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infigo

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  1. 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$+ phones regardless....like a samsung a52 vs a top samsung s20 or 14 pro did not really differ much for me more than UI. Camera is nice though
  2. I had the same thought. Newegg even have it at 83$ 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
  3. 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
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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/
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. I like a half leather. A nice pattern on the cloth which I sit on but other parts such as the seat bolster (sides) and other parts where one would slide into get in and out in leather. Alcentara/suede is banned, shit material for regular cars. Breathe bad, scuffs easy and manufacturers charge a lot of such a cheap material (yes it is most often cheeper than cloth). I love this Volvo seat design. No black on black design for me.
  17. Most differences comes down to case airflow and case expansion. For motherboards there are often fewer electrical limits on matx versions. Why? Well other than the first 16x slot and the first m.2 (on amd since 1000 series and on Intel with 11000 series). All other pcie ports and m.2 share lanes, most often a 4x pcie 3.0 pipe from the CPU with only x570 double that with 4x 4.0 pipe that can then be split into lanes But for the most parts they only gives 8 lanes of gen 2.0 (b450) or 3.0 (b550) of maximum bandwidth. So choosing say a Asus b550 ATX board most of the ports are disabled anyway since they only allow for one or two ways of expansion at a time due to the limited lanes. Matx have less ports and so less need to limit what is possible on the rest of the ones. On the Asus b550 tuf gaming wifi the only limit with lanes is that the bottom 4x is only used at 2x if any of the 1x ports are used, so no 4k60 capture card But on the b550 tuf it have more 1x ports but same thing there the 4x port limits to 1x lane If any other 1x is populated. The ATX does it a bit differently the 4x and 1x share lanes so as Long as not all 1x and 4x ports is loaded at a time it will be fine. Intel also mostly does it that way too. But different manufactures priorities differently, MSI disable the second m.2 on b550 if a card is placed in the 4x port to always have the 1x ports available, and Asus you choose 1x or 4x expansion but with second m.2 always being active. But in he end all hat data must go through a 4x 3.0 pipe to the CPU so even though chipset might provide 8 lanes of 3.0 maximum, it is not possible to load more than the 4x bandwidth. And that is why x570, threadripper and x299 exist, more bandwidth from cpu to chipset or in the latter two, more lanes directly from CPUs
  18. In section 1-2, page 15-16 or something they say that the add_gen 2 is 5v addressable gen 2 header (argb). That board have one of them and two 12v standard rgb headers. The thing you looking to buy I can't understand if it uses 5v argb or 12 rgb. If you want nice moving effects then it needs to be 5v argb
  19. If you only recording your game or desktop from your pc then the nvenc, or other encoder is used and you won't need a capture card. If you want to record the output from an console or external camera that uses hdmi then you might want a capture card. It seems like you don't need one and then you can choose whatever board you like, but keep in mind that the MSI have few usb 3 ports
  20. Then the only thing you should think of is Do you ever want to add a capture card. If so, if you want a second m.2 or 5 type usb 3 ports is not enough for you then dont choose MSI If your GPU is more than 2 slots (2.5 slots is quite common today) then don't choose the asus. If none of that is a issue for you then you can choose any the 3
  21. I don't know your use case so I will add my cents more general. Asus B550m tuf wifi: + Great board with good features, rgb controller support single led acsess (but not in Asus software). Bios Flashback - The pcie 16x placement (in slot 2) is very limiting in many mATX cases. The graphics card may be to close to the bottom of the case and suffecate the GPU. Card in a 1x slot limit 4x slot to 2x (for non wifi version that is only on the second 1x) Msi B550m mortar WiFi + Also great board, better 16x GPU placement (at slot 1). Bios Flashback - few usb ports. The second 16x slot (4x electrical) disable the second m.2. that 4x slot is the one most likely to be the only one available if one need a usb card because of the few usb ports. Asrock b550m steel legend + 16x placement in slot 1, 4x slot allways full Speed but with second m.2 limited to 2x - wifi is an addon. Slighty worse vrm than the other two (but still very good). No bios Flashback. For me the AsRock b550m steel legend the one I'm probably getting due to my need for usb 3 (5gbit) ports which the MSI do not have and the Asus board place the GPU to close to the bottom in my case. So it is up to you. According to my research all boards are really good but all have their quirks. What is best for you is up to your use case. Had the Asus board have the 16x slot in slot 1 I think it would have been the best mATX board...maybe eben the best b550 board overall, but no they hade to ruin it with the 16x placement
  22. Actually there is one difference between the boards. The first 1x slot on the WiFi version shares lanes with the other 1x slot and the bottom 16x (4x electrical) So if you out a card in that upper 1x slot in the WiFi version. The bottom 4x electrical will be limited to 2x lanes (instead of 4). Only really a problem if you want to put a nvme adapter and want full bandwidth or elgato 4k 60 card which might need 4x bandwidth Edit: the second 1x slot also do the same but both boards do it on that one
  23. Hard to say. I've had two consumer HPs and it was a whole lot of struggle with those. The most stable laptop I've owned or used is the ThinkPad t420 and my brother's t420s (he now owns a t450). If I ever were to buy a laptop it would be a ThinkPad hands down. Although dell and hp business laptops are also decent the time I've used those. For desktop brands I've only used Asus and they have been good to me, cleans uefi with decent design choices and features. My brother had a bug two years in with just z97 board so the uefi UI was fucked (every menue on top of each other), we guessed our way to the uefi update menue and after a new bios update it was fine. Buying asrock for the first time now because Asus are stupid and puts the 16x slot on slot two on a mATX board, limiting expandability and fresh air for the GPU
  24. Just a note on the b550 a pro. The second 16x (4x lanes electrical) shares lanes with the second m.2. So the slot and two ssds at the same time. The two 1x can of course be used but many GPUs are 2.5 slots nowdays which might block one of them, not the one op has chosen. I don't think MSIs compromise it that good buy it's their choce, just like asrock use 2x for the second m.2 and have the second 16 slot Connected with 4 lanes. I personally like Asus approach to lanes the best. Splitting the lanes from the 16x slot (4x electricql) to all 1x slots if any card is used in One 1x slot (except if the 1x slot is cpu connected, the lanes used for WiFi on WiFi models.)
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