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You'd be focusing more on the VRM design than the chipset if your objective is overclocking, especially if there's features on high end boards that you don't mind losing. Even then, the 7950x is a 250W max chip, and squeezing more out of it doesn't yield that much. It really shines at the 105W TDP, being what I run a production server 7950x at. More of 'tuning PBO2 and copying really good memory timings' than overclocking now a days.

The 'chipset' itself doesn't negotiate with the primary PCIe slot or primary M.2 slot, since those are wired directly to the CPU. Technically its called a 'chipset' because there used to be a north and south bridge, both located on the motherboard, till it was moved into the CPU's uncore. Ryzen's MCM architecture has it as an additional die, aka, the I/O die, which is technically the north bridge. The primary PCIe slot and M.2 slot are almost always wired to the I/O die and not the chipset, aka primary peripherals. Really the 'chipset' is just  the south bridge which handles secondary peripherals.
 
B650/X670 motherboards are limited on their primary PCIe slot likely because of the trace quality and not because the CPU couldn't do PCIe 5.0 natively off the I/O die (and limited in firmware). PCIe 5.0 16x graphics cards do exist, but not on the consumer level, but if you're planning to use this system long term, buying a PCIe 5.0 board now is worth it in my opinion. Over the years, those sorts of limits have caused problems, like PCIe 3.0 vs 4.0, HDMI versions on motherboard I/O, not having M.2 slots (as I'm speaking, doing overclocking and Cinebench R23 runs on my old i7 4790k build with its SM951 AHCI PCIe 3.0 4x M.2 drive I've had since 2015 in it, a feature most motherboards didn't have at that time), etc.

I will have 1 gen 5 nvme at best and since im sticking with the 6900XT i might not even need the full x16 slot lmao. So going B650 (supports 1 x16 slot and 1 gen 5 nvme) wont affect the 7950x performance?
 
Im aiming to find the tightest i can but not pay more than 300- 350 euros and prices here are a bit all over the place
 
Sadly i checked but could not find any as for now
 
At the workplace i get crucial ssds (they are somewhat cheap and never had one fail on me) but for home (and by extension my side gigs) i prefer samsung/WD (seagate ironwolfs for my server) as well but stay away from WD blues since the one i own now had sector errors (after 5-6 years 3 of them i had my OSs on)

If you're going big, I'd just go 7950x, especially if you're gaming on it. The extra cores per CCD can matter, something I've tested myself.
 
Regarding motherboards, X670 is a weird middle ground between B650e and X670e, where if you can, elect to just go X670e for full PCIe 5.0 support. Otherwise, there's no major reason to go anywhere in between, even to B650.
 
Just make sure the timings on the RAM kit you buy aren't terrible. You want low and tight for timings, where 2x32GB kits can get really poor timings.
CORSAIR Vengeance 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000 (PC5 48000) Desktop Memory Model CMK64GX5M2B6000C30 - Newegg.com
Something like this with 30-36-36-76 is stellar, and potentially worth paying a bit more. The difference can be substantial between a poorly timed 6000MHz kit with like CL40 timings versus a nice and tight CL30 kit like that.
 
For most of the parts in question, other than a new case and such, I'd just stick to new. Being the CPU+motherbaord, you might be able to find a kit of RAM for cheap, someone who bought a 2x32GB kit that they didn't need, but more than likely, you likely won't gain much value than just getting a newer kit with good timings.
 
Samsung drives are great, I generally stick to them or WD since they own Sandisk now. Generally what I buy for work now a days are the WD Red SSDs, almost always in some sort of RAID1 just because.

Which Corsair PSU is that? Are you using two separate power cables?
 
Are you using a riser? You could manually set the PCI-E gen in the BIOS, sometimes it helps.
 
Are you running the latest BIOS?

When installing the drivers did you uninstall the previous ones with DDU or just installed the AMD ones?

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Thank you so much!! I feel stupid for no knowing there was a performance diff on the PCIE slots :S
Noticed the difference as soon as I started the Benchmark after re-slotting in PCIE slot 1.
 
Score jumped over 1000 Points, do you have PayPal? let me send you a cup of coffee for the help 🙂
 

Yes, I slotted the GPU in the second PCIE thinking about spacing the components out for cooling, maybe that's stupid of me, I'll switch and see if anything happens!
 
I'll need to head to work but will reply as soon as I get back!

Well seems i got "stealthy" scammed when i got my refurbished pc, after lots and lots of digging its not an M82 its a M81 and it doesnt support 3rd gen.... Bruh

Most likely. I don't think Lenovo takes down legacy content like HP does.

in a relationship.. i guess that's the most important one 😄 
 

depends on what you want.. cheap or practical. i would use a drawer to pull it all out, if the server was racked directly you wouldn't need it. since it would come with the sliding mechanism.  but those are almost twice the length of the rack you posted first here 🙂
 
 
my mainboard.. asus rog strix z390-e gaming, came with vrm fan. premounted heatsinks. 
 
 

so if you have a huge ass desk, why would you want a a 19" rack in the same room, if you start buying server grade UPS's, switches, NAS/SAN etc.. they are noisy as hell. and built for not caring about sound as they are in a room noone access unless for maintenance. 
 
1 U, is the size of a "slot", as long as it fits in that slot it'll never be anything other than 1 U.. we used to call 1 U server pizza boxes.. as they are of similar size. regular full racks are either 42 U or 48U. although you get them half and quarter sized too... and wall mounted 4-12 U cases mostly for edge switches.. as they are HALF debth.. and always too short for a server. oh and no airflow.. atleast considerable less as they are supposed to support a switch or two and patch panels. ... and a router if it's crowded.. 

your picture is off a 1U drawer.. usually used to mount KVM monitor and keyboard inside.  too expensive if you want to use it as a shelf.. then you buy a shelf. 
 
so.. you'll boil both your systems in a wall rack like that. if you realy want your new system on the wall. use a wall mounted case that looks fancy. Like CoolMaster Masterframe 700 or similar. that should fit two radiators, and show off your GPU/RGB/ram hard lined water tubes and whatnot. 🙂


 
 
 
 

That's the go-to cry of people who play games on a potato. "It's not optimized"
 
I've literately seen this complaint about EVERY SquareEnix PC game. FF14, Neir Automata, FF7 Remake, etc.
 
Please, people who desperately trying to hypermile their potato PC's, Buy a PS5 and quit trying to turn the PC experience into a PS2 experience.
 
The original FF14, SquareEnix overshot the PC requirements at the time, and then never actually put the game on the PS3. Version 2.0? 720p60 or 1080p30 was viable on a GTX 760 or a 1050Ti.  The bottom-tier GPU could still play it without making it look like a PS2 experience. But no, with the DX10/DX11 update, peoples's GPU's started catching fire.
 
Sadly, Neir Automata, which was originally a PS4 title, and there were some oversights on the PC version that maybe dragged the performance a little, but nope, people on steam were insisting that their GTX 1060 should be giving them a 4K experience and their GPU should not be catching fire. 
 
(by catching fire, I mean that the GPU driver would crash or their system would BSOD, meaning they likely had an OC GPU card or OC CPU for whatever reason.)
 
The point I'm making here is that claiming that a game is not optimized is a lazy excuse. If you want to play the latest, biggest, baddest game, on the minimum requirements, you are not going to enjoy that experience. Either give in and buy something better than the recommended (because the recommended specs is always a lie), or buy the PS5 just to play it. 
 
This has been the same problem ever since the late MSDOS/early Win95 era, where a console game comes out with a PC port, and the PC port is substantially inferior to the SNES or PS1 game. Which was the case with FF7 and FF8 due most computers having inferior MIDI music hardware, and would not be rectified until "remaster" versions 20 years later.
 
A game should be able to dial-down "enough" that you could play it, poorly, on whatever hardware is common, but expecting the PS5 equivalent experience on anything below the Ultra settings is wishful thinking.

I love forza for the chill driving. I love driving but the gas prices do not help at all so with forza i just plug my wheel and pedals and pretend i am driving. The peak of my days.

I would recommend the 6750XT, its a bit more expensive but has more potential and newer. You could also scout the used market for gpus, i suggest you give it a week and you would probably find something. I was thinking of going for a new 6750XT myself but after a week of searching the used market ( here in greece we are limited to facebook marketplace ) i found a 6900XT for 650 euros ( around 670 freedom coins ). Just dont lose hope and keep searching
 
Edit: make sure you also upgrade your PSU to something good and from a quality brand

There is a way to do so with PushBullet and some custom IFTTT. I will try and find the article i once used to do that.

I do have a GTX 1050Ti, i will check moonlight out thank you

Yeah CPU Utilization in Task Manager has been broken since Windows 8 came out and Microsoft never bothered to fix it
It's still the same scenario Task Manager and Resource Monitor will report the same thing but the difference is Resource Monitor will go beyond 100% depending on the current clock over base clock, so for example if Base Clock is 3.2Ghz and your current Boost Clock/Overclock is 4Ghz, then Resource Monitor's percentage scale would be between 0 - 125% (4/3.2 = 25%) while Task Manager would be artificially limited to 100%.
 
assuming the CPU is constantly at 4Ghz, otherwise the scale would be all over the place and it becomes more complicated
 
I don't know how to explain it better, mainly because it's beyond stupid and it doesn't make any sense

Thanks a lot < 3

this is sorta reverse, where task manager wont show 100% but system resource will report otherwise
this is related to clockspeed though

it's a hardware issue, your display substrate is damanged and it leaks its liquid crystal content
 
there's nothing you can do about it - may be a specialised display repair shop can do something about it but I think it will cost you close to buying a new monitor altogether
 

i had same problem replace the display it will only get worse 

take a look at equalizerapo, there should be some tutorials on the internet.

It depends... I'm not sure how your audio set up is ... set up. You could try to do it via some sort of audio driver software or if you have a physical receiver of some sort you could set it there.