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    7850OC reacted to GuiltySpark_ in Should I get a rtx 3060 or a radeon rx 6600 xt?   
    Cheapest RX6600XT on Newegg right now: $330
    Cheapest RTX 3060 on Newegg right now: $369
     
    If you have no need for Nvidia specific tech like CUDA, the choice is pretty clear. DLSS? AMD cards have RSR and FSR. At this tier of card, ray tracing really shouldn't be that important to you. 
     
    Now if streaming is important to you, the AMD encoder isn't as far off of NVENC as it used to be but still something you want to take into account. This may have some helpful information.
     
    Full disclosure, I own a 3090 and RX6600 system. I don't care about brands, only price to performance. 
     


     
    Screenshots from here
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    7850OC reacted to xAcid9 in Do OC is worth ?   
    You're probably CPU limited in that game, with that kind of clock range you should get more than 3 fps imo. 
    Overclock and undervolt is the lyfe. 
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    7850OC reacted to SeanLMG in This Build Never Ends... - Kallmekris Tech Makeover Part 2 (SPONSORED)   
    Thanks to ASUS for sponsoring today's video! Check out some of the products featured below:
     
    ASUS ROG Strix 30 Series Graphics Cards
    For gamers looking to make the most of these raw gains, ASUS GeForce RTX 30 Series cards harness the elements to upgrade cooling and boost performance. components.
    https://www.asus.com/us/site/Ampere-RTX-30/
     
    ProArt Z690-CREATOR WIFI – Your Powerhouse for Creativity
    https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards-Components/Motherboards/ProArt/ProArt-Z690-CREATOR-WIFI/
     
    ROG Thor 1000W Platinum II - is the quietest PSU in its class.
    https://rog.asus.com/us/power-supply-units/rog-thor/rog-thor-1000p2-gaming-model/
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    7850OC reacted to AdamFromLTT in Reacting to OLD Computer Magazines   
    Join us on a trip down memory lane where Linus looks at some of the greatest and latest PC tech circa 2004. These old issues of Maximum PC are filled with tons of hilarious takes, strange forgotten products, and beloved childhood favourites!
     
     
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    7850OC reacted to starsmine in You're Too OLD to Game!   
    they never lied about it. it met every single DX11 feature level when it came out.
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    7850OC reacted to William M in You're Too OLD to Game!   
    I tired the nimez drivers for my AMD 7850 using to hook more display's on the computer. Had no issue loading the drivers. For reference was running windows 11 drivers for it before. Computer is running 8080k intel cpu(OC 5Ghz all core). 48Gb ram, 1070ti gpu and amd 7850, 
    The card used to have issue render youtube video though firefox at 4k. Handle it much better.  Note running youtube at 4k is tough for 1gb vram. System is reporting 94% vram usage on that card. Might have to look up video how to reapply thermal paste on card. Card has never been pulled apart.  I have 6 screens attached to machine. 
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    7850OC reacted to IkeaGnome in Somewhat experienced looking to upgrade   
    It's really only worth it if you need the extra PCIE lanes. Or the core count increase, but the 5950x should out perform the 2970x for the most part.
    DDR5 doesn't give hardly any performance gap over DDR4 currently. Wait for that to mature before you go DDR5. Not nearly enough to be worth the extra costs.
     
    The 3090 is a hot GPU. Specifically the back side modules. I'd look into an active backplate for these. For the rest of it, AFAIK most of your parts are made by Bykiski or Barrow and some costs could be cut by going with them. 
    For audio production, they might be, but on board audio has gotten very good. If I were you, I'd go with an onboard audio and see if it's up to your standards. If it's not, it's easy to drop in a sound card. 
     
    Any reason for a 5950x over the 12900K? 5950x would leave some performance on the table.
    https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/12th-Gen-Intel-Core-CPU-Review-Roundup-2248/ 
    Since you didn't say how much storage you want/need, I put a really good gen 4 dive in as a placeholder.
    12900k build
    The downside to the 5950x would be the chipset fan on X570 if what you're doing is noise sensitive. If it's not, that makes the motherboard much easier to pick.
    TR4. If you really wanted to go Threadripper, and it doesn't look like you need the extra PCIE lanes, you're looking at almost double the CPU cost and double the motherboard cost. 
     
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    7850OC reacted to Morgana in Help me choosing my new pc parts   
    if you can find a ryzen 3 3200g for msrp, you could go cheaper on the motherboard and cpu as well (at the cost of performance)
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    7850OC reacted to Morgana in Help me choosing my new pc parts   
    for non demanding games like what you listed, an APU system would likely be sufficient. something like this (no monitor in this build) https://pcpartpicker.com/list/83YjYg
     
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    7850OC reacted to Danny Cyanide in My first PC build - It's a desk!   
    Hi Everybody, I'm Danny.
     
    I've always been a laptop user, but after seeing the LTT desk build I've been inspired to build myself a desk of my own.  
     
    Today I managed to snag a good chunk of my needed hardware, and drew up a quick CAD design of the desk itself.
     
    I'm planning to use EK waterblocks, rads, resivoirs and fans for this build.  I'm planning it as a dual loop build because I'd like to run different colors on the 2 loops!
     
    Anyways,  that's my introduction, I hope you guys enjoy watching this thing come together over the next little while!
     
     



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    7850OC reacted to TromboneSteve in Gaming and Streaming on Linux Mint With an Nvidia GPU   
    Just wanted to share my experience with gaming and streaming on Linux Mint before the video of that portion of the challenge is released.

    I've been using Mint since 2015, so I've dealt with the exact same issues Luke is probably going to run into. I've tried once a year to switch my game stream setup completely to Linux, but I've had a bad experience every time except for when I tried a couple of months ago. I'm actually pretty satisfied with my current setup and am using Mint for my game streams more and more. I had the same issues for years until I just installed KDE and started logging in to a Plasma session whenever I wanna game and/or stream. I recently streamed a game running through Proton that has BattlEye enabled just fine, which is pretty cool.
    There's some kind of stuttering issue with Mutter/Muffin and the proprietary Nvidia driver. If you're just gaming, it's usually not an issue, but sometimes you definitely will have issues on certain games. It's a huge problem when you try to stream games, though. There's almost always a noticeable stutter. Disabling flipping in the Nvidia driver settings seems to resolve this issue for gaming, but the OBS capture usually misses at least 10% of the frames due to rendering lag. KDE's KWin seems to have resolved these issues for me with both gaming and streaming. These stuttering issues were extremely frustrating to me for several years, and the only way I could resolve them was with KDE. PulseAudio sort of sucks for streaming. idk. Mint doesn't have Jack or Pipewire installed by default, so stream audio just sort of sucks. VST filters don't seem to work well with OBS and PA. There's sometimes some crackling to the audio, too, that I'm assuming is PA's fault. Yes, the audio can be fixed by at least a few different methods, but doing so on the current LTS is just sort of a bad experience. It sort of reminds be of the hassle of having to deal with audio on old DOS games, though it isn't that bad. Pavucontrol, which I believe still isn't installed by default in Mint, is necessary for a stream setup. OBS sometimes just randomly routes audio in incorrect ways, and Pavucontrol is needed whenever that happens. Games open on the wrong monitor in a multi-monitor setup. This seems to be another issue caused by Mutter/Muffin and the proprietary Nvidia driver. You're able to move the game to the other monitor with some games, but not all. KDE also resolved this issue. Alt-tabbing or clicking outside of a full screen game will usually make you have a bad time. Some games end up off-center on the monitor. Mouse input will be messed up and unusable until the game is restarted. Switching to KDE also resolved these issues for me. UVC video devices, like webcams, seem to just freeze up in OBS when trying to change their settings. I have to unplug the device, plug it back in, and then add it back to OBS for it to start working again. I'm actually not sure what causes this, and I'm curious to see if Linus or Luke will have this same issue. Once the settings are set in OBS, they seem to save between reboots which is really nice. Those are the main issues I've had with a Linux Mint + Nvidia proprietary driver game streaming setup. I still use Mint on all of my PCs at home, but almost always in a Plasma session on my game streaming PC. I do prefer Cinnamon, so I use that on PCs that I won't game on. I installed kde-standard on my game stream PC, but I'll probably install kde-plasma-desktop next time since it installs way less stuff I don't need. I honestly don't recommend my setup unless you have a decent amount of experience with desktop Linux. I've done a lot of distro hopping and this is the setup I found works best for me. Kubuntu LTS should get you pretty much the same results. I personally prefer my weird setup, though.
     
    On a somewhat unrelated note, I'm really curious if/how Linus is gonna get back the missing OBS features from the main OBS package in Pamac. I used tytan652's package in the AUR the last time I tried Manjaro, and it seemed to get back almost all of the features. There's different ways to work around this issue, though.
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    7850OC reacted to D-reaper in Gaming and Streaming on Linux Mint With an Nvidia GPU   
    Don't. Use. Anything. With. Nvidia. Period. Especially with KDE Plasma.
     
    I can't stress this enough as a full time Linux user myself; who had used a Nvidia GPU for over 5 years on Linux dealing with drivers, screen tearing, font issues, etc.. After going to an AMD RX 570, I will never buy another Nvidia GPU again. So I can vouch for this. Especially with a system that has an older Nvidia GPU. I recently had to chuck out a 15 year old laptop that had a Nvidia GPU that my mom used because the legacy driver didn't support newer kernel releases. Went to a used AMD laptop and everything has been smooth. No messing with drivers either. Just plug and play.
     
    Takeaway from this is, the older the Nvidia GPU, the harder it will be to use with any Linux distro. But yeah. For the sake of sanity, avoid Nvidia GPUs at all costs. I wish I switched to AMD as soon as I started shifting over to Linux.
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    7850OC reacted to tkrsh_rage in when "Linus Linux Challenge" comes to YouTube ?   
    Our whole researchlab of more than 100 people never had any issues with Nvidia Drivers in last 4 years.
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    7850OC reacted to emosun in Linux HATES Me – Daily Driver CHALLENGE Pt.1   
    Linux is so opensource that it hates everyone equally 
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    7850OC reacted to BellLMG in Linux HATES Me – Daily Driver CHALLENGE Pt.1   
    This is part 1 in a series where Linus and Luke migrate their home workstation to Linux. In this episode, each decides which Distro they'll use, and then tries to run a game on it.
     
     
     
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    7850OC reacted to Semperverus in when "Linus Linux Challenge" comes to YouTube ?   
    You would be the first. Nvidia drivers are a big source of people blaming Linux for "working until it doesn't." Up until extremely recently, Nvidia did not play ball _at all_ with the Linux community. We FINALLY got proper Wayland support in the last driver release, and it's gonna take a little time before Gnome and KDE support their change (because development just takes time).

    I used to use Nvidia for the longest time until I got sick of the driver breaking every time I ran a system update. Just inexplicably, for no reason, it broke. Have not once had that problem on AMD since I switched.
     
    AMD open sourced their drivers and then supercharged them to the point of being more stable and overall just... better than on Windows.

    There's a reason why Linus Torvalds had that "in"famous quote directed at Nvidia...
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    7850OC got a reaction from mrchow19910319 in when "Linus Linux Challenge" comes to YouTube ?   
    oh, good to know, thanaks friend
     
    oh, there are windows, printers and wifi antennas, just old HP printers
    on windows, they use the color ink, and there is no way to make they use just black ink
     
    on linux, you tell use just black, and they obey you
    on Windows or HP they do what windows or hp want, and not what you tell them to do
     
    they "want" and "make you" spend more money 😐
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    7850OC got a reaction from whm1974 in when "Linus Linux Challenge" comes to YouTube ?   
    oh, good to know, thanaks friend
     
    oh, there are windows, printers and wifi antennas, just old HP printers
    on windows, they use the color ink, and there is no way to make they use just black ink
     
    on linux, you tell use just black, and they obey you
    on Windows or HP they do what windows or hp want, and not what you tell them to do
     
    they "want" and "make you" spend more money 😐
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    7850OC reacted to OneOfYas in when "Linus Linux Challenge" comes to YouTube ?   
    7850OC, thanks for having links in your sig, I just watched Linus vs Luke scrapyard wars, was awesome.
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    7850OC reacted to Skiiwee29 in when "Linus Linux Challenge" comes to YouTube ?   
    Part 1 is up on Floatplane so it will be relatively soon for that, possibly this weekend or early next week. 
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    7850OC reacted to Bitter in Unigine Valley Benchmark Scores Thread + SUPERPOSITION ***Over 1000 Submissions!***   
    Clearly it doesn't scale linearly, the 3080 is WAY more than 2x faster than a GTX 960.
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    7850OC reacted to Mark Kaine in Unigine Valley Benchmark Scores Thread + SUPERPOSITION ***Over 1000 Submissions!***   
    3070:
     

     
    940MX:
     

     
    (oops, thread has been moved 👀)
     
     
    The BEST for last! Intel HD 620: 
     

     
     
     
    Wait, my i5 7200U beat an i7?
     
    GOLDEN SAMPLE!!!
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    7850OC reacted to Bitter in Unigine Valley Benchmark Scores Thread + SUPERPOSITION ***Over 1000 Submissions!***   
    i7 4950HQ at 3.8ish Ghz with 16GB DDR3 1600 and an EVGA GTX 960 4GB OC on the silent BIOS (1570mhz core and 3550mhz memory), sorry no screen shot because TV computer isn't signed into here.
    4527 points
    108.2 FPS
    min fps 26.8
    max fps 180.6
     
    For some reason even though I selected basic the score sceen is saying custom preset and medium quality, let me try to run this again.
    Ran it again, 4550, still says custom and medium but the preset IS basic, dunno what's with that.
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    7850OC reacted to TetraSky in Unigine Valley Benchmark Scores Thread + SUPERPOSITION ***Over 1000 Submissions!***   
    I don't know why, but at first, I did not know I had to press Benchmark in the top left, so I was just watching their stupid demo for what seemed like an eternity. During that time, I was getting 120fps+ and I could see my temperatures going WAY up, it got to 95˚C. Then, it dropped to 60fps and temperatures cooled down to around 80˚C, which is when I started the benchmark.
    This is weird, man. Couldn't reproduce it.
     

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    7850OC reacted to Triggeravus in Unigine Valley Benchmark Scores Thread + SUPERPOSITION ***Over 1000 Submissions!***   
    Not sure what crushing means but here's what it says.
     

     
     
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