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I'm a decently happy owner of a system with an i5-11400F and an RTX 3050. It just barely works for my needs (1080p 60-90 FPS ultra) but next year there will be some new games I'd like to play such as GTA 6 and FH6. With the current trends it's obvious my current system won't handle that on settings higher than low. So I'm thinking of getting a new PC.

For now I'm thinking something like a Ryzen 7 and an RTX 5070 Ti should work. That would be around 2.5-3k USD in my area depending on the components. Also I'd like a large monitor so I'll have to upgrade to a 1440p one which will increase the hardware requirements too.

AMD cards are quite expensive here apparently (9070 XT is significantly more expensive than 5070 lol) and I'm a massive fan of RT so those are not an option (I can remove the RT requirements if there's no way to use it with decent settings at no less than 60 FPS). Also NVidia 40 series is not good value here like at all.

Another interesting option is RTX 5080. It's still within my budget of around 3k but I'm very afraid of the connector melting issues. After all I can't build a PC myself (not an option at all) so a special well known company will handle it instead and nobody knows what connectors they use (I can ask as they're pretty open about this stuff but still). I've already worked with the company btw and it's not shady so that should be fine as long as I don't forget to edit a decent PSU in the specs instead of their common firework ones.

However with my limited knowledge I can't predict how far technology will go in the short term. We already saw that the latest gen showed pretty much no improvement over the previous one. So is it even worth waiting for the next year's tech or will it just be the same but with more AI frame gen slop and zeros in the price tag strapped to it? And will games get so much more demanding in just a year or two that trying to target ultra is already a bad idea?

What makes me even more worried is the slightly unstable financial situation in my country. It's possible that tech will get significantly more expensive here soon.

Yea this post is very long so I guess say gingerbread if you read it till the end lol.

Title, basically? Thank you for help, if you might know where Asrock keeps a complete list, haha.

Working with a B550 pg velocita and trying to upgrade the cpu from a ryzen 3 (3000-something) to a ryzen 5 3600. It's working with the ryzen 3. The code showing up on the mobo's led screen for debug codes is 7C, but I can't find what it means anywhere.

Bios is updated to the latest because of efforts to use a ryzen 5 5600x with it, but kept getting F9 code before and after bios update.

cross-posted from: https://feditown.com/post/1522327

I'm looking to buy an RX 9060 XT and was hoping to collect more sources comparing different models. I'm mainly looking for noise & temperature comparisons between the base models available.

So far the best source I found is Techpowerup. They have comparisons for stock behaviour and noise normalised between the 6 models they tested. Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 XT Pulse OC 16 GB Review
Unfortunately, they've mostly tested the huge triple fan designs until now. From the base models, the Reaper has terrible cooling and the Sapphire Pulse unfortunately only offers 1 DisplayPort connector.

Hardware Unboxed also only compares 3 higher end models in their review. AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Review, Gaming Benchmarks!

Does anyone have reviews for the other base models, XFX Swift (dual fan) and ASRock Challenger?

Theres a lot more to this stuff than I thought there would be when starting out. I spent the day familiarizing with how to take apart my pc and swap gpus .Trying to piece everything together.

Apparently in order for PC to startup right it needs a graphical driver. I thought the existance of a HDMI port on the motherboard implied the existance of onboard graphics but apparently only special CPUs have that capability. My ryzen 5 2600 doesnt. The p100 Tesla does not have graphical display capabilities. So ive hit a snag where the PC isnt starting up due to not finding a graphical interface output.

I'm going to try to run multiple GPU cards together on pcie. Hope I can mix amd Rx 580 and nvidia tesla on same board fingers crossed please work.

My motherboard thankfully supports 4x4x4x4 pcie x16 bifurcation which isa very lucky break I didnt know going into this 🙏

Strangely other configs for splitting 16x lanes like 8x8 or 8x4x4 arent in my bios for some reason? So I'm planning to get a 4x bifurcstion board and plug both cards in and hope that the amd one is recognized!

According to one source The performance loss for using 4x lanes for GPUs doing the compute i m doing is 10-15 % surprisingly tolerable actually.

I never really had to think about how pcie lanes work or how to allocate them properly before.

For now I'm using two power supplies one built into the desktop and the new 850e corsair psu. I choose this one as it should work with 2-3 GPUs while being in my price range.

Also the new 12v-2x6 port supports like 600w enough for the tesla and comes with a dual pcie split which was required for the power cable adapter for Tesla. so it all worked out nicely for a clean wire solution.

Sadly I fucked up a little. The pcie release press plastic thing on the motherboard was brittle and I fat thumbed it too hard while having problems removing the GPU initially so it snapped off. I dont know if that's something fixable. It doesnt seem to affect the security of the connection too bad fortunately. I intend to grt a pcie riser extensions cable so there won't be much force on the now slightly loosened pcieconnection. Ill have the gpu and bifurcation board layed out nicely on the homelab table while testing, get them mounted somewhere nicely once I get it all working.

I need to figure out a external GPU mount system. I see people use server racks or nut and bolt meta chassis. I could get a thin plate of copper the size of the desktops glass window as a base/heatsink?

Starting from a mid-90s (Pentium 2 original CPU) PC case, I plan to build a PC designed for high-quality BD/ripped 4K BD playback, paired with an HDR monitor.

What pointers need to be considered?

Switch: 10Gb RJ45 Router: 10GB RJ45 NAS: 10Gb RJ45

Seems a shame to not have 10G-baseT on my desktop.

I have an older home built machine, built on a MSI Tomahawk B450. I'm not looking to upgrade at the moment, but I have an empty PCIe 2.1 x16 slot.

I don't expect to be able to guarantee 10Gb ethernet speeds with my motherboard and CPU, but I'd like to get close. I've seen that Intel X540 NICs don't have any power saving/thermal modes, so they should be avoided. Aquantia apparently was acquired be Marvell and basically ignored to death -- and the AQC113 has rumors of an unfixable bug that sometimes leads to it not being recognized at system boot. Realtek doesn't have a chips/boards available yet, and Broadcom costs two arms, two legs, and three noses.

Any suggestion on what to get? Bonus for PCIe 2.1x16 over PCIe 3x8, really want to stay under $100US.