SharkyUK
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If you're editing significant amounts of 4k video then I'd be looking at 32GB RAM, the fastest nVidia GPU you can afford (ideally with more than 8GB) and a couple of fast SSDs.
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The Power PC Thread [f*ck off consoles]
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Geddes
ClioSport Club Member
Fiesta Mk8 ST-3
I’m not editing 4K at the minute just 1080p, I’ve noticed my SSD is almost full but my Hard Drive 1TB is almost empty how can I transfer storage from one to another?
SharkyUK
ClioSport Club Member
I'm not sure what your editing process/workflow is like but I tend to work on active projects stored on my fastest SSDs. Once they are complete, finished with or signed off by the client I then archive the project (and the final cut of the video) and copy them to a mechanical backup drive. I then clean the working SSD to ensure there are no leftover caches, temporary files, etc. clogging up the drive for those projects that have been archived.
Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
RAM would be a definite for improving video editing. If you're doing a reasonable amount of that too - maybe see if you can nab a cheap i7 6700k off eBay?
It should fit given the socket type - but ideally if we knew your mobo make & model, I could check for you.
Daz...
ClioSport Club Member
Inferno 182 Cup
You can 100% upgrade to a 6700k from a 6600 - they both use the same socket type.
I had a 6600k which I swapped out for a 6700k.
Ray Gin
ClioSport Club Member
Cupra Leon & Impreza
I've been using Geforce experience for instant replay recordings over the last day or 2, and it seems very hit and miss. Today it was recording my discord/second monitor not my primary one? In display settings my main monitor is set correctly so I'm not sure why it's doing this. Any ideas?
Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
3090Ti stock alerts now coming through.
Scan's got them at £1,879.
Scan's got them at £1,879.
SharkyUK
ClioSport Club Member
Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
I should have messaged you straight away mate. When I got the alert earlier today, they did have the FE card in stock.Already gone it would seem.
Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
Yep - and again this morning.
Looks like the 3090Ti cards (so far) aren't as tricky to supply.
Or simply the fact that the near £1.9k asking price is just a little too rich - even for crypto monkeys.
SharkyUK
ClioSport Club Member
Thanks, chaps - rang up and sadly none in stock.
Looks like I might be able to get my hands on one on Friday to play with so I might hold off and play with that before deciding whether or not to continue chasing one. Looking at the figures (I'm primarily interested in CUDA core counts and performance) I may actually just stick with this overclocked 3090 I already have. The increased CUDA performance of the Ti doesn't really offer much over what I've got and that makes spending another 2k hard to justify on top of the 2.6k I paid for the 3090!
I'll try and grab some pics on Friday if I'm allowed to do so. The card is f'ing MASSIVE and weighs a ton, they've already seen it drawing 522 Watts under heavy load! FLOL!
Looks like I might be able to get my hands on one on Friday to play with so I might hold off and play with that before deciding whether or not to continue chasing one. Looking at the figures (I'm primarily interested in CUDA core counts and performance) I may actually just stick with this overclocked 3090 I already have. The increased CUDA performance of the Ti doesn't really offer much over what I've got and that makes spending another 2k hard to justify on top of the 2.6k I paid for the 3090!
I'll try and grab some pics on Friday if I'm allowed to do so.
The card is f'ing MASSIVE and weighs a ton, they've already seen it drawing 522 Watts under heavy load! FLOL!
Geddes
ClioSport Club Member
Fiesta Mk8 ST-3
I've got a question about Calibrating the monitor, i guess that it needs doing as i been doing it for some years now. How often do you do yours? Is it just a gimmick if you do it every other week or Month? It's just every time i do it even if it's just a couple days, a week or every month, the results are that there's a change in colour. Just to see if there's a difference
Jonnio
ClioSport Club Member
Punto HGT Abarth
Not sure I have other than when I first got it.
I have a real issue with "professional" calibration. Why should someone tell me how I should watch something?
Honestly mate I just play around with the settings until I'm happy with the result. The only person I need to impress is myself. The visualphiles have a fit when I run my TV on high OLED light levels but I literally don't care, it looks mint. When I've used "proper" calibration settings in the past I've found they look w**k, and always on the dark side.
Darren S
ClioSport Club Member
Managed to nab a 3070Ti from Scan this week having had a part alert popping up on Telegram.
Not quite the 3080 that I was originally after, more so that this 'only' comes with 8GB onboard - but it's close enough. Came in at £560 including delivery.
Takes up much less chassis space than my previous hydro-cooled AIO GTX1080 - the flipside of that being a higher amount of noise. However, I use headphones with my PC for the majority of the time, so that won't be a problem.
Fitted a new NZXT exhaust fan at the rear of the case as well, where the 1080's radiator used to be. Will be back in the office tomorrow also, so I'll get chance to blast the PC with an airline compressor. Need that dust gone!
Not quite the 3080 that I was originally after, more so that this 'only' comes with 8GB onboard - but it's close enough. Came in at £560 including delivery.
Takes up much less chassis space than my previous hydro-cooled AIO GTX1080 - the flipside of that being a higher amount of noise. However, I use headphones with my PC for the majority of the time, so that won't be a problem.
Fitted a new NZXT exhaust fan at the rear of the case as well, where the 1080's radiator used to be. Will be back in the office tomorrow also, so I'll get chance to blast the PC with an airline compressor. Need that dust gone!
SharkyUK
ClioSport Club Member
In a follow-up to my last post in this thread, I was able to take a closer look at the 3090 Ti last Friday afternoon / early evening. Sadly I was not able to grab any pics of the GPU as I was in a development/production environment and pics are a big no-no! It was an interesting couple of hours and I took away a few things with me (including Covid judging by the poorly state I currently find myself in!) More on the takeaways later.
There were two models of 3090 Ti units, an EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Gaming (can't remember if it was Ultra or not) and the behemoth that is the MSI RTX 3090 Ti Suprim X. It had to be the Suprim X because it is probably the most ridiculous thing I have seen in terms of GPU. It was big. No. It was MASSIVE. The thing weighs in at 2.2kg and takes up 4 slots. You read that right. 2.2kg and 4 slots. It comes with a threaded clamp/holder that can be attached to the host chassis in order to support the weight of the card if needs be.
I wasn't here to play games so I don't have any gaming performance benchmarks or anything like that, this was purely an opportunity that arose through me being cheeky and asking if I could take a look at the performance of certain aspects of the card when running software that I have been researching/working on. I wanted to see if it was worth me spending the extra to upgrade to the 3090 Ti or to stick with the 3090 I recently purchased. I won't go into detail - it's probably quite boring - but I was interested in the CUDA and general compute performance gains that the Ti offered over the [admittedly factory overclocked] 3090 I'm running. To cut that long and boring story short... the gains weren't massive. Depending on the workload and task scheduling, I was seeing a 2%-3% improvement. To be fair, it wasn't too far off my expectations so didn't come as a massive shock. It's important not to confuse this with gaming performance though as that will see a healthier boost; up to 10% at 4k resolution if the reviews are to be believed, although it will cost you an additional 30-40% to realise that over a decent 3090 unit.
So - those takeaways. Well, firstly and most importantly I can't justify the cost of upgrading given the minimal gains I would see (unless someone wants to buy my practically new 3090 for the reduced price of £2,200?) The card is huge and I would probably have to upgrade and/or alter my rig or look to a different 3090 Ti GPU if I were to upgrade - it really is that ridiculous to behold. However, it did prove to be really quiet even when under load. It was quieter than my 3090. It did run hot though. Sadly (stupidly) I can't remember the actual figures now but I do recall it running hotter than my 3090. That is not really a surprise as it was also drawing just shy of 500 Watts in some cases... It's a very real thing you have to be aware of as running something like this is going to noticeably impact your monthly electric bills if used in anger! Then there's the PSU issue - you really need a decent rated PSU and I'd struggle to recommend anything less than gold rated and 1200W. The final takeaway was one of the next-gen cards from nVidia - and the fact that we may well see the 40x0 in Q4 this year. I'm not sure if it will appear or not but the rumours are strong. We shall see.
That's it. Sorry for the long and largely pointless post.
TLDR; The 3080/Ti is the card to get for gaming, the 3090 the one to get if you're baller and/or into content production or GPU compute, the 3090 Ti if you're mega-baller.
It was an interesting couple of hours and I took away a few things with me (including Covid judging by the poorly state I currently find myself in!) More on the takeaways later.There were two models of 3090 Ti units, an EVGA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti FTW3 Gaming (can't remember if it was Ultra or not) and the behemoth that is the MSI RTX 3090 Ti Suprim X. It had to be the Suprim X because it is probably the most ridiculous thing I have seen in terms of GPU. It was big. No. It was MASSIVE. The thing weighs in at 2.2kg and takes up 4 slots. You read that right. 2.2kg and 4 slots. It comes with a threaded clamp/holder that can be attached to the host chassis in order to support the weight of the card if needs be.
I wasn't here to play games so I don't have any gaming performance benchmarks or anything like that, this was purely an opportunity that arose through me being cheeky and asking if I could take a look at the performance of certain aspects of the card when running software that I have been researching/working on. I wanted to see if it was worth me spending the extra to upgrade to the 3090 Ti or to stick with the 3090 I recently purchased. I won't go into detail - it's probably quite boring - but I was interested in the CUDA and general compute performance gains that the Ti offered over the [admittedly factory overclocked] 3090 I'm running. To cut that long and boring story short... the gains weren't massive. Depending on the workload and task scheduling, I was seeing a 2%-3% improvement. To be fair, it wasn't too far off my expectations so didn't come as a massive shock. It's important not to confuse this with gaming performance though as that will see a healthier boost; up to 10% at 4k resolution if the reviews are to be believed, although it will cost you an additional 30-40% to realise that over a decent 3090 unit.
So - those takeaways. Well, firstly and most importantly I can't justify the cost of upgrading given the minimal gains I would see (unless someone wants to buy my practically new 3090 for the reduced price of £2,200?)
The card is huge and I would probably have to upgrade and/or alter my rig or look to a different 3090 Ti GPU if I were to upgrade - it really is that ridiculous to behold. However, it did prove to be really quiet even when under load. It was quieter than my 3090. It did run hot though. Sadly (stupidly) I can't remember the actual figures now but I do recall it running hotter than my 3090. That is not really a surprise as it was also drawing just shy of 500 Watts in some cases... It's a very real thing you have to be aware of as running something like this is going to noticeably impact your monthly electric bills if used in anger! Then there's the PSU issue - you really need a decent rated PSU and I'd struggle to recommend anything less than gold rated and 1200W. The final takeaway was one of the next-gen cards from nVidia - and the fact that we may well see the 40x0 in Q4 this year. I'm not sure if it will appear or not but the rumours are strong. We shall see.That's it. Sorry for the long and largely pointless post.
TLDR; The 3080/Ti is the card to get for gaming, the 3090 the one to get if you're baller and/or into content production or GPU compute, the 3090 Ti if you're mega-baller.
Ray Gin
ClioSport Club Member
Cupra Leon & Impreza
So the 40 series, when they eventually come out, will be pretty much pointless for 4k gaming?
I am thinking of getting a high Hz curved 4k monitor in a few months and maybe a pre built 3090ti setup.
SharkyUK
ClioSport Club Member
No - the 40x0 series, especially the higher performance models, will be very good for 4k gaming. There are titles now that can still bring the 3090/Ti to its knees when fidelity is cranked right up at 4k resolutions.
My point is, considering the current 30x0 generation of nVidia cards, the 3080 (possibly the 3080 Ti) is more of a sweet spot for demanding gamers. You can save yourself 800-1000 quid and still get a fantastically performant GPU. Of course, if you have the budget for a 3090/Ti then go for it but you are paying a HUGE premium for not much gain from a purely games-playing perspective.
Evo 5 RS
I think it's more that they're a complete waste of most people's time at this point. 5-10% uplift and a 500-530W power draw with rising energy prices? I'm already hearing ruffling of an imminent announcement on the NV front. It's DOA IMO
Geddes
ClioSport Club Member
Fiesta Mk8 ST-3
I just had another Blue Screen Of Death , i took a picture as you said and it says at the bottom what failed......
what failed: nvlddmkm.sys
any help would be appreicated
Looks like a driver issue that mate, Nvidia. I'd update your GPU driver but make sure you perform a "clean install".
What GPU is it?
Geddes
ClioSport Club Member
Fiesta Mk8 ST-3
i just did a quick google and it says go into Device Manager and update the Driver in there and i pressed the Update Driver Tab and it says already updated. Also i get pop ups from Nvidia about updates now and again and when i get them i update it that way
It's a Nvidia GTX1050ti
Edit..... I just watched another YouTube video and this guy is showing a different way of updating the driver from the Device Manager where my gfx name is, this time i pressed "Browse my computer for drivers". and this time it was downloading update.
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I'd download it manually from Nvidia mate - https://www.nvidia.co.uk/Download/driverResults.aspx/187349/en-uk
That's the one you want. When you start the process it'll give you the option for "Express" install or "Custom". You want to click custom and then there's a little check box saying "Perform a clean install". You want to check that. What that does is remove all of the previous drivers and install them brand new. I reckon that'll help with the blue screening.
Geddes
ClioSport Club Member
Fiesta Mk8 ST-3
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Fingers crossed mate
Geddes
ClioSport Club Member
Fiesta Mk8 ST-3
Would that driver update effect google? I’m having trouble getting signed in to Google and YouTube seems iffy too
BoatNonce
ClioSport Club Member
Boy am I having a fun time.
MiniGherkin is on the way so I needed to move my computer to the other side of my TV so all the cables are out of reach. Simple, turn it off, unplug everything, put it the other side of the TV, plug it in, switch back on.
Oh no. My G27, which is plugged into a USB hub under my seat and from there via an extension cable into my computer, has now decided it’s going to be a Driving Force instead. Take the hub out of the equation, goes back to being a G27. I’ve tried uninstalling and updating drivers, which 90% of the time hangs and fails to uninstall/update, removing all other devices, reinstalling Logitech’s software, you name it. f**king nightmare.
Even took the drastic step of reinstalling Windows today. It hasn’t fixed it, but a f**k tonne of my programs are gone so will have to be reinstalled. f**king kill me now.
MiniGherkin is on the way so I needed to move my computer to the other side of my TV so all the cables are out of reach. Simple, turn it off, unplug everything, put it the other side of the TV, plug it in, switch back on.
Oh no. My G27, which is plugged into a USB hub under my seat and from there via an extension cable into my computer, has now decided it’s going to be a Driving Force instead. Take the hub out of the equation, goes back to being a G27. I’ve tried uninstalling and updating drivers, which 90% of the time hangs and fails to uninstall/update, removing all other devices, reinstalling Logitech’s software, you name it. f**king nightmare.
Even took the drastic step of reinstalling Windows today. It hasn’t fixed it, but a f**k tonne of my programs are gone so will have to be reinstalled. f**king kill me now.
Have been playing with the idea of a PC setup lately and came up with this on pcspecialist. Honestly though I'm clueless with this so definitely need to do some research. One of the guys at work offers a pc building service and a guy I work with son also does this so maybe cheaper to get the parts seperate and go to them but that seems like a faff.
Also am I missing anything else? Besides monitor, chair and desk is that basically it? Also don't want to go overkill on the build but do want to get something that will be holding its own for a good few years rather than having to switch stuff out down the line.
Also am I missing anything else? Besides monitor, chair and desk is that basically it? Also don't want to go overkill on the build but do want to get something that will be holding its own for a good few years rather than having to switch stuff out down the line.
N0ddie
ClioSport Club Member
Tesla Model 3
Do not get an 11th Gen Intel CPU. Renowned for being overpriced, under performing and super hot.
Get yourself a 12th Gen system with either a 12600k or 12700k processor. You don't need a 12900k for most people.
Crayola
ClioSport Club Member
Needs more RAM and needs an SSD for games not spinning rust
Also, AMD is cheaper and better👀
boultonn
ClioSport Club Member
Macan S
Yeah don't bother with a mechanical HDD, I did exactly the same thing and compared with running games from the NVMe it's no contest.
Get a second NVMe (if the mono supports it) or a big 2.5" SSD for your games.
This one maybe?
Or do I just get the setup I think Cub ended up with? I just figured the 3090 was overkill.
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BoatNonce
ClioSport Club Member
A 5600x or 5800x would be more than enough tbh. I have a 5800x and it's not really troubled by anything I throw at it.
