Recent content by Arkaign

Vaporware? I've yet to see one. If they existed for sale, at $100-$120ish I would say yes, awesome, but it appears to be a similar paper entry like 3100/3300 😐😔 Edit : to underline this somewhat, an eBay search of recent history shows only 5 5300Gs have sold globally in the recorded period. 4...

GPU wise the market is still really skewed. I mean the 12100 is basically a modern replacement for the i7-7700 more or less, and those still run most things pretty well with appropriate settings and GPUs aside from rare exceptions (admittedly these will inevitably increase with time). I do...

Apple's Mac Pro line kind of meanders the lines between lumbering, slumbering, and blundering depending on the gen, but in general it seems they iterate a little too lazily to be very compelling outside of certain release window timeframes for anyone beyond Mac diehards with a very intrinsic...

Ok so here's my take. If you have a strong PC (you do), and are used to Steam/GOG/etc, Mouse+KB or pad for certain games, then there is mostly no point in having an Xbox. However, big caveat if you have a library or even a handful of what you consider essential OG Xbox and 360 games you want...

Lol, I am probably being spoiled and somewhat hypocritical (given my view on CPU pricing and options), but I've yet to use an APU or IGP that wasn't almost useless for 3d. Even the 5700G is mostly agonizing and I'd rather be on a 1050ti or even ancient 770/960 level GPU. It's frustrating...

True. The focus on 12900K is less interesting to me overall compared to the entire Alder stack and what it represents. We were all impressed with Zen3, but less so for it's extremely incomplete product stack and sizable barrier to entry for the contemporary 7nm Zen3 derivative. The promise...

Lol I won't post the whole thing again, but yeah, I think it should be hardly surprising to anyone who has seen this play out so many times already. It's harder to find a memory gen leap that didn't at the very least have initial limited appeal, high cost, and eventually large improvement once...

True that. Still, never know when someone else might come upon the thread and be curious about it.

Not too shabby, yet the GPU does nothing for the business crowd these days. The AMD APUs and Intel IGP are both more than good enough even for a pair of 4k outputs without lagging (for 2d and video playback). Swap the 11700 for the 12700k Swap to Z690 DDR4 Skip the GPU Use savings for a DH15...

Very nice. I have a friend who needed a new music rig for Protools etc. We ended up with : 12700K DH15 Chromax GA-Z690 Aorus Elite DDR4 64GB (4x16) DDR4 3200 - Silicon Power C16 2x2TB 970 Evo + 1x1TB 970 Evo for OS 650W Corsair RMX Corsair 5000D Airflow IGP for single 34" UW MSI 1440p (no...

The past couple pages have been a little messy with misunderstanding lol. Mark is THE epitome or someone wanting max MT 24/7 loads running without exotic cooling. That's the playground of the 5950X right now. For someone running mixed use who is also willing to splurge on the cooling like a...

I'd put 12600k and 12700k as the top gaming options w/DDR4 (3600 Gear 1), but that is a real problem right now because GPUs are so ungodly expensive that it's just not a realistic buy for most people. And if someone is just trying to make an old 1080 or something work, then even an 8600K, Ryzen...

Dang. At least it was 8+ years. The contemporary Radeon 7000 series has been deprecated now for a while. I'm glad AMD did better supporting the 7000 series (perhaps because of the refresh?) much better than they supported the 4000, 5000 and 6000 series. They pushed those over a cliff in a way...

I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure it's quite that simple. For example, look at the 12700K. It's an 8+4 P/E (B/L if you wish), and it's very noticeably less voracious than the 12900K stock v stock, which seems to be due to the i9 being juiced up to hit those last few hundred Mhz on the...

I haven't kept up with the layout of Aldy, how does the GPU area relate to all of this? Also, how would a hypothetical GPUless Alder derivative look with an 8+16 layout (P+E)? Similar size?