Tech Gaming Hardware discussion (& Hardware Sales) thread

Slobodan said:
Very nice, my case doesn't have very good airflow (InWin 303), I got it because of the looks. I only have an exhaust fan in there. This is case is more suited for liquid cooling.

Mine idled at about 45. Another factor is my motherboard (Gigabyte Gaming X), the power delivery or whatever you call it isn't up to par compared to the better X570 motherboards. In fact I think it's one of the 2 worst ones.
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Mine has calmed down a bit since the initial install its now idling at 40 degrees. so it may have simply been the thermal paste was fresh.

If you ever need any spare parts for computers, just message me I might have some laying around I can just express post you.
 
Madmick said:
These markups on world-leading CPUs are a fraction of where Intel landed us.
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AMD over the past years set a standard of keeping their prices down. Now theyve acquired Intel level of gaming performance and immediately jumped to Intel prices.
 
KaNesDeath said:
AMD over the past years set a standard of keeping their prices down. Now theyve acquired Intel level of gaming performance and immediately jumped to Intel prices.
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to be fair, there's also more supply constraints (and higher costs due to tsmc's tight wafer situation) than previously.

but i don't have a problem with amd raising their prices, regardless. many arguments were made that their lower (than intel) prices actually hurt them in both mindshare and marketshare - from people who didn't know better thinking that intel is better because they cost more (and buying intel then, because of it)

Woldog said:
3800x is installed and running. I'll be interested to see your idle temps @Slobodan right now mines idling at 65. My 3700x idled at about 35.

Turns out I didn't have a 3600x. I had a 3700x
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{<huh}

i'm so confused by this post.
 
Well I broke down an bought a used RTX 2070 for 350 dollars. I put a bid in thinking no way would I get it but I got it. I could not believe it the RTX 2060's where going for 400 plus. It must have been because it was the middle of the night I put my bid in most of these sell for more then 480 and up crazy.
 
PEB said:
Well I broke down an bought a used RTX 2070 for 350 dollars. I put a bid in thinking no way would I get it but I got it. I could not believe it the RTX 2060's where going for 400 plus. It must have been because it was the middle of the night I put my bid in most of these sell for more then 480 and up crazy.
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New 5700xt's are hitting $360.
 
Looks like the 10900k is still tops at 4k.
 
KaNesDeath said:
AMD over the past years set a standard of keeping their prices down. Now theyve acquired Intel level of gaming performance and immediately jumped to Intel prices.
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Rubbish.

AMD all these years set a standard of charging what they could based on what they were able to offer. It's not like they set prices as low as they did out of a sense of charity to mankind. It's simply the price their CPUs commanded. They were desperately clawing for sales. That's why even at their much lower prices they still only had a ~10% desktop share four years ago, and still just 20% today after three years of Ryzen. That's probably going to double or triple by the end of 2021. Intel's distribution networks, subcontracting, and partnering is profoundly strong, so it may take a few years holding this dominance for AMD to achieve a market majority, but in spite of the price hikes, that's where they're headed...because they earned it.

They earned these prices.
 
KaNesDeath said:
AMD over the past years set a standard of keeping their prices down. Now theyve acquired Intel level of gaming performance and immediately jumped to Intel prices.
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AMD Ryzen processors have been high at launch and in about 6 months they start to drop. I don't think we'll see that this time though.
 
No more included cooler either (and they were actually decent).

Okay it seems like the 5600X still comes with the Wraith Stealth.
 
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My Spot said:
No more included cooler either (and they were actually decent).
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True, and the 3900X has a virtually identical total power draw to the 5800X, 5900X, and 5950X, while its per-core peak draws actually exceeds any of these, specifically the 5800X.

So if a Wraith Max/Prism was enough for a 3900X it would be enough for any of these. Would have been nice, but considering the penchant among builders to opt for more powerful coolers who spend this much, I'm not sure how many will lament the loss.

The 5600X, on the other hand, comes with the Wraith Stealth.
 
Madmick said:
True, and the 3900X has a virtually identical total power draw to the 5800X, 5900X, and 5950X, while its per-core peak draws actually exceeds any of these, specifically the 5800X.

So if a Wraith Max/Prism was enough for a 3900X it would be enough for any of these. Would have been nice, but considering the penchant among builders to opt for more powerful coolers who spend this much, I'm not sure how many will lament the loss.

The 5600X, on the other hand, comes with the Wraith Stealth.
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Yeah they aren't garbage like Intel's stock cooler (although my i5 8400 has always done just fine with it).
 
The 3600 and 3600X are now $180 and $200 at Microcenter. The 10400 is now $150.

<mma4>
 
jefferz said:
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New 5700xt's are hitting $360.
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I cannot go with AMD's GPU they are not supported or very limited support for many of my 3D apps. I use for hardware modeling. If I could I would but that limits me anyway. Mountains of my software are open source and Nvidia doing a much better job supporting them then AMD right now. AMD is way behind them as far as hardware modeling goes. Anyways isn't AMD the evil empire right now? Did you go over to the dark side? :)

EDIT: There was a time Nvidia was so bad Linus gave them the figure that has changed big time.
 
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