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Used to have a MSI MAG B650M Mortar and it had a long boot, before I updated the BIOS it would take an agonising 2 minutes just to POST, updating to the latest BIOS would take more than 30 seconds which is an improvement but not great. Disabling XMP/EXPO would further decrease the boot time...

Disappointing results for the 7900X3D, was considering that CPU when I was building my Ryzen 7000 PC, but went with the 7950X3D instead when it was on sale. What was the point of the 7900X3D with only 6 cores of the V-Cache anyway, even the 7800X3D is a better buy.

I'm planning to pick up a used GTX 1650 and have a 4K monitor that supports 120hz, however I don't play games, I'm just using it to watch HD videos and for general usage only. Will the GTX 1650 be able to output 120hz with full RGB if I use the DP port?

Unfortunately, if NVIDIA has no competition in the high end market then they can get away with high eye gouging prices especially if the 5090 is going to be 60-70% faster if true and unfortunately this is going to be the new norm. For years NVIDIA has been charging high prices for their flagship...

Back in 2012 I had some Xeon 6 core Intel CPU, forgot what it was called along with 12GB of DDR3 RAM along with a pair of GTX 570 I think. SLI support was still good back then but went to shit during 2016, the last time I had a SLI setup was back in 2017 with a pair of GTX 1070 and it was...

According to WCCFTech, these 8000 series APU's will only support PCIE-4 with reduced lanes. https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-8000g-phoenix-2-desktop-apus-limited-single-channel-ddr5-memory-pcie-4-0-x4-for-dgpu-pcie-4-0-x2-for-m-2-ssds/ Bit disappointing really, don't mind the lack of PCI-E 5.0...

Personally I find having an iGPU is quite useful especially for troubleshooting, not everybody wants a dedicated GPU especially for budget builds. Was hoping that AMD would announce Zen 5 CPU's but nothing so far. Probably because Intel's Meteor Lake isn't scheduled to arrive later on this year...

I remember the Microsoft Office keyboard released back in the early 2000's https://www.amazon.com.au/Microsoft-E17-00002-Office-Keyboard/dp/B00005NVBO It was such a nice keyboard and I liked the scroller and navigation keys at the left side of the keyboard, it was a genius and innovative...

Miss the days back then all video cards used a single slot design, too bad these days high end cards would even take more than 3 slots which is bullshit.

Kind of knew the 512 bit memory bus rumour was a bit far fetched and using such a large memory bus would just increase the cost and would not have much of a huge benefit. Though still stuck on 24GB of VRAM is rather disappointing, would have been happier to see at least 32GB but that isn't...

So does this mean higher prices for the 4090? I'm already seeing price increases up to 100-200 more. Glad I bought mine 2 months ago and with crypto bouncing back I fear more price increases will continue in the near future.

Finished the base game a little while ago, bought both The Ancients Gods DLC and enjoying it, though I'm stuck at the final boss fight, he has the ability to heal himself which will extend the fight and shooting him most of the time doesn't really work because he carries a shield which deflects...

Since this was a refresh and not a new architecture, it was expected that it was only like 5% faster which is still disappointing, but not a complete dud like the 11th generation. Compared to 11th gen to 14th gen, I found 11th gen to be lackluster and pointless. The 11900k was just a pointless...

Just downloaded the demo, and I was not impressed by it. While it ran fine on my machine at max settings at 4K, I noticed some stuttering though the framerate stayed at 120 FPS most of the time. Gameplay wise, I though it was bland and generic. I wasn't really expecting much from this game...

Most fighting games lack a story or either have a rather boring story with the exception of Mortal Kombat, I usually find Mortal Kombat's story mode very entertaining and interesting to watch and play.

If the 5090 still has 24GB of VRAM would be rather disappointing, 48GB would be nice but would drive up the cost of the card. Already I can see some games using close to 20GB of VRAM and in 2025 I don't think 24GB of VRAM will cut it on higher resolutions. I don't really see NVIDIA would use a...

AliExpress are legit, but keep in mind that you most likely won't get warranty or support if your CPU breaks, hence the cheaper price.

Looks interesting, used to play the original game a lot back then and invested more than 1000 hours on it. KF2 was good as well and had better mechanics than the first game but never really got into it much. Will check this one out when it arrives.

I don't really want to know how much the supposed successor to the 4090 will cost, considering how much PC parts have increased over the years, I stupidly paid more than AUD $3K for my 4090 which is like more than $1900 USD. Though I wonder if that 512 bit memory bus rumour is true for the 5090...

The game itself kind of looks like Doom and Duke Nukem 3D.

I accidently broke two of the pins in one of the USB3 header resulting in non functioning of the port when plugged and therefore I cannot use 2 of my USB ports in front of the case, I have 4 front USB3 ports on my new PC case. Pretty annoyed with that, those stupid pins are very fragile. I was...

Alright thanks, that's all I need to know. Didn't really pay any attention to the A620's, as I knew those boards are designed for lower tier hardware and will not take full advantage of higher tier hardware, my guess if I were to purchase one of those it won't bring my hardware to it's full...

Had to RMA my ASRock X670E Taichi board and apparently it will take a while to be processed, in the meantime I'm looking at the cheapest temporary board to use for the moment because the store where I purchased my AsRock board did not give me a specific timeframe on how long the RMA process will...

I just got the Gigabyte RTX 4090 Master Aorus

So how long does the board take to POST?

Does anybody have the AsRock X670E Taichi and has anybody updated to the latest BIOS and if so, how are the POST/Boot times?

Interested in purchasing a Z790 board, currently looking at the AsRock Z790 Taichi since I've had good experiences with AsRock in the past. So how are the boot/POST times with Intel DDR5 Z790 boards?

Didn't Activision say there wasn't going to be a 2023 COD release? Of course I knew that wasn't true.

The article doesn't mention how long your account is inactive to be automatically deleted, because I haven't signed in with mine for a year now since I sold my gaming PC and haven't played any games since.

Would prefer a real sequel to the original Quake, wonder why ID never bothered making one. A sequel to Quake 2/4 with the Strogg would also be fine with me as well since I actually liked the Strogg storyline. Didn't care for Quake 3 and Champions as I'm not really into multiplayer shooter games.

Got the 4870X2 when it first launched, one of the best cards I've owned, despite the heat and noise under load. Too bad both AMD and NVIDIA don't make dual GPU cards in one anymore due to poor scaling of multi GPU setups along with numerous issues these days.

I'm rather surprised to see LGA 1700 has three generations of support, because Intel usually supports only two generations or only 1 on a single socket or chipset family.

People still install games on a HDD? Not sure when was the last time I actually installed a game on a HDD, let alone an OS installed on a HDD. Anyway, good to see SSD's being more affordable, they are pretty much the future. The downside to most SSD's is the cache limit, once you copy or move...

I'll think I'll pass this generation, I'm not expecting a huge jump in performance if this is only a refresh.

Doesn't seem much of an improvement if you already own the ROG 6, and according to reviews it takes at least an hour to charge the phone from 0 to 100% compared to its predecessor the ROG 6 which only takes at least 40 minutes or so which is rather disappointing to see a longer charge which is a...

If it is still a modern CPU with value of some sort, I will sell it. If it is an old CPU that has no value, I will most likely toss it away.

I loved my E8500 and Q9650 back in the Intel LGA 775 days, both CPU's performed quite well. I was also quite fond of my old AMD Athlon X2 6000+ when it first launched and was my first dual core CPU ever.

If these numbers are correct, I'm not impressed. Was expecting better. Even the 5800X3D delivered better results when first launched.

Hopefully DisplayPort 2.1 monitors with higher refresh rates will be shown, wouldn't mind to see a OLED 4K that can support more than 120Hz+ would be great.

Serves these scalpers right and also serves NVIDIA right the 4080 is selling poorly due to it's high asking price, maybe this will teach NVIDIA a lesson that once you price a product too high, nobody will buy it regardless how well it performs.