Recent content by Dawgstah

I looked at a mobo similar to the Dark Hero. A bit too expensive for my taste.

If I order from eBay, it would be a lot more than 900 USD when I take the crazy high customs fee and tax we have in Norway. The CPU and mobo will cost me 9000 NOK (approx. 1000 USD) in total.

I have 2 HDDs (one at 3TB and one at 4TB, both 7200 rpm), 2 SSDs (500GB and 250GB. The latter one used for the OS) and one M2 (1TB).

I know but the DDR5 supply in Norway is extremely limited for the time being. And it's a store over here which runs a 30% discount on a high end mobo for Ryzen and 15% on the CPU itself.

I am considering upgrading my CPU/motherboard as I'm beginning to suspect that my current CPU is beginning to become a bottleneck. I use my PC mainly for gaming, Cubase and some of the Adobe apps (mostly Illustrator and Photoshop). My current specs are: Asus ROG Strix RTX 3080 OC Intel Core i7...

Thanks! Both run at x16. But isn't it a bit strange that the one runs at 3.0 while the other one at 2.0?

I have two Sapphire Radeon 280X in crossfire on a ASUS P9X79 motherboard. The motherboard has the latest BIOS installed. The thing is that when I look in to the hardware specs in the Catalyst Control Center, I notice something strange. The card listed as the primary adapter shows its PCIe...