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System Name | Lynni PS \ Lenowo TwinkPad T480 |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 7700 Raphael \ i7-8550U Kaby Lake-R |
Motherboard | ASRock B650M PG Riptide Bios v. 2.02 AMD AGESA 1.1.0.0 \ Lenowo 20L60036MX Bios 1.47 |
Cooling | Noctua NH-D15 Chromax.Black (Only middle fan) \ Lenowo WN-2 |
Memory | G.Skill Flare X5 2x16GB DDR5 6000MHZ CL36-36-36-96 AMD EXPO \ Willk Elektronik 2x16GB 2666MHZ CL17 |
Video Card(s) | Asus GeForce RTX™ 4070 Dual OC GPU: 2325-2355 MEM: 1462| Nvidia GeForce MX™ 150 2GB GDDR5 Micron |
Storage | Gigabyte M30 1TB|Sabrent Rocket 2TB| HDD: 10TB|1TB \ SKHynix 256GB 2242 3x2 |
Display(s) | LG UltraGear 27GP850-B 1440p@165Hz | LG 48CX OLED 4K HDR | AUO 14" 1440p IPS |
Case | Fractal Design Meshify 2 Tempered Glass White/Black | Lenowo T480 chassis |
Audio Device(s) | Steelseries Arctis Pro Wireless |
Power Supply | Be Quiet! Pure Power 12 M 750W Goldie | 65W |
Mouse | Logitech G305 Lightspeedy Wireless | Lenowo TouchPad & Logitech G305 |
Keyboard | Akko 3108 DS Horizon V2 Cream Yellow | T480 UK Lumi |
Software | Win11 Pro 23H2 UK |
Benchmark Scores | 3DMARK: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/89434432? GPU-Z: https://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/details/v3zbr |
I have been arguing with myself for a little over 2 of months now if I should try AMD's Zen 2 CPU more specific the AMD Ryzen 7 3800X or Ryzen 9 3900X because I could use at least 2 more cores not for gaming but for convertions I do from time to time but also to statisfy my curiosity to try some new tech in my life and AMD Zen 2 might be the answer here because all the good things I been reading and hear about AMD Zen 2.
Since Intel is just milking the old Skylake archetechture with yet another refresh from time to time and next gen will require a motherboard change anyway why not just extract some value out of my Intel Core i7-8086K and AsRock Z370 Taichi while they are still worth something?
I was thinking about the following combo:
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X (Is gonna be watercooled by the Fractal Design Celsius S24 I am using now).
MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC (VRM is the same as MSI's X470 Gaming Plus just with a bigger heatsink on).
My reason for a B450 chipset motherboard is that I don't need dual gpu support, PCI-E 4.0, or anything fancy the X570 chipset offers since my GTX 1080 Ti FE Hybrid doesn't care if it's running in a PCI-E x16 3.0 or 4.0 slot and onboard Realtek even the ALC1220 onboard my current board can't even drive my Audio-Technica A550Z headphones because all sounds sound low and doll so I got a Creative SoundBlaster Z I use anyways.
I would have like to buy a B550 chipset board since that chipset is made for the Zen 2 CPU's but it still won't have PCI-E 4.0 so a B450 is still fine plus there is no release date as far as I know other then 2019 Q4/2020 Q1 as stated in the article here on TPU: ASMedia-sourced AMD B550, A520 Chipset Motherboards Arrive in 2020
A little note about the last AMD CPU I owned:
Since Intel is just milking the old Skylake archetechture with yet another refresh from time to time and next gen will require a motherboard change anyway why not just extract some value out of my Intel Core i7-8086K and AsRock Z370 Taichi while they are still worth something?
I was thinking about the following combo:
AMD Ryzen 7 3800X (Is gonna be watercooled by the Fractal Design Celsius S24 I am using now).
MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC (VRM is the same as MSI's X470 Gaming Plus just with a bigger heatsink on).
My reason for a B450 chipset motherboard is that I don't need dual gpu support, PCI-E 4.0, or anything fancy the X570 chipset offers since my GTX 1080 Ti FE Hybrid doesn't care if it's running in a PCI-E x16 3.0 or 4.0 slot and onboard Realtek even the ALC1220 onboard my current board can't even drive my Audio-Technica A550Z headphones because all sounds sound low and doll so I got a Creative SoundBlaster Z I use anyways.
I would have like to buy a B550 chipset board since that chipset is made for the Zen 2 CPU's but it still won't have PCI-E 4.0 so a B450 is still fine plus there is no release date as far as I know other then 2019 Q4/2020 Q1 as stated in the article here on TPU: ASMedia-sourced AMD B550, A520 Chipset Motherboards Arrive in 2020
A little note about the last AMD CPU I owned:
The last AMD CPU I owned was a AMD Opteron 146 on Socket 939 that overclocked well and was awesome experience expect for the Asus A8N32 SLI Deluxe motherboard that was DOA so I got a AsRock 939Dual-SATA2 board with PCI-E and AGP that was the days of fun having both new and old options on the same board .