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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...

I believe they did restock, so it’s worth the waitlist.

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 +...

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.

Might be worth checking if PCIe 2.0 x 4 link rate is expected. I guess this is a x99 board?

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

I think they are preparing for the end of SAS and SATA interface.

The Gigabyte Aorus master PCIe slot layout is ever more odd than the Strix 670e-e which does x8,x4,x4 The x670e aorus master only does x16,x4,x2 (and the x2 is pcie 3.0!)

I suspect they needed to differentiate there line up drew somewhere to differentiate the Strix and Rampage. So many x670e boards have configurations that don’t make sense. (x1 and x2 PCIe slots) For x670e, the max PCIe slot configuration implemented by vendors is 3 slots with x8,x8,x4

One more thing, If SATA is important, most x670e boards with more than 4 SATA implement the additional SATA port using ASmedia ASM 1064 on PCIe 3.0 x 1 lane. Expect only up to 450 MBps transfer instead of 600 MBps transfer in those ports.

670e chipset boards are a pain to choose as the chipset forces may compromises compared to z690/z790.., the 1st one is the PCIe x 4 downlink from the chipset. They will surely change it to Gen 5 there next AM5 Chipset. The MSI carbon WiFi also meets your requirements. It also has an additional...

I happened to find it on Crucial.com in Dec. https://www.crucial.com/ssd/7400_pro/mtfdkcb7t6tdz-2az18abyyr It was too tempting to pass on, hence got a pair. Too bad they are out of stock now and on wait list.

Micron recently cleared a stack of 7.68TB 7400 Pro SSD for $314 (w/10% off coupon on crucial.com)

Motherboard makers will try to build even bigger pieces of metal onto the boards to get even more margin. I had issues with reusing a Samsung 960 Pro as a boot drive on a new x670e motherboard without heatsink.The system will slow down shortly after booting up because thermals. The asmedia...

I think the m.2 format which was intended for mobile devices has pretty much reached its limits for fast I/O devices due to thermals. High performance SSD, have faster controllers. (Typically multi-core ARM processor), ii.) more flash channels. (Some controllers have 16 channels)...

For 7800x3d. All b650 or x670 will run it fine and to its max potential. For choosing boards, different people have different requirements, just list you top 5 requirements the select based on that. (> 3 m.2 , 3 PCIe slots , WiFi, 10Gbe, USB 3.2 2 x 2, USB4/TB , PCIe 5.0 , back kit audio jacks...

Yes, but their technology for that doesn’t seemed to have scaled into larger displays. https://www.samsungdisplay.com/eng/tech/oled-display.jsp

Be prepared to be disappointed. Neither Samsung or LG make large OLED’s panel glass with the PPI needed for 4K 32’. If those OLEd panel glass exist, you will see it in 8K 65 inch TV’s first. However, I doubt they would invest in it given the flop of the 8K TV market.

Not surprised. People should be realistic about their expectations. Current Samsung QD Oled and LG W-OLED can only reach ~105 PPI. Suitable for 42‘ 4K, 34‘ UWQHD or 27‘ QHD. Samsung also has other Oled tech used in laptop and mobile that can reach higher PPI , but their process seems to be...

I would see what AMD comes out with first. The issue with the 4090 is that it can do like 200 FPS at 4K. However, it lacks a display interface that can really do 4K at such high FPS's with out DSC.

One reason why LG Electronics seem to be able to differentiate themselves in the OLED market is that they have a sufficient level of vertical integration. - LG electronics has sufficient economies scale in the TV business to build their own LG1213 (alpha series of TV SoC's) system on chip which...

I find the omission of Display Port 2.0 interesting. It implies we won't be getting very high refresh rate 4K displays any time soon. :(

A number for reasons. 1.) GPU is too tall and horizontal mount does not fit. (Issue with water cooling) 2.) GPU in horizontal mount blocks off too much airflow. 3.) GPU in horizontal mount sags too much due to weight. 4.) Vertical mount GPU allows you to show the RGB lifts.

If you got the room, upgrade your display to something that supports 4K 120Hz or more (LG48?) or else the extra frames from a 3080 or 6800xt won’t make too much of a difference.

Lol, same case.

No issue running 3080 on Lian Li O11 vertical mount kit. This is with MB that only supports PCIE-3

Ended up getting a Gigabyte Aorus 3080 Xtreme WB ... Points to note. - It looks nice - Unlike the Aorus Xtreme aircooled version. It only have 2 PCIe power inputs, not 3 ! Suspect power limit is lower ! - It seems like only the 1st HDMI port supports 4K 120. @#!#! Update: only 2 of the 3...

Looking at the Specs. I don't see why it won't fit even with HDD cage installed.

Agree, Intel HEDT in late 2017 was a decent choice. The other options back then were. 1.) intel 7700k (not enough cores or PCIe) 2.) threadripper 19xx (poor gaming perf. 3.) Ryzen 1xxx (poor game perf.)

Do try to tighten timings in the mem timings. (CAS 14 or 15) You should be able to get 50-52 ms mem latency in AIDA64 test.

It's not all that bad this time... At least performance level at the price point actually increased... In the previous 1000 => 2000 series transition. The $800 dollar price point didn't offer any real perf. improvement. (1080ti to 2080) .. Its progress... Of course, I see little reason...

Its probably not worth changing sockets. 1.) get new graphics cards. 2.) Tighten memory timings. (if not already tight) . The HEDT do perform better at games when memory latency is reduced. ( low 50 ms. )

We all hear that going back to 512 bit memory bus's is going to be unlikely. However, I wonder would AMD do something abit more than 384 bit, like 416 , or 448 bit memory bus for 13GB or 14GB cards? Enough to match RTX 3000 series in mem bandwidth without going to GDDR6x or HBM2. I do wonder...

LG G9 OLED here, Will see what AMD comes out with. the 3080 with 10GB has to little video memory for my liking, but the 3090 is too much of a price increase (100%) for too little additional performance increase. (20%)

Wait for reviews. However, I suspect for 1440p 144Hz gaming the 3080 is probably good enough. The 3090 will likely get you 20 more performance for a 100% price increase + the hassle of the extra power draw and cooling.

I suspect the Skylake-X / Cascade Lake-x / Ryzen 3xxx can further close the gap with the the 9900 when over clocked with aggressive memory timings. (i.e. 3600 c14 timings).