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    PiersPlowman replied to the thread Question Is a ryzen 5 3600 Powerfull enough for a rx 6700XT?.

    Late to the game, but from what I can garner, high refresh gaming is more of a CPU hog than screen resolution. And, while it really...

    53 minutes ago
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    PiersPlowman replied to the thread Question New Computer does not boot after enable AMD EXPO.

    Do you want to eke out every last drop of performance from your machine, or do you want a PC that does not crap out randomly and take...

    Yesterday at 7:01 PM
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    PiersPlowman replied to the thread News Some Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs are allegedly dying prematurely — over 100 cases documented based on user feedback.

    Is your flair correct, and are you running four sticks of RAM @3600? You'll kill that CPU; it's rated for 2667 over four sticks...

    Monday at 11:59 PM
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    PiersPlowman replied to the thread News AMD manager reports 45% GPU retail market share in Japan — Eyes 70% as the next target.

    No surprise. GPUs are hardly in abundance here, and as for the Steam Deck, it is as rare as hen's teeth. All this has nothing to do...

    Mar 18, 2025
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    PiersPlowman reacted to mhmarefat's post in the thread News RTX 50-series GPU scalping extends to system integrators — over $3,000 for a RTX 5090 with Like.

    Out of touch Nvidia bootlickers are blaming everyone but Nvidia. Morons who were saying real price of a 5090 is at least $25k, and...

    Mar 17, 2025
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    PiersPlowman reacted to acadia11's post in the thread News RTX 50-series GPU scalping extends to system integrators — over $3,000 for a RTX 5090 with Like.

    Don’t think it’s bearing the prices, there are so few cards around it really doesn’t matter what price they set you can’t get one...

    Mar 17, 2025
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    PiersPlowman reacted to Kentmos's post in the thread News RTX 50-series GPU scalping extends to system integrators — over $3,000 for a RTX 5090 with Like.

    Go easy on the beer tonight, allright..?

    Mar 17, 2025
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    PiersPlowman replied to the thread News Super Flower’s beastly 2800W power supply lands at $899 — enough juice to power a couple of RTX 5090 GPUs.

    Appliances can draw 3,000 watts from a standard UK wall socket, and in Western Europe that goes up to almost 3,700 watts. However, with...

    Mar 16, 2025
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    PiersPlowman replied to the thread News MSI skips RDNA 4 and will not manufacture AMD Radeon 9000-series GPUs.

    The bottom line is that AMD and Nvidia are not providing enough chips for all their partners to be profitable. The market is being...

    Mar 15, 2025
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    PiersPlowman replied to the thread Question Attempting to estimate power draw of Laptop fans.

    @Misgar I would not trust those numbers - a 12 watt fan in a laptop would sound like a Dyson hair dryer, not to mention it would be a...

    Mar 14, 2025
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    PiersPlowman replied to the thread Question Really Weird Issue with RAM and System Failing to Boot Most of the Time.

    If you've been running four sticks with XMP. That is probably what killed your 5600x (it is rated to 2667 with memory slots fully...

    Mar 14, 2025
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    PiersPlowman replied to the thread Question Attempting to estimate power draw of Laptop fans.

    You will need to find the fan's specifications, either by Googling it or opening up the laptop. I have NF-A14 ULN fans in my tower and...

    Mar 14, 2025
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    PiersPlowman reacted to Fastfishy2's post in the thread Question 7900 XT artifacting or is something else happening ? with Like.

    I decided to post this question in 3DMark's steam community discussions page and received this response from the developer less than 6...

    Mar 13, 2025
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    PiersPlowman replied to the thread Question Is 4k the norm now?.

    Meh. Once you get to 1080p it doesn't matter. 4K shines where you need screen real estate or improved legibility of text.

    Mar 12, 2025
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    PiersPlowman replied to the thread Question CPU runs at only 1550Mhz when the stock frequency is 3500Mhz ?.

    Go to the Asus website and obtain and install the latest BIOS for the motherboard. Backing up your files and reinstalling Windows is...

    Mar 11, 2025

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