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12 hours ago, RockSolid1106 said:
Is the bonnet unlocked in this image? The gap looks weird.
It is the original design
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I also bought an electric vehicle at the end of 2023, but sadly it has only 2 wheels and a 400 Wh battery.
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Latest laptop and GPU release no longer interests me...specs getting cut while price increased
Anyone has the same feeling?
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2 hours ago, genexis_x said:
Latest laptop and GPU release no longer interests me...specs getting cut while price increased
Anyone has the same feeling?
It doesn't feel like specs being cut to me. It's just price increasing so much on laptop along with the continued mislabeling/false advertising of GPUs.
Some OEMs are keeping prices similar between 30 series and 40 series but others aren't.
Some RTX 4050 laptops are at the price that 3060 laptops were at or even higher.
Some 4060 laptops are above the prices of previous 3070 laptops.
Above 4060 the laptop prices get kinda insane. "4070" laptop for almost £1800 to 2K even tho its basically a 4060Ti with a few more Cuda cores.
"4080" laptop close to 2.5K even though it's basically a cut down 4070Ti.
"4090" laptop close to 3-3.5K even though its basically a 4080.
And you need to get a "4080" laptop of better to get at least 12GB of VRAM.
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GPUs are improving. Most of the negative noise is born from negligence and failing to accept reality. Laptops to me have never been that interesting. I only look at them when I'm looking to buy one. Otherwise they're essentially just a more limited version of desktops. I'll pay more attention to x86 laptops if we get high performance APU options in future. By high performance, I mean higher end than the rumoured Strix Halo.
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Honestly, 2022 was a sad year for laptop industry. Declining sales, increasing prices, CPU and GPU basically no upgrade in performance (alder lake and rdna2 iGPU aside). 2023 seems even worse, gaming laptops becoming bigger/thicker/heavier, Nvidia RTX40 GPUs cutting down spec (4070 laptop 128 bit bus, seriously?)... Rather focusing on fancy specs like 8TB storage, 500Hz screen, built in cherry mx kb etc, why manufacturers cannot fulfill the most important aspect of majority laptop buyers - affordability?
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Jenson said it himself, he believes moores law to be dead, or it's a convenient excuse to upcharge for much lower tier dies with gimped memory bandwidth. Nvidia had to custom order a more optimized variant of TSMC 5nm just to be able to meet the performance expectations that they were touting, they're probably paying 1.5-1.8x per high end gpu (compared to AMD) to keep the performance crown. Nvidia products sell, there's no doubt about that, mindshare has the minds of the majority due to years of dominance in the industry, manufacturers won't stray for this reason alone. The overdone components on newer laptops will continue to be a trend while midrange gpus cost $1k, throwing on more ridiculous components looks to be the only way for manufacturers to make money on "high end" Nvidia dies. Hopefully the current massive downtrend in gpu sales will translate into the gaming laptop market to give Nvidia a dose of reality. AMD has the room in their BOM to make a price squeeze, but I doubt it's going to happen as they'd rather price fix for higher profits along with Nvidia.
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Surprisingly MSI Afterburner is excellent for Radeon GPU tuning, in terms of fan curve, voltage control etc
Ditched Adrenalin software since then...
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Actually, I have sold my previous desktop PC since the day I got my gifted Legion Slim 7i laptop. However, I really missed the quiet fan noise and cool temps in desktop PC. Thanks to 11.11 sale and price drop for certain parts, I managed to grab a few good deals. Today, I am happy to announce that I have rebuilt desktop PC and returned to PCMR!
This time, I went for bigger ATX case as it gives more room to work in and to hide the cables.
Kudos to my friend who helped me a lot during the build process. No issues on first boot!
PCPP link: Resurrected Stealth PC by genexis_x - AMD Ryzen 5 5600, Radeon RX 6700 XT - PCPartPicker
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5 hours ago, TheDankKoosh said:
You'd probably have been better off with dishing out an extra $20 for a 1tb nvme with dram for your OS
I'd suggest not filling that drive past ~3/4 to avoid OS and game slowdowns due to the lack of cache (SLC does exist but is much less effective to DRAM).
1TB NVMe drives with DRAM are not cheap here, it would be more than $20 extra.
I never fill up my drive past 3/4, thanks for the advice anyways.
5 hours ago, TheDankKoosh said:now you gotta see if she'll rev hard and OC for fun at some point, you definitely have the cooling for it. JK but not really do it one day when you're bored
Only thing is the PSU coil whine bothers me...
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16 hours ago, genexis_x said:
Only thing is the PSU coil whine bothers me...
I had been on the fence with that PSU as well, but after reviewing some test data is looked like a fairly average 80+ gold from one of the big ODMs
I'm not sure what PSU pricing looks like in Malaysia, but if you can find one of the lower wattage plat+ units at a good price it may be a future upgrade and something you can transfer to another build
These units tend to have much tighter QC, better caps, better ripple, ect.
I got my 760w ion+ around $100 USD and it's running my 10850k + 3080 without troubles. Anecdotal of course, but my unit has been whisper quiet all the way up to 800w (105% unit rating)
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Considering the high price of Ryzen 7000 platform cost, building a Ryzen 5000 PC is actually a better idea in 2022?
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Depends. If you already have ddr4 and and AMD b350/x370/b450/x470/b550/x570 motherboard, then yeah buying a Ryzen 5000 cpu as an upgrade is by far the best idea. 5950x for workstation, 5800x3d for gaming.
Now, if you are currently on an older platform, then intel 12th or 13th gen makes the most sense. Motherboard and cpu prices are lower than ryzen, and better multithread and gaming(except 5800x3d) performance than ryzen 5000th gen.
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I still much prefer the pricing of am4 compared to the performance that it puts out, 5600s have been regularly going for $130 in the US, and it's very easy to get cpu+ram+mobo under $300
am5 pricing will be coming down over the next few months with production costs leveling out and 13th gen intel next month, but I'd honestly never suggest a casual user to spend more than 400-500 on a platform
The real value in am5 won't be realized until we see $150 b650 with a decent VRM, 7000x3d chips and ddr5 price drops
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