Morgan MLGman

850W is perfectly fine. I've got a 5800X and a 6900XT myself and I run it with a quality 850W Corsair PSU and still have a lot of headroom. What matters more is quality, what other 850W or above PSUs are available in your area?

Yeah, that makes sense. In that case I'd recommend you look at the 10700K and save some money to get a better GPU - 11700K brings nothing in terms of CPU performance

Both of those i7s that you mentioned have integrated graphics and both of them are useless for gaming. If they're just gaming, they don't need a 11700K - 10700KF may be good value in your area, otherwise I'd go down to a Ryzen 5 5600X or an i5-11400F. Keep in mind that the three CPUs I've recommended do not have iGPUs, so they require a dedicated graphics card.

Of course, but facts are facts and need to be taken into consideration. I've bashed Nvidia for doing what they did especially to Kepler in terms of drivers and I'm honestly stunned that AMD dropped support for the R9 Fury series this soon - I understand the technical reasoning, but I don't think that's gonna cut it. I mentioned Nvidia, because original author of the comment made it sound like they were any different, which they aren't

I've read your statements about support and while I agree that AMD dropping Fiji support is ridiculous, you seem to be forgetting about what Nvidia does too. How quickly they stop optimizing for older generations, Kepler was destroyed by lack of optimizations compared to AMD cards of the same age for years, and I didn't see you complain. Maxwell is dead right now as well, so what if you get a driver update if no game optimizations are added and no features are added? Most people seem to not update Nvidia's drivers for such cards because it seems pointless anyway. Pascal stopped getting any meaningful game optimizations long time ago too, which is easily seen when you see a 2070 Super surpass a 1080Ti, which did not happen when it launched. But in any newer game, there's a large gap between them. I'm not defending AMD here, I'm pointing out that the alternative isn't somehow magically better as you make it out to be. It's arguably been worse with support in the past years.

In terms of ease of integration, I found this quote on TweakTown:

I meant that if you run 1080p native and use the FSR Performance setting, your what AMD calls "input resolution" is so low that it completely breaks visuals at some point, so for best results I would probably recommend not going below "Quality" setting at 1080p. For instance, you can see in Hardware Unboxed review video (here) how using FSR Performance mode at 1080p in Godfall reduced the quality significantly beyond what happens at 4K This may be exactly why DLSS is restricted not to run at all with certain GPU + resolution configurations

I agree with your conclusion - and I think we should look at this technology as something to be used in specific cases, like 4K gaming and being in need of more performance, trying to offset some of the ray tracing associated performance hit or having a lower-end part like a Ryzen APU or GTX 10-series card. Though I do not recommend using FSR at lower resolutions. Apparently FSR actually works on even older hardware, it's just validated only so far back. Its easy implementation in games is a large plus too, the problem is that the launch game support is pretty laughable right now so it's more like a "tech demo" to most at this point

Yeah, exactly. Lower-end hardware will benefit much more from FSR. My RX 560X laptop would love that. This also makes me question the utility of Nvidia's Tensor Cores in RTX GPUs.

Looking at this review, I gotta say I'm impressed - probably because I didn't expect much, nice! Especially for owners of older cards like the RX 580 during the shortage. Can't say this feature is going to be very useful for someone with an RX 6900 XT or even a 6800 XT since those are high performing cards anyway, unless there was also RT implemented in the game. @porinaYour thoughts? Can you add the review link to the original post for more information to the readers?

I've never heard such a thing. It's not true.

It will most likely work without issues, but it isn't guaranteed. That's basically how it is now with Nvidia GPUs and FreeSync monitors that aren't on the G-Sync Compatible list.

For AMD users, with this driver update something that's not mentioned in the update notes - a toggle to enable or disable Smart Access Memory (Resizable BAR) appeared:

No games actually support it yet, from what I've read all of the games "listed" as supported should receive game updates today or tomorrow to add the feature. The support list itself is terrible though at this moment. I apologize, I'm not a native English speaker so I may have misunderstood

I don't think that's true. It's APUs, yes, but not Ryzen APUs as those use the Vega iGPU cores, which should still be supported. 3rd gen GCN is Tonga and Fiji, not Vega so I would assume this only applies to older AMD APUs.

I see. Try looking at the X570 Aorus Elite, X570 Tuf Gaming or the MSI X570 Unify then. Choose the one that has features that suit your needs better, all of those are decent budget boards.

Not true, all manufacturers have both good and bad boards. It just depends on the particular model. The MSI B550 Unify-X is great, the B550 AORUS PRO V2 is a decent choice too. If you're looking for a motherboard on a "budget", you should really be looking at the B550 chipset because you'll get a better board for the price.

The Ryzen 5 3600 would be a significant upgrade over the 2600X in games, consider getting that instead. You can buy the expensive LL fans later, or just get a cheaper alternative. As for the GPU, the 5600X should be quite a bit faster than the 1660 Super, considering it's around the RTX 2060 in performance

S21 Ultra is obviously better than the S20 Ultra. Considering the iPhone, the S21 Ultra also should be generally better because of more versatile cameras and better display but you may very well prefer the iOS and the Apple ecosystem.

Your other thread has been removed. Please refrain from posting the same questions in multiple subforums.

It's a good PSU, but it's new as you said and it might've been broken from the start. Another thing is - is it plugged directly into the wall? Maybe the electrical installation in your house isn't too good and causes voltage fluctuations and so on with higher power draw of your new components, and a small UPS would do the trick to stabilize that? P.S. I would call the 11900K a sidegrade at best from the 10900K, but mostly a downgrade

If you're buying new, and you're looking for a board to use paired with a 5950X, you're most likely going to be looking at X570 boards. Any new X570 board will support the 5950X out of the box.

Since everything is "hackable" and has security holes that we don't even know about, I believe the real question is: how are those vulnerabilities exploited - if there's a vulnerability that requires physical access to the machine to be used, then I think you've got more security problems than the vulnerability itself. But if such design issue can be used and executed remotely, then it becomes a large problem.