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    Review RX 6600XT Reviews Thread

    The reality is DGPU input costs have ballooned & they suffer from evolutionary giganticism ($1k+ 450w 16GB hair dryers - it cant go on). Its not just crypto. IMO - this iteration is just an extension of lisa's sound, zen like philosophy to compete via lower manufacturing & other costs, yet...
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    Question Is PrimoCache worth it?

    Most cant let go of the "" space is precious more" - so they dangerously split files between the 2 drives. the point is speed tho - so opt to simply mirror popular files on the fast drive - there is no added risk. if the fast drive failes, the original files on the big slow drive remain intact.
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    Kaveri and 4K support

    https://www.aorus.com/motherboards/GA-F2A88X-UP4-rev-30/Specification hdmi 4096x2160 DP 4096x2160
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    Question Is PrimoCache worth it?

    am not a gamer, but i cant see there being much writing to a steam drive except initially? u can also nominate the same ssd as cache or another ssd as a delayed write buffer w/ primocache.
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    Question Is PrimoCache worth it?

    ... or be a bit braver, & ssd primocache a raid 0 hdd array, for a large partition from smaller HDDs, & near SATA SSD speeds
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    Ryzen: Strictly technical

    "As indicated by the Fmax-Vmin curve, the general behavior is almost identical to Summit and Raven Ridge. The scaling and power efficiency is excellent until 3.5GHz and reasonable scaling takes place until 4.0GHz. Beyond this point the voltage scaling is anything but linear, and the CPU is...
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    Budget gaming build - Intel G4560 or AMD 2200G / 2400G?

    Noteworthy IMO are: The apuS are far more modern than dgpu options remotely at this price point. APUs have the very latest AMD; zen, vega, Fabric and architecture. It will grow. The alternatives are static. Swapping ain't what it used to be. We now have much smarter pre-emptive memory...
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    Budget gaming build - Intel G4560 or AMD 2200G / 2400G?

    Savvy users who go dgpu in the end after agonising, can see the apuS merits. The most consistently frugal next step up for them would be a ~1600x & an rx 560 dgpu ($160 newegg). In the absence of any cheap vega dgpuS, the rx560 is the cheapest dgpu using Vega's immediate predecessor's...
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    Budget gaming build - Intel G4560 or AMD 2200G / 2400G?

    Then consider my earlier suggestion. Budget~$150 for a clearance bargain 4 or 6 core ryzen in the next month's lead up to ryzen+. With the apu your dgpu loses 8 lanes.
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    Budget gaming build - Intel G4560 or AMD 2200G / 2400G?

    Just sayin, it seems silly to be decided on a discrete cpu at the outset, and wasting the gpu and 8 lanes by going for an apu anyway. Warts and all, I would hunt up a; cheap, now redundant 4 core ~1500x ryzen to go with my am4 & dgpu, and keep my 8 lanes. There should be some real bargains...
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    AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 3 2200G APUs performance unveiled

    Re high end cooler, Liquid C00ling is very cost effective, as they are cooling both processors. AMD conservatively claim a 40% OC on the Vega IGP w/ 3200 ram on air, so I hate to think what's possible. As I recall, we can also expect better clocks from the 400 series mobos. I expect all these...
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    AMD launches Ryzen Mobile 7 2700U & 5 2500U with Vega Graphics

    We have seen ryzen evolve from a bit of an ugly duckling in about 6 months. This will be far more the case in the mobile apu environment. Even if it only equals intel performance now, RR is a better buy.
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    AMD launches Ryzen Mobile 7 2700U & 5 2500U with Vega Graphics

    But we dont know any volumes from the secretive mega server world. It now represents a big chunk of global processor sales, and would be the low hanging fruit for amd, despite protestations of favouring consumers re vega e.g. if its as popular as it seems, even the pilot installations would...
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    AMD launches Ryzen Mobile 7 2700U & 5 2500U with Vega Graphics

    re:"Hbcc..... Raja says its the most interesting feature but say its 5 years out." very interesting. I hadnt seen that. I sure find HBCC interesting, especially combined with nvme raid. as i feared tho, its so revolutionary and rich, it will take years to realise anything like its full...
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    AMD launches Ryzen Mobile 7 2700U & 5 2500U with Vega Graphics

    Just saying, but folks upgrading from a hdd laptop should experience far less power draw from an ssd only rig.