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Mist said:
Trying to build some small PCs. Pretty much all they will be used for is watching streaming stuff and playing a few indie games. They do have to perform pretty snappy though in normal desktop tasks.

Are the Ryzen 3 APUs a good choice for this?
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Ryzen 3 3200G is the newest one and is today an entry level part. Ryzen 5 3400G is a bit more solid buy. These are both slower than a 6th gen i5-6600 for office tasks, if you can work in an i3-9100f with discrete gpu, that would be a powerful little pc.
 
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Brahma said:
Pretty much it. Air cooling is cheaper also...especially if you go hard line.


Fuck...Will be years before Intel catches up. WTF can't they get their GPU game correct?
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2021 at the earliest. All Intel has coming out this year is a slightly faster clocked 10c i9 10xxx chip.
 
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Seeing some rumors that Nvidia's next gen cards (ampere) will be unveiled in July and will be on 7nm, with some pretty lofty rumors that the move will bring half the power consumption and up to 50% more performance. I'd wager closer to 30-40% for each.

If that's true and if they have an hdmi 2.1 port... man, it's going to be one hell of an awesome gaming generation.
 
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All I want is a quality FLAT Ultrawide - 3440 x 1440 - IPS ONLY - 144Hz (or even 120 Hz) - 34" to 38". Good for gaming, and straight lines are actually still, you know, fucking straight!

Don't need several to choose from. JUST FUCKING ONE WILL DO THANK YOU VERY MUCH! The way these things are going though... looks like the tunnel is darker than ever.
 
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There are some hard limitations preventing a 200-300% performance per watt increase over the 2080ti in a single generation. A 50% performance increase would be more likely with ray tracing, slss / etc enabled, but not on normal use.

This applies equally to all chip makers



Curved screens make big sense for ultra wide monitors so the sides aren't twice the distance from your eyes and at a steep angle; you don't sit close enough to a TV for that to matter.
 
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Axiel said:
Curved screens make big sense for ultra wide monitors so the sides aren't twice the distance from your eyes and at a steep angle; you don't sit close enough to a TV for that to matter.
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If your sit with your eyes ~ 80 to 90 cm away from your Ultrawide screen like I do, then the edges are no more than ~4 to 5 cm further away. With an IPS panel's fantastic viewing angles & colour consistency, this is a complete non-issue. Professional Grade IPS Ultrawide panels are still made flat. I just can't buy one with a fast enough refresh rate for gaming.

Of course I have no problem with people loving the curved screen experience, but the so called "viewing advantages", even for gaming, are wildly exaggerated.
 
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At work we have all the latest gaming monitors and even the Dell 49 inch. I can't stand the curved gaming monitors
 
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I will never buy anything but curved after these 2 new ones I got. I mean 1800R isn't a massive curve to begin with but it certainly eases eye strain for me.
In another world. I tried the ebay thing and got a $10 pro key from a seller with 5000 sold and it worked perfectly fine. I assembled my all new pc tonight with only 1 fan failure.
What I've noticed that is odd is my old i5-4690 system used 60 watts of power when in desktop/browsing mode. This one is full speed all the time and using 170 watts. Even on desktop. I've set a minimal cpu and every power setting, nothing changes it, but there it is chugging along at 4500 mhz browsing the internet. Do Ryzens not know how and when to take it easy?
 
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Check your BIOS as there are settings that disable power saving features make your CPU run at max clock 24/7.
 
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LG announced what looks to be a 4k version of the now hugely popular 27gl850 (that 1ms IPS) and it even claims hdr600

27-inch UltraGear Gaming Monitor - 27GN950-B | LG USA

Discover the 27-inch UltraGear Gaming Monitor that features Nano IPS Display and G-SYNC® Compatibility. Find reviews, specs, and more for 27GN950-B.
www.lg.com www.lg.com

This being the right price would be great to move us away from 27" 4k/144hz options we have now that cost 2 grand.
 
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Oldbased said:
I will never buy anything but curved after these 2 new ones I got. I mean 1800R isn't a massive curve to begin with but it certainly eases eye strain for me.
In another world. I tried the ebay thing and got a $10 pro key from a seller with 5000 sold and it worked perfectly fine. I assembled my all new pc tonight with only 1 fan failure.
What I've noticed that is odd is my old i5-4690 system used 60 watts of power when in desktop/browsing mode. This one is full speed all the time and using 170 watts. Even on desktop. I've set a minimal cpu and every power setting, nothing changes it, but there it is chugging along at 4500 mhz browsing the internet. Do Ryzens not know how and when to take it easy?
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You installed the Windows 10 Boomer edition, didn’t you?
 
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Noodleface said:
At work we have all the latest gaming monitors and even the Dell 49 inch. I can't stand the curved gaming monitors
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Crack kills! I can't stand flat screens any longer! 1800 is perfect amount of sweet curvyvosityness.

I even spent some cash for a BS 32" at work for the curve.
 
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