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perfect completely unresponsive hard lock system this is great I finally

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finish the Intel Arc challenge I go back to my RTX 39 I'm like yeah I'm going to

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have a stable system again and actually had nothing but problems with it but I

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told myself between NVIDIA's price hikes and their attitude I am skipping the 40

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series which leaves me with what for options I mean Once Upon a Time 15 years

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ago I daily drove the radio on 3870 but I haven't touched an AMD GPU at least

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not in my daily driver system for 15 years have they reached the point where

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they're usable they've certainly reached the point where they're my only feasible

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option for an upgrade so this is it that's right folks it's time for the AMD

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challenge sponsored by cic I will be

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running AMD for the next 30 days and I

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will be bringing along with me two of my very picky Tech enthusiast friends Jake

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and Luke to share with you our experience so come along for the ride

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and uh I hope you've got a great power supply did I mention this is brought to

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you by seic because whether you're team green or team red these

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days you're going to need something pretty

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powerful in all seriousness I am not really expecting this to be as much of a

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Gong Show as the Intel version was AMD

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unlike Intel has been doing dedicated graphics for well ever since they

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acquired ATI which is I guess over 15 years now but in that time their

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software team has made enormous strides in terms of both compatibility and

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performance that is at least if the community's reviews of radi on graphics

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cards are anything to go by they've certainly ran into some challenges with

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the 7,000 series they had some issues with defective Vapor Chambers causing

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unusually high temperatures but that shouldn't affect me because I'm not

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using an AMD reference card so with confidence I'm going ahead to why is

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this still on you guys watched me turn it off what can I say I'm just a lot

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better at turning things on than turning them off all three of us went with the

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R9 7900 XTX so the more premium version and you

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know normally you don't look at the top tier card and go hm yeah that one's

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probably the better value but somehow AMD managed to pull it off the 7900 XT

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is cut down so much that for the $100 you're saving compared to the XTX it

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really doesn't look like a very compelling option the XTX on the other

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hand as long as a major Focus for you isn't Ray traced titles its performance

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in traditional games is extremely compelling you can get more details

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about it in our full review of the 7900 series that we uploaded a little while

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back now of course the card that we were covering was the reference card from AMD

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this one uh is quite a bit beefier to

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the point where oh God we might actually have a clearance issue here oh god um

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Jake can I help you what I'm just ohing for the same reason you're o goting

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we've come up with a solution massive thanks to Gigabyte for sending over this

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aors card but I guess I get to use a reference card now the last thing we

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want is for any of this coolant to get into our highquality seic power supply

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did I mention they sponsored this video so I'm just going to put this

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highquality ShortCircuit hoodie very absorbent in the way and make sure that

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we don't get any water in it oh this is going to be so easy because AMD's

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drivers are not going to be a problem at

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least that's my hope because in my review of this card I kind of committed

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to switching to team red so I really regardless of whether it's an aorus card

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or a reference card I really need this thing to be good it uses amds rdna 3

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architecture which is all new for the 7000 series it brings with it a huge

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uplifting clock speed cus or compute units AI accelerators and perhaps for me

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most importantly their video encoding engine has gotten a complete overhaul

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including support for av1 which isn't supported on streaming platforms like

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twitch yet but will hopefully be coming very very soon one of the other things

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that's really cool about AMD's rdna A3 cards is I mean not necessarily going to

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excite you from a performance standpoint but could excite you from a cost

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standpoint instead of building these cards using a monolithic or a single

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large die they used a chiplet approach similar to what they've done with their

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ryzen CPUs so instead of using the

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latest manufacturing process for the entire Die they actually used tsmc's 6

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nanometer for their memory and cache dieses since they found that there

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wasn't really a benefit to shrinking it down and then they used their 5

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nanometer process for their compute die so so that's where you're actually still

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getting good scaling in terms of power consumption and performance I mean

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they're still really expensive but like

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guess we'll take the little W's when we can get them another thing we can do

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while we wait is refill the loop because the parts aren't actually here for

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my 79 50x upgrade I'm just going to be

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running a bypass so the GPU will not be water cooled during this experiment this

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also allows me to like just go back to the 30 90 if I decide yeah you know what

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it's really not worth the extra performance Jake we cheated a little bit

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he's actually already done his upgrade we're shooting out of order he says it's

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pretty good though right off the bat I'm running into a bit of an issue because

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my current graphics card this RTX 380 from EVGA rest in peace just barely fits

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fortunately it's close this

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guy not even close so I think what I'm

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going to do there's a little bit of extra space on this bracket I think I'm

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going to take the pump out and this bracket and drill new holes just about

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that much higher so that the GPU in this slot can clear

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it hello wait

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no is that the one L of stripped damn

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it hey who know it could be this much work

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just to swap an air cooled graphics card

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originally the pump Circle bracket thing was using those two holes but what I

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found out is there's an extra set of holes in the middle so if I put the

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bottom holes of the Ring thing in the

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middle hole then I probably don't even need to drill anything I'm I think I'm

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going to anyways but um I could just put

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those two screws in and that would probably be

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enough look at that a hole which

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hopefully hits the screw it looks mint I mean the

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holes were a little too close

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together but it'll work and that's that's what matters hi AR and there it

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is the top of the res hits these tubes

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it's only screwed in with the top two holes here which don't line up with

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anything on the bottom because all of the holes are stripped out and now

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theoretically this

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fits hey it works I don't know why the lights

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are in like seizure mode right now but we can get that sort of this is less of

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an installation video and more of a aftermath explanation video I decided

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that either the GPU or the reservoir was going to have to go and as the GPU going

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was less work that was kind of where I landed so I got this really long PCI

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Express Riser cable and decided to mount

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the GPU on top of the computer so the

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graphics card just sits there except that it was overloading my power supply

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all the time so there's another power supply in the back powering just the

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graphic card and it's all mounted on the top would C Sonic trust someone

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irresponsible enough to pour water over a powered on computer stop it's fine

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they make high quality power supplies great efficiency long warranties super

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quiet IP can't go wrong well no not that

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thing no matter what your computer is SE Sonic's got you covered even if you got

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a big Power hog like this thing no that's a only reference one we have a

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very bad idea hope you catch it oh my gosh it would have come right out like

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it just opens

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Jake these people set me up for failure you know doesn't take much holy crap is

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this still too long Jake it's too long hold on okay no it fits it fits is it

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too tall though oh no it's not too slots

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it's two and change oh no we have to use

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the Riser all along wait what no oh no no no no we're

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not using a riser I'm not catching that

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okay it's just going to hit you then I got another one here you

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ready oh no fine oh my God that's the only one we

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have F that way I get to use the cool aorus one too dual bio so you got the

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silent and the OC version triple fans

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yeah triple fan I mean they're both triple fans but this one's triple fans

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on a big fat heat sink are you going to

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secure that GPU down how am I going to secure the GPU David do you ever think

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of that double-sided tape honestly what

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I was planning to do was put it right here really I mean on top of the water

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tube well why not it's a it's a solid it's a Hardline water cooling tube yeah

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until you put too much pressure on I was thinking just kind of like that and just

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put it on there that is significantly better than what you had

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before all right I'll allow it what is postcode F3 I'm looking it up F3 blah

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blah blah blah turn it on like while it's Q flash something something F3 we

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got it what did you change nothing I plugged in a keyboard I didn't change anything maybe F3 means plug in a

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keyboard do F3 just mean keyboard not found why would the system not post over

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that well hold on that's probably just cuz you turn it off a bunch of times oh

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uhoh uh oh no I bet the BIOS reset and

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I'm using like stupid AMD stupid NVMe

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stupid raid I better not have just lost my boot OS I vote we go to BIOS for a

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moment okay and we look at the PCIe

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device and maybe one of your nvmes just happened to die in this

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process did you raid zero of them yeah

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why for Speed it's like single threaded anyways

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AMD raid is garbage so it's not even a the card doesn't even have raid it's

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just one of those four oh my god oh lonus I know what the problem is

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you turn the power off like multiple times while was trying to do Windows

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updates you yes you did no I didn't it

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was trying to do Windows updates I turned the power off one time oh thanks

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Windows good timing Windows update yeah but then remember when you're doing the

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maintenance you turned it on and off and on and off like a bunch of times I guess

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this shouldn't be on right now okay just power it off a why is this still on I

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think you corrupted your own Windows install got a Windows install

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disc it's just it's one of those things where like

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honestly I don't know 95 times out of

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100 you interrupt a Windows update It'll like figure it out

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except when you're trying to film a video and you have a GPU on a rise or

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outside your computer and you've got water potentially dripping and it's

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after the end of the day and it's overtime

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now here's the update we have a completely different GPU with a

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completely different drive we have removed the drive that we think has the

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corrupted Windows on it and we are still getting that same error you know what it

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reminds me of it's behaving like the bootloader is on one storage device but

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then the actual operating system files are on another on two drives yeah which

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I've SE yeah which I've seen a lot of times but the problem is that I don't

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have two storage devices in here no so

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what is happening I don't know I'm at a loss man total loss especially since we

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put the 3090 back in like in the slot and still didn't

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go it's like an hour and a half later I

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think and the computer's working now so what ended up being the problem I'm

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pretty sure is there was some weird configuration in the BIOS because of the

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raid setup so I ended up taking the camos battery out putting it back in and the system booted right up installing

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the drivers went totally fine we had to install chipset drivers since this is

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from an Intel system that also went fine so it seems like everything's working

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great it looks like there were two contributing factors one I think Jake

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was right there must have been some kind of BIOS corruption and two he might have

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been also right about this it looks like there was a PCIe resource allocation

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problem so in order to get it to boot up reliably I not only had to enable above

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4G decoding but I also had to remove

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both my network card and my Thunderbolt card so I only have that carrier card

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for the 4 m.2 ssds and my GPU in here

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I'm using these Optical USB things from

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um uh iicon to handle USB and then I'm

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just running an optical DisplayPort cable straight up here Thunderbolt is

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not working at all after a couple small issues with the optical DisplayPort

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cable that's running downstairs to the gaming room I've got it running here so

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that seems to suggest there's no incompatibility with optical cables but

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I'm running into something entirely new

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um let see if I can get my mouse here here we

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go USB is just cutting out for you know

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3 to 5 Seconds at a time periodically here I'm moving my mouse

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continuously should there it goes yeah see hello

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nothing there it is and it's not just the mouse it's the keyboard as well just

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USB connectivity cuts out devices don't they don't disconnect and come

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back they just gone so I'm going to try a chipset driver update okay Mouse

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working fine chipset drivers who are what did the

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trick there it is wait what no

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mean I'm pretty sure this is running higher than I had it before with a 3090

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well I haven't played in a while that's for sure got him got him got him let's

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go no performance issues no hitching no

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nothing let let's go come on

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ah okay that was three ball kills though I'm feeling pretty good about that

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where's a ball someone have it what the hell are you guys

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doing bloody hell stop putting it

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down he threw it at me it's a bloody

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objective map you don't just go for kills what sucks is my teammates aren't

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even that bad from just like uh playing FPS standpoint they're just not playing

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the objective do these idiots not understand how the mode works hold the

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ball what where are you going can't blame my GPU game ran

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great just like this great segue to our sponsor all right well regardless the

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computer works but there's no segue to a sponsor cuz it's sponsored by seic so

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thanks to seic check them out on the link in the description if you liked

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this video maybe go watch the Intel AR

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one cuz that was just as much chaos I

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don't actually know if it no it wasn't as much this is

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awful no none of this has been AMD's fault so far the actual AMD experience

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has been totally fine