Recent content by scoundrel

Not ALWAYS. I work with CLO3D, which is a 3D software for creating clothes that utilizes CPU and GPU rendering. In such scenario an I5 12400 takes 1 additional second to finish rendering in comparison with a 5800x3D, both 32GB 3200Mhz RAM and a 4080. Intel uses Z690 and AMD a B550. No big...

It's the new drivers that make Polaris go so hot now. My 580 Red Devil ramps up the fans to top speed in any game, but with older drivers, it doesn't happen. Problem is those older drivers won't support more modern games, so one must upgrade. I find Polaris a fantastic rig. However, I grabbed a...

RX 580 Red Devil is my fine wine, with me since 2016, it still handles fine most games at full HD and even at 1440p in medium settings. It supports 12bit pixel YCbCr over HDMI to my Sony TV, which makes it unmatched in terms of video quality for the living room. Certainly a card that I'll recall...

Pathetic FPS? There are players and players... Many of them, if not the most part, just want to run games at steady 60 FPS with Vsynch. I'd personally ditch the expensive 8GB 3070, that cannot even play all the games at 1080p maximum textures/quality, in favor of a 12GB 3060 that could do it...

I'd test processor and mobo and ram separately. There's gotta be some issue among one of those, they're not liking each other. That 1000w PSU is not causing this, that's for sure.

Will we see 14th gen running in the same previous 1700 socket but, actually, a "new" one, incompatible with the two previous gens, like 6th/7th and 8th/9th?

I went with the 12GB 6700XT and haven't regret so far. It's plenty memory for most games of today in resolutions up to 1440p and it's cheap.

I use RT only if it's worth it. Control, for example, is a game that shows some quite better image quality with it. However, the game itself is a pain in the neck and I have no patience fot that, so I'd say most titles I play do not offer or take any real advantage of RT as of today. I hope...

I used the 1700 mouting kit with my old Noctua C12P on the 13600k and it actually worked well in most situations! I mean, it's a 10 year old heatsink, but it still does the bare minimum while power limits are kept within the 125W range. However, as soon as I unleashed power limits, the old...

Puny if compared to its own siblings, as I said. Unless you're a CS:GO player, where the 7800x3D is king, it won't be very wise to get that chip just to have about the same performance level of other AMD chips and even Intel cheaper chips, without paying 3D premium price. If I were to upgrade...

I'm gonna get killed here for what I'm about to say, but it seems to me that those new 7000 x3D processors are lemons. I'd never get one. There's so much bad news about them. So much complication about dual ccd's AND core affinity issues AND the stupid overvolting from Asus frying stuff AND now...

Yes, they are and the upgrade frenzy is real but I know better now. I cannot stand stuttering and tearing in games without vsynch either. My brother upgraded his old and good 9900k to 13700k and he's regreted profoundly. First, he had to get a new beefy PSU and a very noisy 360mm AIO to tame the...

Yes, I did. It's now peaking at low 70's and yet the cooler seldom gets to max speed. I just left the mobo PWM header manage it. EDIT: it's amazing how this old processor still can rock modern games and keep 60 vsynced FPS at all times paired with the also old RX580.

THAT. Thanks a lot, pal! Ordered it today from Amazon, must be here tomorrow. My grandchildren are going to have a blast and I will be likely playing along with them! LOL

It doesn't fit in because the height of the mobo inside the case, which makes the cooler fan almost touch the lid and restricts air intake to the cooler itself.