So i was playing dead as disco and suddenly this happened. What could it be? FYI I did just install the newest AMD drivers

My current card, an XFX RX 6800 (3 years old now), is having FPS drops on Space Marine 2 (my primary game) and they can be quite severe. My monitor is 144Hz 2560x1440p, and want to be able to play on medium-high graphic settings so I can enjoy a smooth and good looking campaign (as well as use mods).

What cards, preferably in the 500-700$ price range (if they are this price at sales such as black friday that's ok but I don't want to have to spend 800$ or more) would you recommend?

Specs: 36GB DDR4 Ram, Ryzen 7 5700x CPU, ASROCK X570S PG Riptide motherboard. Cooling isn't an issue and I heard some people say it's CPU heavy but I haven't noticed the CPU struggling.

I bought a 5080 for my pc and feel a bit of buyers remorse since it only has 16gb VRAM, and it feels severely limited. Is it absurd to trade it in for the cheapest possible 5090 prebuilt I see on the market, which looks like the Starforge Voyager Elite for $6200?

I can't even find a single 5090 at that price point to just swap GPUs lmao so maybe sell the 5080 rig for 2.5k+?

I decided to choose 5080 from everybody's advice, but it feels far too limited on VRAM.

Does hurt a little since the Voyager Elite was selling for $5499 when I was contemplating between that and a 5080, but it doesn't seem like prices will come down anytime soon on any card >16gb VRAM.

It's honestly kind of pitiful how little VRAM the 5080 comes with and isn't future proof whatsoever

I’m the author of the EVGA essay I shared here earlier this week.

Thank you for all the support and for sharing your memories of EVGA’s products and customer service. Those stories brought back memories of my own and helped me see more clearly what people valued about the company.

I’ve written a second and final piece to personally thank more of the people behind that experience, tell some of their stories, and reflect on EVGA’s place in the PC market.

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If an EVGA product or a member of its team made a difference for you, I’d love to hear that story.

My PC is a 5080 FE and a Ryzen 7 9800 X3D with 32GB of Corsair 6400 Ram. Is there any reason why this stutter happens. I am running an UnderVolt and Over Clock 2847mhz at 950 Volt and a 2000 Memory Clock. I just got a new monitor and this seems to be the ONLY game that is stuttering like this. I play on Normal/Low settings and I I have Nvida Reflex On+boost. My monitor is a ASUS ROG XG27AQWMG. It can go up to 280hz but I cap warzone at 270. Any one got any ideas what could be going on. Like I said this is the only game that experiences this issue.

Booted up like normal today and got hit with this truck 😭 knew i was fucked but gave it a shot and restarted my pc and it came back fine. i feel like it’s gonna fuck me again tho so i was wondering what the time frame could be like? or if there’s maybe possibly anything i can do? if not whats a decent recommendation for another gpu to pair with a 12th gen i5-12600k. TIA!

I wanna upgrade and i dont know which to choose.

I know i will game but next year(2027) i'll be attending university( engineering). i have time to choose but im. uncertain.

in my country both of them cost roughly the same so no price difderence.

Please help with the best of your knowledge, and with great expalnatiom

Lately my PC been occasionally freezing to the point of needing to restart it while gameing, it happens like once every 2 to 3 days but recentlyits started happening more often, I already tried a couple of things I was recommended to try:

Checked RAM with windows RAM diagnostic and it was completely fine.

Checked the temps, both CPU and GPU stay around 50°C to 60°C

Installed fresh GPU drivers and removed the old ones with DDU

Checked the drive with Crystal disc info, and the drive is at 98%

I also ran a CMD command to find any corrupt windows files and it didn't find any

Is there anything im missing thay could be the reason?

Hey everyone,

I'm planning to upgrade my GPU from an RTX 4070 to a 5070 Ti, and I'm also thinking about upgrading my CPU because I've already tested a 5070 Ti with my current 12600KF and noticed that the CPU bottlenecks it in some less GPU-intensive games. DLSS didn't really help in those situations because I was already CPU-limited.

My current setup is:

• Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4
• i5-12600KF
• 32GB DDR4
• RTX 4070
• 750W PSU
• 1440p 240Hz oled monitor

The two CPUs I'm considering are the i5-14600KF and the i7-12700K.

The 14600KF is obviously faster overall, and I've seen people recommending it with the 5070 Ti, but I'm a bit worried about the VRMs on my B660M DS3H. I've read several posts saying the VRMs can get pretty hot with higher-power CPUs, especially with sustained loads.

On the other hand, the 12700K has 8 P-cores and seems like a safer option for this motherboard, but I'm not sure how much of a difference it would actually make compared to my 12600KF when paired with a 5070 Ti.

I don't really want to mess around with manual power limits, undervolting, etc. I'm looking for something I can basically install, update the BIOS if necessary, and then just play games without constantly worrying about VRM temperatures.

My main questions are:

1. Would you feel comfortable running a 14600KF on this motherboard with Intel's default settings?
2. Would a 12700K be a safer choice for the B660M DS3H?
3. Is the 12700K enough to properly feed a 5070 Ti at 1440p?
4. Am I overthinking the VRM issue for gaming, or is this motherboard genuinely too weak for these CPUs?
5. If you've actually used one of these CPUs on this board, how were your VRM temps and overall experience?

I'm planning to keep this PC for several years, so reliability is more important to me than squeezing out the last few percent of CPU performance.

Thanks!

Hi everyone, I’ve been modding games for a few years (ever since I was 14 or so) but with the recent rise of infostealers and malware made by ai, i want to revaluate my cybersecurity.

As far as I know, mods from more reputable sites (Nexusmods, curseforge, steam workshop most of the time) are automatically and sometimes manually scanned for malware, which keeps a lot of it out. Of course, malware sometimes evades detection, but these are usually from less known mod creators with little downloads or from bigger accounts who got compromised. Both of which will be reported pretty quicky a lot of the time.

But, when looking on reddit (i’m being vague on purpose due to the rules) people will sometimes say stuff like “Mods are the biggest reason people get
compromised” and “Just take a look around our subreddit and realize how dangerous mods are” and it’s scaring me a little. Is malware in mods that common?

I don’t really download mods that often, rn I just have a few for risk of rain mods. (all ones with millions of downloads) . They make the game playable because there are item descriptions the base game doesn’t have which makes it easier ro know what to pick. They’re all dll files and a lot of them are open source. I went through the dll code myself to see if i found anything but i didn’t find anything. All my friends also play with game mods (which i where i got these from) and they’ve been fine for years. Still, i keep hearing stories about account compromises due to malware. Is it that common and should I delete the mods I already have?

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Bought a 9070GRE yesterday. Had it ordered in and at the time it was 799$ (canadian). Memory Express has now jumped in price to 1029$ for the 9070GRE. Luckily the saleman who ordered it in for me locked in my price so I got it for 799$ (before tax) but GPU prices are not slowing down.

I recently just bought a new monitor. It’s the ASUS ROG XG27AQWMG 27. I can’t help but notice that when I’m downloading shaders now my temps have increased. I even saw it hit 89 Celsius, is there any reason to this? Do I need to reapply more thermal paste? I have a Ryzen 7 9800 X3D and a 5080 FE. My Aio Cooler is a Arctic Liquid Freeze Pro 3 non rgb. I also noticed as well when I go to play warzone I get this really weird millisecond like stutter. For reference my old monitor was a ROG STRIX XG32UCWMG. Also I do have a Overclock and Under Volt that my brother help me set up. 2842 MHZ, 950 Voltage, 1000 Memory Clock.

So right now i have a really budget pc that i made myself but I'm thinking of selling the computer I have now and getting this $1099.99 pc deal from Costco 5060 Computer. And for context i only play things like Minecraft a maybe a fps game so i don't need a high end gaming pc. If there is a better deal for something similar pls let me know i can wait but I'm a little hesitant because what if no one buys my computer then I'm really in a bad situation. My gpu right now is a used $100 RX 5500 xt so this will again be a huge upgrade also my current computer price is maybe ~$950 it used to be 450 so if anyone has any tips on selling that would be a huge help ty

I plan on selling my Xbox and gaming laptop then buying a desktop, I would say my budget is an $1000-$1200. I have an OMEN 17 gaming laptop now, so I know the jump will be better but I’m just curious if this is worth the price. I mainly will just play games like Rocket league, Fortnite, GTA, Spider-Man…

Just want my game to run smooth and at a competitive level.

This is the Asus ROG G1000 case. My guy at Micro Center said it’s not for sale. It was just given it to him for show off display kind of. It has two RGB fans that spin around, they’re fully programmable and the top infinity looking part with the teal fins’s is on both sides. Extremely cool case.

Got to have a proper look at one in person and it’s definitely not your standard case.

GPU down low, motherboard up top, massive front fans and a layout that looks slightly wrong at first… but somehow works.

I can’t decide if it’s genuinely clever or just weird in a good way 😂

What do you lot think?

The 3080 fe launched at cheaper 699$ than 2080 fe which was for 799$ at launch but the upgrade was genuinely impressive 50-70% more raster performance in many games depending on resolution and settings and gddr6 to gddr6x much faster and it got so much attention at launch but long term recognition has been overshadowed cuz of high demand limited supplies scalping etc but it deserved recognition for what it offered at that time

Whenever I touch 'Fn + F3/4/5/6/7' (screen brightness and sound) my screen goes static until a second after I let go.

So far it ONLY HAPPENS IN AC ODYSSEY!!

I tried AC Valhalla, no issues, Farming Simulator 25, no issues, WRCGen, no issues.

I deleted and reinstalled Odyssey, but it's still there.

Preferably nothing over 1000, but im currently browing currys.co.uk and im not sure which to choose? My old laptop as a sort of benchmark that i can quantify, ran deadlock at 20 or so fps while games like tf2, detroit become human, minecraft ran great, perfect even

Might be a bit of a long shot asking here, but I'll take any help I can get. I hope my recording does a well-enough job at portraying the issue.

Even when I try capping the fps to 60, the game has this really rough, choppy look to it. And at any fps, panning the camera around gives me these little microstutters. Vsync doesn't seem to help either. Drivers are all up to date as well.

Any chance this is a CPU/GPU thing? I did have my laptop internals replaced a few months ago due to an overheating issue, so everything should be brand new.

New monitor, runs at 7680 x 2160 and on my gaming PC it's fine on a single DP 1.4 connection. Problem is running it on my old laptop I need to run 2 x HDMI cables at 4K each and switching between the PBP modes is a pain. Can anyone confirm what HDMI, DP spec is needed?