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The main FPS game I played on it was CoD (Warzone2), and while it looked cool, it was tedious looking left/right and felt like it it gave me a disadvantage because of that more than anything. FOV felt wonky and unnatural too. Elite Dangerous (which I enjoyed it on) didn't feel great with the...

Odyssey G9 owner - I had the opposite experience. Other than Elite Dangerous, it was annoying and superfluous on every game I played, even those that natively supported supported the resolution. I can see this great for sims or certain niche games imo. Went to a 21:9 OLED and it's been great to...

I have a x570 master, and not a pro, although I'm sure the BIOS's are very similar. The most recent release allowed PBO2/CO support of the 5800x3d. It's been fine on my unit. Run -15 on all cores, and everything will peg at 4.45GhZ full load. It maxes around 75C with a 360mm AIO, but most gaming...

Just got the email as well. Lovely.

I'm running a Seasonic titanium 850W with zero issues so far in games and benchmarks. Running 4090 at stock, maxes out to right under 450W 5800x3D uses ~90W most game loads, max 105W (3) NVME drives 360mm AIO w 9 RGB fans

I didn't necessarily say anything about needing more cores with that statement. A 5600x would likely (slightly) beat out a 5800x3D in some single or low-multithreaded tasks. The 5800x3D existence is for gaming, so this is a bit different than the general core debate. If you're not prioritizing...

As much as I like Brent and miss him on these forums, that review is old and a bit flawed. He's blatantly GPU limited on most of those tests running ultra/high (even in 1080p). He's 2 models behind the flagship GPU at the time as well. It tells us more about the 3080ti capabilities than the CPUs...

Eh, you never know who you're dealing with in support, but glad to hear they're giving you a good option. My one RMA experience with AMD was pleasant, it was about a 2 week turn-around time from the date I shipped it. Although it was 18 years ago back in the A64 days.

Yeah, it's not all common for CPU's to fail if running in a stable setup over years, so I'd be even skeptical that it's 100% the cause if they didn't give any specifics. I'd imagine they still buy their components PIB and likely have the full warranty with manufacturers being that they're not a...

The warranty will be through the system builder (Velocity Micro) and not AMD unfortunately. If you click on the "System Builder" link on this page, they're actually listed at the bottom: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/warranty-information/desktop-kit-step2a Poking around their site, it looks...

Picked up a pair, thanks! They were at this price for a couple of days on Amazon back in December. Only need 2 more now to replace out the rest of 10TB in one of my 8 bays. We'll see if the Paypal or Honey discounts hit, but good price regardless.

Xbox 360 Arcades were under $200 as early as 2008, and were ~$150 MSRP by 2010. There were other versions that were $199 MSRP in later years as well.

I still see over 200 in stock here at the Dallas Microcenter.

Yeah, even some of the 720p tests are bottlednecked with a 3080. Pretty poor review considering there were 2-3 faster GPU's they could have used during that time.

Aside from the already mentioned 6600XT/6650XT, used 2070 Supers or 1080ti's would probably give you the best boost in that range. IIRC those should be 20-30% better on a lot of titles compared to the normal 1080's. 3060ti's will also be around that performance level, but I doubt you could find...