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The hype is because based on the available information so far it is one of the largest generation to generation improvements seen in the last two decades with the x70 set to outperform the highest end GPU of the previous generation. Compared with some of the other features it's set to be an absolutely stunning release. That doesn't mean older GPU's won't still do fine, but if the charts pan out developers will have a lot more breathing room to go crazy on textures, effects, etc which will likely make older cards age much faster. 10 series specifically are kind of in a rough spot because with consoles also implementing raytracing, GPUs that can't do raytracing will find themselves providing a noticeably worse experience at even lower resolutions vs 20 and 30 series as well as Big Navi.

3600 Mhz RAM will definitely be an upgrade as far as performance goes, to which extent it is worth it though if you already have 3000 is going to depend on if you can sell your current sticks for close to retail and/or if you have enough budget to eat the loss. Steve did a pretty solid video on this.

That's true, but the 32 kits are roughly twice the price and these cost me 118 each so the difference would be about ~220. Thanks that puts me at ease a lot more. And yeah, I got an Aorus 1 TB gen 4 NVMe for OS/scratch disk use. As for getting these kits in the future, yeah they likely will be more expensive but based on current growth of my channels I do think I'll be upgrading to a Threadripper system in about 2023-2024 with DDR5 so hopefully 32 will last me until then. I did not know about the stability issues at higher ram amounts. Thanks a ton for this clarification! --- In general thank you all for your very quick responses, you've put my mind at rest and made me comfortable about sticking to the current RAM amount.

Hey everyone, For my first upgrade in 7 years I decided to kind of go all in and ordered an R9 3950X, Asus Crosshair VIII Formula and what I assumed was a 64 gigs of 3600 DDR4 (and of course a bunch of other parts but those don't really matter for this topic). When the parts arrived I realized the label on the website for the ram had been misleading (16 GB Dual-Kit which I assumed to be two 16 Gig sticks but were in fact 2 8 Gig sticks for 16 total). With two of these kits I didn't have 64 GB RAM but 32 GB RAM. Now the parts took a long time to arrive already (G.Skill Royal sticks are hard to get here) and if I send these back and order new ones not only will I be out about 220 euros extra but I'll also likely need to wait a month for them to arrive (I know other ram is fine too but the royals really fit the aesthetic I'm going for here). My workloads are gaming, streaming and video production (1080p and 4k workloads currently). I know 32 GB is way more than you need for gaming but my other workloads leave me with the following question. Is 32 GB of 3600 RAM enough to stream using OBS at 1080p 6000 Kbit while simultaneously running games? Is 32 GB RAM enough for 4k workloads in Premiere Pro, as well as in more rare cases After Effects? If I were to upgrade to 8k workloads in the future (the CPU can more than handle it and I am planning to get an RTX 3090 when they come out) will 32GB RAM still be enough if the answer to the above is yes? I'd really like to avoid having to wait for new memory because I've been dying to get this build started but if I can't properly run my workloads on this I'll have to. Thanks in advance. Edit: I forgot to mention as it is relevant for the app usage. I primarily make content for YouTube (and Twitch but that's only Live), so codecs will likely be H264

The 3000 series is not going to be bottlenecked by a 9600k in any gaming workload except for the most extremely CPU intensive games (honestly even then only unoptimized games). There is likely no need to upgrade unless you have additional workloads that can benefit from more cores, PCIe gen 4 or any of the other features newer/different platforms offer. Edit: Just to place this in some perspective. I've been using the 4770K for about 7 years now and last year paired it with an RTX 2080. This CPU has not been a bottleneck in any gaming scenario so far with only one or two exceptions out of the dozens of titles I've played. It's even done decently well while simultaneously running OBS with a bunch of animations and effects and streaming at 1080p with 6000 Kbps. This CPU is a lot further behind the 2080 than yours is to the 3000 series. The only reason I'm even shifting to the 3950X next week is that I wanted PCIe gen 4, NVMe storage and would like a faster CPU to work on 4k (and 8k) footage in Premiere Pro.

How old is your CPU cooler? You wrote you used the included thermal paste. The stuff that comes with the cooler is already not the highest quality and it does go bad after a while. If you use expired thermal paste it's possible that your cooler isn't able to properly take in the heat from the CPU and thus can't cool as well as it should. How did it perform in your friend's system and what temps did they get? If they didn't have the overheating I'd try ordering some new thermal paste.

This is probably going to be an expensive potato.

You're right, hadn't even though of that I guess then the earlier mentioned divide is what I envision if both systems were maxing out. Good to hear passthrough has been getting better, how large would you say the fps hit in percentages is right now in gpu-dependent game? My workflow primarily uses Premiere Pro, After Effects and Photoshop. From what I've seen TR is about even compared to the next up Intel offering so I imagine the same counts for TR2, if they haven't closed the gap even further. Thanks, yeah that's what I figured. I was just worried about an overhead hit on the GPU passthrough

Hey all, So for the longest time I've wanted to make Linux my daily driver but as video editing and gaming are part of my daily activities I've been forced to stick with Windows(Also I really prefer Office 365 over the open source alternatives). Virtualization with direct-io has been something on my radar but because the 4770K had vt-d disabled it was something I couldn't do. Thanks to a new job however I will be able to get a massive systems upgrade in a few months and looking for some advice. While this would perhaps better fit in the CPU section, I feel this is enough of a niche that the people here can probably give more advice based on experience. For my new system I'm looking at getting either a HEDT AMD or Intel setup. Money isn't a real concern but I do prefer spending as little as possible so I've found the sweetspots to be either the Threadripper 2970 WX (24c/48t) and the Intel i9-7980XE(18c/36t) where I prefer the AMD. I'd likely dedicate 8 cores and 16 threads to Linux Mint with the remaining 16 cores and 32 threads committed to a Windows vm for gaming, Adobe and Office in case of the AMD. 4c8t for Linux and 14c28t for Windows in case of intel. For the GPU part I'm getting whatever is the highest end GPU Nvidia is supposed to release in a few weeks. AMD obviously is my preferrence, I like the higher core count at a lower price and in general want to go with them, there is one thing holding me back though and that is where my question comes in. Back when the original Ryzen was released hardware passthrough seemed to not really work well, especially compared to vt-d. Has this since been fixed? If I'd have a real performance hit on the GPU when going AMD I sadly will have to settle for Intel so I hope you guys know more. Thanks for any help.

There is a difference between going "SJW" and putting your partners on a higher standard. So no, I'm not going to boycott it.

This is wrong on so many levels I'm not even going to bother with a full explanation but no. Your brain doesn't work like that.

It seems you are the one who doesn't understand what this can do to the tech industry as a whole. The same thing happened with Internet Explorer and Windows a few years back. The only thing they needed to do to comply was offer the option to pick IE or a different browser after installing the OS. Google can simply do the same, offer the ability to use the default apps or pick your own during initial set up.

You can't lock up a thing that doesn't actually exist. You can only fine it to hurt it.

Yeah, I wasn't going to break a strike just to save 30 euros on an ssd so none of those sales were mine.

I've been watching his videos for half a decade now and never got that impression, in fact the times we do see an internet browser it is exclusively Chrome nearly always. Opera is the superior browser though.

The smoker is already hurting him, it's self-defence

The 100k subscriber requirement is kind of insane though, usually individual viewer donations is how smaller channels manage to make a profit (Patreon) whereas the larger channels benefit from ad revenue a lot more.

Just wait until it controls the nukes and that accuracy jumps to 100%

Fines issued by Dutch authorities tend to be redirected into something related to the crime they were issued for. So in this case it'll likely go into treatments for addiction and education.

Why would they? There is no competing product so they'd literally be throwing away money when just riding it out until stocks dry up is likely to have little to no cost.

The committee tends to go with corporate interests whereas the EP as a whole votes more for individual freedoms. This is far from a done fight.

Simple, by passing a law. If the company doesn't like it, they don't have to do business in a country.

I'd like to see you do Mythic Argus with a pug and without really getting your gear right or not paying attention to the boss strategies. It has been shown that throughout the expansions the truly endgame content has been getting harder and harder. The reason Vanilla seemed hard is because pretty much no one actually knew how to play the game and we had a ton of useless grinds.

If you had Skyrim plus the DLC, your version automatically became LE. If you had LE before SE was released, you got SE for free. Anthology was a fairly limited run for people who wanted all the games with some fancy goodies. Switch is a different platform entirely, VR is a pretty fundamental recode of the game.

Meh, at this point even if Intel is the better performer. I'll still get an AMD CPU