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    News Half of tested PC watercoolers don’t use the premium materials advertised, like copper: Report

    "Igor Wallossek has published an investigation into AiO CPU cooler radiator materials" - Yet it shows custom open loop components in the comparison?
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    News RTX 4090 Beats Two RTX 3090s in SLI — Barely

    In Port Royal, my SLI 3090s still beat a 4090, with the exception of the world top overclockers using LN2 to cool a 4090. I'm getting 31,000-32,000 scores in Port Royal. However, for gaming, the 4090 is faster because very few games support SLI with 3090s. One of the main reasons SLI is dead...
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    News Eight RTX 4090s Can Break Passwords in Under an Hour

    That's not the method discussed in the article.
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    News Leaked MSI RTX 3090 TI Suprim X Screams at 480W

    If you are running a cheap power supply with thin gauge wires, three 8 pin PCIE connectors can safely handle 700+ watts.
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    News Leaked MSI RTX 3090 TI Suprim X Screams at 480W

    "a monstrous 480W TDP which is the highest power rating we've ever seen on a GeForce card." That's the same power rating as the stock OC BIOS on the RTX 3090 Strix. Its also lower than the XOC 500 watt BIOS that shipped on later EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra cards, and lower than the 520 watt BIOS...
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    News AMD RX 6900XT Graphics Card Prices Going Down - Real Deals

    Since September or October of 2021 Newegg has had the ASRock OC Formula Radeon RX 6900XT got $1599.999 as its regular price. Then once or twice a month, Newegg raises the price $100-$300 and put the card "on sale" at a "discounted price" that is the same as the regular price. Yet people still...
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    Asrock Deskmini 110 + i7-7700 ......Wrong couple?

    I know this is an old thread, but it came up in my search and I would like to contribute useful info for anyone who finds this in the future. I have an Asrock Deskmini 110 with an i7-7700 (non K) and the stock CPU cooler. I was having issues with the temperature getting high and the CPU...
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    All of my motherboard's PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots stopped working

    I have no idea what changed, but all of a sudden I can get the BIOS to detect the graphics cards again and they work in Windows. I tried multiple times disconnecting everything and booting whit just the CPU, RAM, SSD, and GPU and all of a sudden the graphics card was detected. Now if this is...
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    All of my motherboard's PCI Express 3.0 x16 slots stopped working

    Yesterday afternoon both PCI Express slots on my motherboard stopped working. In the "BIOS" nothing plugged into the slots is detectable. It shows up as an empty slot in the BIOS no matter what graphics card I put in them. Windows does not detect any GPU other than the Intel HD Graphics 4000...