re: PC Discussion - Gaming, Performance and Enthusiasts

My OG pixel XL just randomly died at some point Thursday night/Friday morning, no idea wtf happened to it.

So Friday afternoon I went to Wally world and bought one of the cheaper phones I could find to hold me over while I look to order a nicer and got the Moto G7 play for $70.

I'm very impressed with the amount of phone that you get for $70. I may not even get the 4a anymore

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So is Ampere disappointing?

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In the sense of Nvidia waaayyyyyy overhyping it vs. actual performance, yes. Also in the sense of the forced scarcity and early release knowing they could never meet demand right now - yes.

In terms of actual performance and price/performance vs. Turing - no. It's a great card and huge step forward.

If Nvidia just didn't do the dumb stuff like the forced scarcity and ridiculous performance claims it would probably be one of their best launches in a long time.

30-ish % better performance (than 2080ti) at 4k, while bringing the price down 40-50% from real world 2080ti pricing is a big time success on that surface.

Yeah, overhyping is standard. But when you combine that with lying about the 3090 being a gaming card and one of the worst launches ever, it's a bad look.

That Samsung chip is doodoo and Nvidia really did what they could with it. Better be water cooling though, those temps are crazy high for the space heaters. I remember when AMD always had the space heaters.

Should. It's not a first Gen architecture. Should see large improvements like Ryzen 1 to 2.

can any of you guys tell me why my headphones have this screeching white noise coming through my headphones? it doesn't play any audio other this this.


if i route the audio to my monitors, the audio is fine, but currently, neither headphone jack on the front of the case or the mobo on the back is working. just a loud screeching noise.


eta: i should add that i removed the gpu to take pictures of it for reddit and facebook. reinstalled it and this happened.

eta: i can disable the headphones and it still plays this screeching sound.

Check in your bios audio settings and disable everything? Or enable if disabled. Should see settings for your front panel audio.

Uninstall and reinstall your audio drivers as well.

No bios will stay the same.

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will the drivers finally not suck?

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This was always overblown to me. I have a 5700Xt and never once had any issues, hardware unboxed also never encountered any problems with their navi units.

I know some channels out there who did have some issues in some games, but it just seems to be way overblown. Not that they are as good as nvidia's but again seem to be more people out there without any issues with drivers than did have issues with the drivers.

Yeah I've never had any issues with mine either. Space Invaders was equally prominent for Turing as drivers for Navi.

And you know damn well Ampere will be worse with the 500+ watts and heat limits within 1 degree of max for most cards. Water cool or go home.

Probably. 6800 will make it pretty obsolete at the same msrp.

I'll be selling mine when big Navi gets closer but keeping the custom cooler.