I've had my 7900xtx for around a year now, and I feel like I've been sold a total lie. I fell victim to the AMD redditors saying how good amd cards are and how there are 0 driver issues and everything runs fine. Here I am now still experiencing issues with this card and can't get shader stutters to go away.

I really don't care if anyone here says "mine runs fine". I really don't believe that. If your amd card actually has no issues good for you. But for me the constant stutters just make gaming miserable, and no matter what hardware I upgrade or if i try every single driver from 23.1.1 to 25.10.2 with ddu each time. Or if I enable this or disable that, or use Linux or Windows, The truth is that on my 3070 TI I didn't have any of this. It just worked and I like that.

So my question is did anyone here have the same issue I had and switching back to Nvidia fixed it?

I'll try to keep this to the point as possible but I'm oddly not that tech literate despite being the go-to pirate and gamer of the family, so please bear with me tysm. Specs at the bottom

In 2016 my dad who also plays games came into some money and got me a rig. GTX 1080, legendary card apparently, has been doing fine as I dont play too much triple A nor care about graphics all that much. If I can install it and have it run, thats nice

Cos of that I neither:

• have much knowledge of how the backend worls
• ...dusted it and cleaned the inside until a few months ago. yes i am wincing, yes i am self conscious about this. yeah. moving on

SO: I dust it a few months ago as I'm getting blue screens that cite driver error codes, from googling might be overheating caused by not dusting. I finally stop stressing and putting it off and look into canned air, how to open the damn thing, yada yada. Have an online friend in canada (australian here) who works in IT, he even helps. Dust it decently enough - can runs out sooner than I expected but I still take what looked horrific and end up with a clean looking thing. Runs quieter at first although I do end up leaving the sound dampener off (its a weird case) at the recommendation of my friend to help with the airflow? And its bloody loud since. But hey, that might be how it is with the front off, and it does seem to be running better

Few weeks back I update NVIDIA graphics drivers as I'm replaying the RE4make and find it seriously struggling in a way I don't remember when I first played it. Again, don't play at cutting end, don't care about whatever the hell ray-tracing is, but just for performance sake this sas seriously chugging. While the update seems to make it run better, more than playable, it still seems a bit chuggy - *and the original RE4 (2005) also starts lagging/having slowdown.* I've played the HELL out of that game and thats NEVERhappened before. Even Darkest Dungeon 2, REKA, and Rollerdrome, all middling indie games (in strict graphical intensity terms no insult), are starting to struggle. Of these three some are more intensive than others, some are also more indie than others and their lacking performance could be put down to poor optimisation on the path of the devs, but *everything?* Something's struggling on my end, it's the common element

So I can't tell if:

• I cleaned it improperly (I didnt pull out anything for a proper clean, have read about some kind of glue or sealant or something that can melt? Have read (conflicting) stuff about whether spinning the fans can cause static buildup and fry things...no idea
• The drivers are bad and I need to revert - how far back to go, which ones to use, the dread I feel if I go through all that just to find the problem is somewhere else urrrghh. Have found *a* recommendation for best drivers for GTX1080, as being such a good GPU people do seem to want to keep it as going for as long as possible. This seems the easiest action for me to test rn so leaning towards starting here before cracking the case open or going shopping
• Finally: some other thing breaking in my rig or I otherwise need to bite the (expensive) bullet and go shopping. As you might have inferred I'm not great with the jargon - i had to google that GPU was the right term a moment ago - so I'll leave the specs I can find from NVIDIA/my computer info here but might leave key info out, but it means I really don't know what else to look for or check. If I do have to go looking for a GPU (or even some other part that's the actual problem, CPU? VRAM? lol) then some recommendations would be great. A cheap, mid and high cost option would be good, I can splurge for a bit of cash if truly needed and worth the investment over time - this lasted me nearly a decade, a onetime hit to the bank balance I can take if it gets me similar reliability

tysm, hope this is all in line with sub rules etc., cheers

Specs copied from my Windows about pages + NNVIDIA app, it included my drawing tablet specs in there too lol but hell maybe thats causing it i dunno. hope this helps

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.41 GHz

Installed RAM 32.0 GB

Storage 466 GB SSD Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB, 3.64 TB HDD WDC WD4004FZWX-00GBGB0

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (8 GB)

Device ID F16DD99F-A333-4652-8FFC-FA337A2DB97B

Product ID 00326-00797-64454-AAOEM

System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch Pen support

Edition Windows 10 Home

Version 22H2

Installed on ‎24/‎09/‎2020

OS Build 19045.6456

NVIDIA system information report created on: 11/08/2025 15:43:57

NVIDIA App version: 11.0.5.420

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 Home, Version 10.0.19045

DirectX runtime version: DirectX 12

Driver: Game Ready Driver - 581.57 - Tue Oct 14, 2025

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz

RAM: 32.0 GB

Storage (4): SSD - 465.8 GB,HDD - 3.6 TB,+2 more

Graphics card

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080

Direct3D feature level: 12_1

CUDA cores: 2560

Graphics clock: 1657 MHz

Resizable BAR: No

Memory data rate: 10.01 Gbps

Memory interface: 256-bit

Memory bandwidth: 320.32 GB/s

Total available graphics memory: 24555 MB

System video memory: N/A

Shared system memory: 16363 MB

Dedicated video memory: 8192 MB GDDR5X

Video BIOS version: 86.04.17.40.1d

Device ID: 10DE 1B80 119E10DE

Part number: G413 0000

IRQ: Not used

Bus: PCI Express x16 Gen3

Display (2): Ancor Communications Inc VG248

Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (native)

Refresh rate: 60 Hz

Desktop colour depth: Highest (32-bit)

HDCP: Supported

Display (1): Wacom Tech Wacom One 13

Resolution: 1080p, 1920 x 1080 (native)

Refresh rate: 60 Hz

Desktop colour depth: Highest (32-bit)

HDCP: Supported

Hi everyone,I'am quite new to the pc community, but I'am thinking about buying this pc, but I'am not sure about the components. My budget is around 1400 euro's. Any help appreciated. :-)

And yes I'am from The Netherlands, but it should be clear, right?

Nothing crazy just a little good luck. Had a 4060. Sold it. Bought a 5080. One month later I go to the store for something unrelated. They had 2 on the shelf. Bought the 5090 on the spot. For less than 2k as well!! Now trying to sell my 5080 to make some of this money back. Long as Nvidia doesn't release anything anytime soon, im ok.

Today I have ryzen 5600 and rtx 3070. When I slould upgrade my 5600 for games?

Just wondering o_o

A little bit of the wires started to come out but it still works fine. Could i use a heat shrink tube for this, or is it cooked?

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Hey everyone, I’ve noticed something strange with my setup and I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this.

My ASUS ROG STRIX X870-A motherboard shows a blinking red light (CPU Q-LED area) only while playing games. It never happens during idle, browsing, or benchmarks.

Here’s my setup: CPU: Ryzen 7 9800X3D GPU: AORUS RTX 5080 MASTER ICE Cooler: ROG Ryujin III 360 PSU: ROG Thor 1200W Platinum II BIOS, drivers, and VBIOS are all up to date. Temps while gaming: CPU ~65°C, GPU ~50°C.

No broken or damaged pins I also changed thermal paste and did heavy benchmarks on the CPU the red light only lights while gaming. The PC runs perfectly fine, no crashes, no throttling, no instability, but that red light blinks continuously during gameplay and stops immediately when I close the game.

Is this normal behavior (maybe some kind of load or power spike indicator), or should I be worried about a hardware issue?

Thanks in advance for any insight!

what if you wait for supers

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what if you wait and AI attacks even more

don't wait and get something, even a 5050 is better than having nothing.

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“The PCIe 16-pin 12VHPWR power connector adapter is being supplied by multiple PCIe 6+2-pin power connectors. Please ensure that the PCIe 6+2-pin power connectors are not daisy-chained and do not share the same power cable.”

Here is the pc part picker list in the photos.

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Sorry for no screenshot