TechTippee

I work in construction, so I'm well aware of that. As I said, it would be attached to the actual house framing, which is able to bear a considerably larger amount of weight. Thank you for bringing that up for anyone else who might read this later, though!

Gotcha. I'll keep that in mind.

Ceiling's 8' tall, I'd want it at a height around 36" off the ceiling. Would you recommend going for a 50" arm still?

Greetings TechTippers, I was thinking about mounting a 24-27" monitor to my ceiling (anchored to a rafter, of course). Any reason this shouldn't work, as long as I get an adequately sturdy arm?

Greetings TechTippers, My motherboard has a slot for an m.2 WiFi card. If I put one in my system, will it have WiFi capabilities automatically, or do I need antennae or something?

The 5800X3D has a (for now) unique gimmick that puts it in an awkward position. It's a halo-esque CPU in terms of price/being branded as "the fastest gaming CPU", but there are arguments to be made for both giving it god-tier RAM (as you, @freeagent, and others have said, to squeeze every drop of performance out of an expensive CPU), and for using cheaper RAM (as @TrigrHmentioned, the benefits of better memory are less tangible when you're making fewer calls to said memory because of that heckin' chonker cache). To a large extent, I agree with this sentiment. It's why I didn't go with a DDR5 Alder Lake system. But as @RONOTHAN##pointed out, the price gap is much smaller between memory kits than whole platforms, with an arguably equal impact on performance, making it a tougher call which kit to go with, and the answer will ultimately vary depending on the person. Personally, I don't care much playing with RAM timings. I want something to set and forget, be it XMP or a one-time manual tune. The performance bump from having dual-rank memory is appealing, and since QVLs seem to provide that information (assuming that doesn't change as much as who provides the chips going into the RAM apparently does), I've got a direction to my decision-making now. Thank you for your input, everyone. I expect I'll close this as solved in the next day or so, so if you have any further thoughts to add, I'd love to hear them!

I already have the X3D in hand, so that's a certainty. If there are double-digit gains to be had even with this chip by running dual-rank memory, I'll have to consider that. So the thing to do is look up what die the memory kits I'm considering use, to gauge their potential at the very least. Especially if I do end up going 4x8 like xg32 is suggesting.

That's very interesting. The 3600cl18 kit linked above has advertised timings of 18-22-22-42. A kit of 3200cl16 selling for the same price has advertised timings of 16-18-18-36. I don't know enough about timings to dub one "trash" over the other, but if there was a 5% difference or less between the two in a worst-case scenario, I'd be fine with either. If I'm just gaming on the X3D (which I am, since productivity suffers a bit with the reduced clocks), why would I need 32 GB of RAM? Not to mention that if I stick with 16 GB, why spend an extra $20 on better RAM when I won't be able to carry it forward to my next rig? Will I even notice a difference between 3600cl16 and 3600cl18?

the "actual latency" of a kit of 3200cl16 is the same as a kit of 3600cl18 (10 nanoseconds), or so I'm told. Kits of 3600cl16 have an "actual latency" of 8.88 nanoseconds, which is slightly better, but I seriously doubt I'll notice the difference, especially given the results stated above regarding the extra cache making a RAM upgrade less effective. That stuff is about the same price as the 3200cl16 kits I'm looking at, and given that 3200cl16 = 3600cl18 in terms of latency, it is something to consider since all I'll likely be doing is turning on XMP.

Greetings TechTippers, Watching HardwareUnboxed's rather exhaustive reviews of the 5800X3D's performance, it seems that huge cache means there's very little to gain from splurging on expensive fast RAM, so I plan on getting a 3200cl16 kit to go with it. Any recommendations? I'm happy to save a buck where I can on the memory, as DDR4 appears to be coming to the end of the road, bar some mutterings from AMD about AM4 not being dead yet.

Right, right. TKL would be ideal, I think, though 60% would work. Not a lot of desk space. As for switches, I'm looking for something on the quieter side, to be considerate to others in the house. I've had a good experience with Cherry Silents, but I haven't seen them at this price point. Strictly gaming.

Dear TechTippers, Just what it says on the tin. $50 is what I'm aiming for, but can go up to $60. Of course, I'm happy to save a buck if I can, but in the world of keyboards, I know I'm far from getting the best.

Yes, I am. Ah, so that's why. Guess it's a good time to snap one up, then.

$5-$10 would be a price far more worth considering, in my opinion. US dollars, PCPP pricing. I am looking at the 2021 refresh of both here, so perhaps supply constraints have hiked the price?

How appropriate that this should come up so soon after the TechQuickie episode on Maglevs. It sounds like I would be perfectly fine saving the 50 bucks, then. Fantastic.