PC Hardware Talk Megathread

[chemgear]

Gonna keep trying, maybe see if I can get another one. Will post if I have any luck, just like the Switch and PS5 gongshow days here.

[chemgear]

Bestbuy looks to be done. Maybe Memory Express to go. They have add to cart buttons sorta kinda not working.

[PsYcNeT]

What's wild is either NVIDIA put their FE stock up early on their site, or they simply just had 0 stock for canada.

They sent out emails last night but while the page changed to "see options" there quite literally were 0 from the get go

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by PsYcNeT

What's wild is either NVIDIA put their FE stock up early on their site, or they simply just had 0 stock for canada.

They sent out emails last night but while the page changed to "see options" there quite literally were 0 from the get go

Nobody wants our useless pesos!

[PsYcNeT]

I've had an ASUS TUF card at ME in my cart for about 20m but the site is losing the war so I don't think I'll get to check it out since it take 7-8m to load a page and keeps throwing "service unavailable" errors.

Sad

[chemgear]

Keep trying, still hope!

[chemgear]

A lot of the models on Memory Express are still showing as Add to Cart being available. Have to just assume people are slowly checking out.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by chemgear

A lot of the models on Memory Express are still showing as Add to Cart being available. Have to just assume people are slowly checking out.

Yep took 45m but I got an order confirmation # and email confirmation for the ASUS TUF OC I snagged.

Now we'll see how many weeks/months it takes to ship. Might be another 3090-esque debacle and I won't see it til July.

[chemgear]

Apparently there were 144 5090 FE's on BB.

[chemgear]

One thing I realized was that it's basically only the TUF and Astrals that have 2 HDMI's. The other models were pretty much out for me, even the FE.

[PsYcNeT]

Ugh you're killin' me. Price aside, I've had way better chipluck/longevity from FE cards over the years than AIBs.

I'm sad I won't get to see the package design for it either.

[calumniate]

Question time! I have a monitor that uses freesync, and have a new-ish 4070 super. But sometimes in games during the loading screens if freesync is on i'm getting some flickering 'like pulses of light'. When in a game it's ok though. Apparently this is due to the menus being a lower FPS than the games typically. Seems like a dumb issue though.. lately I've just been turning freesync off because the 4070 has enough horsepower to produce frames. Any thoughts though?

[chemgear]

I think we killed the Bestbuy.ca website.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by calumniate

Question time! I have a monitor that uses freesync, and have a new-ish 4070 super. But sometimes in games during the loading screens if freesync is on i'm getting some flickering 'like pulses of light'. When in a game it's ok though. Apparently this is due to the menus being a lower FPS than the games typically. Seems like a dumb issue though.. lately I've just been turning freesync off because the 4070 has enough horsepower to produce frames. Any thoughts though?

I've had the couple Freesync monitors I have show some weird behaviors before (though not this specifically), but if it's just menus I'd leave it on. The sync is always better than just relying on frames, since 1% drops and tearing make the experience worse.

[chemgear]

Memory Express site is way smoother now. They must be taking orders and just filling them whenever.

[PsYcNeT]

ME doing weird things with their prices.

SUPRIM waterblock was 3700 earlier and now it's 4250, TUF GAMING was 3629 and now it's 3229 (but sold out).

Strange stuff.

[chemgear]

$400 in instant savings. Was the TUF ever available? I thought it was just the TUF OC.

[photon]

Originally Posted by CroFlames

Can't you already play everything on max @4k with a 4090? Why upgrade?

No, at least not with RT. For both the new Indiana Jones game and STALKER2 I can't even get 60fps at 4K with RT on even with DLSS on (without frame generation).

[Meelapo]

What an absolute disaster this morning. My wife and I both tried to get a card from Best Buy. We were met with error after error. I was able to get to the step where it listed shipping information but it never loaded details. Fairly disappointed that, once again, Best Buy couldn't cobble together a decent way to purchase things during high load. This goes all the way back to the Futureshop/BestBuy boxing day sales.

[chemgear]

They keep shifting the prices on Memory Express lol.