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That's truly bizzare.

in afterburner > general > literally the first option lets you choose "master graphics processor"
 

I'm looking at getting a tuf or an fe depending on what i see in stock first. The tuf is a good card, runs cool, and is also msrp which is as much as I am willing to spend. 
 
But honestly, any 3080 is better than none at all. Get what you can get your hands on. 
 
 
 

5500xt should be fine for a 75hz monitor.
 
The ripjaws are 3600mhz vs the 3200mhz you have listed, and are also cheaper.

I would recommend trying to get a 5600x or waiting one more generation as the 2600 is still a pretty good processor. 

If you have more paste, try remounting it. Idle should probably be in the 30-40c range. My 5900x idles at about 35ish with an aio. Load temps will be hot with these new zen 3 cpus, but prime95 is the worst case scenario for temps. see what you get in cinebench or while running a game.

Are you positive it's not in the bios? Both my MSI and Gigabyte x570 boards have chipset fan curves in the bios. Worst case scenario you could remove the shroud and unplug the fan. Make sure you chipset isn't actually too hot before you do that though.

Amd also boosts all the time as long as there is thermal headroom. There's no timer. You are only ever at base clock if you are idling, or have a terrible cooling solution.

If you are going to leave it stock you shouldn't be looking at K sku intel CPUs. Get the best non k, a cheap motherboard and call it a day.
 
If you do want to overclock, and you want more than 8 cores, get zen 3. But maybe just turn on pbo and leave it alone if you are mostly just gaming. You can get better muticore performance on zen 3 with an all core overclock, but at the expense of single core heavy tasks. Example: my 5900x can oc to 4.7-4.8ghz all core, but single core boost with pbo turned on will often slightly exceed 5.0ghz. 
 
Thermals will generally be lower on amd from what I've seen, given a similar core count. A 10900k at 5.1 will be well over 200w full load. A 5900x with two more cores at 4.7 will be under 200w. My 5900x with max pbo settings gets to about 185w in cb r20 with 4.5-4.6ghz all core boost.
 
Remember ipc (instruction per clock) is more important than raw clock speed. Zen 3 has better performance here. With clocks equal, zen 3 kills intel at the same tasks. Heck, zen 3 at several hundred mhz lower than intel still beats it.
 
The only place intel still makes any sense is gaming. A 10900k is still a chart topper in many games, but not all of them. The ones it does still win are only by a few frames at best. Not something you would notice.
 
When I made my decision it came down to this: Intel Z490 motherboards are more expensive generally than amd X570. They are both a relative dead end in terms of future cpu compatibility so it's a wash there. Amd has more cores at basically the same price (if looking at 10900k and 5900x). Amd is also faster right now. To me, if I were going to keep this setup for the next 5 years, AMD makes the most sense. 
 
Edit regarding heat: I have an evga clc 240 front mounted in a meshify c. At stock cpu settings in cb r20 looping for 10 minutes, my 5900x stays at about 68-70c in a 20-21c room. With max pbo it will get up to around 85c. With an undervolt multiplayer of about -100mv it will be back around 75c, with the same mc scores, bit lower single core scores. Soon we should be seeing agesa 1.1.8.0 bios updates with the new "curve optimizer" setting which will enable a smarter way to dynamically undervolt the cpu for better thermals and performance at the same time. My gigabyte x570 elite technically already had these settings, but it's buggy at best and still on agesa 1.1.0.0
 
 

I'd have to agree with you, but really, when was the last time you saw LMG really care about console stuff? 

I'd have to agree with you, but really, when was the last time you saw LMG really care about console stuff? 

One sees it on eBay too.  Unrealistic sellers.  It’s a long running problem with computers in general.  People like to take the prices of the parts they used to build a machine and add them together without considering depreciation or the concept that the value goes down rather than up once assembled.  As a result they don’t sell. 

I'd have to agree with you, but really, when was the last time you saw LMG really care about console stuff? 

If they were actually being sold at those prices the listings would no longer be up
 
But yes, the prices there are pretty ridiculous. There's a $3500 system with a Ryzen 3800X + RTX2080. From the parts listed on the ad the system would only cost around $2000 brand new. Swap the 3800X for a 3700X and the 2080 for a 2070 Super and you could build it for around $1750, half the price.

I'd have to agree with you, but really, when was the last time you saw LMG really care about console stuff? 

Oh optimization non existing lmao 

^ this is true, at the moment though. Well, actually you can use DXR with Pascal GPUs as well (1060s and up iirc) but that's a whole lot worse.
RDNA2 is pretty much confirmed to feature real-time ray tracing through DX12 Ultimate, and Ampere will allegedly boost ray-tracing performance drastically over Turing.
If ray-tracing is that big of a factor in making your decision, the best option would be waiting for Ampere/RDNA2. DXR on current-gen RTX 2xxx cards is still not great, as in it tanks the performance on pretty much all of the cards in the line-up. 

Yeah, you cant consider amd for ray tracing yet becuase rdna2 is not available right now. And i wouldnt even bother trying ray tracing on a GTX card. My 2070s barely manages 55fps with dlss on Minecraft 1080p lol. A 1080ti would probably be 5fps.

See werecatf's post. The advertised internet speed is not the same as what you see when downloading files. It's megaBITS per second, not megaBYTES. If your router supports 1gbps then the only thing a better router can do for you is give you better signal in your home, but it won't make your speeds faster.

You can if you have an available slot, but it will only run at the lower of the two speeds. Mixing ram sometimes causes issues as well, but not always.

Yeah, for the time being Nvidia RTX cards are the only ones that support ray tracing. You will want to look at the RTX 2070 Super for a comparable card that can also do ray tracing.
 
It's a little faster in most games than the 5700xt, but also a little more expensive.

Have you went into the nvidia control panel and changed the default settings to prefer maximum performance?
 
Also make sure you are playing at the same resolution as the benchmark you are watching. I've made that mistake before...
 
Edit: also make sure you have the newest nvidia driver. I think minibios is probably right though. Check out this video.keep in mind most benchmarks also use 3600mhz ram with Ryzen as well.