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You're way off there @Fucker a B550 can handle a 4x nvme drive, a 16x gen 4 graphics card, and 4x sata drives + gen 3 nvme or 2 more sata (via chipset not the pcie lanes). If you want a ton of drives or some add on cards go x570, otherwise B550 really is good for most people.

"Noone knows what an artichoke is, just eat lots of Mayo." Says fat female "comedian."

4 years ago, you could buy a decent midrange 8GB card for $250

You didn't even need to visit a website, unpatched Windows XP starts getting worms the moment you plug in an ethernet cable to a working modem.

They can just stick an older model catapult on it, I'd think

You could probably tune the ram timings from 18 to 16, but that'd be quite a hassle to save ten bucks.

Price, features(# usb/m2/sata ports, wifi/lan speed, etc), build quality (vrm, bios, memory support for highend/oc.) If you don't really need anything special, can safely get any B550 board in the $150 range.

Pump header can also be used for a pwm fan, some fan connectors can be daisy chained but don't overdo that.

If someone looks good enough almost anything they're wearing will look better, the converse is also true

Updated your Realtek drivers and made sure all of your unused sound devices are disabled in windows? It loves to randomly switch to them for no reason.

G9 is the only ~$1000+ monitor ever really mentioned much, Hardware Unboxed do detailed monitor reviews.

Prebuilts often have in demand cpu/gpu held back by some really cheap components. Slow ram can really hold back a Ryzen system. Should be ~20% fps loss when cpu capped between 3600cl16 and 3000cl17. More sticks would be limited to the same speeds, consider replacing during a sale. The tiny...

Not a fan of those charts; CPUs don't change in performance going from 1080p to 1440p, but GPUs do significantly. What's the ram and PSU? Make sure the ram is in the correct slots with XMP enabled when you get it, getting bad pre-built vibes. You should get a NVME drive too, you really don't...

Apparently a "final" big update the other day. Graphics, music noticeably improved. Back on sale too.

It's overpriced vs the rest of the series in $/core, but it's now the best "gaming" cpu you can buy- so it sort of commands a near Intel level price premium. It is a better binned single ccx, clocks a little higher stock+overclocked. As pointed out a better bang for the buck would be from...

5800x has the highest $/core and a very marginal gaming performance over the 5600x. On the other hand it outperforms the 10900k at almost everything while using less power, for 150$ less. AMD knows it'll still sell out for a good while but yeah it should really be priced lower post release...

3600X/XT were a choice when the 3600 wasn't available msrp (most of the time...) Now, unless maybe if it's on sale+you using the not as bad stock cooler. At 250 you may aswell get a 10600K now or soon a 5600X for $ 300. @Quineloe memory needs a custom tune (maybe that's what you intended)...

That's gonna happen if you point the intake fans straight at glass. @meStevo if you're buying $1400 cards just upgrade the case to a O11-XL; also allows 2x 140 mm fans pointing straight into your gpu instead of an upsidown psu pulling air away.

Seems ~3600Mhz ram is staying near optimal, power consumption & TDP aren't changing very much if at all. So board, memory, cooling, and PSU wouldn't need an upgrade from Zen2. 5900x outperforming a 10900k at near everything, often using less than half the power, while being cheaper is a big oof...

Well, looks like Fucker is right but it's only past a 42GB transfer when QVO turns to real shit. It's also not great for actually running stuff off of

That's normal for AMD's "precision boost" behavior; R5 3600 has a base clock of 3600mhz and boosts to 4200mhz.

Prices will certainly shoot up again when Zen 3 is released. But you won't benefit from slapping more in; 16gb is enough for the next few years unless you really don't want to close your Chrome tabs before booting up Cyberpunk. If you really want to boost your gaming performance with ram-...

I had to re-paste that stock cooler when replacing a broken bracket, used Arctic Grizzly. Supposed to be pretty good stuff, could be helping temps.

That definitely changes when you have a well vented case. 3700x +stock prism + Meshify C with 2x 140mm fan ($10): 39C idle, 55C gaming, 72C stress testing. I set the case fans to go based on system temp so they ramp up slowly in gaming, but that took some trial and error in the bios.

The deadline was from Nvidia guarding all the 30 series information until the last second, and Nvidia green-lighted the changes that were made too. So there's some blame to go around.

The TUF isn't using any of the cheap caps, ZOTACs are using all cheap caps. If you have to get stuff day one the only safe way is probably reference/founders edition.

Early AIBs cheaping out caused some 5700xt stability problems before this, and 2080tis before that. I think they take turns fucking up power delivery on motherboards and graphics cards, can never really trust any of them on day 1.

Noone's stopping you from undervolting, lowering resolution and capping fps on more expensive hardware, or just tuning fan profiles. There's just not much interest in that, especially in a thread about a new 300+W series of graphics cards. If you're room is too hot and you're too lefty to...

FF7 had to be a long, long time after X or there'd be monuments of their saviors from a 1000 year oppressor everywhere.

Don't flip the PSU, it would be pulling air out of the same narrow alley your 3080 is pulling from. Never-mind the normal reasons not to. Check how hot cpu gets with an all core stress test, shouldn't get that hot in gaming even with the space heater below it .

As long as you don't overclock anything you should be fine. Better use two separate provided cables to power the 3080. Reference cooler blasts a lot of heat straight into the ram/cpu so if you're using custom memory turnings, they may become unstable, too.

He said Intel chip! Because an AMD system clearly can't work with the same drives, graphics, case, psu! In all seriousness a 3300x / 3600 is worth the extra $, when msrp's are stocked. https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/N82E16820231941 $58...

To repeat a B series board amputates Intel's last remaining advantage, gaming fps. Now, if it's a good deal you could build a very cheap gaming system with oem level 2666 mhz ram and board. Some other downsides- no multithreading, gen4, or a decent upgrade path (9900K will never be cheap.)...

A hacked 10700 wouldn't match a 10600k's fps- so why would you want to pay more for it?

Acer has been selling really good IPS Freesynch monitors like that, with decent prices, for a while. Side notes- flat and low nits don't matter as much with IPS. There is a bit of a lottery in how much backlight bleed/ IPS glow you might get, however.

The right time is when your old pc no longer does what you want it to do adequately fast. Upgrading to a higher resolution/hz display changes that a little. There are surges in performance when new stuff comes out, there are also surges in pricing due to shortages (ie chinalabvirus.) If you...

Shouldn't some zip ties solve it?

If you aren't having problems there's no reason to, esp with power supplies commonly selling for 2x their normal price right now. Use a can of compressed air to dust it out instead. If you upgrade to a beefy gpu that's a good time to get a new psu.

HWiNFO64 is way more robust than anything else I've seen, overclockers and tech people all seem to use it. CPU temp is down in there. You can make it display what sensors you're interested in a small graph.