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£1350 seems a really good price for an MSI one? I presume its the Gaming X trio? Looks like they usually go for £1500+ Sounds like its coil-whine behaves exactly like my 3090FE.... as soon as load is above 200W~ regardless of framerate, the whine starts. Undervolt just reduces it slightly...

Been a long time, but had a string of failures in the late 00's 8800 Ultra failed - outside warranty GTX285 failed - replaced with HD5850 by retailer HD5850 failed - RMA'ed and received replacement Since then had GTX970 (still runs in my 2nd PC) RTX380 FE - sold RTX3090 FE - RMA'ed for...

For better or worse... this is what I do now too. The returns are just so quick and painless. Have a drop off point at OneStop a 2 minute walk from my house too. If its a refund, they usually issue it as soon as the item is scanned in at OneStop too.

When I RMA'ed my 3090 Founders Edition to nvidia, it had to go all the way to Hong Kong I think... But, they paid for shipping both ways, fully insured / tracked etc. Whole process took about 10 days from start to finnish, and it was over Xmas / New Year. When I RMA'ed my RM750i PSU to...

Your frustration with the 5950x/3090 system seem entirely self inflicted... There was/is no need to be overlocking or messing in the BIOS... you could run both of those at stock and have a very enjoyable 4K experiance. IF you need to run every game at max settings 120+ FPS, well I guess your...

Because attack vectors change? Keeping an OS secure is always changing. I believe on clean-install of Windows 11 the default has always been on. Just Windows 10 didnt.

This is what Id like to understand. Why does it matter if the system never moves? Is it implying this is only an issue on public networks? Because security risks never change do they.... hackers never think of new ways to attack a system. Just because something wasnt possible or explotied 2...

Im surprised by the amount of people looking to upgrade from 3080's or better. Has it ever really been worth it, or necessary to upgrade every generation? Compared to upgrading every other or even every 3 generations, the improvements are just not worth it for the money? To me a GPU should...

Yep your right on the CPU name... confusing it with my 4790k I had before. They went from an ASUS board to an MSI one. Not sure exact models, but believe it was a Z97 to an X570.

Its possible. They had a i5-4760k and played at 1440p ultrawide. Upgraded to a 3700x. Bottleneck calc suggests neither is CPU limited at that res... not sure how accurate that site is though.

I think definately some truth to motherboard being a possible factor. I had a freind with a 2080 Super which was whine-free when he first got it. He later swapped CPU & Motherboard, and the card started to whine. PSU and rest of the setup stayed the same... Problem is the variables become too...

Right their with ya... I considered going much lower-tier card in the hope of no-whine. But it sounds like the entire 30-series is affected, and the 40 too... Also right their with you on the not really wanting to hide the PC. Mine looks awesome now, with RGB lightning etc. And aside from...

I admire your utter dedication to getting a whine-free card. I think its probably cheaper to move the PC away at this point. I totally agree, this shouldnt be the case on any GPU, let alone a top-tier. I find it so strange how many people just accept "this is the norm" and "expected". Would you...

Anything of note added by this updated? ITs always such a pain re-doing all BIOS settings after an upgrade that I am loathed to bother. I am sure my old Z97m had a better update process, as the settings where retained if you did so via windows. (I think... memory might be hazy)

Yup, thats what I paid for mine too. Whats sad, in some ways its not as well featured as the Z97m Gaming I bought 5yrs priror to it for £107 That board had many featues the Tomahawk is missing... like a post code display, on-board power buttons, ability to hold the power button down for 4s and...

This ended up being my conclusion. I spent some time trying to dial in these values and curve optimiser. I started with -30 all core and although that seemed stable 95% of the time, I got 1 or 2 game crashes in the 3 months I had it... just turned out to be more work than it was worth, so I went...

Id be testing that drive in another system / the primary slot on the board to confirm if the SSD is good or not. I recently installed a 990Pro in my 2nd slot, and had no issues at all.

Stories like this almost make it worse :( Knowing that it IS possible to hit the proverbial coil-whineless 'jack-pot'. I just wouldnt have the patenice / willpower to send back 4+ GPUs. By the 3rd one Id just have lost all interest and excitment for getting the new GPU in the first place. I...

What was the timmings from your SR kit? Did you run that stuff at XMP or also lower?

Thanks! Very tempted to pull the trigger on these. How much tweaking did it take to hit 14-14-14? I am very novice when it comes to ram tunning, and tbh dont want to spend a great deal of time on it. Did you do any testing at XMP? Im curious how much gains going from 16-16-16 to 14-14-14 had?