Video Card chat

[Mephistopheles Janx]

Well shit... the wife's R9 390 quit working with multiple monitors. If I have 2/3 monitors plugged in the fans stop and I get no display. If I only have the one connected then it works but lays to waste the other two monitors.

I currently have 2 of 3 up and running via onboard video but, obviously, that isn't a good long term solution. Swapped out the PSU with the one from my HTPC and that wasn't the problem as the video card shutting down persists.

Dude, I'm not ready to drop another $200 on a video card. I may put the 1050 currently in the HTPC into her rig and drop the 390 in the HTPC and see if that will allow us to hobble along for a bit.

[Fish]

Nvidia RTX 30-Series GPU Availability to Worsen in Q1: Report

[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by Fish

Nvidia RTX 30-Series GPU Availability to Worsen in Q1: Report

I still paid way too much for my 3090, so everyone can feel better knowing that.

[Imon Yourside]

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by Imon Yourside

Paul is about my favorite of the tech talking heads.

[Fish]

So, this week I made 3 separate morning visits to Microcenter, hoping to snag a new GeForce RTX 30X0 card. Didn't have any luck, but it was certainly amusing people watching. Shortly after they open at 10am, an awkward group gathers around the empty shelves that normally hold hundreds of video cards. Mainly nerdy goofs like myself. But nobody knows what's going on, or how it's supposed to work as far as if/when they bring out new boxes of goodies. Everyone stands around for 20-30 minutes like a bunch of caged animals, waiting for the morning food drop.

In talking to one of the eldest techs working the computer parts area, this is what I've gathered...

While shipments are mostly random, they typically get new 30X0 cards to stock on M-W-F mornings. But not every one of those days. It varies greatly when they get shipments, and they really don't know ahead of time, and cannot take reservations. The website data on quantities and availability is completely unreliable, do not believe what you see there unless the available quantity is above 20.

On top of that, it's now the Chinese New Year. Which means Asian production of chips effectively shuts down for 2 weeks. During an already historic shortage of silicon computer chips.

[Dayze]

just a random quesiton

what sort of video card and CPU would be needed to run3 monitors sub 4k res?
In this next year, I think I'm going to try to build a gaming PC. primiarly for Flight Sim, and American Truck Sim (maybe a racing game eventuallY).

wasn't sure if 3 monitors would be the way to go, or a single monitor with Track IR.I'm at the very beginning of my research on this crap.

[hometeam]

Originally Posted by Dayze

just a random quesiton

what sort of video card and CPU would be needed to run3 monitors sub 4k res?
In this next year, I think I'm going to try to build a gaming PC. primiarly for Flight Sim, and American Truck Sim (maybe a racing game eventuallY).

wasn't sure if 3 monitors would be the way to go, or a single monitor with Track IR.I'm at the very beginning of my research on this crap.

SO you gotta think here, the amount of pixels you are pushing is huge.

4k is 4x 1080, so even if you wanted to do 3x 1080p , you are pushing 3/4 of the pixels of a 4k display. if you want to go 3x1440, now you are talking about pushing way more than a single 4k display.


And, you are talking microsoft flight simulator as well, which is VERY cpu bound. The best somewhat achievable setup out there (currently 5900x+3090 or the likes) would not be a world beater at 3x1080p

So really the answer is.. the fastest GPU can afford, with the fastest CPU you can afford. 3x 1080p is still a pretty hefty system, and you are going to want all the power you can muster.

[Demonpenz]

Originally Posted by Dayze

just a random quesiton

what sort of video card and CPU would be needed to run3 monitors sub 4k res?
In this next year, I think I'm going to try to build a gaming PC. primiarly for Flight Sim, and American Truck Sim (maybe a racing game eventuallY).

wasn't sure if 3 monitors would be the way to go, or a single monitor with Track IR.I'm at the very beginning of my research on this crap.

just get a superultra wide and call it a day

[Dayze]

Hmmmm. thanks mang.


Yeah, it might end up being a more single monitor set up with Track IR. as much as I would love a 3 monitor solution for imersion....don't think that'll be in the budget GPU/CPU.

was hoping to keep the build budget in the ball park of $1k. (just the gaming system, no monitors etc). Sounds like to do the sweet triple monitor set up with moderate graphics would be wayyy more than that

[hometeam]

Originally Posted by Dayze

Hmmmm. thanks mang.


Yeah, it might end up being a more single monitor set up with Track IR. as much as I would love a 3 monitor solution for imersion....don't think that'll be in the budget GPU/CPU.

was hoping to keep the build budget in the ball park of $1k. (just the gaming system, no monitors etc). Sounds like to do the sweet triple monitor set up with moderate graphics would be wayyy more than that

3070+5600x maybe if you could get your hands on em

[Demonpenz]

Originally Posted by Dayze

Hmmmm. thanks mang.


Yeah, it might end up being a more single monitor set up with Track IR. as much as I would love a 3 monitor solution for imersion....don't think that'll be in the budget GPU/CPU.

was hoping to keep the build budget in the ball park of $1k. (just the gaming system, no monitors etc). Sounds like to do the sweet triple monitor set up with moderate graphics would be wayyy more than that

the xbox buttons are broke because I put an aftermarket hub on and ****ed it up but you can have my g920 if you are in KC

[Fish]

GPU Tales of Terror: Episode 8

So, NVidia dropped their new line of RTX 3060s today. A 12GB model for under $500. I went out to Microcenter early this time, just in case. Got there about 9:45, and there was already about ~40+ people in line. Some of these mother****ers brought camping chairs and sleeping bags. Who knows WTF time they started the line. They opened the doors about 9:55ish. By that point, the line outside ran all the way down the side of the building, and around the corner down the street. ****ing bananas.

They had about 20 or so RTX cards to give out. Pretty much every person that was in line went directly to the computer parts counter to form another line to wait for GPU cards. They handed out little slips of paper for the number of available cards, like they were Willy Wonka golden tickets. There were about 20 people still in line in front of me when they ran out.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by Fish

GPU Tales of Terror: Episode 8

So, NVidia dropped their new line of RTX 3060s today. A 12GB model for under $500. I went out to Microcenter early this time, just in case. Got there about 9:45, and there was already about ~40+ people in line. Some of these mother****ers brought camping chairs and sleeping bags. Who knows WTF time they started the line. They opened the doors about 9:55ish. By that point, the line outside ran all the way down the side of the building, and around the corner down the street. ****ing bananas.

They had about 20 or so RTX cards to give out. Pretty much every person that was in line went directly to the computer parts counter to form another line to wait for GPU cards. They handed out little slips of paper for the number of available cards, like they were Willy Wonka golden tickets. There were about 20 people still in line in front of me when they ran out.

Wow.

Sucks for AMD and Nvidia too. People are yelling at them to take their money and they are just like ...

[Imon Yourside]

Originally Posted by Fish

GPU Tales of Terror: Episode 8

So, NVidia dropped their new line of RTX 3060s today. A 12GB model for under $500. I went out to Microcenter early this time, just in case. Got there about 9:45, and there was already about ~40+ people in line. Some of these mother****ers brought camping chairs and sleeping bags. Who knows WTF time they started the line. They opened the doors about 9:55ish. By that point, the line outside ran all the way down the side of the building, and around the corner down the street. ****ing bananas.

They had about 20 or so RTX cards to give out. Pretty much every person that was in line went directly to the computer parts counter to form another line to wait for GPU cards. They handed out little slips of paper for the number of available cards, like they were Willy Wonka golden tickets. There were about 20 people still in line in front of me when they ran out.

Keep trying man you just need to get lucky.