KarathKasun

1st gen Ryzen and memory speeds above ~2800 can cause all kinds of problems.  I hear people say 3200 is fine... it is not.  Two out of 3 1st gen Ryzen rigs I have had to work on needed memory at 2933 or lower, otherwise they would exhibit VERY strange behavior occasionally.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2018-500W-High-Power-24PIN-DC-ATX-Power-Supply-PSU-with-Dual-12V-Output-Channels-/112094353164
 
Just need a pair of 12v -> 19v boost converters to go with it, which should give you great ripple suppression.

And AMD hadnt done anything of real merit for 12 years before Ryzen (excepting that they blew a ton of cash on hookers and blow).  Whats your point?

2017 to 2022 sounds a lot like ~5 years.  Which is about the time needed for a new ground-up architecture. 🤔

This is why they are still using Kaby Lake cores with no real improvement.  They are 100% working on something from scratch new while the minor dev teams just copy and paste cores onto existing designs.

We saw that on early Core series CPUs too (Core 2 -> Nehalem -> Sandy Bridge), its just flatlined since the Kabylake.  Ryzen is still a new architecture with lots of low hanging fruit.

We saw that on early Core series CPUs too (Core 2 -> Nehalem -> Sandy Bridge), its just flatlined since the Kabylake.  Ryzen is still a new architecture with lots of low hanging fruit.

Err, no.  4770k to 7700k (same basic core as 9900k) was actually quite significant in a lot of places.  A 15% gain was not unheard of at similar clocks.
 
I have chips from most intel generations from 2600k to 7600k, the gains were there.  Its just that games didnt always see the largest part of them.
 
Ryzen was such a big jump for AMD because BD/FX was such crap when it was new and didnt get any updates for ~10 years.

Its 7% give or take a little.  That is tiny.
 
4.3ghz -> 5ghz is a 16% increase.  AMD is still ~10% behind in many workloads.

Going to point out that architecture itself isnt what makes emulation better this time around.  Its the clocks.
 
Ryzen actually pushes more ops/clock than Intel by a tiny amount.

Sandisk has one problem.  They make cheap trash all the way up to outstanding products.  Just because it says Sandisk on it does not mean it will be great.

Stay away from cheap drives.

This is not true.
 
B550 is Ryzen 3000+ ONLY.  Any earlier processors are NOT officially supported.  This does not mean that older CPUs will not work, but you would have to look at the manufacturers supported CPU list for each board to see if they have included the older bootstrap code for pre-3000 series support.  AMD does not require that manufactureers include this support.
 
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/310418-new-amd-b550-motherboards-are-incompatible-with-earlier-ryzen-cpus

Cache processing is Chrome trying to clean up the browser cache, which is accessing the SSD.  It gets stuck because the SSD is no longer responding.  The system is freezing for the same reason, the OS is stuck trying to access files that it cant get to.

literally made an account on LTT just to say thank you, this helped me out in 2020 over 2 years later.

Make sure onboard audio isnt disabled in the BIOS.

16gb is the highest single rank as far as I know the TridentZ 16 gb are single rank

Its only useful if you need a wireless keyboard and are too far out in the sicks to get replacement batteries if they die.
 
Think... remote research or something similar.

Never trust the optical media.

What of it?  People had the money, the dot com bubble was still kinda going.
 
Go back to the 80s or 90s.  There were $50k workstations that any modern computing device destroys.  Just think about that for a moment, there were workstations that cost ~3x a family car of the era.
 
As for performance, the increase over time is exponential.  We are at thousands of times the number of transistors now.

If you can do OCCT on the small data set test mode for 15 minutes, you are stable enough for 99% of things.

USB isnt an audio interface, its a data interface with a host/client architecture.  You need a USB host device (computer) to run a client device (DAC).
 
You could, in theory, setup a Raspberry Pi to run headless and do the redirecting.  But you will always have latency issues.
 
Get a DAC with optical input if you really want to solve the issue.

The Thinkpad is of equal build quality to the Omen, full stop.

I have seen tons of recent Dell laptops with random hardware level failures, like Ethernet and WiFi going AWOL.  Replace the WiFi card, no joy, the slot or PCH has failed in some way.
 
Most systems are really made in the same manufacturing plants with similar parts.  The final assembly may be done somewhere else, but all the parts are generally the same quality minus actual design flaws.

The Thinkpad is of equal build quality to the Omen, full stop.