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Serious question - Is there any point on grabbing anything higher than a 4070 Super if I have no plans to go above 1080p/144hz in the near future? The 6600XT is doing fine but chugs with some games even at a mix of medium/high settings. That's if I even find time to game, but that's another story.

https://psref.lenovo.com/Product/ThinkPad/ThinkPad_X1_Yoga_Gen_8 PSREF on the Yoga Gen 8 says 6400 is available on the LPDDR5X 16GB configurations and 6000 on everything with a higher capacity. See under the specs tab: Memory Type** LPDDR5/x-6000 (32GB)[1] LPDDR5/x-6400 (16GB)[2]...

If that dude paid for my college and I wasn't exactly broke, guy may have spec'ed out a midrange CPU but may find he suddenly has a 7800X3D in there. ;)

Is the coupon automatically applied on checkout? Can't see it here :[

Hello all. This CPU is already out of warranty. It's a launch day 3700X which has had no issues ever since. However, I've started recently repurposing it into an ESXI homelab build and it has consistently purple screened on several different motherboards (All asus branded, B450, X470, B550...

Looks like the 4060/Ti cards are meh, and likely the 7600s are too :|

Unfortunately, I'm currently just thinking of holding on to my 6600XT for now. It seems like it will probably continue doing the job for the next 2 years at 1080p... TBH I really don't mind moving down to medium graphics for better smoothness.

Yeah used is slightly cheaper around here, same price approximately as 3080s. 3070s seem to be going for $300 here used. That seems to be an option as well, but the upgrade from a 6600XT seems to be rather small at that point. I'm not playing many AAA games at the moment nor things that don't...

Hello [H]! I currently game only at 1080p, and TBH haven't done a lot of gaming recently as well. I guess the thought of gaming with a higher end machine currently just tickles my fancy. I run a 5900X + 6600XT setup at the moment and I am very tempted by the $500 6800XT deals on amazon...

While I am excited about D4 in general (but not where Blizzard as a company has gone), games going "gold" has lost its meaning for me in the face of gigantic day 0 patches to fix game breaking bugs present at launch. Not trying to be a snarky post or make jabs at anything (I am not qualified to...

The latest AMD drivers froze and reset on me a week ago. Surprising. I haven't had this happen before on either any of my AMD or NV cards. Otherwise, I'm pretty neutral on AMD/NV as far as drivers go at the moment. My last infuriating/gamebreaking experience with drivers was having a Radeon...

I saw your edit, but for the price of those X670E boards, if ANYTHING was bad, I'd RMA it.

I'm pretty sure that USB 4 spec means it's compatible with TB3 and most (?) TB4 devices, hence no need for the header.

Will try to watch the video after work, but what was mentioned in particular about the boards? Also - wonder how they plan to do that?

Between the choices, the 5600 is the best buy here for a general purpose machine. The 5500 is a Cezanne CPU which means it lacks PCIE 4 and isn't as capable in single threaded stuff, and the older 3rd gen CPUs are a lot slower in single thread. Niche buy - for a purely 8 core, 16 thread...

Ok, I know costs everywhere are going crazy, but why are current gen motherboards so expensive? I picked up my X570 Strix E at the local, USD equivalent of $250 (not in the US), and the X670 Strix E is more than double the price now. I read somewhere way before the 7000 series launch that the...

Looks like either the CPU or the board has a bad memory channel. Youtuber Greg Salazar has noticed this on a few Ryzen 3rd gen chips on his troubleshooting videos.

Is the board running an updated BIOS?

Only a Crucial M4 has failed on me to date. My other oldest SSDs are still alive - an 840 EVO, an 840 vanilla and an 840 Pro. I probably have between 50-100 SSDs by Crucial and Samsung in a few production workstations at the moment.

A current gen i3 stock will run rings around that 5ghz 2600K for any sort of CPU intensive process and will lower your power bill. I'd leave things as is until you're ready for a platform upgrade.

1440P monitors aren't going to be held back so much by the R5 3600... you will likely be GPU limited for the most part.

Semi on topic: any reason why 4TB NVME's aren't so widely available yet from the biggish manufacturers? IE WD, Samsung, Micron/Crucial, Hynix? I'd be totally fine with a WD Blue SN550 in 4TB. Too bad my incoming laptop stopped supporting SATA SSDs of any kind :| Does it have anything to do with...

Be careful on the SSD cache. Heard of read only caches crashing live volumes on the synology.

I doubt we can truly get a conclusive answer based on anecdotal evidence on our forums, but: Do GPUs based on the lower end chips last longer assuming these are used similarly? In a way, I can guess that this MAY make sense due to: 1. Lower clockspeeds 2. Less power draw Leading to: 3. Less...

Slow computer responsiveness I notice can be brought about by some form of memory incompatibility. Try upping the voltage as mentioned or manually setting the timings. If XMP is on, try turning it off. Could also be that the platform does not like 32GB RAM.

Is the USB formatted in MBR, in FAT32 and has the BIOS named properly? I recently recovered from a bad flash on my ASUS X570 E. The crash free BIOS would NOT reload the proper firmware with the GUI. The flashback feature however brought the board back to life.

Assuming what you have is the X570 Tomahawk Wifi (not the X570S Tomahawk MAX Wifi) https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/MAG-X570-TOMAHAWK-WIFI/support

No. So long as the PC is off, you can start the flash process.

Thanks for the input. I guess nothing to be afraid of then. Yeah, I have issues on some older / legacy programs where display scaling doesn't really work. For the most part I may be running 4K with scaling but there may be times I will be forced to run 1080p. Frankly speaking, for a 15" screen...

Hello all, Looking to pickup a laptop soon perhaps. However, the one I want just happens to have a 4K screen... which, for light gaming and most work at 15", I feel is a lot overkill. Battery life aside, I'm looking at other potential drawbacks to this. I know non native resolution scaling is...

Skipping the problem entirely: you can just use the BIOS flashback if you want.

Turn off XMP to rule out RAM failing to train?

240 AIO minimum or something like the Noctua U12A/D15 if it fits that board.

You're lucky you picked a Gigabyte board that actually has that BIOS selector switch... ;)

I'd rule out the RAM failing to train first... which is what happens on cold boots but not on warm restarts. Move the RAM back to stock (XMP off) and give it a go for a few days. Edit: Did a quick check. F4 means recovery firmware is loaded. I'm going to guess something it didn't like...

Not sure if you have done so but if yes, turn off XMP and try again. Gigabyte B450/X470 boards outside of the X470 Gaming 7 are notoriously bad at clocking RAM. With a Ryzen 5 3600 that will easily overclock a certain set of memory to 3600mhz on another motherboard, my Gigabyte X470 Ultra...

AFAIK the Strix E (non II) uses the Intel AX200 chip. I can verify tonight if you'd need. I have a box running that MB at home.

Strix E maybe?

Yes it's that one. I do believe that yes, the Tomahawk isn't using all its connectivity options, since the board sits lower in MSI's product stack compared to the Taichi, which is Asrock's top of the line board. Doing a quick glance, the X570S ACE MAX is MSI's range topper (apart from the...

You can wire up the X570 chipset in a few number of ways. In the end, past the dedicated 16x GPU and 4x NVME slot, a few SATA ports and some USB ports which are directly wired to the CPU, everything else is coursed through the chipset, which is bandwidth limited by its x4 link to the CPU...