Recent content by systemBuilder

You have completely botched your research! 6800 is within 5 fps of the 3080 on rasterization on toms hardware gpu hierarchy from 1080p to 4k - the 3070 is about 15% behind ... 6800 @MRSP had the best price/performance of AMD 6000 series - highest fps/watt for AMD, AND the lowest watts/fps...

AMD released the first 1080p iGPU with the 5600g / 5700g (I bought the latter and some superb DDR4-4000 micron RAM). So for the first time you could run almost all 1080p games at low settings and 30-60fps on an iGPU. Is AMD going to challenge themselves to do better? They need a 1440p iGPU...

If you would bother to log into steam and think for yourself, you would not post such foolishness, it's 7:1. Other - 9.67% Intel - 7.52% AMD - 10.81% NVidia - 72.03% https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/?sort=pct And the top 4 NVidia desktop cards (20% of all steam registrations)...

I think your reality has been distorted by the "news-hype" cycle. It's true that the only high-end cards with reasonable power consumption and size are 3080, 7900xt, 7900xtx, and maybe the 6900xt. But if you freeze frame rates to 100 fps then a 4080 only uses 170 watts of power, which is...

The 3060Ti is basically a 3070, gimped. It was my first choice, too. Realize that if everybody is recommending a 3060Ti, that means it's so popular you will have ZERO chance of getting one! I went for a 3070Ti (newegg lottery), and won on the first day. It's a widely hated card therefore i won...

If you get random shutdowns, I would suspect the gpu is overheating. Therefore, you should reseat the cooler, apply new thermal paste, clean the fans, etc. If the miner did not keep the thermal paste up to date then it could be dried out. Also check that the fans (case fan, gpu fans) in your...

In my opinion this is not the computer to buy, since you are so terribly limited by (a) DDR4 Sodimm at 3200 Mhz. Most YouTubers overclock their RAM to 3600 or 4000 at least. (b) Cannot overclock the GPU, and yet, most can go TWENTY percent faster (2400 or 2450), so this is a FAIL. (c) Power...

This guy, Raja, almost killed ATI/AMD by foolishly going "all in" on an unproved and hyper expensive HBM2 memory in AMD'S discrete GPUs (Rx Vega 56, 64). AMD lost money on every single sale. AMD returned to using GDDR6 now in rx5700 and rx5700 xt. Rajas GPUs run hot and waste a lot of memory...

I have a feeling that these games are ALREADY over-optimized (i.e. dumbed-down) for NVidia cards with their compressed textures. PCIe 4.0 should allow the system to sideload some amazing, vivid, detailed textures, when AMD gets to 50% marketshare, which is never. In the meantime the 3D...

This is not really true AMD started Zen work in 2012. That's about the time when Intel fired all their CPU architects. Intel has its head up its ass thinking that Fab technology still runs the show. If they don't change their mind they are actually going to die as a company. The problem is...

they did not announce pricing and availability because like their previous panic moves the availability might be none and the price might be infinity.

If you just wanted to piss on the rumor why did you press me so hard for the source? It is a realiable source that is far more reliable about AMD matters than most sources, why don't you educate yourself a little bit before going off half-cocked with wild accusations, he has a whole web page of...

I have been toying with the idea of building a "home supercomputer" for the past 3 years ... It would be fun to be able to explore ray-tracing / rendering or to join compute-intensive online projects (Fight Aids at Home, anyone?) Or maybe just rebuild the Linux kernel less than 5 minutes or...

The source is exactly the same guy ("Bits n Chips") who tweeted that Threadripper @ 16 cores would cost $849. At the same time he tweeted that the manufacturing costs for that chip are $110-120! Therefore, since the chip is little more than 2x the pins and 2x the cores, wired together, It...

You have to give AMD some credit for honesty in naming their previous-generation CPUs "Bulldozer". After all, who would name a *fast* cpu after a bulldozer? That's right, nobody at all would pick that name if the CPU were fast ...