>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
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/

>Other helpful Links
Mobomaps: https://mobomaps.com/
German autism: https://www.igorslab.de/en/
Alternate to pcpartpicker: https://pangoly.com/en/pc-builder

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Where's the catch?

>>109672897
>>109673091
what settings are you running the game at?

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>>109671167
Told you cocksuckers to make the next thread

>>109673304
Micron DDR5 ICs aren't interesting to OC.
You might as well buy the cheapest 2x32GB DDR5 kit.

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>he bought the oled

>>109673332
well it IS the cheapest.
by a long shot
that's why i was wondering where the catch is

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>>109671379
>bought this thing three years ago and it just shit itself last night
Another victim of LCD lasts forever-meme fallen
getting real tired of being vindicated every day

>>109673391
I also bought a Crucial kit because it was the cheapest one. But I really only needed the capacity and I'm not even using XMP.

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>>109673377
I boughted oleds and returned them for various reasons, bad firmware, samsung qc
next oled (display at all) I will buy will be a oled tv, there is nothing that is actually fun to buy other than that
after that you will be informed about my journey with them
most likely a s95f, s95h, s99h

>>109673304
> CL40

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>>109673466

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i tried for 5.8 and 5.2, but that requires quite a bit more voltage and i dont think my air cooler can hang at that point. Settled for 5.7 and 5.1, both core types staying under 1.3v, and a temperature limit of 90c. It can stay cool enough to maintain clocks for games, but in cinebench or other heavy workloads it is going to throttle.

270k 5.7/5.1 with Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE
cl30 6000 team group kit at 8000 1.45v 42-56-56-49 trfc 700 trfcb 680 trefi 65111 trrd 8 trrdl 12 tfaw 24
Z890 Tomahawk
Phanteks AMP 1kW Platinum
9070 XT Red Devil -100mv
Fractal Design Meshify 3 Solid

I really think i lucked out on this CPU. I haven't seen many clock this high.

Here's a geekbench score, keeping up and even beating a 9950x.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/226489

>>109671379
>>109671961
You got a point about everyone misidentifying that LG 4K monitor's panel.
But LG's 4K LCD gaming monitors in general are known to have QC issues.
I looked into a $400 4K LG LCD when I was searching for monitors to add in the OP, user reviews were flooded with similar complaints
Even RTING's store bought LG 4K monitor review sample broke down in less than 3 years.

>>109672595
Only if the change logs note features like new CPU microcodes or memory compatibility improvements.
Security based microcode updates can reduce CPU performance.

>>109672796
Your board might not support running three video cards.

>>109672919
>tRRD 8
>tFAW 24
Daily DDR5 system with that memory module should always set tFAW to 32, tRRDs / tRRDl 8

>>109673520
>Daily DDR5 system with that memory module should always set tFAW to 32, tRRDs / tRRDl 8
I will take a look at adjusting these, thanks Anon

>>109673540
tfaw 32 and trrd_s 8 is the rule, trrdl may not be stable @ 8 for all kits. Looser trrdl is fine.

>>109673561
tfaw 32, trrd and trrdl at 8 then?

>>109673391
Check "Sold & Shipped" by section, I'd make sure it's either Crucial, Amazon, or very well known third party sellers (brick and mortar stores).
If a third party seller is offering that kit, it might not qualify for Crucial RMA refunds if you need it (depends on specific seller).
Beach Camera in the US for example is a well known physical electronics store with a reliable Amazon Marketplace & eBay account.

>>109673577
oh my bad misread, tfaw 32, trrd 8 and trddl 12 is fine?

>>109673577
you need to stress test trrdl 8 stability, leave it at 12 if you can't be bothered.
tFAW 32 and tRRD_s 8 should be stable.

>>109673596
is there anything to be had from increasing the TREFI beyond 65111? I guess i could try low 100000s but i dont know how much it improves things

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>>109673377
>I'm happy with my OLED displays

>>109673520
>Your board might not support running three video cards.

How can I tell? It's an ASUS HERO Z790 MAXIMUS, and from reading the specs, I should have enough x8/x8 on the CPU slots, and x4 on the chipset slot, even with all the M.2's installed - FWIW, installing 1 card on CPU slot, and 1 on the chipset slot (With the second CPU slot left empty) doesn't work either

/pcbg/ home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrPLz4uwDtA

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>>109673294
any suggestions for loweing the price a little (maybe 1700)?
Gaming
Blender
Gamedev (Godot / Unreal)
Italy

looking to keep this for the next 6 years

>>109673647
Also, localAI

>>109673647
If you are any serious into local AI then make sure you get mobo that supports bifurcation and dedicated 24 cpu lanes. This is the core thing to be able to do multi gpu setups for LLM's as the your latency will be low as long as you dont use the chipset lanes. You cant get away wthout 16 x lanes with cards and adapters but you cant fix the latency if the mobo is cheapen out and connecting an nvme m4 lowers the 2nd pci slot. This can allow you to easily keep upgrading that same pc or get a cheap workstation card with lower bandwitdth and still dont crash and burn as you just dump kv cache and the later weights into it

>>109673647
to keep your expectations in check you won't run any sort of reasonable local AI on this. I have a similar setup albeit with 64GB RAM and an Ultra 7 265k, you can expect like 10tk/s on a Q3 or really shitty Q4 quant of Qwen3.8-27B and around 60k context

>>109673610
Not really.
You should stop at 65535, but it's not worth re-running all those stability tests going from 65111.
tREFI values this high usually requires active cooling for the memory sticks (120/140mm fan).
tREFI 32767 or 40959 won't require active memory cooling, and you don't lose much performance at these settings vs. 65535.

>Why those values?
Mostly schizo shit. Multiples of 8192 minus one.
The memory array is divided in blocks requiring 8192 refresh cycles to complete a full refresh cycle window.
Minus one accounts for zero based indexing

>>109673723
alright i adjusted the timings. The previous timings passed 2 hours y-cruncher vt3, so i was fairly confident in it but having a little extra headroom is nice

>>109673623
Install the 3090 in the chipset slot and see if it can recognize the video card.
Those two server cards don't have video output and the chipset might not know what to do with it.

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Talk me out of tapping into my cash savings for this monitor.

I'm already kind of pissed because researching and trying to decide between ordering this or the TCL 27C2A means it won't be ready for pickup until Monday, as opposed to Saturday for the weekend where I would have been able to try it in the real world.

God damn it.

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If I mix a 16GB stick with an identical 32GB stick, will games still perform the same as if I had 2x16?

>>109673827
VT3 isn't enough to validate stability.
Your system needs to test a variety of memory access patterns.
TestMem5: Anta777 Extreme, Absolut, DDR5 Intel, 1usmus v3
Prime95: Large FFT
OCCT: CPU + RAM test, new DDR5 heat soak, TestMem5 extreme emulation, Linpack
Karhu (paywall)

Go to the BIOS and confirm there's sane CPU power limits set before you run some of these tests (125W long duration PL1, 159W short duration PL2).

>>109673952
I'm on loonix, i can do occt, mprime, memtest86+, stresstestapp and ycruncher though

>>109673952
and i set the temperature limit to 80c, self limiting power draw i guess

>>109673304

says pro overclocking memory there's no catch

>>109673867
Same up for an OLED. Thank me later.

>>109673909

i am not into gaming memory use usually maxes at 4.5GB / 16GB (4 thread)

>>109673867
>tapping into my cash savings
Then it's probably not worth it, they don't seem to provide firmware updates either.
https://www.aoc.com/us/gaming/monitors/u27g4xm#driversAndManuals

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>>109673909
Performance could be fine if the system doesn't need + reserve over 32GB memory when you're gaming.
Article below is a bit old, but it says performance depends whether your motherboard supports asymmetric dual channel mode.
https://blog.logicalincrements.com/unevenly-filled-memory-ram-channels/

Right now I have a 12GB 3060, 32GB of DDR5, and an AM5 MoBo.

Should I just sell these parts, or could I make more of a profit selling them as a prebuilt.

>>109673294
Supposing I want to chase CRT simulation on emulators (4th and 5th gen consoles) instead of AAA whenever I'm not working or general browsing. Acer Nitro XV275K or Dell 27 Plus S2725QS. The latter is within my $320 budget (and may get a discount during Labor Day, hopefully) but the low nits may interfere with the best shaders unless there's a workaround I don't know about. The former is a small ways above my budget but can reach the optimal nits with HDR on. However, reviews on Amazon are spotty ranging from dead pixels to ghosting. Any input from those who use these monitors for both general purpose and emulation (with CRT shaders)?

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>>109674199
That Acer miniLED might be disappointing anyway.
The Dell 120 Hz isn't exactly a fast response time monitor, it's for workstations.
Some newer VA monitors might have better response times than the S2725QS.

>>109674245
I want the angles to stay as consistent as my ASUS VS239, so VA is out of the question. I have no intention on AAA gaming on the PC. Don't want haloing when emulating (if that's even possible on 16-32 bit stuff) so I'm leaning closer to the Dell despite hearing mediocre feedback on its HDR and low nit count. What ultimately matters is if discounts happen on Labor Day. Same day delivery is also an issue but that's for me to work out.

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Retard here. Is there any single definitive RAM stability test? I've gone through five RAM kits in the last couple of months.
I had a kit I thought was stable because it passed memtest86 for 10 hours but it was still unstable, and testing with y-cruncher showed it crashing out in ten minutes or less at JEDEC
I had another kit I thought was stable because I ran memtest86 and y-cruncher for eight hours each on it, but it was still unstable and crashed out under OCCT at JEDEC
I had ANOTHER kit that was stable on OCCT and y-cruncher but not memtest86
Now I'm working with two 2x8gb sets (32gb total), same model, one manufactured in 2018 and one from this month. It's done 3 hours of OCCT, 6 hours of y-cruncher and 9 hours of memtest86 with XMP on and hasn't reported a single error. I just don't fucking trust any of those tests. What do you guys think, is it good enough? Or is there a better test I can be running?

>>109674285
>Dell despite hearing mediocre feedback on its HDR and low nit count
It's essentially an SDR monitor. The HDR quality isn't good enough to be used.

>>109674330
I suppose anyone here wouldn't know how to tweak the CRT shaders to compensate for the sub-1000 nits? Crazy you have to get such a pricey monitor to make an old game look even older still but God knows I'm not returning to AAA anytime soon. Also note that I'm upgrading from the VS239 so even with its flaws (and budget breaking price) the Acer may prove to be substantial overall. Not like I'm familiar with HDR. Even my TV doesn't have that.

>>109674323
>definitive RAM stability test
Not that I know of.

Run everything.
>memtest86
>prime95 blend / occt
>3dmark
Then drop the speed down a step for a belt-and-braces solution.

Don't forget ram needs cooling.

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Did anyone get theres?

>>109673304
Poor timings and crucial no longer exists

>>109673647
Isn’t 9800x3d overkill for a 5070ti?

>>109674323
>Is there any single definitive RAM stability test?
No. There's too much variety in DRAM read & write behavior.
Even 3DMark stress tests managed to expose DRAM timing instability for my system (DRAM -> CPU -> PCIe bus -> VRAM interaction).

>I had a kit I thought was stable because it passed memtest86 for 10 hours
MemTest86 isn't considered to be stressful enough to catch XMP/EXPO/OC instabilities.
This test is used to catch defective memory modules or to move on to other potential sources of instability (CPU, motherboard, poorly inserted memory module, etc)

You need to make sure the CPU is 100% stable before you run any stress tests because the CPU is the component that is checking for memory errors (for non-ECC sticks).

>It's done 3 hours of OCCT, 6 hours of y-cruncher and 9 hours of memtest86 with XMP on and hasn't reported a single error.
>is it good enough?
Those 9 hours of Memtest86 unfortunately doesn't mean much.
3 hour OCCT + 6 hour y-cruncher depends on the specific tests you ran.
If it cycled through all y-cruncher tests for 6 hours, it's okay (not definitive). I'd run VT3 exclusively for 1~2 hours (make sure IMC & SoC related voltages are @ safe levels).
Try running OCCT Linpack for 1~2 hours if you can, it can catch some memory instabilities.

>>109674470
If you have to perform a bazillion `tests for gazillion hours to captcha a problem is there really an issue with the ram worth worrying about?

>>109673647
You might as well get the cheapest 2x16GB DDR5 kit if you're getting an X3D CPU.

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updated from 1804 to 2402, is there anything i need to fix? quick google says the refresh mode is different now

>>109674496
Practically everything you do on your PC passes through the DRAM.
Memory instability can mislead you to blame other parts for driver crashes or BSODs.

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https://videocardz.com/newz/breaking-modders-unlock-experimental-nvidia-dlss-5-hours-after-dll-discovery#comment-6926918284

Some guy used dlss 5 on cp and said the fps went from 200 ish to 150 so it def suggests an optimized version will be running even on low end nvidia gpus like 5070

>>109674570
dlss 5 is just glorified reshade

>>109674377
Thanks anon, I'll run prime95 and 3dmark and hopefully after that I might feel less anxious about it
>>109674470
I've honestly only ben running VT3, I forgot y-cruncher had other tests. Might let it do the full suite for a while
>>109674496
I feel like my kits are passing a bazillion tests for a gazillion hours and then failing during real-world use. Just lucky I have a control kit that I know works.

>>109674570
>Some guy used dlss 5 on cp
Pretty sure that's illegal.

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>>109674093
>they don't seem to provide firmware updates either.
bruh

>>109674084
I can buy a 240Hz 1440p OLED for that same money right now.

Never understood why a monitor needs firmware updates. I can understand a TV because of the gay subscription apps and telemetry

>>109674469
is it? a friend suggested me
>>109674507
those are the cheapest.

>>109674715
For game dev you want more than 8 cores. The game standalone assumes you have 8 cores, the editor demands more to run in concurrency.

>>109674704
The monitors are developed likely on a tight timeline to get out quick on the market after some chink supplier gives them a panel
if they use a miniled tech that maye need more work to be done so the experience is more solid, since a manufacture may not have long history of releasing similar monitors

>>109674704
Mini LED monitors are reliant on firmware updates to fix the software algorithms for local dimming.

>>109674695
>pays extra for picture quality and motion clarity
>refuses to get 50% extra pixels
use case for 1440p oleds?

>>109674724
I honestly can't go further with the cpu selection. something more powerful runs 600€+

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>>109674741
It's all you need for gaming.

>>109674753
def check out the 12 core zen 6 cpus

>>109674753
Can't go intel? Some shops are practically giving them away if you buy a motherboard combo.

>>109674760
No it's not. Just accept the 50% extra pixels in your life.

>>109674770
>Can't go intel? Some shops are practically giving them away if you buy a motherboard combo.
No in Italy they aren't, but I've checked.

What about a 270K Plus? 24 cores

>>109674790
497.6 million pixels per second at 60 frames per second vs 221,184,000 pixels per second at 60 frames per second

if your pixel fillrate in gpu-z is lower than 500gpixels/s then you cannot do 4k

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>>109674523
going to leave it like this

>>109674861
Lower tras to 62, try for 2167 fclk at same or lower vsoc.

>go for amd after years
>get new mobo, 9800xd, and ddr5 memory
>fresh windows install
So far i have had 5 crashes in two days, all of them related to drivers most likely, according to the dumpfile
i did do a ramcheck like i always do when i buy new ram, no issues there
is this the AMD curse?

>>109674830
You see kids and third worlders managing 60fps in recent videogames in 4K. No excuses.

>>109673909
you're fine nigga
>>109674192
just sell individually, best locally so you don't have to deal with fees and shipping
>>109674415
i'm not a zoomer ltt fag
>>109674820
270K plus has superior single core performance, no 3D cache but you won't really feel the difference unless you do autistic benchmarks for 1% lows

>>109675012
you sound like a retard that can't even explain his stability issue.

>>109675017
dlss performance is 1080p not 4k

DLSS5 Won and it's not even officially out

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>>109674830
>if your pixel fillrate in gpu-z is lower than 500gpixels/s then you cannot do 4k
Another AMD W

I can't for the life of me get EXPO or XMP working on this new build.
- BIOS on latest version
- EXPO DDR5-6000 or XMP DDR5-6000 selected in AsRock DRAM OC profile
- Cleared CMOS and tried again
- Reseated RAM, tried booting one stick at a time in various slots
- Verified RAM is on the AsRock mobo QVL list

One notable thing is that I got one stick in one slot to boot with 6000 MT/s once and only once. All other times it just falls back to 4800 speeds. Any ideas? The VDDCR_SOC value is set to 1.20V when I select the EXPO profile where the RAM is listed as 1.25V, but even manually changing that to the correct value seems to have no effect.

>>109675012
AMD is trash

>>109675107
well what mobo and ram is it

did you check the qvl that shit matters a lot for shitty ass sensitive ddr5 and am5

>>109675107
I've never used an AssRock motherboard before, but most BIOS have a way to set your RAM to whatever speed you want. If you can't get the preset profile to work, but find the RAM speed setting in the BIOS and set it to 6000.

>>109675057
4K with DLSS perf is unironically better than 1440p native.

>>109675157
damn right it is "native" is just TAA TRASH now DLSS destroys it

>>109675143
AsRock B850M Pro-A Wi-Fi
T-Force Vulcan DDR5 6000 CL38-38-38-78 1.25V 2x8 GB (16 GB)

Yeah I checked the QVL and it's there. I contacted AsRock support and so far they're just telling me my Ryzen 5 8600G doesn't support 6000 but isn't that the whole point of XMP/EXPO?

>>109675155
The profile sets it to 6000 so manually selecting 6000 is the same thing. It always falls back to 4800.

>>109675206
>The profile sets it to 6000 so manually selecting 6000 is the same thing. It always falls back to 4800.
You're clearly missing the point.
There could be something wrong with the preset profile itself.
Which is why you should try setting it manually.

It takes 2 seconds to do, and it will tell you if the problem is the RAM itself, or the presets.

>>109673490
>cl30 6000 team group kit at 8000 1.45v 42-56-56-49 trfc 700 trfcb 680 trefi 65111 trrd 8 trrdl 12 tfaw 24
now you need to tune the tertiaries
keep in mind these are weird on arrow lake, something about having to be multiples of 8 for best performance
intel MLC gives very consistent latency and bandwidth numbers on linux, use this to see if your bandwidth is regressing or improving
>>109674323
i think we could have ruled out the RAM sticks after the 3rd or maybe 4th kit
>>109675107
try refresh mode set to normal
can't tell you what menu it's in but it should exist on the latest BIOS

>>109675107
>>109675206
8600g runs upwards of ddr5 10000 in gear2
I'd chall it up to the ram using mystery meat x16 chips

>>109675234
Okay I just selected 6000 with no other settings changes and still nothing. Did you mean for me to manually apply each and every setting within the XMP profile manually?

>>109675243
I'll try that.

>>109675254
Yeah my concern is that they're cutting corners with the RAM crisis and I got shorted. The one single boot getting 6000 was very odd.

>>109675107
i use a cheap b650 board with a 7th gen x3d chip and that boots 6000mhz just fine
never had it reset

>>109674977
Ty bro I'll give it a shot. Where did you obtain your memory oc knowledge?

>>109675243
Regarding the refresh mode, seems like they might have removed that after BIO 4.10

https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/technologies-explained/amd-am5-memory-refresh-update-bank-refresh-mode-explained/ba-p/1135076

I'm not really sure what this means but I can't find the refresh mode you're talking about and I think they removed it for whatever reason.

>>109675355
i don't see any indication that the option has been removed
but maybe asrock doesn't expose it
check under: Advanced/AMD CBS/UMC Common Options/DDR Options/DDR Memory Features/Bank Refresh Mode
>I'm not really sure what this means
some EXPO kits had misconfigured refresh timings that stopped booting after this option was added
but if you got it to boot once then idk

>>109675243
>i think we could have ruled out the RAM sticks after the 3rd or maybe 4th kit
i wish
>bought 16gb kit (kit 1) in 2018
>bought another 16gb kit (kit 2) in 2022
>one stick in kit 2 failed in 2024, too expensive to RMA it
>bought 64gb kit (kit 3) instead
>kit 3 failed in june
>since i'm already RMAing kit 3 it makes sense to RMA kit 2 as well
>back to using kit 1 while the RMA processes, no issues
>manufacturer sends me a replacement 16gb kit (kit 4) and replacement 64gb kit (kit 5)
>install kit 5, issues from day one, pull it and start another RMA
>back to using kit 1 while the RMA processes, no issues
>install kit 4 next to it, no issues so far (but it's only bee a couple of days)
tl;dr it's the RAM

>>109675409
it's definitely your CPU if you're failing several hours into a stress test with five different kits
or your motherboard likes to kill RAM sticks

>>109675421
What makes my 2018 kit immune to whatever's killing the rest of them?

you know it's grim when most of the latest builds on pcpartpicker are AM4 and 9600X ONES

>>109675012
Disabling [Memory Context Restore] and [Power Down Enable] in memory tuning tab may improve system stability at the cost of longer boot times.
If [Memory Context Restore] is left on, [Power Down Enable] needs to be on as well.

>>109674323
sounds like you are using the wrong timings or voltages on your cpu.
no way 5 ram kits are unstable at their rated speeds.

>>109674199
The g-sync pulasr monitors are supposed to be the best in terms of crt emulation if (you) can handle the flicker.

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Lmao, I'd be seething if I were MSI or Newegg.
Arrow Lake platform is so unpopular, they have to discount an XOC board to $300.
>$300 Z890 Unify X
>$200 270K
Kind of tempted just to mess around with OCing.

>>109674323
ram doesnt just fail at such high rates like that
either your cpu's memory controller is iffy or your board's vrms are not supplying the correct voltages and killing your ram sticks one by one

>>109674415
This shit cost the same as a snap-on. top kek.

https://shop.snapon.com/product/Ratcheting-Screwdrivers-(Blue-Point)/6-Bit-Ratcheting-Standard-Screwdriver-(Blue-Point)/BSGDMR6

>>109675541
i think that's the bottom
it'll only go up from here, not that you'll make much selling it used when novalake drops and memoryholes arrowlake

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>>109675107
quit being a little bitch and put the timings in manually.

>>109674415
>>109675546
both are a scam.

>>109675012
my system is completely stable; something is wrong on your end.
make sure you have the amd chipset drivers installed.

>>109675536
>flicker
Thanks for the alternative suggestion, but that's well and truly above my budget. My weekly pay even according to some search results. That, and I'm want to treat flickering as a faulty unit.

>>109675261
I've only got 2 recommendations for you
Either switch to a different motherboard brand (i.e. asus/msi) that supports those weird ass x16 memory chips properly, or pay money for any standard 2x16gb kit rated for 6000cl30 where support is guaranteed

>>109675541
God I hope youtubers shit on Nova Lake too so I can it cheap

>>109675307
Overclocker forums and trial & error

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>>109675568
i ran windows for like a year on my 7800x3d without chipset drivers (didn't know that they existed)
my old 3700x pc also never had them installed (ran just fine)

>>109675528
3 kits are unstable, one is good, one I'm currently testing
>>109675542
I've also tried 3 cpus and two motherboards. It's the RAM

>>109675596
Update your BIOS one of them specifically addresses 9000 series crashing or rollback because some have garbage memory related tuning related to CXMT.

>>109675281
>>109675395
>>109675579
>>109675254
So new development, I pulled my 1x16 GB Klevv RAM from my old B650 system (thanks for the reminder, anon) and its EXPO profile boots to 6000 MT/s ezpz.

Does this just mean I got bogus RAM?

>>109675621
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>>109675541
Should I buy those parts? I have a Hynix A die DDR5 kit, I'll get at least $300 from selling my current CPU & motherboard.

>>109675568
if it crashes again i will do a fresh windows reinstall
i used a external hdd to install windows, but that hdd is about 20 years old and gave up halfway through

>>109673867
160 hz ips is just going to be a blurfest and 1080p at 27" is a meme.

>>109675639
Yes you get 24 cores for less money than AMDs 8 cores

sticking with AMD despite the recent narrative shift

>>109675640
you know you can check the integrity of the windows install using powershell commands.

>>109675651
userbenchmark bros....

>>109675621
AsRock Support gave me something after I continued pressing and I can't tell if they're trolling me or not. This is what they said:

1) Go to BIOS/OC Tweaker to enable EXPO or XMP profile.
2) Go to BIOS/OC Tweaker to set [DRAM Voltage] to [1.4V].
3 Go to BIOS/OC Tweaker/DRAM Configuration to loss (sic) the primary DRAM timing a little bit to try.
For example;
if your tCL tRCRDRD tRCDWR tRP tRAS is 16-18-18-18-36; please adjust it to 18-20-20-20-42 to try.
if your tCL tRCRDRD tRCDWR tRP tRAS is 18-22-22-22-42; please adjust it to 20-24-24-24-48 to try.
4) Press [F10] to save the settings.


Isn't 1.4V like way too much?

>>109675621
8gb sticks are using memory chips that are connected to a 16 bit lane instead of the usual 8 bits per chip
because its physically different, the motherboard's bios has to have preset settings for the ram and if it's not programmed properly, it will not be able to initialize and run that ram at high speeds or low timings. and 8gb chips are fairly niche up until the ramageddon so there's a higher chance for it to be poorly supported by board vendors whereas 2x16gb 6000cl30 has been the bog standard performance tier ram since 2022 and support for it is already pretty stable

>>109675652
>>109675640
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

sfc /scannow

>>109675692
I mean the specific RAM sticks I got are on the mobo QVL at the advertised 6000 speed, doesn't that mean they're supported?

>>109675734
it's about whether you trust asrock's words over your own experience or not

>>109675685
So selecting the EXPO profile for 5600 gets that no problem.

>>109675685
any mobo support will tell everyone to run loose timings when they have ram issues.
its likely you need to update or rollback.

>>109675734
QVLs are BS
Its practically another avenue of marketing with no transparency on how they tested or the results of their testing

>>109675824
>>109675848
Okay yeah further research suggests other users reported memory instability after updating BIOS which had impacts on voltage settings from what I understand. I might rollback but I suppose I could also just wait for a patch?

I was curious about their QVL testing and if they could provide any specifications outside their EXPO Profile or how many batches they tested...

>>109674820
That person suggesting Intel to you is almost certainly pointing you in the direction of the 270K. It IS the many-cores value king at the moment. If you can't wait for Nova Lake and will hold it for 6 years then I doubt the "dead platform can't upgrade" will ever matter to you (or for most consumers really).

Think it's worth getting a Noctua AIO and a carbon sheet because you can just keep reusing it?

>>109676158
The AIO won’t last forever.
Noctua AIO costs so much, you’re getting very close to affordable custom liquid cooling options.

>>109676158
>carbon sheet
Paste is simple enough.

Might be worth if swapping out cpus multiple times a day.
Graphene and carbon fiber pad tears easily.
(Carbon nanotube pad by carbice are stronger.. according to google.)

>>109675890
It’s also the singled threaded king. AMD’s only advantage is x3d which is only useful with a high end GPU running 1080p or very specialized games like Factorio.

Next gen will be really interesting because intel is adding a better implementation of x3d (but way more expensive) and apx while zen 6 is supposedly fixing their memory controller and latency issues and running at higher clock speeds

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happy to announce I finally sold my old monitor locally.
I think it took 2 weeks for it to sell.

Now I need either a 600hz 1440p or a 360 hz 4k 27" panel to upgrade to in the future.

Oh, and when do you think there will be a an i1 display calibration correction file for the msi 360hz ultrawide panel?

>>109676451
Most people are running 1080p or lower resolutions on their 5070ti-5090. All it takes is using dlss quality at 1440p and you're effectively running 960p then

>>109676464
But that’s not running 1080p as there’s still overhead for DLSS slowing things down. X3d is mostly useless if you’re not trying for ultra high frame rates - just when it is useful for specific games, it is a big difference

>>109676542
Well, it makes a difference for 1% lows

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>>109675568
>amd chipset drivers
fuck I thought ryzen master handled that

dlss5 looks fun, nvidia won again
even if they don't end up using it, people will pay premium for option to turn it on and off for 5 seconds to try it

>>109675648
I just want a 4K monitor I can do everything with, day and night.

>>109674830
>your pixel fillrate in gpu-z is lower than 500gpixels/s then you cannot do 4k
So not even a 5090 can do 4k according to this, lmao

>5070
>Prompting and watching videos
>screen starts to goes black any time I do something before coming back
>no hardware error reports or events on windows
>Goes away on reboot
Ruh ROH
Unstable overclock or bad driver?

>>109677005
check your 12vhpwr cable

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What were you playing in 2006?

>World of Warcraft
>Diablo
>Republic Commando
>Doom 3 was originally designed to run at 640x480 at 30 FPS
>Morrowind was struggling to run at 30 FPS
>It was either 1024x768 OR 1280x1024, and people would argue 4:3 vs 5:4 all day long.
>Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon
>So many PC games that are worse than console versions
>Controller support on windows was horrible

Im glad the dlss 5 vids are out now because people were truly deranged about it when nvidia announced it.
Full on anti-datacenter doomerism and not understanding how anything works.

When you just look at a gameplay video where the guy moves some sliders around and it looks great its harder to keep the crazy going.

Anyone else investing in RAM? I drop $1000 a month on it.

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Just a quick reminder PS5 has a huge advantage of fixed/standard hardware that the game can be specifically optimized for.

Game devs know the exact specs of the PS5 so can code and optimise specifically for the hardware. For the PC they have to code a general version which works on a potato PC and many other variations so it cant be coded anywhere near as efficiently

>>109677221
You're supposed to deliver these shill lines when the console is new, not when it's at end-of-life.

>>109677221
this forum is 18+

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>>109677221
>30fps
>Huge benefit

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If gamers are mostly using 9800X3D and 50 series GPU then wouldn't it be easier to optimize for?

>>109677253
>"optimize"
>Looks inside
>"Lock fps to 30"
much wow

>>109677254
The old approach has been "lets just upscale from 540p using the magic of fsr2" which resulted in diarrhea output
30 fps makes more sense if you care about image quality

>>109677262
>The old approach has been "lets just upscale from 540p using the magic of fsr2"

1280x1024 was the most common resolution when Crysis released if you are talking about old approaches

Watch PCMR be mad that GTA6 won't run on their RTX 2060 lol

>>109677283
Last I heard the sub was full of 3rdie teens being sour grapes about dlss 5
idk why youd bring it up here

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You now remember when Direct X 8.1 on PC being worse than on OG Xbox

>>109677283
did they announce a pc version? if it can run on a ps5 it can run on a 2060

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>>109677254
>>109677262
Dev issue

If I pay the outrageous price for a used 3090, how likely is it it will simply die on me a couple months down the line? Those things are years old at this point and probably most are pulled from miner rigs

>>109673294
if anyone plans on overclocking their ram I can vouch for using windows to go on a thumb drive (unless you're proficient with linux, because as you can imagine read and write speeds were pretty shit and a lighter os would be better)
specifically I used windows 10 ltsc iot from massgrave, and rufus, which gives you the option to just select "windows to go" in the boot selection menu and that's it
I read from here and reddit that microsoft dropped support and I might encouter problems, but I didn't get any. maybe enterprise windows is better in that regard
I had internet connectivity disabled from start up so windows update wouldn't bother me, and just installed whatever files I needed on my phone and transfered them over to windows with a usb cable
got my ram from cl22 3200 to cl18 3666 and I'm going to see if I can get a little more out of it soon

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>>109677344
>If I pay the outrageous price for a used 3090, how likely is it it will simply die on me a couple months down the line? Those things are years old at this point and probably most are pulled from miner rigs

You would be better to get a 4090. The current power levels are

>5090
>4090
>5080
>7900 XTX
>5070 Ti or 9070 XT

>>109677356
4090 is double the price of a used 3090

>>109677344
Depends on the model
EVGA has bad soldering and controllers while gigabyte 3090s have a bad vrm power phase that will blow up in time. Asus and MSI 3090s are the safest buys and should be relatively reliable

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>>109677316
It is supposedly the most expensive game ever made, and made by Rockstar. Sony will sell PS5s for the next GTA. They're going to target PS5 because they want it to just work without troubleshooting, driver issues, Steam Deck, etc

GTA target platforms

>GTA3
>Vice City
>San Andreas
PS2

>GTA4
Xbox 360

>GTA5
PS3 / PS4 / PS5

>GTA6
PS5

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512mb DDR3 btw

In all my years of pc building and upgrading I've wasted thousands of dollars in making unnecessary, incremental, improvements that didn't make a huge difference to my user experience.
Now I'm inclined to build a machine with a 10+ year lifetime in mind. This means paying a little bit more for higher specced and premium brands.

I bought a modded 3080 20GB from China which arrived today, it says it's 20GB in the computer specs, and it's about 3x faster than my 2060 12GB for basic image gen when not VRAM limited, but for some reason models which took around 11GB on my 2060 now take 19GB on my 3080 per Task Manager. How do I confirm I'm not a victim of some kind of Chinese BIOS tampering displaying 12GB as 20GB?

>>109677428
>I've wasted thousands of dollars in making unnecessary, incremental, improvements that didn't make a huge difference to my user experience

Like what?

>>109677428
9950x3d2
Rtx5090/6000 pro
2x64gb 6000cl32 ram
X870E glacial

>>109677141
Why would the 12VHPWR cable be the issue if it was plugged in nice and tight with an audible click, while the GPU uses 110-130W?

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>>109677429
Found vulan_memtest, seems fine I guess, memory bandwidth seems 100GB/s slower than theoretical expected but not sure if that means anything

>>109677445
based. if i had to again i wouldnt get dual rank rams THO.

>>109677445
I returned my glacial and got a 2006 instead as it suits me better

honestly think ddr6 will be pushed out faster than people realize because ddr5 is simply bad for AI stuff
I had hopes they would improve ddr5 further in these last generations so maybe a zen 7 system would be worth upgrading to, but nah, ddr5 is just a dead end, I'll stick with am4 until am6 and ddr6, probably second gen am6 will be worth it price to performance, gen 1 will be stupidly expensive like zen 4 launch was

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>>109677534
it's about 20% slower than my 3090 24gb running at stock 390w and 19.5gbps memory
seems its within 10% of the expected performance for having less bandwidth and cores

>>109677663
if that happens, it'll only be for servers
the next 2-3 amd/intel generations for consumers are already locked in for ddr5

>>109677682
Thanks, good to know. I never in my life have bought used let alone modded computer components, so a little paranoid, things being what they are I might do it more often in the future.

>>109677693
I think they'll push ai to run on consumer computers asap because they have to make everyone addicted to using AI for everything all the time for free so they can rug pull everyone and start charging for it and pay back the ai capex
but yeah, I dont expect am6 until 2031

>>109675685
1.4v is fine, there are many xmp profiles that do 1.45v

In case of brand new i9 14900kf,
Is it necessary to manually set voltage even after updating to microcode bios update and on default intel setting?

>>109677882
probably should

Nicotroon go away

>>109677523
AMD users are just very used to their cards spontaneously not working and think that applies to other GPU manufacturers too.

>>109673304
This is what I have. Got 2x16 for free with my CPU+Motherboard combo at microcenter. Gets the job done, I still can't believe these RAM prices.

Stop shitting this thread anon

>>109677428
the only logical time to upgrade is every major new gpu release which is like every 3 years or however maybe even longer now a days
not only because you don't want your 5090 gpu to die in that time frame and run out of warranyt or so long it loses all it's value
to the next gpu release it would have at minimum held same price or double in price (see all past 90 series gpus recently, see 5090 price)
so every gpu upgrade should be near free or maybe even free and platform upgrades only upgrading cpu until next major platform swap when your cpu is starting to get that old make sense
this hobby should be near free in all reality if you do this
display wise at worst you you have to wait several years before anything crazy happens too so
oled tv for hdr
monitor for high hz
but now is the worst possible time of course

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uh oh, someone is not going to like this truth bomb

>>109677999
the cpu bottleneck.. the poorfaggers final bastion of cope

>>109677999
Nice, it goes into my cherry picked performance graph folder.

>>109677999
Wait, the 7900 XTX is the best AMD GPU money can buy?

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is this the new timey wimey thread?

>>109677429
>buying a GPU from China
You're a braver man than me

>>109678041
Yes but it has terrible build quality

>4chan ip ranges me if I post on my new pc
oh come on, but oh well
after a month+ of troubleshoot, my pc is up and running, it was in the end a ram compatibility issue, its too late so I didn't do much, but stellar blade steam demo ran great at 120+fps 1440p and 90~ fps on 4k,on linux, I guess I should stay on 1440p for temps and stuff, thanks for all the help
also some people suggested to undervolt the 9070xt, so uh why?
thanks in advance need to hit the bed

>>109677417
>all baked textures and lighting that do 99% of the heavy lifting in a static environment
No shit it is basically free. It's not impressive anymore than the people posting their Source Engine maps.

>>109677344
I had this dilemma in December 2025 and got cold feet at the last minute.

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HDRless 1440p OLED now crossing below $350 in my 23% VAT shithole. 240Hz HDR-400 OLED now $400.

>>109678032
If you have a folder full of "cherrypicked" graphs, is it reeally cherrypicked?

>>109678259
Yes, because I picked them specifically for that reason.

>>109678233
Eurofags will never get the good monitors.

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Why is the Kingston RAM youtube page seemingly run by this one woman making videos on anything she wants? Are they paying her for this?

>>109673294
>AUDIO
thoughts on using Boston A60 speakers? should I get a Toppings D10 dac?

>>109677200
They are still acting deranged this the youtubers especially and acting like it's changing entire characters

ASUS or MSI?
Heard Gigabyte bad for trying to build a linux system for some reason
Is ASRock still to avoid?

>>109677344
I wouldn't buy a 3090 right now
Whatever money you have save more for a 4090 or 5090

>>109678500
Never get MSI if you want a warranty that is actually worthwhile. I sent a MSI mobo in for warranty which was having boot issues and they declined the warranty due to a completely unrelated issue
>bent front audio pin

>>109677410
>>>GTA5
>PS3 / PS4 / PS5

look at this shit
skyrim even worse that shit is available on nintendo switch

>>109677428
>I'm inclined to build a machine with a 10+ year lifetime in mind. This means paying a little bit more for higher specced and premium brands.
Isn't this how everyone builds? After my first build I realized this. I just went from a 2500k to a 270k. If it doesn't last another 10 years I'm nuking Israel.

>>109677428
that's what poorfagging gets you
PC gaming is one of the rare hobbies where the highest end is NOT that expensive especially compared to other hobbies. You go all out once and then you're good for 5-10 years with a couple GPU upgrades in between

>>109678473
The videos are less than 5 minutes each they are glorified tech quickies like Linus does on the side.

If I don't care about speed, how bad is it really to seat different RAM in different paired slots? I have a corsair 2x32GB ddr5 6000 CL30 kit on my machine right now, and I found a kit of gskill 2x16GB ddr5 6000 CL32 in my basement that I apparently bought at some point. Is there anyway to benchmark potential long term instability?

>>109677005
Could be unstable OC, but the driver usually crashes.

>>109677221
GTA6 isn't a PlayStation exclusive, the entire game (including online) is built to be playable on the Xbox Series S.

>>109677429
Probably the cause of not having official driver support for that modded card.

>>109677882
Dig through the BIOS' CPU tuning option, and find the [IA VR Voltage Limit] or similarly worded CPU voltage limiter.
Set the limit between 1.4~1.45V (lower is safer, 1.45V if you want as close to stock performance).

>>109678155
>also some people suggested to undervolt the 9070xt, so uh why?
Helps the card run cooler & quieter while retaining most of the performance you paid for if you do it right.

>>109678233
all oled monitors are hdrless, buy a tv

>>109678500
Assus is good as long as you don't have to deal with their warranty

>>109678500
for a long time now, its just been a tossup between MSI and Asus, gigabyte and assrock are shit-tier now.

Bear in mind, motherboards have amongst the highest DOA + failure rates of all pc components, warranty fucking matters, i have had more motherboards fail me than work on arrival, and i have never had another component ever fail me, except 1 set of RAM that wasn't compatible with AM1 Ryzen, and an amd cpu i fucked up the pins on, entirely my fault.

>>109678517
i have returned every dodgy motherboard i ever bought to the pc store i bought them from without issue, just the delay in shipping them off when the local tech nerd at the support desk couldn't get them working.

>>109678517
ASUS is stingy with warranty too so pick your poison

>>109677428
please inform every poorfag who wants to piss away money on the bottom of the barrel, latest pc components that this is a poor way to maintain a membership in the masterrace.

Glad you learnt from your mistakes anon, being a poorfag can be expensive.

>>109673294
>HDR: discounted OLED
>High-End: wait for 2027 OLED releases
What's happening in 2027? And I thought QD OLEDs were good now?

>>109678717
>Bear in mind, motherboards have amongst the highest DOA + failure rates of all pc components, warranty fucking matters, i have had more motherboards fail me than work on arrival,
>i have had more motherboards fail me than work on arrival,
Unironically that sounds like a YOUR problem if you have such a rate of mobos dead out of the box

>>109677005
i used to have a dogshit Acer monitor start blacking out randomly for 2 seconds whenever i was gaming, like once every 5-10 minutes, the pc was fine, nothing was wrong with the game, i just lose visual display for 2 seconds then it comes back like nothing happened.

It was the monitor, i replaced alot of components with fixing it, maybe its your monitor, but if it is, it should only do that when you're doing something specific, like me playing games at 144fps.

>>109675639
I mean, it's 9950x multicore perf for $300, you can't beat that.

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>>109678233
>HDRless 1440p OLED
Thought you were bullshitting, but that monitor doesn't have TrueBlack 400 certification.
It's also a matte panel with 200 nits maximum SDR brightness (pass).

>>109678473
Kingston's probably hired her as a marketing employee + content creator to improve online brand exposure.

>>109678591
>2x32GB ddr5 6000 CL30
>2x16GB ddr5 6000 CL32
You're most likely going to waste a lot of time trying to find higher than JEDEC speed & timings that works for all those sticks with worse performance than 6000 CL30.
There won't be much benefit since the 16GB modules will set the performance bottleneck.
That memory config will run fastest when the system doesn't require over 4x 16GB DRAM (utilized + allocated).
Reasons explained >>109674150

You should only add those sticks when you actually need over 64GB DRAM.

>>109677205
you're investing in the later arc of the ram bubble. You best be actually buying ram stocks though, not physical ram, scalping ram sticks and hoping to make a profit at this point isn't smart.

>>109678539
I remember hearing "i5 is enough for gaming" for years and I've seen enough 9600x builds to know poorfags still gonna poor

>>109678737
with more people buying OLED more notice how flawed the technology is even beyond burn in. crappy greyscale, text issues, blue tint, VRR flicker. Doesn't matter whether it's WOLED or QD OLEDs they all have some issues just like every display technology ever. Likewise they hype now up the upcoming releases pretending the existing ones were always flawed and the next gen will totally fix it.

>>109678500
MSI
ASUS is overpriced as FUCK
You can get a Tomahawk for as low as $250 and have all the features and specs ASUS offers you for $600
ASUS is niggercattle brand

>>109678737
>What's happening in 2027?
New stripe RGB QD-OLED panels with higher maximum brightness (350 nits minimum full screen SDR brightness).
That 350 nits brightness figure is the minimum requirement. Most of these new panels could reach 400 nits, which invalidates "OLED isn't as bright as my edge lit LCD" takes.
https://global.samsungdisplay.com/31456
https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-introduces-new-odyssey-lineup-for-fast-paced-gaming-at-gamescom-2026
https://displayhdr.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/DisplayHDR_Chart_2026-July_Full_Table.pdf

>>109678762
>ram timings
Oh thanks I should have checked the thread. I'm looking for a bit more to run the new qwen MoE model, but maybe my best bet is to just resell both kits and buy two identical 2x32 kits with the proceeds.

>>109678753
Its actually worse than that, 2 of the motherboards that didn't fail on me, had weird problems too.

Like the AM1 Asus rog i had, b350-F, half of the sata ports were DOA, sure, there was 8x of them, so it didn't matter, but it was weird that half were dead. Otherwise it worked great, no complaints.
The MSI x570 tomahawk had an audio problem i was never able to solve, i could use a headset with a mic no problem, everything worked out of the box, i went through multiple headsets over the years aswell, all worked great. But i could NEVER get a set of speakers or a tower speaker to output audio. I could adjust the settings and test until the cows came home, nothing worked, every system on the pc, every driver, said the speakers would be connected and working, but zero audio came out.

same speakers on my x870 tomahawk work fine, out of the box. That was the warranty one as the first x870 tomahawk i got wouldn't flash and wouldn't boot. The pc tech guy couldn't get it to flash or boot either. Second one was a warranty-repair one, but it worked fine and does to this day.

Sure, for some of them it was me stuffing up the ram settings, and the mobo refusing to boot afterwards, but i wasn't referring to myself, i've heard of more stories about bugged, faulty or outright broken/DOA mobos than i do other pc components, the only exceptions being 5090s and their shitty 12-slot psu connectors.

>>109677428
>>109678542
Honestly it's luck of the draw for anything to make it 10 years.
Especially for things like motherboards and GPUs.

You can pay more but even the manufacturer isn't willing to warrant the literal highest-end board a femtosecond longer compared to the most bottom barrel board they sell.

"Long term build" in my opinion is treating certain components as disposable no matter how much you pay for them initially. My NAS has an entire spare Mobo even though it's already a server motherboard that should be reliable. Same with PSU. If it goes out I have a pin compatible one already I can just plug in.
You have no idea if you'll be able to buy the same components years down the line.

With my main PC, even tho it's custom water cooled, board swaps should be like 30 min with the way I'm going to have it set up with most of that time just moving the block/CPU/RAM. I do have a spare mobo already but it's likely I'll upgrade before the mobo becomes a problem.

>>109678820
>I'm looking for a bit more to run the new qwen MoE model, but maybe my best bet is to just resell both kits and buy two identical 2x32 kits with the proceeds.
Test the performance of all four sticks at stock settings, see if you can tolerate the speed before you go through the hassle of selling them.
I'd set the 2x32GB sticks in A2/B2, the 2x16GB in A1/B1.

>buy two identical 2x32 kits with the proceeds.
Probably not worth the added cost.

>>109675639
Yes, these deals don't last forever and once they're gone, they're gone

>>109678820
Get 2x48gb or 2x64gb
It's not worth mixing two dual rank kits and fucking around with stability

>>109678823
You mean USB headsets? Sounds like your codec had issues. The ones on x870 boards tend to suck ass at least on ASUS.

>>109678844
Yeah true I might as well test it out, the packaging is resealable so if I resell no one's going to believe it's unopened anyway.
>>109678883
Is it that bad even with identical kits? I guess I can't be sure the lot is the same, but assuming I don't max out the timings what is expected to go wrong here?

>>109678924
The worst that can happen is the fastest ram stick(s) becomes bottlenecked to the slowest stick. As in cl30 now becomes cl32.

>>109673294
I haven't been here in a few years, how is PC Building holding up in the face of the price apocalypse?

>>109678963
Oh I see, I thought you were saying to expect instability if I buy two 2x32 kits of the same model which would be news to me. Yeah I am iffy on the original idea as well but in the end one in the pocket is worth two in the bush or something like that

>>109678924
4 stick compatibility varies a lot by board vendor firmware
You might be able to get 6000mhz working on one board but another will shit it's pants above 4800mhz. It's a gamble.

>>109678780
>crappy greyscale
woled
>text issues
subpixels
>blue tint
woled
>VRR flicker
game monitor hardware dependent

>>109678814
>could reach 400 nits, which invalidates "OLED isn't as bright as my edge lit LCD" takes.
oled appear way brighter, not the same as an lcd
bnut the hdr will still be ass!

>>109678967
people who can't save $2k are crying, that's about it. but considering pc gaming is driven by kids, you can just bet game requirements will stagnate for a couple of years.

>>109678967
nows the best time to platform upgrade
nows the worst time to pcie upgrade

>>109678764
>you're investing in the later arc of the ram bubble
Bro this shit is going on for years and isn't getting better any time soon

>>109679215
They are running out of money and their executives are jumping off the ship. Everyone is clearly looking for the offramp this is not likely making it past '27

>>109678643
STOP TELLING ME TO BUY A TELEVISION YOU FU

>>109679283
he's right though gamers are cattle that don't know what a good display looks like

>>109679283
buy qd oled. doesnt matter if its tv or monitor. qd oled looks like a window to reality.

>>109678814
Those fifth-gen panels are already out with other manufacturers.

>3800mhz
>run testmem5
>bsod within 10 seconds
>3733mhz
>run testmem5
>3 cycles completed without a single error
wtf

>>109679248
Doubt it, the White House is still throwing free money at them. Even if the bubble pops next year, it's not like the market will suddenly be flooded with cheap RAM. Server RAM is useless for consumers.

>>109679377
>lower ram speed more stable than higher ram speed
STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES

>>109679338
The stripe RGB QD-OLED monitors available today don't meet the TB600 certification, it's 500 at best and in ultrawide resolution.

>>109679408
because 67mhz making such a drastic difference is so intuitive, you fucking retard

>>109679215
?
they're going to build their data centers and then they will shift supply back to consumer.

>>109679461
fucking retard stop tinkering in your bios before you brick your shit.

>>109679461
Stability dropoff is exponential, not linear.

>>109679486
lololol triggered
my precious thumb drive and portable windows install whatever will I do???

>>109679533
>I'm only pretending to be retarded guys
>huehue y r u mad

>>109679559
that is a good question. why ARE you so angry? why was your immediate reaction to my post to seethe and writhe? do you need to dilate?

when are new gpus coming out rdna4 and blackwell were so underwhelming

>>109679584
end of 2027, with the consoles.

>>109679621
BORING

>>109679584
End of next year hopefully
And we're only getting rdna5 and a 5090ti 800w housefire edition for Nvidia to cope

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>>109679283
if you want hdr you should

>>109679654
>$4100 for a disposable screen
wew lad

>>109679584
AMD will be the first consumer GPU to support DirectX 13.

>>109679653
but dlss5!

>>109679654
who wants hdr though?
everybody wants high refresh rate, and no motion blur.

>>109679396
In case you haven't noticed, US treasury bond yields are going up. The money will stop flowing.

>>109679307
A TV is for people who settle for less. People on VR get 3000x3000 pixels on each eye.

>>109679665
>$1000 for teeeveee
asians and indians are becoming inefficient.

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>>109679676
Look what it did to my waifu...

>>109678901
the headsets and speakers were all usb, although i used analogue headsets a few times aswell with no issues. It was exclusively any speaker-system i connected to it.

I tried -everything- short of buying 5x different speaker systems and plugging them in consecutively. 2 sets were more than enough.

>>109679215
thats what everyone says about every bubble anon.

>>109679533
>>109679580
nobody building a pc for the first time listen to a word this clown writes, he will just potentially cost you a lot of money, or many hours of troubleshooting from boot-problems.

>>109679725
being a FF7 fanboy is a mental disorder i swear. Nowhere near the mental disorder level of things like Pokefags or sonic furfags, but still. That being said, fucking YIKES, she looks awful.