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If you had to pick between a Powercolor Red Devil, MSI Gaming, Sapphire Nitro+ or Asus Tuf 7900 xtx - which would you pick (and why)? All used - Powercolor still seems to have complaints from ppl - temps mostly? Sometimes coil whine. The...

That's the thing, if it was $200 difference then the 7900 XTX would be a solid value. Over the last two weeks, I've been keeping tabs on 7900 and 4080S availability and so far the lowest 7900 XTX I've seen was $909 new. 4080S have been...

Thanks, I didnt know if some board partners were worse then others in quality or warranty. I don't see them come back down in price that fast. I think nvidia shorted the stock on purpose to let the aib's sell their 4080's, and greed Sorry I...

Where are you located? It didn't 'normalize' in my neck of the woods - location: Canuckland aka Commie Land and a number of other descriptions. :-/ Actually, even with the loon at 73 cents US, the conversion (when you do it) - it's...

I never experience coil whine - part of the reason is I use high quality Seasonic and Corsair PSUs across all of my rigs. It's a worthwhile investment, folks. Don't get tempted by off brands or "fancy" PSUs with lights and stuff. Just get the...

From my reading - my conclusion is that Powercolor (and maybe Asrock*) had bad QC - meaning that there could be a wide variety between experiences - and one of the big culprits or problems was coil whine. If you used most brands - how was the...

Once I started purchasing the higher end cards in every generation I started to hear coil whine in every card I've owned. Just always assumed it came with the insane power draw. All of my PSUs have always been tier A from "the" psu tier list...

It might do that but at a much higher power consumption and higher temps. No one will agree with me, I suspect - but, that would be my guess why you won't see a 'refresh' - unless, there's some tweak they can do with the design and I dunno if...

Let's be honest here, AMD could release a card that hits 5GHz and still get their lunch taken in performance by an Nvidia GPU running "slower" and using much less power. So what does the GHz number even matter?

AMD never lies... Poor Volta.

Yeah I don't know what they're thinking, I think there's a real chance AMD just didn't make that many of them. I've seen a bunch of sales on AIB models around the 800 mark but they're infrequent and sell out quickly. Mine was used so I paid...

I recently picked up a Powercolor Hellhound 7900XT and it's had quite a number of complaints about coil whine. For me it does exhibit some excessive coil whine but only in a handful of game menus where my old 2080ti would also whine. During...

I'm kinda looking at used ones - 7900 XTX cards, though - does anyone (here) have any opinions on the Sapphire Nitro+, Asus Tuf and MSI Gaming X Trio versions? I'm only considering those 3 - and only looking at used ones. These cards (new)...

A game that even the top flagship cards can't do at 60fps (@ 4K)?

So, they can monitor and track you - that's the way these companies are going - I won't say more because I have a feeling it wouldn't/won't be allowed. But, the fact that more and more companies are doing this - just shows how passive the...

We can thank Elon Musk for pioneering this "over the air" controlled monetizing that started with Tesla about a decade ago. Everytime you see a Tesla driver quietly say "sucker" nice and slow with a smile on your face seeing if they can read your...

Not with big screens - i.e. 50"+ It's not just the HDMI Forum - it's the TV companies/manufacturers, Hollywood etc. Why won't the TV companies include/manufacture even one display port on their TVs?

Unfortunately this doesn't exactly help TVs much

This is a repugnant situation. Consider that many monitors, including the recent often-used-as-monitors LG CX/C1/C2/C3 OLED displays only have HDMI inputs, and that HDMI 2.1 is necessary in order to have the full feature set like 4K 120hz HDR...

Dunno where you are but in this section of planet earth - it's just scalpers and more scalpers - private scalpers, corporate scalpers....scalpers everywhere. We're talking about the 4080, right? If it's the 4080 Super - same thing.... whoa.