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    Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 XT Pulse

    I have a 3060ti and the RT performance isn't great in newer games such as Alan Wake 2. I had my card three years and the 4060 has worse performance. People talk about RT performance but everyone who I know cares about it buys higher end hardware. This whole generation is a con anyway. The...
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    Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 XT Pulse

    The review doesn't show it as slower than a 4060. Surely you mean a 4060ti? 1080p: Also I see nowhere saying this is an acceptable launch. Everyone is saying it needs a price cut and is pointless. I don't see anyone defending this. Also the rtx4060ti 16gb was close to a 4070 12gb in price...
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    New notebook - my brain is full of F

    The idle power bug was a Ryzen 2000 issue,which was fixed with Ryzen 3000,if you look at the reviews I linked to from NBC - the Ryzen 3000 laptops seem generally of a better standard. Ultimately I would get the cheapest 4C/8T laptop with a decent sized battery,and also look at weight too...
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    New notebook - my brain is full of F

    The Ryzen 3700U is overall faster than a Core i5 8250U: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-E595-laptop-review-AMD-laptop-better-than-its-Intel-counterpart.427304.0.html...
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    The costs of Intel gaming vs AMD gaming, who wins? Actually Intel this round, cheaper and faster.

    Hardware Unboxed tested the Core i5 9400F. Of the games they tested,Kingdom Come Deliverance and BFV,the Core i5 9400F had stuttering. Tests are done with the included box coolers. In the UK the Ryzen 5 2600 is £20 cheaper than the Core i5 9400F,and the Ryzen 5 3600 is not only quicker...
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    The costs of Intel gaming vs AMD gaming, who wins? Actually Intel this round, cheaper and faster.

    In the UK its very easy,and the Ryzen 5 2600 has been as low as nearly £110 a few weeks ago. The Ryzen 5 1600 has gone below £100 briefly and that has the better Wraith Spire cooler. The Core i5 9400F has varied between £140 to £150 dependent on retailer. A Ryzen 5 2600X is £150. A week ago a...
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    The costs of Intel gaming vs AMD gaming, who wins? Actually Intel this round, cheaper and faster.

    I find it very weird - when AMD is ahead its not worth it as AMD costs more,but when Intel is ahead its worth it even if it costs more. All of a sudden now a more expensive £140 Core i5 8400/Core i5 9400F(another 100MHZ on the core),is suddenly 10X better than a cheaper £120 Ryzen 5 2600 since...
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    The costs of Intel gaming vs AMD gaming, who wins? Actually Intel this round, cheaper and faster.

    Very rarely and for certain edge case games - if that was the case for all games why is it people kept old CPUs like Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs for so long,when Haswell,Broadwell and Skylake equivalents were all technically faster. Think how fast GPUs were back then...
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    The costs of Intel gaming vs AMD gaming, who wins? Actually Intel this round, cheaper and faster.

    People also seem to have conveniently forgotten the Ryzen 5 2600 too. Over in the UK its £120 and has dropped even down to £100 to £110 on offer. Intel is 10% ahead then with a GTX1080TI at 720p?? I am ignoring the overclocking results as I assume that is not with the stock cooling so is an...
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    The costs of Intel gaming vs AMD gaming, who wins? Actually Intel this round, cheaper and faster.

    Also this what Pugetsystems said: It isn't though 2% slower,its probably much more than that - I built Core i5 rigs in SFF cases. As much as the Wraith Stealth is average,the Intel stock cooler has been getting worse and worse too. They actually sell systems,and their Photoshop benchmarks are...
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    The costs of Intel gaming vs AMD gaming, who wins? Actually Intel this round, cheaper and faster.

    I have a Ryzen 5 2600 in a mini-ITX rig and it was a case with shit cooling. The boost was like 50 to 100MHZ different for me between the Wraith Spire and Wraith Stealth. The Ryzen 5 3600 consumes less power than my Ryzen 5 3600 does. I find it funny you talk about conspiracy theories,but...
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    The costs of Intel gaming vs AMD gaming, who wins? Actually Intel this round, cheaper and faster.

    Even for photo editing the 3600 will be a better buy. https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Photoshop-CPU-Roundup-AMD-Ryzen-3-AMD-Threadripper-2-Intel-9th-Gen-Intel-X-series-1529/ i5 9600k=upto 4.6GHZ and is 5% faster. A 9400F is upto 4.1GHZ so will be slower vs a 3600. Look at Adobe...
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    Computer Upgrade King Continuum Micro Gaming PC (Ryzen 7 2700 + RX 580 4GB)

    AMD only designs and sells the reference models with blower coolers. That is the reference RX480 PCB. The reference PCB is also used by the RX580 reference designs: https://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/104086-amd-radeon-rx-570-rx-580-pose-camera/ Notice how the PCB has AMD printed on the...
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    EPIC CEO Tim Sweeney: "Exclusives do Work"

    I am talking about the licensing of the engine,not their games and if you think Crytek are poor employers,you might want to see the working conditions at many large studios which are horrendous,ie,the constant "crunch time" stories you hear all the time. The publishers make most of the money out...
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    EPIC CEO Tim Sweeney: "Exclusives do Work"

    Yeah,but if Microsoft is competition its still important to consider them as its competition to Valve,Epic and everyone else. Even Stadia is another kind of competition. Epic needs to be kept in line as much as Valve. Just see what happened with Unreal Engine,as hardly any competitor can compete...
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