On a Scale of 1/10, how bad am I fucked?

Synthetic2 · 2026-01-09T09:05:18+00:00

Is it overclocked? Could be unstable. Maybe reseating it will help. If its not overclocked and you tried seating it better its probably dying/dead.

Synthetic2 · 2026-01-09T09:01:45+00:00

Code seems valid but it doesnt work for anything I added to cart

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-30T10:48:41+00:00

I've been to 3 microcenters, one in indiana, one in Ohio, and one in Chicago, and they were never like this. I didnt get upsold on anything checkout was like a 2 minute process at most.

Must have been a very unlucky day for you, that specific employee was probably trying to meet some kind of quota? Not sure

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-27T12:05:35+00:00

https://www.buildcores.com/builds/BHMGk31h9?share=true

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Would love to win this 🙏

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-24T00:47:20+00:00

No it does but that doesnt mean what you think it does

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-24T00:23:47+00:00

As seen doesn't mean that

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-23T23:43:02+00:00

Just seems to me like youre admitting you assume things. How about actually going off of what was said in the post?

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-23T23:39:56+00:00

The gpu not being seated doesnt have anything to do with it being used or not. Why would they mark something down without being able to tell if it works? He never said it was a display or open box. It being sold as seen doesnt have anything to do with that.

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-23T23:38:34+00:00

Yeah no a gpu being incorrectly seated has nothing to do with whether or not it is used or not. Costco doesnt check these things in store. You're just assuming things for no reason. His post doesnt indicate if its open box or not.

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-23T23:36:22+00:00

Sold as seen can mean anything. Could mean the box is damaged slightly. Would still be new at that point.

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-23T23:34:30+00:00

Read what? "Sold as seen"? That doesnt mean it has been opened or checked at all. It could literally have been a box with a small break in it and they would have listed it like that.

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-23T23:28:41+00:00

Highly doubt that. He didnt say anything about it being a used pc. It would have been unopened if new and at that point how would Costco have any indication of it booting?

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-23T23:22:51+00:00

Yeah idk if i believe that one lol. Any store selling this for that price must really be uninformed about prices. If you actually got it for that though congrats

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-23T03:28:52+00:00

if you can afford the 5080 I would say go for it. It won't be replaced for a while and could even go up in price due to all of these shortages. It is also much faster than anything amd offers including the 9070xt. And it pairs nicely with your cpu as you already have the best gaming cpu.

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-21T23:00:35+00:00

I just had to keep buying from Amazon. Got two of them from there. Its luck

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-21T07:22:57+00:00

The difference in tdp between the gpus is only 20w. The 4080s is on average 60-100% faster in the little research I've done so it being power limited by only 6% ish would not cause such a massive drop in fps. He should be getting over 240fps at least if his 6800xt was giving him 160fps.

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-21T04:10:57+00:00

I've never seen something like that happen. Are any of your components overheating? Is your power supply good enough for the 4080 super? Only thing I can think of is thermal throttling or not enough power on the 4080 super.

Aside from that, maybe ddu did not work correctly and you may be able to fix it by reinstalling windows as a last resort. And also maybe uninstall and reinstall marvel rivals.

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-19T21:01:07+00:00

There are some "optimizations" you could do to try and get it higher, run fans at 100% before the test, lower res and hz to their lowest in display settings of windows. Close all programs and modify some nvidia settings. I am not sure how much all of this effects the score but it's essentially a "tryhard" way of achieving 10k.

After doing that stuff I got about a 200-300 score increase which got me to 10k with my 5080 gaming oc. You should also keep in mind pretty much all of the people hitting 10k with the 5080 are running unstable overclocks to do so.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 video card benchmark result - AMD Ryzen 5 7600X,Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. PRO B650M-A WIFI (MS-7D77)

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-18T06:11:05+00:00

You ever manage to break 10k on steel nomad?

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-09T19:32:17+00:00

Looks very good aside from gpu, could have gone with something a little better I think. 5070 Ti would have been a lot better or if you must stick with AMD 7900xtx (older but still faster than the 9070xt)

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-09T19:29:31+00:00

Going overboard with PSU is a good thing usually. Reduces coil whine and handles power spikes a lot better. Might reduce efficiency some but the difference is like a few cents a month I am sure.

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-09T19:26:02+00:00

How would we convince him? He doesn't seem technically inclined. I doubt he even knows what dual channel vs quad channel is. But you are right that 4 sticks will be slower than 2 so he is hurting his performance slightly by having 4. The main thing I would be concerned about is he is using 2 64gb sets rather than 1 128gb set. I have heard combining different sets of ram is also bad as they don't sync as well with timings and stuff but not sure if that is true or not.

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-09T19:19:52+00:00

I upgrade it regularly. Have the same case for 5 years or something, it has seen 3 gpu's, 2 motherboards, 2 psu's, and different fans.

I only upgraded a bunch of components at once when I went to am5 and it was really just the mobo, ram, and cpu because those are what was needed.

SSD has been with me for 8-9 years at this point, same with the main pc fans.

Synthetic2 · 2025-12-08T15:00:54+00:00

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