An interesting point, as I am struggling to buy the new Asus wonder-monitor, the PG32UQX at the same time as the gfx. Does the Freesync VRR work over Display Port?
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Anyone just given up on looking for a new GPU?
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An interesting point, as I am struggling to buy the new Asus wonder-monitor, the PG32UQX at the same time as the gfx. Does the Freesync VRR work over Display Port?
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According to https://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/asus_rog_swift_pg32uqx.htm if you look at the spec sheet section it does list Freesync VRR over displayport - this is the exact monitor I've been looking at as well
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In my case, its because my monitor has G-Sync and doesn't work with Freesync, and I'm not desperate for an upgrade
I have never seen scalping end unless government steps in.
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We live in a capitalist society of liberal economics - no chance of scalping being made illegal.
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I decided to update the drivers and play around with my Radeon 550 after using it currently to dual box in MMOs
Completely forgot I needed to use atikmdag patcher to verify my bios mod and ended up with a few hours of hell trying to get it to work.
Simply trying to unlock 1075mv GPU voltage fubars the card with error 43 in device manager lol.
£53 GPU, default clocks are 1206 GPU / 6000 64 bit vram, and it overclocks to quite a nice 1425 / 8000 with a custom bios, and only 66c max temp.
Its quite amazing just how much stuff it manages to run with a pentium at 1200p with low to medium settings, even Civ 6 runs very comfortably at 40+ FPS at medium settings, and a lot of games that specify higher minimum settings still run well (games that say I5 / quad core min and a beefier GPU still get strong framerates at low settings).
www.3dmark.com/spy/20754467
That also made me realise that the custom bios is likely why it wouldn't output when trying to run it in my main PC, would need to revert to the crappy stock rom to test it with my 10900K which I can't be bothered to do anymore.
All the current shortages and pricing do make me regret not having paid a little over twice the cost for a GTX 1050 Ti back when I bought it. Lower Nvidia cards lack the Display Port 1.4 output which is the only thing I needed this card for.
Completely forgot I needed to use atikmdag patcher to verify my bios mod and ended up with a few hours of hell trying to get it to work.
Simply trying to unlock 1075mv GPU voltage fubars the card with error 43 in device manager lol.
£53 GPU, default clocks are 1206 GPU / 6000 64 bit vram, and it overclocks to quite a nice 1425 / 8000 with a custom bios, and only 66c max temp.
Its quite amazing just how much stuff it manages to run with a pentium at 1200p with low to medium settings, even Civ 6 runs very comfortably at 40+ FPS at medium settings, and a lot of games that specify higher minimum settings still run well (games that say I5 / quad core min and a beefier GPU still get strong framerates at low settings).
www.3dmark.com/spy/20754467
That also made me realise that the custom bios is likely why it wouldn't output when trying to run it in my main PC, would need to revert to the crappy stock rom to test it with my 10900K which I can't be bothered to do anymore.
All the current shortages and pricing do make me regret not having paid a little over twice the cost for a GTX 1050 Ti back when I bought it. Lower Nvidia cards lack the Display Port 1.4 output which is the only thing I needed this card for.
I have been buying endless stuff with the money I put by for a graphics card and it kinda highlighted to me just how overpriced graphics cards are. I do think though that this is damaging gaming. I for one am starting to look at gaming in a new light. I will not take part in all this hysteria and chronic wasting of money.
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Isn’t there a 7 day limit upon receipt?
Unsure.
Only mentioned it after @DD_Crash mentioned that they might return unsold stuff.
If they were to be able to do that, it would almost be like scalpers are acting as drop-shipping merchants.
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Ticket scalping is already illegal. Running a business (e.g. selling GPU's) without declaring tax on profits or honouring consumer rights is also illegal. What most scalpers are doing is already illegal in a round about sort of way, they just need to make buying with bots and using other people's address/details to facilitate it also illegal and it'll be much clearer.
I REALLY hate to defend them but technically, since it falls after the VAT is levied it falls under private sale and hence, under capital gains, so they can make a little over £12k per year profit without tax and they're not subject to the same consumer protection regulations
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Not even been a week and there are 126 3080 Ti’s on the Bay (mostly sealed FE version). Shame there is no GPU policy, like they have in Taiwan.
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oh and a proposed law to change this was withdrawn, because the government didnt support it.
Gaming Hardware (Automated Purchase and Resale) Bill - Parliamentary Bills - UK Parliament
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I REALLY hate to defend them but technically, since it falls after the VAT is levied it falls under private sale and hence, under capital gains, so they can make a little over £12k per year profit without tax and they're not subject to the same consumer protection regulations
A lot of small businesses don't charge VAT (and also don't get to claim back VAT) because their turnover is low, but don't get to sidestep consumer law. If you bought and sold 1 card then yes, but if you are using a bot to buy dozens of cards and selling them for profit (unopened in original boxes) then you are a small business and not a private sale.
Private sale means it was bought for you to make use of, you can't really argue that past the first one or two. What they are doing is running a small business. Vat is irrelevant as all b2b sales also attract vat just the vat registered customer can reclaim it and small businesses can't if they've not registered for vat.
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It's not like they could have stopped it anyhow.
You literally can't stop bots. Nobody can. Not even the govt.
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Here in the US, the retailer that sells the FE cards requires people to come to the store and pick up the card. This seems to bee a good way of mitigating bots. Unless scalpers have some T-888 units to pose as humans, they need to find humans to do leg work for each card.