Help me build my PC: 2024 Catch-All

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Any advice on getting in the queue?

Make sure to go into your profile, set your name to *Legion*, and your shipping address to Santa Maria.

Edgar_Newt wrote:

To understand where the North America queues are, try the EVGA Queue Summary. It isn't 100% but it is sufficiently accurate (IMHO).

For what it's worth, I was notified that my purchase was up for the 3090 FTW3 Ultra on 10/6/2021, 4:14pm CDT, and bought it the same day. I see the date for that card is still back at 5/5/2021.

Edgar_Newt wrote:

To understand where the North America queues are, try the EVGA Queue Summary. It isn't 100% but it is sufficiently accurate (IMHO).

Holy moly I did not realize a GWJer was the one managing that list. Kudos to you for that!

Well crap. My EVGA score is zero. Looks like it only counts stuff purchased after 2019/1/1 00:00:00. I may just have to give up on this.

Unfortunately, I don't have a desk job where I can kinda devote a little time to setting up alerts and being on top of keeping an eye on things EVGA or otherwise or even have the time to capitalize on an alert when something is available. I'm going to have to decide if I want to dive down the alert rabbit hole this weekend.

Looking at the queues since I finally have a chance today... The two I did have in from forever ago and removed were so close. I might have been in. I had one entered on 12/9/2020 for a 3080 FTW3 Ultra, and when I check that queue list thing now, the most recent was from 12/02/2020.

I seriously just removed myself from the queue for a 1080 when I may have gotten a notification in a week or so. I just didn't realize. I should have put less effort into all this. Sad trombone.

Hmmmmm. Can I sign up for a queue to buy a time travel device to go back to yesterday and just not do anything on my computer? I wonder how much that might run me?

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Hmmmmm. Can I sign up for a queue to buy a time travel device to go back to yesterday and just not do anything on my computer? I wonder how much that might run me?

I missed my 3060 notification window after waiting 8 months but tweeted their product manager and he was able to reactivate the notify for me. Worth trying! Jacob

Chairman_Mao wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Hmmmmm. Can I sign up for a queue to buy a time travel device to go back to yesterday and just not do anything on my computer? I wonder how much that might run me?

I missed my 3060 notification window after waiting 8 months but tweeted their product manager and he was able to reactivate the notify for me. Worth trying! Jacob

I would give it a shot but don't have a Twitter account anymore. Maybe I'll try sending an email through their contact form. I suppose it's worth a shot.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Hmmmmm. Can I sign up for a queue to buy a time travel device to go back to yesterday and just not do anything on my computer? I wonder how much that might run me?

I missed my 3060 notification window after waiting 8 months but tweeted their product manager and he was able to reactivate the notify for me. Worth trying! Jacob

I would give it a shot but don't have a Twitter account anymore. Maybe I'll try sending an email through their contact form. I suppose it's worth a shot.

you can also message him on the EVGA Forums.

WipEout wrote:
Edgar_Newt wrote:

To understand where the North America queues are, try the EVGA Queue Summary. It isn't 100% but it is sufficiently accurate (IMHO).

For what it's worth, I was notified that my purchase was up for the 3090 FTW3 Ultra on 10/6/2021, 4:14pm CDT, and bought it the same day. I see the date for that card is still back at 5/5/2021.

That sounds like the date that you purchased it, not the date that you registered it. The summary tracks your original timestamp (which you can find here: https://www.evga.com/community/myNot...

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I would give it a shot but don't have a Twitter account anymore. Maybe I'll try sending an email through their contact form. I suppose it's worth a shot.

The approach that has had the most success is to reply to the "invite to purchase" email you received (it should have come from [email protected]). In your reply indicate your desire to purchase the card. It has been a LONG time, but EVGA might do you a solid and rehabilitate that invite by sending you a new email with a fresh purchase link. I would whitelist [email protected] on your email client. Best of luck!

Edgar_Newt wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

I would give it a shot but don't have a Twitter account anymore. Maybe I'll try sending an email through their contact form. I suppose it's worth a shot.

The approach that has had the most success is to reply to the "invite to purchase" email you received (it should have come from [email protected]). In your reply indicate your desire to purchase the card. It has been a LONG time, but EVGA might do you a solid and rehabilitate that invite by sending you a new email with a fresh purchase link. I would whitelist [email protected] on your email client. Best of luck!

Thanks, I'll give that a shot! I sent an email through the general contact, but I'll try that too.

Edit: My notifications came from [email protected], so I just replied to that with my sob story. Hasn't bounced back yet, so hopefully I hear back from that or the contact form. I've whitelisted a bunch of evga domain related stuff too.

Chairman_Mao wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:
tuffalobuffalo wrote:

Hmmmmm. Can I sign up for a queue to buy a time travel device to go back to yesterday and just not do anything on my computer? I wonder how much that might run me?

I missed my 3060 notification window after waiting 8 months but tweeted their product manager and he was able to reactivate the notify for me. Worth trying! Jacob

I would give it a shot but don't have a Twitter account anymore. Maybe I'll try sending an email through their contact form. I suppose it's worth a shot.

you can also message him on the EVGA Forums.

I'll try that if I don't get any response. Thanks!

Edgar_Newt wrote:
WipEout wrote:
Edgar_Newt wrote:

To understand where the North America queues are, try the EVGA Queue Summary. It isn't 100% but it is sufficiently accurate (IMHO).

For what it's worth, I was notified that my purchase was up for the 3090 FTW3 Ultra on 10/6/2021, 4:14pm CDT, and bought it the same day. I see the date for that card is still back at 5/5/2021.

That sounds like the date that you purchased it, not the date that you registered it. The summary tracks your original timestamp (which you can find here: https://www.evga.com/community/myNot...

Oooooooh I see. I misread "Most Recent Timestamp to Receive an 'Invite To Purchase' email" as the timestamp that we actually received the invite to purchase-- but you meant it's the most recent timestamp that one registered their spot in the notify queue. I was operating under the assumption that your doc meant to track when purchase offers went out, to gauge how close others might be to the front of the line (and the timeframe between registration and purchase).

The document represents the most recent registration to report receiving an "invite to purchase" email. So you if registered on October 24, 2020 at 9 am PT and you got the invite to purchase today, tonight's update to the summary would show the October 24, 2020 date in that column. I hope that makes sense.

Easy Mod Lowers Alder Lake CPU Temps by 5 Degrees Celsius

The headline doesn't indicate that the solution is actually possible due to a problem in how some motherboards are designed:

The problem falls on the Independent Loading Mechanism (ILM). The ILM still latches to Alder Lake processors at the same pressure points as Rocket Lake. The result is that the mechanism pushes down on the processor in the center, causing it to sit lower than on the edges. It's the reason why Alder Lake's integrated heat spreader (IHS) eventually takes a concave shape after several hours of operation.

It also doesn't help that

The IHS on most Alder Lake processors is flat when out of the box. However, samples with convex or concave IHS show up occasionally, so that doesn't help, either. The outlet discovered that adding a gigantic backplate could prevent the warping problem as long as you get it in there before you install the processor.
It's the reason why Alder Lake's integrated heat spreader (IHS) eventually takes a concave shape after several hours of operation.

LOL WTF.

How lazy can Intel be?

"Hey our chip shape has completely changed, shouldn't we update the mounting mechanism?"

"Nah it's probably fine."

And I don't know whether to be wowed or unimpressed with the 5 degree temperature change...

fangblackbone wrote:

And I don't know whether to be wowed or unimpressed with the 5 degree temperature change...

If the space created by the warping is still filled by thermal compound, it shouldn't be too bad.

If it warped sufficiently to create an air gap in the compound, though, I expect you'd see a much larger temperature increase.

My point was:
Wow a simple fix can net you 5 degrees
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They overheat so much that 5 degrees is a drop in the bucket and this seems like a diversionary grasping at straws.

*Legion* wrote:
It's the reason why Alder Lake's integrated heat spreader (IHS) eventually takes a concave shape after several hours of operation.

LOL WTF.

How lazy can Intel be?

"Hey our chip shape has completely changed, shouldn't we update the mounting mechanism?"

"Nah it's probably fine."

Does Intel design the mounting mechanism? Give honest question, cuz I thought that would be up to the motherboard manufacturers. Also the solution would not be difficult for the motherboard manufacturers to implement.

But yeah a dumb problem nonetheless.

Anybody tried Windows 11 yet? Windows Update reminds me it's available. Apparently I'm missing some TPM setting from my motherboard BIOS. But before I go through the trouble of finding that setting and turning it on, just wondering if Win 11 is looking good yet? Mostly RE: gaming.

Chairman_Mao wrote:

Does Intel design the mounting mechanism? Give honest question, cuz I thought that would be up to the motherboard manufacturers.

Yes, Intel designs their sockets and the ILM is a part of that.

Also the solution would not be difficult for the motherboard manufacturers to implement.

True, but I wonder if they'd have problems with Intel over it. I imagine modifying the socket mounting mechanism in any way probably violates some implementation spec of Intel's.

Stele wrote:

Anybody tried Windows 11 yet?

I've only briefly used it when setting up my brother's PC. It's a very incremental update over Win10, feels more like a UI refresh than a deeper OS update.

That said, I know there were issues with SteamVR and Win11 as recently as a month ago, not sure the current status there. As someone with some fairly niche setups (mixed VR, HOTAS, etc), I'm definitely going to slow play the upgrade game. For more standard PC gaming setups, it should be pretty OK.

Well I "won" a Newegg shuffle for a 3080ti and stupid motherboard bundle ($1800). I'm only in the market for a card because my 2080 died and am currently rocking my old gtx 970 so I figured that's the best I'm going to do any time soon so I pulled the trigger. It's quite a bit more than I wanted to spend and am just going to sell the mb, almost certainly at a loss. It's also more card than I really wanted but of course there's that part of me that's giddy about that, too.

Anyone in the market for an LGA 1200 board? Will let it go for $100 to a GWJer. It's a Gigabyte Z590 AORUS Ultra.

Stele wrote:

Anybody tried Windows 11 yet?

I'm using it. Upgraded my old rig with no problems and my new rig came with it. I've had no gaming issues. Visible changes have been minor and only noticeable in the "Windows button UI" (the menus that pop up when you click the bottom left icon).

This article made it sound like there's some big changes to the Start menu and taskbar, yeah. But good things like better multitasking, some gaming boosts with SSDs, better sleep mode, improved multi-monitor features, etc.

Then it says a couple of big bugs with AMD CPU and SSD speeds were fixed.

So maybe it's time. Hm...

The little time I spent in W11 shows they spent a lot of time cleaning up the two types of Control Panel-like windows for everything. I assume it's a legacy and Windows 8/10 versions.

Stele wrote:

Anybody tried Windows 11 yet?

I tried it when it came out. Everything went smoothly, but I really, really double extra hated some of the interface changes. I ended up reverting back to Win 10 within about half an hour. It sounds like a small thing, but for me, not being able to ungroup tabs on the taskbar was an ultimate productivity killer. It fundamentally changed a part of the UI that has been consistent since Windows 95.

Instant flaring hatred.

Anyway, I haven't looked into recent changes, but I'm now feeling like I want to hold off until I'm forced to upgrade.

https://www.techepages.com/ungroup-t...

Interesting. My Alienware is covered under ProSupport Plus, and I got it in August. A few minutes ago, it failed a random seek test done automatically by the control center. Dell contacted me and asked if I wanted them to send a replacement NVMe drive. So that all happened automatically and the drive will ship with no cost to me.

Pretty cool. I've read about this proactive stuff but it is nice to see it actually works.

Robear wrote:

Interesting. My Alienware is covered under ProSupport Plus, and I got it in August. A few minutes ago, it failed a random seek test done automatically by the control center. Dell contacted me and asked if I wanted them to send a replacement NVMe drive. So that all happened automatically and the drive will ship with no cost to me.

Pretty cool. I've read about this proactive stuff but it is nice to see it actually works.

Nice!!!

I also ran the test manually; same error.