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[dougms3]

Lol yeah i would agree that Steve is tech Jesus.

Incorruptible, honorable, virtuous, the hair, died for our sins. Checks all the boxes.

 

[ThEvil0nE]

We desperately need our own version of tech Jesus...

I have the hair for that but I’m more versed with Old Testament where goats and first borns be sacrificed to get results

 

[Kukuk]

My brother, being an absolute mad man, bought me an RTX 4090 for my birthday. My previous card, an RTX 3080ti, was beyond enough for me, so this is kind of a hilarious upgrade.

I will say, I am now a believer in frame generation. This is balanced DLSS with frame gen and path-tracing RT.

 

[KcMsterpce]

OK, so made a few changes to my build. It's pretty much done now. Getting different RAM (the new RAM will have RGB, for those that really care. I don't. What I DO care about is it is on the 'approved' memory list for this motherboard. That's important, because the RAM on this build right now is a little dodgy and struggling to consistently load on startup).

Specs:
Case: Fractal Design Torrent RGB White
PSU: be quiet! Dark Power Pro 1200w
Cooler: Corsair H150i Elite Capellix XT 360mm AIO
Motherboard: Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Extreme E-ATX
CPU: AMD 7950X3D
RAM: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 2x 32GB DDR5/6000 CL30 1.4v
GPU: Gigabyte Aero RTX 4090
Storage: 2TB FireCuda Gen 4 M.2 SSD; 2x 4TB WD_SN850X (games, and video editing); 8TB Samsung QVO 2.5" SSD (backup storage, completed video projects)
Fans: Back panel exhaust is Lian Li AL140; bottom is stock Fractal 140mm intake fans; front panel is 3x Corsair 120mm fans from the AIO (intake)

Displays (not pictured): 48" LG 48GQ900-B OLED 120Hz monitor; LG OLED C1 55" (Thus, the need for the 4090)

Windows 10 was re-installed last week. I hate Windows 11 so much, that I sacrificed a complete reformat and reinstall just to get rid of the thing. But that would lead to a 4000 word rant, so won't go there.

 

[m-i-c-k-e-y]

Speaking of Lenovo. Purchased too a heavily discounted Thinkstation P360 Tiny. Will be arriving tomorrow.
Mine come w/ an i9-12900T and has two SODIMMS and two m.2 NVME Gen.4 slots aside from a dedicated RTX T1000 8Gb.
Will be upgrading it to 64Gb w/ two Kingston Fury mems and two 2Tb SN850X m.2s in RAID 0.

Will update this post when finished setting up.

I rialized that I haven't updated this post (Sept, 2022). Well the story is that they shipped me with another model: Thinkstation P360 Ultra and decided to keep it:



It has tons of expansion capabilities for a 3 liter PC, with a very friendly tooless case. Might as well see how far I can stuff it.

Added 4 x 32Gb DDR5 SODIMM (128Gb) and a QNAP QM2-2P10G1TB on its PCIE 4X slot for additional 10GBE port and two M.2 2280 NVME (now it has 4 x M.2 NVME). Will be upgrading to an i9-13900T and another two M.2 NVME drives when summer ends (will move the Samsung drive to another build). Later will see for the RTX 4000 SFF. Changed the 230w PS to 330W (the original PS just won't cut it).

Configuration:

Internals:

 

[Kukuk]

With the announced release of FSR3, I'm really excited for more people to experience frame generation. I've been playing with DLSS3 for a good bit, and I'm really impressed with the results. While I'm still annoyed that Nvidia is using it as a way to justify small performance upgrades over previous gen cards, I can kinda understand why. On some games it's good for double the performance, and it really is a convincing effect.

A big selling point of FSR3 is that it's going to be usable on older gen AMD, Intel, and even Nvidia cards, so it's going to breath a good bit of life into potentially aging cards (and even steal some sales away from the RTX 4000 series ).

My only concern is that it will look worse than Nvidia's solution, just like with upscaling. I really don't think "better than nothing" will cut it with frame generation.

 

[SilverEars]

With the announced release of FSR3, I'm really excited for more people to experience frame generation. I've been playing with DLSS3 for a good bit, and I'm really impressed with the results. While I'm still annoyed that Nvidia is using it as a way to justify small performance upgrades over previous gen cards, I can kinda understand why. On some games it's good for double the performance, and it really is a convincing effect.

A big selling point of FSR3 is that it's going to be usable on older gen AMD, Intel, and even Nvidia cards, so it's going to breath a good bit of life into potentially aging cards (and even steal some sales away from the RTX 4000 series ).

My only concern is that it will look worse than Nvidia's solution, just like with upscaling. I really don't think "better than nothing" will cut it with frame generation.

I guess it's good to have better performing FSR for titles that doesn't support DLSS. I'm very happy with my 4070ti. It performs so well that it got me interested in going all out for the TOTL with my next build. 4K with all max out is really amazing looking when running beyond 100+ fps. Main difference from 60 to higher fps is the motion blurring, you get less and less blur as you go higher fps.

What I found more important is frame pacing. Even at a high avg frame rate, it fluctuates high and low, it can look worse than 30 that is constant or consistant. The new Tears of the Kingdom if at consistent 30 can look smoother than what you'd expect out of 30fps. Bloodborne is terrible looking at 30 on PS4/5. I would guess it has pacing issues. Wo Long is really terrible when it comes to frame pacing, it looks quite juddery at 80fps avg.

Something interesting I noticed by accident when it comes to supplying sufficient power to the vid card. I recently ran my UPS with PC connected out of a heavy duty extension chord. You know, the typical orange ones used for power tools.

I upgraded to the most recent two drivers, and I would get random black screen with no sound during peak gaming session with intensive graphics at 4K. So basically the computer crashed (but in an unusual way I'm not used to seeing, even the video signal goes out), and based on what I read on the net, it's been said to be driver issues or the cable to the PS from graphics card. Since it was doing this for the two most recent drivers in a row, I decided to investigate.

I decided to try the wall outlet instead (long story why I was using an extension with outlet from a distance), and I didn't have issues with black screen. What I realized is that the wire that is used to draw power to the UPS and subsequently to the PC, matters. It seems the cable was bottle necking the power draw, so when my PC was at peak draw, it couldn't' draw sufficient power, the PC would go to black screen and stall. When it goes to black screen, that means the video signal is involved, and thus the video card. Kinda like a brown out in a way, but worse since the pc would just stop. I now see why people suspect the video card cable when this happens, since it's related to power being suppled to the component.

This exemplifies how there's a lot of possibilities when there is an issue. I'm glad I caught this one.

I've other issues related to cables, such as SATA cables. You can get bad cables. Video cables have good chances as well.

Something that doesn't make sense is why didn't my UPS take over when there was insufficient power available? Maybe UPS only support up to certain peak immediate power, or a reaction time involved?

 

[KcMsterpce]

Something that doesn't make sense is why didn't my UPS take over when there was insufficient power available? Maybe UPS only support up to certain peak immediate power, or a reaction time involved?

Is your UPS rated to handle the power draw that your PC is demanding?
Not sure that is the actual issue, but it's important to ensure that your power "weak point" isn't because you have an UPS that is rated to support say, 600W for 5 minutes or something, and your computer at high load (playing games for example) is pushing out 900W - getting slowed down from the main outlet during passthrough from the UPS. Also, check to make sure it isn't losing performance, which the tools are probably included software for your UPS.
Otherwise, it could be many other things.

 

[SilverEars]

Is your UPS rated to handle the power draw that your PC is demanding?
Not sure that is the actual issue, but it's important to ensure that your power "weak point" isn't because you have an UPS that is rated to support say, 600W for 5 minutes or something, and your computer at high load (playing games for example) is pushing out 900W - getting slowed down from the main outlet during passthrough from the UPS. Also, check to make sure it isn't losing performance, which the tools are probably included software for your UPS.
Otherwise, it could be many other things.

I don't think it's the UPS (it has sufficient power), my PC randomly stops, with black screen twice or three time I first turn on my computer now. It will not do that again after. This is the most random thing I've ever encountered. This is why I hate PCs.

 

[ThEvil0nE]

You just might want to check the Windows Event Viewer to view crash log so you won't keep guessing.

 

[SilverEars]

You just might want to check the Windows Event Viewer to view crash log so you won't keep guessing.

Didn't know there was a log!
Crossing my finger it's corrupted drivers. I had no idea clean install required such detailed procedures. nvlddmkm Event ID 14 seams to be a common issues from corrupt drivers.

 

[ThEvil0nE]

Didn't know there was a log!
Crossing my finger it's corrupted drivers. I had no idea clean install required such detailed procedures. nvlddmkm Event ID 14 seams to be a common issues from corrupt drivers.

Updating drivers specially with GPU is a hit or miss when using nvidia/radeon auto-update. Best practice is to always do a clean driver install when updating gpu drivers, it's the more timeous process but saves from headache.

 

[m-i-c-k-e-y]

Use DDU to uninstall your gpu driver..
https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

 

[SilverEars]

Use DDU to uninstall your gpu driver..
https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Has any of yall had same issues and did this fix your issues? Also, do you guys use DDU every update?

 

[ThEvil0nE]

Has any of yall had same issues and did this fix your issues? Also, do you guys use DDU every update?

Always do a clean install when updating drivers. DDU has been around for ages and have always used them to do driver gpu driver update. It will delete all files installed by the old driver to make you do a clean install.