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Think for yourself. Do not blindly trust advice given here.

>A /pcbg/ for every use case and budget!

>Price tracking
RAM: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/ram-price-index-2026-lowest-price-on-ddr5-and-ddr4-memory-of-all-capacities
SSD: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/ssd-price-tracking-2026-lowest-price-on-every-m-2-ssd
GPU: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/lowest-gpu-prices-tracking

>GPU hierarchy 2026
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

>PSU Reviews
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/power-supplies
https://www.lttlabs.com/
https://www.kitguru.net/reviews/?category_name=power-supplies

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

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

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

>Other helpful Links
Mobomaps: https://mobomaps.com/
A PC build guide: https://igwiki.lyci.de/wiki/Build_a_PC
German autism: https://www.igorslab.de/en/
Alternate to pcpartpicker: https://pangoly.com/en/pc-builder

PC Building redpill

>Best Case

Your preference

>Best CPU Cooler

Your preference

>Best CPU

9850X3D (gaming)
9950X (prod)
9950X3D2

>Best GPU

RTX 5090 32GB
RTX 4090 24GB
RTX 5070 Ti 16GB

RX 9070 XT 16GB
RX 7900 XTX 24GB

>Best SSD

Samsung 990 Pro (Gen4)
Samsung 9100 Pro (Gen5)

WD_BLACK SN850X (Gen4)
WD_BLACK SN7100 (Gen5)

>Best RAM

CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5
G.Skill Ripjaws S5

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what happened to nicotroon i kinda miss him
did he get mogged too hard

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>>108913173

>>108913190
you're right going to r/amd is a great idea

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Please say something nice about my computer.

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>he bought a 5070

>>108913215
>Please say something nice about my
It looks quite gay!

>>108913215
It has RAM in it.

>>108913215
many lgbt lights. i hope you make it to pride month!

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>>108913173
Hopefully they finally decided to rangeban his ass
Here's his last voice recording he left us :
>Hey faggots, you don't want to use the real thread? You're going to pay for it now. I won't bake anymore threads, instead I'm just going to rape- *autistic gibberish. You'll never have a good pcbg again. It's just going to be nothing but fucking fake bait posts. I'll start genning them with ai, you won't even know who to answer. *another short burst of gibberish - It's over... You don't get to have a thread now, cause you won't use the right one.
>>108913215
You have ascended

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>>108913229
>Bought a 9070
>Already can't use important graphical features

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>>108913173
He's too busy punishing people for daring to disobey him.

>important graphical
post good games that have it

>>108913252
i never listen to those recordings i just can't do it
too autistic for me
>>108913282
lmao

>>108913161
>WD Black SN7100
Good power efficiency but mediocre performance.
I got mine for around $130

>>108913285
cyberpunk

>>108913334
>good games

What do you think of 4070 Ti Super? Is it not teh best used 16GB nvidia money can buy?
I can't decide between that and a 3070 modded 8->16GB. Kinda want a dual modded 3070 setup for local slopping with qwen 27 dense, not sure about inference speed.

>>108913329
What are the best gen5 ssds?

>>108913215
What RTX GPU is that?

>>108913359
It's still good though, if you don't care about it having no DRAM

So I've never heard of the brand but they got good prices, are Darkflash power supplies any good?

>>108913036
>Thermalrite Phantom Spirit isn't #1 suggested aircooler.

I seriously don't get it. It'd like 40 dollars and performs better than noctua's version.

>>108913252
I don't go into generals enough to catch these does he have that fucked up autistic strained throat (((((((((fem))))))))) voice or is he just regular lispy autistic

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>>108913044
Sliger SM580
My first ever ITX case. This case fucking ruled. It's a shame Sliger got out of the ITX game and went back to server racks.
The removable front panel for sata drive storage was genius, more itx cases should do it. I think the NR200 line from cooler master has it but those cases are pretty bulky and the newer revisions suck.

>>108913570
https://voca.ro/1b7p2zRQKmnP

>>108913562
>40 dollars
usecase when there are decent aio's for that much?

>>108913622
It doesn't fail or leak ever, and will cool 120w cpu's just fine. I will NEVER use an AIO. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. If an AIO leaks it can take out your entire PC. If an air cooler fails, you replace the fan. Additionally, since it has two fans you can still use your PC while you wait on your replacement fan.

>>108913602
Eh sounds fine I expected it to be far more grim, bit of the ol' spectrum lisp there at the start for sure desu. Reminds me a bit of that one MvM cuck

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/3nTqmL

This is my build so far. What kind of Power Supply should I get for it? I'm leaning toward an 850w one, but I want to be certain I have enough headroom.

>>108913562
Because LF III exists?

>>108913622
Also the aircooler in OP's post isn't any better than the phantom spirit or peerless assassin, and costs nearly twice as much. The fuck?

>>108913036
>cucked airflow case

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>>108913390
4090, I get all the CUDA cores.

Speaking about cable management trays, any recommendations? Or should I just stick some velcro under my desk?

WOLED or QD-OLED?

>>108913036
Reminder that ALL PC parts will raise in price.
It doesn't matter if they're being used for data centers.
As demand for parts lower because some parts increase in price, they'll make less of the others.
That means an eventual price increase.

>>108913949
QD OLED

new to PC building but I have done some reading/looking around for how it's done and have an idea. I know it's basically like building legos though.
What the fuck do I get? All these fnacy model names and terms for the shitcum 400 TX series cpu or the poopcock iii3k motherboard. What the fuck is actually worthwhile to get? My budget is about 2500 cad with wiggle room so long as I can play games like Elden Ring smoothly and be able to play the next batch of fromsoft main releases that's good enough for me I can upgrade parts later.

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newbro here, I bought this MSI MEG Z490 UNIFY LGA 1200 ATX and I just noticed it doesnt have any display ports or HDMI ports, does this board like disable the use of the iGPU entirely, like I cant use it to do some rendering?

>>108914010
you are a year late, go ask AI for some recommendations anon.

>>108914010
Buy a prebuilt with at least a 5070

>>108914010
>so long as I can play games like Elden Ring smoothly and be able to play the next batch of fromsoft main releases that's good enough for me
At what resolution?

>>108914035
should still be possible
though i noticed now the iGPU on my 14700K is not available, i haven't touched anything so i assume it got disabled automatically because i'm not using the ports

Does the AMD Fine Wine™ still apply to RX 9070?

>>108914088
It's AMD Semen now

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>>108914085
man

Is this overpriced?
>1500 CAD
>Ryzen 5800X
>Asus Rog Strix B550
>64GB G Skill DDR4 3600
>2x 1tb SSD (m.2 - unclassified)
>GTX 3070
>Corsair 4000x as case
>Corsair H115i as AIO Cooler
>850W
My friend saw this and normally I'd say meh but desu Ram/SSD prices are inflated as fuck....
I recommended him a build a while back but thinking about it. his is almost around the same price with slightly altered stats like he can legit buy the 5070ti and hit the same price.
https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/8BcNck

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What are good SSD's nowadays? Ones that you can expect to last 20+ years and won't throttle.

>>108913636
Do you refuse to use a PSU as well?

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old school devs used every trick they knew to make their games run on toaster PCs and incredibly underpowered consoles
modern devs can't optimize for shit and their games run like shit even on powerful hw

what went wrong here bros?

>>108914210
shareholders

>>108914044
yeah I know, ram and everything worthwhile to make machine spirit run good is fucking extortionately priced, didn't ask though
>>108914066
but that's not as fun
>>108914083
like 1080 or 1440 ideally

>>108914210
Fact of the matter is modern games are technologically demanding. The amount of power needed to run these games at full force on a console would mean they would need to be 3x bigger, heavier, and drawing way more power. So essentially they would need to be a pc. It's why your pc draws twice or thrice the power of a console and GPUs are the size and weight of a console alone.
Super sampling was invented for this purpose. To attempt to upscale games while keeping the power consumption low enough that you don't need a mini fridge sized gaming rig to run it.
I don't know why this is so difficult for people to understand. Of course a console the size of a shoe box isn't going to run a game at native 4k. Of course a Switch 2 or Steam Deck the size of a book is going to need to run games at 720p otherwise they'd need to be the size of a laptop with cooling that sounds like a hair dryer.

>>108914261
ps5 mogs older computers that ran games that looked better than this pos running at 720p
fucking cuck nigger. stop talking. it's lazy development.

>>108913215
Nice saggers.

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I wanna get some speakers but I have an asymmetric setup (pic related), should I just put them down asymmetrically? Is it that big of a deal? I tried looking for measurements for stuff that would fit under the monitors but none do not even the pebbles

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>>108913036
It was cheaper for me at the time for the white gpu support bracket. I might just paint it black.

270k plus and RTX 3080

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>>108914345
RTX 3080 gang gang.
>i9-9900k
>2x16GB Gskill 3200MHz CL14-14-14-34. Samsung B-Die
>EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra
>5TB of Samsung SSD space
This i9 still gives me more than playable fps in every single modern game and multiplayer game at 1440p. Except for CPU bound games like World of Warcraft.

I'm on the fence on whether I'm going to be buying the new 5800X3D 10th Anniversary edition to use with my existing AM4 motherboard in my closet and DDR4 kit, or if I'm going to bank on China's CXMT actually driving down DDR5 prices so I can justify just upgrading straight to a 9850X3D.

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>>108914412
Wait for zen 6 bro, I should be announced either in computex or next year ces.

>>108914425
It's RAM prices that keep me from upgrading. $380+ for a mediocre at BEST 32GB kit of DDR5 that was $140 a year ago is just insulting to me.

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>i9-273PQE
>12p core cpu from intel
>it still sucks ass
lel

>>108914439
it kicks ass but memory speeds are locked because intel hates fun

>>108914451
nah it sucks. intel doesn't even want to sell it to anyone. they are so embarrassed about it.

>>108914457
ok have fun with your 8 core ryzen sweetie

>>108914451
>>108914457
reminds me of Intels i7-5775C. Was a broadwell based architecture 4c8t CPU with 128MB of L4 cache, basically 3D memory cache CPUs before it was mainstream. They quickly moved onto Skylake and left it behind.

>>108914467
x3d
x3d
x3d
x3d
x3d
intel sissies with their estrogen filled cuck core cpus could never. not even 12 p cores can help them. so fucking dogshit hahahaa.

>>108914474
270k basically beats all amd cpus for the price, but the mobo platform and ddr5 are uninteresting to buy so it doesnt matter

>>108914484
so it also sucks? KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK

>>108914472
it's a little weird that they would design a 12 P-core die for a niche industrial product
i guess they just copy+pasted 4 P-cores into the E-core clusters but still
some anon was talking about another raptor lake refresh so it would be awesome if it showed up there (but don't count on it)
>>108914474
still a meme3d
my system is still the fastest in this thread
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/108857023/#108857317

>>108914489
As amd loses the advantage of x3d bringing big gains, chiplets, tsmc vs intel 14nm+++ I would bet people start to move onto intel chips the coming years

>>108914494
>it's the fastest in cs2 which is well optimized and meant to run on lil l3 cache cpus
that is not the flex you think this is

>>108914506
it's the fastest in all games
mostly because i'm the only person that actually bothers to post benchmark numbers
the rest of you are presumably on laptops or phoneposting

>>108913342
4070 Ti Super is better than a 16 GB modded 3070.
5070 Ti is better than both.

>>108913540
>are Darkflash power supplies any good?
Midtier at worst according to HWBusters (Cybenetics PSU rating guy)
https://hwbusters.com/psus/who-really-makes-your-power-supply/

>>108913705
850W is fine, 1000W if you want to use the PSU in a future build with beefier processors.

>>108914035
MSI Unify is an extreme overclocking board, iGPU headers are not supported in XOC boards.

>>108914510
next thing you are going to say is that you tuned your install and settings like a neet with all the time in the world

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When the FUCK is Intel going to make 3D memory CPUs of their own?

When the FUCK is China's CXMT going to flood the market with their Chinky Chinese Chicken DDR5 modules so we stop getting raped?

>>108914525
the performance you get out of your system is directly proportional to how much effort you put into it
though no amount of effort will save your 5500X3D so might as well give up and continue shitposting on the toilet

>>108914534
>When the FUCK is China's CXMT going to flood the market with their Chinky Chinese Chicken DDR5 modules so we stop getting raped?
They just started ramping up production so we'll need to wait at least 2 years for it to make a difference in the market.

>>108914210
>>108914274
works on my machine

>>108914542
by then they'll figure out how to make hbm for ai datacenters and shift all production to make that

>>108914539
>intel is good if you spend all your day and night tuning it bros
>x3d is just good all the time
yeah sure. i am going to buy an intel cpu and waste my time polishing this turd and buy a motherboard when i want to upgrade.
>>108914545
anal sex works on all mammals too

>>108914549
>x3d is just good all the time
your x3d is not good all the time

>>108914542
>2 years
REEEEE I guess I'm just going to buy a fucking 5800X3D re-release for $300+ in fucking 2026. I'm already at the point where I'm doing major BIOS tweaks, Memory tuning and tweaking, and a whole slew of other things to stretch my 9900k. These dog shit single core loving games just seem to demand AMD's x3d shit.

>>108914500
>As amd loses the advantage of x3d bringing big gains
pure copium, AMD has designed the ryzen architecture to use as much bandwidth as it can which is why gains occur with cache

>>108914557
it works best in cpu bound games that need a lot of bandwidth
i can live with anything else not using it that much. those games don't need the performance boost.

>>108914558
The best thing about x3d chips is that they don't need the best ram to work, you'll easily get 90%+ with any shitty ram you can get.

>>108914248
hello anon i recently built a pc with a 9070XT 16gb and can run elden ring at 60fps (havent tried unlocking FPS) at max settings at 1440p with raytracing

>>108914577
I have my 9900k paired with a top tier samsung B-die based 3200MHz kit so I'll just be moving the RAM over to the AM4 system. Just feels bad to be buying a 5800X3D re-release.

>>108914581
Eden ring is locked to 60fps max by design, you can't go higher unless you mod the game

>>108914558
you could also replace your 9900K with a 14700k and a DDR4 motherboard but honestly I would just hold for Zen 6

>>108914558
>I'm already at the point where I'm doing major BIOS tweaks, Memory tuning and tweaking, and a whole slew of other things to stretch my 9900k
post memtweakit screenshot
maybe we can stretch it a little further (don't expect a miracle)
>>108914576
i'm not shitting on people with 9950X3Ds i'm shitting on your system in particular

>>108914585
I feel you bro, I'm still pissed I didn't pull the plug on a 5700x3d when they were available for $150

>>108914593
because your cpu is only good in one game?

>>108914581
how much did that set you back by? if it works that good I'm assuming I can budget *some* cheaper parts for a first build and upgrade later

>>108914600
lol you really don't want to admit you're on a 5500X3D from aliexpress
i've seen your posts, keep coping
you don't get to hang with the zen 5 people

>>108914595
>5700X3D for $150
You're telling me. I didn't realize X3D mattered because desu, my 9900k gets me fantastic frames at 1440p in like 99% of games that I play. It's only certain CPU/memory bound games that you can 100% feel the difference. My 9900k/RTX 3080 gets me as low as 40-ish fps lows in WoW raid environments. Meanwhile my friend has a ryzen 5600X3D and RTX 3060 Ti. He cruises along at >75fps at all times on higher graphics settings than me. He even started fucking around with 4K in the same game.

>>108914613
>lol you really don't want to admit you're on a 5500X3D from aliexpress
because i am not?

>>108914619
lmao

>>108914593
>post memtweakit screenshot
I had to google what that even was. I did it manually lmao. I don't feel like cooking my memory kit by slamming insane voltage into it, so I focused more on maintaining the same MHz but getting the timings down into the CL12 area. Tbh might even be placebo. I only saw a 1%-ish gain in benches.

>>108914592
>14th gen
I'd rather not buy a ticking time bomb of a CPU that will eventually eat itself alive.

>>108914638
>I had to google what that even was
you can get memory timings in hwinfo64 as well but memtweakit shows more info
>I don't feel like cooking my memory kit by slamming insane voltage into it
you don't need more voltage to get higher frequency on B-die unless you're doing XOC shit
the memory controller will limit you first
>Tbh might even be placebo. I only saw a 1%-ish gain in benches
if you only changed one timing then yeah that would be placebo

>>108913036
the only card worth getting is a 4090. and those are now $3000+
there is no point in building a PC unless you want to degrade yourself with underpowered amd slop and them come here to bitch daily about shit your experience is

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I'm on a 5600 from aliexpress

>>108914117
bump
can someone PLEASE FUCKING GOD DAMN IT REPLY

>>108914650
I'm on a 5600x and will probably be on it till 2030 by the looks of it.

>>108914650
based
because you're not acting like an insecure fag

>>108914665
more like he's poor, like you LMAO

>>108914694
bodied that freak

I'm very worried about the future of pc building/gaming
Will the Chinese save us and have components for us to buy in the future?

>>108914521
it was the cheapest lga1200 board on ebay... nyo...

>>108914694
you're still shitposting on the toilet, there's no evidence anywhere that you even own a PC

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>Haven't needed to get a bigger SSD in years
>Now prices are all ass.
It don't matter. None of this matters.

>>108914703
Who is actually buying everything up? I read that it wasn't the big three (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) that was buying up all the consumer grade GPUs, but all these shitty start ups that think they are going to be the next ChatGPT.
I don't know if that's the case or not

>>108914703
i don't care if pc gaming dies. i have enough pcs and all the games i would ever want to play. i'd like to see it die just for intel to go down with it. intel and nvidia. both of them. pc gaming can die if both of those get taken out with it.

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>>108914714

>>108914612
it was around 700 i believe, i reused old ddr4 32gb RAM and a ryzen 7 5800x so the total cost didn't feel too bad but just know pc parts are getting expensive and will probably only go up in price the longer you wait to build

>>108914733
But do you have AV Director Life! ? Hmmmm?

>>108914751
i mean your specs are worse than mine but you're not the person i was addressing
i'm talking about the seething retard with a 5500X3D
my apologies

>>108914759
sounds gay. if no more of those games get made i am all for it.

>>108914768
>AV Director Life!
>gay
hmmm I hate to tell you this......

>>108914770
>tranny anime shit
>not gay
anon i....

>>108914781
>being a porn producer
>fucking anime girls and editing the videos to sell
>gay
I think you're on the wrong site, chuddly. reddit is on the other side of town.

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>>108914791
>

>>108914800
anime site, go back and never come here again

>>108914803
go back to your containment board tranny freak
don't ack yourself on your way out

>>108914804
I cant comprehend how you could possibly post something that looks like it came straight off the sharty then within 5 minutes tell them to "go back" to their "containment board", why dont you go back to your containment website?

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>>108914816
freaks like you can't even comprehend that they will never be a woman. so that checks out. don't make your problem my problem.

Only good anime game was RapeLay made by illusion before they went to shit.

>>108914835
what happened? did trannies get a hold of it? how come?

>>108914839
They became ILLGAMES and is very anti-modding

Went from a r5 1600 and gtx 1660 ti to a r7 5700x and rtx 5070. Hoping the 5800x3d gets re-released in my region

>>108914314
>stuff that would fit under the monitors but none do not even the pebbles

Lightweight "pebble" type or whatever can go on top of the primary monitor maybe, with a shelf thingie.

https://www.amazon.com/Mount-Plus-Compatible-Microphones-Spotlights/dp/B09SDZTN2P?sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY

https://www.amazon.com/QIYUNI-Monitor-Storage-Computer-Adjustable/dp/B0D9T9P5C7

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Daniel Owens 5090 melted
Ok the meme might be final, a good cope for being poor and not buying the connector
But that only leaves the 9070 xt without the meme connector or coping and buying a lower power draw card

>>108914872
I will never buy a card with that connector, it's one of the reasons I gladly went with the 9070xt this generation

>>108914872
I've been saying for like 5 years, they need to limit the cable to 350w and put 2 of them on these GPUs

>>108914881
i am never going to buy a gpu that needs more than two 8 pins and or a 12pin

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>>108914872
NVIDIA bros it's so fucking over...

>>108914756
yeah I know that's why I'm biting the bullet now but still trying to at least pretend to budget

>>108914872
Asrock did put the meme connector on some 9070XTs which have melted

Opinion on used enterprise hdd from ebay?

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>>108914933
His vid comment section ..

>>108914938
Backup and redundancy, if that's in place it's fine assuming the price is right.

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>>108914872
Don't worry, Nvidia already contacted him. :^)

>>108914997
the nvidia PR agency works fast...

>>108913949
>QD-OLED
better color saturation, no grain from glossy coating, lower peak brightness, color fringing from pentile subpixel layout
>WOLED
much higher brightness from tandem technology, grainy matte finish, less saturation in HDR making it pop less, better wrgb subpixel layout than most QD-OLEDs rgbg

Can I trust a new eBay account verified with 9 reviews so far 100%? Seems like SSDs and I’m lookin at RAM. And know those could be fake reviews.. Best price I’ve seen in a while. No returns but eBay guaranteed so no risk from my end and worth taking a chance?

>>108914494
>it's a little weird that they would design a 12 P-core die for a niche industrial product
i imagine its because of some politics between upper management who greenlit e-cores and the guy who insisted on p-cores going 'i told you e-cores were gonna flop'

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>>108915057
Link it

i had a msi b650 that i got a couple years ago or something, and my wifi was giving me trouble and being generally shit so i finally decided to just yolo and buy a new mobo. i got a overpriced rog x870 f gaming wifi mobo locally (for like 430 buckaroos) because i needed something same day so i could play terraria.
anyways it turned out the wifi 7 needs windows 11 so i unfortunately had to upgrade and its awful, but ive finally done some many tweaks its almost like windows 10 again, and i even got a windows 7 skin on it all
anyways its basically very gay overall but the mobo wifi works so thats cool. hopefully linux will get better wifi 7 support in the future so i can run pop os on this like i have on my laptop

>>108915063
some services that run on few threads benefit from faster cores and lower latency, specially older services that haven't/won't get multithreading support like networking

>>108915063
yeah you're right because E-cores flopped really badly

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>>108915066
So you can buy it?

https://ebay.us/m/KbfgG4

>>108915069
linux already has wifi 7 support

>>108915086
ig the problem is the mediatek wifi card in the mobo doesnt have linux drivers. i could get a pcie card i suppose

>>108915028
>color fringing from pentile subpixel layout
FAKE NEWS

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>>108915080
these prices don't' even look good

>>108915118
These are the good prices now friend.

>>108915118
Best you can get on Amazon for 96gb cl30 6000 is 1300-1400. They’re literally pricing everyone out of AI to force everyone to use the cloud so it can all be monitored.

Anyway, no risk w/ the guarantee? Don’t use eBay frequently.

>>108915124
Trust the seller? Has anyone had any issues w/ eBay guarantee?

>>108915080
If you need a PC with 96GB DDR5 memory, make your company/employer pay for that.

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>nice looking hardware
>ugly looking and performing OS/software

>>108915135
All windows PCs in existence

>>108915133
I have 32gb ddr5 currently, wanted to run my own LLM offline and use the top models. And don’t think I’ll be able to buy it in the future due to the aforementioned reasons. I’m just prepping before they start scanning iris’ or verifying your ID to access the internet, cause im sorry, it’s just, I’m not going to opt into biodigital convergence. I’m sorry.

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>>108915135
>using w*ndows

>>108915161
nta and I'm computer illiterate but what other option is there aside from linux or something?

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>>108915184
linux has so many different versions alone...
+ DEs
+ Init Systems
+ WMs

>>108915184
>>108915195
https://distrowatch.com/images/other/distro-family-tree.png

>>108915184
linux is a hobby, not an os, stay in windows if you're not willing or able to spend time learning stuff, but it is very fun to get into it

>>108915199
It's absolutely an OS, and for the majority of users, it will just werk™

>>108915203
you just don't have to be retarded about it. that is all. then it just works.

>>108915203
linux user here, yes it actually just works i cant believe i didnt switch sooner

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>>108914210
Halo CE was one of the earliest games to incorporate bump/normal mapping

Halo CE had bullet casings looked like real metal shells, didn't disappear quickly but remained on the ground for a long time (nothing cooler to see tons of bullet shells scattered everywhere after a fire fight), and watching them realistically roll down hills.

Specular on bsp is all kinds of broken in Halo 2, different ways depending on version of the game. Bungie disabled it on many surfaces because of this. In MCC it has a broken directional computation, in Vista it just doesn't work at all

Halo 2's maps were so big the original Xbox couldn't handle it. Containment is the biggest map in Halo 2.

Halo 3 ran at 1152x640, it wasn't even 720p

>“[Y]ou could argue we gave you 1280 pixels of vertical resolution, since Halo 3 uses not one, but two frame buffers, both of which render at 1152×640 pixels,”a Bungie representativewrote. “The reason we chose this slightly unorthodox resolution and this very complex use of two buffers is simple enough to see: lighting. We wanted to preserve as much dynamic range as possible, so we use one for the high dynamic range and one for the low dynamic range values. Both are combined to create the finished on screen image.”

ODST didn't have any rain because the engine didn't support it

Reach's motion blur technique, like in Tekken 6, works on an individual object basis

>Reach's lighting system means that there can be upward of thirty or more light sources on screen at once, given off via weapons fire, explosions, and environmental lighting, such as the glow given off from lights inside buildings. All of these light sources are real-time, and interact with their surroundings. So a gunshot, or rounds from a Needler will light up surrounding areas, and change the shadows created by moving objects. Each individual projectile from the Needler also has its own light source

>>108915199
Just pick mint or maybe one of the gaming distros and then it will just work. Of course it's not perfect (I think nvidia has some issues and some games won't work) but for most people it should be fine.

Is there any good benchmark/comparisons between RX9070's video encoders compared to Nvidia?
I know nvidia is usually better but it would help to know how far behind amd is still

>>108915345
Yes there are, I remember watching one when they first came out and the guy concluded that AMD had closed the gap. You just gotta spend some time looking for non mainstream things like that.

>>108915345
>>108915375
I think it was EposVox that made that video, the cards are better but the software companies need to optimize them for amd cards and they generally don't

>>108915345
here is a video that looks at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkf7q4L5xl8
seems like the biggest issue at the moment, is getting software updated to take advantaged of the dual encoders / decoders on rdna 4. overall quality is now at a point nvidia really isn't "that" much better anymore.

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Got this card out of a dump, my understanding is that it's SUPPOSED to have an s-video out but this particular model just didn't, could I just solder one on and have any expectation of it working as intended (inb4 not if you got it out of the dump: already confirmed to work)? The holes are still there. Just want to plug a pc into a crt.

>>108915184
Apple retard

>>108915433
This is pretty cool.
Thanks

>>108913036
I'm so fucking scared, /g/. I can't imagine not having a PC.

my radeon still on 25 12 driver.

updoot or not?

>>108915574
i am on mesa 26
feels good not being a cuck

>>108915501
no one gives a fuck about mac so I didn't include them

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how can I find what is causing this? my games (007, crimson desert, warframe, etc) all stutter on performance settings when they did used to before. temps are all fine, drivers are up to date. specs are GeForce RTX 4080, Ryzen 5800X3D 8core, 32gig ram, SSD. any help?

>>108915623
ddu
psu
ramu

>>108915623
didnt used to before*

>>108915632
psu is EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G+ idk how to check on it
ram is 32gig of G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 4 sticks all working
I ddu's last week and it didnt seem to do anything

>>108915647
reinstall windows
try using 2 sticks

>>108915654
will have to try it tomorrow, dont want to take out or reinstall anything an hour before I hit bed but will do later

>all midrangep rebuilts now unrionically have 16gb ddr5
lol
>9800x3d+9070xt prebuilts cost 2x as much as they should cost
has gotten even more terrible since last time I checked
a discounted laptop + hdmi2.1 connection to a 77" tv + upscaling might be all i need

>>108914997
>just benchmark games and talk about hardware
>make over 100k from yt and more than his shitty day job
it's really THAT easy to make it

>>108915623
>>108915647
unplug any new or unneeded usb deivces
reset ram to stock settings if using xmp/expo

>>108915623
>he buyed an nvidia gpu
ngmi

What's the best budget PC build for local AI and gaming? Keep in mind that I live in a third world shithole

>>108915680
3060 12gb is typical shit tier gpu rec for ai
5060 ti 16gb would be the next upgrade

250k cpu with 32gb ddr5 ram perhaps

same OP with stuttering problem- I tried resetting the PC and the game runs smooth now in the same sections it was just stuttering in without changing anything. is there a known issue that causes a games to stutter when running for so long that I can find a fix for?

>>108915623
I think u're using the igpu

>5090s back to OG scalper prices
>burns up
it's over, I'm back on the poorfag copers sides, paying that much is not worth it

>>108915705
no clue what that is

>>108914883
they don't want this for the reason that most of the times only 1200W upwards PSU have two 12V-2x6 slots. The 600w adapter needs four 8 pins that would be easier to split I guess but that would ruin the ""aesthetic". They should throw the connector out of the window and do a proper high power one but this won't happen.

They should just stop being retarded and add 48V rails to PSUs.
Anyone paying $3000 for a GPU can afford to upgrade a $200 psu

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Are MiniLEDs always better than ips or is it heavily brand dependent? ~300$

>>108915840
IPS is always better than miniled for light text on dark background

>>108915718
Integrated Graphics Processing Unit, the crap vidyacard built into your CPU.

No clue on the stuttering. Best of luck.

what do you do with old parts? like GPUs or mobos or whatever. is it worth making a facebook account for marketplace?

>>108915859
I take them to a community thrift store if they work. Marketplace is full of weirdos.

>>108915859
if it's worth above $300, then sell it
if it's worth less than that, display it on a shelf or give it away (cheap goods attract the worst/weirdest cheapskates known to man)

>>108914160
MICRON 7450 MAX
expensive as fuck tho

>>108915701
my pc was stuttering when my vrm was overheating. the vrm fan had gotten stuck on something

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bwos...
>upgraded to 5060ti 16gb
>used to have a 1070
>1080p monitors
>used to only be able to play stellar blade on lowest settings, with almost unplayable fps and the game going into some weird slow motion shit every hour
>now can play it completely maxed out with about 80-90 fps on average
>with stellar blade running and all my normal computer stuff up, almost 14 gigs of vram being used
fuck bwos...i'm so happy. The 1070 was still nice for a lot of my games, but all the new ones I've been wanting to play just didn't work right. Also, I'm glad I went for this instead of the 5070 since it looks like i needed the extra vram.

>>108916152
glad you're enjoying your card.
I don't know why anyone would buy a 5070 when the 9070 exists

>>108916152
I went from the 1070 to the 9070 xt, massive upgrade, the 1070 is still amazing at 1080p for older games tho

>>108916152
I went from 1030 to 5060 Ti 16gb and it's glorious to see the massive upgrade.

>>108915706
Unless you're willing to switch to AMD you're gonna need to take a chance on the shit connector since it's pretty clear Nvidia is all in on that garbage. The 6000 GPUs and any future generations are guaranteed to use that shit.

>>108916166
I had to make that decision and the 5070 was the better purchase overall. Thought I might end up regretting it but it's been great. DLSS is just so good for 4K gaming.

Parents want an NES emulator in their "smart" tv with proprietary OS that doesn't work
So I'm thinking plug in a tiny pc
Any builds for what needs to be essentially a minimum viable PC? It just needs a couple of hdmi and usb outlets and to work right, can charge from usb. It just needs to run an NES emulator so it can be anything

year 2 of regretting not buying a 5700x3d for $180 when I had the chance over in the USA

>>108914881
>I will never buy a card with that connector,
If my 5070 ever melts at 110W I will let you know because that connector is nice and secure for me

>>108914576
>it works best in cpu bound games that need a lot of bandwidth
See this is why buying a 5500X3D would have been the smartest choice for Source 1 games, because those only use 4 cores and so they suffer from big CCX latency
Unless that chip has 2+2 CCX in which case fuck

>>108916981
You could probably just get a NES for cheaper

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>>108917016
source games don't scale with cache

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>>108917028
good point HOWEVER dad insists on a wireless controller which i doubt you can do with an actual NES or a derivative thereof

>>108917030
I was given the impression the 5700X3D would have been a fuckhuge boost for Source 1 games, if not CS:GO then stuff like Garry's Mod or Team Fortress 2 and other stuff that gets frequently bloated with mods or addons which cause CPU stalling. 5950X results surprise me though, but I also suspect that whatever they did to CS:GO might have been different than the other games.

>>108917048
>5950X results surprise me though
they don't surprise me because the 5950X boosts to 5ghz and the 5800X3D boosts to 4.5ghz
5500X3D would of course be even worse at only 4ghz

What are the cheapest 2160p 144Hz or 240Hz IPS monitors these days? I'd like something for racing games (so I can see the track ahead of me more clearly) in addition to regular office work in Blender and Photoshop so good colors might still matter to me as well as minimum/maximum brightness.

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>>108917030
>source games don't scale with cache

>>108917073
this is a source 2 game

>>108917064
>5950X at 385$
sigh
that would have been good to buy when cheap for compiling maps assuming hammer can't use the cuck cores on an intel CPU
I might as well spend the money on a cheap motherboard that can run 13600K or 14600K or something since it'll cost about the same by now I imagine with the CPU bundled in

>>108917068
77 inch LG G5. Works for me.

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>>108914842
>Hoping the 5800x3d gets re-released in my region
ah yes
>intel will restart production on DDR4 motherboards, trust me bro
>amd will do another 5800x3d batch, trust me bro

>>108913036
What case is that in the OP, Silverstone?

>>108917102
nta but there are already leaks of 5800x3d 10th anniversary edition

>>108917088
5900XT could be an option, it's just a slightly worse 5950X bin, it still has 16 cores
>assuming hammer can't use the cuck cores on an intel CPU
for what? light baking? i don't use hammer but i don't see why it wouldn't be able to use them

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>>108917073
Source 1, not Source 2
Source 1 basically doesn't scale past 4 cores, and it seems to care the most about single-core IPC with the lowest latency. Even a Raptor Lake i5 or an i3 if boosted high enough should be able to trounce Zen 3 in performance with such severe CPU bottlenecks and based on what I hear from people on Raptor Lake this seems to be the case. Whether they are on D5 or D4 I don't know, but I'd imagine it should be at least equal to Zen 3 with DDR4 in Source 1 games.
>>108917122
5950X was cheaper than the 5900XT for most of its time while performing better for some reason.

>only data I can find on zen 3 X3D versus DDR4 raptor lake is from Russian youtubers
god bless them

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>>108917150
14700K+DDR4
https://docs.comfig.app/latest/benchmarks
sbmrk24
with mastercomfig low preset (at 1440p but probably not GPU bottlenecked with these settings)

>>108917030
>>108917073
>average
What about the lows? The actual important metric for X3D?

>>108917128
Don't most modded scripts for games run on a single thread? Script lag is a serious bottleneck with modding. Would that benefit from x3d cache?

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>>108917214
would normally never trust LTT
but people don't test this game anymore

>>108914842
If it does re-release globally, it will likely be scalped anyway. It was allegedly leaked by a jeet site for $310 however. Make of that what you will.

>>108917218
Most games in general run all their shit on your core0 and by moving it off their with task manager or process lasso you improve everything.

>>108917274
Yeah, but moving it off core0 has more to do with separating it from background processes. I'm talking about multithreaded (or not) games that are still stuck with single threaded mod scripts all stuck on the main core. I would imagine a game that is properly optimized would benefit more from core clock more tyan l3 cache, but modern multithreaded games seem to benefit from higher low caches. I'm just wondering if a multithreaded game that benefits from l3 cache would still see the same benefits when all it's modded scripts are dumped on a single thread.

>>108917348
multithreaded game or not, moving the primary game thread off core 0 improves everything. do you even know what cppc is? core 0 is likely not your best boosting core and you probably also have hyperthreading on so its throwing it to the secondary thread on core 0 which has 30% of the capability of a real core like core 2. a dual ccx cpu is even worse in this regard as core 0 is the non cache core.

all of ya'll wouldn't be obsessing over cpus right now if you would have simply just gotten a 5800x3d when it was out. I am super content with mine that I got like 4 years ago and will probably not upgrade until 2030.

>>108917030
>5800XT higher than 5800X3D
wtflmao
i wonder if this applies to tf2/gmod like other anon said cause of the way it handles physics and ai and other stuff

>>108917427
But that's too slow and only good for 144hz gaming

>>108917427
not enough cores
but i'm happy that you're happy
some people in this thread have serious buyer's remorse

>>108917045
https://8bitmods.com/retro-bit-origin8-2-4g-wireless-controller-for-nes-switch-pc-mac-gb-grey/
This has two wireless receivers, one for original NES and one for PC.

do you guys believe ram will come down around the time zen 6 x3d is out?

>>108917457
Only if the AI bubble bursts by then

>>108917457
Just look at GPU prices since Covid, they’ve stayed high so i expect the same with ram and storage.

>>108917374
I have a 5800X3D, which core do you mean I should put a game process on?

>>108917457
its looking promising, the pope is preparing a crusade against the AI antichrist

>>108917467
don't think it will ever burst, the future surveillance prison society relies on AI.

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>>108917274
>Most games in general run all their shit on your core0 and by moving it off their with task manager or process lasso you improve everything.
This is literally what I did last night with Garry's Mod and it immediately gave me the same improvement as with TF2, but Zen 2 has a 4+4 CCX layout so I don't know how this would translate to a 5800XT or 5900X when in 8 thread mode with mcore_test enabled, nevermind the Intel CPUs. Disabled a ton of useless addons too that weren't needed.

>>108917482
the pope probably uses windows 11 and has a gmail account, it's over.

>>108917203
>14700K
Man, I considered buying one of these a few months ago but never went through with it because the 5800X3D rumors pacified me as much as "I'm never going to need that much performance so I got better things to spend money on" but I guess I was wrong yet again, friend of mine uses that exact chip in Source games and he gets about 3 or 4 times the frames I get without my potato config trickery.

Right now the 14700K costs the same as a 9800X3D which is stupid, seems like it also got hiked $100 like the 14600K which was $300 before going out of stock.

>>108917457
it will go up

>>108917457
Likely to come down by mid or late 2027 would be my guess

>>108917477
>which core do you mean I should put a game process on?
I'm on a 3700X and I put my process on core 8, 10, 12, 14 for these quad-core era games.

>>108917524
he has like a phd in math so he's a linux user

>>108917448
thanks for the suggestion, pinned for now, but too expensive hehe

even hdds are fucking overpriced now(obvious price gouging)
I wanted to buy a nas bay my media collection but I can't now and will have to wait for prices to come down for individual drives.

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There's a i7-14700F OEM listing going on for $330 right now with limited supply, should I FOMO in? The 14700K is $465. This isn't a heavily gimped version now is it? Not like I plan to overclock anyway unless I can disable all those extra cores to free up power. ST should be on par with a 14600K even though the baseclock is suspiciously low?

>>108917608
wait for the refresh

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>>108917614
>wait for the refresh
I'm still waiting? I haven't seen Raptor Lake continue to be available.

>>108917608
Do you own a LGA1700 board? That's the only reason to consider Raptor Lake (including refresh) chips in 2026.
It's questionable to upgrade from a 12th gen CPU at that price.

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>>108913036
LISA WHERES MY FUKCING 5800X3D REPRINTS?!?! WHERE IS IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>108917527
>Right now the 14700K costs the same as a 9800X3D which is stupid
yeah that's too much, even if the total platform cost would be lower
>>108917608
ehhhhhh
>This isn't a heavily gimped version now is it?
no, the only thing you lose out on is overclocking (and undervolting) support
>the baseclock is suspiciously low?
the base power is only 65 W, you can increase power limits in the BIOS even with a non-K chip

>>108917689
>Do you own a LGA1700 board?
Nope, X470 with 128GB of DDR4 3200. I concluded that the performance improvement over Zen 3 is potentially worth the cost of a motherboard swap. Which is easier said than done as far as finding a DDR4 motherboard for LGA 1700 that can run an i7 is concerned because I have completely forgotten what has enough VRMs and power stages to support that processor.

>Intel H and B series motherboards somehow more expensive than an X470 board from 2019
Crazy

>>108913036
Meta question: but is there just one anon autistically making sure they're the only one making the generals?

>>108917608
The F version is their sans iGPU. If you weren't going to use it, then if anything it's a small plus for less money.
Having one for diganostics is nice though when it does come up.

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>>108917710
I CRIED SO HARD
FOR MOTHERBOAAAAAAAARDS
BUT IN THE END

THEY JUST GOT NO PORRRTS

I PAID SO MUCH FOR RAPTOR LAKE
BUT IN THE END
IT'S JUST GOT NO BOAAAAAAARDS\

>>108917723
$170 motherboard btw

In 5 years none of you homosexuals will be using a computer.
The powers behind the scenes have decided that the best way to control you is by forcing you to use tablets and phones blocked with ID verification and all services and tasks to be cloud based.
With cloud based not only can they steal your IP ideas and sell them as their own, but they can monitor you for wrong think, hold your data hostage if you don't pay the subscription, and tell you what you can and can't do.
Only a retard thinks the sky high prices right now are purely due to AI. It's part of the plan.

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>>108917666
this refresh

>>108917742
they won't give a shit as long as most of the normie population and low iq thirdies are within the beast system, people have always lived off the mainline rails through out all of human history.

>>108917742
that's not gonna happen because china won't allow it, the amerikkkans will try to do it, but china being a threat by making ram, cpus, gpus is too dangerous for them to pull the trigger

>>108914314
i love my Creative Pebbles Pro duo speakers, just get 2 phone books and plonk your monitor stands on top of them. Or sit the pebbles behind the monitor and aim them sideways so the sound goes around the speakers.

But frankly any speakers will do, just get audio technica imo, no drivers required.

>>108917764
keep thinking that but you'll be crying the blues five years from now when you need a computer part but can't get one

>>108917742
It doesn't matter in the end. These transhumanist satanic pdfs can have all the material goods and money for themselves but they will never be allowed entry into Christ's kingdom

>>108917742
I will be using Linux on whatever hardware I can acquire.

>>108917783
there will be a black market for computer parts

>>108917723
>not even an internal USB 3.0 header
WTF
Motherboards are so cheap now

>>108917742
Yeah I kind of regret not buying that 4TB SSD in December along with a 3090 or some 24GB GPU now

>>108917834
I bought an 8tb SSD back in November on klarna
It costs nearly double now

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>>108917704
This chart is getting old, but it still gives you a rough idea of Zen 3 vs. LGA1700 gaming performance.
14700F will run games about as well as a 14600K, maybe slower shader precompilation because of the stricter power limit.

>>108917976
>zen 2 being that close to zen 3 let alone zen 4 and rocket la-
>1440p
>doom eternal
I guess that makes sense? That's still weird.

>>108918021
upgrade cpu for gaming is severely overrated, it only makes sense when you buy a x3d chip, but if you have a 5800x3d 7800x3d 9800x3d it makes no sense to upgrade until ddr6

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I just want to say that the Fractal North looks pretty but it's also kind of annoying, I recently built a PC for a friend using this case.
There is no way to neatly hide the cables for the CPU cooler, except shove them under the fan that's between the two towers.
The area over the front HDD caddy is open, so you can see the HDD or just a hole with some of the PSU cables shoved there.
The top air filter comes off way too easily, it should have had a thumbscrew.