wouldnt there be nothing for the backplate to dissipate heat from?

most of the time backplate has thermal pads for the RAM modules IINM

yeah but for Fury X, wouldnt the VRAM module be on the die itself? i mean, non HBM cards have their VRAM module soldered on back of PCB, which is why the backplate helps

but theres no back VRAM module from the pictures ive seen, so backplate isnt necessary

well they are metal after all, might be heat conductive

thats a really sick build

11/10 damn good

he himself mentioned hes biased to Nvidia already in the first place

that alone means hes not that objective anymore

at least i think how it is

mostly on the issue of "Johor foo's" benchmark scores on Unigine Heaven with AMD cards

im not fussed, since i dont take the Unigine Heaven scores that serious in the first place

in a nutshell,

>cstkl1 is unhappy that johor foo is not displaying real performance scores as per standard
>asks johor foo to rebench
>johor foo doesnt want
>cstkl1 deems it as being untruthful to the scores as AMD doesnt do well in tessellation, with Unigine Heaven very heavy on tessellation

and it goes on until today

once youve tasted honey, would you go back to water?

the issue is only for HDMI and DP users

its where the drivers are unable to distinguish whether are you connecting to TV (limited) or monitor (full)

i went from ATi Radeon X300 to GTX560 Ti then GTX660 then current GTX780 lol

the X300 to 560 Ti jump was massive

you dont even need a RM700 card to play Dota 2

just grab any card ranging around 500~ should do

erm, you dont microwave electronics

youll destroy your microwave together with the parts that you were trying to revive

no no, microwave is the wrong term itself. baking the GPU isnt

there is a difference with conventional/convection oven and microwave oven

theyre the same, you can use it as per goldfries reply

just remember CPU and GPU have different application techniques

GPU its better to put abit more paste than CPU's tiny rice grain technique

first you need to trace the problem first, what if you bought the newer card but still have no improvements?

HBM makes a diff, but just not yet. very few games can saturate GDDR5 bandwidth. HBM with near 10x bandwidth is overkill unless you are attempting the highest gaming quality (4K, Ultra, 8xMSAA etc etc)

ill explain abit VRAM for clarification. (in my own method lol)

>game streams game stuff on the fly while playing game
>game stuff are stored on GPU VRAM temp before usage
>in the event where you somehow overkilled on overloading way beyond what your VRAM can handle,
>this is where game stuttering occurs cause not enough memory
>when not enough memory, the GPU is forced to use system RAM to stream the game stuff (which is slower)

so if youre playing games that doesnt even utilise alot of VRAM, theres hardly any diff between 4GB and 8GB

dont be silly, push it to the max!