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So to get back to Charlie's claims of Qualcomm lying and the Elite X only being able to achieve about "far sub-50%" of the performance Qualcomm claims. So let's go back and look at the performance claims Qualcomm made during the announcement, and then let's write down what performance numbers Charlie claims we will get in the final product (below half). It will be interesting to see who is closest with their numbers once we start seeing hardware in reviewer and consumer hands. My guess is that the official numbers from Qualcomm will be far closer than the numbers Charlie claims we will get. If I had to guess, Charlie will backpedal and cherry pick some very specific benchmarks that Qualcomm never even mentioned. Like maybe he will take one benchmark where Qualcomm compared their chip to an AMD chip and the Qualcomm chip won by 10%. Then Charlie will find a completely different program, benchmark than, and in that test the Snapdragon might lose a lot, so Charlie will say Qualcomm lied because "they said the Snapdragon was faster than the AMD chip, but it isn't in this test". Or maybe he will run non-arm native benchmarks and the performance will be worse, which would be fair. But that doesn't mean Qualcomm lied when they showed their performance numbers using arm-native software. 80-watt TDP config: With the 23-watt TDP config the numbers look like this: Does anyone believe that the numbers we get in the final products are around half of this? Because that is what Charlie claims.

I ended up going with the ASRock Steel Legend RX 7800 XT, thanks everyone! It should be here Monday, along with a few other components. Whenever I receive the CPU (R5 7500F) I'll be posting a build!

Hello everyone, I recently bought a new 4k HDR TV and connected it to my PC along my other two monitors (1440p and 1080p). However, whenever I connect the TV or want to display something on it in 4k HDR my PC takes a long time (like a minute) to adjust to the new output device. The screens either show only parts of the last rendered frame or are completely black. The TV also sometimes tells me that I should "check the power of my device" which is fixed after reinserting the HDMI cable. One (really sucky) solution for me is to duplicate to the two monitors at a lower resolution, then the PC seems to handle the TV better. My current System specs: Windows 10 Pro 22H2 build: 19045.4291 8GB MSI GeForce RTX 2080 GAMING X TRIO Aktiv PCIe 3.0 x16 1xHDMI 2.0 / 1xUSB-C / 3xDisplayPort (Retail) AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 8x 3.90GHz So.AM4 BOX 32GB (2x 16384MB) Corsair Vengeance LPX MSI MPG X570 GAMING PLUS AMD X570 So.AM4 Dual Channel DDR4 ATX Retail 850 Watt be quiet! Straight Power 11 Modular 80+ Gold What would be the best approach to this issue? Is my system simply too slow to smoothly handle all three monitors at once? If so, is there a solution that does not require me to perform expensive hardware upgrades?

One thing I don't understand is why yay has to compile almost everything I need to download from the AUR. Is it just an yay thing or do all AUR helpers do this? I just installed yay and without even installing anything else there are thousands of files and folders in the yay folder and somehow my drive usage has also increased quite a bit. If I look inside the folder, the reason there are so many files and folders because most of the folder is filled with source files. Why do I care about keeping source files? I just need the binary. So am I supposed to use a different AUR helper? How do I not keep the source file and why does it even compile them in the first place?

ALT+SHIFT+A on the website you want to deactivate, it will deactivate the addon only for that website until you manually turn it on again.

I used to have Kingston Fury 2X16GB 6000MHz (Intel XMP) CL40 paired with Ryzen 7800X3D It works fine, but the downside that sometimes it does RAM training after BIOS update or just randomly RAM training for 2 minutes when turning it on I changed to Silicon Power RAM 6000MHz CL30 (still XMP) and it never does RAM training even once But your mileage may vary P.S. DOCP is just ASUS marketing branding for RAM overclocking process, DDR5 has default speed at 4800MHz, and with overclocking (DOCP/XMP/EXPO) it could reach at higher speed depending on the RAM kit you use (it has been tested on set from the manufacturer) For AMD platform, latency affects more than memory speed, which is why it's recommended to have lower latency, i.e. CL36, CL32, or CL30

GeForce 9800 GTX+. It's solid for blur, Unreal Tournament 2004, RimWorld. Heavily recommend!

When I plug my ps5 controller into my pc, not only does it set it as the default audio device, but it actually removes my headset as an audio device from my pc. I can look at my audio devices, see my headset there, and immediately when I plug the ps5 controller in, my headset completely disappears. It will not come back until i restart my system and unplug and plug the headset back in. In the past, I have had it change the default audio device to the controller, but I have never had it completely remove my headset from my system before. I have disabled the controller as an audio device, but when I plug it in, it still removes the headset as a device and instead of audio coming through the controller, it comes through my monitor. Extremely confused on this issue and have looked for a solution everywhere.

I cant reveal our cost, but retail is 2849.99 CDN

Eh? 3070 > FH5 and RDR2 does fine at 3440x1440p

Thanks guys. This one is working quite well. My only pet peeve is that it doesn't automatically detect a site that is already in native dark mode, but you can disable it site specific & set site specific options.

Isn't that just the tech sack/pouch i can not remember the exact wording

So I'm having some issues with OCing my setup after upgrading RAM and PSU, specifically OCing the CPU and RAM. I also upgraded graphics but I don't think it's related to the issue. I feel like it's something simple and I'm just being daft. Everything listed here is from memory as I'm away from home. I literally stayed up all night to try and figure this out. To preface I currently have a Ryzen 7 2700(not x), ASUS ROG Crosshair VI Hero WiFi(most recent bios it would flash without black screening is 6201), Radeon RX 7600xt, 64gb ddr4 3600mhz TForce Vulcan Z Ram (4x16), and a 1000W Gigabyte UD1000GM PG5 PSU. The only way the system will post is if I leave everything default or use the mildest auto OC. CPU target is ~3200mhz I think, but ram was only 2400mhz. Used to I could OC my CPU to ~3.9-4.0ghz stable but now if I touch it or the ram it fails to post, everything spins to life but no power to peripherals and black display until it gives me the boot failed bios memory reset or whatever after like 3 auto reboots. In CPU Z both clocks are reading correctly (except ram is only 1200mhz with ddr and all). Lastly only half of my ram is showing up as usable and half is hardware reserved. I don't know how to change that and didn't see anything in bios though it does pick up all 4 sticks but shows memory as ~32gb. Hopefully someone can help!

What games do you normally play as well? Is it good for that game?

@dogwitch Fine, I've updated the topic

Yea that's what it seemed when I started researching and looking. I guess a moot point now that I'm going with a desktop and the 4070 looks to offer great performance for the price.

Ahh, alright. Thanks a lot! We'll look into how to use linux as we both are unfamiliar with how to use and install that os. Praying for the sake of our uni projects!

That, try it in another machine, possibly from a live linux boot... if it's recognised with proper capacity you can use e.g. ddrescue to make an image of it and hopefully mount it then, if it still freezes or doesn't get recognised correctly there's nothing you'll be able to do outside of using a data recovery company.

If it has gone bad, is there a way to recover any files from it or is it doomed...

Unable to do that in current moment, it's just that the other one works fine that makes us think that shouldn't be an issue!