Simon771

With previous generations IF speed was 1/2 of the RAM speed. So if I had 2933MHz RAM, IF speed was about half of that, so just under 1500. If I understand that correctly, Zen2 will double the IF speed in the same scenario? So If I keep using 2933MHz ram, IF speed will also be 2933?

I hope you are both right, and it will go over I/O die on the CPU itself. I watched some video on youtube, from a guy explaining how to get higher FPS in BlackDesertOnline. Basicly disabling some of it cores, so it will only use cores from single CCX. Result is obvious right away, that it does help. He used Ryzen 1700 in this test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR8ntMAxdQ0 Since that's the main game I play, I need to think twice before switching from my i5 8600k at 4,8GHz (-1AVX) to Ryzen 5 3600X.

Any idea if Ryzen 3000 series still have communication between CCX-es limited to 1/2 of RAM speed?

I will wait for reviews of R5 3600X, and how well can it overclock on all cores. If it comes to around same or even better performance than my current i5 8600k at 4,8GHz, I might decide to switch to AMD. Multi core core will surely be better in my case, but I'm more worried about single core performance.

Ryzen 1800X was 4GHz, Ryzen 2700X is 4,3GHz. So 300MHz increase. Now we are going from 4,3GHz to 5GHz? It does seems unlikely ... sure it's 7nm vs 12nm, but that still seems like a big jump. Then again they went from 14nm to 12nm and achieved additional 300MHz. 1nm shrink = 150MHz by that logic. 12nm - 7nm = 5nm * 150MHz = 750MHz more than previous generation. So 4,3GHz + 750MHz .... that way it does seems like it would be possible. Now lets just wait for some CPU engineer to tell me, that's now how any of that works.

Thanks for your photo :) But I already got OnePlus 6 phone, that doesn't even remotely fit in that phone holder. With next car I will have to make sure, to pay additional price for embedded navigation.

I just bought smart plug, that can pair with SmartLife app, and I only want to monitor my power usage from the socket, and nothing else. Sadly that SmartLife (ironically) isn't that smart at all. I can't disable button for on/off, and it happened few times already that I pressed this button, causing my PC, TV, monitor, router, modem to get powered off. Does anyone have some recommendation for some smart plug that will only monitor my power draw from the socket, without on/off option?

Has anyone else experienced some problems with Nvidia drivers lately? I'm getting EventID 4101 few times a day, saying this: Display driver nvlddmkm stopped responding and has successfully recovered. I had that problem once before, and I'm not sure how I got it fixed, but following instructions on the web didn't solve my problem. Those events started showing up on 20/02/2019 at 22:35, and it happens while playing game (BDO). Game window will just go dark for some reason and after 20sec it will be back to normal. Running PS command "driverquery /V | findstr nv", I found this out: nvlddmkm nvlddmkm nvlddmkm Kernel Manual Running OK TRUE FALSE 10.313.728 7.905.280 0 20/02/2019 12:11:44 C:\WINDOWS\system32\DriverStore\FileRepository\n 36.864 So something changed with this file on 20/02 on my PC, and I'm pretty sure that I wasn't doing any updates at that time at all. My PC up time was 7 days, when I checked it today. Is there any way to check some kind of history, when GPU drivers changed or updated? Any other idea what could change nvlddmkm file?

I have to agree with the rest of reply's so far ... stay with your CPU for a bit more, and wait for Zen 2 to be released. Then check what it has to offer and switch to it if you want. But right now I wouldn't buy Ryzen if you already have 7700 CPU, which is still pretty decent. We are guessing that zen 2 will be released around computex, so 5-6 months more.

When I'm stress testing with AIDA64 I use CPU, FPU and cache all at the same time. FPU is brutal temperature wise, so if you can keep temps under 90°C on FPU test only ... it won't ever overheat during normal workload

Just be a man and put pink nail polish under the CPU!

I delided only one time so far, and doesn't seems to be that risky when you are using proper delid tool from der8auer. I had no problems with deliding my CPU, and it's still running well.

To protect connectors inside the CPU. I used clear nail polish for my delid process, and I haven't had any problems with it so far. Wasn't really looking for anything specific, just wanted it to be clear nail polish and not some sort of colored with sprinkles

Computex will be between 28th May and 1st June. More info can be found here: https://www.computextaipei.com.tw/ There are always a lot of people streaming and taking notes what's going at Computex. Why would you buy used GPU? Because it would be cheaper, or you can get much better performance for same price that you are prepared to spend. But I can relate with you not wanting to buy used PC parts. I was like that before also, since people can't be always trusted. Luckily for me there are plenty of laws in my country, protecting me from being scammed or something in that regard. I only gave my personal opinion, that you can get used GPU with more performance for that price, but you can always just buy new one, if you want to avoid all risks. Totally up to you

I used to have Kraken Cooler from NZXT, then switched to custom water cooling loop ... in the end I went back to air cooling, and bought Dark Rock 3. With AIO I was bothered by the sound of the pump, and with custom water loop, I had a leak after 8 months. In the middle of the nigh I got woken up from horrific sound of pump running dry, because most of the water got leaked out. So my experience with water cooling is just bad, and I'm sticking with air cooler Also worth to mention, decent air cooler like Dark Rock 3 or 4 (Pro), will perform about the same as 240mm AIO. Moving that aside, 240mm is enough for your CPU, and I don't see the need to go for 360mm, since you will be only cooling your CPU with it.

I didn't see any reply from you on question that other users asked you. For 1080p 60fps you don't need that GPU, and would be better off with RTX 2060 or 2070. But if your friend will be playing on 120Hz+ monitor, then go for it. As far as i7 4790k and RTX 2080 bottle-necking ... shouldn't be that bad, and will vastly depend on the game.

I would say that 9700k is slightly better than 8700k for gaming. Games love strong performing cores, and i7 9700k have 8 of them, with no hyperthreading. At least for MMORPG games, 9700k would be better. Also 9700k is soldered, and should have better thermals than 8700k. Meaning you can also OC it more and gain even better performance. Well right now Intel is still better for some games. There are rumors and even early look at Zen2 ... it seems like Zen 2 will be able to compete also at single core performance, from what we have seen so far. But it's too early to tell, how exactly will Zen 2 compare with current i7 9700k and i9 9900k, when it comes out. Computex is sadly still far away, and I guess you don't want to just wait for next 6 months before Zen2 might actually be released. About RTX 2070 and 2080 ... I just bought used GTX 1080 Ti for 500€, with 500days of warranty left. GTX 2070 new one costs 560€ for cheapest model and RTX 2080 for 800€. Since RTX 2080 and GTX 1080 Ti perform about the same, I'm pretty happy with my purchase ... much lower price for same performance. So you might want to check if you can find any decent deals of used GTX 1080 Ti's.

Zen 2 can surely perform very nicely. But we don't know when it will be released. We are all guessing that it should be around computex, so 5-6 more months. But it's possible that it will be only announced then, and will take another few weeks/months after that to release those CPUs. Waiting for Intel 7nm is pointless since it will take quiet some time before it comes out. From early look it seems like Zen 2 will be able to compete against Intel i9 CPUs even in single core performance, so overall Zen 2 should be best value and also best performance chip. How many cores will it have? 8c/16t for sure. 10 and 12c are also very likely to get on the market. As of 14 and 16c, we are not sure yet if AMD will release CPU with so many cores on mainstream CPU ... mostly because that could hurt TR a bit.

My i5 8600k can handle 5,0GHz on all cores at 1,35V. Cooled with Dark Rock 3, it will stay under 85°C at all times, except FPU AIDA test will make it go to 92°C.

They send me pdf form, which I had to print and fill out. There are no option for refund or repair mentioned anywhere. And I didn't send it back to just get the money back ... I acctually want the same GPU but without bad fan bearing and coil whine. Was the coil whine there before? Yet it was. But not those bad fan bearings, that's why I went for RMA. And I did write in that big field that it does have bad fan bearing and coil whine, and also wrote that I hope to get repaired or new one. Also removed pictures from post because of that name thing. Thanks for pointing this out. EVGA does allow RMA for coil whine ... and not sure how can I prove that problem was already there when I bought it, since coil whine can't just magically come to my GPU. So it was there all along, but might have gotten worse over those 19 months. Not sure how a user can cause coil-whine or bad fan bearing for that matter. But okay bad fan bearing might be because PC is running 24/7 and fans are always spinning, so with time those bearing wear off. But still there is coil whine, that is covered by EVGA.

Well GPU have 3 years warranty, so for those 3 years I expect to have GPU that is working normally. So what would happen if my GPU would die after 8 months? They would give me some money back and that's it? That hardly looks like a warranty to me. And yes I did expect to get either full refund or new product, because it's still under warranty. And as long as it's under warranty I don't see why would I need to compromise with only getting half of my money back ...

Kinda hard to RMA anything since I don't have card with me anymore ... will have to check with mindfactory if there is also an option to send me back my original GPU. I sure hope that EVGA didn't already take it, because then I'm only left with 200€, with which I can't buy any GTX 1070, even used ones ...

If I understand it correctly, they want to give me only 201€ back because I was using my GPU for year and a half ... am I correct? But if it's under warranty, don't I have the right to get product repaired or replaced?

Well in May 2017 I ordered GTX 1070 EVGA FTW 3.0 from Mindactory in EU, and in December 2018 I requested RMA because the coil whine was just too annoying for me. If I'm not mistaken that GPU have warranty of 3 years, so it's still well in it's warranty. Today I finally received word from Mindfactory about my RMA status, and they sent me 2 PDF files which I can't even read since it's all writen in German ... but from what I was able to translate, I will either get 201€ or I need to pay 201€. Not sure which one is it, but neither of those options seems okay to me. How can they refund me only partial amount, if product was still under warranty? Shouldn't they either provide me full refund or new card, if they can't fix the old one? Does anyone know what's the law about that in EU, or anyone had any experiences with similar problems? Can I demand from them to either give me full refund or new GPU? I mean it's still under warranty, and I don't see any reason why I couldn't be asking for new GPU instead of that poor excuse of refund ... I'm amazed that it took them more than 5 weeks since my GPU was deliver to them, to give me some reply, and now they are pissing me off like that. Its just horrible.

Exactly my thoughts ... if it's the same in multicore it should be very close to same results in single core also. Or maybe 10% differences at best because of HT vs SMT. Remember this? Same amount of cores, it does have 9% better result on AMD in all core performance, but the same as Intel in single core. So we should see something similar this time around as well.