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I don't think you need any. It's a USB microphone, so it probably has one built-in - I use a regular QuadCast myself and it's just a plug & play microphone with pretty good quality.

6 hours ago, podkall said:

that's how you make the corporate entities win

Perhaps, but Linus also mentioned that Premium subscribers give a lot to the content creators for their views. So for me the monthly subscription fee is both for convenience features and also to be able to support the channels that I watch daily without being forced to watch ads all the time. It's not that much money anyway so I personally don't mind.

If I recall correctly Ryzen 7000 series tops out at around 6200MHz for DDR5 memory, so the fact that DOCP tries to run 6400MHz may be the culprit. I would try manually running at 6200MHz. This is a part of the silicon lottery, some integrated memory controllers can run 6400, some cannot. Anything beyond 4800MHz is overclocking in theory, so that's about it - there's no guarantee the RAM will work at the rated speed.

12 minutes ago, wanderingfool2 said:

That's going to greatly depend on how much you drive.  The fuel economy of older vehicles without the newer technology can be quite poor, based on what I have seen looking around you are looking at about 20%-30% less mpg.  So if you are filling up once a month, the difference would be a few hundred $ a year in operating cost.  If you are a frequent driver you could be talking about a thousand in a year.  (Not to mention that the older vehicle likely has more wear and tear on components)

Yes, kinda true (unless we're considering that older diesel-powered car exist also and are extremely efficient if you do longer routes), but you also forget that newer cars require maintenance as well and this is only done in authorized service centers which costs a small fortune each time and it's designed to be that way. With an older one you can buy used or non-original replacement parts for a fraction of a price. And you even could do most of the maintenance at your friend's workshop for next to nothing in terms of cost.
Besides, modern engines especially those in Europe due to ridiculous climate-related policies are now all tiny and turbocharged, which directly translates into low durability. A good older engine that's larger would do three times the total mileage of a new, small one.

There's also the fact, that no government would be able to remotely disable your car It's a nice peace of mind to have imo too.

20 minutes ago, porina said:

The manual excerpt in OP shows two x16 slots break down to 8/4/4, and the link in my earlier post to Asus shows the mobo could support 3 drives in that configuration. So it partially works. The 4th drive can't be used since the mobo doesn't break some of the lanes below x8.

I think it means that (assuming there is something present in the primary x16) once the second slot is occupied with anything, the first slot defaults to x8 and the second slot is another x8 which may be further divided into x4/x4 for those dual M.2 cards like the ASUS Hyper M.2 or MSI M.2 Xpander

Although this seems to say that three SSDs are possible, provided you use the primary PCIe slot? Not really sure what "3/1" or "0/2" mean exactly:

42 minutes ago, mrleaw said:

it didn't mention it, so I guess it doesn't 

Without PCIe bifurcation support there's no way for such card to work then, for instance my MSI X570 Prestige Creation comes with an MSI Xpander card which adds two M.2 PCIe 4.0 x 4 slots and it requires setting the slot into a x4/x4 mode instead of x8 to use it. The card you linked would require a full X16 bandwidth split into x4/x4/x4/x4.

This feature as I mentioned was usually available on HEDT motherboards, not mainstream ones like yours.

The only way for it to work would be to use both M.2 slots on your motherboard and a dual M.2 add-on card put in the second slot and setting that slot into x4/x4 mode, provided your motherboard supports that.

1 hour ago, mrleaw said:

I'm planning to get 4 NVME SSDs (for NAS Server purposes) and was wondering if my mainboard (ASUS ROG Strix Z370 H Gaming) can handle to drive all of them through a single PCIe 16x slot.

It is possible to use one slot to drive all of those drives, however as long as you have a GPU in the primary slot, there is going to be a bandwidth limitation as inserting this card into the second slot will probably drive the speed of both slots to x8/x8. This already reduces the available bandwidth for your GPU as well as for this card, as what would be possible would only be 4 x M.2 PCIe 3.0 x2. Still, even that would require a motherboard that supports PCIe bifurcation.

There is a certain limit of bandwidth that both the CPU and the Chipset provide to the motherboard ports, it is not advised to shoot too close to that limit and it's definitely not the case that all of the ports can run at their maximum bandwidth at once.

Another thing is that if you use such a "cheap" card, it doesn't have a hardware RAID controller of any kind, so all RAID is purely software in this case. This has both upsides and downsides.
You could run two drives from the onboard M.2 slots and the other two from the add-on 2 x m.2 card, although you'd need to check your motherboard manual if anything gets disabled if the secondary onboard M.2 slot is populated, as well as what kind of bandwidth that slot supports. Mixing all of that into a RAID is not an optimal solution, although a software RAID should still work.
For such configurations people usually turned to HEDT platforms due to those having a lot more available PCIe lanes for devices like M.2's and were better suited for RAID.

I guess you'd need to specify your needs better and evaluate from there what solution you actually require. Maybe a better solution would be to buy a dedicated NAS like a small Synology or QNAP?

3 minutes ago, Agall said:

If you're grading on a curve, the RX 7000 series is a decent value comparably when the RTX 4080 exists at +$1200 USD.

I guess so, although comparing yourself to an even worse offender rarely makes you look much better Nvidia's current prices are ridiculous, so RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 cards look great in terms of value. The 7900 XTX was supposed to be decent value but is stupidly expensive in this case, because it should retail for around $999. The 7900 XT's value was always questionable, so IMO it's either the top-end one or the 6950 XT which is priced very well considering its rasterization performance is on par with a 3090 Ti.

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Comparably, something like the RTX 4090 at +$1600 won't retain nearly the value as the RX 6750 XT at $380 in example, since worst case its like $200 used.

Normally I'd agree, however in this case it may not be that bad for the 4090. We're in an age of AI, ML and LLMs (Large language models) and owing to that, the 4090 may retain a lot of its value for longer than usual. This is obviously pure speculation on my part but I think it makes sense.

Honestly the 6950 XT is priced very well there - the 7900 XT's price is "meh" and the 7900 XTX is stupidly expensive.
If the 6950 XT's performance is enough for your needs, I wouldn't look any further as the recently released RTX 4070 is quite a bit slower for a similar price.

The 7900 XTX hands down, not even a contest in this case.

2 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Out of the 2 id go 1800x simply because more cores and you can problably oc it to match the 2600 in singlecore

Honestly the IPC uplift from the Zen+ architecture was like 2% at best, so considering the 1800X has 100MHz higher boost clock it's probably about the same. 1800X all the way for the same price, although for gaming even lower-end but newer Ryzen chips will be better than an 1800X or the 2600.

Obvious question, but are you sure that the ESXi server also has the same time zone set?

Here's a knowledge base article on how to change it if necessary: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1436

5 hours ago, asdcorf said:

So you mean that ASUS RMA is just completely garbage and there is most likely nothing I can do?

I wouldn't say so. I had an issue with my Zephyrus G14 (2021). Turned out the issue was caused by a faulty Nvidia RTX 3060 graphics card - they replaced the motherboard and returned the laptop to me in less than a week with no cost. Admittedly they did fail to properly connect the keyboard backlighting, but it wasn't a problem for me to open the laptop and plug it in. Would be a much bigger issue for someone with no tech knowledge.

It may be that your regional ASUS department is incompetent, maybe try doing the RMA via the retailer that you bought the laptop at? That should also be an option.

26 minutes ago, tarek420 said:

I use my PC mostly for Gaming and just general tasks for school. So a 3070 will achieve better performances in games if I understood correctly right?

Don't trust these calculators, they are not reliable. An R5 5500 is not a bad CPU, so a 3070 should be able to do its job in most graphically demanding games. With that in mind I don't think you can upgrade your GPU any further though without also upgrading the CPU to something like a 5800X3D, to be able to take advantage of a much faster card.

16 minutes ago, Gokul_P said:

That is prob Gigabyte modified driver just use AMD driver it will be much better. Gigabyte one will prob have removed options (asus one has that and the one from Windows update dont even allow to open adrenalin). You might see that update in Windows updates too Dont update from There. The only updates that matters is the ones in AMD adrenalin. And the ones here (Iam assuming it) is adrenalin versions bcz my Radeon Vega 3 is also on the same version and the driver version under Hardware&Drivers  is 22.20.29.10-... 

I have a 6900 XT as well. The latest is 22.11.2 - a newer one should soon be available.

Memory is an obvious upgrade and in some games you'll probably be forced to lower texture quality on the 3070, but overall the 6800 is actually faster than even a 3070 Ti so if they're similarly priced I'd say it's a no-brainer. Other features are very comparable so there's not a significant difference there I'd say.

VRMs are designed to withstand temperatures up to about 120C for a very long period of time - temps when the GPU is idle or is around 60C are nothing for the VRMs. You've got nothing to worry about. They only get hot when there's a lot of power coming through them - in those instances the GPU is hot as well, so the fans spin up.

Strictly for gaming, the 7600X is a faster CPU on average. You can take a look at this 54-game benchmark from Hardware Unboxed:

As for the platform longevity, you can be sure that AM5 is going to have a longer lifespan than Intel's socket. The 3D V-Cache CPUs will also bring a lot more gaming performance to the table in terms of upgrading the 7600X in the future.
The only downside is the price of the 7600X, as it's not the best value apparently especially considering the older 5800X3D which works in much cheaper motherboards and with much cheaper DDR4 memory.

He probably means issues with hardware acceleration in browsers, discord etc combined with a multi-monitor setup that has two different resolutions and/or refresh rates. Nvidia also had this problem (not sure if it's related to Windows 11 only), but they fixed it. AMD also fixed most, if not all of the issues in their latest 22.11.2 driver.

It's weird because I pretty much didn't have any issues on my 6900 XT, but my friend with a 6800 XT had frequent driver timeouts in some situations. My friend's fix for his problems was reverting to an older driver for the time being.

EDIT: Apparently this was the fix for the issue:

However I have not tried it since I couldn't replicate the problem in the first place, so I can't confirm whether that's the root cause and whether the suggested solution actually works.

Realistically for gaming I would say not at all. Yes, there are some situations where you can induce a CPU bottleneck with that combo, but if you're in one of those situations you've done something else wrong. A 3700X is perfectly capable of handling a 3070 both at 1080p and 1440p in AAA titles. In all other games you wouldn't even care cause they'll definitely run great and well beyond your monitor's refresh rate.

18 minutes ago, Caroline said:

So he should go to the official AMD website to download and install the drivers but then use a sus tool downloaded from shady websites to uninstall them? hmmm....

 

Uninstall via control panel and device manager.

DDU is far from 'sus'. DDU also clears the Windows Registry (if used in Safe Mode), and a normal uninstall does not. It's a better way to use DDU.

As for the OP - this seems to be a driver issue that was resolved last month, I suggest you use DDU to reinstall the drivers in Safe Mode and then install the latest driver 22.11.1.

20 minutes ago, Wolverine2349 said:

Yeah which is quite surprising cause I thought Raptor Lake was a nice refinement of Alder Lake with better binning more L3 cache and slight IPC bump. I would think Z790 should have been easy to get DDR5 running with stability. Boy has it been wrong and it has been a nightmare for me thus far.

Considering AM5 starts having problems above 6400MHz, Raptor Lake still isn't that bad in memory speeds, but I would give the platform some time to mature - check out new BIOS releases as they come out, they may improve memory compatibility. Technically it's all overclocking, so it's not guaranteed to work.

1 hour ago, Wolverine2349 said:

 

 

Yeah I would think so if only using 2 sticks of RAM 2 DIMM or 4 DIMM board should not matter. Do you think issue is a bad CPU or bad mobo. Or is DDR5 just crappy and need low temps to work with stability?

 

Buildzoid does seem to think 2 DIMM boards are superior even if only using 2 sticks.

 

 

This is a fairly new platform, so it may need a few BIOS updates to work properly. I wouldn't say that the temps are the issue in your case. It's either the BIOS not being mature enough or you just got a really unlucky IMC in your 13900K.

1 minute ago, iNeedy said:

I have heard that Alienware cases don't hold up, but whats the issue if you never moved it once? Would it fall apart lmao? I just want a unique PC design, and being that if that hypothetical case was from 2009 you'd think it'd be dirt cheap.

I meant in terms of build quality, internal design etc. Alienware cases are mostly just cheap, generic metal boxes found in stuff like Dell's Optiplex PCs, but wrapped around with tons of unnecessary plastic. At least the ones that they make now. Example below:


Notice how it's just a square made from cheap metal with giant plastic covers all around.

Alienware cases are remarkably bad, so avoid those at all costs. Most OEM ones are, because this is the part where the OEM tries to save as much money as possible on.

I'd say that cases improved in quality over the past several years, so it's still pretty much "you get what you pay for" For example I had a Phanteks P400 and it was pretty decent for what it cost, but it was clearly a budget case. I'm on Lian Li PC-O11 Dynamic and its quality is better than I've ever seen on a case. It was appropriately more expensive though, so that's probably the reason.