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Bet that runs nice and cool, I modded the cooling on several cards in the past. The best was the AMD 4850 I had. Ran at 80-90c with its stock cooler, ran at about 45c at its warmest with an Arctic Accelero (I think), ramsinks and a 140mm case fan. Quiet as a mouse that 4850 was.

HD5850, was a great card when new.

Not sure on why it just became an issue overnight, but the paste squeezing out also can't be taken as a sign that there's good contact. Only the correct thickness pads will guarantee that.

The pads cooling well isn't so relevant as if they're slightly too big, they'll still cool the memory very well but they could still keep the heatsink a little too high above the core to be able to cool that sufficiently.

This is all I did, making sure I kept visiting the vendor site every morning to check I was still logged in to speed up the checkout process. Was surprised how easy it was. .

This. 3080 10GB still playing everything I want at 1440p, any details that get reduced make no noticeable difference in what I see in the vast majority of cases. What we get for an upgrade nowadays is far less than it was. If you were lucky enough to be able to snag a 3080FE, it's up there with...

Jensen can **** off. Gaming isn't THAT important to me, plenty of other things to do.

I'm still loving that card and the 649 quid cost still looks good now. I would like an upgrade, but prices still need to become more sensible. So happy with my LG 55 inch OLED though, that was definitely the right choice last June.

And I doubt you'd see one again the way things are going. Voodoo cards were the bomb.

You recall correctly. Before then, AA was a real performance killer on all cards. The 9700 Pro was the first where you could have no jaggies and smooth frames. The Nvidia cards of the time, I think they were the 5000 FX series, still ran like crap with any form of AA enabled. Knowing this...

Yeah, very true. I remember installing a Voodoo 2 into my Pentium 2 400Mhz that had the Intel 810 chipset, commonly known at the time as the Intel 810 crapset :cry: The Voodoo card totally transformed my gaming experience. 9800 Pro was great too, although the 9700 pro was the real bargain being...

Should they? I think that's for them to decide really, if you don't like it, don't read it.

Well happy for you mate.

Power supply by EVGA is same model but different OEM, the main reason I'm very wary of EVGA power supplies..

The above poster (to yourself) has an EVGA but knows the OEM so also knows he has a good unit. But that's my gripe with EVGA, far too many different OEMs, the minority being good and the majority being trash tier. So while I'd have an EVGA power supply, it'd be because I did my homework on...

Seasonic are often mentioned, I even run one myself. But some Seasonic power supplies from 3 or 4 years ago did have issues with transient power spikes, mine was one of the first corrected but has in cable smoothing capacitors which can be a pain. As long as it's not a CS, CV or CX, Corsair...

For 100 quid, you might as well. I think the graphics card alone sells for not so much less than that second hand.

I have to agree.

Given you'd get 250-300 quid for your 3070, do you feel that the 650-700 quid you've had to fork out for the upgrade was worth it now that you have the new card? It's a genuine question, I'm having massive difficulty justifying this type of cost so am curious as to how someone who has done it...

I'd wait personally, not sure if you'd see 300 odd quid's worth of difference.