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Serious question - Is there any point on grabbing anything higher than a 4070 Super if I have no plans to go above 1080p/144hz in the near future? The 6600XT is doing fine but chugs with some games even at a mix of medium/high settings. That's if I even find time to game, but that's another story.

https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_X1_Yoga_Gen_8 PSREF on the Yoga Gen 8 says 6400 is available on the LPDDR5X 16GB configurations and 6000 on everything with a higher capacity. See under the specs tab: Memory Type** LPDDR5/x-6000 (32GB)[1] LPDDR5/x-6400 (16GB)[2]...

If that dude paid for my college and I wasn't exactly broke, guy may have spec'ed out a midrange CPU but may find he suddenly has a 7800X3D in there. ;)

Is the coupon automatically applied on checkout? Can't see it here :[

Hello all. This CPU is already out of warranty. It's a launch day 3700X which has had no issues ever since. However, I've started recently repurposing it into an ESXI homelab build and it has consistently purple screened on several different motherboards (All asus branded, B450, X470, B550...

Looks like the 4060/Ti cards are meh, and likely the 7600s are too :|

Unfortunately, I'm currently just thinking of holding on to my 6600XT for now. It seems like it will probably continue doing the job for the next 2 years at 1080p... TBH I really don't mind moving down to medium graphics for better smoothness.

Yeah used is slightly cheaper around here, same price approximately as 3080s. 3070s seem to be going for $300 here used. That seems to be an option as well, but the upgrade from a 6600XT seems to be rather small at that point. I'm not playing many AAA games at the moment nor things that don't...

Hello [H]! I currently game only at 1080p, and TBH haven't done a lot of gaming recently as well. I guess the thought of gaming with a higher end machine currently just tickles my fancy. I run a 5900X + 6600XT setup at the moment and I am very tempted by the $500 6800XT deals on amazon...

While I am excited about D4 in general (but not where Blizzard as a company has gone), games going "gold" has lost its meaning for me in the face of gigantic day 0 patches to fix game breaking bugs present at launch. Not trying to be a snarky post or make jabs at anything (I am not qualified to...

The latest AMD drivers froze and reset on me a week ago. Surprising. I haven't had this happen before on either any of my AMD or NV cards. Otherwise, I'm pretty neutral on AMD/NV as far as drivers go at the moment. My last infuriating/gamebreaking experience with drivers was having a Radeon...

I saw your edit, but for the price of those X670E boards, if ANYTHING was bad, I'd RMA it.

I'm pretty sure that USB 4 spec means it's compatible with TB3 and most (?) TB4 devices, hence no need for the header.

Will try to watch the video after work, but what was mentioned in particular about the boards? Also - wonder how they plan to do that?

Between the choices, the 5600 is the best buy here for a general purpose machine. The 5500 is a Cezanne CPU which means it lacks PCIE 4 and isn't as capable in single threaded stuff, and the older 3rd gen CPUs are a lot slower in single thread. Niche buy - for a purely 8 core, 16 thread...