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twilo99

twilo99

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HeisenbergFX4 said:
Just a random update, that PC just seems to have died and Best Buy was super on letting me “replace” it giving me in store credit for its purchase price which will go towards a new system when the 5000 Nvidias come out.

Side note they had a 9800x3d 4080 super sitting there as an open box buy so brought it home since I have 60 day return window and it’s honestly a great machine playing in ultrawide for the open box price of $2500

New it’s $3000 but don’t know anything about this name brand CLX

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/clx-se...tb-nvme-m-2-ssd-black/6609204.p?skuId=6609204
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Solid customer service from BB.

I dunno people freak out about pre-builds but most of them are just fine and if the machine works and it’s under warranty… I don’t see a problem.

That thing is pretty potent, enjoy
 
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HeisenbergFX4

HeisenbergFX4

Gold Member
twilo99 said:
Solid customer service from BB.

I dunno people freak out about pre-builds but most of them are just fine and if the machine works and it’s under warranty… I don’t see a problem.

That thing is pretty potent, enjoy
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I always get the Best Buy Totaltech so everything is covered for 2 years and they are great about replacing most items with little problems

This was the first prebuilt I had issues with and a decent name brand in Corsair which was a 7900x 4090 and at the time was a $4000 PC and I know stuff comes down but sure not a $1500 difference in these two systems

Thanks again for trying to help out
 
HeisenbergFX4

HeisenbergFX4

Gold Member
So a little follow up this CLX PC seems to be a decent PC for the money, seems nice and quiet and running games decently

Had the choice between this 9800X3D 4080 Super with 32 Gigs of DDR 5 5600 RAM for $2500 and the exact same case but a 9900x 4080 Super with 64 Gigs of 5600 Ram for $2200 now want to go back and get the cheaper one and run them side by side and see if there is any major difference just because I like testing shit

My guess at ultra wide gaming there won’t be much difference
 
LavitzSlambert

LavitzSlambert

Member
It might finally be that time. PC prices still mostly suck but I ordered one of them Powercolor Fighter 7800 XT for $420 as a backup plan. Might get some benchmarks from Battlemage and maybe even hear launch news/pricing from AMD and Nvidia before the holiday return policy expires. Probably pairing it with a Micro Center AM5 mobo, 32GB RAM, 7600X3D bundle for $400.

Any opinions on reusing my old case and PSU, and any SSD recommendations for an OS/main drive?
 
D

delirium trigger

Member
HeisenbergFX4 said:
So a little follow up this CLX PC seems to be a decent PC for the money, seems nice and quiet and running games decently

Had the choice between this 9800X3D 4080 Super with 32 Gigs of DDR 5 5600 RAM for $2500 and the exact same case but a 9900x 4080 Super with 64 Gigs of 5600 Ram for $2200 now want to go back and get the cheaper one and run them side by side and see if there is any major difference just because I like testing shit

My guess at ultra wide gaming there won’t be much difference
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The 9800x3d will stomp all over the 9900x where it can. 32 gbs for gaming is plenty.
 
JohnnyFootball

JohnnyFootball

GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
In my living room PC I have a 7800XT/7700X combo serving as my Bazzite/SteamOS machine. I currently have a 7800X3d lying around that I was planning to sell (it comes from my main PC which got upgraded 9800X3D). I was wondering if I should just put the 7800X3D in the living room PC and take out the 7700X and sell it for considerably less. Since I am not going to upgrade my 7800XT GPU and I run most games at 4K any time soon, I am wondering if I will get any benefit from the 7800X3D. I feel like I could sell the 7800X3D for $300 and around $150 for the 7700X. I just cant decide if I am better off just keeping the 7700X or swapping it out for the 7800X3D.

Suggestions?
 
kittoo

kittoo

Cretinously credulous
Will having a PCI gen 5 slot on the mobo matter for a 5090 graphics card?
Or should I save some money on mobo?
 
Ocean Dweller

Ocean Dweller

Member
In a conundrum and could use some advice :)

I am hybrid working from home and office and I'm a big gamer as well. I want to be able to work at home on a good gaming monitor but concerned with OLED as it's also my work monitor...

Here is the monitor I currently have:
32" Gigabyte M32Q
www.gigabyte.com

M32Q Gaming Monitor Key Features | Monitor - GIGABYTE Global

Features Multi-Platform built-in KVM SS IPS panel with 1ms GTG & OC 170Hz 8-bit color with HDR400 Black Equalizer & Aim Stabilizer GameAssist & OSD Sidekic...
www.gigabyte.com www.gigabyte.com

What I'm looking for:
32" (OLED but I'm afraid of burn-in with working from home at times.)
1440p
Decent HDR

Thanks for any suggestions!
 
OverHeat

OverHeat

« generous god »
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Upgrading my PC this time bye bye 7950x3D
 
b0uncyfr0

b0uncyfr0

Member
Is there any evidence the new OLED's in 2025 will brighter in HDR mode?

Im on the fence about getting one of the current 240 hz oleds but HDR brightness is still laughable. It really sucks,.
 
Celcius

Celcius

°Temp. member
I'm in a similar position, going from 10700k to 9800X3D shows a huge difference at 1080p but at 4K in the games I play it's basically the same due to being gpu limited. At least it finally gets me off pcie 3.0 though and will be ready for the 5090 once it gets here.
 
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b0uncyfr0

b0uncyfr0

Member
Bios updates wiped out my settings and now I cant find the 'optimised/undervolt' settings for a gigabyte mobo and a 5800x3d. I remember the PBO -20/25 curve but there are plenty of other settings that needed changing.

Anyone got a handy link in their history?
 
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hinch7

hinch7

Member
b0uncyfr0 said:
Bios updates wiped out my settings and now I cant find the 'optimised/undervolt' settings for a gigabyte and 5800x3d chips. I remember the PBO -20/25 curve but there are plenty of other settings that needed changing.

Anyone got a handy link in their history?
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Enable XMP and Resizable BAR. I have mine set to PBO -30.

No need to change any other voltages.
 
hinch7

hinch7

Member
b0uncyfr0 said:
Really? None of the AMD overclocking settings need to be changed? There are tons of them.
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You could but really no need. Putting in a negative curve optimiser is all you need. Messing around with other voltage settings would likely reduce performance anyways for not a lot of power savings and may cause instablity.

Could try Ryzen Master and check your top two performing cores and do -20 on those and 30 for the rest.
 
Yerd

Yerd

Member
Ok, since I'm lazy and don't feel like doing my own research. What is the defacto best gaming CPU at the time the 5090 is going to be released? Will it be superseded soon after with a new chip I might be better served waiting on?

I'm intending to build a new machine around the 5090 release. My 3090/ i9 9900 is getting long in the tooth and I'm ready to build a new machine.
 
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Celcius

Celcius

°Temp. member
Yerd said:
Ok, since I'm lazy and don't feel like doing my own research. What is the defacto best gaming CPU at the time the 5090 is going to be released? Will it be superseded soon after with a new chip I might be better served waiting on?

I'm intending to build a new machine around the 5090 release. My 3090/ i9 9900 is getting long in the tooth and I'm ready to build a new machine.
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9800X3D, uncontested

9950X3D and 9900X3D should be announced at CES if you need more cores for work but for just gaming the 9800X3D is the chip to have.
 
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Yerd

Yerd

Member
I'm looking at motherboard options and I don't like any of it.

I want more than 2 m.2 slots in small form factor and I can't find anything. I really don't want to go back to full size PC again.
 
Yerd

Yerd

Member
Rossco EZ said:
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I'm in the US, but still helpful. I re-checked after I looked at your list and noticed the same motherboard on newegg, which is the site I use because their filtering options are pretty robust. It's where I was looking at first. So they don't list the total m.2 slots because they are separated by speeds. If you want to sort MB by more that 2 slots, they don't exist, because of the way they label the speeds for each connection.

Copied from one mb spec:
  • 4 SATA3, 1 Blazing M.2 (PCIe Gen5 x4)
  • 1 Hyper M.2 (PCIe Gen4 x4)
  • 1 M.2 (PCIe Gen4 x2)

I have been building PCs for decades and never took to pcpartpicker. I guess I will have to change my habits.
 
Yerd

Yerd

Member
Even partpicker can't sort their crap properly.

I found a mini-itx gigabyte b650i Aorus MB that has 3 m.2 slots and pcpartpicker does not list it that way. Seems to be a unique beast in that regard. I can't find any other mitx with 3 m.2 slots. So this will possibly be my MB. Not positive if I'm going with mitx or matx. I have both cases already. My mitx case is a real pain in the ass to deal with though. If I had the mechanical expertise to add a hinge and some kind of latch to it, I think it would make it 10 times easier to deal with.
 
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JohnnyFootball

JohnnyFootball

GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
Yerd said:
Even partpicker can't sort their crap properly.

I found a mini-itx gigabyte b650i Aorus MB that has 3 m.2 slots and pcpartpicker does not list it that way. Seems to be a unique beast in that regard. I can't find any other mitx with 3 m.2 slots. So this will possibly be my MB. Not positive if I'm going with mitx or matx. I have both cases already. My mitx case is a real pain in the ass to deal with though. If I had the mechanical expertise to add a hinge and some kind of latch to it, I think it would make it 10 times easier to deal with.
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JohnnyFootball said:
In my living room PC I have a 7800XT/7700X combo serving as my Bazzite/SteamOS machine. I currently have a 7800X3d lying around that I was planning to sell (it comes from my main PC which got upgraded 9800X3D). I was wondering if I should just put the 7800X3D in the living room PC and take out the 7700X and sell it for considerably less. Since I am not going to upgrade my 7800XT GPU and I run most games at 4K any time soon, I am wondering if I will get any benefit from the 7800X3D. I feel like I could sell the 7800X3D for $300 and around $150 for the 7700X. I just cant decide if I am better off just keeping the 7700X or swapping it out for the 7800X3D.

Suggestions?
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Thoughts?
 
Rossco EZ

Rossco EZ

Member
Yerd said:
Even partpicker can't sort their crap properly.

I found a mini-itx gigabyte b650i Aorus MB that has 3 m.2 slots and pcpartpicker does not list it that way. Seems to be a unique beast in that regard. I can't find any other mitx with 3 m.2 slots. So this will possibly be my MB. Not positive if I'm going with mitx or matx. I have both cases already. My mitx case is a real pain in the ass to deal with though. If I had the mechanical expertise to add a hinge and some kind of latch to it, I think it would make it 10 times easier to deal with.
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Just a few that I can see that have 3 m.2 slots.




 
Yerd

Yerd

Member
Rossco EZ said:
Just a few that I can see that have 3 m.2 slots.




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Those are all m-atx.

The one I was calling unique is mini itx, the smallest form. Much fewer options in that lane. Like I said, I'm pretty sure the aorus one is the only mitx with 3 slots. All the other ITX that I saw were limited to 2 slots. It's already pushing the space constraints on those small boards.

I had to find a video review to see how they fit 3 slots on mitx. Pictures aren't easy to find. They use a riser card to stack 2 on top of each other and 1 on the back. For anyone curious.
 
TitanNut88

TitanNut88

Member
I currently have the following build:

- Intel Core i9-10900K 3.7 GHz 10-Core
- Asus ROG STRIX Z490-E GAMING ATX LGA1200
- G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16
- ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME SSD
- Gigabyte GAMING OC GeForce RTX 3080 10GB
- be quiet! Pure Base 500DX ATX Mid Tower Case
- Corsair RM850 (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

I don’t know why but it struggles with MSFS2024 so I was thinking on a new build similar to this one:
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7/5.2GHz
- ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI
- Acer Predator Vesta II RGB DDR5 6000MHz 64GB 2x32GB CL30 Plata
- Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GAMING OC 16GB GDDR6X OR 50 series when released.
- Acer Predator GM7 2TB Disc SSD 7400MB/S NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 Gen4
- Corsair HXi Series HX1000i 1000W 80 Plus Platinum Modular
- NZXT H7 Flow 2024 Cristal Tempered USB 3.2
- Be Quiet! Pure Loop 2
- NZXT F280 RGB Core

The idea would be to wait for the RTX50 series instead but, in any case, is this a reasonable move or shall I go with upgrading some parts of the existing build? I have a 1440p 165Hz monitor as of now.
 
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HeisenbergFX4

HeisenbergFX4

Gold Member
TitanNut88 said:
I currently have the following build:

- Intel Core i9-10900K 3.7 GHz 10-Core
- Asus ROG STRIX Z490-E GAMING ATX LGA1200
- G.Skill Trident Z Neo 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16
- ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME SSD
- Gigabyte GAMING OC GeForce RTX 3080 10GB
- be quiet! Pure Base 500DX ATX Mid Tower Case
- Corsair RM850 (2019) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

I don’t know why but it struggles with MSFS2024 so I was thinking on a new build similar to this one:
- AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7/5.2GHz
- ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI
- Acer Predator Vesta II RGB DDR5 6000MHz 64GB 2x32GB CL30 Plata
- Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER GAMING OC 16GB GDDR6X
- Acer Predator GM7 2TB Disc SSD 7400MB/S NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 Gen4
- Corsair HXi Series HX1000i 1000W 80 Plus Platinum Modular
- NZXT H7 Flow 2024 Cristal Tempered USB 3.2
- Be Quiet! Pure Loop 2
- NZXT F280 RGB Core

The idea would be to wait for the RTX50 series instead but, in any case, is this a reasonable move or shall I go with upgrading some parts of the existing build? I have a 1440p 165Hz monitor as of now.
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Personally I would wait for the 5000 reveal and pricing before building anything new, we are super close now
 
metareferential

metareferential

Member
While waiting for the 2025 thread, the 50 series is here!

On the subject: I'm building my new rig: I've sold my 9900k and mobo, I'll be upgrading my 3090 with a new 50something. Maybe even the 5090 if I'm feeling it.

What cpu though? I was looking at Intel mid-to-high tier, like the i7-14700kf; or even the lower tier. Suggestions?

The gpu will surely be 5080 or 5090.
 
rofif

rofif

Can’t Git Gud
Lol I can't believe it.
I've never ever seen finalmouse sell anything on their website.. I've never seen this stupid mouse sell anywhere.
But there was a restock today just few minutes ago and I got in.
My viper v2 scroll is broken for some time now and I need new mouse with working scroll to scroll yt shorts.
I think this will do fine..

Cmon. This must count for like at least... 4 pcmr points right?!
t1SsTLx.png
 
Rossco EZ

Rossco EZ

Member
rofif said:
Lol I can't believe it.
I've never ever seen finalmouse sell anything on their website.. I've never seen this stupid mouse sell anywhere.
But there was a restock today just few minutes ago and I got in.
My viper v2 scroll is broken for some time now and I need new mouse with working scroll to scroll yt shorts.
I think this will do fine..

Cmon. This must count for like at least... 4 pcmr points right?!
t1SsTLx.png
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Are these mouses super lightweight? Assume that’s why they have all the holes peppered in them lol.
 
rofif

rofif

Can’t Git Gud
Rossco EZ said:
Are these mouses super lightweight? Assume that’s why they have all the holes peppered in them lol.
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they say, this size is 38 grams.
The razer viper v2 I use now is 58 grams, so that is considerable difference.
I kinda like using these very light mice but I don't like small mice. Finalmouse offers this new ultralightX in "classic" shape which is just normal big mosue like viper v2 pro afaik
 
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Yerd

Yerd

Member
rofif said:
Lol I can't believe it.
I've never ever seen finalmouse sell anything on their website.. I've never seen this stupid mouse sell anywhere.
But there was a restock today just few minutes ago and I got in.
My viper v2 scroll is broken for some time now and I need new mouse with working scroll to scroll yt shorts.
I think this will do fine..

Cmon. This must count for like at least... 4 pcmr points right?!
t1SsTLx.png
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Not expensive enough for me. I want better.
 
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