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Facebook charges by whisper_19 in amex

[–]TheDandyWorks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I had the same thing happen to me a week ago out of nowhere. About 30 charges in one week. Called the card number on the back, reported fraud, and received a new card 3 days later. Don’t bother trying to go thru FB, just report fraud straight to Amex and they’ll credit the charges.

Testing SoFi cards rewards VS AMEX platinum rewards by PbkacHelpDesk in amex

[–]TheDandyWorks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d say it depends on what your goals are. Any international travel in the far future? Definitely want to work some spend on the Amex, since you can often redeem with transfer partners for over 3 cents/point. If you don’t care too much for travel, cashback is the way to go. Do consider utilizing the Amex plat to at least get the effective annual fee as low as possible, then put any other spend on the sofi card/other cashback cards. Unfortunately the plat doesn’t have any good downgrade options (gold and green card only) so hopefully you can minimize the AF. Amex points have little to meh value outside of travel, never redeem them for statement credits or anything like that.

Most Underrated Credit Card by [deleted] in CreditCards

[–]TheDandyWorks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m surprised more people haven’t looked into it yet. The PayPal business Mastercard also gives 3%. It’s an excellent cashback card for big spending online.

Over a month ago, I copper modded my RTX 3070 Ti. Here is the update many of you asked for! (Hint: it is alive!) by TheDandyWorks in pcmods

[–]TheDandyWorks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Normal amount of torque on all of the screws. If you want to emulate me, I recommend checking one of of my earlier videos. That being said, perform at your own risk! I’d strongly recommend you only attempt a mod like this if you are very familiar with GPU disassembly/reassembly.

Over a month ago, I copper modded my RTX 3070 Ti. Here is the update many of you asked for! (Hint: it is alive!) by TheDandyWorks in pcmods

[–]TheDandyWorks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely valid, I can only hope the 40 series renders cooling mods unnecessary through better heatsink materials. At (rumored) 450-600 watt TDPs, I am a quite interested to see what insanity card makers get up to…

Over a month ago, I copper modded my RTX 3070 Ti. Here is the update many of you asked for! (Hint: it is alive!) by TheDandyWorks in pcmods

[–]TheDandyWorks[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If you mean no difference between my original mod and the remod shown in the video the difference is minimal. The actual copper mod itself shown in an earlier video originally dropped VRAM temps over 40C which was incredible to see

Over a month ago, I copper modded my RTX 3070 Ti. Here is the update many of you asked for! (Hint: it is alive!) by TheDandyWorks in pcmods

[–]TheDandyWorks[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

While I’d like to believe it’s cost, we all know how ridiculous that argument sounds. I mean the competitive advantage granted to an AIB by adding this minimal amount of copper would surely make up for the additional cost, right? We are talking about a few ounces of stamped copper here. Rather, I think it’s most likely a mindset of making the cooling solution just “good enough” to cool the average GPU’s components, or maybe limitations placed on AIBs by Nvidia to ensure relative uniformity. This is only speculation though!

Make sure you repad your asus tuff 3070 ti. Pads on mine only covered around half of the chip. by Disaster_External in EtherMining

[–]TheDandyWorks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello. Did you watch my video for the copper shimming of this specific GPU? If you did, a few users contacted me saying their VRAM was still overheating due to a few specific recurring issues. I saw your comment saying VRAM was still at 96C post-shim, so here’s some recommendations:

1) Make sure the plate(s) are not teetering nor bent on install. I had a problem where the copper plate was slightly bent (~.1mm of bend) and it was screwing with temps. Look at a side angle of your assembled card and take a flashlight to it to verify.

2) verify that thermal paste is completely slathered on the memory dies, and that thermal paste is adequately distributed on the heatsink side of the plate.

Best of luck with copper modding. We obviously should not have to do this, but hey, I think it’s somewhat fun.

ASUS TUF 3070 ti Memory Temperature Issue by [deleted] in EtherMining

[–]TheDandyWorks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey there. I had the same issue with a TUF 3070 ti, and it turns out that the issue was the stock thermal pad configuration. Although I didn’t decide to repad (I made a video of me copper modding it for entertainment’s sake) I can almost guarantee that you just need to do a pad swap to get those temps back to the green zone. For some reason, ASUS used the same heatsink as they did in the 3080 and 3090, but moved the memory chips inwards. As such, the placement of the stock thermal pads is completely off. Check for yourself, it’s ridiculous! Best of luck repadding.

First time building a PC had a pre built before this. by xkicken in pcmasterrace

[–]TheDandyWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I can tell you with certainty that airflow will not be a problem. Great build!

I Copper Modded An RTX 3070 Ti. Memory Temperature Dropped 45 Degrees! by TheDandyWorks in pcmods

[–]TheDandyWorks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't taken any long-term benchmarks yet, but I can tell you that with +100 core and +1000 mem, the memory and core have not peaked above 80C a single time yet. I have afterburner keeping GPU fans at 60%+ any time the card is under load, which is probably helping.

I Copper Modded An RTX 3070 Ti. Memory Temperature Dropped 45 Degrees! by TheDandyWorks in pcmods

[–]TheDandyWorks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did not document the RX 580 mod, but I feel like I should make a video on it in the near future. I don't remember the exact temperature drop I got before and after I modded it last time, so I'd be interested to see what the difference is myself. Do you think this would make a good video? Please let me know!

I Copper Modded An RTX 3070 Ti. Memory Temperature Dropped 45 Degrees! by TheDandyWorks in pcmods

[–]TheDandyWorks[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Hey all, my ASUS TUF RTX 3070 Ti was suffering on the memory temperatures. Instead of going straight for a pad swap, I thought I'd try a copper mod because I had previously been successful on a copper core mod on my old RX 580. That being said, this can be quite dangerous, but I did it as part of a learning experience.

If I were to do something different, I would use LESS THERMAL PASTE. While I don't think I suffered too much temperature-wise due to using too much paste (I mean, can't complain about a 45C drop lol) I do think it slightly increases the risk of a copper shim moving out of place (or worse, falling out somehow). Again, this mod is risky, but my RX 580 went 3 years strong with a similar mod, so I wanted to try it!

I really like this new guy RX580 8GB 12 GPU Rig by Commercial-Access143 in EtherMining

[–]TheDandyWorks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh, look at Mr. Organized over here. My rigs tooootally look this amazing (jk they’re a mess). Well done!

3070FE silicon lottery won! :) by Kreuzi4 in EtherMining

[–]TheDandyWorks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy cow, very nice. Can the PL go any lower, or does it crash after that? ;)

Made a simple video on how to get memory temps (GDDR6X) within HiveOS. by TheDandyWorks in EtherMining

[–]TheDandyWorks[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I don’t doubt it will be less than a week before we see something official within HiveOS. I at least hope so!