>News & Rumors
RTX 50 Super: 2026 launch. 24GB VRAM for 5070 Ti & 5080 Super, 18GB for 5070 Super.

>Omissions
RTX 5070: buy if it's reasonably priced & if you plan to work around potential VRAM bottlenecks.
RX 9070 non-XT: worth considering if it's significantly cheaper than the 9070 XT.

Intel 13 & 14th gen i7/9 -K CPUs: BIOS update required due to reliability issues. 1.4V or 1.45V CPU VR voltage limit recommended.

>Product Notice
PNY RTX 50 cards have QC issues (rattling fans, reports of 5070 & 5090 with blown capacitors)

Gigabyte RTX 50 & RX 9000 video cards: thermal gel has QC issues, Gigabyte claims only early production batches were affected.
https://www.igorslab.de/en/update-on-thermal-putty-on-gigabyte-graphics-cards-after-further-storage-oil-separation-to-an-alarming-extent-and-silence-as-a-strategy/

>PSU Reviews
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplies
https://www.lttlabs.com/
https://www.kitguru.net/reviews/?category_name=power-supplies
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/?category=Power+Supplies

For tier-list enjoyers:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1akCHL7Vhzk_EhrpIGkz8zTEvYfLDcaSpZRB6Xt6JWkc/

>Storage Reviews
https://www.phoronix.com/reviews/Storage (Linux performance)
https://www.tweaktown.com/cat/storage/index.html
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/?category=SSD
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/ssds/reviews
https://www.servethehome.com/category/storage/

>Monitor Hunter
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1illeNLsUfZ4KuJ9cIWKwTDUEXUVpplhUYHAiom-FaDo/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96VJNyZKhpM
Is the issue of dead 9000 series boards on Asrock boards really just an issue of a bad batch of chips from AMD/TSMC that had an underlying fault in the CCD that is brought to the surface by Asrock boards quicker in particular? There were smaller failure reports from ASUS, MSI, & Gigabyte according to GN's video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmoN6D1roXM
That could easily be explained by Asrock having a higher DIY marketshare this gen because they typically had the best combination of feature-set//price making them a scapegoat.

>>106762740
>Is the issue of dead 9000 series boards
*9000 series chips

When I was installing my air cooler I lifted it up off the CPU and put it down again briefly, does this mean I need to re-paste my CPU?

>>106762756
It won't make that big of a difference.

>>106762756
No, as long as the paste was fresh and you put plenty on to begin with, momentary spatial adjustments get smoothed over by the mount pressure + thermal cycling of the CPU's IHS under workloads. You can run a cycle of Cinebench or Prime95 for ~15-30 minutes and monitor temps both at load and idle and compare with reference points for your cooler from reviews of it online to verify everything is working like it should.

>>106762740
>Asrock having a higher DIY marketshare
Gamers Nexus' AMD & system integrator sources said ASRock motherboard is causing disproportionately higher CPU failures relative to their market share.
Some retailers & PC builders stopped ordering ASRock AM5 boards.
AMD execs blamed AIBs for not following their power specs.

>>106762791
>AMD execs blamed AIBs for not following their power specs.
That's horse shit from AMD when everyone knows they could lock down the power specs in AGESA if they really wanted instead of inviting power-management related issues of any kind by the Wild West of motherboard vendors. They are a shitty Sheriff.

>>106762740
so now it's AMD's turn to have manufacturing issues
are they gonna admit it's their fault?

>>106762814
>That's horse shit from AMD
They said this on the record, so they're confident about it.

>>106762791
GN said their sources corroborate the reddit poll. The poll that they themselves said will be biased data. Does anyone actually have the numbers used by retailers they're talking about? Secondhand isn't really helpful

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While looking at the LG 45gx950a (5k2k) i realized i may have problems because my office desktop uses a RTX 4080. Will that GPU still be able to drive that monitor? I have a 5070Ti in my theater PC but i dont want to switch them around. I have a 4k tv and a normal 1440 monitor along with my current 1440 ultrawide. I'm not sure if the RTX 4080 would be able to utilize this monitor and keep the TV and secondary monitor?

>>106762857
>The poll that they themselves said will be biased data
This doesn't mean AMD or the SIs based their info on the Reddit survey, especially the AMD source.
GN's AMD source would be basing its info on the CPU RMA & replacement data, they should have a record of which motherboard model killed a specific CPU.

>>106762942
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I'm not implying that GN's sources used the Reddit poll, just that it would be helpful to actually see the data they're referencing.

>>106762882
>LG 45gx950a (5k2k)
Youre going to want at least a 4090 or more realistically a 5090 to get anything decent out of that at max res

Just found out today about single rank and dual rank ram. It seems like it makes a significant difference for performance from CPU's spec sheet, but it isn't clearly stated which one it is on the RAM product page, am I missing something?

>>106762974
>max res
anything is going to require DLSS, I'm not sure how much id have to reduce the 4080. I was trying to see what kind of FPS i could get on it but with the 4080, i was more worried about actual issues as a heard the the 4000 series RTX sometimes has issues with DSC. It also sounded like the 5k2k requires DSC no matter what. I had been trying to find some info on what i'd expect out of the 4080 at a monitor like that but didnt see a ton. I don't want to upgrade my GPU just yet but in a year or two i could see that happening and then the monitor would already be there. My current 34" ultrawide only has 75hz and the color space isnt that good. I had initially looked at another better 34" 1440 with higher refresh and good color space but most of the good options were $800+ so at that point i figured i might as well get a much nicer monitor.

>>106763040
For DDR5, 16GB (2x 8GB), 32GB (2x 16GB), and 48GB (2x 24GB) have single-rank memory modules. These are easier to OC.
64GB (2x 32), 96GB (2x 48), and 128GB (2x 64GB) use dual-rank memory modules

>>106763040
Are you still building DDR4 system?
Because this is irrelevant for DDR5.

>>106763117
Interesting, I think you have to only use 2 sticks to get max performance too, the spec sheet for CPU says performance will drop a lot if you use all 4.

>>106762882
i run these res/refresh with a 9800x3d 79xtx no problem id be worried about vram on games and certain 3d shit tho

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>>106762882
>>106763114
A 5K2K monitor has 11.1M pixels vs. 8.3M in a 4K monitor.
4080 should be able to run that 5K2K monitor using DLSS balanced, definitely with performance.
The internal resolution for DLSS Quality on that 5K2K monitor uses fewer pixels than native 4K (7.4M).
1440p monitor has fewer than 3.7M pixels by comparison.

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Why is AMDUnboxed like this? What drives a man to be so dishonest in his "testing"

>>106762740
AMD having a manufacturing issue?

No.

Asrock is to blame.

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How are my specs for gaming in 2025?

>>106763328
I'm guessing he left the texture pool above low for the 5060 Ti 8GB, and he changed the texture pool to Low for the 9060 XT 8GB .

>>106763343
If it's running the games you play, it's good enough.
It's close to a PS5's performance with DLSS + Reflex.
Save some money for Zen 6 and a next-gen video card if you don't need to upgrade atm.

>>106763318
>DLSS balanced,
so it actually cant run it
cant dlss your way out of running out of vram idiots which Frame Gen and Upscaling use alot of especially with RT/ai
meanwhile fsr4 works on rdna2-4
Nvidia is cooked with gimped vram shit as usual for over 30 years lol

>>106763373
Is my CPU good enough for my RTX 3060 or do I need a more powerful one?

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>>106759654
Anybody else?

>>106763296
>>106763318
>>106763385
Sounds like it should run at least decently though. Even dropping things down it will be an upgrade and for photo editing the colors, resolution, and size will be a huge upgrade. And in a year or two when i get a new GPU then it'll be even better. CPU is a 13700KF so shouldnt have issues there. Might just order one and see how it goes. I'm not entirely sure if ill be able to adjust to the curve (or if photo work will be too problematic on it). I had also considered the dell U4025QW because it's $500 less and way less curved but I love my OLED TVs

>>106763385
The guy who's planning to buy that monitor was already prepared to use DLSS >>106763114
>anything is going to require DLSS
I'm basing my info off of that.

>running out of vram
Upgraded FG & DLSS4 model uses less VRAM.

>>106763343
fine for 1080p but you should plan to upgrade in a year or two if you like playing AAA games

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>>106763385
>gimped vram
haha xdxd
16gb on amd = 12-14gb on nvidia btw

>>106763373
r5 3600 is probably one of the most balanced pairings for a 3060 overall

What is the best for building a high end PC, a case normal ATX or Double chamber?

>>106763385
>>106763454
To hit 165 fps even something like a 5090 might require upscaling depending on the title, especially to have it be solidly hitting high frames. I hope the next series of nvidia cards has more vram. I would consider upgrading to a 5080 because those arent too outrageously priced but the 5090s are just not worth it. Rather wait and see what another year or two brings. I have actually tried the 7900xtx in my last 2 builds and it had issues in both (loud coil whine in the office pc and it caused frequent crashing when waking the pc in my basement theater). It's made me really wary of AMD

>>106763419
Give us a budget.
For memory, I'd get a 6000MT/s memory kit with CL26 or 28.
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/DGkqqs/gskill-trident-z5-neo-rgb-48-gb-2-x-24-gb-ddr5-6000-cl26-memory-f5-6000j2636h24gx2-tz5nr
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/mwPv6h/gskill-flare-x5-32-gb-2-x-16-gb-ddr5-6000-cl28-memory-f5-6000j2836g16gx2-fx5

Get a higher capacity memory kit (2 sticks only) if you're not going to manually OC it.

>>106763343
>3600
hope you're not playing anything remotely CPU intensive. I couldn't even play fortnite with that shit without stuttering

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Honest question, how many more months will it take for any 9060XT, 9070XT, or 9070 to appear in the steam hardware survey, this is starting to be embarassing.

>>106763499
>I would consider upgrading to a 5080 because those arent too outrageously priced
You're kind of in a strange spot.
The 5080 Super with 24GB VRAM is rumored to release in Q2 2026, but these will be scalped for a while.
Given the current resale value of the 4080, you're going to pay around $200 or likely more for that upgrade, I don't think it's worth it.

I don't think a 5080 will consistently let you run DLSS quality @ 5K2K.

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>>106763650
Lol

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>>106763404
I don't think the jump from a 3600X to a 5600/X or 5700/X will be big enough for that RTX 3060 to justify an upgrade.

Is the Steam Deck obsolete for the price it's being sold at?

>>106763651
Thats pretty much why I figured id wait a year or two. I also built the 2nd full gaming rig with the 5070ti for my basement recently and my office mobo died so that had to be replaced. Then I went to japan and spent tons of money so upgrading the 4080 just is way down there on the list. Ill see how the 4080 runs that monitor and how I like the profile. If there are any other similar monitors I should look at if the curve is too annoying id like to hear them. The specs of that monitor seem like they will last me a good long while even if I cant fully utilize it right now. I also have never sold parts, I always just keep them around in case of backups, testing, or something similar. Never even looked at what I could sell the 4080 for.

>>106763650
>xtx is still going up
that card is such a finewine it outsold the entire rdna4 lineup

Zen6 is looking like it will be very very expensive

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>>106763343
bot post

>>106763766
What do they achieve from making these posts?

>>106763766
How would bot posting that ever help anyone?

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>>106763712
Steam Deck has been obsolete since the start of the year, MSI Claw is the best price/performance and it has the worst software

But we already know this is going to sell MILLIONS when it's released in two more weeks

The amount of people that literally think this is an xbox is crazy. But a guy on reddit already got his and he says the buttons and sticks are the exact same ones as the ones on the xbox controllers.

>>106763766
Yeah I thought the post looked familiar, bizarre.

>>106763786
>steam deck has been obsolete
the steam deck is doing perfectly fine because no one else understood the assignment.

>>106763911
This, the only problem with my steam deck is that I dont actually need to use it that much. Its not lacking

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>Feels like mouse is double clicking
>Any time I go out of my way to test it there's no double clicks

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I bought a used 5700X3D, but it came with six or seven bent pins so i will now kill myself

>>106763650
I haven't gotten the hardware survey in a long, long time. If they did they'd add another 5070 Ti to the lineup. I do kind of wonder if something's funky with their survey algorithm that it somehow missed a lot of 90xx users.

>>106763945
I doubt it, a Dev recently came out and said that literally no one had RDNA4 cards based on their hardware telemetrics, this is just a DOA launch

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/01/intel-stock-amd-chips.html
One day we might be using a PC that has an APU with AMD architecture built on an Intel node with an Nvidia iGPU.

>>106763972
>I don't exist
:(

>>106763985
There are dozens of you but they apparently dont play games on steam lmao

>>106763984
I want to put a xeon phi in an amd machine with an nvidia gpu and unlock the secret fourth color

>>106764067
Yellow GPU when

>>106763972
Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me that that would be the case, AMD would have dropped prices on the cards by now if they were losing that badly. Based on the sales data, reviews and user sentiment, I’d say AMD is probably at about 30% market share for in terms of just this gen’s sales. RDNA4 is the best effort AMD has put forward in quite some time and people really seem to recognize that.

>>106764089
steam doesn't recognize it, they just show up as "AMD Radeon Graphics" on the hardware survey

>>106764113
Makes sense, I haven’t had the hardware survey come up on my 9070xt PC despite having it since launch but I’ve had it twice already on my old gtx 960 office PC since then.

>>106764113
Incorrect Cope
Reality - AMD ships 500,000 GPUs every time Nvidia ships 10 million.

>>106763650
Maybe whenever AMD quits being RETARDED and makes the 9070xt at the "MSRP" it should be at.

AMD cards are only really a good buy when they get sold BELOW MSRP! The 5070ti has gone down to 729 in some deals and we still can't get a MSRP 9070xt!

>>106763972
Of course they haven't they sold basically all their stock of the card months ago and AMD have hardly made any since then. AMD just launched an RDNA3 card btw

>>106764236
America's problem it's MSRP everywhere else

>>106764236
does it imply they are selling within expectations? because they dropped the price of rdna3 fairly quickly when they aren't selling well

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>>106764113
This is the steam hardware survey from before RDNA4 was launched. As you can see AMD Radeon Graphics was at 2.70, care to explain how they somehow this number decreased if THE WHOLE stack was getting counted as Radeon graphics (it sits at 2.20 on this month survey)

https://web.archive.org/web/20250103015556/https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/

>>106763938
Get a pair of tweezer at a table under a bright light (with a magnifying glass or magnifying app on your phone) and try and bend them back. You have nothing to lose.

>>106764089
Based on the steam hardware survey, JPR research it's the opposite AMD market share based on shipments sits down at 6% which make sense when you realize how garbage RDNA4 is.

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>>106764379
Too bad the Nico poster isn't around to post the Steam language survey.
Where did all the Koreans go in September? Was the Rapture real? Did (we) miss out?

>>106763984
It makes a lot of sense to make Radeon gaming & laptop GPUs using Intel's foundries if Intel can reliably make them @ good yields and at a cheaper price.
TSMC wafers are too costly to make toys.
I think AMD will stick with TSMC for the CPU logic dies.

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RADEON BROS WE FUCKING WON, MASSIVE GAINS.
IN BLUE ARE ALL RDNA4 BTW

>>106764485
WHY ARE VALVE MISGENDERING RDNA4 AS INTEL XE!!!

>>106762712
id on this case?

>>106764518
Jonsbo TK0.
When I make the threads, I usually pick an interesting-looking PC from PCPartPicker's completed builds.
https://pcpartpicker.com/b/Ffd9TW

Surely AMD memestone will save RDOA4

I want to upgrade from a super old 60Hz 23' monitor from 2011.
While I want vivid colors, I'm reading that text clarity on non-4K OLEDs is a pain.

My use is gaming and heavy browsing (YouTube, 4chan, leddit)

Should I wait for tandem 4th gen panels or should I bite the bullet?
4k 27' are too expensive too. Should I just get a XG27AQDM?

>>106764485
rdna3 and even rdna2 cards are positive huh, is rdna2 still in production?

>>106764598
67XX GRE was popular in China.

>>106764598
What your seeing is that rdna2 owners are finally going above ground and letting valve survey their pcs
The operation to sandbag Radeon marketshare was a huge success and now we're moving to the next phase to capturing 70% dGPU marketshare

Is water cooler really that better than air cooler now?
I’m asking because I had a heat problem with my PC who used a air cooler

>>106764620
Liquid cooling is recommended if your +8 (big) core CPU is expected to run near maximum thread utilization quite often.
It's not required for a gaming PC, but beneficial for system overclocking.

>>106764598
I imagine the retailers are finally clearing the stock and selling them at a loss. Would be interesting to see if the same happen when RDNA3 launched

>>106764620
It depends on your chip, you can look at thermal tests on Youtube and there will be comparisons. For my 9800x3D, tests showed only a few degrees difference between an expensive AIO and an air cooler at 1/3rd of the price.

should I get 650W or 750W PSU for 7600X+9060 XT, I doubt I will upgrade them for next decade

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>>106763650
>Honest question, how many more months will it take for any 9060XT, 9070XT, or 9070 to appear in the steam hardware survey, this is starting to be embarassing.
Not for a long time, if ever. It doesn't matter if the 90 series hits the top sellers on newegg or Amazon because over half of the Steam userbase is chinese. Chinese buy Nvidia. When selecting random uses there's just going to be a 50% chance of rolling Chinese which is 99% likely to have an Nvidia GPU. If you roll someone who isn't Chinese then you're rolling to see if they're using a pre-built. Most pre-builts have Nvidia cards in them so it's likely going to be an Nvidia card by default. If both the Chinese and pre-built checks are passed and it's a DIY user there's probably a 60% chance at least it'll be an Nvidia user. That's all ignoring whether or not it's specifically a 90 series GPU if it lands on an AMD card at all. Genuinely surprised there's any AMD cards on the hardware survey period.

>>106764589
If you don't think you can afford the 4th-gen tandem WOLED 4K monitor when they're available, buy something sooner at a discount.
There's someone who bought the Samsung G80SD 4K QD-OLED monitor, and he's not happy with the text fringing.
He didn't like the text fringing on the 1440p WOLED monitor as well. Go to a display showroom and see for yourself.
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/106444346/#106444977
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/106593146/#106596095

>>106764805
Or maybe the cards are just garbage and are getting either scalped by retards cashing in on e-celebs shilling or the fatfuck from amd unboxed finally lost their mind and bought thousands of them to prop them lmao

W H Y T H E F U C K are 32 gig ddr4 sticks still as or nearly as expensive as ddr5????????????

>>106764620
Thermalright pushed the costs of affordable AIOs so far down that yes, they're virtually always better now. An Aqua Elite v3 240 is +30% more than their own cheap dual towers (+60% for 360), which is next to nothing (+$10 USD or so).

With a 240 they do better than an equivalent dual tower air cooler. With 360s they can accommodate how much heat modern CPUs generate. Every modern CPU "lies" about its power consumption on the spec sheet, because those list its """normal""" power use and not how much it can actually use at its full potential, which is when you see them go to 90+C. In a hot environment they do better, or rather AIOs provide more headroom by being stronger coolers in general.

>>106764867
They stopped production? 32GB sticks were what, $50-60?

>>106764805
>over half the steam userbase is Chinese
literally less than 27% of the PC's being surveyed were Chinese you can see it here >>106764437

>>106764857
There's that relatively big tuber Vex pushing the narrative too. If you take a look at his latest video's description:
>Data has been trickling out about the GPU sales numbers between Nvidia and AMD. For the first time is a very long time, it seems that AMD is selling MUCH better*.... in certain scenarios and in head to head matchups. The RX 9070 XT for example, its entire lifespan seems to have been selling better than Nvidia's RTX 5070 Ti. But let's dig in and find out if this is even true.

Note the curious little asterisk. Can't forget to put those there.

>>106764897
Considering how much the techtubers like MLID, Vex, and AMD unboxed make they could easily prop the whole AMD line up to top sellers in Amazon/BestBuy/Newegg easily, retailers buy direclty from AIB not from fucking amazon and newegg

>>106764857
look the review rtx 3060 with 664

that shit sell more than 9060 and 9070 combine lol .

>>106763650
>>106764805
>>106764897
It's not that hard to understand. AMD ships like 1/10 the volume of GPUs Nvidia does and has every financial incentive to order EPYC/Ryzen CPUs from TSMC over their own GPUs whenever possible. The only reason Radeon even still exists is to make APUs for consoles.

>>106764922
>AMD ships like 1/10
The numbers and statistics we actually see, rather than hear about 3rd hand from techtubers quoting unidentified store employees, makes this ratio more like 1:100 or 1:1000.

>>106764937
God I wish AMD with either spin-off ATi again or just exit the market so Nvidia could charged as monopoly and forcible broken up AT&T style.

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>>106764937
There's a reason why MSI didn't mind losing the Radeon business.
But they should've left after RDNA2.

>>106764947
Jensen can donate a small pocket change billion to anyone and that will guarantee a breakup will never come to pass.

>>106764909
but that doesn't fit the narrative when non-rdna4 cards are going up in numbers instead

>>106764971
It does, RDNA3, RDNA2 is on heavily discount offers so people that actually install the cards are buying them while RDNA4 which is supposedly selling well doesnt even appear so they must be ending in a warehouse collecting the dust

ASRock's enterprise boards are killing AM4 CPUs; they're a mess.

>>106764986
in what market are they heavily discounted in? even the xtx is still more expensive than the 9070xt

>>106765027
most markets actually, it's the local retailrs and smal shops clearing stock and selling them at a loss

>>106764947
anti-trust is a meme at this point in time and it'll never happen, you're being retarded wishing for this. Go wish for a unicorn instead maybe.

>>106764804
if you're milking a pc component for a decade, why poorfag out? always go for the higher-limit just in case.

>>106765050
need a source on that, would have seen people bragging about scoring a deal at the very least

>>106765116
the steam hardware survey, it's the only explanation about RDNA3 and RDNA2 surging.

>>106765116
Thats because retailers in first world countries return unsold gpus to the distributor whom then send them overseas to developing and poorer nations for the discounted retail pricing.

>>106759331
>Why is that? My 34" current 1440 ultrawide looks just fine, is this something specific to woled
low res and subpixel fringing due to woled memes

>but then what's the solution, do you just do dlss and actually run at 2k? I've always liked to try and run at the native resolution instead of things like that but at 4k there isnt much of an option in most games
anything is better considering you have 2.2x as many pixels

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>zen 6 leak with new interconnect
>amdip solved™
>jewfes will switch to zen6 in 2026
https://youtu.be/ZYuYGMemlLM

>>106765186
>Rehash of lukewarm speculation from high yield
Yikes

>>106764956
>Hardware Unboxed
NVIDIA for me, not for thee.

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>tfw bough a Radeon before reading /pcbg/

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Anybody have experience with this ssd or any 2.5" ssds from teamgroup? Based on the options Im assuming this is Tlc. I'd like a TLC 2.5" drive, but it seems like the only other option is an 870 Evo, which costs more per TB right now than a 990 pro.

>buy mobo that had "Zen 5 ready" sticker on it
>put 9800X3D in it with 6000 CL30 RAM and enable EXPO
>everything seems fine until system starts bluescreening at random moments when under heavy load
>windows BSOD debugger pointing towards memory errors
>run memtest: zero errors
>discover that the BIOS they put on this mobo is literally the zen 5 launch BIOS that came out two days before sale embargo
>there's like ten new versions almost all of which were related to memory stability issues
always check your BIOS bros

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>>106765782

>>106765782
skill issue

>>106765782
If your implication is that "Zen 5 Ready" meant to you that it had the latest BIOS, then you are a dum dum. By the exact wording it meets that requirement since it does work with that CPU out of the box.

It is the current year 2025, the advice to not update BIOS is old and bad now. The problems with doing so don't really exist now. BIOS should be kept up to date as much as you can be arsed to do it.

>>106763938
Unless the pins are practically horizontal don't listen to this guy >>106764405
Instead Get a 0.5 mechanical pencil, slip it over the pin you want to manipulate and VERY gently and slightly push it in the desire direction, repeat until the target pin doesn't stand out when you look side-on from either direction along the rows of pins.
A 0.3 mechanical pencil might have a slightly better fit over the pins, but I haven't personally tried that size. Either way make sure that the tip is clean so you don't put graphite all over the pins/board contacts. Good luck

>>106765642
go with samsung

>>106766093
Try reading the post again.

>>106765642
It's DRAMless so not great (no HMB on SATA) but should be okay as a secondary or for upgrading an old laptop. Unfortunately all the top-tier SATA drives seem to be EOL so you'd have to spend a lot more to get anything with DRAM cache.

>>106765815
i wasn't expecting a new mobo model to ship with the oldest possible BIOS for this CPU when it said zen 5 ready. when i looked up the BSOD codes online all the people were saying faulty memory when in actuality it was an outdated BIOS which caused page frame number corruption in windows (the memory kit was listed on the mobo QVL mind you). also proves that QVL's are utterly useless beyond merely proving that "yes it will boot sometimes when you run it at JEDEC specs lel".

>>106765642
>2.5" SSDs in 2025
Why? Genuine question. But yeah if you absolutely need one this is TLC and it should be SK Hynix 128L (keyword: should), though it's DRAM-less regardless. Assuming that it's $100 vs $160 for the 870 EVO, get the Teamgroup and don't waste any more money on SATA SSDs.
Don't expect it to be bulletproof or perform well though, even in the heyday of SATA SSDs the Samsung 800s were the only ones worth buying. Anyone here can post SMART data showing what absolute tanks they were/still are.
>inb4 Crucial MX500
They've been playing games with that SKU and started putting QLC in them for a while now afaik

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My new ktc m27p6 does NOT have deadpixels. I won.

>cheap chinesium lexar nm790 is better and more power efficient than almost any other 4tb drive that exists
>as in 60% better performance than the supposedly good shit samshit 990 pro and the like
what in the world

>>106766315
all drives are chinesium

>>106766315
>more power efficient
Okay and? So is every other drive besides the top end WD, Sabrent, Samsung etc ovens
>60% better performance
In what universe? Sequentials are about equal, but randoms on the NM790 would get absolutely mogged by the 990 Pro.
>TBW
Big claims with no track record to back them up, but cool if there are actual competitors coming to break up the memory mafia.

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Slowly but surely intel-aviv bros

>>106766540
WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK BROS

Does it even make sense to buy a factory overclocked card if the fans and cooling system are exactly the same as the base model card?

Can't you just overclock the base model yourself to pretty much the same speed as an overclocked one? Maybe the factory overclocked one will have a bit more potential at the top end, but it doesn't seem worth the increase in price.

>>106766562
you pay the extra for a guaranteed oc. thats it.

>>106766562
The OC models with nothing-% OCs have very little to no improvement at the AIB's config. What you're essentially paying for are the good bins that are more likely to accept your further OC/UV tweaks.

>>106766562
it's kind of like paying extra for cl26/cl28 over cl30 ram kits

>>106766562
depends on the model. factory overclocked cards are usually the better binned chips which allows you to push the silicon further if you want to, and they usually come with extra features like dual bios or OC modes via a switch on the PCB and other things like custom power delivery on the super high end overclocking focused cards. but aside from that there's little to no difference in out of the box performance between a stock and OC card because the OC us usually small, and also tech like nvidia gpu boost acts like an automatic overclock of sorts based on thermals/power usage and cards will boost to within a few 100 mhz of each other anyway which in practice isn't even double digit fps gains. manual overclocking isn't worth it either.

i used to overclock my cards but then realised there's no point putting extra strain on cooling and also increasing fan noise. just leave your card at the out of the box settings (even with a stock card) and enjoy the low decibels. undervolting is actually better than overclocking nowadays because it can allow your card to boost even higher with the auto overclock.