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If you get a chance, take a look at the MSI X570 Tomahawk Wifi. I snagged mine on Amazon for under $225 with free shipping. A buddy of mine has the 5900X with the same board. With a few bios tweaks, his chip boosts to 5.1-5.2Ghz and my 5800X boosts up to 5.0-5.1Ghz. This board does not disapoint.Snagged a 5900x from Amazon when they were going for $499. Should last for 5-6 yrs I hope.
Just scoping for a motherboard now..
Will do! I’m also considering a gigabyte x570s aorus master. Something beefy as socket am4 is basically EOL.If you get a chance, take a look at the MSI X570 Tomahawk Wifi. I snagged mine on Amazon for under $225 with free shipping. A buddy of mine has the 5900X with the same board. With a few bios tweaks, his chip boosts to 5.1-5.2Ghz and my 5800X boosts up to 5.0-5.1Ghz. This board does not disapoint.
Do I want to replace my 4790k yet... Not really, but my mainboard has had alot of boot problems as of late. So if it dies I would rather upgrade and find another z87/z97 board down the road and make a WinXP and Linux test bed on this chip.
Would like to hold out and see what Alder/Raptor/Meteor-lake bring, I feel like this could be another netburst moment for intel
My old 7970 GPU stopped working so no idea if it is the card or the board.
With all the craziness and stock issues, I feel like waiting but seeing cards getting a little easier to get I may just have to dive in before the next gen.
The 7970 and especially the 7970 GHz Edition cards had notoriously high failure rates. AMD was pushing their silicon too hard and the heat and power consumption were out of control, which was probably the reason for the high failure rates. Cracked BGA and/or failed mosfets were common, but so was poor QC. I remember buying new-in-box 7970 GHz edition only for it to be DOA, RMA'd it and got another new-in-box DOA card. Returned that one for a refund and got an R9 280x instead. It was essentially the same as the 7970 GHz Edition, but it was more refined and had a significantly lower failure rate. My R9 280x also eventually failed after about 5 years, but thankfully it had a lifetime warranty and I got an RX570 as a replacement.
You could try to hot air reflow the GPU ASIC, or find someone to reball it and get a bit more life out of the card, assuming that's what's wrong with it. I've saved a number of video cards with failed BGA joints with hot air reflows and they went on to work a long time after that. Just don't throw it in your oven or microwave...
If you were fine with your 7970, you may just consider getting an older used card, which still have somewhat sane pricing. Fleabay has 7970 cards in the $150 range, which isn't terrible. People can't get much for them anymore since mining requires more RAM than the GPUs have. GPUs with less than 4 GB are fairly cheap.
Unfortunately not sure if it is the GPU or the mobo itself and I don't have a spare PC to check with these days.
Sitting on my EVGA x299 Dark and a 10980xe that I upgraded to last year, picked up used for $500. Runs at 4.5Ghz. I really don't see any point in anything with more cores. Hell, its probably way more cores than anyone will need for the next 5 years, at least. I thought Win 11 might make a difference, but .... nope.
Honestly, I could have stuck with my i9-7900x from back 4 years ago, because from a real world use case, I don't see much of a difference, but I had an itch... and some extra scratch. Now it sits as a back up system.
If the GT 610 works in the same slot the 7970 was in, the motherboard is fine, the card is the problem. The CPU fan error you were having is entirely unrelated to the PCIe slot. It could have genuinely been a failed fan, the hall effect sensor used in fans to get the RPM readings can fail, I've seen it happen numerous times over the years.
It works but the PC still randomly just stops working same what happened with the 7970 before eventually I just couldn't even boot into Windows. I also haven't tried to play a single game since using the 610. No idea if it is really the issue but it started with embedded video. Netflix trailers on the Netflix site 100% lock the PC up regardless of browser. Youtube randomly locks up the computer and then the PC will just freeze while idle with no browser open. I got tired of trying to troubleshoot it.
I’m very happy with both 10th gen boxes I built. I intentionally skipped 11th, but 12 is intriguing. Although I might wait since most of the scheduler stuff to make that work is supposedly in windows 11; and I ain’t touching that till next fall with the first major service update.I need a new CPU. Running an i7-2600K that was overclocked to 5GHz for a very long time, and now isn't stable at stock speeds for more than a day with no load.
Can't decide if i should get a 10th/11th gen or wait for the 12th as I have a 3080 Ti sitting in a box to go into this new build
I would wait for 12th gen if money is no issue and willing to deal with bugs of a new platform. Otherwise 10/11th will serve you well for a while.I need a new CPU. Running an i7-2600K that was overclocked to 5GHz for a very long time, and now isn't stable at stock speeds for more than a day with no load.
Can't decide if i should get a 10th/11th gen or wait for the 12th as I have a 3080 Ti sitting in a box to go into this new build
I need a new CPU. Running an i7-2600K that was overclocked to 5GHz for a very long time, and now isn't stable at stock speeds for more than a day with no load.
Can't decide if i should get a 10th/11th gen or wait for the 12th as I have a 3080 Ti sitting in a box to go into this new build
Another vote for 10th gen here. My 10850K is a beast and it runs everything very well paired with a 3090.I need a new CPU. Running an i7-2600K that was overclocked to 5GHz for a very long time, and now isn't stable at stock speeds for more than a day with no load.
Can't decide if i should get a 10th/11th gen or wait for the 12th as I have a 3080 Ti sitting in a box to go into this new build
I think 10th gen is where i am going to end up, but any reason not to take the 10900K? also should I go with a Z590, or will there be no benefit since I'm not using an 11th gen?Another vote for 10th gen here. My 10850K is a beast and it runs everything very well paired with a 3090.
You need stellar cooling to keep temps down.I think 10th gen is where i am going to end up, but any reason not to take the 10900K? also should I go with a Z590, or will there be no benefit since I'm not using an 11th gen?
I tried a few Z590 boards (Aorus and an Asus), and wasn't impressed with their stability so I went back to a Z490 board. The 10th gen cpus run warm but not that hot as everyone says IMO. I have used a Noctua D15S and my current 360mm AIO and both keep temps relatively close. My cpu is idling at 28C now and usually gets in the mid to upper 40's C when gaming.I think 10th gen is where i am going to end up, but any reason not to take the 10900K? also should I go with a Z590, or will there be no benefit since I'm not using an 11th gen?
Amusing.im running a 10400 on a 510h board and I'll be upgrading to the fastest alder lake I can get.
The 7970 and especially the 7970 GHz Edition cards had notoriously high failure rates. AMD was pushing their silicon too hard and the heat and power consumption were out of control, which was probably the reason for the high failure rates. Cracked BGA and/or failed mosfets were common, but so was poor QC. I remember buying new-in-box 7970 GHz edition only for it to be DOA, RMA'd it and got another new-in-box DOA card. Returned that one for a refund and got an R9 280x instead. It was essentially the same as the 7970 GHz Edition, but it was more refined and had a significantly lower failure rate. My R9 280x also eventually failed after about 5 years, but thankfully it had a lifetime warranty and I got an RX570 as a replacement.
You could try to hot air reflow the GPU ASIC, or find someone to reball it and get a bit more life out of the card, assuming that's what's wrong with it. I've saved a number of video cards with failed BGA joints with hot air reflows and they went on to work a long time after that. Just don't throw it in your oven or microwave...
If you were fine with your 7970, you may just consider getting an older used card, which still have somewhat sane pricing. Fleabay has 7970 cards in the $150 range, which isn't terrible. People can't get much for them anymore since mining requires more RAM than the GPUs have. GPUs with less than 4 GB are fairly cheap.
Amusing.
Rethink their prices?Alder Lake S will have 8 very fast cores and the E cores are supposedly skylake level IPC rather than a warmed over atom core. Even if the windows scheduler is initially dumb about it I am quite excited about this first high performance post 14nm desktop CPU with apparently such a large jump forward (to be seen if true of course). I even think it will help AMD accelerate their pace and rethink some of their prices.
Intel's 12400 ES/QS samples are beating 5600x in leaked data, using DDR4. 10400 and 11400 were about $185 with integrated graphics. $160 - $170 without graphics. That's $100 less than a 5600x.Rethink their prices?
5600X are slightly above MSRP lately at $310, I've had one in my wish list to finish my new build just waiting on pay day at the first of the month. Sucks that I already bought an AM4 board but I did get a good price on it, NIB, here.Intel's 12400 ES/QS samples are beating 5600x in leaked data, using DDR4. 10400 and 11400 were about $185 with integrated graphics. $160 - $170 without graphics. That's $100 less than a 5600x.
ANTOnline's Ebay store has 5600x for $279 right now5600X are slightly above MSRP lately at $310, I've had one in my wish list to finish my new build just waiting on pay day at the first of the month. Sucks that I already bought an AM4 board but I did get a good price on it, NIB, here.
WTF, my NewEgg wish list has a 5600x from ANTonline for $310 cause NewEgg themselves is out of stock. Keeping up with this madness is insane.ANTOnline's Ebay store has 5600x for $279 right now
https://www.ebay.com/itm/294059600798?epid=3042000955&hash=item4477516b9e:g:r0oAAOSwXSpgT3Qq
Leaks aren't reality until it releases. The 5600X is what - a year old? I'd hope that something new coming out would beat it. Now we wait to see what AMD does.Intel's 12400 ES/QS samples are beating 5600x in leaked data, using DDR4. 10400 and 11400 were about $185 with integrated graphics. $160 - $170 without graphics. That's $100 less than a 5600x.