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Got a 14 pro like a year ago. Its fine, nothing I would EVER pay that much for. But work pays for it. Iphone is just simply better in my work life, testflight, app logs so for work I can't really use anything other than iphone. To much hassle with apk files etc. But things still annoy the bejesus out of me....but i feel like i am more tolerant to those issues today than a year ago...and even forgetting what most of my issues was when I started using it. At times I wanted to exchange the phone to a droid again. The issues are still there and if I would use a samsung for a year and then come back I would realize what they are again and get annoyed at it for a while all over again. Not that samsung or droids don't have their issues...and coming from that side I have probably grown up tolerant to those issues. But don't see the value in 1000$+ phones regardless....like a samsung a52 vs a top samsung s20 or 14 pro did not really differ much for me more than UI. Camera is nice though

I had the same thought. Newegg even have it at 83$ and now I can’t even find 13100f for 100. 13100f is slightly faster but with dual channel 16 vs only single 8 gigs 2023 I would rather get the memory. I had problems back in 2020 in battlefield on 16 gigs of ram and a 3570k before I upgraded. So can’t see 8gig as feasible

But it did actually represent it quite good. People think amd is better on thremals and power right now and it was a 50/50 split on both performance and price (now favoring amd more which is actually a bit supprising, thought intel would have the edge). Which is all good

They are staggered. If i build today. Intel is probably the winner....depening how much I care about heat and thermal. Wait until after CES with x3d variants and AMD is on top....but more expensive. Then wait until after summer and intel is again on top but at that point amd is cheeper again. It is a wonderfull time we are in where both teams have great option and we can prioritize what is important to us....or just don't care because both are good and which one have the edge is just a matter of when you buy it.

Can say depending on motherboard, asus has added Curve optimizer into bios for 5800x3d now. Other manifacturers may follow. I tried it this weekend and slapped on a -30 all core and got a slightly cooler temp + 4450Mhz single core (peak at 4550) and 4374-4399 all core cinebench r23 resulting in 14730 points multicore without any hassle. PBO tuner have had it for a while so you can do it in windows but that require you to re-apply it maunally or through a automatic task. I've seen a couple of guys push their x3d a bit futher than me, if it is lottery or if I am able to push mine a bit more I will try to find out. Would be nice to at be on the 4450Mhz all core which seem to be a limit. Edit: Also it helped me to update my chipset driver in windows I hadn't updated since 2020 when I got my 5600x. Helped to not drop 50Mhz after a while on full load which it did before.

I only updated bios a few times thorugh all theese years. once on my brothers z97m plus due to a visual bug which made bios unusable I updated to solve. once on my thinkpad t420 before upgrading to quad core....which locked it out of quadcore instead lol. Manage to flash a version which did work with quadcore....should have not bothered updating and just ran the default. 4 times on my current b550m tuf gaming. 1st for 5000 support back at launch 2nd to fix vga issue when getting my 3070 10 month later 3rd to suport my 5800x3d a week ago 4th another week later because asus added support for curve optimizer for the 5800x3d in bios. So all have been due to issues with current bios or to support new functionallity or hardware. So if you don't have an issue you don't really have to bother. Possibly some AMD board from before 2021 and before may be more stable with higher speed memory on newer bioses....but then again you would probably notice issues already. Like my 3600mhz cl16 have ran perfectly since ryzen 5000 launch anyway so I never had to update until I ran into the relatively small VGA issues.

Yes you heard me right. No more fiddling with programs in windows, its now in the regular bios for some asus motherboards, hopefully all soon. Just updated my b550m tuf gaming wifi to latest 2806 and now the option is there. Not my find but hope you non redit people will be as happy as I was. Haven't played with it myself yet....only had my 5800x3d for a few days. As curve optimizer has shown to be one of the best way to extract the most performance of the 5000 series cpus AND often lower power consumption as well, I am happy to see it finnaly be a thing on the x3d. For those not in the loop, AMD locked curve optimizer for the x3d cpu for risk of to much power or voltage....but now its here. May more vendors join soon. Not like ASUS can remove the bios anymore...now it is in the wild, no take back https://old.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/z7qw2z/asus_released_updated_bios_that_now_allows_to_use/ https://rog.asus.com/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-b550-f-gaming-model/helpdesk_bios/

Lets see if I can answer this in a way without loosing the red thread. Usb and thunderbolt is both included in usb 4 but devices could use either or. The 40/80 gigabit of new usb4 specification (whatever they call it) is to my understanding usb based not thunderbolt based. So a 40 gigabit may be thunderbolt or usb as a protocoll. It may not matter to consumers but as HDMI has showed that the branding consumers has shown (ie the version numbers) aren't representative as you say HDMI is a collection of features, where bandwidth is one of them. Few remember intel hd 2000/3000 (if I remember right) not supporting 4k60hz (or was it like 21:9 1440p 60hz or 90 hz, was too long for me to remember) over hdmi as they were just shy of the required bandwidth for it....even though hdmi specification 1.4b introduced bandwidth for it 1-2 years prior. People get stuck on the branding name. USB-IF might be choose a better middleground, actually advertising the speed and not the specification but I fear it will lead to situations where MST hubs won't work as advertised as it is requireing single lane usb (gen1,gen2 or gen3 speed). I want to say fuck it to displaylink docks but as thunderbolt is too expensinve of and implementation (may change), mst docks is what I believe is finally at a point soon to be a one connector solution without hassle. But it is dependent on new bandwidth of dp2.0 (to support dual 4k on a dp single pair with mst) and having good usb branding which people won't misunderstand. A mst displayport solution can never work in a situation where usb is running in genYx2 mode. But it also requires good feature communication from device manifacturer...which historically have been useless, both for usb-c and hdmi

But current usb 4 usb 20 gigabits is still usb 4. Usb4 CAN use thunderbolt for more speed and driect PCIe connection...but don't have to, can still use usb as protcoll which is identical to usb 3.2 gen2x2....but it is usb4. So we are already passed that notion.

The problem with that notion is that usb 4 20 gigabit may be hard to know which 20 gigabits. The usb3 gen2x2 version using 2 pairs of gen 2 or a single lane "gen3" from the new usb4 specification which only requires 1 pair and then allows for 4k display support with dp2.0 or hdmi on the other pair in the same cable. So for simple people, using usb something X speed gigabit might be easier, it also hides all features the devices support. But then again, people don't understand hdmi either so it might be a necessary evil. Allways an issue with specifications which can do a lot if things, it's either confusing (complicated) or too simplified...which causes different confusion when things are assumed to work when it is not that simple....case and point hdmi "versions" which simplified branding too much.

Sounds like a similar issue I had with the 5600x launch on a asrock b550m steel legend. Got it, found it was using a older bios, fine the store helped me...but it didn't post. Have it back to them (together with CPU) and they couldn't figure it out. They could update to latest bios, but 5000 CPUs still would not post, they tried 3 different boards with same result. They said to me to change board instead which worked (I choose Asus b550m tuf). After I've seen similar issues on Reddit, so something of how they update their bios which can't update some region to support 5000 even though the rest was up to date, (p1.20 at the time). Models with bios with p1.10 apparently didn't have this issue. What cpu my store used is unknown but they used the same one and updated the Asus board for me to make sure it worked well and there it was no issue. Hopefully asrock don't have similar issues again but sticking with Asus now, (only had Asus before too). Have always been in a Asus Vs asrock choice on every one of my personal machines, before Asus fitted better in my chassi constraints but for once asrock was the better fit in the chassis bit got burnt unfortunately.

I was in the non RGB camp very long, especially when the whole care just was a big sum of one single colour like it was for a long time. With argb it looks better but still think good colour with white light showing it off is still the best. But I got a set of tridentz neo RGB for a awesome price, the moatherboard have RGB so I said fuck it and got a pack of good looking argb fans (with or without RGB they look good). I needed fans anyway and they were not that much more than regular non RGB. So now I sit here in the argb camp with only the front panel having a solid colour...have to fix that some day too.

It all depends on what you want from your port. I have a phone and headphones which charge with is usb c, and the phone is only usb 2 on the port. I can now use my 65w type c charger for my laptop of they on them if they run low on juice since they all use usb pd. My laptop is a ThinkPad e14 g2 (amd) and "only" have one type c port which only support usb 3, charging and dp 1.2. If I go to any conference room I just plug in the type c port there and get video, charge and microphones all hooked up with one single cable. That is the point, sure it would be nice with Thunderbolt....but I really don't know what I would need it for in reality in my work or personal life. I got 2 displays (maybe can daisy chain the DP signal for dual 1080p), usb and charging. I love to have full size usb and hdmi too, gives me options. Usb c can be a tricky basterd somtiemes. Not all usb C ports provide display signal at all, or even usb 3. Without thunderbolt max is either usb 3 2 gen 2x2 or one display signal (on alt mode) + usb 3 and for som People that is not enough, especially if like my laptop only provides DP 1.2 and not 1.4 so daisy chain in high resolution displays is not really possible.

You could try to set speed and timings manually but ryzen only "officially" support 3200MHz and everything above that can be trickier. The memory controller in the Zen 2 and zen 3 cpus are a lot better than the zen and zen+ but are still a bit picky sometimes. Some people i've seen to never get anything above 3200Mhz (and sometimes not even that) and some people can run 4000MHz in 1:1 mode on the XMP/DOCP profile.

One thing I see that is the same "issue" that I have. Very common with that kit. The bank cycle time (tRC) should really be 58...not 85. Apparently that kit is read the tRC wrong on many motherboards when setting xmp/docp. Not a huge thing but you can go into bios and change it manually.