The Seasonic doesn't seem like it's in stock at a price worth buying, so I'd go with the Corsair in that case. If you don't really want Titanium, there is also the Phanteks Revolt 1000 for $220 which is a Platinum Seasonic unit.
As for the games, your best bet might be MS Flight Simulator. I kinda like the game personally as well, wasn't expecting lots out of it... though flying around the Bing generated maps is fun - even at lower framerates.
(might be those SP-Caps, and the flattened boost curve from the drivers not capturing all edge cases completely 100%?)
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[8:29 PM]
erek:
apparently all this time i had 3DMark Advanced... going to try some more benchmarks
no response from Gigabyte Support yet
i was able to get GTA V acceptable 4K@60... this is my desired end goal which in some spots gives me a 50% gain over other video cards cause they'd drop to 30 fps in certain high foilage areas
still so far, GTA V is the only game giving issues without a FPS Limit
everything else even with 105+ power limits was stable
[8:27 PM]erek: man it's weird so i did 105% power limit, and everything but GTA V was stable[8:28 PM]Non-Chill Filtered: it sounds like a driver bug in gta5[8:28 PM]erek: GTA V isn't even stable at stock[8:28 PM]Non-Chill Filtered: kinda sad you have an issue with your favorite game hmmmm[8:28 PM]erek: i doubt it's a driver bug, wonder if it's related to that driver fix they did to stop it from boosting too abruptly some PSUs can't react fast enough or something?
---do i understand the boosting issue with the 30 series correctly? it was boosting hard and some PSUs can't handle the spike quick enough?
nvidia released a driver update to address it?
[8:33 PM]
Forge :
Yes and no. It's the decoupling caps on the GPU that can't handle it. There are supposed to be 5 large caps and a cluster of six tiny ones. Some OEMs went with six larger caps to cut costs, left not enough pull-ups on the VCC.
[8:34 PM]
erek:
oh? i thought they dismissed those caps as being the culprit and everyone accepted it as good with the driver update
i was wondering if my card is one of those
[8:45 PM]
Forge :
Then why did all the OEMs state that it was a problem?
NVIDIA AIC Partners Clarify RTX 3080/3090 Crash to Desktop Issues, Capacitor Choices
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Compounding the limited availability with the crash to desktop issues users have been experiencing with NVIDIA's recent RTX 3080/3090 graphics cards have led to rivers of digital ink being ru...
https://www.techpowerup.com/272676/...090-crash-to-desktop-issues-capacitor-choices
[8:46 PM]
erek:
i see
did the driver help enough or no, seems there'd be a response in terms of reoslving the hardware
[8:46 PM]
Forge :
Seems like it. Nvidia flattened out the Boost curve to avoid problems.
Took away some performance to ensure stability.
[8:47 PM]
erek:
hurt even their own FEs?
the way i'm seeing things, it's like my card has that one edge case with GTA V where it's causing that GPU Reset
[8:49 PM]
Forge :
Only the 3080 FEs were affected.
[8:53 PM]
erek:
found my possible answer: here's the Eagle, which is almost the same as far as i understand it... the bios is different, and the cooler,"The Gigabyte board appears to use a 15-phase power delivery system for the GPU, with three additional phases used for other elements. The RAM comes from Micron of course, it's currently the only manufacturer of GDDR6X memory, and is rated for 21Gbps, though like other 3090 cards it's only clocked at 19.5Gbps. Also of note is that behind the GPU are six SP-Caps, with no MLCC blocks. We experienced quite a bit of instability on the Gigabyte card with the launch drivers, but thankfully that was cleared up with the 456.55 and later drivers."
