GPUs & CPUs & Enthusiast hardware: Questions, Discussion and fanboy slap-fights - Nvidia & AMD & Intel - Separe but Equal. Intel rides in the back of the bus.

[Ginger Piglet]

Are there online stores where you can order JUST the GPU chip that doesn't require a large industrial bulk order? Closest I've come are sites that sell BGA GPUs for laptops.

That wouldn't help. You would need to plumb it into a board with a PCIe edge connector alongside power delivery and VRAM chips as well as a cooler. You would need to also populate it with vast numbers of other smaller components to make it work. This is why Nvidia and AMD send out engineering samples to board partners, so that the "life support" systems for the GPU can be properly designed and tested. And I don't think getting the GA102 chip and podging it onto a 2080 Ti board would work. It probably has a totally different interface and pinout.

 

[A Logging Company]

That wouldn't help. You would need to plumb it into a board with a PCIe edge connector alongside power delivery and VRAM chips as well as a cooler. You would need to also populate it with vast numbers of other smaller components to make it work. This is why Nvidia and AMD send out engineering samples to board partners, so that the "life support" systems for the GPU can be properly designed and tested. And I don't think getting the GA102 chip and podging it onto a 2080 Ti board would work. It probably has a totally different interface and pinout.

I know how to solder, and I have a science experiment in mind.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I know how to solder, and I have a science experiment in mind.

Might be relevant. And he's spending a lot of time trying to put together parts that are meant to work together.

WARNING: SOY

Maybe even more relevant for the soldering:

Balling and soldering BGA chips by hand seems like it would suck ass. Louis Rossman have more on that as it applies to GPUs in, I think, the video with Linus Techtips.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Wait, did they switch manufacturers? I always bought EVGA because they were Taiwan-made and didn’t have disgusting coil whine. I like my PSUs nice and quiet. What the fuck? Where are they made now?!

EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G5 Power Supply Review

The SuperNOVA 750 G5 is fully modular, compact, and promises for high performance. Will it be able to meet the popular Corsair and Seasonic offerings though?

www.tomshardware.com

Fuuuuuuuuck!

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Thanks, buddy. You saved me some big-time disappointment.

You can get a Leadex III. Superflower entered the American market last year.
https://www.newegg.com/super-flower-leadex-iii-sf-750f14hg-750w/p/1HU-024C-00006

 

[DNA_JACKED]

Np, I always try to shill for superflower when I can.

Too many ppl neglect psu choice without realizing a funky psu will cripple a system. I'd say it's the most important choice.

Mine is coming up on a decade old, still works perfectly. First generation superflower platinum 1000w, rebranded as a rosewill quark (remember those?)

IIRC there used to be a site that cataloged what ODM was behind each brand's power supplies by model. Anyone know a site that keeps up with current designs?

 

[Allakazam223]

Mine is coming up on a decade old, still works perfectly. First generation superflower platinum 1000w, rebranded as a rosewill quark (remember those?)

IIRC there used to be a site that cataloged what ODM was behind each brand's power supplies by model. Anyone know a site that keeps up with current designs?

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1116640-psucultists-psu-tier-list/

Last updated Nov 29 2020.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Mine is coming up on a decade old, still works perfectly. First generation superflower platinum 1000w, rebranded as a rosewill quark (remember those?)

IIRC there used to be a site that cataloged what ODM was behind each brand's power supplies by model. Anyone know a site that keeps up with current designs?

I'd be nervous using a power supply that old, but 10 years is generally the lifespan.

And I was wondering what Superflower was when I was looking over power supplies. I never knew they were quality, I thought they were some off brand.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

I'd be nervous using a power supply that old, but 10 years is generally the lifespan.

And I was wondering what Superflower was when I was looking over power supplies. I never knew they were quality, I thought they were some off brand.

Right up there with seasonic.

I never knew of them until I started reading jonnyguru reviews. The supernova g2 breakdown sold me on them.

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

They have some amount of guaranteed customers* from high-end GPU owners by touting the advanced graphics and ultra textures.

*pirates, they can't afford the games after buying the card. There's a lot of reasons and excuses for pirating things but the only on that really bothers me is "I can't afford it after buying this $3,000 PC".

Frankly I think just playing older games at a higher resolution or refresh rate is s good enough excuse to upgrade. Like recently I found out that a lot of games that came out after 2015 actually uses more than 10GB of VRAM for textures and it's cool to see a 6800XT being used like that

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

Frankly I think just playing older games at a higher resolution or refresh rate is s good enough excuse to upgrade. Like recently I found out that a lot of games that came out after 2015 actually uses more than 10GB of VRAM for textures and it's cool to see a 6800XT being used like that

You'd be in the minority then. The cp2077 gushing went hand in hand with freaking out over consooming the new gpus.

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

You'd be in the minority then. The cp2077 gushing went hand in hand with freaking out over consooming the new gpus.

I mean that’s just the hype cycle, it goes hand in hand with Nvidia cards. Witcher 3? Gameworks. Batman Arkham Asylum? PhysX. Battlefield 5? Ray-tracing. Besides, most games that have features that explicitly require top of the line hardware are typically not the best games.

 

[Elysian]

Apparently the crypto mining has spread to the RTX 3000 laptops now. All they need to do is figure out how to mine on consoles and then no-one will be able to play vidya ever again lmao

 

[Racist Trash]

Wait, did they switch manufacturers? I always bought EVGA because they were Taiwan-made and didn’t have disgusting coil whine. I like my PSUs nice and quiet. What the fuck? Where are they made now?!

EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G5 Power Supply Review

The SuperNOVA 750 G5 is fully modular, compact, and promises for high performance. Will it be able to meet the popular Corsair and Seasonic offerings though?

www.tomshardware.com

Fuuuuuuuuck!

Cancel! Cancel!

Thanks, buddy. You saved me some big-time disappointment.

Wow that's fucked EVGA PSUs used to be good, weren't some of them made by superflower?

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Frankly I think just playing older games at a higher resolution or refresh rate is s good enough excuse to upgrade. Like recently I found out that a lot of games that came out after 2015 actually uses more than 10GB of VRAM for textures and it's cool to see a 6800XT being used like that

They allocate as much memory as they can, that's not the amount of textures used per frame. If VRAM isn't full, why is it even there?

It's really fun running your old favorite games at insane settings and forcing more shit through the control panel. I replayed the original Deus Ex at 1080p with 4xSSAA or something insane like that and it was nice.

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

They allocate as much memory as they can, that's not the amount of textures used per frame. If VRAM isn't full, why is it even there?

It's really fun running your old favorite games at insane settings and forcing more shit through the control panel. I replayed the original Deus Ex at 1080p with 4xSSAA or something insane like that and it was nice.

My favorite thing to do is to run an old game using VSR and then jacking up the AA in the game. Black Ops 3 running at super-sampled 4K with max TAA looks sweet as hell and it uses 10GB of VRAM

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

Wow that's fucked EVGA PSUs used to be good, weren't some of them made by superflower?

Yes, 2s and 3s are sf leadex platforms. They switched to B tier afterwards.

 

[Racist Trash]

Yes, 2s and 3s are sf leadex platforms. They switched to B tier afterwards.

Shit sucks the PSU I got from EVGA was really good value and it was fully modular and sucks to hear they have ruined their PSU brand.

 

[Secret Asshole]

I bought a be quiet! Straight Power 11 after my EVGA SuperNOVA GA after it was found to constantly restart 300 series cards. Anyone know if bequiet is good?

 

[Drain Todger]

That's a pretty fucking awesome work station. I am not compiling audio or video so I couldn't really justify the extra price when I found a 5600X. I'd probably also need a more expensive power supply for the 5900X and my build was expensive as is. I also have no clue why sites are still benchmarking at 1080p with some of this hardware.

But personally I typically avoid ebay and use amazon resellers. This is because there's a bit of extra protection there and some of them are basically stores in unto themselves.

I guess if you want to go SUPER HYPE you can get the EVGA Kingpin if you can find one or the ASUS Rog Strix. I went MSI Suprim but just remember these cards are fucking HUGE.

According to benches 5900X has the ideal balance of single and multi-threaded performance. It hits the sweet spot. Gaming and workstation tasks, all in one.

I do some DAW stuff, and that leans heavily on CPU, RAM and storage speeds. I found out the hard way that OCing a DAW rig is never a good idea. It garbles your audio. I ran my 6950X up to 4.2 GHz and when previewing a track, it clicks and pops more than at stock speeds.

Orchestral samples use huge RAM. It’s easy to allocate 60+ gigs at once. Back in the day, they used to do it with clusters of Power Macs running Pro Tools and Vienna Ensemble Pro and shit, but now, a single workstation can handle it.

I decided to go with a windowless FD Define 7 instead of stripping the Corsair C70, continuing the quiet theme.

 

[Secret Asshole]

According to benches 5900X has the ideal balance of single and multi-threaded performance. It hits the sweet spot. Gaming and workstation tasks, all in one.

I do some DAW stuff, and that leans heavily on CPU, RAM and storage speeds. I found out the hard way that OCing a DAW rig is never a good idea. It garbles your audio. I ran my 6950X up to 4.2 GHz and when previewing a track, it clicks and pops more than at stock speeds.

Orchestral samples use huge RAM. It’s easy to allocate 60+ gigs at once. Back in the day, they used to do it with clusters of Power Macs running Pro Tools and Vienna Ensemble Pro and shit, but now, a single workstation can handle it.

I decided to go with a windowless FD Define 7 instead of stripping the Corsair C70, continuing the quiet theme.

Before I unboxed my CPU and built my system (Couldn't flash my Gigabyte BIOS for the Ryzen 5000 series so I had to RMA) I was going to sell it for a 5900X but the mark up on them is so fucking insane it made my jaw drop. The average is 300% except for one government procurement site who sells them for $30 over MSRP with a 3 week wait. Since I'm doing very light workstation tasks (video editing in 1080p, streaming and photoshop) it wasn't worth it to me, as my 3090 and RAM could pick up some of the slack that my processor couldn't. The scalping problem is fucking insane and I'm glad I'm fucking done looking for parts, just replacing ones that don't work.

But oh yeah, for you that is so worth it. If you're doing DAW there's no way a 5600X would work for you.