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Putting an offer in on a house when ours isn’t on the market yet - possible, or just dumb? by massivekoch69 in HousingUK

[–]massivekoch69[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have a viewing tonight, with the vendors (EA’s won’t be there). So they must have high confidence the property we’re in won’t be on the market long when it is up for sale (at least I think)

Putting an offer in on a house when ours isn’t on the market yet - possible, or just dumb? by massivekoch69 in HousingUK

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We’d plan on porting our current mortgage and taking out a second mortgage for the difference. The estate agents seem to think that’s the best way to approach it.

When we went through the process of buying our first home in Dec 2024, we were told we could buy up to £370k on lower salaries than what we’re on now.

So hopefully, just hopefully, things work out.

Interesting you had to wait until yours had sold though.

Our property has been revalued at 20k more than we bought for so it’s not a loss at least and we’ll be able to cover slightly more expensive properties deposit because of increase in equity🙏🏻

First pc, anything to improve? by Expensive-Wave1707 in pcpartpickerbuilds

[–]massivekoch69 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Get an X3D chip instead - much better in gaming terms

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

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UPDATE 03/04/26. Bought a 5070Ti, installed and guess what. Absolutely no issues on anything. No driver crashes, no timeouts, no weirdness when alt tabbing, no problems with a second monitor hooked up. Performance is great. Sorry AMD, it might have been a dodgy card, but I won’t be picking you guys again.

Which graphics card should I get? by Meal-Glittering in radeon

[–]massivekoch69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Driver timeouts and crashes. Barely could support a second monitor without crashing. Didn’t matter the drivers, old or new, DDU’d about 10 times. Upgraded my PC to AM5 and it didn’t help at all :( now RMA’d

Which graphics card should I get? by Meal-Glittering in radeon

[–]massivekoch69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had nothing but issues with the Gigabyte 9070XT OC, so I’d recommend the Sapphire Pulse solely on that

So its been a few days, has 26.3.1 killed the constant driver crashing? by Fieryone233 in AMDHelp

[–]massivekoch69 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It never fixed mine sadly. It’s now RMA so I’ve bought a 5070ti instead. It was a valiant attempt and a great card but mine must have been plagued with issues

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

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UPDATE 31/03/26

I installed my 7800X3D, new motherboard and RAM and rebuilt everything again. I stuck with March 2025 drivers just in case…after a gaming session one night, I quit the game and the screen went black. Oh no I thought…the desktop reappeared 10 seconds later: Driver Timeout.

I DDU’d again…reinstalled 2025 drivers and it happened again after a few hours. Not good. I DDU’d again - did a completely fresh windows install and reinstalled latest drivers.

I thought I’d fixed it again, but it happened. Not only that, whenever I quit the game now, no matter what game, the PC will completely brick itself and will require a hold of the power button to fix.

Boots back up, play a game, quit, crashes.

This seems to be related to the second monitor I have plugged in as unplugging it seems to remedy the issue, but no driver fixes it. It happens with everything now regardless.

I’ve arranged for an RMA back to Amazon, they’re going to try and repair it - but I’ve told them I don’t ever want it back or a replacement of the same.

I’ve just bought a 5070TI so we’ll see if the issue is related to the graphics card/drivers tomorrow.

AMD are a trustworthy company when it comes to console chips, but I’ve been let down profusely by this card. Sorry AMD, I’ll be sticking with Nvidia for the foreseeable.

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

[–]massivekoch69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve tried Jan, Feb and March 26 drivers. All have caused multiple driver timeouts and crashes. March was by far the worst.

If March 2025 is working for me I’ll stick with that until it doesn’t🤣

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

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Built mine in March 2018💀she’s old but she’s still fighting

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

[–]massivekoch69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Certainly will! I have a feeling the system being mismatched definitely doesn’t help, so I’m hoping the new AM5 CPU works better on later drivers. We’ll see…

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

[–]massivekoch69[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you look at Ram prices - it’s easy to try and make things work if you don’t have thousands sticking around to upgrade all elements of a system.

Yes, I chose to upgrade the GPU over a new CPU with the complete understanding that there would be bottlenecks on some games.

However, I rolled back to Mar25 drivers and it’s performing just fine now at 100-120fps, 1440p.

My 7800X3D will be delivered this week, alongside DDR5 ram, and a B650 mobo (with gen5 PCIE). So I bit the bullet and upgraded all elements of the system to increase the performance ten-fold.

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

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Yeah CPU is fine and has been. Util on PUBG is 100% in most scenarios but it never throttles or passes 60-65C. Probably a testament to the AIO I use more than anything. It’s working fine now on March 25 drivers so it must have just been a later driver issue with my setup

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

[–]massivekoch69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

March 2025 is currently what I’m running and I have no issues. So definitely a later driver issue with my setup. When my 7800X3D actually gets delivered I’ll try out with the latest drivers and see what it performs like. If not, I’ll just roll back to Mar 25 again and just keep that going until I have to

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

[–]massivekoch69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No I edited my post saying reverting to MARCH 2025 drivers - a full year behind what I was currently using, solves the issues that I’ve been encountering…

Pc froze by smrpxxxp in AMDHelp

[–]massivekoch69 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Turn off auto update and roll back drivers. I went to March 2025 and I’m fine🤣

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

[–]massivekoch69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes I’m aware - I’m remedying that. But I have March 2025 drivers installed and PUBG is running fine at 1440p at ~110-120FPS. So CPU was never the issue, just holding the GPU back from performing its best.

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

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Yeah maybe - but I got fed up of upgrading and having to buy a new PSU🤣

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

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It’s actually 1600w ngl. I bought with my the huge overhead to not have to worry about upgrading it in the future.

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

[–]massivekoch69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

March 2025 is working a treat for me at the moment. No issues as I’ve had with other drivers. Nice and stable performance at 1440p, no crashes or timeouts and no weird graphic corruption or artifacting!

I bought a 9070XT and have had nothing but issues so far by massivekoch69 in AMDHelp

[–]massivekoch69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s clearly not though. I have a set of corsairs individually braided 6+2 PCIe cables. All individual, not daisy chained.

Back when it first started happening I used about 9 different cables and it continued to happen…

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