I bought a gaming pc from OCUK because of this forum

Mekrel said:
I've been out of the custom PC building space for nearly two decades. Intel P35 chipset and the Conroe (sp?) CPUs were the pairings at the time. I don't keep an eye on prices but I assumed things had gone crazy considering the nVidia GPU memes I see around.

I used to love building back in the day, especially with interesting boards like the DFI RD600 based board. I think that was the first chipset that could run asynchronous memory and chip FSB without a performance hit? I could have swore someone released a white and red motherboard based on the RD600, or might have been the reference board.
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Memory is about same price
Motherboards have gone up 50-100%
CPUs aren't too bad if sensible model
GPUs have gone up about 300-500%
 
hornetstinger said:
Memory is about same price
Motherboards have gone up 50-100%
CPUs aren't too bad if sensible model
GPUs have gone up about 300-500%
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Is there less competition now in the GPU space? I see nvidia talked about a lot online, although admittedly, that's probably more because of their stock market performance which is really down to AI chips. Have AMD become extremely uncompetitive which is why nvidia prices have risen so much?
 
The mining/bitcoin covid thing pretty much decimated vfm videocards.

The only vfm is the intel 580 and even then it's shy of £300 and not an amazing performer (for all games) as it's a bit inconsistent it's not equal in performance across the range.#

My motherboard cost £220, and it doesn't even have spdif out (and I sort of need it now) due to hdmi audio out issues.
 
hornetstinger said:
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My motherboard cost £220, and it doesn't even have spdif out (and I sort of need it now) due to hdmi audio out issues.
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Wild that a £220 board lacks optical out! I thought it was bad enough that my X470-F (£185 at launch?) lacks a 7 segment post code display! That's probably classed as super cheap or even unobtainable when building a 12/16 core AM5 machine now!
 
LadFromWales said:
Wild that a £220 board lacks optical out! I thought it was bad enough that my X470-F (£185 at launch?) lacks a 7 segment post code display! That's probably classed as super cheap or even unobtainable when building a 12/16 core AM5 machine now!
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yeah pretty annoyed i thought having HDMI would mean I wouldn't need optical, but I've been running into issues where it's seen as a display device as well, I only want HDMI audio out. What happens is two displays is seen so I have to create dual monitor setup, even though in effect I only have one monitor. So mouse moves off the virtual monitor.

One option could be disconnect the HDMI cable from the AVR to the monitor, apart from OSD yamaha setup it's not used, so that may be a method of disabling the "video" feature of HDMI. Not sure, I'll see if it works.

If I need to remove the asus PCI-E soundcard (if I buy a large GPU that reaches down to the small slot) I might have to do that.

Annoying they saved a few pence to limit the features
 
Ok I tried it again, this time going into AMD display and cloning seems to allow it, although I have to do it on every boot. I'll have to check it's running at 144hz, freesync etc and not dropping down to the AVR support of 1080p


Perhaps a HDMI only cable might be one option? With the pins for the video removed?

BAH running at 60hz!

Gone back to the Asus card. This sucks I thought could use onboard header plate/GPU HDMI for audio only without it needing dual displays.
 
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hornetstinger said:
yeah pretty annoyed i thought having HDMI would mean I wouldn't need optical, but I've been running into issues where it's seen as a display device as well, I only want HDMI audio out. What happens is two displays is seen so I have to create dual monitor setup, even though in effect I only have one monitor. So mouse moves off the virtual monitor.

One option could be disconnect the HDMI cable from the AVR to the monitor, apart from OSD yamaha setup it's not used, so that may be a method of disabling the "video" feature of HDMI. Not sure, I'll see if it works.

If I need to remove the asus PCI-E soundcard (if I buy a large GPU that reaches down to the small slot) I might have to do that.

Annoying they saved a few pence to limit the features
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Wild card but I think Sonos sound bars come with a HDMI to Optical adaptor. Would that do anything? :S
 
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