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The 2 TB3 model is stupid, and has no reason to exist. Just kill it already, please.
Other than that, a great though incremental upgrade. Would have liked to see a price cut, as $1700 is a lot to swallow for a base model. 512GB of base storage and 16GB of base RAM for the 4 TB3 model is great though, and likely part of the reason.
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15 minutes ago, jonnyGURU said:
And Molex to 8-pin PCIe is a HORRIBLE idea, regardless of what Linus says.
I would argue the issue is more with the execution of those adapters being overall very poor, rather than the actual prospect being bad, as the 12v1 line *should* be quite robust. However, the adapters utterly suck, and OP's old gateway sure isnt running a high quality PSU from the factory.
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Thats a LOT of dough to play with... I'd go AMD for sure. The build I am posting should be able to game fairly well due to the 4.5GHz boost clock of the CPU (before overclocking). Dual GPU's is included because you can actually use them. I went to the higher end of your budget. Could of course dial it back a bit.
PCPartPicker Part List: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/hmhBJb
CPU: AMD Threadripper 3970X 3.7 GHz 32-Core Processor ($1899.99 @ Amazon)
CPU Cooler: Thermaltake Floe Riing RGB 360 TR4 Edition 54.42 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler ($249.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Asus ROG ZENITH II EXTREME ALPHA EATX sTRX4 Motherboard ($849.99 @ B&H)
Memory: G.Skill Trident Z Neo 64 GB (4 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 Memory ($389.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($449.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Gigabyte AORUS NVMe Gen4 2 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive ($449.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($1448.99 @ Walmart)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti 11 GB FTW3 ULTRA GAMING Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($1448.99 @ Walmart)
Case: Lian Li O11D XL-X ATX Full Tower Case ($420.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: Corsair 1200 W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply ($399.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $8008.90
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-05-04 18:22 EDT-0400EDIT: Forgot exhaust fans. I'd buy fans to match the AIO
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24 minutes ago, BuckGup said:
Catalina, couldn't tell you the exact version. Maybe 15.3
Unfortunately I no longer have a mac to test on, but I cannot find anybody else saying that the command i gave you doesn't work under catalina
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2 hours ago, BuckGup said:
That's an l as in Larry
Odd, thats supposed to work. What version of macOS?
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1 hour ago, BuckGup said:
It says
-bash: spctl: command not found
the character after T in the second word of the command, are you writing an L or a 1? It needs to be the former.
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Sudo spctl --master-disable
In terminal
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My PC is a pretty good space heater as well. Little over 650w at full boar, and a "steady state" consumption of 350w.
3900x @ Stock with PBO enabled (Maintains 3.9GHz in an all core synthetic)
RTX 2070 @ Stock (due to poor binned die, cannot OC at all. Memory OC's well but offered no performance benefit
GTX 670 @ Stock (F@H Compute card)
The 2070, and CPU cooler (Dark Rock Pro 4) are on their way out of the system. Unhappy with the 2070's performance at 1440p, and unhappy with my CPU thermals. In their will hopefully be a 2080 super and Arctic 280 CLC
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Happy to see dual cores totally removed from the Core iX lineup, i5's return to relevancy, and the moving away from random half-step components that just cut hyperthreading and made 0 sense to buy.
Kind of sucks that Intel is *still* dragging their feet about putting more than 10 cores in their mainstream socket though. It seems like the exact same fight Intel v AMD had back in the Pentium 4 days. Intel holds supremacy in clocks, while AMD demolishes in cores. The difference is that this time, games are preferring cores.
Prices are also quite low on the high end for Intel, though pricing their 10 core part up to bat with AMD's 12 core 3900x isnt very wise. Low end prices are utterly stupid, and Intel will continue to get demolished in this segment unless the performance is double what AMD has to offer down low. No buyers remorse for 3rd gen Ryzen owners, but happy to see Intel finally wising up and playing chess with the rest of us rather than mahjong. Sucks 10nm *still* isnt ready, as well. That 125 Watt "Thermal Design Power" (Roughly an all core synthetic at base clock) has me INCREDIBLY worried as for what type of cooler those high end chips will need. Also, still UHD 630 intel? Really?
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9 minutes ago, dizmo said:
For YouTube? Or videos for what?
I have a friend who's thinking about getting into YouTube and stuff, and I'm still deciding whether to build her a PC, or buy her a MBP.I think I'm leaning more towards MBP, as I picture it being a little easier to use, no?
MBP is MUCH easier to use IMO. The majority of what I do could be uploaded on YT, though it is more prerecorded newscasting type stuff. I would 100% reccomend something like a 14" MBP (if its any good when it comes out), or a 16" if you have dough to spend. The current 13" isnt worth much salt, especially with a refresh any week now and the 14" in a couple months.
FCPX is much more newbie friendly than DaVinci or Premier in my opinion, coming from a certification in FCPX and Premier and lots of years of using DaVinci,
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EVGA uses an asetek AIO with a modified coldplate, so it wont be any louder than a normal AIO. That is more than quiet enough, and will be quieter than a triple fan air cooled card.
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I assume the apple route wasnt mentioned because LMG doesn't use Apple workstations for editing, but atleast in my experience as a "one man band" editor, FCPX + Affinity Photo does everything I need to do for my professional and personal editing. Though admittedly, I do switch from FCPX to Resolve and back quite a bit. My productivity between the two is roughly equal, and I cant say i have a preference.
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8 hours ago, AnLPTH said:
@SenKa so if we want to delid the 9900ks we need to razer cut all the glue then heat it up to melt alloy then lift it out? Intel did mention this in any document? Cant find it anywhere? What melting point of alloy they are using?
Youre describing solder, so yeah. Thats what the S stands for in KS.
As to the exact properties of their solder, i'm not sure.
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On the left is an EPS cable, and on the right is a PCI-E Cable.
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You basically just described how AMD handles its IHS, and how Intel does on their KS chips. The only difference being, rather than raw tin, it's an alloy with a lower melting point.
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Almost certainly, seeing how they've reviewed every other iPhone since the 4s.
Canada tends to get these things a bit late, and then of course the review itself takes a while. Be patient. Though, my prediction as to the summary of the review is:
"Battery life is its weakest point, power users probably can't make it through a full day of use. Everything else is great other than the dated looking bezels and no headphone jack, but this price bracket is so thinly spread between phones in 2020 that there wouldn't be much else to reccomend even if it sucked. Word is there is some competition coming soon from OnePlus, so maybe some android fans on the fence should like and subscribe for that video."
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Had to google which ones the WH-1000XM3's are, because theyre awfully similar in name to the WF-1000XM3... Totally not confusing at all Sony!
Over ear vs in ear really is a big debate and up to preference. In air (Airpods Pro in this case) are MUCH more portable. But, the WF-1000XM3's have more battery life and better sound quality (especially with bass, where in ears are just too small to get as much done.) I own both Airpods Pro and WH-1000XM2's, so I can give general advice here, though I have heard that the XM3's have fixed some of the issues I had with the XM2's.
Airpods Pro-
Rated at 4 hours battery life, 3.5 with ANC on, and 3 hours talk time. I find these numbers under-rated for what I get, as I get closer to 5 or 6 hours constant use with Transparency or ANC on. Charge case holds an additional "24 hours", and charges the airpods in ~20 minutes.
Transparency mode (mics bring sound in so that you can hear everything around you) is a GODSEND for people who listen to music while they work such as myself. While sony has this feature, i found it much worse in execution.
BT 5.0 is a nice to have.
I find the ANC actually works better than the Sony's
Auto-pause when the Airpods are removed is another really good nice to have.
Sony WH-1000XM2/XM3
Rated at 30 hours. I call BS. I probably got ~12h on my XM2's, though the XM3's are more power efficient.
I found that they got uncomfortable to wear after a while due to relatively non-breathable materials used on the pads.
Surprise surprise, larger batteries take longer to charge. 3 hours down time if you forget to plug them in.
ANC was overall meh, the headphones has issues blocking things out that my Airpods can.
"Transparency" honestly sucked, the microphones used were so poor that they were easily peaked by my dogs howling. This produced a nauseating amount of audio distortion.
Of course, bulkier. This is a downside to a lot of people.
The app sucks.
Overall I would say Airpods Pro hands down, doubly so if you are an iPhone owner. ESPECIALLY wearing them outside, you dont wanna be that guy stuck in 2006 wearing over-ears in public.
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1 hour ago, Divine Ascendant said:
ok thank you very much I dont know the name for them.
this thing is what i meant.
https://shop.bitspower.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=7355
Yeah, thats a distro plate. Disconnect the tubes going to/from that, and support the GPU as @W-L said.
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34 minutes ago, Divine Ascendant said:
I thought this would be the minimal expected? so it should survive quite easy with just that? im not expected to basically take the entire loop apart?
Nah, if you're worried about tubes pulling out of fittings there is a really small chance of that happening. The back pressure caused by your D5 moving water through a fitting is probably greater than what could be exerted by a vehicle driving normally.
If you have a distro plate, which I assume thats what you mean by a bitspower plate, maybe disconnect the tubes running to that to avoid lateral force cracking the plastic. That is the ONE thing I could think of happening, and thats because there is a lot of mechanical leverage against the plate should your pc fall over or you hit a pot hole or something.
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I'd drain the loop and put it in the case box, can never be too safe.
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Just now, Sorenson said:
The Hyper212 is about the same as the box cooler on the 3700x its just quieter.
Is it? They must have refined the H212 since i last bought one.
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The box cooler with the 3700x is much better that the H212, so there's no reason to buy that. The pre-applied thermal paste isnt great, so good call on picking a tube up. However, i'd buy artic silver 5.
The motherboard, while cheap, isnt capable of much more sauce than your 3700x can pull. I would *personally* upgrade it. See the motherboard tier list for a better option.
Why 2 SSD's? I would personally extend to a single 2TB 660p unless there's something I'm missing. B&H has it at the same price as your 2 drives combined.
That case, though a looker, appears to have 0 consideration to thermals. I wouldn't buy it.
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Just now, HardStoN said:
Yeah for sure the iPhone is a really good phone but for the price i don't think its worth getting one for full price
As for your choice in laptop, thinkpads are great. I used them for many, many years. My father used and ABUSED them for many many years before giving them to me. Elitebooks are great, when my father started breaking thinkpads he switched to elitebooks. I used his hand-me-down elitebooks for many, many years. A macbook won't put up to thinkpad levels of abuse, no, but it's not made to at all.
All 3 laptops in question are the top of the top premium laptops in their markets, and you can't go wrong with any of them. As with Apple, Lenovo and HP have both made design blunders in the past. As an android user, you won't be getting the absolute most out of macOS. You'll be missing things such as iMessage integration. the ability to easily answer calls from your laptop, ect... I used a macbook air when I had my note 8, and even without all the fancy integration got a FANTASTIC experience.
Buy what works best is the best advice anybody can give.
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According to Gamers Nexus, the absolute best CPU cooler for Ryzen right now is the Arctic Liquid Freezer II line. Though, good luck finding any at the moment...
I had a similar issue with my 3900x and wraith cooler, the issue is that the temp the CPU idles at is between two fan targets. Install the fan control software for your motherboard and adjust the fan curve to your liking (or do it in BIOS)