We return with Ask GN! This is the first of three we shot for this round, one of which goes to Patreon backers. We talk NVIDIA process nodes, OCing, and more.
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Why Does NVIDIA Use Multiple Silicon Fabs?
01:48 - UltimateF8: “#askgn-questions Why are the GT 1030, GTX 1050 and GTX 1050 Ti manufactured using a 14 nm process vs the 16nm FinFET process used for the rest of the Pascal cards? How did Nvidia have the lower end cards manufactured using a smaller process, and why were the other cards not manufactured using the smaller node?”
Where Should I Put My Free Thermocouples?
04:34 – Darr: “New motherboards often come with one or more thermalcouples, which motherboard component or installed device would you choose to monitor?”
How Should I Determine Required PSU Wattage?
09:52 – Human Person: “What PSU wattage is reasonable? Do I just add the TPD of all my components and then take double or something like this?”
Per-Core Overclocking Worth It?
14:40 – Eric Ernst: “I noticed when you overclock processors that temperatures of each core vary... sometimes by a lot. I also noticed that on the 7980xe, you raised the multiplier 1x more on the first 2 cores than the rest of the cores. Could you optimize your overclock by raising the multiplier on cooler cores and lowering it on the hotter cores to equalize the temps across the entire package?”
What is the “Greatest Result, Least Effort” Way to Test New Builds?
17:25 – Lamont: “Hi Steve - thanks for the informative content you produce - been enjoying it since I stumbled into it researching my new builds. What are the more basic benchmarking tools and validation tests you'd reccommend for someone who wants to validate system performance with an emphasis on gaming, and maybe simple pre and post overclock performance (CPU primarily). I don't want to become a benchmark junkie or run hours and hours of tests, but I'd like to know if I've got any obvious problems where my hardware is underperforming. For example, I'd like to determine if the CPU or GPU are being thermally throttled and see what impact it has if I open the front case door for more air intake when gaming or modify fan curves or locations. I'm looking for the high school yearbook ‘greatest result, least effort’ winners here. Thanks!”
How Does GPU Memory Frequency Get Calculated?
25:12 – Ethan L: “When overclocking memory on a GPU, does it follow the same rules as standard system memory? As in, your system memory always reads half of it’s actual clock speed due to reading per channel. Does GPU memory work the same way?
Do You Think Unreal Engine Will Shift Games in NVIDIA’s Favor?
27:38 – Scooby Dooby: “So, Unreal Engine is owned by Epic Games and Epic games just launched a Steam competitor on PC that not only gives developers a bigger cut of the pie, but also incentivizes the use of Unreal Engine by waiving the fee for its use for games released (exclusively?) on Epic's game store. Unreal Engine HEAVILY favors Nvidia architectures. Do you think this could be the beginning of a profound shift favoring Nvidia?”
Can I Use Ryzen 3000 in X370?
30:09 – exeus: “Am I correct in assuming that I will be able to put a Ryzen 3000 series CPU in the AM4 slot on an X370 motherboard? Obviously there's no chance of a BIOS update for PCI gen 4.0 on that, but I'm curious as to whether X370 would for example handle the Ryzen 7 or 9 3x00 chip when it's released eventually?”
What Are More Obscure OC Settings?
30:49 – Andrew: “When doing livestreams many of the astute overclockers among us give you helpful tips on which motherboard settings to tweek (like Vmesh). Can you go through some of the more obscure (but still important) CPU overclocking settings and what they do?”
When Will We Get More Hypebeast Steve?
35:44 – st33med: “@Steve Burke are we going to see more of HypeBeast Steve?”
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