AlkaliAtom

I can't believe this video already exists, I love the internet.

Holy crap, those CPU times are an incredible improvement. You sure have put the final nail in this thought experiment for me. Thank you for your data

Yeah, that's what the market really needs, is the competition.

For sure, I've had 2 different AMD GPUs, the first fried in a way that I still haven't been able to diagnose and is sitting in the closet, I won't hold that against them. But I went back to AMD the second time because Performance/$, AMD has always been a champ.

These were the type of things I was hoping to hear. Great info, Thank you!

I'm sure there's a lot of hard work at AMD going into RDNA2, but I haven't really enjoyed my AMD graphics experience. The encoder alone on the green side is a major sell, not to mention the AI cores on the newer chips.

lol yeah, no offense to AMD's graphics, but I'm not even considering it in an upgrade.

Good point, haven't really qualitatively compared that improvement

No offense taken, the pairing of the 30 series would be just to future proof, for when i would actually need to get a new CPU. Yeah, I'm aware the FX architecture was kinda trash on launch, but it's what I've got, so why not make it work, right?

Yeah, If I upgrade the CPU/mobo It won't be until zen 3, I'm actually very excited for 7nm+

Requesting input and discussion here Obligatory Specs FX 8350 16 GB RAM, quad channel Power color Radeon R9 380 With the pretty exciting release of new graphics cards this year it's time to get a new GPU, but for my purposes (mostly 1080p gaming) aren't 4 cores hitting over 4 GHz enough? I am not concerned about any power efficiency improvements, so I could easily just slot a 3070 or a used 20 series and just live with a mild bottleneck while not contributing to e-waste because this is still perfectly good hardware. Please, if I'm missing something let me know

Oh yeah, I've seen people do that with the apple logo on Iphones, I'm going to have to look into how feasible that is on this phone.

I've had to make repairs to my phone a couple times, screen cracked once from a drop on tile. Then during that repair (screen for~$80, think I got lucky), the fingerprint sensor ribbon connector on the motherboard of the phone broke, after about six months I bought a parts only phone with a cracked screen for ~$110 and transferred good motherboard to frame with good screen, boom fully functional Pixel 3 XL. As a cautionary message, the ribbon cable clamps, that the fingerprint sensor uses, are very fragile unlike the lego style connectors that every other connection in the phone uses. My total repair cost would have less than $100 if not for that fragile connector. As to the back glass mod, I had almost a whole phone's worth of spare parts so I started scratching the paint away and around the NFC coil, as that is adhered to the glass and cleaned the adhesive off the parts that are exposed, plenty of double sided adhesive tape later its all together and clear like Tom Cruise. Both phones work too, so now I'm just looking for ideas for more mods, any ideas?