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tranquil pebble
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got tboned by a large pickup once similar experience... didnt freak out a second before impact, just accepted my fate lol. Apparently that is part of why I got out with no injuries

mortal grail
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Jesus

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Car crashes are scary man

tranquil pebble
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scary but I have faith in my Civic safety mechanisms especially after being in an accident with it

mortal grail
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Now copper, as a pure metal, is an excellent conductor of heat

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Pc tech uses it a lot for heatsinks

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But it leads to a very weird situation with amd x3d

tranquil pebble
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copper is also good for electricity

mortal grail
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The late x3d chips have whats considered a very very thick ihs

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Basically this big block of metal above the cpu itself to move heat

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And it's not very good at moving it

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There's reasons why it's like this

remote geode
mortal grail
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All that heat instead gets trapped

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And the copper vcache is the best capture point for all of it

remote geode
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would backside power delivery help

mortal grail
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So when you see people say "X3D is hot" this is the reason

wooden goblet
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I think I’m following yes

mortal grail
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Now, small lesson aside, there's a takeaway from this

remote geode
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stack more silicone

mortal grail
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Because all that heat gets trapped, it doesn't move off the cpu that well

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Which in turn, by a small twist of irony, makes it easy as piss to cool lmao

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If you throw a massive cooler at it, it gets minimal gains

wooden goblet
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And therefore, I don’t need a crazy good cooler

mortal grail
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Essentially yeah

wooden goblet
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Rigjttt it’s makes sense

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Ok yeah I get that

mortal grail
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We could chuck $15 more to put a much better one on

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If you prefer

wooden goblet
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Yeah may aswell

mortal grail
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But the difference will be minimal really

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Alr

wooden goblet
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Just to be safe or solething

mortal grail
wooden goblet
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Oh and this might(?) be a dumb question but would I also need extra fans for inside the case

mortal grail
mortal grail
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903 base has 2 big front 1 small rear

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It's essentially enough

wooden goblet
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Ok bet and then last question I think

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Would the 4090 be bottlenecked by the cpu

mortal grail
mortal grail
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It's there to consider but yeah, you want a really extreme display to use it properly

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For the 4090 list I'd do like, 34" 1440p UW or 4K+
For the XTX list, do 1440P high refresh

wooden goblet
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Yeah rn I’m rocking a $200 five year old 144hz go monitor

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Hp*

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So maybe time to upgrade

mortal grail
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Hmmm yeah might deserve a bump lol

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Perfect reason to fill the rest of that budget, one sec

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Fit in the budget perfectly

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Basically for XTX-worthy displays I'd be looking between about, $270 to $580

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Though oled is a huge jump over anything else

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It's like several pc upgrades on it's own

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Not just because it looks good, but because it has a latency response that's unmatched rn

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So it's like doubling your fps over any other screen pick

wooden goblet
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Wow ok yeah that’s literally perfect for my budget

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As dope as having a 4090 sounds i don’t think I can justify it just yet

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But 2.5 for a pc and monitor might just be the move

mortal grail
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I mean having owned both I prefer the xtx tbh

wooden goblet
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Really?

mortal grail
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Near 4090 performance for half the price? Yeah I kinda like it

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Lol

wooden goblet
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Oh and my buddy is wondering if he can take out the ram from his old pc and put it in his new one

wooden goblet
wooden goblet
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Asking

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Sec

mortal grail
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If they're gonna be using a ddr5 build then odds are no

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Ddr4/ddr3/ddr5 all incompatible with each other

wooden goblet
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Mmm yeah ok I doubt he had ddr5 before his current

mortal grail
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Have to be like under 2 years old

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Lol

wooden goblet
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Yeah looks like he’s gotta buy another 32gs

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Didn’t have anyone to tell him how to build it 🤷‍♂️

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Ok well wow thank you for all the advice and saving me like 500 dollars

mortal grail
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That's all good

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Happy to help

icy ore
paper verge
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Given 4080s n 7900xtx r same pricw which one is better

elfin mural
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xtx

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100%

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wait

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4080 super?

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hrm well

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i'd go for 4080s

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moar efficient

opaque sedge
elfin mural
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theyre neck and neck

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the benefit from amd you get is 24gb vram?

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but 16 is enough imo

opaque sedge
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Is there even a game that uses over 10gigs of vram?

elfin mural
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yes

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especially vr

opaque sedge
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Oh damn

opaque sedge
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Cuz to me it looks like these gpus get outperformed every next gen and the extra vram may npt be as beneficial

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I may be making a gross assumption tho

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Especially since i’m new to this stuff

opaque sedge
mighty hazel
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Yeah most people still just buy nvidia

velvet summit
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buy more save more

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the more you buy the more you save

velvet summit
opaque sedge
velvet summit
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you can either pick amd with their slightly less stable drivers for vr, but good enough vram amounts
or nvidia with their slightly more stable drivers for vr, but not enough vram on the lower end

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☠️

mighty hazel
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Download more vram 🗿

light egret
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Doesn't Nvidia still have a slight edge in overall graphics power compared to the comparable amd card?

elfin mural
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no

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nvidia cutting vram bus hurts that

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also imo i'd get xtx if i do vr

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otherwise nope

rancid juniper
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rancid juniper
elfin mural
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they can

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im speaking in the context of 4080 super being compared

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price matched

rancid juniper
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Ah ok

flat glen
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Where do i find cheap game keys

elfin mural
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We can't talk about that here due to the rules

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damn, 100% scaling is TINY on 1080p on 15 inch

light egret
elfin mural
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4070 is about 7800xt perf

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and they're neck and neck

light egret
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I know Nvidia still has the edge in ray tracing if that's a thing people care about, but I know amd can do ray tracing now apparently

elfin mural
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similar case too with amd having higher vram

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amd could do rt since rdna 2

light egret
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I stopped paying attention around 20 series and 5000 series I wanna say?

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Yeh so according to user benchmark Nvidia, while higher price, still has the overall edge over and in almost all categories.

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4070 is about 5% better than 7800 xt, 4080 super is about 36% better than 7900 xt

opaque sedge
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What kind of game is dragon’s dogma 2?

opaque sedge
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I could have made a 7700x build with that for around 1600-1700 usd instead of my 7800x3d and 7900xt build which was 1500usd

light egret
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It's prob worth it to go for 7800 over Nvidia for the almost 100 dollar diff for 5% power diff, but the 4080 super is only 60 dollars more for a 36% power boost. That's worth it if you're already spending 900 bucks on a gpu

opaque sedge
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Cuz the 4080 super is almost 300 bucks more expensive than the 7900xt

elfin mural
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it's very amd biased

light egret
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Ok the 7900xtx is only 17% worse

elfin mural
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wait no, intel biased

opaque sedge
light egret
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I was about to say

elfin mural
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4080s being better than xtx isn't true

opaque sedge
elfin mural
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they're on par

light egret
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User bench is what I've always used lol

elfin mural
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overall ubm is a terrible site

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passmark is better

opaque sedge
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Anyways where is the 4080 super thats only 80 bucks more than a 7900xt?

elfin mural
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for quick n dirty comparisons

opaque sedge
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I need a link for that

elfin mural
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4070 super has gre blocking its way

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ALSO

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4070 now only costs a little less than some gre models

opaque sedge
elfin mural
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ya

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and gre has dropped to 520

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stepping into 4070 pricing territory

light egret
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They look to be going for around 550-600 rn

opaque sedge
elfin mural
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why?

opaque sedge
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Cuz i got a 7900xt remember

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The gre is a handsome card tho

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Sleek as heck

elfin mural
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o ye

opaque sedge
# light egret They look to be going for around 550-600 rn

Based on my amateurish assumption it seems like for value in builds for lower budget and mid range budgets amd cards are the choice while for upper midrange budgets over 1500 nvidia cards seem to eke out a bit and for higher end nvidia is the typical choice to make

elfin mural
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4090 is a class of its own

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it's a titan, just not branded as such

opaque sedge
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Not sure if i should count the xtx as a higher end card tho cuz an xtx build can be made for the pricing of a upper midrange build around 1800-1900

elfin mural
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xtx is high end

opaque sedge
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If using microcenter bundles and discounts

elfin mural
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there's no question about that

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like i said, 4090 is another whole class

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it's the top of the chain

mild dew
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4090 enables experiences most other gpus can't

opaque sedge
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What would you guys consider a budget for a mid range build and a upper mid range build?

elfin mural
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idk

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all lower end cards are meh in their own ways

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and nvidia is a sea of ok vram amount, trash bus

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if we go below 4070

mild dew
opaque sedge
light egret
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From my experience people will go for Nvidia for the slight edge regardless, even if it's just for the edge in ray tracing. Budget builds should use amd as they are a way better bang for the buck usually. I gotta figure out how to use these other benchmark services to compare again but from my phone that's hard lol.

elfin mural
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2500 is probably mega aesthetics

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looped, etc

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with the most expensive fans

opaque sedge
light egret
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I've never really understood the hype in ray tracing though

elfin mural
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rt has always been the future

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it just doesn't have the hardware yet

opaque sedge
elfin mural
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but the ability to do real-time rt is amazing

opaque sedge
mild dew
light egret
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#Nintendo did it first

elfin mural
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the games' implementation however is sparse

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and fragmented

opaque sedge
elfin mural
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yep

light egret
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I mean it's neat and all, but I'm not gonna spend an extra 200 bucks for it. I guess you don't really have to anymore but still lol

elfin mural
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and i blame devs for haphazardly doing so

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or rather, the companies

opaque sedge
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Btw for a 1500-1600usd pc build budget whats the gpu of choice typically?

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I went with the 7900xt

light egret
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7900xt is super solid imo

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For that price point

mild dew
opaque sedge
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Oh yeah the microcenter cpu mobo and ram bundle was great value

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It was like getting a free mobo basically

light egret
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Yeah micro center is my fav place to buy PC parts. I wish I had one near me still 😭

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Now it's a 4 hour drive peepoSadSip

opaque sedge
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And the ram seems to be one of the decent ones too not the best but great with it being cl32 and 6000mhz

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It seems like for ddr5 cl30 is the best of the best

opaque sedge
elfin mural
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If you don't wanna do all that, they also offer build services

light egret
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Lol it's been about that for my build. But I'm also broke rn

opaque sedge
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So lets say something goes wrong with ur components

light egret
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I'd prob make a weekend trip to visit some friends and stay with them and then go there when I can upgrade

opaque sedge
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You can still safely return in within the return window

light egret
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I've never had their prices be more than Amazon

opaque sedge
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It was 50 bucks more expensive

light egret
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Well that's nice. In my experience they've always undercut the price lol. During the pandemic they're the only ones who sold GPUs at msrp

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Same with pis

opaque sedge
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Damn no wonder everyone loves them

light egret
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There was a point where pis were selling for hundreds of dollars and I got mine at micro for like $30

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Cause they were sold out everywhere but they kinda had em hidden at micro lol

light egret
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Raspberry Pi

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The micro computer

opaque sedge
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Oh

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What do u use em for?

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Other than basic computing

light egret
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One sec

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The cartridge is my SSD lol

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It's an emulation machine.

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You can use em for a lot of things though. I had one set up as a micro server that I didn't really use at all, and another set up to automate my 3D printer with a camera and stuff

opaque sedge
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Thats cool

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Can you also make a smart home camera system using one?

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Without having to pay for those expensive services

fair onyx
elfin mural
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We were talking about gaming

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But in that context that's fair

light egret
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Probably but I think you'd be better off buying good cameras and a DVR

fair onyx
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If all I did was game, I would for sure have one

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The 7900XT is the best value high perf gaming card for sure

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for a new card, at least

opaque sedge
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The xtx is like 200-300 more expensive than the 7900xt right

fair onyx
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not that much

opaque sedge
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Wait really?

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How much at the minimum?

fair onyx
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like $150 more?

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I'd say

opaque sedge
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How does the xtx pair with a 7700x cpu?

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(Microcenter bundle for cpu choice reasoning)

fair onyx
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I am not sure, I don't focus much on gaming for GPUs 😅

opaque sedge
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Its cool

fair onyx
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AMD Ryzen 7 7700x?

opaque sedge
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Mhm

fair onyx
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or intel 7700x?

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ah

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should be just fine

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Both the 7900XT and XTX will deliver a ton of gaming perf

light egret
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They are about 200-300 more on microcenter

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Most expensive xt I can find is 729 while cheapest xtx is 929. The smallest gap is 200 there

fair onyx
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No way they added this...

opaque sedge
fair onyx
opaque sedge
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With asrock and sapphire being around 930

light egret
opaque sedge
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Yh and the cpu i chose is pretty futureproof too it seems

fair onyx
opaque sedge
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7800x3d

opaque sedge
fair onyx
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Very nice

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I would stick with that then

opaque sedge
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I also snagged a gre for like 520 during a sale

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Which i’m planning to return

fair onyx
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7900XT is basically my GPU with a little less VRAM and worse RT. But its nice for a brand new card, especially at that price

opaque sedge
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Yh it seems like the 7900xt prices skyrocketed since i got mine 3 weeks ago

fair onyx
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I was just noticing that as well actually

light egret
fair onyx
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I seem to remember them being low $700, with the 7900xtx low $900

opaque sedge
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So now it seems like you either get a gre or double down and get a xtx or a 4080 lol

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Suddenly i feel super proud of my 7900xt

fair onyx
light egret
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At least what pulled up in search for me

opaque sedge
light egret
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What'd you pay

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699?

opaque sedge
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690 pre tax

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I got it price matched the sapphire pulse one was 690 at the time in amazon

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My auto correct is tweaking

light egret
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Nice

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You did good then lol

opaque sedge
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Yh

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The gre can go to hell now

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Jk i still need to return it

light egret
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Just send it to me I'll "return" it for you 😏

opaque sedge
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(100% profit)

light egret
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10 hundie pennies, deal

opaque sedge
light egret
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😂

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Don't wait to long tho, doesn't microcenter only have a 15 day return window?

opaque sedge
fair onyx
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I really hope at least one GPU manufacturer offers less restricted VRAM this gen

opaque sedge
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When are the next gen gpus set to roll out?

light egret
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Amazon has 30 day I think

opaque sedge
fair onyx
opaque sedge
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Damn that close

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I feel like i should have gotten a steam deck or smth and waited on building my pc now ngl

fair onyx
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Only thing I care about is them having more useful VRAM capacities

light egret
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Everyone feels that way every time. Don't wait to build just cause there might be something better in the future. There's always gonna be something better in the future. PCs age fast, but the upgrades aren't really worth it but every 3-5 years unless you absolutely need the best of the best always

fair onyx
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Yeah for sure

mighty hazel
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Pcs age?

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They don’t get slower

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Just newer things come out

fair onyx
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I am happy with my PC. Only complaint is how much power it uses, but there's really no fix for that as of now. I could also really go for more VRAM, but all of the GPU companies seem to wanna hold back their cards to prevent having another 1080ti I presume

mighty hazel
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Like the 1080 ti wasn’t meant to be a 1440 144hz gpu cuz those monitors were pretty rare

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It was meant to be 4k 30 or 1080p 144hz

fair onyx
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I was meaning how the 1080ti is still good enough almost a decade later that people are still holding off their upgrades. They made a GPU too good and too future proof, so now they go out of their way to limit them in different ways. Now they are all hard limited by their lack of VRAM capacity

Cards like the 4070ti with only 12GB VRAM can already hit OOM issues in VR games that they are.more than performant enough to play

8GB even for 1080p is causing issues for many

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Friend of mine has to play a lot of games in his iGPU cause his 4GB cars can't load them at all

mighty hazel
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Yeah idk how future proof the 1080 ti was, the rtx 2070S beat it in like 2019

fair onyx
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That's not what I am meaning

mighty hazel
fair onyx
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I've def seen it. Lots of people have issues with it, especially in VR

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Some 1440p games are red lining 16GB GPU's cause console to PC optimization isn't a thing anymore. Just shove it all in VRAM and don't give a crap about how must hardware won't be able to run kt

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*it

mighty hazel
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Depends on the game but it kinda happens at 4k

fair onyx
mighty hazel
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A 2070 super can’t load games? 😭😭

fair onyx
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Yeah, run elite dangerous 3x 1080p and watch it crash when it needs more than 8GB VRAM

1080ti can run it

mighty hazel
fair onyx
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Or what about bone works on max physics. Can't load in 8GB, but it can on a 1080ti

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3070ti is a massively more powerful GPU, but I would still take the 1080ti over it for both my work and VR gaming cause 8GB is just the bare minimum now

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I say that as somebody who is limited by a 24GB cards, but has no means to buy a higher capacity, slower, and massively more expensive workstation card ._.

mighty hazel
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If a 3070 can run cyberpunk this well at 4k it’s good

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A 1080 ti is too limited to take advantage of the 11gb

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It’s like you ever see a 3060 beating a 3070

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Same performance as a 1080 ti

fair onyx
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Spiderman remastered has a minimum VRAM requirement of 8GB on medium for 1080, and can use 19GB at 4k

mighty hazel
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If it’s for ai or something though, then 1080 ti doesn’t even have the cores for that

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19gb??

fair onyx
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It's still more useful than a 3070ti for that

mighty hazel
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Using a gpu without tensor cores for ai yikes

fair onyx
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Lol

dusk knot
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Glad I'm staying on the 1440p train for a long time

mighty hazel
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I decided to look it up. This is 4k on a 3080 12gb

fair onyx
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For my job, I'd gladly take a 1080ti over a 3070ti. Sure it would be slower, but I'd rather it be slow and work than not be able to run at all KEKL

mighty hazel
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And rt

fair onyx
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But yeah, in the end VRAM matters more than just about anything else.

Slow GPU = less performance

Not enough VRAM = entirely useless for what you are trying to do

mighty hazel
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Depends what you’re doing with it

fair onyx
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To an extent, that is true

mighty hazel
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If that were true Radeon vii’s would be beating 4060s 💀

mighty hazel
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It’s like a 2080 in perfomance but 16gb vram

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Might actually beat a 4060

fair onyx
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I would take that over it as well haha. But it's AMD, so it has like no compute support unfortunately. Otherwise I would have a 7900XTX

mighty hazel
fair onyx
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Depends on the specific task. For blender, I would take the 60 card for sure

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But for ML inference or training, the AMD card likely can't even run any of it 😓

mighty hazel
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Damnsteveconfused

fair onyx
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Though AMD is getting better by day, at least

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Not 6000 series tho. Those are unfortunately pretty damn useless for compute

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If AMD just had better compute support, I would buy a W7900 for sure

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48GB VRAM would be sooooo nice. I could do a lot more work with that

wise wigeon
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what in the

fair onyx
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Hmm?

wise wigeon
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i just noticed my xmp wasnt turned on but i for sure remembered to turn it on in the past

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maybe i forgot to reenable xmp after a bios update

fair onyx
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Oh you know what... Thank you for reminding me

I had a hard crash on my PC and it reset my bios as well. I forgot to go back in and turn XMP back on

wise wigeon
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i think a year ago my stuff was acting up so i was updating a bunch of stuff

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like my wifi was just straight up refusing to do things

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must've forgotten that it wipes my settings when i update the bios

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welp not like i'm playing super intensive stuff but

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it might explain a few things lol

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i was just looking up how to enable resizable bar

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and i was just lookinh at my task manager when i saw i was on 2133

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wild

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i would not have noticed this otherwise

velvet summit
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a crash resetting a bios????

wise wigeon
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Honestly idk if I even should enable rebar

velvet summit
fair onyx
warped crest
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I read that the pcb for my card and the reference pcb is nearly identical other than the missing screw in the power input in the top, would it work with a reference water block if I shave some acrylic

fair onyx
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I had to reset bios to get it to post. My whole PC slowly shut itself down, flashing, glitching audio, and then eventually went black and didn't respond to me pressing the power button

rancid juniper
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they going crazy with this APU

fair onyx
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The dream for my work would be an SOC with a massive NPU, and 128GB of unified memory. Drooling just thinking about it :D

ripe depot
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Can anyone recommend a starter pc under 1000 just wanting to play basic games and I’m not gonna be on it very much

elfin mural
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1k gets you a pretty competent gaming rig

velvet summit
elfin mural
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If you play 2d games budget can be as low as you wish

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Like cut it to half and you'll still have a pc

velvet summit
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2d games could be run on a modern igpu no sweat

elfin mural
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ya

velvet summit
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Save hundreds

clear mulch
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Hey guys I’m looking for a good case spacious good air flow and some what good for cable management

ripe depot
ripe depot
elfin mural
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Hrm

velvet summit
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Minecraft and the forest aren't 2d games lmao

elfin mural
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You might still want a dgpu

ripe depot
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Yeah mb

elfin mural
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I can max the budget out then

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Or actually make something like, 600-800 bucks list

velvet summit
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Also yeah 1k isnt really too budget anymore

ancient swift
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Steam Deck go brrrrrr

elfin mural
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pc gaming is a different experience

ripe depot
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Im not trying to sped 1000 on something I don’t know why I came here

elfin mural
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ah ps5

ancient swift
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Get a Steam Deck

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ez

elfin mural
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i can do that

opaque sedge
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Is helldivers 2 any good? The steam reviews seem to have super mixed opinions

fallen coral
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hey guys, I have this PC build right now, and I’m looking for increase/upgrade performance, what 2 parts should I upgrade first?
Ryzen 5 3600
RTX 2060
16GB DDR4 RAM
512 SSD
1 TB Hard Drive
NZXT H510 Case
x570 Aorus Elite Wifi Motherboard

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sorry if wrong channel

elfin mural
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I'd probs do dis

ripe depot
elfin mural
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No

elfin mural
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You can learn how to build a pc

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If you're too scared, I can find prebuilts

ancient swift
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You can get a 5800x3d and a better GPU and get a fairly big perf increas depending on your PSU

opaque sedge
fallen coral
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and i heard negative stuff about the NZXT case before

elfin mural
ancient swift
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Yeah if you hurry you can get the AK620 which should be able to handle anything on am4 I think

opaque sedge
ancient swift
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and yeah the NZXT H510 is meh. Do you know if its the regular or the flow?

ancient swift
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Maybe the 5700X3D instead of 5800X3D due to the case. Not sure ,someone could probably fix it

elfin mural
#

The best prebuilt I can find at 1k budget

#

You get a pc that's slower than a ps5

ripe depot
#

God damn

elfin mural
#

This list is a bit over budget

ripe depot
#

I’ll just build it at this point

elfin mural
#

But if you can eek out the extra for the gpu

elfin mural
#

It's worth every bit of it

opaque sedge
# elfin mural it is

Since its am5 it also has a upgrade path for a better gpu right? Like a gre perhaps?

elfin mural
#

Not only gpu

#

CPU

#

The 7600 is pretty competent

#

But you can upgrade into like 2027

opaque sedge
ripe depot
#

Uh ima haft to think it over thank you guys

opaque sedge
#

The 7700x is a productivity cpu right?

elfin mural
#

Similar, but 6 cores is starting to be a limitation

#

Nah, 7700x is still consumer tier lol

opaque sedge
#

Hm so if he has access to a microcenter the 7700x bundle is a great choice too?

elfin mural
#

7700x is a weird middle child because there's 7800x3d

#

Yeah, that's a pretty good deal

opaque sedge
#

Hm i wish i knew about pc specs as much as i do now lol

fallen coral
#

Is the x570 Aorus Elite good btw?

elfin mural
#

Overkill

#

If you're just a gamer, buy A620/B650

opaque sedge
elfin mural
#

And don't pay over 150 tops

#

100-135 gets you decent AM5 boards already

#

wait

#

That's x570

#

Still I don't recc x570 rn

opaque sedge
elfin mural
#

ya

#

AM5 is overbuilt for the cpus they're designed to run with

#

7800X3D gets its full perf at only 88w

opaque sedge
#

Thats cool if I decide to downsize i’ll get one then

elfin mural
#

Just make sure the board has some form of vram heatsink

#

vrm*

#

I meant vrm

opaque sedge
elfin mural
#

I don't remember the boost

#

But it will hit the boost reliably on cheap boards

#

As long as there's adequate vrm cooling

opaque sedge
elfin mural
#

It steps down power from the psu's rail

#

And feeds the cpu stable DC power

#

Otherwise you'd get a fried or unstable cpu

#

Straight 12V would definitely cause some damage lol

opaque sedge
elfin mural
#

No

#

That's a bios error

#

AGESA bug that allowed the cpu to run past safe voltages

clear mulch
#

Anyone can help me find a good case with air flow and somewhat spacious

elfin mural
#

hrm

#

on a budget i'd probs throw fractal pop air

#

or somethin

opaque sedge
elfin mural
#

903 air is also a decent choice

opaque sedge
clear mulch
opaque sedge
elfin mural
#

5800x is hot but

#

A $30 thermalright cooler will do

#

Especially dual tower ones

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

I don’t even know I never used air coolers only radiator coolers but he’s got 4 sticks on 4 there worried about the space

#

All the case says it’s deepcool nothing else

opaque sedge
#

Dual tower cooler

clear mulch
#

Man that’s huge

opaque sedge
#

Ram shouldn’t get blocked

#

And if it does you can mount the fan on the left end

elfin mural
#

It's a chonker

#

Should fit in the pop air or 903 base/air tho

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

This is the pc

elfin mural
#

Take a pic of the front

#

Maybe I can figure out what case it is

opaque sedge
clear mulch
elfin mural
#

That sag tho

clear mulch
#

Yeah gpu heavy

elfin mural
#

Find lego or something to prop it up

opaque sedge
elfin mural
#

hm, some deepcool..

#

older ones

clear mulch
#

Yeah I can’t find it anywhere

elfin mural
#

lemme go do stuff then imma help you find it

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

It’s a 580 gpu

elfin mural
#

rx 580?

clear mulch
#

Yes

elfin mural
#

That's a huge 580 if that's one

clear mulch
#

It’s rog I believe

elfin mural
#

Yeah strix

clear mulch
#

It’s my old one

opaque sedge
#

I had lunch with a friend today and that was apparently his first gpu around the start of the pandemic

#

And then a microcenter employee upsold his dad on a 4060 jensen2

elfin mural
#

ope

#

Well a 4060 is at least

#

Much faster lol

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

So what you guy’s think what cooler can I fit there or do I just replace the entire case

elfin mural
#

Gimme a sec

opaque sedge
elfin mural
#

Maybe you won't need another case

#

2600, eh, not bad

clear mulch
#

Hopefully not but if I have to no problem

elfin mural
#

It's definitely old buuut

#

Shouldn't be bad

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

So air coolers are a go or radiator cooler

sinful blade
#

5600 or 3600 should help with the bottleneck

#

Or 5700x

clear mulch
#

Even chat gpt wasn’t able to find what case this is

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

It looks like I can fit one on the top 240 maybe

#

But I want to go with air cooler but I can’t seem to know which case this is to fit one

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

It’s got these bulky heatsinks

opaque sedge
#

If he wasn’t looking to upgrade for a whole

sinful blade
#

I would suggest a 5700x
Or 7600

#

Good upgrade
Wouldn’t need any upgrades for it for a while

opaque sedge
opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

It’s got a lot of room left from the front panel o gpu

rancid juniper
#

im genuinely curious if my gpu is actually sagging

opaque sedge
#

Yh i thought for a sec we could use the gpu dimensions to gauge the size cuz my coolers heatsink ekes out a bit from my gpu

rancid juniper
#

it looks flat sorta

clear mulch
#

Well I’d say there is a bout a finger maybe from cooler to gpu

#

Not even a finger

#

When I look at it it looks cramped up

#

I think I should replace the case save myself a headache lol

opaque sedge
wise wigeon
#

i like the reliability of air coolers but double towers make it so hard to work in the pc

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

So you guys recommend any case from 50 to 100 maybe

opaque sedge
wise wigeon
#

depends on what you need in the case

#

just built in the 903 air and it was pretty pleasant

clear mulch
#

A better cooler that’s all I need in a new case

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

Let me look it up

opaque sedge
wise wigeon
#

its what 65 for the base and 75 for the max

#

yeah it has a controller

clear mulch
#

Is it just me or it looks small

wise wigeon
#

its rather large tbh

opaque sedge
sinful blade
opaque sedge
#

I mean my gpu is chonky

#

And it fits

wise wigeon
#

it fits 400mm cars so it kinda has to be

clear mulch
#

Does it come with fans

wise wigeon
#

3 140s for base

opaque sedge
wise wigeon
#

4 argb ones for the max

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

So 3 front and one to the back right

wise wigeon
#

for the max yes

sinful blade
#

Phanteks XT PRO ULTRA is also kinda just amazing

clear mulch
#

Those come pre installed

opaque sedge
#

Wbt the corsair ones?

wise wigeon
#

yeh

opaque sedge
wise wigeon
#

like 4000d?

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

I was looking at d4000 air flow case

#

Do I get that but comes with one fan

elfin mural
#

Lemme look at the case first

#

No, don't get 4000d

wise wigeon
#

i mean if your into the 011 look the h6 flow exists for a lil over 100

#

like 106

clear mulch
#

My old h710i came with fans pre installed liked it but way to heavy

opaque sedge
#

Yh lets be patient maybe you can save on current hardware

clear mulch
#

I need a similar case with fans pre installed so I don’t buy them lol

opaque sedge
sinful blade
#

Corsair anything is usually just overpriced

#

And underpowered

#

Except the psus
They’re usually fine

clear mulch
wise wigeon
#

preinstalled

elfin mural
clear mulch
#

Could it fit dark rock pro 4 or 5

wise wigeon
#

at least in the base one i just built in

elfin mural
#

165mm cooler height limit

sinful blade
#

903 or the phanteks xt pro ultra

clear mulch
wise wigeon
#

i mean it fits a peerless assassing well enough

elfin mural
wise wigeon
#

but peerless is shoter

elfin mural
#

This will fit

opaque sedge
#

Pre installed for both the base and max, base has three non rgb fans and max has 4 rgb fans, and here’s the magnetic mesh cover in action

wise wigeon
#

its also like 33 dollars for the peerless or phantomspirit

#

maybe a dollar extra if you want rgb

clear mulch
wise wigeon
#

no filter though

opaque sedge
wise wigeon
#

spirit has 7 pipes

elfin mural
clear mulch
#

And those bulky heatsinks around the stock cooler

opaque sedge
opaque sedge
#

Which one’s better?

wise wigeon
#

but similar performance

elfin mural
wise wigeon
#

spirit is newer

clear mulch
#

How good does it keep the 7 5800x cooled

elfin mural
#

Adequately

#

It'll run cool

wise wigeon
#

look all of these will cool things fine

#

they really aren even too far off aios

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

What’s the limit on that

#

For it to shut down

#

I will buy that cooler you sent

wise wigeon
#

amd is a lil higher iirc

#

if its just gaming you'll never reach those temps

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

I have a 9 5950x I think and it state below 60 during gaming

#

I turned off the pbo stuff

#

So stays cooler

clear mulch
#

4k

#

I play a lot of single player games

opaque sedge
#

Yh 1440p and above is more gpu dependent

clear mulch
#

3080ti gets 100 percent sometimes

#

Runs out of vram

opaque sedge
#

Thats around the same temp i get when playing forza max settings

#

But gpu goes up to 79c hotspot

#

And that things screams

#

Coil whine i mean

clear mulch
#

Nah Mine stays at 70 or so

wise wigeon
#

yuck

#

coil whine

clear mulch
#

Yes I hear Mine all the time

wise wigeon
#

i'm comfy under 80c for gpu

clear mulch
#

So annoying

opaque sedge
#

350 WATTS

clear mulch
#

Loud like Mine

opaque sedge
#

(For 2480mhz clock speed kekw )

#

I think the 4090 is like 2800 for similar wattage

wise wigeon
#

i have my 3080 at like 1815 at 0.850

#

so its pretty quiet

#

could prob go lower but

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

I tried to undervolt my 3080ti wasn’t not a good experience crash in some games and work in some games I couldn’t find a stable one for all my games

wise wigeon
#

prob went too low

clear mulch
#

Yeah for sure I can’t seem to balance

wise wigeon
#

3080 1800 at 0.8 aint like that good of an undervolt

opaque sedge
#

Is undervolting beneficial?

wise wigeon
#

i think i was 19-something mhz at 0.875

#

uh yeah lol

#

mine decreases thermals by at least 5c

opaque sedge
#

What does it benefit?

wise wigeon
#

if not more

#

consumes less power

#

like at stock mine would use 60-100w more

rancid juniper
#

consumes less power
less temps
more boost

#

undervolting is great

clear mulch
#

Yeah the 3080 consumes a lot of power

wise wigeon
#

less head means more headroom for boosts

#

jheat*

#

damn my fat fingers

opaque sedge
clear mulch
#

Sometimes it struggles to run older assassins creed games

#

Or it’s the game optimization

wise wigeon
#

really depends

rancid juniper
clear mulch
#

I have the strix model idk if it differs how it runs from other ones

wise wigeon
#

i think amd really pushes the clocks hard on their cards

rancid juniper
#

RDNA2 and below works fine but RDNA3 is a bit finnicky at first glance

opaque sedge
opaque sedge
wise wigeon
#

yeh

rancid juniper
opaque sedge
#

F?

wise wigeon
#

i mean you could still benefit

rancid juniper
#

this is my config, i made sure to lower my clocks but not too much while also lowering both voltage+power

#

bumped up the mem clocks

opaque sedge
wise wigeon
#

well they undervolt to oc

rancid juniper
#

^^^

#

this

#

the less voltage the better performance on RDNA3

wise wigeon
#

stock voltages arent that well optimized

#

and each chip is different

rancid juniper
#

for sure i lost like 10+ fps if i sit at 1150mv

#

its odd

wise wigeon
#

like my 3080 at 1815 vs 1900 mhz loses maybe 1-5 fps

opaque sedge
#

So undervolt gpu and overclock vram?

rancid juniper
# opaque sedge 7900xt as well?

this is just my config, you can do whatever like maxing out the frequency to like idk 3000mhz while lowering voltage to something like 980mv

wise wigeon
#

but drops like 100w in consumption and really never pushes past 76c

rancid juniper
opaque sedge
#

What exactly is boost?

rancid juniper
#

the best way to drop temps is to either lower frequency a bit or powerslider

wise wigeon
#

i'm more used to nvidia undervolts because i had laptops

#

and its pretty much a req on laptops

#

though i feel like disabling cpu boost is the nicest for temps

#

on laptops

rancid juniper
wise wigeon
#

especially when they share heatsinks in laptops

rancid juniper
#

just like a cpu having turbo clocks, if the thermal headroom is available it will boost to higher clockspeeds

elfin mural
#

Laptop cooling has come a long way

#

I don't even uv mine

wise wigeon
#

you'll generally find that gpus boost higher than the advertised clocks in specs

rancid juniper
#

^^^

elfin mural
#

The cpu and gpu run stock

wise wigeon
#

eh i like least noise and heat as possible

#

usually disable cpu turbo

elfin mural
#

Noise is minimal these days

wise wigeon
#

and thats usually enough the gpus are usually chill ngl

opaque sedge
elfin mural
#

They get audible but their fans don't produce the signature laptop fan whine

#

The jet engine like noise

wise wigeon
#

but from what i've seen 40 series is hella efficient on laptops

elfin mural
#

They're actually now similar to how case fans sound

#

It's a whoosh

wise wigeon
#

depends on the laptop

elfin mural
#

Instead of the high pitch

wise wigeon
#

but also i use my laptop for more than just gaming so low fan noise is important

elfin mural
#

Better tolerance allows fan blades to get closer together

wise wigeon
#

although i dont really use it to game so i just swapped with my brothers macbook

elfin mural
#

And allows for more blades

wise wigeon
#

he needs a gaming laptop more

#

i at leas t have this desktop

#

also makes me one step close to true neutraility in devices

elfin mural
#

ofc there's different stuff you need a laptop for, so noise is important in those cases

wise wigeon
#

windows on this desktop, macos on the macbook, linux on my steamdeck

#

ps5 and series s, and a switch and 3ds

#

true neutrality in my gaming devices

#

except i havent used the s in like 2 years

#

its just not that good

#

originally bought it for a gamepass machine

#

but uh nobody in my family jumps between games enough for that to be worth

#

macbook will fit my school needs better

#

not really gonna play games on campus

#

makes me really wonder if this gen woulda been better if the xbox wasn't forcing s compatibility

opaque sedge
wise wigeon
#

i keep my online and school life seperate

#

but i am in a grad program

#

plus i have an iphone and ipad so notes would probably be easier with airdrop

#

sometimes i do wanna switch back to android though

opaque sedge
#

Damn that’s a lot electronics ngl

wise wigeon
#

eh

#

its not just mine

opaque sedge
#

I get overwhelmed with just my pc

velvet summit
wise wigeon
#

i'll prob have to learn macos but with my use case i prob wont need to learn much

velvet summit
#

MacOS confuses me somehow

#

And I study IT smh

sour falcon
opaque sedge
sour falcon
velvet summit
#

Real

wise wigeon
#

i had a more loaded desk but i gave my brother a monitor because he refuses to buy one and i was not having him use that pc i just built for him with a 1600x900 monitor from 2007

velvet summit
#

I used MacOS for one semester since I tried to take graphic design in hs

#

Still don't understand crap on macos

#

Why is it like that

wise wigeon
#

well school wise it'd just be like browser and a few exam softwares so shouldnt be too bad

#

i swear 60-70% of the people in my program have a mac so

opaque sedge
velvet summit
#

Damn

velvet summit
opaque sedge
#

Wbt windows?

velvet summit
#

Nobody likes windows

#

Not even windows users

wise wigeon
#

i used to try different os more when i was tinkering in middle school

sour falcon
velvet summit
#

You're weird

sour falcon
#

im well aware

wise wigeon
#

managed to hackintosh my first build but too many drivers issues so i yeeted it

#

back to windows after that

#

but i played around with linux distros

opaque sedge
#

They removed hackintosh support after the m series chips were released right?

velvet summit
#

They never added macintosh support

wise wigeon
#

i mean older macs still exist

velvet summit
#

It was never supported

sour falcon
#

hence

wise wigeon
#

it was called hackintosh for a reason

sour falcon
#

HACKintosh

velvet summit
#

Hackintosh is a legal gray zone

#

Since you needed a mac to make a hackintosh

wise wigeon
#

i was doing it on a amd fx build which i still wonder how i managed to get that to work

velvet summit
#

Lmao

#

Well clearly it didn't quite work

wise wigeon
#

it was the other drivers that had issues

velvet summit
#

Oh

wise wigeon
#

like wifi and stuff

#

but also i got bored of the novelty of it since i didnt need macos

#

i was just tinkering

velvet summit
#

The tinkerer

wise wigeon
#

but like i dont think you need a mac

wise wigeon
#

you just build a usb

#

iirc

velvet summit
#

To "legally" get an image at least

wise wigeon
#

and macos was like $20

velvet summit
#

Iirc you needed a mac to make it work properly or smth, I forget

wise wigeon
#

i def did not have a mac at the time

#

not sure how i managed it

velvet summit
#

Might just be to get an image then

wise wigeon
#

i mean its free now

#

like you can just go to apples website and download mountain lion

velvet summit
#

Interesting

wise wigeon
#

prob to help old mac users

#

i debated seeing what i can get for trade in for the macbook i swapped for and upgrading to an m2 or something but

#

its an m1, it has acessories, etc.

velvet summit
#

5 dollars frfr

wise wigeon
#

i'll prob be fine

#

nah its like 450 for good condition

#

350 for fair

velvet summit
#

That's not too terrible ig

wise wigeon
#

yeah the m2 is like 830

#

but would i wanna pay 350 for like magsafe a new battery and better speakers idk

velvet summit
#

Better speakers?

wise wigeon
#

m2 air had a chassis redesign

#

has like 4 speakers that are bigger

velvet summit
#

Oh

#

But aren't the originals good enough

wise wigeon
#

a more angular design too

rancid juniper
wise wigeon
#

also it being able to charge with magsafe frees up an extra usb c port

opaque sedge
#

What are some standout games in xbox game pass?

velvet summit
#

Pc?

wise wigeon
#

but like i have a usbc hub with passthrough so not that big of a deal

#

persona 3 remake?

velvet summit
#

Flight simulator

wise wigeon
#

ngl game pass removed games i liked

#

i mean it comes with minecraft if you somehow dont have that

opaque sedge
velvet summit
#

Honestly

opaque sedge
velvet summit
#

Just download random games and try them

wise wigeon
#

idk i feel like the more notable released games are not like on gamepass

opaque sedge
velvet summit
#

Meh

wise wigeon
#

if you're into the bethesda experience i guess

velvet summit
#

You could try it but I wouldn't recommend

#

You might enjoy it or you might not

wise wigeon
#

just expect to download mods to fix issues like usual

#

mods are what make bethesda games bearable

#

i couldn't tell you the last time i even touched an unmodded version of skyrim

#

though some games are just better with fixes from the community

#

monster hunter world has mods that help the performance

unreal trail
wise wigeon
#

god i hope wilds is optimized after that dd2 fiasco

mild dew
#

zen4 on firesale before zen5 kekw

dusk knot
#

Not x3d..I sleep

wise wigeon
#

7600 or x3d smh

#

if a good enough bundle comes around i'll upgrade

#

but ngl like i feel like my build could easily last another 1-2 cycles at least

rancid juniper
#

imagine a 9950x3d

wise wigeon
#

remember when next gen 60 gpus were on par with last gen 80 gpus

#

good times

sweet phoenix
#

Meanwhile x3d 20% better

wise wigeon
#

i mean yeah thats the point of my message

sweet phoenix
#

Yes

#

I was agreeing with you

wise wigeon
#

7600 and 7700 are roughly 5800x3d performance iirc

sweet phoenix
wise wigeon
#

i swear the more i talk on this server the more i get posts like this

dusk knot
#

Lol

sinful blade
#

How to improve this guys list while keeping it cheap/same price

dusk knot
#

Hmm

sweet phoenix
dusk knot
#

The build's already incredibly affordable

#

It's terrible how expensive 60 series cards are now

#

Yeah

sweet phoenix
#

Better ssd, better cooler, extra m.2 slot, just as good psu, far better gpu

sweet phoenix
#

For cheaper $485 4070 from zotac open box or 3070 for 285

sinful blade
sweet phoenix
#

Or 460 for 3080 ti

sweet phoenix
#

Thing should be 425 absolute maximum for the 16gb version

idle nexus
#

does this mean I can claim my cable management is "prize-winning" or can I go as far as "award-winning?" lol

proud jackal
#

wow must be nice to win

light egret
#

I like that the prize is negative 75 dollars

idle nexus
#

lol somewhat validating ig

#

heck I just noticed that

light egret
#

😂

proud jackal
#

you owe them

#

D:

light egret
#

you won the privilege to pay them money

random osprey
#

elden ring dlc being review bombed rn cause dlc too hard for people and performance issues KnucklesThinking

light egret
#

also what do you mean by performance issues? like their PC can't handle it?

random osprey
#

just not optimized. certain areas have really bad fps and stutter issues, some people are having those issues during boss fights as well. i assume it also ties to peoples pcs as well cause ive only had fps drops in a certain area during a certain time of day but no where else really

#

but the base game has no issues, just the dlc area where people are experiencing it

light egret
#

I mean if their PC could handle the game fine before the DLC, the DLC should not be harder to run than the game it's attached to. So if it's unoptimized, that's on the company, of it's just way more resource intensive, than that's also on the company IMO.

#

If it's becasue it's to hard, well duh it's a souls game.

idle nexus
#

lol internet is ruthless

light egret
#

tbf I rarely complain about frame rates cause I used to play games like mirrors edge at like 20 fps lmao

#

it was fiiiiiiiine

ancient swift
#

45 FPS on the Steam Deck is great

proud jackal
#

60 fps and below hurts my eyes

light egret
#

you just gotta git gud

ancient swift
#

Sounds like you should see an optometrist tbh

idle nexus
#

I should too ngl

random osprey
#

once it hits the 30 mark it feels a bit off but i can power through it, but like 20 and below derpyBlob

idle nexus
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I was trying to inspect the condition of an LGA 1200 socket yesterday & realized I need glasses

ancient swift
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30 with good frametimes is all I need in the long run

idle nexus
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like I knew before but that was like frustrating as heck

light egret
idle nexus
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lol 25fps is like a powerpoint

proud jackal
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thermal pads come in tomorrow and i can put my gpu back together again

light egret
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why did you take it apart

idle nexus
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like humpty dumpty

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wasn't that about a cannon or something

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nvm

proud jackal
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because the waterblock had blue gunk on it

light egret
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custom loop or prebuilt?

proud jackal
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custom

light egret
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show off

proud jackal
light egret
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theo always got the nicest stuff peepoSadSip

idle nexus
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that's why I only use distilled water & a little primochill liquid utopia

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I gave up on colored coolant

proud jackal
idle nexus
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it always ends up being a massive pain in the ass

proud jackal
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and the blue die turned into slime

idle nexus
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wth you won a PC? that's way better than cable management

proud jackal