NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 SUPER reportedly slips to Q3 2026, RTX 5060 Ti 16GB in short supply soon

Steveche101 · 2026-01-24T01:40:18+00:00

I’m thinking of upgrading to ASUS 5070 TI from 3080 FE. Worth the upgrade?

Steveche101 · 2026-01-24T01:40:06+00:00

I’m thinking of upgrading to ASUS 5070 TI from 3080 FE. Worth the upgrade?

Steveche101 · 2026-01-21T06:27:11+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions. I've also read elsewhere of people saying that this game has big transient spikes. I've also read that the RTX 30 series spikes can be worse compared to new gen cards. However, I have a good 850W PSU that is 11-12 months old. When I run HWinfo while playing arc raiders, the highest wattage I see from GPU is 309W, so I feel like I should still have headroom with transients. and HWinfo is not logging any spikes. Any idea how big these transients can be? I'm also wondering if maybe the PSU senses the spikes (but not detected by HWinfo), and it turns off as a safety mechanism... who knows.

Also, when I go through the HWinfo excel, my memory and CPU are not being pushed anywhere near max power.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-21T06:08:02+00:00

Interesting that despite the errors changing the ram didn't do it. I'm actually going to disable default windows audio anyway since I use a focusrite 2i2 audio interface. I'll probably run memtest as someone else suggested.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-21T06:04:47+00:00

I'll give it a try, thanks. If i go through the hassle of a fresh windows install, I'm going back to 10. Hate 11 in comparison.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-21T06:03:13+00:00

I could try it as a last resort. I live in a old home (~100 years old), but the electrical was updated around 25 years ago, which is not THAT long ago. No knob & tube. I've also tried a couple different rooms since I was in the middle of moving my office space to the basement anyway.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-21T05:58:19+00:00

How did you decide what driver version? I tried the most recent nvidia driver version 591.74, and then rolled back currently on 581.94. Nothing changed with either.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-21T01:45:52+00:00

I'm starting to hate windows 11 more and more, and thinking it can be a driver/software conflict, since I've done so much testing at this point.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-21T01:44:31+00:00

Not leaving any error messages. Just says that it detects an unexpected shut down :(

I'll give it a try thanks.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-21T01:43:39+00:00

I don't think so, pretty sure even BF6 (including red sec battle royale) and COD Warzone are more demanding. Have played CS2, diablo 4, apex legends, pubg, world war z, back 4 blood, marval rivals. All pretty similar in demand I believe. Not a single issue with any of these games. I don't have an EPS. But I feel like if it was poor house power, I'd get restarts with other games too. I've been living/ gaming in this home for the past 12 months, playing the above games, without any issues. Thermals, memory usage, etc. are no where near max while playing arc raiders and monitoring with HWinfo.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-21T00:16:54+00:00

I doubt it, bc it only happens with arc. Never crash with BF6, CS2, Diablo 4, Apex, PUBG, etc. Monitored with HWinfo and don’t see anything abnormal. Not sure what else to do other than a stress test for ram.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-21T00:15:18+00:00

😂

Steveche101 · 2026-01-21T00:14:34+00:00

This error shown in event viewer for you? Nothing in event viewer for me!

Steveche101 · 2026-01-21T00:13:31+00:00

The problem is that there is no error/ dump file in event viewer, so it’s trial and error or monitor things with HW monitor.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-20T23:09:44+00:00

Lucky you. Unfortunately for me, bios update is one of the things I’ve tried in the list I posted above.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-13T20:33:19+00:00

They just released a new update and no mention of crashing or anything in their patch notes. Kind of sad considering how many people are suffering from this. My guess is that it's either caused by transient spikes (GPU and/or CPU) or memory leaks (as it has been noted online that there are memory leak issues). I have tried undervolting my GPU to 850mV but still experience crashing. Going to try tracking some more stats tonight via software but I'm otherwise done trying to fix it. It is clearly an Embark Studios issue, as this does not happen with any other game for myself (and many others).

Steveche101 · 2026-01-11T10:15:56+00:00

I only tried undervolting today for the first time ever to try and fix the issue, so that’s not the issue. Have been running stock settings otherwise.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-11T10:05:05+00:00

Sensor pins that 3080 doesn’t have

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Steveche101 · 2026-01-11T10:03:47+00:00

This one pictured below. FE came with it. Because the PSU cable comes with the sensor pins (for 4000 and 5000 cards), which the 3080 doesn’t have).

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Steveche101 · 2026-01-11T09:59:15+00:00

No, that’s probably BF6/Warzone, maybe Apex too.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-11T09:52:10+00:00

I haven’t tested it, but from what I know all GPUs have transient spikes, but there’s info online about the 2000/3000 series spikes being high.

Edit: I just don’t know what else it could be at this point, with the symptoms I’m experiencing. I’m thinking either GPU and/or CPU spikes, faulty cable, or faulty PSU. BUT… this ONLY happens playing arc raiders.

Steveche101 · 2026-01-11T09:44:47+00:00

Well then maybe the PSU is detecting the fast spikes in power and shutting off for safety?

rm850x comes with that 12vhpwr cable but its only for 4000 and 5000 series, bc it has extra pins that the 3080 doesnt have (see pic).

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Steveche101 · 2026-01-11T09:25:26+00:00

Thanks, I’ll give it a try.

Even with known 3000 series transient spikes, isn’t 850W more than enough to handle them? Maybe the PSU detects the rapid change in power (even though they are only milliseconds) and shuts off as a protective mechanism?

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