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That's one thing I really wish AMD and Intel would do for gamers - stop tying the fastest clocks to the biggest chips. Why do we have to get "9" chip core counts to get max clocks? Just make a "gamer edition" or whatever "7" and/or "5" chip...

+10 to that. I'm in a similar position. Back in late 2024 I was working on a new build while waiting for next gen cards to come out. New build would leave me short a vid card. Somehow Microcenter decided that to let people order ARC B580s for...

+1 and... Top mount or bust!

One up side with that is the extra cache should reduce the need to get higher clocked ram, at least for gaming. It'll make the big cache Intel chips act more like AMD X3D. So our 6400 CL32 won't be too bad. Sure faster would be nice, but how...

TechSpot ran some performance tests on the remaster and got some interesting results. They ran their tests in Novigrad and noted that performance was a better outside the city. Looks like there's some sort of bottleneck with ray tracing and...

I voted no because I think the Steam name is more likely to stick around. I think it's unlikely either one of them will just disappear. Even if Valve or CD Projekt went bankrupt someone would probably buy their assets. Stores get merged and...

Yeah, you need an i7 or a 1600 Xeon (single socket only) to do a multiplier OC on X79. Xeon 1680v2 is kinda the ultimate OC chip for that platform. 8 cores & you can use the multiplier. X79 boards can run 2600 series dual capable Xeons, but...

There's a series of "Post your Workstations" over in Cases & Case Modding > Case Mod Gallery 2026 version is here.

A couple years from now prices will either be worse or we'll have a massive AI crash, lots of spare HBM all over the place, the return of Vega (sort of - higher end gaming GPUs using HBM), and slow sales for gaming cards because there's a...

That's pretty close to spot on. It's an enthusiast build. Custom build by a 48yo (at the time) software engineer. It's not new, and now I'm almost 50. The hole in the side fan cage is there to avoid putting too much strain on the 12V-2x6...

No, it's not a big deal at all. I was asking That_Sound_Guy who builds a rig like this because he said he could pick out the type of person who builds a rig based on a picture. So I figured it'd be fun to post my rig and see what he comes up with.

Ok, I'll bite. Who builds something like this?:

Ah, well, at least we got that out there. I don't see anything in your original post about a particular budget or that you were thinking used. Got any guidance on a budget? I probably won't have any useful suggestions but it'd likely be...

No idea what to suggest but they do make low end x86 NAS boxes. Not sure about getting 1x3.5" but a quick search brought up some 2 drive models. Some of them might actually be a little weak for occasional browsing. Like one had 4GB ram...

Given the current situation I wish MS would let go of the TPM requirement for Win11. Just let older hardware run it officially. We already know it works. Download Rufus and an install image, click a checkbox in Rufus, make a Win11 USB...

I wouldn't attempt to repair this myself. I just have no experience fixing vid cards, and I wouldn't start with a 4090. I'd have a look at the PCB. One reason connectors melt is uneven current distribution. So... see any PCB damage? It's...

They got me once with that "cut it to size" bit. Yeah you can do that but that's not how they sell them. Walked into a Microcenter to buy parts, they only had one size of Kryosheet, I figured I was just supposed to cut it to fit without...

Actually one of my complaints about that video is no NV cards were included. They should have skipped the POS RX 6500 cards and included RTX 5050 and ARC B580 instead. Mr. Unboxered is apparently a 4GB vram shill. Where's the segment on stuff...

You get what you pay for. $70 mainboard vs. $400 (when new) higher end vid card from 2017. Still plenty of good quality computer parts around. They just cost more. That said you can't get too nice on a new DDR4 board these days. Seems like...

Yep. The next card down roughly matched the one a notch up from the previous generation. Maybe a little faster or slower, but about there. So 600, 700, 900, 1000... by the time the 1000 series came out the 680 was a "50" card. That's the old...