At0micMuff1n

There are quite a few reviews of the Icegiant on Threadripper, but nothing for more "run-of-the-mill" R9 processors. Given that it performs better at high power outputs, I'd like to know what it's like on a 7950x or 7900x. I'm getting a 420mm Arctic Liquid Freezer 3 for a new 7900X build and it's massive. Along with the Zotac Trinity 4080 I got, I'm not sure whether it'll fit in the Antec Performance 1 that I bought. The IceGiant seems like a better, albeit much more expensive alternative. However, I'd justify the extra expense in my head with the knowledge that I'll never have to worry about pump failures or anything. Anyone have any thoughts? I'm currently on a 5800X and an NH-D15S which I'm pretty sure won't be able to handle the 7900X or any future R9 CPU that I buy (I'm intending to upgrade in the future as this is a production build and will be pushing renders through as many cores as I can get my hands on).

This is the second time in recent memory where LTT have bungled a major product release. While the supers weren't all that great, this is still a GPU release. LTT is many things, but we all started watching them as a tech channel first and foremost. Whole room water-cooling, server management, etc. are all fun videos, but this is a tech review channel. If you can't get that right, why are you posting videos? The omission of the XTX from the other benchmarks, only to include it in the last slide like you're slipping it in, well...we noticed. The 7600XT video omitting any comparably performant cards, only showing the 4060Ti but not a 6700XT or even the 4060 for that matter was similarly weird. Whoever is writing the GPU videos needs to have a sit down and realize that they screwed up here. No amount of labs data can obscure the fact that this video had several data representation typos and it is missing the only GPU that would actually matter in this release: the direct competitor of the most anticipated card in this new lineup???

Imma just say, I thought it was a CPU botleneck too, but wanted to understand where you were first. at 1080p you are really pushing that CPU to the edge in those games. I'd look into getting a bigger monitor . That 4070 will drive a lot of games at 1440p, even 4k, prefectly fine even with that 8700k. In fact, the higher the resolution the more your 4070 will work. You'll probably want to consider an upgrade to AM5 though to utilize that 4070 properly if you plan on doing 1440p240hz gaming or something with a competitive OLED or high refresh monitor.

Thank you for the reassurance. It still works, so I'll keep going with it.

MSFS 2020

What kind of troubleshooting have you done? What resolution are you playing at? Have you run any performance monitors while in-game? You'll need to see whether the 4070 isn't being fed enough info or whether your GPU is not running at the correct power/mhz. If you're on 1080p, given the 8700k, it might a bottleneck issue where you're already pushing ridiculous frames (1080 ain't no slouch, had one myself). Don't know unless you give more info.

I know it's very minor, but just wanted to make sure: this shouldn't affect it's ability to keep temps or anything right? Dropped it onto vinyl wood flooring from about 4ft. high. 20240122_043212969_iOS.heic

I talked with support. For anyone else that gets this issue, according to them you need to cancel the order and order again to change the address. Unfortunate, but thankfully they responded in time to cancel my order and have me reorder with the free shipping deal still online.

I placed an order with Paypal, completely missed the fact my paypal account was super old and had an old address. I've already sent an email to support, but should I purchase another order to ensure I get the free shipping deals (saved me $40), or should I have faith that support can rectify this? Obviously I'm leaning towards having faith, but just want to make sure I'm covering all my bases.

I'd only really stay on the 4600 if they bumped it up to 8 cores. I really would like some more cores to pump out faster renders. Also, the new consoles are coming out with 8 cores, so the next generation of games will most likely be catered to higher thread counts like that (Halo Infinite being one of them, but of course I'm looking forward to Elder Scrolls 6 and GTA 6 in the coming 2 years). Ideally, the 12 core would be moved down in price to the $300-$400 bracket to compete against the i7-10700k, but that's a bit of a long shot considering Intel is reserving their 10 core for the successor to the 9900k, though correct me if I'm wrong).

I was considering this issue, that it's an end of life platform. However, We don't really know what Zen 4 is going to bring. We're still going to be on PCIe 4.0, and the max that they're going to fit on a processor is going to be 16 cores anyway lest they start impinging on Threadripper (they could always just move the whole product line up, but I don't think they'll do that). THe only reason I'd wait for AM4+ or whatever it'll be is for more PCIe lanes and/or THunderbolt support, which kind of already exists on a couple boards I think. Plus, that's what threadripper is for anyway, so like...not much reason to stay on consumer platforms for pro-sumer feature sets. What do you think AM4+ will bring that AM4 won't have?

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/fMPNYH Above is my partslist from PCPartpicker. Built this awesome machine late summer 2018 in the middle of the GPU and RAM crisis. She's served me well and is still chugging along very nicely. With Zen 3 and Ampere coming along this year though, along with the fact I just landed a new job (just graduated), I'm looking to show her a little love later this year. Long post, but TLDR at the bottom. I am an architecture student, do a little video editing on the side, and am looking forward to Halo Infinite, Microsoft Flight simulator 2020, and KSP 2 this year (entertaining CBPnk 2077). I want to run these balls to the wall and maintain close to 144hz on a 1440p display. Right now, I'm looking for an SSD to bump my fast storage up and I'm planning to accumulate cash, live my life, and pounce nearer the holidays on a new Ampere card. Preferably the 80 series card at around $500-600 to run ray tracing renders as well as the games at 1440p 144hz on max settings, with ray tracing hopefully above 60 and nearing 100fps if the claims about Ampere's performance are to be believed. Don't want to jump on the 4k train yet, just want to go high refresh rate. CPU-wise I'm looking to jump from 6c/12t to the 8c Ryzen 4xxx or whatever the equivalent of the current 3700/3800x. Would entertain going to 12 cores at a reasonable price (closer to $400 than $500). Mainly I'm looking for those IPC gains as Zen+ was still a little hamstrung in that regard. Zen 2 and Zen 3 will allow for better single-core performance which Revit and high-refresh rate gaming really like. I'm also thinking about a new motherboard to accompany the upgrade as my X470 Prime Pro doesn't have BIOS quality of life features like a boot code LCD or dual-BIOS. However, she's still going strong, so not a super high priority (need to update BIOS though as it's from 4/11/2018). I also want to get an SSD upgrade right now to ride out the impending NAND price increases. A buddy of mine is offering me his Samsung pm981 512GB (https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-PM981-Polaris-512GB-MZVLB512HAJQ-00000/dp/B07CZ42G6F) for $60. TLDR: Should I buy my friend's used 512GB NVMe drive for $60 or spring for a $100 SATA SSD from Buildapcsales (Crucial MX500 or equivalent)? Should I buy a 3700x/3800x this year or a Zen 3 chip for my X470 board? Should I include a new X570/x670 mobo in my upgrade budgeting (my mobo is fine, but has no safeguards like a boot code LCD) at around $200-250? I know this falls in the category of "future tech, bait for wenchmarks", but as this is a lot of money and I want to have a good roadmap going forward. Just needed some input from like-minded tech nerds. Thanks ahead of time!