

    hope everyone gets one before Xmas.

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    Cheers.

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    https://www.twitch.tv/war10ck3d

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    [Gamers Nexus] Evil Screws: Lian Li Galahad Liquid Cooler Tear-Down

    Posted: 09 Dec 2020 08:02 AM PST

    Any past PCIe GPUs better at something than newer GPUs?

    Posted: 09 Dec 2020 05:05 AM PST

    Just curious if there was anything a few years back, maybe not so far back, still PCIe, that could do something better than even newer cards can. Or has it all been a big progression in every way?

    submitted by /u/TheBloodEagleX
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    Does narrow bezel display impact laptop durability?

    Posted: 09 Dec 2020 03:52 PM PST

    TL;DR: Is a laptop display with a minimal border less durable than a display with chunkier bezels? Or is it the opposite?

    Thin / thick bezel with plastic construction, thin / thick bezel with metal construction; the screen framed flush separately from the laptop body, the screen framed by the laptop body itself; new releases from the last couple of years, older ones...do these variances make a difference?

    I was compelled to ask after looking a plastic mid-range Dell Inspiron from 2020 with thick bezels (formed by the device's body framed in front of the screen). I've been eyeing higher-end laptops with minimal bezels, and realized that I hadn't considered whether this feature negatively impacts the durability of the device.

    Once again, search engine keywords are failing me. I should have asked this in my previous post that went more in-depth about determining laptop longevity. Got a lot of responses there. (Thanks to all with helpful comments.) It wasn't brought up by others and it hadn't crossed my mind then.

    submitted by /u/lookaskance
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    Why aren't CPUs build with an uneven number of cores?

    Posted: 10 Dec 2020 01:54 AM PST

    Given that CPUs with 6 and 12 cores are a thing, it doesn't look like they have to follow the common rule of 2-4-8-16-32 found in many hardware specs. So what stops intel or amd to design them with any number deemed usefull? Say for example one core that's optimized to run several small programs and four bigger cores for more intensive workload from a single software.

    submitted by /u/only_bones
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    AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT, RX 6800 XT and RX 6800 reference desings are being discontinued - VideoCardz.com

    Posted: 09 Dec 2020 02:44 AM PST

    Running Cyberpunk at MAX SETTINGS! (Linus running cyberpunk at 8k)

    Posted: 09 Dec 2020 06:37 PM PST
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