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    What's the best X870E motherboard for under $500?

    Asrock has issues with killing x3d CPU’s apparently. The ASUS proart is the cheapest with on board 10GbE. To be honest, if you only need 1 m.2, get a vanilla x870 and get an add in card.
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    AMD "Strix Halo" Processor Boosts up to 5.35 GHz, Geekbenched

    I got my EVO-X2 delivered earlier. It's decent, and has a similar acoustic profile as a typical gaming laptop. All the currently available Strix Halo mini PC's all seem to be based around the same motherboard. You can tell by the I/O port configuration. Gaming wise, I think is hampered by its...
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    Deleted

    How about the following ? Can anyone else get higher performance / price ratio that meets the OP’s specified requirements ? :sneaky: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/jMgprM
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    Closed.

    I suspect the next generation top-end gaming card will be liquid cooled to un-lock higher thermal envelopes.. it’s already happened at to datacenter level product.
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    RTX 5090 Actual Performance Improvement - 6 FPS in CyberPunk

    For gaming, the 5090 only makes logical sense if under one of the following scenarios. - You have a 4K 240hz monitor. - Have a specific game where the 4090 struggles in frame rate at 4K. (Right now, MSFS) is the only one I can think of,
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    Anyone went strictly to SSDs only yet ?

    For PC. I have went SSD many years ago starting with a Intel SSD 320 160gb model. The largest HDD for client was 320GB Seagate. For NAS, I still go SATA HDD. The price of large SATA SSD isn't particular compelling. SATA SSD since 2013... Intel 320 160GB Intel DCS 3500 240GB Samsung 850 Pro...
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    2.5" SSD for gaming?

    I believe they did restock, so it’s worth the waitlist.
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    2.5" SSD for gaming?

    I finally replaced all my 5 year old Samsung 960 Pro / 970 Evo SSD with 2.5 inch SSD's and ran some testing with crystal disk mark on the new drives. Micron 7400 Pro 7.68TB (PCIe 4.0 x 4) - Q1T1 Read performance isn't particularly impressive. But this is not surprise as the controller +...
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    Asus Strix X670E-E Bifurcation question - where are the missing x4 PCIE lanes?

    b650 platform is 1 asmedia promontory 21 chip hanging off a Zen4 CPU. a620 platform is part of a asmedia promontory 21 chip hanging off a Zen4 CPU x670 platform is 1 asmedia promontory 21 chip hanging off a Zen4 CPU + a second promontory 21 daisy chianed off the first one.
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    2.5" SSD for gaming?

    Might be worth checking if PCIe 2.0 x 4 link rate is expected. I guess this is a x99 board?
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    Are we getting Ryzen Desktop 8000 or is it just APU

    I wonder will there be a new chipsets for AM5? The x670 chipset feels like its is hacked together from 2 low end asmedia Promentory 21 chipsets. The Intel z690/z790 seems so much better.
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    Dimensions of AM4 and AM5

    wikichip has some details on AM4 and AM5 Sockets a packages. AM5 uses the same coolers and mounting kits as AM4, therefore so the package + socket thickness would be similar.
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    2.5" SSD for gaming?

    How about 7.68TB for US$ 315 (just google a 10% off curcial.com coupon) and + U2 to PCEi adapter ($8.99 on amazon) ? https://www.crucial.com/ssd/7400_pro/mtfdkcb7t6tdz-2az18abyyr
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    Do 8x m.2 IT mode HBAs exist?

    I suspect a broadcom P411W-32P https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/BC00-0443EN with some type of adapter would make sense or just use u2/u3 drives.
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    2.5" SSD for gaming?

    2.5 inch SATA SSD should be more than suffice to replace a HDD unless your use case is continuous recording of surveillance video. However don‘t expect any improvements to them other than shift to QLC or PLC to lower cost. The market for 2.5 SATA is shrinking as notebooks shifted to m.2. Very...
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