Randarr

Given Steve's recent coverage of how many X's were available per $ in the coverage of the RX 7900XTX featuring XFX, and the statement about the R9 7900 being worthless because it won't even contain a single X, I present a build video idea making Steve absolutely swoon for the sheer number of Xs available. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hjnfgb Featuring the Omen X case not only for the X in the name but for the fact it looks like one on the front, an XFX RX 7900 XTX, with a gigabyte b650 gaming X AX motherboard (the ROG StriX X670 was also considered), any X series CPU from AMD, with gskill Flare X5 RAM, a noctua chromaX cooler, and StriX XF case fans, for NVME we have a drive from SK HyniX, and for bulk storage I put in 4 Teamgroup EX sata drives for RAID X (it's 10 okay, but we memeing), powered by a corsair RMX power supply, and of course running windows X (okay it's 10 again but same meme). Depending on how you want to count the bs reasons I came up with there could be 30+ Xs in this build which will conclusively have more Xs than any PC build prior. I guess you could say the speX are a bit Xtra.

I was so surprised to see so many people in the multi-millions of points, no doubt my 2 rigs with a mere single GPU each, even with decent GPUs, were not high scoring. I should have known the mining rigs would show up and dominate those work units, still happy to have contributed.

I'm having an issue getting my Vega 64 folding, without it I'm not gonna get much work done, maybe someone already answered a question like this here and I'm just too lazy to read through the whole thread, but are there any recommendations to get it going? I did see something about the pro drivers is that going to get it running? System info: ryzen 5 1600, 16gb DDR4 3200, x370 motherboard, vega 64 strix software version 20.2.2, Windows 10 version 1909 My game server with an r9 290x and an e5 2640v2 seems to be chugging along just fine and has the GPU active more often, it's also using the regular game drivers not the pro ones, but different GPU architecture and so forth making the difference?

Lots of decent B450/x470 boards out there at reasonable prices. I'm never sure about MSI since their power phase count on their boards always seems so low, maybe they use better components IDK (pretty sure I've heard buildzoid describe them as "fine"). Just don't feel like I'd get the same blissful overclocking experience on a board with a 4 phase VRM. Been keeping my eye on used Strix x470 boards as a potential upgrade since my x370 board had some issues with the ryzen 3000 centered BIOS updates, new ones out now though, may try again. Zen 3000 definitely has my interest peaked.

IMO a 290x is respectable, according to some sources being very close to an RX 480, and since I have both on hand I was able to test and observe a small difference in favor of the 480 (albeit with different CPUs I am/was too lazy to pull them out of their respective systems so... idk it wasn't exactly scientific), so the 290x is probably worth hanging on to through your IMO much needed CPU upgrade. As far as gaming performance goes I had a much better gaming experience when moving from my FX 8350 (OCd to 4.7) to an i5 4670k (OCd to 4.4) about 3-4 years ago, better overall framerates in many games and less stutter, easily noticeable. After 2nd gen ryzen launched I upgraded to 1st gen and noticed very little difference in gaming performance, but better handling of other tasks while I played (I often listen to youtube videos in the background while I play and those would stop to buffer fairly frequently with the i5 something I didn't have with the FX chip due to the extra threads). I guess you could say the upgrade to Zen brought me some computing zen... Seems like it's in your budget to go with 2nd gen ryzen so I say go for it. A 2600 is a solid move for sure, the IPC increase between your chip and the new one should be night and day man. Then down the road if you feel like getting a better GPU my friend and I run r5 2600/GTX 1080, and r5 1600/RX Vega 64 respectively in our mains and life is good.

Good call didn't think to do it at first but CPUz reported clock at ~3.6 I watched it bob for a while and windows seemed to report, and I'm going to try to explain this as best I can, a delta from the boost clock rather than the base, i.e. if CPUz reported 3.6 windows reported 4.0, if CPUz reported 3.3 windows said 3.7, and if CPUz reported 3.0 windows reported 3.4 etc. Still interesting and makes me wonder how exactly windows gets its clock readings, but not nearly as cool as having a locked chip run out of spec

So I'm working on a MAME (and others) emulator machine that will sit in a stand up cabinet for my dad, picked up some cheap older parts for it and I noticed something that seems strange to me, that processor speed is out of spec by almost 300mhz. This is an H61 board with an i5 2500 non-K (SR00T) with, I can assure you, no adjustments to bclk. I'm not disturbed by this behavior as more performance is always welcome, even for an arcade machine, but I wonder why I'm seeing it boost near 4ghz. After all this is a locked chip that is SUPPOSED to have a base speed of 3.3 with a max turbo of 3.7. I've never seen an intel chip go beyond its rated boost speed without some kind of additional prompting, IE an overclock, which is distinctly not supposed to be possible here. Has anyone seen this before, or have I come across something interesting?

Wow man, that thing is in some weird way beautiful. I wish I could get my hands on something like that, a brand new case and still a sleeper.

So the deal is I'm trying to build a cheap game server on a tight budget, a spend as little as possible kind of deal, and I'm down to PSU and SSD. This PSU will need to power a Xeon E5-2640v2 and an R9 290x (probably a bit overkill but it's what I have) and I found an E-Power EP-750p7 for $35 new in box. The big question is, is it worth it? (i.e. is it going to blow up?) I know it's old but I'm trying to shave as much as I can, and yes I'm aware how badly that can end with power supplies, but I'm trying to squeeze enough power out of $40-$50 tops for the PSU. Any feedback or thoughts would be helpful

So I've got a weird one here boys and girls and I need some help if it can be provided. I have this graphics card a GTX 960 windforce (https://www.gigabyte.com/us/Graphics-Card/GV-N960WF2OC-2GD#ov) that works, just not on anything I've plugged it in to that's a haswell chip and I can't figure it out. I bought my brother the card along with giving him my old gaming PC for christmas (he just got around to hooking it up now that he's got his own place) and it doesn't work The weird thing is the card isn't just outright dead, it completely works (tested with games and benchmarks) in - My ryzen 5 1600 system - Lenovo C20 workstation I have with 2 westmere xeons - Old AMD phenom II x4 (former brain for the emulation box before haswell upgrade) It does not work in (not even detected as an unknown device, no display out from any port) - an emulation box I put together for my dad, featuring an i5 4430 on a stock HP board - My ITX system, featuring a 4570 with a Zotac H87 ITX - His system, featuring a 4670k on a gigabyte z87x-ud4h The graphics cards from each of these other computers work in his, an r5 220 from the workstation, my vega 64, gtx 460 from the emulation box, AND a 960 MSI armor card from my ITX system. This one has got me heckin stumped boys, the card works, just not in either of the systems where would want it (obviously I'd be willing to trade his 960 for mine but since the card doesn't work in that system either....) Can someone help me get this lousy headache inducing gift running?

Well I fully expected to come home and have to set my bios back to f25 because after I made this post I got a repeated fail to POST (error 55 which looks to be memory initialization) which seemed like a bad time and then all the sudden I come home from work expecting not to get into windows and it just works. I still couldn't get it to OC in BIOS, but I dialed the voltage back in ryzen master and everything is working going back to my comfortable 65c at 4ghz, maybe I was tired and not thinking well enough last night, but my results with the new bios still seems finicky to say the least. I still don't understand why I can't OC in BIOS as prior but as long as I don't have that performance loss and it doesn't continue to fail to POST I'm happy with it. It also takes longer to post with the BIOS set to stock settings for the CPU with 3000mhz on the RAM (200 below its XMP and numbers that were perfectly acceptable before) and I'm not sure entirely whats going on with the internal struggle inside my system.

Tonight I upgraded my gigabyte ax370-gaming-k7 bios to version 41c (an ordeal in and of itself) to prep for Zen 3000 and I can't seem to get my overclock back to where it was. This morning I was running a 4ghz OC on my r5 1600 from the BIOS and now it seems if I adjust the clock from the BIOS even with more voltage it fails to post. I can however reach 4.0 again with ryzen master, but with more voltage 1.4 and putting my load temps higher... Any tips? or if I stick with this bios am I stuck with overclocking in ryzen master and using a higher voltage setting than I did prior? (I know I know I'm a fool for updating the BIOS before I actually have the chip that makes it necessary) edit:cool to fool

In the US it's actually illegal to refuse warranty simply for opening a device http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43724348 granted that may not be so in Canada, but we are talking about a US company soooooo ehh. However they are under no such stipulation to cover accidental damage unless otherwise stated so yeah breaking it is bad but opening it as long as you don't break it is fine

Shall I assume you've already contacted Rossmann? because honestly I don't believe anyone is as well equipped to fix a mac as he is, including apple. I mean depending on the damage to the board and PSU a reasonably competent technician should be able to take care of that, it's the display that becomes an issue. of course if it has the same leads just in different places from the other 5k iMac you could potentially solder on new connectors, depending on the layout and type that may be easier said than done though

Both work fine under load individually and I purchased both of them brand new a few months apart