#I am building my first PC ever

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vale mulch
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also i hear gpus get hotter, so why not list the TDP? i feel like that is more important here. a gpu has a tdp right?

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here are the fastest consumer gpus on the market

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none of them are "4090"

vale mulch
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24 seems to be the bare minimum

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and then heres the top boost speeds, but all of these speeds are horribly slow compared to a cpu. 2.5 - 2.8 ghz??

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here it is sorted by price, how is the most expensive gpu on the consumer market less than 1 ghz in speed. isnt that horrible???

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is PNY a good brand?

fierce spindle
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Bc those arent made for gaming. You can game on them, yes, but performance will be way worse than a 4080, 4090

vale mulch
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how.

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they have the highest memory

fierce spindle
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Other infrastructure, made for actually workstations

vale mulch
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well thats what i want

fierce spindle
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No driver support for games. Or if there is any, it will be way later than for consumer cards

vale mulch
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i dont follow

fierce spindle
vale mulch
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if its compatible then it should be okay

vale mulch
fierce spindle
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Trust me, your games wont run smooth on them.

vale mulch
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i wasnt even aware industrial could appear on pcpp

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i thought industrial to mean

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industrial = not readily available to consumers. so intended for companies

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consumer = retail or otherwise available for purchase online

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if this isnt the case, what does industrial mean then?

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if anything these just seem like very expensive consumer gpus

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not industrial

fierce spindle
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I mean they are not made for gaming. Not particularly "industrial" as in "consumers cant buy them"

vale mulch
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oh so these are consumer gpus still, but you just meant that they were expensive and not worth it because they are moreso intended for company servers

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which seems industrial.

atomic orbit
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industrial gpus are aimed at stability and for e. g, rendering blender scenes much faster than consumer cards.

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they can game just nowhere near as good as consumer gaming cards

vale mulch
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so with cpus theres

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gaming cpus
productivity cpus
energy saver cpus
money saver cpus
these are the 4 building routes

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with gpus is it the same thing

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gaming gpus
productivity gpus

atomic orbit
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what r u going for then

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gaming or productivity

vale mulch
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gaming 1st with not just a dash of productivity, a little more than a dash but not full on productivity.

atomic orbit
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get a nvidia rtx then

vale mulch
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im guessing the same build routes for cpus are the same with gpus

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so you could also go the energy saver or money saver route too

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like a workstation

atomic orbit
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if u ever look at buying amd gpus just remember they suck at productivity loads

vale mulch
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a lot

fierce spindle
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GPU is easy in your case where budget doesnt matter: just get a 4090

atomic orbit
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bit of both from what I know

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yes

vale mulch
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oh it looks like my thread has pins now

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i guess i can go pin it

atomic orbit
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plus amds flagship isn't as fast as nvidias

vale mulch
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oh nvm i can't pin it lol

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so whats the most important stat for a gpus

atomic orbit
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I still choose amd tho since I just game and I'm loyal

vale mulch
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memory, speed or boost.

atomic orbit
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the best gpu is the 4090 rn

vale mulch
fierce spindle
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AMD is good performance/price atm.
Nvidia is king atm if price doesnt matter

vale mulch
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so i can move on

atomic orbit
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wait a little longer and the 4090ti will come out

atomic orbit
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damn

vale mulch
fierce spindle
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Also: its easy to just swap out GPU

vale mulch
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for example something like a

atomic orbit
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amds gonna have a very good fighting chance then

vale mulch
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maybe i should do a poll

atomic orbit
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still they won't catch up in productivity

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they just make gaming cards and that only

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I like that

fierce spindle
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Get an intel GPU KEKW

atomic orbit
vale mulch
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๐Ÿง  1. memory
โšก 2. speed
๐Ÿš€ 3 boost

atomic orbit
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depends what u are doing

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@vale mulch

vale mulch
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when does the 4090ti come out.

atomic orbit
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probs later this year

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they already run as hot as it is

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I have a laptop with a 4000 series cpu and it can reach up to 100 degree's

vale mulch
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oof im lost

atomic orbit
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I say memory comes first

vale mulch
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what rank list

atomic orbit
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memory maxes out = loads of stutters and crashes

vale mulch
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oh thats just a random order

atomic orbit
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well it sounds like the right priority

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anyway doesn't matter

vale mulch
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oh so memory and then speed and then boost

atomic orbit
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yeah

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if u don't have enough memory then ur entire system bottlenecks

vale mulch
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it matters entry level however i do have a lot of experience picking a cpu. so i know that its down to irl performance

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cause if i pick a gpu it should be at the top of the sort by memory list on pcpp if it isnt then i did something wrong

atomic orbit
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just get an AMD 3D cpu sinxe they r the best rn

vale mulch
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my cpu is already picked out

atomic orbit
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yeah

vale mulch
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7950x3d

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the top 4 cpus are

atomic orbit
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doesn't the 7950x3d explode atm

vale mulch
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top 3 are easily
7950x3d
7950x
13900ks

in any order depending

atomic orbit
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like literally

vale mulch
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the 7800x3d is amazing. but it is horrible at productivity

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it has a horrible cpu mark because it was designed to be a mid end chip

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it just ends up performing as the best gaming cpu

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because it has only 8 cores. if it had 12 or 16 cores it would be an awful cpu

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great for gamers on a budget tho

vale mulch
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someone told me about how it's like a water bottle

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but idk what they meant all together

atomic orbit
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like bottlenecking is when a part of ur pc is limitimg ur performance

vale mulch
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why would that happen tho

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why would one part "limit" the WHOLE pc

atomic orbit
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like for eg the cpu is pinned at 100% and it's limiting the performance of the gpu

vale mulch
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that makes no sense to me

atomic orbit
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everything relies on something else

vale mulch
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okayy

atomic orbit
vale mulch
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it's DEFINITELY not

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idk shit about gpus. but i know im right with this one lol

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this one isnt even close

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at least the 7950x is close

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and better

atomic orbit
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also the 7950x 3d is prone to swelling

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from what I know

vale mulch
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the 7800x3d SUFFERS in productivity. the 7950x3d holds its own in the market against the other 3 competitors

vale mulch
atomic orbit
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just take my word for it

vale mulch
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idek what that means

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why would it swell

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lmao

atomic orbit
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I wouldn't waste my money for a 7950x 3d

vale mulch
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its a little overpriced

atomic orbit
vale mulch
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but less so than a 13900ks

atomic orbit
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cpu literally cooks itself

vale mulch
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no this isnt true

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the 7950x3d has some of the best efficiency and tdp in the market

atomic orbit
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it is check the Internet

vale mulch
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no

atomic orbit
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I have seen more of the 7950

vale mulch
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post your sources

atomic orbit
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I saw a video of the 7950 aswel

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there's some yt videos

vale mulch
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sighh please read up. i was a 7800x3d fan. but this is entry level knowledge

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the fact is the 7800x3d is a good cpu but it's not good for productivity.

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no i watched the LTT video. look at their tests

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not only their tests but theirs also fall in line with all the others ive seen

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why would i get the 7800x3d when the 7950x3d is better.

proud rapids
vale mulch
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look i know that 7800x3d is #1 in gaming. but i need a cpu that is more of a 60% gaming cpu and 40% productivity cpu.

not a 90% gaming cpu and 10% productivity cpu like the 7800x3d

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it's more like 3% less gaming and how did you calculate the 3% productivity??

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idk what an athlon is

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LTT did not post the % diff for the productivity results

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only the individual

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most people don't post the % diff for productivity

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which is something i desire genuinely

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i considered that if the 7800x3d could compare with any of the other competing cpus in productivity performance, i would be okay with the opportunity cost if i could determine the % diff.

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but from what i found it could not

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it doesnt matter. cause people always want to refute the reliability of benchmarks. unless you have something better

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i havent, ive already gathered my sources.

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LTT server doesnt allow you to pin comments

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they are so far up

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and if i cant be bothered to post a selfie because of my phone storage, theres no way im scrolling up for one chart and then scrolling up for a 2nd chart and so on

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please post your sources

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bruh this is gaming

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fps is gaming

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that's overclocked

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PBO is overclocked

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i still love the 7800x3d

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and that video by LTT got me excited

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and it is still the best in gaming no question

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and the best in power consumption

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but im working with AI.

proud rapids
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So you need a better gpu then cpu

vale mulch
proud rapids
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for ai since thats what you work with

vale mulch
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and also is there a way to compare gpus to cpus?

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why would i need a gpu for ai??

fierce spindle
vale mulch
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im so lost on gpus lmao

fierce spindle
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JUST GET THE 4090, done

vale mulch
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but gpus have horrible speeds compared to a cpu???

proud rapids
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not for ai

vale mulch
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i still dont get the whole naming convention of the 4090

proud rapids
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gpu mainly nvidia gpu are going lots of tensor cores

vale mulch
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i dont get why everyone says 4090 instead of the brand name

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or what the chipset is

proud rapids
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almost all 4090 are the same

vale mulch
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well yeah

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they are all 4090 lmao

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i wasnt aware there are differences lmao

fierce spindle
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the brands just have their own clockspeeds and coolers etc on them

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well, the partners, we should say

vale mulch
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so 4090 is the chipset right?

fierce spindle
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to keep it simple: nvidia produces and sells the main chips and sells the rights to use the blueprints basically

vale mulch
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okayy i think im on board so far

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but i thought chips were cpus

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or something

fierce spindle
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no, there are a lot of different chips

vale mulch
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what is a chip then

fierce spindle
vale mulch
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sooo whats a semiconductor then?

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i thought they were the same thing

fierce spindle
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and allllll the chips in the world, from chips in cpu, to chips in gpu, to chips on a circuit board of a tesla are made by a handfull of producers

vale mulch
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okayy im like 50% on board

fierce spindle
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Intel (they were asking huge funding of the US gov to build a new facility in the US, you might have read or heard something about it at some point. I'm not form the US, so I dont rly know if its actually coming or not)

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TSM

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Qualcomm (cellphones)

vale mulch
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i havent heard of this at all

fierce spindle
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Samsung makes memory chips

vale mulch
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i know TSM from league of legends

fierce spindle
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not that TSM

vale mulch
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arent they they US team that sucks

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so the chips are basically all league of legends teams

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like SKT

fierce spindle
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they are not even worth the change of the TSM chip company ๐Ÿ˜‚

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i dno, I never played LoL

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but usually NA sucks in gaming in general, yes

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๐Ÿ˜‚

vale mulch
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theres a samsung team too

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okay so

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i think im more lost than before

fierce spindle
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why's that?

vale mulch
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what does TSM or qualcomm have to do chips or pcs

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or samsung

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or any of them regardless if they have an esports team

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also i tried using chat gpt but that did not help

fierce spindle
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they build the most iimportant components in every piece that does any sort of calculation

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the chips

vale mulch
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oh okayy

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so the chips are inside of the cpu

fierce spindle
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like half the RAM uses samsung memory chips, for example

vale mulch
fierce spindle
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Companies like Corsair will sell ram branded as Corsair, but the memory chips will be of Samsung for example

vale mulch
fierce spindle
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all those black pieces are chips

vale mulch
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whats silicon exactly. i know Si for silicon in chemistry

fierce spindle
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holy shit, you are going deep ๐Ÿ˜‚

vale mulch
fierce spindle
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you wanna build a PC, but im gonna need to learn quantum mechanica

fierce spindle
vale mulch
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no no i just dont know what semiconductor material is yet

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ik its silicon but im still fuzzy on that

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idc about what silicon is exactly. i just wanna know how i can relate it back to semiconductor material

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like is silicon plastic

fierce spindle
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A semiconductor is a material which has an electrical conductivity value falling between that of a conductor, such as copper, and an insulator, such as glass. Its resistivity falls as its temperature rises; metals behave in the opposite way. Its conducting properties may be altered in useful ways by introducing impurities ("doping") into the cry...

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lol

vale mulch
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so it can use silicon

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but it mostly uses copper not silicon

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so it's metal then

fierce spindle
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(Bild: ryanking999 - stock.adobe.com) The use of silicon as a semiconductor revolutionized the electronics industry and ushered in the digital age. However, many people are still unaware of the properties and uses of this all-important material. We take a close look at silicon, what it is, how it is manufactured, what it is used for, and what mi...

vale mulch
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ive heard of gold i think unless that was for something else

fierce spindle
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theres a bit of gold on most pcb's

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there's factories that recycle pcb's to filter the gold out of it

vale mulch
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oh so silicon is a half metal

fierce spindle
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its not rly worth it, its not like a business that'll get them rich, but it happens

vale mulch
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so its basically really cheap semiconductor material lmao

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what's a pcb and what does that stand for

fierce spindle
vale mulch
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compared to copper

fierce spindle
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well, it is cheap for now, bc we send African children into mines to get our stuff so we can have our fancy products

vale mulch
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๐Ÿ˜ญ

vale mulch
fierce spindle
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circuit board

vale mulch
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im guessing you dont know what it stands for

fierce spindle
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pcb's connect everything by lanes

vale mulch
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whats a lane?

fierce spindle
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Printed Circuit Board - PCB

vale mulch
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ohh okayy

fierce spindle
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those lines you see are lanes

vale mulch
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ohh okayy

fierce spindle
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traffic lines basically

vale mulch
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my friend told me they work like cords

fierce spindle
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i am no professional btw, im sure other ppl can explain it all way better lol

vale mulch
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but like really small cords

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i think ive heard LTT call them something else besides lanes

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i cant lie i am aware of the green boards

fierce spindle
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traces maybe, i dno

vale mulch
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just didnt know they were called pcbs

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and lanes

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and semiconductor material is basically a metal that conducts electricity for the lanes basically

fierce spindle
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my first language isnt english either, so we call stuff differently here anyway

vale mulch
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so they do use gold

fierce spindle
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im just trying to give some basics lol

vale mulch
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silicon is much cheaper than gold

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also lower quality because it is a metalloid and not a full metal like copper or gold

fierce spindle
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maybe its also easier to manipulate

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bc we're talking about extrmely small sizes here lol

vale mulch
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but im right about what all i said basically

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right

fierce spindle
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like I said: i'm not professional, just somewhat an enthusiast and you're going very very deep and technical ๐Ÿ˜‚
But as far as im concerned: yes, you're right

vale mulch
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well im not trying to go deep

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but it just keeps daisy chaining

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i cant know one thing without the other

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but at least ik what semiconductor material is now

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which means that chips are basically made out of these metals / metalloids

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and conduct electricity

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like little buildings

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so chips are located inside each part? and any part can have a chip

fierce spindle
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yes

vale mulch
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i thought the whole cpu was a chip

fierce spindle
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a gpu has many different chips

vale mulch
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so parts can have more than 1 chip?

fierce spindle
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yes

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technically a CPU can be one chip, but it defintely has different sections

vale mulch
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can parts work with zero chips?

fierce spindle
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i think as soon as theres a bit of calculating you need a chip

vale mulch
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so if there was no calculating. no chip then

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why calculating tho? i thought chips were just electricity houses

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for the lanes

fierce spindle
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yes, houses to switch or store 0's and 1's

vale mulch
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okayy

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this is what i found

fierce spindle
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well yes

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the PCB is the board you put everything on

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and connect everything

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its like "the ground" to build the houses on

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and the road

vale mulch
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basically, no parts have no chips

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all parts must have a chip, and some have multiple chips

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im on board

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also pcbs are made out of basically a plasticlike material with resin and copper plated

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so then, why does the chip matter at all if it's just this

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why would the chip matter all that much for a cpu or a cpu

fierce spindle
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bc theres all different kind of chips for different kind of purposes

vale mulch
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in fact, whatever chip / chips located inside a cpu seemed to have no mattered at all lol cause they are never mentioned and stacked up against each other in ranked tier lists.

fierce spindle
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i dont think you understand how many chips are in a gpu for example

vale mulch
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what are the different kinds of chips

fierce spindle
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check this video

vale mulch
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and whats a general list of purposes

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i think ive heard of this guy

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the video is a bit confusing for me tho.

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i see nvidia but it doesnt look like a gpu

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i see the black boxes but they are everywhere

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theres like at least 20 chips on this thing

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the only thing i understood was when he said 16 lanes

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scrub a dub dub

fierce spindle
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yea, maybe not the best video i found lol

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i think he also makes like layout reviews

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naming every single component etc

vale mulch
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looks clean and pretty tho

fierce spindle
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relacing huh

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relaxing*

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its like cat videos, but different

vale mulch
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he's basically a DIY girl on tiktok

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but yknow

fierce spindle
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its very very technical, but im just trying to show theres different chips for different purposes lol

vale mulch
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KrisFix-Germany after repair

vale mulch
fierce spindle
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yes

vale mulch
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some of the black boxes are different sizes

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some of them have a cringe gamer logo on it lmao

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like whyy nobody is gonna see that lol

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so chips are just like different buildings for a facility

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and each building does something different

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maybe 1 is walmart

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another is the bank

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another is a hotel

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etc

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so how many chips are inside a cpu?

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ive seen cpus and the chips are no where to be seen.

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see this cpu has no black boxes

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or really anything that looks like a chip

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but ik it must

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is it just hiding underneath the white case

jade sand
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Precision Boost Overdrive (Basically automatic overclocking) and UV means under-volting

jade sand
jade sand
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Only small difference is that the place where the chips that run hottest are need more cooling (hot spots) but basically every cooler covers the entire area of the cpu that matters (just remember to use enough thermal paste)

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The lid protects the chips and acts as an easier interface for coolers so yeah

jade sand
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If done successfully it makes the cpu run with the same performance, but lowers energy consumption and heat output

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Which in turn makes it easier to overclock, in this case done automatically by the amd software, PBO

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Making it run faster

vale mulch
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so pbo is a software

vale mulch
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oh wow so back then

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it was ATI vs nvidia

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and then amd bought ati

fierce spindle
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correct

jade sand
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ATI Technologies Inc. (commonly called ATI) was a Canadian semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., the company listed publicly in 1993 and was acquired by AMD in 2006. As a major fabrication-less or fab...

Radeon () is a brand of computer products, including graphics processing units, random-access memory, RAM disk software, and solid-state drives, produced by Radeon Technologies Group, a division of AMD. The brand was launched in 2000 by ATI Technologies, which was acquired by AMD in 2006 for US$5.4 billion.

vale mulch
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Okay so I looked into gpus

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Still don't have a list really

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I am at work but it's dead as hell

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Still confused about why chips matter so much with gpus

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I think it what chips are now

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But what's a chipset?

sleek reef
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If you want a pc that will be a monster in 10 years go buy a pc from the 1980โ€™s

fierce spindle
# vale mulch But what's a chipset?

So in your city with your chip buildings the chipaet would be the traffic regulator. It would be like traffic lights on the main crossroad lol

vale mulch
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chipsets are inhibitors?

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so why is the 4090 chipset so good

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is it cause it inhibits less?

fierce spindle
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Very important to update chipset drivers on new hardware. It can make a big difference in performance and compatibility

fierce spindle
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The GPU has a set of chips, but not a chipset ๐Ÿค“

vale mulch
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ohhh okay

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this makes way more sense

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so technically it connects to the pci first and then the gpu

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so the chipset isnt on the gpu?

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then why is the chipset listed on the gpu on pcpp

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also i thought drivers are what communicate with other parts of the pc?

or is that just the software side of it while chipsets are physical parts / hardware side of it

fierce spindle
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Drivers are the software part, yes

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So updating drivers = updating the software

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Chipset is on the mobo, yes

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It handles communication between all the parts: cpu, gpu, ram, pci, usb, ...

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So while ur looking for a gpu you shouldnt look into chipset yet, i'ld keep that for when you're looking into mobo

vale mulch
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so then wth is geforce rtx 4090

fierce spindle
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Liquid cooled will perform better and ne less chunky, but they'll require more "craftmanship" and maintenance from time to time

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If you still have van life in mind I'ld suggest air cooling, bc if ur constantly on the move some fitting of the liquid cooling will start leaking at some point due to vibrations

proper dove
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It has a 4090 die inside

fierce spindle
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Its just to indicate what type of card it is

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It has nothing to do with the mobo's chipset lol

vale mulch
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why would pcpp call it the chipset??

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this whole tine everyone keeps saying 4090 but its like bruh thats just a chipset it means nothing to me

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like ik th mb has a chipset

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so is this compatibility like socket type?

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or does the gpu have a chipset too?

fierce spindle
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I dno why they picked that word, it kinda makes sense, but it can be confusing for the few ppl that know nothing of PC's and then take a deep dive into learning every lil component

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๐Ÿ˜‚

vale mulch
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is chipset speed? if so why do gpus have a clock speed

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and if so. then why does the chipset and clock speed not matter more than memory?

why is memory the most important

fierce spindle
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yea, i'ld say you cold compare it to socket type, its more like defining the blueprint and components and architecture, while when they talk about the chipset on the mobo they mean and actual specific physical component on the mobo

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everything matters. its just another one of those 'depending on what you wanna do'

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if pcpp would be a car site, under 'chipset' it would state the brand, type, generation, ...

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so you would see a car and under chipset it would say "Dodge RAM 1500 2022"

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and then it would list all the partners that sell their own customized Dodge Ram 1500 2022's

vale mulch
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its not that im trying to learn every little thing.

its that everyone says get a 4090 and then calls that a gpu when its not a gpu its a chipset of the gpu

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i dont even think its the generation or the series

fierce spindle
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40 is the series or gen

vale mulch
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if it is. its the generation or series of the chipset techbically not the gpu

fierce spindle
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the whole thing is the GPU

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like for CPU you have intel chipsets and amd chipsets

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you could say

vernal kettle
vernal kettle
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Memory is like a cache

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Lets say when you move in game something has to render by your new position and to make it faster we got memory

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So it take less time to find data compare throw retake again

vale mulch
vale mulch
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i watched the cave miner video LTT posted.

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cpus have vcache

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is the gpu memory like a cache? or is it a cache for sure

vernal kettle
vernal kettle
vale mulch
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are memory and cache the same thing?

vernal kettle
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my friend told me i was wrong

stiff nexus
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Iโ€™d wait,since a new 4090 is coming out

austere shale
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Thereโ€™s rumours that it will be released around the end of the year and start of the next

vale mulch
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oh that's too long

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plus itll be like $2500 at this rate

proud rapids
#

the new 4090's are being made to prevent the cable from melting

stiff nexus
# vale mulch oh that's too long

No, wait. Intelโ€™s new CPUโ€™s are coming by October,and with bf deals, ud be spending money on stuff thatโ€™s not worth it

vale mulch
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is black friday the best time to buy pc parts?

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like ik you shouldnt buy a TV unless it is black friday

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that's how i got 3 75 in TVs

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but im bored of them

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so amd gpus are called radeon?

fierce spindle
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Yes. Former ATI Radeon

vale mulch
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i cant find anything on gpu chipsets

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it's all mb chipsets

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and they all just control what is compatible

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and they control overclocking

austere shale
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Gpu chipsets?

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You mean the architecture maybe?

vale mulch
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that's what im saying

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on pcpp

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lmk if you need an example @austere shale

modern osprey
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Just search by model name

austere shale
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What does it show in the column

vale mulch
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heres the whole site

austere shale
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Oh

vale mulch
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no sort

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just random

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gpus

modern osprey
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Guys guys it's not that hard

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This doesn't need to take 2.5k messages

austere shale
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Yeah just look for 4090

vale mulch
modern osprey
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13900k/7950x3d and 4090

vale mulch
austere shale
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I guess it technically is

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But donโ€™t worry

modern osprey
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4090 is the technically the chipset

austere shale
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Itโ€™s just telling you what card it is

vale mulch
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i thought mb only had THE chipset

austere shale
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Donโ€™t worry about that

vale mulch
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so gpus and cpus have chipsets too

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ik what a chipset is

austere shale
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Yes

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Thereโ€™s only one chipset for the 4090 though

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So it doesnโ€™t matter

vale mulch
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it's literally a group chips that work together

austere shale
#

A 4090 is a 4090

vale mulch
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chipsets usually determine combatability only

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when talking about mb

austere shale
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Yes

vale mulch
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but im p sure this isnt the case with gpu

austere shale
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But you donโ€™t have to worry about it for your gpu

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Exactly

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Literally any gpu will work with your system

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Itโ€™s just a question of what gpu you want

vale mulch
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so then why would pc part picker call it the gpu's chipset and not just the "model"

austere shale
austere shale
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Iโ€™d just look for one you like the look of

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And make sure itโ€™s a reputable brand

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Some cards say OC which means they are a little better

modern osprey
vale mulch
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why does it only list the chipset

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theres like 20 gpus with the same chipset as 4090

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and does going the same brand help it synergize better? like is going an amd cpu with and amd gpu better than going an amd cpu with a nvidia gpu

modern osprey
vale mulch
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i dont follow

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theres literally dozens of gpus with the 4090 chipset

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and they are all different

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different brands and different names.

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different stats

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ive heard of the titan

modern osprey
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Dead

vale mulch
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is it good

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also still considering an amd gpu

modern osprey
modern osprey
vale mulch
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why not a titan

vale mulch
#

whats a cuda core

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and whats gddr6x memory

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also whats TBP??

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and BUS width

fierce spindle
#

You're really focusing too hard on the chipset terminology lol.
If people in pc world talk about the chipset, it will be about the controller on the motherboard. As a consumer the only time you need to inow what a chipset is, is thats a controller on the mobo and you can update its driver. Thats it.
When people use the word chipset on CPU's and GPU's when they are doing a technical review or whatever, they will use it as a synonym for "architecture".

If you'll keep talking about "the chipset of a gpu" you'll confuse everyone on this forum lol

fierce spindle
# vale mulch why not a titan

Bc gaming is your priority. Like we discussed before: the 4090 will give you best results in most games. And it will do deceng on workloads.
A Titan is a great workload gpu, but its not optimized for gaming, the drivers are definitely not. So a GTX2080 will outperform a Titan in certain titles. A recent release might even crash instantly on a Titan.

#

The GPU really is the easiest pick of your whole list of components: 4090. The only thing you might wanna discuss about the GPU is if you go for air or water cooling. And what brand you'll eventually go for.

vale mulch
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well actually it seems the chipset is the most important stat

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because the chipset determines whether it is a 4090 by nvidia or a 7900 by amd

vale mulch
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and the brand names are just resellers but each reseller's version has its own stats

fierce spindle
#

Omg, ur definitely just trolling ๐Ÿ˜‚

vale mulch
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im not trolling

fierce spindle
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Nvidia is king in performance.
AMD comes in the neighborhood and is king in price to performance.
But price doesnt matter to you and performance and gaming is priority, with productivity second place.
If productivity wasnt a factor at all we might debate over 4080(ti) vs 4090, but it is, so 4090 checks all the boxes on your checklist of requirements.
Like I mentioned before: which 4090 should be the only thing u should ask yourself.

And stop calling it chipset, unless you refer to the nortbridge/southbridge component on the mobo. I know it kinda makes sense, but trust me: you'll make it yourself, your internet searches and everyone else way easier and less confusing if you stopped doing that๐Ÿ˜‚

vale mulch
#

the rtx 4090 is a gpu chipset not a gpu. it's not my fault that the gaming pc world decided to just call it a gpu

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when really the whole thing is a gpu

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it has a chipset inside made by one company

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but the whole gpu is sold by another company

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ive tried looking it up in both ways. and nothing. google wont tell me shit. neither will chat gpt

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it's lost media now

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im glad, gpus are so easy, that everyone knows nvidia is the best and that the 4090 is the best. looking at the gpu marks which i had no idea were a thing until tonight. i can see the rtx 4090 is the best gpu in gaming and in productivity.

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still doesnt narrow down the part by much tho

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idk which reseller to buy from

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do i go the msi gpu with the rtx 4090 chipset inside or the
gigabyte gpu with the rtx 4090 chipset inside

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or the PNY gpu with the rtx 4090 chipset inside

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or the asus gpu with the rtx 4090 chipset inside

velvet falcon
#

Mate it literally does not matter

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The performance difference between them is actually negligible

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Unless some come pre overclocked, which you could just manually do

vale mulch
#

unless you can explain how or why that is possible i basically dont believe you

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they literally have different internals

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that makes no sense

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especially with the same chipset

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here's all of the 4090s on the consumer market

fierce spindle
#

I think the only reason pcpp uses that term is cc they bundle a lot of different information together in one line to make sorting easier. And ur fixating on that one term on that one website while no one else will ever rly use it that way ๐Ÿ˜‚
At the CPU's they could combine manufacture, series, core count and vcache size under "chipset" too, but that would make sorting way harder, while in the gpu sorting it makes sense.
But thst doesnt mean everyone uses that term that way ๐Ÿ˜‚

vale mulch
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or if it really doesnt matter then

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fine

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here's my build so far guys

velvet falcon
vale mulch
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what about memory or clock speed or boost speed

fierce spindle
vale mulch
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oh nvm i didnt know each chipset has the same amount of memory

fierce spindle
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Well. Not the memory. But the speeds

vale mulch
#

they literally all have 24 gb

fierce spindle
#

Yes..

vale mulch
#

and the speeds are all literally basically the same + or - like 45 mhz lmao

velvet falcon
#

It's almost like they're all the same card

fierce spindle
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Yes.. but a watercooled one you can OC way higher

vale mulch
#

not the same gpu

pine totem
fierce spindle
vale mulch
#

card = video card = gpu

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gpu doesnt = chipset

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so there for they are completely different cards, but they all share the same architecture.

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the chipset rtx 4090

fierce spindle
#

Different manufacturers still use different chips. They just use the minimum requirement Nvidia or AMD tells them to use

vale mulch
#

well yeah duh

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4090 isnt the only chipset

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theres the 7900

fierce spindle
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So its not even the same chipset in that sense

vale mulch
#

the 4080

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the 4070

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last gen with the 3000s

fierce spindle
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No, i mean the controllers on the board in a 4090 from asus can differ from controllers on a 4090 from MSI, one can have more than the other

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They still 4090s tho, but different chipset

vale mulch
#

nope

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4090 IS the chipset

fierce spindle
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Okay, show me the listing on the nvidia website

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Where it says chipset and not GPU

vale mulch
#

send me the link

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ive never been to that website

fierce spindle
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No no, i dont wanna bias you

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Go to the official website and show me how they call it chipset and I'll stfu about it, I promise

vale mulch
#

whats the website

primal junco
#

makes sense makes sense

fierce spindle
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I went to their store website, listed the GPU's (ahum, not the chipsets) clicked through on "buy at partner", happens to be bestbuy and bestbuy sorts it as:

primal junco
#

ooohh dass niceee

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not really, but they had a bug in the latest amd mb bios that would cause the cpus to kapoosh cus of too much power

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sooo chipset is not the official name btw @vale mulch

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it is called graphics processing unit

fierce spindle
#

All I'm trying to say is: you could use "chipset" in this case and it makes sorting way easier on pcpp when they do it like that, but its not the most common thibg to use and its very confusing when u use it during pc building as often as u did bc of the chipset on the mobo. Which is the only actual chipset most consumers will call chipset bc they need to update the chipset drivers. Lol
And now I'll shut up about it ๐Ÿค“

primal junco
#

both amd nvidia and intel call it that

fierce spindle
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And yes, what darkmonsoon just said

vale mulch
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like you havent traveled much

vale mulch
#

sorting by chipset on pcpp is alphabetical

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everyone just kept telling me rtx 4090. get the rtx 4090. and that's a chipset.

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i didnt even focus on it too hard.

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i had literally asked about cuda cores and you said i was trolling after i said that

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but i dont think cuda cores or gddr6x memory have anything to do with chipset

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there was a 3rd place that listed it as chipset

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if it is not chipset, then i wait for someone who can prove it wrong

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as for the time being, the duality of whether or not it is a gpu or a chipset will remain debateable at best.

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nvidia is literally the people who make the actual chipset, so does that mean you can buy a whole nvidia gpu with their own nvidia chipset inside?

i didnt know this, but i think you can.

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so you can buy from another manufacturer / reseller who has the nvidia rtx 4090 chipset inside their gpu

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but it's not nvidia's gpu

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of course it says gpu on nvidia's website. they are selling to consumers on that site. they arent selling the chipset a la carte. they are literally selling their own gpus.

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but its also hard not to get stuck on "chipset for gpus"

because it's clearly a misnomer. no one seems to know why. ive asked dozens of people by now. nothing.

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as far as i am aware, the chipset refers to the architecture of the group of chips located inside the gpu that eventually connects to the pci and to the chipset of the mb. through really tiny wires.

all this really determines is the capatibility to an extent and whether or not the gpu is running with a newer chipset or not. a newer chipset seems to be almost always better. and the chipset basically determines the memory and the speed.

austere shale
#

Yes

vale mulch
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what i dont understand is how a manufacterer is able to push the gpu clock faster than factory speeds by a pointless 50 mhz and why

austere shale
#

In most cases, the gpu will have a specific โ€œchipsetโ€ or arhictecture. A gpu under the same chipset will have the same gpu cores, vram, cache bus, pcie compatibility. The only difference between manufacturers is the clock speed which varies slightly like you just highlighted and the memory clock speed. They just do that to squeeze a few extra frames and charge you more for the card

vale mulch
#

oh so thats just 3rd party manufacterers being greedy

austere shale
#

Partially

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But manufacturers such as asus which Iโ€™d say are a premium manufacturer. They genuinely want to squeeze out the most performance possible

vale mulch
#

ohh okay

austere shale
#

But realistically that extra 200-300 for an asus strix card will get you an extra 5 frames maybe

vale mulch
#

so yeah similar but unlike cpus, gpu memory and clock speeds dont matter not only because of how hard it can be to translate that into real world performance just like in the case of cpus, but also because all of these stats literally depend on the chipset which is why the term gpu and it's chipset have become synonymous.

if the best gpu has the newest chipset and the newest chipset has the best stats to real world performance, then you should almost always buy the gpu with the newest chipset unless you are on a budget since all gpus are overpriced now, and some manufacterers might have housed the chipset in a better cooled gpu body.

austere shale
#

Yes

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Though for rtx4000 all the coolers are pretty beefed so itโ€™s hard to find a card that has insufficient cooling

vale mulch
#

so this is why, people compare the chipsets in gpu marking instead of individual manufacterers. you can basically compare all of the groups without having to compare each product

austere shale
#

Yes

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Pretty much

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So basically pick what you like the look of

vale mulch
#

gpus seems to split across gaming and productivity like cpus too

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but not as hard

austere shale
#

Sure

vale mulch
#

and energy efficiency seems to be still important.

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the 4070ti seems to have a good efficiency similar to 7800 or the 7950x3d cpus

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it could make for a p good energy saver build

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but i dont think ill go this route

austere shale
#

Yeah donโ€™t

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Youโ€™ve already went for the top for your other componentes

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So if anything your gpu you also want to go for the top

vale mulch
#

i do

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im glad im seeing the end of the tunnel

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this is also why gpus should be easy. because it's all just the chipset. which basically just falls down to how much you are willing to pay. but if you have no budget you can get the newest one which is the most expensive.

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but it's also a pretty cut and dry research job because the charts really do show almost all the time that the 4090 does perform better than any other option

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and then amd is just budget gpus for basically really similar performance.

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and then intel doesnt exist for real

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itd be nice if the 4090ti came out in october

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4070ti is also overpriced

vale mulch
#

so an amd cpu and an amd gpu

proud rapids
austere shale
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Yes for now matching them doesnโ€™t do anything pretty much

fierce spindle
#

Buying or pre-ordering the newest GPU can be risky tho. Better to buy one after a couple of months of release.
Tho its less risky for a new type in the sane series (like the a TI) than the first batches of new gen cards

austere shale
#

I mean the high end ones have been out since October or something

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That being the 4080 and 90

fierce spindle
#

Yea, the ti will be fine

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But like 50-series I wouldnt pre-order

austere shale
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That will be next year

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Considering the cpu conversation I donโ€™t think sheโ€™ll do that

fierce spindle
#

I pre-ordered the 3080 at msrp right before the whole price circus started

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But i think they only made a couple of 100s or 1000s of this exact card

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I had to undervokt it in order to not crash all the time lol

austere shale
#

Oh

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Not enough watts?

proud rapids
#

Also your cpu does not affect ai

fierce spindle
# austere shale Not enough watts?

No, nvidia sent out the blueprints way too late to partners and they used better chips in their own gpu than the minimum specs required, while MSI did use just the minimum specs. Turned out they could not held the factory OC clock speeds. At that point the chip shortage also started, so MSI just stopped producing this specific type alltogether and started producing a better one with the actual required chips lol

austere shale
#

Interesting

fierce spindle
vale mulch
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im one step closer. but im so damn tired

stiff nexus
#

Usually itโ€™s Black Friday to Christmas

primal junco
#

this onee

low nexus
#

heyo

vale mulch
#

ohhh

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hii

proud rapids
#

here is the build i recomend

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with a full custom water loop for the cpu

austere shale
#

I donโ€™t think itโ€™s wise for a first time builder to make a custom loop

trim barn
#

Unless your up for the challenge

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There are those who want to challenge themselves on their first build lol

trim barn
#

ironic but now that I am home I remember my friend when he built his first system went itx. We had to build his case from the cut sheets of aluminium. Was fun to say the least, but I think that time him and I learned a lot

austere shale
#

Someone should make a copper case as a joke

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One misplaced connector

trim barn
#

he'll have some ideas to throw in

vale mulch
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i just wanna look at some comparison charts. i might go an older chipset

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then im gonna compare aibs and rank them

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is it better to always go stock nvidia gpu?

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or are aibs better

proper dove
proud rapids
#

i would say yes founders edition

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but aibs are just better

proper dove
#

Iโ€™d get an Msi Suprim 4090 instead of the founderโ€™s edition

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Or the Asus ROG Strix

vale mulch
#

so MSI and asus are good brands

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are there any that i should stay away from

vernal kettle
vernal kettle
vale mulch
#

founders edition just means its made by nvidia basically?

proud rapids
#

yes

vale mulch
#

if its a radeon founders edition then its made by amd

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real quick what is VIPERA?

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i learned about AIBs today. just to clarify those are things like MSI's gpu with the 4090

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or gigabyte

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etc etfc

vernal kettle
vernal kettle
vale mulch
#

but this isnt really a vipera gpu

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oh so then founders edition just means no mods

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but it doesnt mean its a gpu by nvidia

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it just has the same chipset obviously

vernal kettle
#

Its like you saying 7950x3d isnt a cpu by amd

vale mulch
#

it is a cpu by amd

vernal kettle
vale mulch
#

does founders edition mean no mods or made by nvidia

vernal kettle
vale mulch
#

the chipset is made by nvidia. the gpu is made by vipera, but its a founders edition because it has been unaltered

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but you can also buy a nvidia gpu

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nvidia doesnt sell the chipsets individually to regular consumers

vernal kettle
vale mulch
#

so nvidia gpus go out of stock fast im guessing

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but that's okay, because AIBs are just as good if not better at reselling the chipset.

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FE gpu is just an AIB gpu that didnt get factory overclocked etc

vernal kettle
vale mulch
#

alright

#

so what are cuda cores

proud rapids
#

NVIDIA CUDA cores are the heart of GPUs. These cores are used to process and render images, video, and other visual information for both display devices like monitors and TVs, and for computer vision applications. While a CPU has a few hundred cores at most, a high-end GPU can have as many as thousands of CUDA cores

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copy pasted from google

vernal kettle
vale mulch
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awesome so they function like cpu cores too

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i know the numbers are different tho

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i think the 4090 has like 16000

heavy mulch
#

WTAF how do you have 20k for a pc 2animeCrying

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@vale mulch are you getting income from family? if not what job do you have?

vale mulch
#

walmart lmao

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but thats not why

heavy mulch
vale mulch
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nah im 26

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havent talked to family in 2 years

heavy mulch
#

how do you have that much for a pc?

vale mulch
#

i hit big with crypto basically

heavy mulch
#

oh intresting. what chain? ETH

vale mulch
#

im really good at investing

heavy mulch
vale mulch
#

i basically found a way to net profit almost 100% of the time by intentionally losing trades with AI

heavy mulch
#

what chain?

vale mulch
vale mulch
vale mulch
heavy mulch
vale mulch
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just a hobbyist

heavy mulch
#

intresting

vale mulch
#

my friend was talking to me and i had always wanted to learn stocks

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i have a tendency of devouring a subject

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so he got me started and then that week i invested 3k into doge the day it blew up cause i literally did the research that week on it

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perfect timing

heavy mulch
#

intresting

vale mulch
#

it was my first investment too but now i can do much more than dogecoin lmao

#

basically the generally idea

#

is

#

you use heikin ashi instead of japanese

heavy mulch
vale mulch
#

and then you use AI to trade for you

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and you tell the AI to trade 100% of the time

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but only by the first green

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and sell the first red

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you can do the same thing without AI

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but it's annoying cause of the clicking and watching

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turnaround usually takes about 16 to 90 days

#

you can get started with 1k today

heavy mulch
#

hmm. i made some money on the stock market and crypto, nothing big though as my initial investment was 0$ minus an internet connection and power.

vale mulch
#

idk shit about pc building tho

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but ig now

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im finally starting to

#

i am 10k in doge right now at 6.5 cents

proud rapids
#

i learned everything i know about computers from youtube

vale mulch
#

so if doge hits a dollar, i will make 140k or something

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think of what i could do, if i wasnt on a laptop

heavy mulch
vale mulch
#

well

#

its not something that can happen in one day

#

alt coins have an extremely high chance of testing old highs and then breaking them and then falling

#

so the odds of dogecoin testing 75 cents again are super high within the next 5 years

#

i waste nothing by sitting here. it's like checking my horoscope lmao

#

plus right now there is X acceptance and doge1 launch

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and its crypto winter

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imagine if the next bull run started

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which btw, it always comes back.

heavy mulch
vale mulch
#

the only question is, will it be this year or next or the year after that

vale mulch
#

and each time its sooner lmao

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i dont think this time will be sooner tho

heavy mulch
vale mulch
#

i dont have them ready no. but i know where to get them. but tbh. im actually not that excited to talk about all this

#

i actually wanna go back to pc building

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its only cause it takes a lot of time for me

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and i dont have a lot of time

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so wait

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is the gpu memory the same thing as the vram?

vernal kettle
vernal kettle
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gpu memory = vram lol

vale mulch
#

awesome

vernal kettle
#

virtual random access memory

vale mulch
#

okay so now

#

what does triple aaa title mean

vernal kettle
#

ask google

proud rapids
#

if you have any questions look for the answer on google

austere shale
#

^

vale mulch
#

im still gonna ask here

austere shale
#

You can

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But for questions like that itโ€™s more something we understand rather than remember a fixed definition for. So googling will just be faster for you and youโ€™ll get a better answer

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In the video game industry, AAA (pronounced and sometimes written triple-A) is an informal classification used to categorise video games produced and distributed by a mid-sized or major publisher, which typically have higher development and marketing budgets than other tiers of games.

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From Wikipedia

vale mulch
#

in retrospect i do realize this one would have been an easier search

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but its hard for me to tell which ones are an easy search

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and like. im researching other things right now

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so im like multitasking

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im not saying serve me

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but all of this is voluntary.

#

i do appreciate it all. i wouldnt have been able to learn all this without this chat

#

so right now im hearing about how the 40 series has had a horrible release

austere shale
#

Sales kinda flopped

vale mulch
#

and that almost all of the 40 series gpus are relatively awful to the 30 series and are also overpriced to hell

austere shale
#

They arenโ€™t awful but for the price yes they are awful

#

So no but actually yes

vale mulch
#

yeah

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like the 4090 is overpriced but worth the money. but some of the others seem to be literally just a 30 series chipset with a new name slapped on it lmao

#

the 4080 is good too but is even more overpriced

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i guess intel arc isnt bad for budget route

austere shale
#

Iโ€™d say the 4080 is probably the โ€œbest valueโ€ high end one

austere shale
vale mulch
#

ive been hearing some good things. i just dont know how far off they are in terms of performance

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but all 3 are competitive in different tiers

austere shale
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4090 is quite an improvement over the 4080, but isnโ€™t worth the higher price. But if you can afford then 4090 is great

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4080 is also quite an improvement over the 4070ti making it worth the extra. The 4070ti in some cases struggles with 12gb vram (at least for me in MSFS at 4K while streaming)

vale mulch
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everything is overpriced because of the whole covid chip shortage inflation situation

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they are good chipsets but just the cost is kind of an issue for some people

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as for me, im p sure im only considering, the rtx4090, xtx7900 or the xt7900

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i will say tho, none of the 40 series cards are worth it because you can just get the xtx7900 for cheaper than $1200

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okay so a big thing thats been confusing me in the back of my head

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what are these chipsets

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they seem so random and out of no where

vernal kettle
vernal kettle
lone scaffold
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you cant say something is overpriced if it's the best

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because ure paying for the best

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and the rtx 4090 is straight up the best

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like there is no arguing for that

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with cpus you can always argue that this one is better than the other on thoses cases

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gpu is simple

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just get a 4090

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no matter which one

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and you'll have pretty much the best you can get

silver path
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these are 30-40 series dies downclocked to shit and with 2x as much vram as their geforce equivalents

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and sold for ludocrous prices

silver path
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unless hes doing cad no

lone scaffold
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she*

silver path
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sorry

lone scaffold
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and she's looking for the best of the best

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no budget

silver path
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7900xtx has better software

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that wont eat 500mb ram for no fucking reason

lone scaffold
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in which scenarios would the software make the 7900XTX better than the 4090?

silver path
lone scaffold
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she wants 4k

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and rt

silver path
silver path
lone scaffold
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i mean

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its what she wants

silver path
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unles its for a cad situation rt is not needed

lone scaffold
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i wont argue the usefullness of that

silver path
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lets talk to her then ill try to knock some sense into her

lone scaffold
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i agree that rt is pretty much useless but im doing with what she said before

silver path
lone scaffold
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im probably one of the only ones that almost read all the near 3000 messages in this thread

silver path
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@vale mulch

lone scaffold
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it's really entertaining

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since she knows nothing

silver path
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imma make 2 lists and she will choose

silver path
lone scaffold
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one minute she speaks like a professionnal about cpus

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and the next she is aking if SKT (the lol esport team) makes chip

low nexus
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caught bacon in 4k saying womp womp

lone scaffold
silver path
low nexus
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im broke af now

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no moneys

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at all

silver path
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either this for 2k

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amazing pc

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wait lemme add storage

lone scaffold
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this is the first message of the post

silver path
silver path
lone scaffold
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yeah it's a big one

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but the lore goes deep

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apparently she is 26 and interested in AI

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but has never heard of chatgpt

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and wants to discover immortality

silver path
silver path
lone scaffold
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yeah

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it goes DEEP

silver path
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i wont live thru this without an anger attack

low nexus
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can someone help me find my wallet

silver path
low nexus
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im going to be like this but I CANT FIND MY WALLET

silver path
silver path
lone scaffold
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so for those who didnt follow the whole thread

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it took her 2500 messages to figure out which cpu she wanted

silver path
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my balls will explode by the end i assume

lone scaffold
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and now we're doing the same with the gpu

low nexus
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i found it

lone scaffold
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7950x3D i think

silver path
low nexus
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underneath my laptop bag

silver path
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productivity wise

low nexus
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3d vcache

lone scaffold
silver path
lone scaffold
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because after like msg 500 we found out she wanted more gaming than productivity

silver path
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its a beast as is

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even on eco mode

lone scaffold
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well

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she wants the best tho...

silver path
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i gtg eat breakfast i might be back