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Got a simple question? Get a simple answer!

This thread is for all of the small and simple questions that you might have about computing that probably wouldn't work all too well as a standalone post. Software issues, build questions, game recommendations, post them here!

For the sake of helping others, please don't downvote questions! To help facilitate this, comments are sorted randomly for this post, so that anyone's question can be seen and answered.

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The original post: /r/pcmasterrace by /u/Svenleven on 2025-01-05 21:26:57.

I'll preface this with I've bought a lot of ASUS stuff over the past ~25 years of PC building as I've generally liked their stuff and have had good luck with it. The only other RMA I've ever done was getting an old nForce4 SLI chipset fan replaced that failed, which they just mailed to me.

GPU was bought back in March of 2023. In early December 2024 I started having game crashes randomly in Diablo 4, would just restart and it would be ok. Decided to try Indiana Jones Great Circle when it came out only for it to crash consistently within a couple of minutes. Figured it was the game. Went to play some more Diablo with my brother a few days later and couldn't even get past the title screen, constantly crash to desktop. Thought maybe the drivers were the problem, nope. Thought maybe I was getting some of that 14th Gen degradation but every benchmark and test I ran came back fine. Thought maybe my RAM was failing, tested fine with and without XMP on. Finally tried running Heaven GPU benchmark and instantly crashed to desktop. Ran OCCT and after about 15 minutes of running it started reporting hundreds of errors in the GPU.

Having read pretty much nothing but horror stories about ASUS warranty claims and customer service, I was not feeling great about the prospect of being told to pound sand and be out such an expensive purchase. Plus the current GPU market is a wasteland, I couldn't replace it even if it wanted to. I contacted them through their chat, explained what I had done to troubleshoot and within 5 minutes the rep had the RMA process started. Sent it off, a few days later they reached out to say they didn't have any stock of my non OC version, would I like the OC version as replacement instead. I said yes and new card came . The whole thing was as painless as could be (except they used Fedex who had it "out for delivery" for 3 days before it finally showed up).

This was through the Canadian repair center for what that's worth. Maybe the US repair center is still awful but I just wanted to share for anyone stressing about trying to RMA their fancy gear, there's still hope.

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In this article on new AMD cards, XDA says flat out:

The era of graphics cards being fine with 8GB of VRAM is over. Full stop. There's no excuse for anything less than 16GB as we go into 2025, because AAA games demand all the memory space they can get for textures and other graphical features.

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The original post: /r/pcmasterrace by /u/eyoooo1987 on 2025-01-05 12:21:15.

They are even whining about not using pea method when it's a kryonaut extreme. Arrogance of ignorance at its finest. Seriously why do they fucking care. It's probably the most marginal performance-affecting-factor throughout whole building. When they don't use it now that's a issue to fix but "ahh, you used too much. ahh, you used line method, that's bad. ahh, you aren't supposed to spread it out, airgap blahblah" is far from contributing to pc building community with all good intention. I now understand why the contenct creators cut out a thermal paste applying part from the video, it's to avoid whining.

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