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Looks like they ran it into the ground for sure. I’ve done a couple of custom loops and it’s a lot of fun but pretty much an indulgence at this point. Every time I think about another go I just price it out and then realize I could buy a 7800x3d , mobo and $30 air cooler for not a lot more money…

The 5600x is still plenty for the GRE especially at 4k. The PSU 'should' be fine for the GRE IMO. Toss it in and see how it goes! I have my 7900xt in my 5600x system right now with a corsair SF600w PSU. No issues running 1080p 165hz on a cheap LG monitor or 4k 60hz on the TV. I do tend to...

So far it seems like some combination of the MOBO manufacturers having too many aggressive settings enabled in the bios by default as well as Intel just absolutely redlining the silicon out of the box to keep up. Or some manufacturing defect or batch issue?... Who knows. Anyway, I've been...

Hey one of those days ya know. Y2K was wild. I was working my first job out of college back then and they had all these old programmers in to patch out mainframes because they were in COBOL. The year was only 2 digits in our software so the fear was it would roll to 00 and think it’s 1900 and...

While its nice to see the founders cards available direct however its getting late in the cycle and I imagine a lot of buyers already have something. AND, there is the whole world going to shit thing... Seriously , buckle up and save your resources for your family and yourself. Invest in food...

Bah! Yes typo.. Am5 was what I meant. Had a 7700x. Great cpu performance wise that was pissy with a couple of ram kits and two different mobos and I got sick if dealing with it. With all that said at this time AM5 is probably easy enough so maybe a 7800x3d on an itx board will replace my b550...

I upgraded to zen 5 fairly early and while good it’s not an amazing leap for what I do with my machines. Basically they are hobby/ entertainment boxes. Ended up parting that system out. The 7800x3d is really the best and only choice for my use case when it comes down to it. Even so I’m not...

My kids play all those games including BeamnGDrive on a Ryzen 3600 ,Gtx 1070 ,16gb ram and a 1tb sata ssd. I agree that system you posted is fine for those games and is priced too high.

I’ve been eyeballing the 770 for my spare pc that has no gpu presently. Any thoughts on the Sparkle 770 16g vs the AsRock Phantom Gaming? Also it looks like the price went back up on both this week ….👎

Indeed! OP. I built a high end system for my buddy on AM5 release with a x670 Gene, DDR5 6000 ram a Tuf 4090 and a Ryzen 7600x as a starter CPU to hold out for the x3d chips that were sure to come at some point. Remember this was literally launch month for AM5 when this happened. To this day...

Yeah both AMD and Nvidia are going to continue to price cards as high as possible. The most recent shakeup that made some traction for AMD was the RX 480 at 199 at launch and not the moonshot launch price and reduction they do now. Nvidia really doesn’t reduce prices too much historically...

Well looks like my board defaults to it also. I just loaded defaults and .. Now I never even come close to thermal throttling playing games and so on but I'm going to force the stock limits anyway. One tick on the ez mode bios in the middle of the screen to Enable Intel Limits: The default...

Funny story that... My 7 year old 1440p 144hz monitor died and I replaced it this past weekend with a cheap 165hz LG 1080p while at Walmart for other crap. So for now 1080p is back baby! I'm planning on a house move later this year and not looking to dump hundreds into another monitor before...

Just to pile on some great suggestions so far. IMO if building new the Ryzen 7800x3d with a 4070 is probably the most power efficient and performant combo going at this time per watt. I have a 7900xt which is thirsty if you let it run but frame limiting keeps it in the 220-250 range easily so...

And this guy balked at buying some when it was like 130 bucks :(

I'm running a $154 fire sale 12600k on The z790 Nova. The T create ram at 7200 xmp profile shoves 1.4v into the memory controller. So yeah I’m set at 1.25 and 6000 memory because seeing 1.4 all day every day seemed like a bad idea. I’m willing to bet its from over clocking or even just memory OC.

The PSU you have takes Corsair Type 4 cables or type 4 compatible cables if you don't get them from Corsair. Try searching that on the Zon. The Corsair branded ones are pricey but you do have like a $200 PSU with a 10 year warranty soo... May want to get the real ones? EDIT: Looks like Corsair...

The adds are definitely intrusive. Unfortunately my kids actually use Prime video a decent amount and I use the shipping for sending things to my parents who are in their golden years and don’t like to drive all over town shopping. However it’s getting to the break point and who knows maybe...

These are a nice step forward in a light gaming do it all small PC. Personally every time I try to use something like that for htpc duties eventually I want to play some games on the couch. Every time I end up moving my main PC to the living room for a while. I’m interested in people’s...

Out of those choices I like the Gigabyte Windforce. It's not overly huge while having a beefy cooler and of course its listed at that 799.99 MSRP.

That case has blue led fans if I recall. I had one a long time ago. Anyway, 2 120mm blue led fans are easy to find. Corsair, Cooler master and random off brands available from 8$ and up apiece. Thermaltake has a 200mm blue led fan on Amazon for $15. I’m sure you could wrestle a replacement in...

Is it close enough to Pokémon for Nintendo to make a fuss? Cease and desist in 3-2-1.. 😉 Holy Crap I watched the video and It’s Pokémon, Minecraft, Ark etc and basically a lot of things people would love in a Pokémon game. If my kids see this and it’s not a cash grab or shut down I’ll have to...

This is incredibly disappointing but predictable. Infinite consumption cannot continue for physical goods so everything in life will be a service to keep the profits coming in. Corporate is gonna corporate. Ownership of most anything is slowly going away. Hell if I paid my house off and left it...

I’m not defending the release ,refresh and release crap we get in the GPU space but if anyone is buying a new retail card may as well get the latest version of it. Makes sense for new builds I guess. Or maybe someone who held a 1080ti all the way to Raptor or Zen 5… However $600 for 12Gigs of...

For even money the Nvidia feature set is compelling. Get the card you like now for what you play/do now and near term. Future proofing is neat but upgrading a gpu is easy. Personally I have a 7900xt main ,a 3060ti side box, a 3060 and pair of 6700xt in the kids PCs. We all play games and the...

The OG Zoo Tycoon? Try Abandonware: https://www.abandonwaredos.com/abandonware-game.php?abandonware=Zoo+Tycoon&gid=3186

Yep it’s a shit implementation. Users can mess it up too easily and not that I’m in the market for a GPU but I’m not buying any card that has this connector. Especially since I tend to buy used and who knows what the plug went through beforehand. Maybe it will get a revision in the 5000 series.

Added 7700x CPU

I ran one character through most every side quest and all the way to NG+ to experience that. Plenty of hours in entertainment and I’m about 4 achievements away from 100%. Been on a break from it but will likely return to get those achievements. Game is a solid 7/10 for me.

My brother and I are debating picking this up. Always looking to try some coop stuff. For a ten spot why not?

I agree with the assessments above. Check the ram settings/ installation. Forgive me if I’m way off. You state slot 1 and 2 for your ram modules. Are they installed like the manual says for two sticks ? A2,B2?

Agree. If buying brand new at this point the 7900xt all day. I have a reference model and love it. The 6000 series cards are still fine but I would only buy them used anymore for the price performance angle. They are last gen after all and why over pay for that?

Awesome deal! Also on Amazon: 12600kf is $140 12700kf is $199 12700k is $211 Lots of z690 boards around $150 and even cheaper used. I have ddr4 lying around and I really need to stop looking at these deals…😆

For sure. Anything AM4 and less than 8/16 would be for lower budget drop in upgrades for existing systems. To your point a 5700x is probably the price performer even for that use case.

160 is a nice deal on a 5700x. I wonder what prices will be on these. Microcenter has the 5600x3d at 199 currently and I’m super tempted to get one for “reasons.” 😁

Ha! I believe I picked this one up on a pirate elimination mission from the board. Random drop. I actually bought the first Hard Target I had at a vendor somewhere. Fun rifle for sure.

Pretty interesting if true. I’ve got a few B450 systems in the family and it’s not like any of them are spending 4090 money so something like a 5500x3d would be a good budget gaming cpu to run those pcie 3 systems into the ground. I imagine that would push $200 GPUs for years.

My couch gaming / media streaming Pc is a 5600x and 6800xt itx box in a Sliger Conswole case. It does 4K 60 on everything I play and I’m ok with 1440p high detail sitting so far away as well. Played some Starfield for a few hours today. Shitty pic but runs and looks fine.