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wizardofid said:
Well it isn't the entire story for the longest times software lagged behind hardware a bit, it has dramatically caught up with hardware and in some instances well ahead of hardware. Ray tracing is the perfect example, it isn't even true ray tracing, it is a hybrid system and software had to physically limit the amount rays because hardware can't held it. It is one of the reason, why I haven't jumped on the RT bandwagon, the performance sucks, AMD and nvidia made their bed on RT being a thing and being able to have hardware capable to run it well, backfired, now they are forced to focus on the slop that is AI, to compensate for the lack of progress on the hardware front.

RT is a dead end, shifting to dsll and FSR is just masking the real problem and we are paying for it now...
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Yeah that's why I said we need more optimisation not under development
 
I see Evetech has “AutoFull” gaming desks. Does anyone have one of these? Wootware has similar desks but they’re particle board rather than solid wood. I’d like to get a big one I so that I can use it for work too. Why does the AutoFull have a curve? Any better recommendations?
 
Lawnchairman said:
Matrix Warehouse PC budget build:

Estimated Total: R6,390

Can this pricepoint be lowered?
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Almost everything on matrix is overpriced.

About as cheap as you can get it

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Rayne said:
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I can agree with Steve on many things, and though he does highlight some agreeable points... The video is tailored to his audience. He did cherry-pick here, and is ignoring entire tech stacks. The Fortnite RT is a reach, since it is basically an UE tech demo. Cyberpunk 2077 looks great with "RTX" on, but it's a shame that some RT settings, to this day, still crashes on Radeon, but then again it is a custom Nvidia implementation. It would be nice to see CDPR adopt the new DXR standards, all which have been co-developed along with Intel, Nvidia, AMD, and others.

Going back in time, AMD was also in the hardware RT race a long time ago. Nvidia simply beat them in that race. That was +10 years ago, and RT has much evolved since.
 
Just dropping this here as well:

https://twitter.com/x/status/2054904153013387273

As a lifelong gamer, I spend a lot of time thinking about how to push gaming experiences forward across CPUs, GPUs, software, and games.

My team and I have been working hard to evolve AMD FSR 4 and bring it to more cards.

We power over 1 billion gaming devices worldwide. It’s a responsibility we care deeply about.

This July, RDNA 3 players will experience FSR Upscaling 4.1, delivering sharper visuals and smoother gameplay than ever before.

I’m grateful to our fans. Your enthusiasm and ideas inspire us to keep pushing gaming forward.FSR Upscaling 4.1 on RDNA 3 will be ready out of the box for Radeon 7000 Series players in over 300 supported games at launch.

And for our RDNA 2 players, we have something exciting coming in early 2027. FSR Upscaling 4.1 will be coming to your cards as well, bringing sharper visuals and smoother gameplay to even more gamers.

We cannot wait to show you what is next. Stay tuned
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So... ignoring that RDNA, and even GCN GPUs can do ML workloads, RDNA 2 and 3 are now also ML-powered "gaming" GPUs. I also won't be surprised that PSSR and FSR 4.1 (INT8) are the same, or being developed in parallel. Will this include Redstone, likely, though there will be caveats coming to RDNA 2.

Anyhow, RDNA 3 will have FSR 4 soon and RDNA 2 will have it in 2027.

I am happy that AMD Radeon is developing INT8 in addition to FP8 and FP4. It takes more work though.
 
I'm in the process of building a new PC and I would like your opinion on the components I have selected.

Use case:
- Gaming (Three hours during the week and maybe 8 hours on weekends)
- 3D Rendering (Blender and other softwares)
- Video Editing (Da Vinci Resolve and Premier Pro)
- Hosting Virtual Machines for hobbyist for my homelab
- Software development here and there

I think those are the highest demanding tasks I will be running on the PC.

I would have loved to have at least 64GB RAM but I will see that later based on the demand and hopefully they will be cheaper by then.


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eddybsb4u said:
I'm in the process of building a new PC and I would like your opinion on the components I have selected.

Use case:
- Gaming (Three hours during the week and maybe 8 hours on weekends)
- 3D Rendering (Blender and other softwares)
- Video Editing (Da Vinci Resolve and Premier Pro)
- Hosting Virtual Machines for hobbyist for my homelab
- Software development here and there

I think those are the highest demanding tasks I will be running on the PC.

I would have loved to have at least 64GB RAM but I will see that later based on the demand and hopefully they will be cheaper by then.


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You don't need a 1300w power supply, 850w is way more then enough. Also the 4tb hdd would be deadly slow, unless it's for something you don't mind not accessing much.
Look for a 1tb ssd or 2tb even a sata ssd would be oodles better for gaming. Also confirm that the case doesn't already have rgb fans before getting new ones and the AK620 look at the normal one not the digital
 
eddybsb4u said:
I'm in the process of building a new PC and I would like your opinion on the components I have selected.

Use case:
- Gaming (Three hours during the week and maybe 8 hours on weekends)
- 3D Rendering (Blender and other softwares)
- Video Editing (Da Vinci Resolve and Premier Pro)
- Hosting Virtual Machines for hobbyist for my homelab
- Software development here and there

I think those are the highest demanding tasks I will be running on the PC.

I would have loved to have at least 64GB RAM but I will see that later based on the demand and hopefully they will be cheaper by then.


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If you going video editing and rendering, nvidia is pretty much the gold standard GPU wise, blender especially, and cutting some corners here and there, you really should be pushing for 64gig ram, for your planned usage.

The CPU cooler, a display is just flex, the ID-Cooling FROZN A62 is half the price and pretty much suited to that CPU, you can step back on the motherboard as well.

For video editing and rendering you really need a scratch disk, nvme drive is ideal, but a standard SSD for the scratch disk is perfectly serviceable.

You can get a windows 11 digital license way way way cheaper usually for under 200 bucks.

The PSU is overkill, over 850watt is just wasted wattage period.

The ram isn't really negotiable 64gig min.
 
Absolutely do not get an AMD GPU if you plan on actively using Blender, the 9070 XT is barely faster than a 6 year old 3060 Ti in Blender, use the cash you save on getting a smaller PSU and Windows and get the 5070 Ti, it's 2.5x the speed.

Also just so someone mentions it, I wouldn't really recommend it because of no further upgrade path but the Intel 270k Plus matches the 9700x in gaming almost exactly but for productivity it matches or even sometimes beats the 9950x. So depending on how long you plan on keeping the system to the point where you're going to have to buy a new motherboard anyway, it should definitely be considered.
 
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