Patrons Ask GN 38: Do Manufacturers Push Back? Future VR Testing? What Tools Do You Use?

Long time YouTuber subscriber, new to Patreon, was actually curious as to why you don’t use Floatplane for these Ask GN & BTS videos? I heard you say on the AIB 3080 Card OC livestream that you have a hard enough time keeping up with Patreon as is, just thought I’d ask because I love supporting LMG & Floatplane as much as I love supporting you & GN.

Would you recommend running a 3080 founders edition in an Nzxt 500/510 case? I'm currently running a CPU air cooler with top and rear exhaust fans. I like the idea of these founders editions thermals I'm just not sure if it will be detrimental to run one in my case.

I made an account just to post this question. I recently acquired an Asus Zephyrus M15 i7-10750H with GTX 2070 Max-Q As with most laptops it runs hot under heavy load (read: gaming). I am trying to undervolt it as I have read that many others with the same laptop were able to successfully. But, I ran into an issue with a recent BIOS/UEFI update blocking undervolting because of PlunderVolt. In the UEFI, Asus limits the undervolting to -80 milivolts. I am able to run this quite easily with no issues. I would like to try more but Asus will not let me. Do you know if Asus would be willing to change the arbitrary limit? Do you know if motherboard manufacturers will ever allow undervolting with software again? If intel fixes the issue, would that mean manufacturers would be able to allow it again? Another almost related question. My CPU has 1 core that runs hotter than all of the rest. The delta is about 8-10 degrees Celsius. From what I understand this normal but I can’t help but wonder if I set a negative ratio offset on that specific core would it lower my overall package power and/or allow the cpu to turbo higher. Is this possible? The ideal would be to set a negative offset on the specific core but I would settle for the ability to limit max ratio or voltage on the core. If all of that is not possible, I would settle for the ability to disable the CPU core without a restart. I have read some about CPU parking but I was not able to figure out if that would do what I want or if I would be able to park a specific CPU core.

Will you being doing PCIe 3 vs PCIe 4 testing on the new Ampere release? I am thinking of a new build, but Intel's lack of PCIe 4 support might be a thing now?

Will there be any testing done on 90 degree rotated cases ALA Silverstone with the new 3080/3090 cooler?

Which ampere card would you get if you have a 3440 x 1440 ultrawide screen 160 hz?

Scott Andes