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I'm a fan of RGB and agree it's overdone. On my personal rig I'll build (once I have a job... And pay down student loans a bit) they'll be included to a much more limited extent.

If it lights up my hand from more than a foot away, it won't be in my build lol.

 

Upgraded to the new series myself. Went from struggling to get 3200CL14 working on my 2700X to having the same kit do 3600CL14/3733CL16 with the 3700X, same motherboard too. If there's one thing I don't miss it's Intel's planned obsolescence with their new chipset every year.

 

I have a MSI b450 Mobo that received Ryzen 3k support. I threw the 2200g in there waiting. I'm really thinking that in the next month or so, I snag a 3600 and a 2060 super.

 

I think my favorite 'feature' about the 3000 series is, oddly enough, how little to no manual overclocking room there seems to be on them. Even reviewers who specialize in overclocking (Gamers Nexus comes to mind) are struggling to get +200mhz consistently, with (at most) 5% improvement in some games or productivity tools.

It's even better because of the cascading effects; don't need to get paranoid over which VRMs your board has, what power rails your PSU has, your system's voltage jitter, etc, unless you're really trying to break a record (or genuinely enjoy the tweaking aspect that much for it to matter to you).

Now I'm all for tweaking settings, eking out a bit more performance, but if AMD has figured out how to squeeze nearly max chip performance out of the box it leaves one less reason for me to void my warranty.

 

I completely agree on abandoning the paranoia of overclocking. It's nice that AMD is getting optimal performance with self managed boost.

I think that speaks to the improvements made from 2000 to 3000, at least in terms of what I can understand. I would love to be able to comprehend architecture stuff, but I'm limited in that area.

 

Yeah people see the small overclocking headroom as a bad thing for some reason, I think it's just people who are still stuck in the old days where you could get an extra GHz of clockspeed on all cores on a 2500K without even increasing the voltage. It's more like you were missing out on all that performance for no good reason back then, now you're given it with a warranty to boot.

It's the same deal with the new 9900KF "all-core 5GHz" boost, sure some golden chips might get 5.2GHz but the reality is that it's nothing like it used to be, both companies are just about getting the most out of their chips out of the box.

 

I'm in Toronto now, and I've been lucky in that back in my native country, stock of 3700X and especially 3900X are rather scarce, I managed to snag a 3900X here. When I get back, I amd thinking of going batshit crazy with this Ryzen build. Expected build specs:
Ryzen 9 3900X + 360mm AIO (undecided which to pick, Thermaltake, Corsair, ID-Cooling, etc)
Gigabyte Aorus Extreme
4x 8GB XPG D60G DDR4 3200
Sabrent Rocket 256GB NVMe N.2 PCIe 3 x4 SSD (OS)
2TB Samsung 860 QVO SSD (games)
8TB Samsung 1633a Server Grade SAS SSD (might get this, very expensive so I'll have to think)
2x 4TB WD Black (like the 8TB SSD, for storing games, this option is in lieu of the SSD)
Thermaltake Level 20 GT or NZXT H700

Reusing or re-purposing:
PowerColor Vega 64 Red Devil
Enermax Max Revo 1500W

Have gotten these delivered today...picking up the 3900X tomorrow.

 

I would personally cut back on the storage and replace the Vega 64 as well.

 

I'm rethinking the 8TB SSD, might go with a single 6TB WD for games and a cheap 2TB HDD for downloads and other usage. I might use the Red Devil Vega64 in my 3960X rig and install 2x Gigabyte Vega64 Gaming OC into the new rig. Not getting a new GPU now as I'm holding out for a big Navi (5900XT?) or the GPU architecture after Navi. 2x Vega42 is still pretty powerful when CF works.

 

I've learned this lesson the hard way, but never buy 2 graphics cards when you can buy a single with more power for less money. There's no guarantee SLI or crossfire will be supported and then your performance takes a huge hit. Besides, you almost never get perfect scaling (2x cards =/= 2x power, usually more like 1.5x). I'm assuming you're doing an AMD themed build, but for the money an RTX 2080 or 2070 Super would be much better than 2x V64s. If you must go AMD, hold out for that higher end Navi card, because V64s just aren't cutting it.

 

The thing is, I already have 2x Gigabyte Vega64 Gaming OC and a PowerColor Vega64 Red Devil. My HTPC rig (i7 4770K, 16GB RAM) already has a Leadtek GTX1080. I have 3 rigs and 4 cards, so one of the rigs will be a CF rig. I've always liked CF, been running CF since my first Eyefinity 3 monitor setup with 2x HD5870 many moons back.

I'm retiring my old HTPC rig, less GPU, which has a 2600K.....selling it cheap to a bud.

 

Well if you already have the cards then go for it, just sharing my experience, having had several SLI and CF setups in the past and never being satisfied with the performance. The last SLI setup I had was 2x 970s, which I sold for $500 and bought a 1080ti for an extra $200, which blew the 970 SLI out of the water. I'll never go back to dual cards.

 

I would sell those two of those and run the third till big Navi releases. They will probably never have more value than now.

Unless undervolted, I could not imagine the draw of double Vega 64.

Edited for correction.

 

Unfortunately that has never been the case, SLI has always required the memory to be mirrored on each card, meaning your effective VRAM stays the same no matter how many cards you have.

 

Thanks for the clarification @LetMeBeFrank .

I guess I had that flipped all these years

 

Decided to repaste my laptop on a whim today, mostly because I hadn't put away my tools yet, had some extra Arctic Silver, and the laptop is pushing about 4 years old...

Had to stop for a few moments to just let my brain process this bukake monstrosity of a paste application. No wonder why this thing runs hot.

Should have done a thermals test before taking it apart, but I can't imagine my job will be any worse than whoever in the MSI factory thought this was okay.

 

Picked up my CPU earlier this evening, and the NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD came earlier today.

 

Hey nerds, been out of the scene for a while. What's the recommended high-end GPU that people are using? I don't want to overclock or chase frames, and I don't want to upgrade for 5+ years.

 

It's a bad time to buy a GPU if you expect it to be good for 5+ years. With the introduction of ray tracing this generation, it's almost guaranteed the next generation will be significantly better at it.

The top of the line consumer GPU right now is the 2080Ti, which is around $1200. If you aren't interested in ray tracing, it does get very good frame rates even in 4k. If you do want to have good ray tracing performance I would recommend waiting to buy your big boy card until next generation and just pick up a 2060 super or 5700XT for now.

 

what sort of wait are we talking?