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Its been a year and a half, we have a pretty good idea. Hint: basically all of them. (unless you're only interested in the absolute bottom of the barrel stuff)

Explained in my last post above.

This is what is commonly adopted by people who don't know what they're talking about. So common that even display manufacturers have jumped on it and advertise this way. Something can gain popularity and become the standard for speech and still be blatantly wrong. Glenwing over there knows his...

Since these chips came out, 7900x3D has made no sense and still makes no sense. There is a reason they're slashing prices. I suppose if they go low enough its still "good" in a general sense but compared to its siblings.. meh.

This. A full platform upgrade makes more sense first.

Steve can’t win. Twitter is attacking him for being anti-Intel, and now other says he’s defending them.

253W has always been the recommendation for that chip.

I will be surprised if gaming/consumer products come up at all.

I have the 1000W version, its been great. Downside is the very high quality ball bearing fan is also somewhat noisy (if you have a very quiet system) but the switch for Hybrid mode solves that. I never hear it come on anymore (7800x3D/4090). I paid $180 or so a year and a half ago.

Yeah that’s why I suggested watching package power. Given all the Intel instability issues though with more aggressive board presets, if you’re happy just leave it.

Are you sure you're setting up PBO in the correct place? If you're in the AI Overclocking tab or whatever they call it, the PBO section there literally doesn't do anything. Advanced > Scroll down to AMD Overclocking then set it up in there. This is a classic Asus thing. Two PBO sections, one...

HWiNFO screenshot while its running would answer a lot of questions. We'd be looking at Package Power under full multicore load.

I was in this predicament with a similarly old Asus PG348Q back in Jan 2023(original ultrawide, 3440x1440, 100Hz). I did not want another 3440x1440 display but I did want OLED. At that point, I realized that was the largest res they were going to be doing for a while so I decided to just get...

I feel like pictures and examples of PC's that were smoked around are quite commonplace. It should be extremely obvious that if you're going to do this, you need to be VERY diligent about regular cleaning. You'll never escape it entirely though.

That's the wild-tier level of audiophiles that I'll just never be down with. There is no way in hell i'm going to tell the difference. Everybodies got to have a hobby, I guess. Just don't be the fool in the old saying "a fool and his money are soon parted".

I'm done with Schiit. My Magni and Modi are both falling apart and I quite literally never touch them. Except I have to now more and more to fiddle with connectors and knobs just to get them to operate. The Modi just likes to disappear from Windows from time to time. Reseating the USB cable...

I moved this weekend and had an appointment with Verizon to move my FiOS connection yesterday. I've had the standard Gigabit so I kept that, but was surprised the router they brought out supports up to 10Gb on the WAN port and one of the LAN ports. The other two LAN ports up to 2.5Gb. The...

This story has been coming to this point for months now. When this first kicked off a couple of months ago with reports of instability it was said it likely has something to do with outrageous motherboard presets so its no surprise that this is where we'd end up, board vendors simply having to...

The Sys itself isn’t actually a preamp at all looking at it (while the others are) but essentially just a fancy potentiometer. Still, it’s going to do the job in this case.

No. But I mean it sounds like you're spending over $100 on a USB cable elsewhere (crazy..) so maybe just make sure you're using good RCA cables.

In that case then yes, a basic device like the Sys is the way to go.

A soundcard a full solution, meaning a DAC and pre-amp (along with A soundcard is a full solution including pre-amps, sometimes amps, etc.. A DAC part of a soundcard and it has just one job, converting digital audio to analog. Now, with a USB DAC at least on Windows you can still do volume...

Its a DAC, I wouldn't expect it to have volume control, right? That is something your amp/pre-amp would control.

Ha, yeah I wasn't suggesting actually doing that, just commenting on the issues you have with the HDD.

Heck a nice SATA drive would do that. 👍 HDDs are just problematic these days for anything but bulk storage.

For sure, and when HMB didn’t exist it was crucial. Today, HMB as part of NVMe makes it all but irrelevant for all but the most extreme workstation users.

Fair enough. I’m a firm believer that if it doesn’t matter it’s not a better option, especially if it costs extra, however.

Why are we still advocating spending more for DRAM on modern HMB enabled NVMe drives for basic use/gaming systems? I thought we left that mentality back with SATA.

I came back TD2 two months ago and haven’t CTD once.

Gaming headsets with two connectors for each usually come with an adapter to combine them into a single "combo jack". For example: https://www.amazon.com/Headphone-Splitter-Adapter-Headset-Extension/dp/B078PZ1BGN

I love this guys cooler reviews. He's so into it.

Thermalright is simply killing it.

You have a 7800x3D so CCD scheduling is irrelevant anyway.

If you bought a solid one to start I don't see why not at this rate. I plan to grab Zen5 and whatever comes after on AM5 (if anything), I see no reason why my Taichi won't be just fine.

It got a price decrease. Unless you're comparing it to 3080 which you can't, that's an entirely different GPU. Might as well be comparing it to an RX580 at that point, same difference. I don't subscribe to this idea of linking "classes" of cards from previous generations, it doesn't make any...

I'm just grabbing things to make an example, but I agree. Though, you don't have to upgrade annually, that's just a choice thing, you could do that with anything even the examples I listed. Trust me, there are nutty people in every hobby that "upgrade" more often than they need to. If its...

That AMD branded MediaTek wifi module has always been suspect. There are some boards that shipped with them around launch but then had revisions where the only thing that changed was the Wifi module to a known good Intel AX2xx or Broadcom unit.

This whole idea is missing a ton of perspective, I think. To some, high end PC gaming desktop hardware is a hobby, nothing more. Spending $1000-$2000 on a new "thing" for your hobby every few years isn't that unheard of if it makes you happy. Take a step back and look at hobbies in general...

No, but it depends on how you're accomplishing that. The X670E Taichi doesn't have DP input to passthrough video over USB4/TB so you'd have to rely on just telling Windows to use the XTX for rendering but outputting video via the iGPU. Some boards do have DP inputs to purely passthrough the...

I highly doubt it, you'd likely need switches and/or re-drivers to do something like that. Frankly, i've wanted the ability to say, for example, instead of offering x8 lanes of Gen5 on a fullsize x16 slot, have it still wired for x16 lanes and if you simply run it in Gen4 mode, you get all x16...