Bro Skylinestar, we very well know soundcards are almost pointless these days.

Anyone mildly interested in audio, get an external solution, get a long USB cable and place as far as you can away from your PC. There, pristine audio.

Guru3D review is wrong. He forgot to account that each time he loads the game in the same place, the world is different (weather, NPCs count and random events occurring). RDR2 is a game that is very difficult to benchmark, in fact no benchmark of the game will ever be accurate due to how dynamic it is.

Also, no benchmark thus far has gone to the china town market at St. Dennis yet. That's the place where it will absolutely bring any 4 core CPUs down to its knees. If it's night time and there's a storm, the GPU will take a beating of its life it'll never forget.

It says how much that these benchmarkers know about the game - which is next to nothing.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Nov 7 2019, 03:11 PM

Meh, as long as AMD don't make an effort to improve their drivers - pointless with all that hardware behind it. 5700XT and 5700 are still crashing after 5 months since release lol.

HAGS has significant performance issues with PhysX supported games.

Also the latest driver broke HDR with madvr again.

The price tells me that there's space for a 3080Ti next year and also a possible 3070 Super (or Ti) if yields become better.

All 3 cards announced has HDMI 2.1 ports. Where did you read the 3080 does not have one?

Here's the official page with official specs from Nvidia themselves - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/graphi...eries/rtx-3080/
Check the full spec sheet.

The only thing that isn't clear is if HDMI 2.1 controller is the full 48gbps or the reduced 40gbps version. My money is on the 40gbps silicon.

Big Navi will disappoint. AMD has nothing in the bag to fight Nvidia on Ampere's front. They're still playing catch up to Turing. So unless they're willing to take a serious profit cut by pricing Big Navi at 3070's price point with performance above it, there's no chance for AMD to even compete.

It would have been very strange if HDMI 2.1 is omitted from the 3080 considering it's their flagship gamer card though.

Honestly, no. I don't like a M&K on the couch. Just using an Xbox one elite controller instead.

There are no consumer displays that are 4k 12-bit anyway, so it doesn't matter lol. 3080 120fps at 4k should be possible with DLSS I reckon.

Mainstream Ampere will come out Q1-Q2 next year.

If you're just streaming, then the GPU doesn't matter. But if you're like me who uses the GPU to leverage madvr, then yes it matters quite a bit.


That's because 970 lacks a 10-bit HEVC decoder and relies on hybrid decoding.


What's happening is that the stream player itself is dropping frames. It has nothing to do with hardware, simply to do with the web player being trash.

And no, if anything 3070 will be even more expensive at the end of the year. Too naive to think prices will drop.


No it doesn't. Only Sony, Philips and Hisense TVs uses Android OS.

Your HTPC build is not future proof at all because you don't have a GPU in there that supports AV1 decoding. Only nvidia's upcoming 30 series has AV1 decoding. AV1 decompression is going to be next big thing over h264 because HEVC (aka h265) is royalty based where as AV1 is free. Eventually everything will be switching over to AV1 and that future is not very far away.

Length - HDMI 2.1 @ 48gbps requires at least 22awg copper cores for lengths no more than 3m. Beyond that, the cable has to be amplified by being an active cable or use a repeater. An active cable could go up to 10m, some does up to 15m - there are no set standards for this. Beyond 15m, you'll have to look at fiber optic core HDMI cables, by that I mean REAL fiber optic using glass and NOT plastic or mylar.

HDCP - HDCP is backwards compatible, but not forwards compatible. HDCP has got nothing to do with bandwidth, it's simply a digital copy protection. So if point A (source) and point B (output) are both HDCP 2.3 compliant, it doesn't matter what cable you use because all HDCP does is activate the handshake flag in the data signal.


Also one more thing to add - there is no such thing as a HDMI 2.1 cable per se. There is only a HDMI cable capable of passing through HDMI 2.1 bandwidths or not, that is all. If a packaging says HDMI 2.1 version cable, that means it's not been verified to pass it. This is why some thick and huge garden-hose like HDMI cables from say 2010 could passthrough HDMI 2.0 just fine eventhough it's not a "HDMI 2.1" cable. The cable is simply well built with high gauge copper cores (likely 18awg or even lower) which allows the signal not to drop due to the low resistance, low capacitance and high inductance.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Sep 3 2020, 03:46 PM

I'd be very surprised if they release a 3070 SUPER/Ti by the end of the year. Samsung doesn't have the yields necessary to push out GPUs rapidly until next year.

MSI Ventus for example is "reference" PCB.

You're looking at the cooler. The actual PCB is shorter than the cooler's length.

Not saying that the Ventus will fit on this EK block though.


You can see there's a good 2 inches of space between the end of the PCB and the end of the cooler:


This post has been edited by SSJBen: Sep 4 2020, 06:21 PM

High-res textures is just a small part of it. Theoretically, there's very little high res textures in games today. 4k or 8k textures aren't high res really. Textures are usually done in 16k or higher now a days, then it's losslessly compressed down (most of the time at least).

CPUs have to deal with draw calls. More cores gives it better capability in doing so, but it also has to be efficient in doing it.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Sep 7 2020, 03:36 PM

Couldn't have said this last line better my self. Well said.

Those numbers are still within margin of errors.

The more important thing to answer is when DirectStorage launches next year, what will the difference be like with RTX IO on PCIE 3 vs 4. That's where the more important question to ask.

This post has been edited by SSJBen: Sep 17 2020, 04:32 PM

This +100.
Especially @bolded no.2.

I can't believe people are still taken for a ride with PSUs giving you guys puny 18 or 20awg cables for the 12v rails.

Be smart guys, 16awg is the minimum and if you really want to have proper headroom - just make your own cables with 12awg copper.

Pretty impressed by the Asus TUF 3080. That PCB design is pretty elaborate considering it's their base/entry model. I'm also surprised they put a proper heatsink with fins for the memory and VRM, MSI gaming X trio which is priced higher don't even have that lmao.

Speaking of MSI, knew their graphene backplate was bullshit and fake marketing. Like why the F would you want graphene as a backplate, it serves no purpose eventhough it has high tensile strength but it's pointless added cost.

Yes you can and I did it for my 8-pin CPU cable as the stock cable was too short to reach the top of the case with the PSU mounted at the bottom. Yeah, I used my leftover reel of belden 5000UE to do so.

People tend to forget that under those sheaths and jackets, everything is copper. The copper doesn't know or care what it's dressed up with lol, it's simply a conductor from point A to point B.