Ampere

Hi! My Ampere Altra Q64-22 + AsRock Rack ALTRAD8UD does not POST or power on. I've stripped the board of everything but two sticks of known-good RAM and the CPU. I've also tried two known-working power supplies. I also tried manually clearing the CMOS. I also measured the CMOS battery, and it's...

Hi Anybody heard about mayor shipping delays from Zotax RTXs ? I have a few friends that order theirs RTX 3060ti and 3070s from amazon / zotac pages and their cards wasnt delivered yet (ordered about a month ago). As a rumor I heard about a major delay at factory level, Thanks!

Hi everyone, My workstation has all "blower" style Nvidia GPU's, since all that heat in the case wouldn't be good if more than one was working away. Presently the case has 2x 1080 FE cards, and 1x 2080 (Zotac blower-style). I've had up to 4 GPU's in there at a time in the past running without...

When the 3080 came out sorta with a paper launch I thought the prices were great as it won't reach 1k. nVidia says a lot of things including gimmicky things like 8k lol. First give us 144fps on 4k then tell us to 8k so we get 60fps. I hate how nVidia played this series out. So the 3090 is...

Im thinking about buying the new Strix 3080 OC, but when im looking around at the specs and such i realize it requires a 3x8 pin power connector while most others use the new 12 pin or 2x8. Does this mean i need to use 3 separate PCIe cables? I have a RM750x that comes with two 8 to 8 to 6x2...

Hey Guys, I am about to build myself a brand new gaming pc (super excited) just waiting for the Ampere launch and things should start to get in motion. However, not sure what to do about my monitor. I am aiming to get a 3080 so am definitely looking at upgrading from my current 1080p 144hz...

Hi Guys, So I am building a new gaming PC with the upcoming Ampere GPU's (likely getting a 3080 - depending on price) however, since they are more than likely going to use PCIe 4.0 I would prefer to use a platform that can take advantage of it (maybe not right away but possibly in the future)...

Hey Guys, So I am building a PC and going all out as this will be my only build for many years to come. I recently just ordered an Intel i9-10900K as I figured that this is only a gaming rig, I may as well get the best of the best for my use case. I snapped up the 10900K as stock is hard to...

Hey Guys, I am building a new PC very soon (just waiting for Ampere to release) and am having trouble deciding on my CPU cooler, so I was hoping for a good recommendation. I will be cooling a 10900K inside a Phanteks P500A. I would prefer to use an AIO as I like the look. It doesn't have to...

So 21 days 21 years since my Riva TNT card coming from a Voodoo1 2D/3D Hercules card. The folks at nVidia have specifically said the performance advantage of the 3080Ti over the 2080Ti is 30 percent. Which means if your playing at 4K resolution and your getting a steady 60FPS with the 2080Ti...

Well, when I did similar inquaries there were lots of topics about "Is waiting for Ampere worth it?", "Should you wait for next gen GPUs?", "Will RDNA2 deliver?". But most of them were outdated since most events cancelled or delayed because of the pandemic. Both Ampere and RDNA2 coming in the...

I currently have a PC with an i7-3770k and Evga 670 FTW. I am atm considering whether I should buy a 2000 series card or a 3000 series card. Having done some research, I understand that I would be throttled by my CPU if my monitor is at 1080p (which it currently is) but I will be pairing this...

Hi I'm going to be streaming, but I can't get a 3700X. My budget limits me to a 3600 (albeit I can OC it with a good cooler), because the 3700X is $170 more than the 3600 where I live. I was thinking whether X264 would harm performance on the 3600 and how much? Or is NVENC better? In case NVENC...

Hello, I just read news about Nvidia’s new Ampere cards (3070, 3080, etc) and how they might actually cost less and perform way better Does that mean I should wait until they come out our buy a GPU now? (Btw, I’m thinking of buying a 2080 Super at Christmas)

Hey,I want to buy the PRIME B450-PLUS but i have a question abut the rgb headrr: Will it support a splitter with 1 rgb fan and a rgb strip(30 cm i think it was)? Thank you! Edit: I have an AsRock AB350m Pro4

I've just built my first pc and have placed my coolermaster nepton 240M above the cpu. So it is currently blowing air out the top of my Pc case. My worry is that the Radiator is placed behind the fans (it's connected to the case with the fans underneath. Is this correct? as it is surely blowing...