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I'd expected to see the 7800x3d to drop in price this week, but it seems surprisingly stable at the £400 mark.
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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
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I will have to ask to go toilet at 2pm
"I'm just going to give you a little nitrous so you can rest comfortably, if you could just count down from 9800...."
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Would hinder the sales, anticipation and hype around the 9800x3d if they dropped it back to around £300.
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that makes a lot of sense
I have a 7600x and 7800xt gpu. Still 1080p gang..
With hours to go I'm still on the fence about this. It's a lot of money and I know the 7800x3d will be in FS forum soon (which I should have bought instead of the 7600x last year because I was being cheap).
Any advice? Although I appreciate it's easy to spend someone else's money lol..
With hours to go I'm still on the fence about this. It's a lot of money and I know the 7800x3d will be in FS forum soon (which I should have bought instead of the 7600x last year because I was being cheap).
Any advice? Although I appreciate it's easy to spend someone else's money lol..
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Just my 2 cents but ironically if you are gaming at 1080p still then arguably you'd see the biggest gains BUT those gains aren't massive, I don't know what the avg is across all games but I saw about 20fps extra in the 1% lows on one of the graphs earlier in the thread, so let's say for arguments sake that was the avg, is the FPS boost and extra 20fps 1% lows worth spening approx £500 today?
I'd say probably not, but if £500 is a trivial amount to you then why not.
Spend the cash on a nice 1440 panel instead.
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Anyone got any motherboard recommendations for this launch? I'd prefer to go X870/E as it's more current, but equally don't want to hurt my wallet any more than it's already going to be hurting lol... The only two things I care about are PCIe 5.0 for the GPU slot and OS drive, and to be able to reliably set DOCP to 6000/30.
In terms of brand loyalty or whatever, I've shortlisted the Gigabyte Aorus Pro X870E as I'm currently using an Aorus Pro X570 and had no issues with it, and the Asus TUF X870 as my partner similarly uses a TUF X570 and had no issues with it. But otherwise open to suggestions!
In terms of brand loyalty or whatever, I've shortlisted the Gigabyte Aorus Pro X870E as I'm currently using an Aorus Pro X570 and had no issues with it, and the Asus TUF X870 as my partner similarly uses a TUF X570 and had no issues with it. But otherwise open to suggestions!
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I was looking at the MSI PRO-X870-P only downside I could see (and a lot of boards have this or worse) if is you use the third M.2 slot it steals 2 PCIE lanes from the bottom PCIE slot (so down to PCIE4 x2 rather than x4)
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I really wanted the ASRock Phantom Gaming Nova X870E. That seems to be the best bang for buck and if you check reviews it does a couple of things most of the other X870E's don't like PCI-E lane usage for that Gen5 OS drive you mention.......BUT it's not in stock anywhere, so I'm probably going with the Taichi instead and the only reason I'm spending that level of money is because I'm doing a full upgrade and don't want to touch it for years to come.
I actually think some x670e boards are better than the new ones. I have 4 nvme slots and 6 sata with no compromises if all populated. I don't care about USB 4(?) And WiFi 7.
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Yeah that's why I picked the X670E TUF, can fill all 4 NVMEs without losing GPU lanes. Means only one NVME is Gen 5, 2 are Gen 4 and one is Gen 3 but that's fine for my purposes.
On the boards with 3xGen 5 slots I believe putting any Gen drive in the 2nd/3rd slots results in losing half the GPU lanes.
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This is my thought on going X870 at least for me, is a move to AM5 and not wanting to touch it for a while so may as well have USB 4, WIFI 7 etc now.
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Also this ^. As I say I'm only paying the 870e premium for future proofing as I only need 2x Nvme's so the restriction on using more slots doesn't affect me.
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Oh no, I just realised I am in a meeting at 1:30, going to have to be ordering while on a teams call!
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I was looking at the x870 but to me most boards look like a downgrade from x670. most I looked at nerf the PCIe port if you use the M.2 slots (who wouldn't) and the main port only runs at x8. not a massive difference for gaming, but even a few % difference when i'm buying a new board would sting... either that or they disable the other PCIe slots, so no expansion is possible. all for USB4 which is pretty useless for a desktop.
I personally went for the B650e Aorus elite AX2, has everything I need. I don't see the point of a PCIE 5.0 x16 slot personally, Cards can barely max out a 3.0 slot, let alone a 4.0 slot. 5.0 is many years away from being needed for a GPU.
and most B650 mobo's come with PCI-e 5.0 for storage anyway, which is actually useful.
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I should also note that I'm sticking with PCI-e Gen 4 for my Nvme's as there just isn't any real benefit to me to go Gen 5 right now, especially for gaming.
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Not sure how it's future proofing though? future proofing doesn't really exist with PC hardware.
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AMD have just approved the warranty claim, fantastic service! Just got to ship the chip to their Czech office
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