Coaxialgamer

Isn't GPU mining basically dead at this point? Also, a dollar a day? You're easily outspending that in power alone, to say nothing about component depreciation.

Okay this is going to be a small /rant because i am frankly very annoyed at this (maybe more than i should) and every time the subject comes up i go on for 10min about it and now you're going to be privy to it. Maybe it's my inner old person.
 
Back when I was a kid shoes would often have a label/tag in the store that indicated that some part of them was made with real honest-to-god leather. Maybe this is specific to my corner of the world I don't know. Obviously there's still some variance but there's at least some expectation that those pairs would last longer than ones without any leather in them. And I'm not just talking business stuff either: you had normal walking shoes or even sneakers that had leather in them.
And nowadays at least where i live those tags are completely gone.
I go into a shoe store and everything is made of plastic. Prices are also insane as well. I mean I could be spending 50$, 100$ or even 200$ on pairs from different brands and from a purely structural standpoint none of them will look particularly more durable than the other. Most of the time they all feel the same, apart from the super cheap ones.
What, am I just supposed to trust the manufacturer that by spending extra $$$ i won't have a detached sole in 6 months? Because from where i'm standing they all seem to be made with the same exact cheap materials and i'm struggling to see the premium as being anything more than brand recognition. Am I like supposed to look for goddamn shoe reviews before I go shopping, is that it? Because from where i'm standing it seems like most of the markers of build quality are now gone, and I hate that.
 
/rant over

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Hey y'all, I know that this thread has been kind of semi-active and up in the air for a while.
I've dealt with a range of feelings about myself for most of my life, and moving out really enabled me to look inwards and examine what I truly wanted.
 
While it's been a grueling road at times, I'm pleased to say that I'm starting HRT in a couple weeks and I couldn't be happier. This thread has always been wholesome and I love it for that.

Hey y'all, I know that this thread has been kind of semi-active and up in the air for a while.
I've dealt with a range of feelings about myself for most of my life, and moving out really enabled me to look inwards and examine what I truly wanted.
 
While it's been a grueling road at times, I'm pleased to say that I'm starting HRT in a couple weeks and I couldn't be happier. This thread has always been wholesome and I love it for that.

Always kind of questioned myself and had uncomfortable experiences when it came to dating with the opposite gender. Identified as Bisexual / Pansexual for a large period of my life but after finally getting into a relationship with a person who identifies solely as male, and it strictly classified as a "MLM/Gay" relationship, I realised a lot of stuff about my past feelings and all that.
 
Nothing negative, luckily! Or at least I don't think so anyways...

Massive respect for you fellow human bean
 
Always here if you need to vent or chat, just tag me or PM 

Hey y'all, I know that this thread has been kind of semi-active and up in the air for a while.
I've dealt with a range of feelings about myself for most of my life, and moving out really enabled me to look inwards and examine what I truly wanted.
 
While it's been a grueling road at times, I'm pleased to say that I'm starting HRT in a couple weeks and I couldn't be happier. This thread has always been wholesome and I love it for that.

Hey y'all, I know that this thread has been kind of semi-active and up in the air for a while.
I've dealt with a range of feelings about myself for most of my life, and moving out really enabled me to look inwards and examine what I truly wanted.
 
While it's been a grueling road at times, I'm pleased to say that I'm starting HRT in a couple weeks and I couldn't be happier. This thread has always been wholesome and I love it for that.

I'm currently running an RX 6800. Before that I had a 2080, and before that dual 290Xs.
 
Honestly the whole issue is overblown by far. The only problems I have encountered are mostly confined to a select few VR titles (mainly texture rendering bugs and sub-par performance in Elite)...but the experience for me has overall been pretty much exactly the same as it has been on my older RTX2080. I don't play the latest released though, so plausibly Nvidia cards *might* get fixes and driver releases faster, but YMMV. I similarly had no problems with my 290Xs when I was running those in my system.
Honestly the whole thing is incredibly plug and play.
 
From what I've gathered a lot of the FUD about AMD driver releases comes from the old ATI days, or in some cases for the latest hardware releases...but 99% of the time, on hardware that's not a few weeks old...you're not going to notice a difference.

Sad to see this thread being left to rot! bump!

Sad to see this thread being left to rot! bump!

I've been on HRT for a month now, I've got a counsellor, and overall, other than my BFF's mother finally passing away, everything is going really well for me.
 
Next step: New apartment. :3

Well, my regular PCP retired, and referred me to a new one. And she is going to put me on HRT. So, yay, I guess it's time to move my life forward? Or something?

Yes those archives were freely available they were released for FREE on there website several months to a year after publication here is the link to there archived web page as proof https://web.archive.org/web/20090907114642/http://www.maximumpc.com/articles/pdf_archives?page=8

I mean the 12700K is a perfectly capable gaming processor, and is still damn close to the top of the performance charts here.
 
Can you engineer situations in specific titles where the 12700K might hamper your GPU's performance? Yes. Try running games at 720p and see how things go.
 
Realistically though you're not equipping it with the fastest GPU available, and you're probably gaming at reasonable resolutions.Unless you're really into high refresh rate gaming you'll be fine.

Typically anything older than 2 generations, I go used market. Especially for HEDT hardware, you basically can't find it new.

Neither Intel nor AMD typically produce older CPUs for much longer after a new generation comes out. If the new products do well you get a large dropoff in demand for the older chips anyway, so previous-gen parts often come from existing stock and aren't actively produced months or years after being replaced.
 
Intel doesn't make new LGA2066 parts anymore. You can either try to find new old stock for whatever parts you want, but older chips like this will probably cost you MSRP, which is a ripoff at this point. A better option is to go used, and you'll find many parts from that gen for sale for a fraction of the price.

Yep, also for some reason, at random my video will pause when I either increase or decrease my volume. And sometimes it buggs out in a much weirder way and just keeps scrolling down if I keep my finger on the screen. If I want to scroll back up, I basically have to yeet my finger across the screen repedately to try to combat the automatic scrolling.
I'm using a Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G with One UI 5.0 (Android 13)

Got myself a used RX 6800 from Sapphire !
Bit whiney but at 380 euro shipped that's nearly half of what a new one costs here.

That's fairly normal utilisation patterns for a well balanced system running a heavy graphical load.
 
Short of having a framerate limiter running, consistently hitting well below 100% GPU utilisation generally indicates that your in-game performance is being held back by some other components in your system (oftentimes your CPU).

After more extensive testing. I found that the RAM still functions, both sticks seem to work.  So as of now, it seems the mobo, CPU, and GPU are all dead.  I'm not entirely convinced though, because the PC is still running very strangely.  I'm just curious at this point honestly, so I'm going to buy a new SSD and try an entirely new copy of Windows then attempt to connect the GPU again.  I know these newer Radeon GPU;s can be kind of finicky sometimes, just crossing my fingers that it isn't dead already.  If you have any suggestions, please let me know.

If swapping in a new PSU helped, some other parts may still be good. You now have the highly enviable task of determining exactly which components are still good, and which ones aren't.
 
Speaking of which, I'm off to buy a new PSU myself...

The advantage of a 5800x over something like a 6 core R5 5600x mostly comes down to the higher frequency and larger boost opportunities of an R7. The cores themselves are not measurably faster per clock and most games don't use the extra cores anyway. 
 
With the 5800X3D, AMD added a ton of cache to the CPU, which has a significant and positive effect on gaming performance. Per clock and per core the x3D part is quite a bit faster for workloads thay can use the extra cache, like gaming. 
 
That's why it was a top tier gaming CPU for a while: because it blew away the regular 5000 series parts AND often came out favorably against thr non-x3D 7000 series parts. 
 
Is it worth it to you? That's a different question, but given your gpu you'd probably benefit from it. 

Send it back. You've done basically everything a sane person should be expected to do.  GPUs being stuck at certain (low) frequencies is sometimes a sign that they're broken in some fashion (my old 2080 had a similar issue), and its certainly nothing you want to have hanging over you when we're talking about an 800$ GPU.