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wargames
Mar 16, 2008

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buglord posted:

Is there any hope that AMD becomes the counterpart that isn’t hot, loud and hungry (but enough about OPs mom)?

I watched it last night and man I care about performance.. but not that much. I already have my 3070 slightly underclocked and undervolted because lower temps and draw are worth the 1-2fps for me. I figure I can’t really rely on that if the card is made ground up to be a power hog right?

amd looks to be MCM and doing a good general uplift with a max of 300w or so the rumors say. Will they beat 450W 40 series, no but if you need a new gpu with good drivers AMD is a decent choice.

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wargames
Mar 16, 2008

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VulgarandStupid posted:

So 7900XTs fit in smaller cases but use more power and have less performance than 4090s. Womp womp. I’m guessing worse cooking too.

They are also 20% cheaper then the 4080 and 5-10% better in raster but 15% worse in RT then the 4080.

wargames
Mar 16, 2008

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Animal posted:

Is there a big power/thermal difference between the 7800X3D and a 12900k?

12900k is 135w+ cpu and runs warms, 7800x3d is basically a 65w cpu and is the best gaming cpu.

wargames
Mar 16, 2008

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Animal posted:

Thinking of swapping, as I got my 12900k cheap thanks to a friend at Intel and can sell it and recoup the losses. What’s the best motherboard to go with AMD these days? I refuse to buy Gigabyte.

Last time I had AMD I was trying a 5900x and the ASUS motherboard gave me all sorts of Ethernet disconnection problems.

MSI or ASrock seems to be the good ones, DO CHECK THE RAM COMPATIBILITY CHARTS FOR THE MB. run two sticks of ram and if you want to ramdisk your 35 gig modded rimworld game the 24/48 gig sticks are fine but run two sticks for best expo results.

wargames
Mar 16, 2008

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Animal posted:

Looks like the MSI board uses Realtek LAN instead of Intel, so it may be the one to get. Never thought I’d ever try to avoid Intel in favor of Realtek, yet here we are.

also sk hynix ram is better liked them samsung.

wargames
Mar 16, 2008

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Animal posted:

I already have 32GB of DDR5 that I spent way too much money on back in early 2022.

G.SKILL 32GB 16X2 D5 5600 RIP BLK



ijyt posted:

who uses sk hynix modules?

https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/MAG-X670E-TOMAHAWK-WIFI/support#mem

wargames
Mar 16, 2008

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Animal posted:

So if it’s not on that list, there could be issues?

it shouldn't be but you probably won't get 6000mhz+

wargames
Mar 16, 2008

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Animal posted:

Ok. It’s gonna be a pain in the rear end finding a good 32GB pair that’s SK Hynix 6000 cl36 or less and is on that list AND fits on a SFF environment.

you say that but on the msi list these exist for 32gig and 6000mhz https://www.newegg.com/oloy-64gb/p/N82E16820821550

wargames
Mar 16, 2008

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We know there are x3d versions of these chips, some had produced a laptop with a 7745hx3d, I want to see that chip juiced up in a mini pc.

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wargames
Mar 16, 2008

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Coredump posted:

ETA Prime has a whole slew of videos going over AMD versions of NUC's over the past 2 years. Look for a video of one that interests you and price check it in Canuckistan. Minisforum makes lot of these small form factor machines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGlkWHwMGVg
https://store.minisforum.com/collections/amd-%C2%AE-ryzen-%C2%AE

Serve the home likes the Beelink GTR7 and has a lot of other videos on sff prebuilts, so his videos are worth browsing too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LciJqD74Mc4

Or you got something like the Asrock Deskmeet, a $170 barebones pc.
https://www.newegg.com/asrock-deskmeet-x300w-b-bb-box-us/p/N82E16856158083

Here is a Beelink SER5 for $340
https://www.newegg.com/p/2SW-0012-0...m6S05xflNERdUfU

Basically the last 2 or 3 years have seen a whole bunch of AMD powered NUC sized computers hit the market. Some of them can even do light gaming.

NUC's make for some of the best gaming servers around. Its silly how good they are for that.

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