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Yeah, i think just adding my 3 fans as exhaust fans should be good enough

I have just recently built my new computer Inside of the Fractal Design North (with the mesh side panel). Inside the build i have a Noctua NHD15, so i can't use the cool bracket to mount fans to the side of the case, but i figured that would be an issue when i picked the cooler. I also have a Gigabyte RTX 3070 Gaming OC, the one with the triple fans. have quite a few fans i can Add to this case, but i was mainly wondering if it's worth keeping the two 140 fans that come with the case, or swapping them with three 120mm fans, and moving those to the top. Any feedback would be appreciated

Yeah absolutely, he offered me to exchange the card if it’s not to my liking etc… and it’s not really a deal I see myself passing up, I tried looking online for similarly priced cards but couldn’t find anything that wasn’t sketch

Got a deal on a used rtx 3070 Gaming OC for 365 dollars. Seller said it had low mining hours, and was ran under volted. I trust him since he is not some random person to me, but what do you guys think? I’ve done my research and asked him to verify everything abt the card, it checks out

Yeah, after reading the some of the other comments it does look like waiting is the better option at the moment

it's always worth waiting i assume

i don't plan on going DDR5 and the cooler stuff seems like a non issue to me, it's like when people where going crazy over AMD chiplet design and people worried about the coolers. One Gamers nexus video on the topic and all worries about it will be put behind me

I absolutely agree, it's very cool that the market is headed in this direction, and i wonder how game optimization work on such a platform. A lot of unknowns of course, and one can only speculate so much. perhaps new benchmarking tools will come around to verifiably say what a program or the Operating system is doing with the cores and how it can be better done etc...

I totally agree, i finished watching that video and realized i had wasted my time, learned absolutely nothing XD Of course, i know they physically don't fit into the other slot, for the notch is different, but that for me is besides the point, i just wouldn't want to be forced into paying some early adopters fee, and yes these CPUs are killer in performance and value, just don't want it clouded by really expensive ram

Yeah, i would also assume that the P cores are just really good based on their own merit aswell, but it would be cool to see how the E cores are being used at any given moment. I reckon Linus should do that "BLOAT is killing your FPS" video again (even though bloat wasn't really killing your FPS) with these CPUs (i have no clue about the logistics of such a test since it wouldn't be far to compare across generations or even to cripple an alderlake CPU to it couldn't use it's E cores)

Hey all, i just saw Linus' video on the new intel CPUs and it looks great, but i don't exactly understand the platform. I understand that big cores will be used for the big tasks, gaming and video editing and what not, while the little cores will be used for more mundane things such as web browsing or playing back content from netflix and what not. What i do not understand is if these little cores are doing nothing while the big cores are doing the gaming or video editing stuff, i know Linus said that these efficiency cores 'pack a punch' after looking at the Cinebench R32 benchmark, but does that mean they are active for all the other benchmarks? And if so, to what extent? And a platform question i have is if you are locked into going DDR5 with the new Alder Lake CPUs and motherboards? It would be cool to rock an unlocked i5 in this new platform while also being able to chose budget friendly components. Perhaps these are dumb questions and the answers are another video away, but ive been out of the market for new hardware for a while and this seems really compelling.

it is a great solution for the avg consumer, but i am here nit picking the fact that i think it's really pricey for the speeds it actually delivers

Thanks for the Clarification, was kind of under the assumption that SSDs could only use 4 lanes for any given generation of PCIE, but i guess it would make sense to allocate less lanes to the SSD in pcie 4.0 since they would need less to achieve the same speeds

Obviously SSDs Is the new thing console users are finally getting a hold of, but i was looking into the first party SSD expansion Xbox sells for 220 dollars and comparing it to that of an SSD one might buy for the ps5 which is about 230 dollars. The only issue i find is that the new Xbox consoles only support up to 2.4GB/s uncompressed speed? is that not way below pcie 4.0 spec? Atleast sony has 5.5 GB/s Raw speeds so something like a 980 pro from Samsung isn't wasted on the ps5. so in general i was just wondering is Xbox can even market it's PCIE 4.0 features despite its speeds not being up to spec with 4.0? I don't think it matters anyway since if they made a 1st party solution they can sell it for how ever much money they wanted to, but it seems like a rip off to buy their Seagate partnered expansion storage for 220 dollars which other SSDs at those speeds exist for much cheaper (if they could be used with Microsofts proprietary port)

Thank you for humoring me, i am on the intel platform. But since i plan on switching to AMD soon i don't think it would have mattered anyway