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    Ryzen 4 Reviews Are Out.

    derBauer De-lids a 7950x and gets a 20c drop. It seems something is deficient with the IHS or its thermal connection. For 4 years i have been GPU-less I have been using a $400 2200g stop gap build waiting on the mining craze to calm down and GPU prices to come back to normal. I have a lot...
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    larger ~$600 new prebuilt that will take to tinkering later? has to be prebuilt for scollership.

    kinda digging that suggestion, looks like standard components, 7 pci slots, should take full ATX, I think I can see the removable I/O shield in one of the pictures, 3200G might allow for a 3600 later for not much money, details are a bit light, wish they had given a picture of the back but...
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    larger ~$600 new prebuilt that will take to tinkering later? has to be prebuilt for scollership.

    My eldest son (12yo) had qualified for a tutoring scholarship but with this CO-vid mess they have cancelled tutoring and are offering instead to reimburse $500 for a new desktop, we were already saving up for him to eventually get one anyway and we can throw about $150 on top of that. I have...
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    der8aur measure x570 power consumption and passively cools chipset.

    I find these measurements interesting, he measured power at under 8 watts, less than I have been hearing as the reason for the active chipset coolers, but there is more that this board could be doing, would you get the 11w or 15w if all the PCI slots and NVME were populated? + 6 sata drives...
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    Truth? Lie? 5.2 16 core crushes 9980xe

    At the core you are of course correct, but for the past 20 years or so I have been watching, AMD has tried to market thier products to enthusiasts, giving us things we want, where Intel is after broad general market share, we are just a small segment not worth much Intel's effort. And Intel is...
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