Turing Discussion Thread

[SteelCrysis]

https://www.techpowerup.com/248769/patch...ustom-bios

BIOS modder Vipeax has released a special patched version of NVFlash (version 5.527.0), the utility that allows you to extract and flash the video BIOS of your NVIDIA GeForce graphics card.
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PC enthusiasts look to flash their Founders Edition cards with BIOS ROMs of custom-design graphics cards by other NVIDIA add-in card partners, mainly to increase power limits that allow the GPU to sustain boost frequencies better, and increase overclocking headroom. As an obligatory word of caution, use of NVFlash isn't covered by product warranties, and you use it at your own risk, especially when cross-flashing between cards that might have subtle differences. We manually checked the modified executable (not just Virustotal) and it doesn't contain any malware.

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/27950...-price-tag

But there have consistently been RTX 2070 GPUs in-market for the past week, and they’ve been selling for the $500 price tag. While we will absolutely continue to revisit the question of GPU availability, a week of $500 availability requires that we revisit our own original evaluation and acknowledge that our $600 estimated launch price tag was wrong.
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Does this make the RTX 2070 a better value than I previously believed it to be? Absolutely, yes. Does it make it a compelling GPU purchase? No — though it may be a reasonable one now, depending on your requirements (more on this in a moment).
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After reconsidering the RTX 2070 at the appropriate price point, our guidance is this: If you can afford the cost increase and do not care whether the RTX features pan out, the RTX 2070 will deliver a performance improvement over the 1070 that is mostly in-line with what you’ll be asked to pay for it.

If you actually care about ray tracing, can afford a $500 GPU, and wish to make certain that you purchase a card that can deliver this feature, we do not recommend the RTX 2070, for the sole reason that Nvidia has not yet demonstrated that it will. Once Nvidia has made that demonstration if the card’s price and features are attractive to you, pull the trigger.

If you absolutely in need of a new GPU and cannot afford a $500 card, we recommend either buying a used card (for short-term purposes while waiting to see if NV has 7nm GPUs coming in 2019 and/or what Turing RTX performance will actually look like) or buying the least expensive new card you can afford at a reasonable performance level and banking the rest towards a higher-end GPU once these questions are answered. And keep in mind, Pascal and AMD’s Polaris are both still capable of providing solid midrange performance, even if the 10-series and Vega no longer represent the latest and greatest in GPU technology.